Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-08-24
COMM VACATIONS.

| Ma. EDIroR: Truly grateful for the prompt
tude and imparIinlity manifested by you in the
publication OF both the report Of the Select Com
mitee of ID, and that of Ex-Governor Thomas w.
Gmer; and having read them both with some de
gree of attention, solicit flor the FIRST iie) space
in your valuable journal, for few lines relative ia
what appears 10 the writer to be the issues at ,hi.
time presented 10 the consideration and acton-ycs
action, emphaticaly repeat-of a grossly injured
and insuited people, and they are suceinctly
these:
Were, or we're not. the Public Lands transferred
by certain States the original owners, TO the hand.
OF the General Government their Trustee. solely al
Piac'cu ole and equitable mode by wRicI
they could be rendered available "for the eomnio,
| benefit of all the States"7
Was, not, the appropriation of the pro.
ceeds Of the sales OF those lands the Liquidation
OF common Indebtedness, incurred in the common
defence ola principle and country, dear and con-
mon 10 US all, in strict accordance with the dc sign
Of the deeds OF transfer, md first in importance to
all tie Staiesl
Was, or was not, the jus. and equitable dis,rbu
ton among the States, according TO their several
representations ia Congress, thus allottins to each
State itI quota to be expended according its willy
the next appropriation in importance, after having
paid oil this common debt2
II, as doubt not, the affirmative TO these queries
DO true, then the conclusion IS unavoidable, that
the General Government, as trustee, has never had
aud cannot have the least shadow OF q right, to
use sngl cent OF this fund for the payment Of lis
own debts proper, i. e. its current yeiry expen-
ses, bu, should, on the contrary, have held the
rule contained IN the above queries invoiaie e. to
pay from this fund debts incurred for our common
defence in time OF war; when commerce is interrupt
ed and consequently revenue diminished, and in
time Of peace distributing il TO the States and look
ing TO a judicousy adjusted Tariff Of Revenue for
its ways and means;" and the time has now or.
rived when, with their Representatives on one side
AMI John Tyler on the o.her, the people have III
Tecily presented for their solution, this issue:
whagher Ia. a. IL II 4
be confined, in its source OF revenue, to a Tariff
adjusted TO a scale Suitable TO on economical al r.
mInlstratOn Of the Government, and the proceeds
OF the sales Of the Public Lands be divided equiia
bly, amongst the States for whose benefit il IS IN
doub'cdy held in trust; or shall the Tariff md
Lands combined, form Joint fund to be yearly
poured into the treasury Of the General Govern
ment7
Should the former course be the one adopted
s,eadiness and uniformity would sson lie Infused
| into the expenditures Of the Government and into
the Tariff laid with an eye TO the requirements Of
the Treasury. II the latter course be selected by
the people, the sources OF Revenue being two. $50
tneOngTuous in their natures" and so huctuatng in
their characters that unsten6inoss and caprcious-
ness, such as is 10 be found only in John Tyler's
mind, would continually prevail.
Believing that Mr. Adams has sent his grist 10
the right Mil and that It will be sent back by the
Mill boy Of the Slashes, in eighteen hundred and
| forty -four,
subscribe myself S.D.X.