Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-08-08


in yeas, on his tea and coffee. as the rich. lie
consumes much less. and a far cheaper quality.
| Bot suppose all ply alike and the producer moth
ing although the doctrine of part OF these gentle
men 10 that taxes come out Of the producer as WEI
as the eonsumer,) II Is even then only giving M, e
support your Government, to sustain your States
IN their necessities. and to maintain the ndepen
deuec Of your Legislature cup out Of every Eve
J who, among hardy and patriotic yeonanry, will
hneh from that sacrifice, or think It too heavy TO bs
borne for such an oheet1 Arc our farmers so fond
OF sofs that for this 20 per cent Of hot water, they
will suffer their Government to be dishonored OF
themselves ensaved and their Representatives brow
btatoni VIII they have us submit 10 Executive
misfue and dctation in order that they may sip a
little more teal Sir will they sell their bir,htgh'
for this less than mess o. rotasei cannot think
the manly race OF our forests such ssnse'ess swil'
lcrs OF a slavish beverage, ready to swallow any
thing Il you will give them dish OF tea with IL. II
would DC worse than that Crcean dcaught OF old,
which turned the bold into filthy swine. Our men.
our very won,en, are not such mere suzz ere, indf
ferent TO every thing but what they put into their
threats. They can yet. like their ancestors, on a
great occasion such this fling whoe cateces Of tea
stake.
But the Senstor fsoni Pennsylvania fear, veto
OF the bill. No whisper The would have us beievel
has been breaihed, as on other occasions, in'o
these halls to hint what course OF legislation may
be safe; the oraeles Of executive will are OF sud
den dumb. The Senator, therefore, knows nothing
except by those interior Citations Of his own wis
dom which nobody else has shared. Yet the Ssni-
tor fears, and asks. plainly enough. whether we
viii not, under the dread Of what need not lie dread
ed, II It Is not suro-the Executive vetogve up this
petty, this paltry this insis nifcant land fund. /
will answer him, for myself: No, no; now.
| Mr. BUCHANAN, from his seat "-Noi n0,cj | am
glad to hear that"
Mr. CkirrIspEs. No, cir, not now. for il is now
a question OF Congressional character aud indepen-
denee. The right OF saying how much and IN what
way taxes shall be raised is that of the peoples
Representatives alone; and Il not Tor the Execu-
tive 10 dictate TO them in any way, the amou or
the manner in which taxes shall be laid. IL IS
power from interfering with which even We here,
though part oflesislation in every thing else are
prohibited, with special caution, TO the extent that
we can originate no bill OF supplies. That matter is
sacred 10 the other House, IN regard 10 IL is
and has ever been held, the peculiar RICH, OF the
immediate popular Representative, in Governments
like ours and the Executive is the very last power
IN any such State, that can be permitted to assume
any control over it. As TO any expediency about
the matter, that Is Tor them a.one Judge; and the
President has no more business TO interfere with
their discretion in II than he would have when they
have said the money is TO be taken out Of the Peo
pies right pocket, TO order them {, take il out Of
the left. The true question now is whether NC
TO yield to this; whether the power Of taxation
is pc exercised by the Representatives Of the PEG
pie, CT TO be oyerrulcd and controlled 10y the Exc
cutlve, 10 what he wills and thinks, not the Legs
ature.
u
affair, worthy Of no consideration, and which We
should forego at once, rather than eudanger great
public measure 10y its union with 1t. This he says,
while himself clngng 10 It with the most determin-
cd tonacly. He insists II is so large, or may be
made so large. as 10 save the whole country from
difficulty, and redeem its credit Yet it is tril.
which the almost beggafed States should resign a,
a word, and in an Instant curious alteration Of
arguments certainly. Why, Il so mere bagatel
le, not grant this trhe TO III. States who have So
strong a claim and A Dnurhl Whv |
tear 1t from them, If the amount is large and |
they greatly in need? Ii vast affair for n |
great Treasury, surely 1t IS no, TO be scorned by
small ones But whether lltle or much tboth /
which he constantly airms 1t to BEL why can II |
not be given up on his side as well ours Docs |
this opposition look as II 1t a trife1 Oris IL |
only irlhe TO those who want 1t TO be given uni /
Why does he not tell his party and tell the Presi- ,
dent That it is Of sort Of consequence and that
II should not be cOntended about.
return, then, to the Senator, his own appeal.
