Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-06-27

which Congress has appropriated so much as Ike
administration asks for; while in their Contin-
renchments of more than 500 900 per anDum as
compared with the preceding Van Buren, one.
Again. we dare The Sun to publish and contrast
the two. AS TO 'disgracing the nation the only
approach TO this has been made by those who
have struggled to defea; all provisions for paying
the debts and just charges Of the government and
maintaining the Public Faith-to wit, the Loco
Foco minority in the two branches.
The Sun continues:
"They (the Wing majority in Congress) at
tackled the National credit by dividing and throw
ing away the public domain (; they rushed to the
repeal oil the Independent Treasury law before any
practicable plan had been devised to take It's
place."
Both these enormities we're committed in err
press compliance tOih The official recommendations
Of President Tyler, of whom The Sun is so val
lent liege supporters and the repeal Of the Sub
Treasury tods accompanied by practicable plan
or substitute which forty years experience had
proved most efficient, safe and beDi6cent, but il
was vetoed. Is congress to answer for that9 But
hear the Sun:
"They passed Bankrupt law, excepting from
it's operation the swlndlng corporations for which
it was most needed
That's a fact, for once and they passed il ON
the recommendation of John Tyler, and with a
distinct understanding that if they attempted to
subj corporations to its provislons-or, Mr..
Calhoun expresses it, put the States up at auc-
ton the President tcoilld hare vetoed IT, The
Southern State Rights men considered such pro-
vision virtual subversion of the power of the
States, and the only effect Of insisting on itwould
have been the utter defeat Of the bill. The
friends of General Bankrupt Law had only to
choose between taking what they could get or
losing every thing. They chose the part of wis.,
dom; they have secured part Of whit should be,
and we hope the rest will follow.
"They raised the Tariff" says the Sun. That's
n fact, again aud we can assure you for your
comfort That they will raise ii still more.
They " Increased the National Debt" This as.
Sertion is in direct opposition to the preceding,
and to truth Congress has funded, or authorized
the Secretary TO fund, some millions of outstand-
ing and accruing liabilities but borrowing money
to pay off Treasury Notes, and imporlune needy
creditors, is not creating increasing the Debt,
as every body knows. With q Revenue of only
Twelve or Fifteen Millions per annum, under a
declining Tariff it is impossible that Debt should
not accrue but Congress is blaneable only IN
failing to provide fully for its repayment We
trust it will not long be liable to this reproach
"Thev are now seeking to strike down our Ar
my and Navy at a most critical moment &C.
Who are seeking? The motion to reduce the
appropriation for the pay of the Nary was carried
hy the votes of Serenty-three LoCoocos and forty
Whigs--in all 1l3-opposed by seventy Wings,
sir Tyler men and thirteen Locoiocos-69 in all.
The motion to withhold pay from all officers of
the Navy appointed after this date over the
number in each grade on the LIST of January, lo4l,
was made by Robert Mcclellan of This Stae-as
bitter Locoioco as there is in Congress
carried by the of sirty-sir Locofocos, thirty
three Wings and one Tyler man-in all lOO-a-
ganst seventy -three Wings, sixteen Locofucos and
fue Tyler men-in all 81. (See Nat. Intel. of May
24th.) No vote on the Army Reduction has yet
been taken by Yeas and Nays but the division is
very similar to this And here are the Wings
l,t,, in, G., lam ,ba al "a
duction of The Army and Navy which zoe, by
the way, heartily approve ]-made by large major
tiles of the Locofocos in opposition TO large major
tiles of the WHIes! Such is the habitual unfair
ness of that paper toward the Wing party aud
cause.
We need not speak of the charge that the
Wings persist in leaving our National Finances
without regulation" when every one knows that
they have pissed two bills expressly intended for
, such regulation. The slang about riding over
an ncorruptibe President is worthy its source
and its pay. The ass knoweth his masters crib"
Congress was chosen 10 egisete for the country (;
but The Sun seems to consider it bound TO legis-
late for the President, and conform its action to
hs-to do otherwise is dicatorla and factious-
"The unwholesome excitement and lamenable
debauchery of the public mind in the canvass OF
$780," is the true cant of the demagogue who hab-
itually conceals bitter contempt of the popular
Judgment under the mask of excessive Democra-
cy. The excitement" of 1910 was peaceful, de-
lucrative, law-abiding. Never were the prin-
, cipes of our Government, the measures Of our
Rulers, the objects and relations OF the contending
parties, brought so fully universally home to the
People through every avenue OF discussion as IN
that very campaign. The People saw, and read,
and heard, and they decided by an unprecedented
, majority against the men and measures supported
by the Sun. For This they are branded with " Ia
{ meniable debauchery" by the Sun and its allies,
f and treated as drunken idiots or unatics. They
. will triumphanty repel The impuation and vindi-
cate their intelligence and patriotism on The first
fair opportunity.
|, We are but half through with this subject
and must take another opportunity 10 show how
, unjust and baseess are The impuIahons on the
} Wings in Congress of neglecting then duty.