The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-24

For his own part, he had regarded that Law as
being OF an in.i liable character, and he had never
supposed that the act was irrepeaabe but that II was
titled great respect in Consequence of the exgen
cy OF The times out OF which II sprung. As 10 the
principle of protection, To which SO much objection
was constantly made, it was engrated in tie act IT.
self, and, SO far from II being passed with an under
standing that contrary policy to be pursued he
venured that the act could not have been
ed with such restriction The third section declar-
ed that after the 30,h of June 1912 duties should be
evie on wha, imPorts) for the purpose OF rais-
Ing SUCH revenue as may be necessary Tor an : eco
nomlcal administration of the Government; and no.
hing could be more directly expressed that revenue
should be raised without reference the public lands
and when gentlemen looked at the fact that the land
Dill and the Compromise act were in Congress- parl
pdSsu, they certainly could not doubt that Congress
did not rely the land fund to the
| of the Government. The Senator from South Caro-
lima had repeached the Wigs for their boasted
my, and he maintained that no retrenchment was
made at the extra session. But whence did these ot
jections come They we're C, mined not only TO the
Senator from South Carolina, but likewise to the Sc
majors from New Hampshire and New York Mr.
Woodbury. and Mr. Wright who had also cast CEN
sure the existing Administration for wasleful
travagance But did they deserve this censure? If
they did, did the charges come from the quarter
with good grace? In 1887, the late Senator
from South Carolina abandoned his political friends,
and ever slice had acted with the party TO which
he then attached hims'f--a party which, du-
ring the four years which the Senator bad acted with
expended an average amount of revenue at the rate
of thirty-ive millions for each of these yealsa Adj
| mlnstralon which seized hold of every available
source to supply is wants and during each of these
four years the expenditures exceeded the income of
the country by eight millions of dollars The pre-
sent Admnlstr alton, therefore, came into power with
| an impoverished and an empty Treasury and where
were the national monuments of these vast expend
tures} They were sunk in the morasses of Florida,
wasted by transfer of numerous tribes of Indians
| from side of river to another, who, by
their proximity TO the frontier settlements,
ated necessity for new appropriations for
the protection Of our people. Where, he again
| asked, were the monuments of these vast expendi-
lures The friends of the late Administration them
Selves after all their and explanations had
admitted that their expenditures amounted to twenty
eight millions per annum, and yet these gentlemen
who had left the nation in debt, came here with
proaches against the new Administration (although
it had been in power but one Year, for not having
already made extensive retrenchments But if these
reproaches were Just from any quarter they were
not certainly becoming from the quarter whence they
proceeded. The Senator from New Hampshire did
not urge retrenchment when he was at the head Of
the Treasury, and his friend from New York was
the chairman of the Committee on Finance. What
were they doing them The Senator from New
Hampshire, however, did begin at last to make out
that he was DESTROYS to reduce the expenditures of
1910 The law full of the cutlery of extrava-
gance at that time, the elections approaching,
and it was therefore exceedingly important that as
fair an account possible should be made up and
hlbited to the people But what was done by the
united labors of that whole Administrations The
Senator had told them that, in 1910, the amount of
the annual expenditure reduced to 500, 300 600
but the for the reduction would be found in
the TACT that many OF the priations-among
them some for naval ornaments, ordnance stoses
and ornaments for fortifcatons-were by law autho-
rized to be postponed by the President And yet the
friends of the late Administration who according to
their own admissions, averaged twenty-eight mil
lions. OF annual expenditure, reproached them (the
Whigs) with extravagance--notwithstandi they
| proposed, by these resolutions, to confine the
expenditures of the Government to TWENTY-FIVE
millions annually. He would here take the occasion
TO express his views with regard to relations with
Great Britain and he observed in the first place that
| he had regretted, as every man of honor must unite
with him in regretting, the attacks which had been
made by lcentous press upon the disngui he'd in
dividual who comes to oul land bearing in his hand
the olive branch of peace. Nothing could be more
indecent and ibera than the attacks which had been
made upon Lord Ashbur,on. He knew that gentle
mum personally, and could say that no man in Eng
land was more respected for his wisdom integrity
and he trusted that he might be allowed to remark
that far from Lord Ashburton being at the head of
the Bank of England, a errnnaausly stated il.
the newspapers, he had had connection with
it for twenty years; and he hoped that when he
shall have crossed the Atlantic, the people would
welcome his approach to shores messenger
| of peace. In his opinion there danger of
war between this country and Great Britain, provided
| the points of our differences shall be managed with
ability. The FIRST point was the Northea boun-
dary question, with which Lord Ashburton was
charged the part of his Government, and to aid in
settling which that gentleman would apply his most
earnest attention and therefore, there little fear
| Of from that source. The Caroline affair was
| no Just for the apprehension of conflict nor
was danger TO be feared from the of the Creole.
| The British Government in the wrong and
should either give up slaves make compensa-
ton for them. Each Government, however disclaimed
the right to stop or to arrest vessel belonging to the
othor 1a bn frao TO Jn,if
pleasure in saying, that there Of imme-
date apprehension of war with Great Britain he
knew that the best argument was to prepare for
and make appropriations Tor an effective resistance.
He was still for doing that which postponed and
neglected by former Administration and he would
not rush precipately and heedessy, but make mode
rate appropriations of money for the defence of the
country in the event of any difficulties which might
arise. With regard to Mexico, he thought that the
Executive of that nation had behaved towards our
country in a manner contemplate in the extreme
the especially in consequence of the kind
treatment which that tyrant received at the
hands of this Government, having been sent home
in Il national vessel but, Contemplate his
conduct was, he hoped that unless driven to it by
dire necessity, there would be there As
to free trade, which strenuousy advocated by
the Senator from South Carolina the advantages
all on one side for one hand in own country,
the duties were but twenty per cent while Oh the
ether hand, in foreign countries the duties on goods
exported varied from one bundled to nine hundred
per cent. Mr. Clay addressed the Senate for three
hours, and concluded his remarks by appealing TO
Senators to step out of the ranks OF opposition, and
rally forth to the relief the country
And the Senate then adjourned.
Receipts on the Western Rail Road for the week,
ending March 18th, S6,373.
Upwards of 1900 persons joined in the Temperance
Procession on st. Patrick's Day, at Albany.
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