The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1842-09-29
SYNOPSIS OF A SPEECH

SYNOPSIS OF A SPEECH
Dslirsrsd in he Senate By Mr. Er0ns.
Of Msias 81 ihs desc II ihs Dssais On ne
laisls rjssisa TarlF Bill
The question being on the FINAL pas
sase Of The revenue bill, Mr. EVANS
spoke 10 the following ellecE
lie had trusted HAT topics nf mere par
~ reproaeh would not be suffered 10 i'm
pede the passage Of this bill. LiIlle adj.
dicled 10 that sort Of di,cussion. he should
even now pass il by, except some lille
reply 10 certain remarks OF the senators
from =. Carolina and Missouri, tMessrs.
Calhoun and Benton.
The moment and the subject seemed to
him but little opporlune for mere party
elimination. The senators, however, TO
whom he had referred, had asked, where
were those promises by which The Wings
had won their way 10 power! Where
were The reductions and the relrench'
ment. 50 abundan, in their pledges, so
utterly wanting in their pelformance"
Certainly il would be no more Than
fair for gentlemen, OF whom the country
has exacled but lsrdy account. mot We
~ willingly nor clearly rendered TO give
their adyersaries al least Time To make Up
the results Of a year, 10 have ore settle
men, Of the books. lie could venture TO
assure The gentlemen, that when this came
to be done, they would see thai. taking
in view the shor,ness Of the time, and the
peculiar and unexpected disadvantages
under which the Wings have acted, much
has been aceomplished-large reductions
in neatly every part Of the public service;
the army, the navy, the public Offices, con-
gressional expenses. the cus.om-house, the
public printing, and many other things.
But gentlemen referred always, with
great air Of triumph, as test Of Wing
performance, 10 the expenses Of lsil--a
year surely theirs rather than ours, Of
which We got bu, the fag-end-lhe pay.
ing part, while they themselves had all the
contracting II is true that we have been
honest enough, observant enough Of the
engagements made BY our predecessors.
TO pay off outstanding accounts. But the
books, SIT, are moi settled up every day,
nor every week, nor every month, that
we should thus be constantly challenged
about les Its which are yet unascertain.
ed, and which the gentlemen were never
before in such hurry for. A time will
come when all that gentlemen desire will
be abundanIly apparent: and | can tell
them in advance that the country will
then see that Wing performance has not
jumped 50 i'll with Wing promises.
These charges, sir, made almost befpre
the party now in power were put j. To
possession of-the public business, and al
most before their clerks had dipped their
pens into the ink, have been repeated
with continued volabIi,y, while yet il
was impossible for us to have done much
but to pay of arrearages and 10 provide
Tor debts incurred by our accusers. Their
complaints have been again and again dis
proved, their charges reIuied over and
often. Bat, as one Of the favorite writer's
Of the present day has said, nothing is SO
tenacious Of life as these noisy popular
ialsehonds. Destroy one to-day. and i.
springs up afrcsh and grows more yigor
GUS y than ever tomorrow. Kill il here
now, and the next SUI shall see il hun
dred miles of, as full of life and as mis-
chlcvouSly vigorous as If it never had re.
ceived hurt.
Thus these gentlemen cry out, Com
gross was called together to pay the pub
lie debts. Did they do it! No" We,
they who say so left an actual deficit in
the treasury Of five and half millions.
and an amount Of from twenty-five 10
'wen'y'ti'ree millions Of appropriations.
made Ivy them, TO be provided for. What
oid 'hcy transmit TO us to discharge these
twenly-seven or twenty-eight millions of
positive debt already incurred! A reve.
nue. stated by the honorable gentleman
before me, (Mr. Woodbury. then Secre-
'ary Of the Treasury, a, twelve and half
millions last year, and 10 fall 10 ten mil
lions this year. So that the entire in.
come ct both years fell fr shor, of the
engagements already fastened upon us for
the hrsi! Gentlemen now complain tina;
we have resortel to treasury notcs-they
themselves having left us five millions Of
them TO pay, and nothing but treasury
notes aud loans 10 pay with; for las I
have already shown the whole income,
Tor more than two years in advance, wa
already absorbed, and nothing left us for
"a ry'ng on the government bu, .ampora