Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-09-23

LIE fUbLlC LANDS ANU lie TARIFF
The Governor Of Massachusetts in his late ines
sage expresses himself in the following terms in
relation to the action OF Congress concerning the
Public Lands and the Tariff
During the late term Of the Legslatu re, resolves
were passed approving of the distribution OF the
proceeds of the public lands, and recommending
revision of the revenue laws, by which the sys-
tenn OF HORIZONTAL duties should he abolished and
discrimination instead he introduced, designed
10 foster industry aud 10 protect the loborer.
Congress passed law TO curry into effect this
policy, so well devised to revive and iniuse new
energy into the anguishng business of the peo-
pie OF this Commonwealth, but it met, in the hands
OF tho Executive, with the fate OF other measures
which were designed TO mitigate the public dis
tress The President could not urge in his jusli
fcution constitutional scruples, for he hnd at the
previous session signed the distribution act but
his apology for defeating measure vital 10 the
best interests of the great laboring community. is
the exigencies of the treasury, though the treasu
ny could scarcely need replenshing more than at
the time lie approved the distribution act.
The Executive assumes, virtually, that no bill
providing for duty Of more than 20 per cent
shall become a law, unless the revenue from the
lands is restored 10 the treasury by the suspension
of the distribution act, and he has accomplished
his object lie has brought the revenue from the
lands back into the treasury and il will be in
strumental in renewing the scenes and working
out the results which have disheariened the labor
er and retarded the prosperity of the country for
many years past, This revenue, all have learnt
from experience, is exceedingly iucluating We
have seen it ierangiDg the whole system of fnnn-
cial policy, both by excess and deficiency. We
have seen ii reach nearly twenty-five millions Of
dollars in year, and then fall to less than two
millions, thus unsettIing and deranging the whole
system Of duties, and keeping the Tariff question
in constant agitation, This qUeslion--this uncer-
ianty as TO what is TO come, keeps all whose bust.
uess rests directly remotely upon the Tariff for
support, in state of alarm which parayZes their
Energy and is fatal to their prosperity Sud.
den changes in the financial system are too often
,o,.o Ne1 by disastrous consequences, and hence II
is matter of momentous consideration mat Inc
system should rest OH firm basis, demanding 1T
tie change. No measure ever adopted ny Con-
gress promised more suspicious results to Iabor
than the law Of distribution, which removed from
the treasury The great disturbing cause which Gre
.aled excuses and Deficiencies, nor has any
law held out TO the working man, aud all others,
such n promise of q future state of things on
which we might rely with confident assurance, rs
there could be little occasion for injurious change.
The defeat of measure so auspclous to our best
interests, so well designed TO remove the embar-
easements which have beset the whole country,
and so full of the promise of benefits to come, Isl
therefore, greatly 10 be deplorsd.
Those who are opposed TO tariff, Disseminated
so as TO protect industry, and who are in favor of
reducing the wages Of labor, will no doubt be OPP
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