The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-08-12

DER money scheme, with its conconitant malversa-
tons and attendant vices and corrupiiols
This public debt that We are So rapidly increasing
fol- postey pay, is of piece with the impolcy OF
distributing among the States the surplus revenue
surplus paper money II should have been called
That measure deprecated by every one who took |
the trouble reflect on the consequences, and some
would have deemed II a wiser act 10 have sunk IL III
the Atlantic And the results have exposed the fall
lacy ofthe plot, whatever else it might be called
But the spirit that imposed that wIetches measure on
the country satsfed-dd MT sleep until 1t
conjured up and forced upon another device OF
similar nature--the division of the proceeds OF the
public domain among the States. On this last, MT
Chairman, | have much to say, but II would require
more time than the resolution abrldgng the freedom
of speech will permit | could show that this Dis
tribuon a violation Of the Constitution vio-
iaion of the Peoples equal rights; violation OF The
Staes equal rights; violation of the rghlful use oil
the king power; increase OF tax upon labor an un-
wise temptation 10 the State Governments To become
beggaIs and dope dants the General Government,
a concentration of power in the General Govern
ment unjust, npausible, unnecessary, denoralz-
ing measure-a measure that puts hundred dollars
into one pocket and takes hundred and twenty-five
out of the other of the working people of the Union
"a measure that sells the land to divide among the
States and extracts Increased indirect TAX OF TWEEN
| ty-fve per cent from the labor of the country-a
measure that cheats the public Treasury out OF It's
dues for tenths of the lands to be sold were
| bought by revenue taken out of the Treasury
measure that renders for INJECTING the tax
! proposed in this bill of so to 100 per cent. upon tea
coffee sugar spices, and salt some seven-elghths OF
to he paid 10y labor and only one-eghth by capital
| "a measure supported by those Tho call themselves
the peculiar friends of the slave thereby advocating
bounty for the breeding OF slaves, the planter 1e
cevng three shares of the proceeds OF the lands Tor
every five slaves the slaves he breeds the more
shares he gets (but we must do the Southern Demo-
Gratis justice acknowledge that they utterly
opposed to the disrlbuton,) and taxing white labor,
| too through consumption OF necessaries, TO pay II
An improvement British policy this by our friends
of the slave for Britain taxed the labor OF her starv
ing white subjects at home twenty millions ster-
ling to pay the capitalist slave owners in her West
India colonies for the emanci patton OF their blacks,
| while at the time she improves and Celebrates
on the bondage of her hundred millions of serts In
her East India possessions What a striking evi-
dence among ourselves we'll as In England, of the
disparity between profession and practice In human
| nature What strange propensity IN Governments
to Cypress labor and aggrandize capital to abstract
fiom the many who work, and give to the few who
scheme to steal the power from the producer and
concentrate it the producer thereby perpetu-
ating the dominancy of the latter over the former
And such is the nsldious positive tendency OF discr-
minatng indirect tax alton of duties on imports.
All these asserve propositions could pass through
diusively and establish their soundness beyond con-
troversy, if were permitted the time but my con-
stituents shall yet have it all if the law should not be
repealed in its full, elucdatory form, to judge for
themselves of the expansive enforcement of the
truth
We have had on this floor, Mr.. Chairman, since
these debates commenced occasional murmurings and
grumbngs about ultraism, and radicalism, and abb
stractonism, by way of interlude, perhaps is it
hoped that by using them reproachtu epithets,
the march of pure free principles may be retarded
suppressed | suspect we are rather behind the age
in making the attempt and the people VIII make us
understand ourselves little better by and by Man,
in the Northern hemisphere of this side of the Allan
tic is investigating every thing under the at this
moment and do expect to stop this healthy career
of searching inquiry by crying out utraism and rad-
calism and abstractonism? We had better give up
such childish folly be the motive it what il may
for most certainly it will not retard stay the nqui-
ny that going into the nature OF popular right
and free Government; we may as well make merit
of necessity and enter into its extent at once be
position what it may, for the bewdering night of
ror that has clouded the equal rights of the people
, has passed over, and the balmy, rosy-tnted morn
of truth is beaming upon us IN ITS cheering eff
= fulgepce and we will enjoy and use its benefits
whether the lights be called ultra and radi-
, cal not. People are beginning TO suspect, per-
haps, that the peculiar sensitiveness of those who
thus attempting to stop the saluary of in
vesgation into first principles Of Qemacrnag rseTves
mors ;nan could wished their rightfu power
and interests. Hence the craft of attracting and
dverting their attention to sound, to words in
stead of truthsnstead of facts and the investigation
of motive. Hence the Fictitious faint or indifference
attempted to be attached to the terms ultra radical
and abstraction all to misead the People. But the
denuncatory tone of partisan chara amy cannot alter
the true meaning nor dePreciae the high value Of their
political application. In such application what do
these terms belong to- Why they are are so intimately
related that they approach each other closely within
the same circumstances. If you ultra YOU are
more or less radical and if radical more or less ultra
In the general they belong to the extreme remote e
gitmate, original or fundamental deep-rooted Demo-
cratic prncipe-o the extreme purity of equal RICH.
among the People And as to abstractionsm we NAV
say with truth, that truth is sometimes an abstraction
rather hard to catch-a little taste of practice among
the proiuslon OF profession, particularly when
the whole good of the whole Union is concerned
Why the Universe, created by the fiat of Ompipo-
tence, from the most remote star to more remote
still, on, and on, and on, the uncomfortable might
ness of ultraism. The efulgent light of Divine
Goodness, in its boundess immensity is radical Ma
ture, in all her works, displays urasm and radical
ISM the lnfnude of Almighty power is their pure es-
sence. The system to which planet belongs pre-
sents the glorious spectacle of radical ultra direction
in every aspect. The farmers themselves who have
the heaviest taxes to pay, and who invoke to take
into their grave consideration the oppressive partial
provisions of this remorseess tax bill are ultra rad
cal In the exercise of their husbandry they cultivate
the ultra earth in the action of the radical sweat that
exudes from their brows. And one reason Mr.
Chairman, why | appeal more particularly to the
working people to come to the aid of their country
at this moment of peril to her welfare is because my
constituents took of their radical caste from
between the handles OF the plough in reality, not fig
uratiyely, to represent them and do their will on
this floors to ascertain, perhaps, for once whether
any could better understand the and happiness
OF the working people, intimately sympathise
with them than practical workng-man himself
How far their farmer representative has sustained
their character radically, practically, and faithfully
they will Judge impartally. Can be too radical
and ultra in constructing the Constitution and equal
rights of People and States tell me hat And more:
do trust and hope that the People will permit none
to represent them either in State or Federal Govern
ment, but those who purely radical in their whole
legislative action, confirming themselves strictly to the
rule OF truth in all its pristine purity knowing and
feeling that free government be carried on
successfully without such adherence to radical right
and the People will then be conscious that the power
IS theirs practCaY. not fanciiIllx hos hcc hcrc