Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-08-16
Correspondence Of the whg.
wAsuiHoruH, Aug. 18Th


you will have collected from the papers; il is Of tho
more interior ones that must endeavor TO tell YOU
something.
Congress still wears its usual face. Indeed the
greater matters Of debatethc business of interest,"
that crowded the Caendars-haying been now MI
most entirely pact through, there is rather less
occupied air over the body than usual: but beneath
this calm outside. the deepes, soieitude and the most
thosghuoi deLera,ion sits upon the secret spirit Of
nearly all; mean all the wings, OF course: Tor the
Democrats are not often guilty OF thinking, nnd
still more rarely Of feeling. when ony thing besides
their own party interests is concerned. They look
on, therefore, unmoved by any ijea except TO what
profit Tor themselves the present alarming state Of
thingS can DC put; aud how, from the TOPPING ruins
oil public Order the broken fri,zes the disnounted
capitals, tho overturned columns, the di.mantled
walls oil this lofty piece of political architecture
they may build up some party howell for themselves
just as, in Italy or Peeponcsus, the peasants
make their stables and pig s,yes out Of the .culp.
tured marbles Of ancient temples.
The Wings, therefore, mus, consult alone, over
this condition OF things into which the folly-nav.
the pure stupidity of Mr. Tyler. and the violent
passions of the perncious man who chiefly governs
him, are abou, to plunge the country.
There is no sensible image that can illustrate
the President himself save Oman ass upon N
RAFT road; who, though warned by the whiz Of
the steam, and tho cries and curses Of every
body in the cars, scarcely pricks up his ears,
swears that he'll MUNICH the tuft OF weeds he has
found there, that the place was made for his di-
version, that he is himself the foremost object in
creation, and that, in short, it is against his dignity
and his conscience TO bulge one inch. On comes
the Numbering locomotive, the donkey gets every
bone in his skin broken; but the whole train is per.
haps, thrown of tho track and smashed, with the
loss of many better lives than that Of the iackass
But to return TO tho Wings. | have taken all
pains 10 arrive at the conclusions upon which MIR
rylers last net and the known game Of those who
held his hand for him, must drive them. Il was
perfectly we'll known in advance, that no Revenue
measure-that is, no real one-would be approved
You may Judge OF tho sincerity Of his talk and that
Of his friends from single fact. The bill passed
was las you may have remsiked) that drawn up in
the Treasury Department: nay, more, have GER
tain Information that il prepared under the
special direction OF the late elected Comptroller,
Barker the Presidents peculiar pet, to whom this
duty and large compensation were assigned, Us
soon as Barker was rejected by the Senate. Wen,
when the bill thus sent fom his own Treasury, and
prepared by his own i!licitly employed protege, is
an intima,ion in the Message, which few can have
understood for few will have adver,ed to the ocia
paragraph in the Madsonion, which is clearly the
explanation OF the text. The Message saws:
"lndeed, there is but too much ground TO appre-
bend that even If this bill wore permitted to become
law, alternating as II does the proceeds of the land
sales, actual deficit in the Treasury would oc-
cur, which would more than probably involve tho
necessity oil resort TO direct taxation"
he Oft he daf
THE "BIG TARIFF BILL
From the most accurate calculations that can be
made at the Treasury Department, il appears that
the big Tariff Bill" If 1t had become law, would
not have yielded revenue exceeding l2 millions of
dollars! The reason assigned IS, that the heavy du-
ties on many OF the most productive articles, would
have excluded them from the market. This infor.
nation is authentic.
You perceive that this last is what the President
means; bu, that he chooses to give it out ambigu-
ousy, in the Message, and only 10 make the direct
assertion through a less responsible vehicle OF du-
pcity.
You will thus perceive that this is arranged and
settled official fa.sehood. The bill thus denounced
was pre- pared and estimated by the Treasury itself,
as n rtrenue, not n proieefiUe one, and such as
would produce income OF twenty seven, instead
OF twelve and half millions. | pray you TO ex.
hbit, as i, should be exhibited, this piece
Of Presidential prevarieetion, which no man alive
was shameless enough to have attempted, except the
Chief Magistrate, who vetoed the Bank bill drawn
up with his own hand, and passed by dnt OF his
applications
assent 10 no bill which shall exceed 30 per cent.
and that extent OF duties. he has already asserted
his right to collect. His declarations about the
sanc,ity OF the Compromise, and the general pur
poses of the party with which he is now identified,
as far as they will let him be, force one 10 see
that all his indetermnnte, nde6nable palaver about
discriminating duties" is meant TO be confined with
in the aximum Of 30 per cent
There has been some question OF taking up the
proisct of MIR Simmons; which makes its basis the
Compromise and Home VouaIions-the latter on
such scale as would raise to about 25 per cent.
ad valorem the nominal rate of 20. But the de.
tails Of this sort Of valuation are npprehended,
by many TO present insurmoUntable difficulties
Yet there plan, but Of this particular sort,
by which a conflict with the LAM Distribution can
| he are stod and even this, MIR Tyler can easily
find reasons for annulling.
Nothing, then, is left, but to submit to the dis
graceful terms subversive OF every shadow oil e.
gislative independence on the separation Of govern
mental powers, nndto yield to these hard, these
impossible conditions, from one IN whose obseT-
of any thing like faith il IS totally ridiculous
to ina gine-nothing, say, is left but this, or that
the legislature should at once adopt the only manly
part-already too long delnyed-and try what viz
tue there is in the old resort Of English freedom
tho stoppage of supplies. That has tanned Kings
before low. That checked the masterful obs;inacy
Of not more stupidity intent on treading over a
legislature than Mr. Tyler; mean the first Charles
Stuart. That brought the bright, the command
ing, the eloquent Strafford TO the block-a man
far above Mr. Wise. in oil parallel Of parts, as the
heroic times in which he fgurod-the times Of Mil
ton and Uampden and Cromwell-were above those
Of Benton, Van Buren, and Dick Johnson.
cannot think that we have. under Republican
forms, so fallen from all the spirit Of that brave
ancestry, that side with this less than half
royalty, against the only sure bulwark OF public
freedom, our Legislature itself.
But must close in haste. J.
N. Y. MARKETS, Ave. 10, 1912.
Flour AND GRAM-The price Of Gencsee az
the close Of last week was 1915, but the market
opened on Monday very dull, and with downward
tendency Of prices which gave way in the OF
the day, and sales 10 tho extent OF about 2000 bar
res wero made at s550as5,G2l, for the present.
Subsequent sales OF several thousand barrels were
made at S5,50ns5,3li for Genesee and fiat hoop
Ohio.
This day the market is again lower, and several
sales have been made from store a. 1875, and some
transactions are reported at less. Fresh flour,
though held generally at s537I, can be bought at
s525. Ohio -four is also S5,25, but wo have heard