The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1842-08-11
faithfully fulfilled.

lars wasted in the payment Of lis meMbes, aud
other expenses of the session.
IiCenty,fue thousand dollars were next bestowed as
graluity upon the widow of the late President, and
this without any request from her, necessity found
in her pecuniary circumstances So far from any such
necessity then existing or likely 10 exist it was fact
well known and declared atthe time that tie private
fortune of that respecabeIady, placed her above the
humility of asking such faVos, from any quarter what"
ever. Still the money was voted from The treasury as
If taxes were nothing 10 the people, and waste the du
iy Of the-government
At Its last session which closed on the 4lh of March,
1S4l the preceding Congress had made all the usual
and needfl appropriaons apd provided the means for
the public service the ens8ng year, But regardless of
this regardless alike olthe cordtlon Of the country
and of their own promises so solemnv given the ruling
majority in the present Congress, proceeded but three
months afer and before one third OF those appropr-
atoms were expended To appropriate, for the service of
the very year addition Of fire millions aud for
ty three thousand dollars. The name of economy was
no longer heard, but when pronounced by The Demo-
crats to remind the ederass of what they had pledg
ed and to rebuke them for what they were about.
Needless of this, the leaders, who projected these
measures, seemed but the diligent 10 discover
cry excuse for extravaganza, that could find impuny
in the general pretext of the public good
But those who expend, must also accumulate; and in
the case OF government, taxes and loans the chief
sources Of supply Hence twas, that after, by this
additional expenditure, they had efectualy picked the
very bones Of the treasury thoy next turned their at,
tentlon to the increase of taxes Here nerve to
be touched that through the body of people, and
therefore, was important to prepare them for the
shock, by the soothing process of distribution. They
had had lett IN the Golfers of the Government, an
unappropriated dollar. The ordinary income was short
of the extraordinary OUTLAY. Taxes, had they been
sufficient in amount, came in too tardly TO meet the
rapidity of expenditure & 10 borrow became, conse.
quently, the only immediate resource. This state Of
things was known and acknowledged, because brot
ohntfh hui r,Itn el1o 1o0
In aggravaon of these evils and as if totally bent up-
on the utter bankruptcy aud ruin of the Government
conded 10 their care, they proceeded to snatch every
dollar accrulng to the treasury from the public domain
and to cast it away in pances 10 the States. No
seriousness of its folyDo barr in the constitution
'no beggarly account of empty boxes" from thetrea-
sury department no terrors of national debt-could
possibly arrest them in this. Nor the injustice of
augmenting taxes, when the means of the people to
pay were diminishing, sufficient to retard, much less
to prevent this proAgae Of the nations resour>
ces. Distribute they would, and that too, at the haZ-
ard OF the public execration. They conided in the
craft of the scheme and willing to risk its expos,
pre. One dollar wasto be given by the Government
through the states 10 the people, aud for that three paid
back, by the people, through the custom mouse: to the
Government. The people would see and might be
tempted, by the amount they received, that which
they paid was to be taken from them, in the dark and
at distance The first process was to be direct and
visibe.he second clrcutous and obscure, and it was
upon this obscuriy, that the Federass relied for lm>
punity against detection in tho impoure. The act of
distribution therefore passed. and then in an in.
sant AFTER the same men who passed it, urged that
ry act, by which the land revenue thus excluded
from the treasury, as an additional reason why the ax-
es upon the people, should be Immediately increased.
tax of six millions of dollars was accordingly added
in the form of tariff dules 10 the burthens before i'm
posed upon the nation.
But in view OF the lost revenue distributed the vast
appropriations already made and those intended for the
future this increase of taxes would prove nades
quae. loan oftwelve millions of dollars was there
fore, authorized upon the credit of the people and the
pledge of their farms and workshops, for its payment
principal and interest. This it was supposed would
together with the and the treasury notes already
ahoat afford fund sufficient to feed for the present.
even The extravaganza of the ruling power. nations
al debt would, true with all its evils be the na
evitabls consequence. So much the better, for such
debt, instead of being reason with Federa!ists why
they should economso the public income, has ever
been, and yet is, with them Of all reasons the very
strongest for the most boundIess podgaty Of expen-
dture And therefore, with this infatuated affection
for public dejt, they were not to be satisfied with
the twelve million loan beginning: but the con.
trnrY, they proceeded Immediately 10 add sixteen m-
lions to that the last being intended as the basement
stock of the Fiscality national bank more hdeous
Infinitely in all its features than the former instu>
ton, whose conduct decay and dissolution have appa
led the world have doomed to penurY so many fami>
political morals of the country.
Nature never abandons men absolutely to their own
indscreons; for even in the gross confusion Of public
affairs, she often inerposes her silent authority 10 check
the dominant power in state, whenever it threatens 10
lnact degree of misery she never intended mankind
should endure-out Of the bosom of the whg party
therefore, the veto sprung to strike down the forth>
coming monster while yet in its frlus condition. The
presiding magistrate had received the scepor from the
hands of that party, but upon the condition of per-
Jury and dishonor He felt that lie owed allegi-
ance TO the constitution of his country, and it was
the constitutional veto which alone intercepted the bank
and the debt the majority desired they resolved 10
tack tho constitution ITSELF and the President who had
dared to support it thus far upon that point, he still
stands firm. How long the constitution shall stand re.
mains for the people and the states to determine. It is
enough that the nation now knows, full well, the
designs of the Federal lesders, their principles their
measures; The measure of their ambition and proAiga-
cy thus displayed extra session Of three months
and fourteen days duration and which closed its
orabe labors on the 9th of September 194l.
Congress commenced its present session on the 9Th
of December 164 and up to tho date this letter. has
continued, without inermissioni for seven months and
seventeen days. 1t will doum some time other, but
not presume, until the master majority shall have,
eectually, if that be possible, exhausted their
passions and the patience of the people, as well
as the resources and credit Of the Government when
they assembled. That silent but thorough revolution,
which is perfected, ip the public mind, had then
greatly advanced as visible in the popular elections
Upon almost every battle field where in 40 they iris
umphed, they had have since been routed by peo>
pie indignant at having been shapehlly betrayed
Full one half of their numbers both in the Senate and