The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-26


eX PIE ally provide that nothing cons ned in be 4
oe construed ~ "d.piye CODgnss al ia DIV,
make any future dsls sition OF the proceed. OF liz
pUhl'e lanes which ~ may deem pro ei FII.,
Consr % would haze had power to On .I.. II,.,
distiibun"n should cease "a casr of a ar aaI t.I
idea OF trosl, IA The u - employed tr tr
the coded lands, siill It true as To- toe urrb
| lands, whieh constitute about nineteen taen,,...s
| parts OF IA whole pubic d. .ain Iem-lai. q. g..t
! aud witch we're undoubtedly purchaser Wlts MN,
from cusiJns because al the tnts She ctssyns Of
lUfida add Lou sIana the pubic laDds were c.,...
edy largely 10 deut 10 the ITeasufy oI ,he L I,l
States ILese purchased lands surely SLAM ua-
on zoe same iootng SLIP or arsen,l uouptr wI4.
! money appropriated ont OF lie II,asur, Ships me
oiI'n sold, and no one ALL pretend THAI The bIoc,,,
| Of htlr sale can bs given away or distributed Land.
| Ike them are the property 81 the u TED 81 les
3D. DsirInutIon 10 an assumption Of Staie debts u
disgust or an undertaking oil State works and s,.
tens MT within the powers Of Cor. fess. Conefe.,
II u retains the land iund, may WITH It What
the Constitution lUrbids OF does not granl-!t d. I.yJ
IN lis legislation. Ii u distributes tha; tu "a tl die
States, tIey may do with II many tAiugr f,iuiliu D.
Congress nus ds' rbuiiun ID indi CT mod, OF
violating the limitations o the Federl Con.t.uila
and OF paying STATE debts 10 tordgA duors The
land iuni al one moment, !, described 10y thc 1d,,
Gates ol distribution immense IL It's hurnre upoD
he arf queso ON a for rehcsiog the q, OPT al Ia, %
States from direct taxation, and IN tue next beatl u
dwlndIeS, lay Their description mere pittaucc + r
naiIonal purposes Ii Is noti z, they say with which
| TO pay Federal debt OF twenty mihpns but g. *
hausiless snking fund 10 a State debt % tuo hon.
dred nIIIons Bts.des, when t was first proposed
by Mr. Clay, II was heant only to distribute urlus
| OF Federal revenue II s made to distribute de-
| fciency IN the Treasury
4h 1t is polic corrupling and consolidating ia
II tendencies II lie the mere bnbe OF party seduce
the States from ther sovereignty, and TO make It's
author at once Their great beneacor add bcn,-
| fciary.
9th The WHY'S themselves settled what distribu-
| lion should be by the II lS4l. They made the
law that II should when duties ere IA SGD above
20 per cent, and they should have been the last 10
make either tar of revenue Tor port If the Gu
vernment, a tariff for protection, 10 depend upon
The condition. of repeating their own law OF distrbu-
| ton. Ihey settled the question and there for the
present let It remain w That prudent father of fam
lily, planter OF farm, ever known To sell "A his
PERSONAL estate, and burden himself with debt and dis
credit IN order that he might give away the rents
sues, and profits of his real estate Aud Il 1t
absurd for this Government TO do the same tang 10
order to distribute the proceeds OF IT. pubic lands |
| The Wings have, at all events, established ~ the
| law of lS4i that this folly should not be pushed be-
yond he 20 per cent. ad valorem measure Of taKloa
One good result least of the last tariff blI has cn
| 10 get back the income from the public land-. .c
pubic domain is aimed by II from distribution oni
let be forever, until every acre OF 1t be sold lo Dr..
