The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-06-23

1.-THE following remonstrance has been hand
ed US for publication. We know not what eff
feet it will produce on the ultra members OF the
"mad Congress" but we are sure that it speaks
the sentiments and feelings of vast majority
of their consi,u. nts A revenue should have
been provided before the appropriations were
passed. A revenue should have been secured,
before the land question was discussed. re
yemue should have been provided at all hazards,
blu, it should never have been perilled unneces-
sariy by any extraneous enactment. Con-
gress is MAD, and the People alone can bring
them to their senses. If Mr. Clay can be
elected by defeating the Tariff bill, hi partisans
will do it AT the same time they will appear
to be earnest in its favor. In vain will they
ATTEMPT to throw the blame on the President.
To the Senate and House of Representatives
ofthe United States Of .4n,erica:
The subscribers citizens Of Baltimore, are inn
relied by sense Of their rights, and of the obliga~
lions of your high trust to demonstrate against mea
sures agitated in your bodies, and to dwell upon the
grievances of our country, which are prolonged and
aggravated by the delays of your councils.
This favored empire is now but one strange spec
tacle of distress amid the elements of wealth. and is
mockery to the pride OF power boosted In our re-
sources and intelligence. The industry OF our peo-
ple-the rich materials OF enterprise-terrltories,
fertile in every product-and in every region inviting
the energies Of agriculture, commerce, and manufac
tures-nature uniting with elaborate art to speed the
course of trade and multiply its avenues-a popula-
ton patriotic IN its best import of being sensitive of
the national honor and ready for sacrifices to uphold
t-and patient of .mis-government for the love
thew bear to the Republic, and from their conscious
ness of resistless sovereigny-all these seem una
yailing to quicken our prosperity-and redeem us
from the gloom and torpor whichtolow extnguished
confidence in the active ranks of our land.
The Constitution conters powers equal to any ext
oency-and a thrifty and spirited people demand that
they may be used and they appeal to the wisdom and
sympathy which they designed to imbody in the Lee
aislature of their Union. Yet in seeming caousness,
Congress moves with solicitude nor diligence mo
expediens are adopted or digested for nations re-
lef-but the very heart of the nation is allowed to
sink-whie idle debate and partisan harangues too
often waste the precious time of action
The interests Of the currency are deferred-or at
times only made theme for passionate structures, IN
which the pride of opinion appears to supersede all
cancellation of views and prudent mindfulness of
the public welfare.
The regulation of the tariff Of such vital urgency
for providing means for liabilities and firm sup
mort for our credit is involved in delays and doubts
and is consummaion left TO the chances and strife
of debate as a remote result and uncertain to its
| details. Movements for retrenchment of expenses
are made when the Treasury claims to be supplied to
meet even the smallest burdens and such projects
are pressed without any definite data of complaint or
any certainty that they will not trench upon the in
dispensable means of Government; -as if by this
tremulous policy, to declare our poverty would i'm
prove our credit stint the fund for the action OF
Government would argue our prudence.
But the most startling innovation is the attempt to
reduce our Navy-to economist our high national de-
fence-to cut off that which is the vehicle of
thority and the engine of most effective power
and at this day in the eyes of Foreign Governments
the index of our strength What must be the effect
of thus ordaning our own infImity by dvesting our