Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-04-08

rhaael by money falseu W '"o QUO
d;strbul.. keir proceeds - virtually - o'
,oms-,hat is to lay tnxes Tor cslrioutioh' on
n,h Tse lands ceded were ceded BY only seven
States: therefore, it, commended, 'hey are - g
,s resulting trust, they ought 10 60 oaIh - ~. H. mr.
S,,,es ard not to twenty-six. but IN iac' ' r.
IS tic cesson are no, accomplished, but stand as
ono "a there remain any joint and common wis IN
7lh If they are to 90 back as genera uus. ~.
the States, then the Florida and LOUISIANA pn;ed
thus 20 back, because they wero not ooaiheu
~ aoad under any trust And these purchased Janus
,sId nearly half the annual proceeds OF Tue ehule
public domain ,o,he States to nav
sh The land money is not to go 10 Tue STAYS ~ Ply
an, don't of the Federal Government TO 'ne H'a ,
In fact the States are raihef IN oeot - '"e
yernment. r., a., ,,h,;c lands as
OH The power to "dispose oil the pnoiic iahu', :.
.n,ed in the Constitution, is power 10 seii-ho' "
give away. a., n;s,r;bpton is TO aid the
c,ss in having State debts, the Constitution grams
oh nnwer Besides, some States owe nothingI
40 p,ore-some less; that the Distribution "ou'u
onerate unequally and unJustiy.
pin D;sirbution sanctions this dangerous principe
hat the Federal Government IS TO ratsc money oy
| taxation, and the States are " SPe"u - 800
away ali responsibility. -, I..,,..s
18th Distribution robs Peter to pay Paul. relieves
xon,rty in indebted States from dTect ta4at'o" a,
throws It upon persons by indirect taxation W
,;F Il taxes most heavily the States that consume
mos, compared with what they manufacture and mus
| axc;tes sectional jealouses-augments deots-"ofRs
neonaly and oppressively, and dsturbs the harmony
of The on-Petcrsburg Statesman.
prn11c LAyps-The votes in Congress against the
amendments to the Loan Bill proposing suspension
| of the act TO distribute the proceeds OF the puDhc
lands are set down by several journals as conclusive oil
he fate of all similar propositions. We think differ
emily The majority in the Senate was only one-in
the House twenty. seven. The question arose met
den,ally in the way Of amendments, wh'cn were uh'
doubtedly voted against by many Tor the purpose
/ thn y.
Of preventing delay npon ,he o unuea ds cue
sion When the issue shall be directly ana ia'r'
| ~ presented we are confident that the DstrIou-
ton law will be suspended or repealed. ~ Ger
tainly will unless the madness OF party spirit is
permitted 10 stand in the way Of any acuoh
il appears to be conceded all hands, that the farm
must be raised upon articles 10 more than twenty
per cent If this be done, it will oil itself suspend he
Distribution Act. The law could never nave passed,
except upon this condition WIZ MI berrieh anu
other Southern men, who refused TO vote Tor the OIL
.,cep, on these terms now consent TO vote Tor high
Tariff in order to raise sufficient funds TO enable the
proceeds OF the lands he distributed among Tie olates
We do not belle We t.-N y. Sun
FALSE lssrEs.-There is a patriotic old motto, the
substance of which u.s. "Our Country, always right
but right or wrong, Country" We regret TO tind
that some journals amongst have turned THIS sent-
ment wrong end foremost, and appear to be strenuous
" acting under it in its perverted form lhey seem 10
saw Our country is always wrong-but wrong or
right we 90 against Country. These are not con-
fined TO mere partizan presses, that base enough IN
the hour of their countrys trial to direct nll their ell
forts TO the destruction Of all confidence IN The men
chosen to administer the Government but those that
mingle Abolition fanaticsm with political gall, are tie
most disng uished for their hate OF country we 90
not deny their right to entertain and express any OPT
Mons however and absurd but we protest against
their wu perverson Of facts for The purpose OF Plac'ng
their country in the wrong.
Foremost among these journals is the American
which has mol only published many long columns upon
the Creole case but not content with lraVingIts apoi
to the shor, life of ne wspnper articles it has embodied
them in book And what does it all amount to: why,
il falsely assumes that Mr. Webster had gwen instrnc-
tons to Mr. Everett demand the surrender oil the
slaves engaged in the mutiny on board the Creole IL
also falsely that the slaves escaped without any
una wu interference the part OF the BRUSH author-
ties then goes upon these premises TO show That
our Government has no right TO make any such de-
mand and that about TO go to war III a case
where we are wholly in the wrong. The same cry Is
caught up and echoed from all the papers ola similar
character, and hands upted in holy horror ut the
idea Of our going to war in such cause
Now as we have said, these assumptions are totally
nnfounded from first 10 last. Mr. Webster says in his
DESPATCH effect, that the slaves freed by the
unius,iable interference ofthe British authorities, and
in consequence Of their Withholding from the vessel the
kind Offices 10 which by the comfy of nations she was
entitled 1t is therefore, he contends, case Tor IN
demnty but no demand for the return of the slaves is
made or even limited at, and so the whole argument
of the American tumbles 10 the ground, like baseless
fabric And to going 10 war about 1t IN any shape,
nobody has ever thought Of that except those who at
tempt 10 force false upon the country tor the
sake OF putting her in the wrong Our true causes nj
Quarrel lie far deeper than any that would be raised by
a hundred Creole cnses. Britannia is determined TO
rule the waves-Columbia swcars they shall be Tree
This is the true and only issue about which there VIII
be any fghting.-D
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