nest settler, until population covers every hu and
every valley # lis virgin soil with happy homes 10 We
an abiding estate of real capital, and Solid
foundation for the sacred credit and the holy tanh
nation upon without fear DANCER of dlshonor
And be it always remembered too, that in leaving
the land fund in the Treasury of the United States
it is taking it away from the separate States or
giving it to a Government foreign TO them, but the
| Federal Government itself is their Government
common to them, and equal to them, and ITS uses
| and ends their and ends, common and equal
| according TO their respective proportions OF tie
general charge and expenditure" And thus the trust
SO much relied upon to justify distribution Is luly
| sa isfied and executed. Indeed, II is part of the
very essence of our Federal system that the whole
General Government, IN all It's parts, as well as m
the lands is nothing else throughout but trust for
the States The fund from customs i, nothing but a
trust fund in precisely the same sense, and may
well be- and VIII be distributed too, if this doctrine
of distribution Itself TO be trusted. therefore dis
trust and deny the truth Of il toto carlo Ii ought
YER at all events, 10 be carried further than the I'm
| itaons fixed by its own authors and advocates.
In the second place, wish to say word upon the
| currency. The odium cast upon the late United
States Bank made it impossible at the expiration of
its charter TO obtain renewal OF It's existence even
| for twelve years That odium was increased by
the subsequent misconduct and mismanagemen o
the Pennsylvania State institution which succeedyd
TO its well 10 its antipathies in the popuar
feeling, that the political party which trump ed %
| the election Of 1910 compelled, in conios,lUn
and in fact, to avoid the is of bank no baak
as they would avoid defeat itself You, my fellow
citizens among whom the various and many political
addresses of the day circulated and read, know
that the Central Wing Committee OF the State OF w
gnia, at least, III formal address which they put
forth as The map of faith for their followers, e,pe-
cially and emphaticaly declared to people that
! United States Bank was not in issue in the election
and that General Harrison h mself was opposed both
| TO the consttutonaty and expediency OF such ne
slitution Previous to that time, in 1886, when Ger
| era Harrison was nominated in some sections au4
Judge White in other sections of the Union for the
| Presidency, you and | and all the Wings who
either opposed to bank who did not make Ita
test question, as never did, at that time preferred
and voted for White and Tyler President and Vice
President when knew that neither OF them would
ever sign United States Bank charter. We gave,
in the district VIII ch represent and which you
pose, decided and unequlvoca majority for thai
anti bank ticket did in lS40 for Harrison and
Tyler, who were both understood TO be in opposition
to bank. In many States, Tennessee for example,
Mr. Tyler then, IN 1886 voted for the ticket
| with Judge White IN preference TO Mr. Granger, Oh
the ground that it well understood and believed
that he would not, and that Mr. Granger would sigu
a bank charter. That Judge White would not have
signed a charter is within my personal know
ledge That he would not in the minds of many
Wings of the Tennessee Legislature, who then n2ml-
mated and voted for him and Mr.. Tyler, and who are
now villifyng Mr.. Tyler for inconsistency, pcrhdy.
! and treachery This is all matter Of recorded hsu-
ry, undenable and susceptible of the me ST positive
proof MOI to go back to Sl9 and to the whole his
tory of Mr.. Tyler in Congress- in the House and 10
the Senate, the true history OF the campaign OF leip
will show that Mr.. Tyler was pledged sign the
charter Of National Bank. During the session OF
1889 and 1910 Mr.. Tyler addressed to me- in Nasa-
ington, a letter from Williamsburg, Virginia, sayus
that meeting of the Democrats in the city Of Pts
burg Pennsy lvania, had called on him. especially %
say whether he would in any event sanction the
corporation Of United States Bank he enclosed to-
me the proceedings of their meeting and their resoc
tons, and he sent to his reply with instructor
TO submit It to the leading members of the Wing par
ty Tor them to determine whether II should be Trans
mitted TO Ptsburg and be published or not The
substance of that reply remember well II was spI-
ri ed and explicit. After examining the right OF all
citizens to call for his sentiments public questions
and stating that the fair object of such calls should
always be to enable the electors their votes
intelligibly, according to tler convictions OF
right, after knowing the true opinions of cauddlt,s