Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-07-08

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more than that amount be raised? You may increase
II Isl, by tax on ten and coffee between three ana
four miIcns; or, %. you may increase II ABOUT ne
same amount by the restoration OF the lana uno 10 M
Treasury Here, then, are The alternatives oisohety
presented TO the choice OF the majority, who no" con
irol he action OF this Government-enher TO bring
down The Government from the twenty SIX millions OF
more 10 which you have carried 1t since ycu came III
10 mower t. twenty one and halt Giliiohs or impose
vour tax on tea and coffee, finally abandon tGe ais'
b,,nn If me proceeds OF the public nds among tiir
STATES Sir these alternatives ire presented TO hoh
the great political parties Of tbs c"htfy. lae ~ nv
cra,tc party with but few e1cep;icrs VIII ',''l III
which Of Them to choose They stand pied5' d, b:
their principles, the most rigid economy tnty nave
vowed in the present emergency, 10 push forward 'ie
most vigorous reductions; and, more than ALL ihey
stand pledged this economy by all Inc consecta'eG
provisoas of the Compromise. Yes, SIR, they stand
here this day under the solemn CONVICTION that twenty
mr. millions will be enough Tor The ordinary
expenses of the Government for years to come But
.hev stand here determined that, their adversares
viii hare more than this il shall not be raised OH oil
,ha nrc,s.ares Of life-he essentials of human sub
s.,ence Tea and coffee are now articles o iha'
description, whatever they might chce nave oeeh.-
So Is the article Of salt-n Is indispensable 10 man. ana
10 all The animals which lie makes tributary 10 hts con
vericnce or his necessities. Bat all these essentials
,aa cofpe and salt-we know, Cannot be exempted
from taxation, unless our Anniversaries restore e iaho
iund-lat fund which they ought not /" g'rh away, al
a tine when they have TO Jorrc,o from any body, ana
fund which is too small do sensible good IN iqu'-
dating the enormous debts of the States Yes, Sir
repeat the great Democratic creed IN the present pos
ture of our public affairs Give back the land money,
thereby enabling 10 exempt from taxation the three
great necessares Of e-reduce your expenditures 10
The standard of strict and necessary economy-and then
YOU can leave unyolaled that glorious treaty of amy
and peace which was soemny ratified IN 1888.
Mr. Chairman, lassume another position, for which
bespeak The attention OF this committee Your
commerce is the most depressed, not 10 say pa
ralyzed, condition. II can bear no increased burdens
What il wants s, to be rendered more tree and unen
numbered The condition OF the currency IN most
oker countries and the general embsrrassnents Of ALL
would seem require that every weight should be re-
moved, and the ireest interchange OF commodities
should be encouraged 1t under snch CONVICTIONS as
these that the siatemen OF England are relaxing
their restrictions and removing their prohibitions. The
general range Of English duties IS now being re-
duced on an average, nearly one hundred per cent
This great concession to free and unrestricted com
merce between her and the other nations OF the earth
"a concession forced upon her BY the accumulated
cxperience of ages Shall the United States 4. such
moment as this recede from the great principles of
free trade which she proclaimed 10 the States and 20
tie world in lc33' She then proclaimed that she
would impose no o.her letters on he commerce With
the world than such absolutely necessary for
the support Of her Government when economically
administered. This bright and beneficent example
has been held up TO the other nations for imitation.
II has produced, and producing wonderful effects
have the creates, aud most profitable intercourse
At such moment this, repeat, shall we put out
the light of on. own glorious example: No, trust we
shall not. If we shall but steadily adhere 10 il,
shall reap harvest of national and individual
prosperity, which has been surpassed; not that
hollow and deceptive prosperity by which we were
lately much elaed bat prosperity as lasting and solid
those great principles of equality and justice by
which il viii be acquired, prosperity which, IN two or
three wears at most, will Weld you income, not Of
Of mil ltopso nj lpas is
only of the first year OF the Companies act that any
nan need doubt the suiliciency OF your revenue. The
second third and future years, under terminated and
renr Igorated commerce, viii give you enough, and
more than enough, for every reasonable demand on
plain, economical, and Republican Government like
ours. Beyond that, let no one here desire TO 60 Let
no American statesman consent TO impose heavy
and unjust taxation the people, in order that this
Government may rival the Injuries and grandeur oil
the Old World
leto IF The Bill repudiating the Compromise .9et, and
the proriso against Distribution.
u WAsniSGroS, June 2y.-Never such indignant
eoquence awakened called forth TO day by the
message Of the President ntimating to his brothers in
Whiggery the necessity Of standing BY their own com
pacis, solemnly witnessed By their own legislative en-
actments The leaders Of Whigsery in thick
succession and in sort OF oracuar rage not only re-
pudiacd their legislative covenant against distributing
the proceeds of the lands in the Tariff of 20 per
cenlum not sufficient for revenue; but gave out
dating the Government itself, If its constitutional au
lhor,y further opposed 10 their design of cancel
ling the obligations into which they had voluntarily
entered Mr.. Saltonsta (of Hartford Convention
memory declared with The emphasis of one who had
been privy the worst that he had kno,cn
which threatened the dissolution of the Union so imme
datey the present No man in Congress could speak
more author:ativeIy on this point than Mr. s Mr. Gran
ger shock his head, and grpped his lips, and swung his
arms and heaved his body, and uttered, with eyes and
tongue, the mos; lameniabie prophecies. He was one
who would warn those interposng obstacles 10 the
sway of the party who had rallied on great principles
in 1870 what it was TO deny Whiggery the right of
playing ias,.and loose as il pleased. Mr. Granger
summoned the land distributing high tarftes TO stand
firmly in the position they had taken, and 1t would be
seen whether the wealthy and well-provded classes
could not endure the three years starvation, with
which he evidently meant to threaten the Government
and all whose abors necessary to sustain it) as
we'll as their opponents.
Mr. Fillmore, who followed Mr. Granger,
full of awful vaticnaion and OF resolution 10 sacrhce
every thing carry off The land and the Compromise act
together He very strongly nnated that he entirely
concured th The views of his colleague, MI Gran
GER whose process Of comprising the objects OF his
party consisted in starving the Administration INTO
their measures We would be inclined 10 believe that
the Federasts would adopt the thus indicated
BY the chairman of the Ways and Means and his asso
cates who spoke 10 day, were not that attempts TO
bite off the 10 spite The face generally prove 10 be
failures. Mir Granger, in his effort TO day, came as
near perform ng this feat he is likely 10 do
again. but not having accomplished it, we trust that
prominent member is safe for the future.
Will not Mr.. Fillmore, Mr. Granger, and Mr. Sal
ons,al consider that if they fail 10 levy duties suf
Gent 10 meet the appropriations they made, their Par
cnlar constituents will suffer double degree! They
all the Representatives of manufacturing DISTRICTS
and will the greedy monopolists who sent them to Con-
gross con;entL under their refusal to add some five
or ten per cent 10 their capital out of the pockets oil
their neiphbors because it may crafty the spleen OF
~ al No al And ,vha
of Federass The army and navy, IN the cir
and diplomatic corps, say TO the starving regimen one
which their Congressional doctors would them Out
Of the 20 Ter cent, tariff and the loan, and The land mo-
ney, Captain Tyler we imagine will make shift topay
his recruits but the Clay corps, in the enjoyment
Of than full share Of the spells, will fare but
badly unless there be full treasury Last of all things
vii! the Clayites consent TO the Government 90
liz ,rhp her fnnrin so