Give up this petty matter, and do not endangeT, by
an obstinate adherence TO what IS not worth con
tending over, measure Indispensable 10 the public
service-ol the very highest last, most pressing ne
cessityi Instead OF encouraging and exciting the
Executive by this sort OF opposition of
going abroad TO invite into this domestic question
u our own, foreign force alien TO this whole mat
ter and certain only subiugate both parties why
do not he and his friends go to the President and
say to HIM, ISL this I'LL regards matter entrust-
ed 10 the immediate care OF the popular branch of
the Legislature alone. |: has by them been ma.
lureh as to all those considerations OF which they
are the especial judges; 1t has further received the
sanction Of the body which more Particularly repre.
sents the States; 1t is in word the embodied ud-
menI and will OF both the People ana the States
Exercise your constitutional prerog alive, when ne =
cessary, on those things to winch il may apply;
but invade not the peculiar rights OF the Lesslnurc
II the Senator will DO this. he need have no fur
Their apprehensions for those interests which he has
so much at heart.
Finally, sir, | feel and trust that ali those with
whom &C! will feel, that the time-if there has |
been one-ior such q Concession 70 the Senator ex.
horts us TO make IS pass. Our duty TO the cOun
Try, our duty as legislators commands that VIC shall
not think oil giving way to a power thus strangely
brought TO bear az aIns US, in deeosatOn OF all esis
atve duty and privilege. We are nov bound TO hold
last to the measure Of distribution. We canno;
now abandon 1t without iorfsil.ng all personal no
nor and all independence as members OF a hi,h
public body. II We ever could have yielded, we
cannot now, under the ash OF Executive usurpa-
ton. We shall become, and shall deserve 10 be
the scoTn OF the earth, crouch TO this sort of
compulson, and thus come and 20 at the whistle of
the Executive.
If, after our severe md anxious laLors to devils.
something OF what wisdom and the public gooj r.,
quIre-I after every effort in the face of whatever
was hit. st TO shake men ia a great public duty va
are yet again 70 tail, we shall Of least preserve the
consolation OF having stood out 10 the last in the
defence Of those rights without which a Legislature
1hS NHP'iS-s nNu lhoat tiuucllOuS OF pageant9.
The country will at least see that we have no, |
blenched IN the maintenance of their rights who sent
" here and our own. To that country, when !, !
shall become necessary, will make any sacrifice.
but even then most slowly, most reluctantly, If [
am thus 70 be whipped on TO what is required Of
me with Presidential scourgc.
Mr. BUCHANAN reloined, principally in on ntempt
10 show that, II the land fund was not 5000 600
annually, Il was because ebody did his duty
badly as 10 advertising the lands and putting them
into market We ourselves could not deyi at
whom this sur could I've aimed, If not at the Presi-
dent. lie then came back to the tea tables, where
apparently he thinks the weight Of his popularity
lies.
Mr. CONRAD said tho, it seemed 10 be agreed. on
all hands, that the chief reason for striking out This
9th section was. that the President desires i 10 Le
stricken out. Now, u seemed 10 him that the pro-
per Executive power had, thus far demonstrated
I.seli TO he quite as much as was cafe without
making up Tor any contribution out Of the priv
leses or functions Of either the other House or this
Nothing could be more certain than the applicabii-
~, from the beginning, OF those resolutions hfst in
irodueed ~ regard TO the British kingy power, but
still truer OF our own, shat the influence OF the
Gown has INCREASED, 10 increasing, and ought TO be
diminished"
As 10 tha, conforming, however, TO the Executive
behests, which seems to be expected, he must avow
that no matter how disposed, he should he hmself
ht some loss how 70 90 about II. IL was not quite
so easy mii.er a. some gentlemen seemed 10
mink The President, like other oraces IS some
what obscure. IT one can understand him after
nc event, hef9 10 no hope Of doing IL 6sCorS.-
As 70 the n' veto, for instance, the President say
~ lhe message, That the compromise act must not
be dep1fted from; and yet he tells you that the