Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1842-09-23
GOV. DAVIS ON PROTECTION AND THE
LAND Distribution.

The Legislature of Massachusetts re-as-
semhled on Wednesday at Boston, IN Extra
Session, to District the State for the choice
of Members of Congress under the new APP
portionment A plan had already been re-
ported by Committee, throwing the whole
excess ofpopulation on Boston which with
sc, 900 inhabitants forms District; the
rest Of the State is divided into nine equal
Districts Of Just about 10000 each. The
Governor communicated to the Legislature
a brief Message, in which he treats Of our
great National Interests as follows:
Congress passed law to carry into ef-
feet this policy, so well devised to revive and
infuse new energy into the langulshing
business of the people Of this Common
wealth, but it met in the hands of the Exec
utive with the fate of other measures which
were designed to mitigate the public distress.
The President could not urge in his justifi-
cation constitutional scruples, for he had at a
previous session signed the Distribution Act,
but his apology for defeating a measure vi
tai to the best interests of the great aboring
community, is the exigencies of the treasu-
ny, though the treasury could scarcely need
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proved 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 rev.
enue from the lands is restored to the trea-
sury by the suspension of the Distribution
Act, and he has accomplished his object
He has brought the revenue from the lands
back into the treasury, and IT will be instru-
mental in renewing the scenes and working
out the results which have disheartened the
laborer, and retarded the prosperity of this
country for many years past. This revenue,
all have learnt from experience, is exceed
ingy fluctuatng. We have seen it derang-
ing the whole system of financial policy,
both by excess and deficiency We have
seen it reach nearly twenty-five millions of
dollars in a year, and then fall to less than
two millions thus unsettling and deranging
the whole system of duties, and keeping the
tariff question in constant agitation by an
apparent necessity to raise or lower duties.
This unsteady basis Of financial policy
this constant agitation of the question-this
uncertainty as to what is to come, keeps all
whose business rests directly or remotely
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alarm which parayzes their energy, and is
fatal to their prosperity Sudden changes
in the financial system are too often follow
ed by disastrous consequences, and hence it
is matter of momentous consideration that
the system should rest upon a firm basis de-
handing little change. No measure ever
adopted by Congress promised more auspi-
cious results to labor than the law of dslr-
button, which removed from the treasury the
great disturbing cause which created excess
SEES and deficiencies, nor has any law held
out to the nottingham, and all others, such
a promise of a future state of things on
which we might rely with confident assur-
ance, as there could be little occasion for an
injurious change. The defeat of measure
so suspicious to our best interests, so well
designed to remove the embarrassment,
which have beset the whole country, and so
full of the promise of benefits to come, is,
therefore, greatly to be deplored.
Those who are opposed to Tariff, dis
eliminated so as to protect industry, and
who are in favor of reducing the wages of
labor, will no doubt be opposed to distri-
button Of the revenue from the lands, for
they perceive what has been SO long and so