The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-05-17

we know how 10 provide Cor such anemergen.
CIV. An energetic preparation OF this KIND
will Operate more effectally for the preserva-
ton of peace than all the diplomacy which
could possibly be used for the same subject
Every battery mounted upon our coast-every
war.vessel launced from our ship-yards, If
potent argument against foreign aggression
and an eloquent reproof of that arrogant and fe-
rocious spirit which has lately menaced US
from the other side of the Atlantic.
But there is one particular in which we could
wish to see this country better prepared than
she is, or is likely 10 be very soon, against the
exigencies ola war. We speak in reference
10 financial matters; these are not merely an
important adjunct to the defensive preparations
of country; they are the very essentials Of the
thing itself. The importance ofmoney in con-
Quoting war has long since passed into bro.
verb. With an abundance of this powerful
aid and stimulus, navies will rise and armies
will be collected with magical celebrity, and no
country can be said TO want the means OF de.
fence while its fiscal concers are in good and
available condition. But few nations are so
economical in time of peace as to provide suff'-
cent funds TO meet the acquisitions of pro-
tracted war;-a very affluent treasury may
speedily be exhausted by that expensive bust.
ness; and when sufficiency Of cash has mol
been stored away, The only remaining buwark
of a nation is credit. These are momentous
consid, rations. 1t is scarcely necessary TO re.
mark that The financial recources OF the UNI
ted States, at the present time, are not SUPER
abundant, and in such state Of things 1t be.
comes exceedingly proper 10 inquire what Is
the condition of our public credit. AT oil times
this is most interesting subject of inquiry;
but when war is possible land when is II not
so?) the preservation Of national credit is not
only matter Of feeling and principle, but OF
the most urgent policy; inasmuc as ii is the
only safeguard that may be relied on in times
of the greatest emergency. - Saturday
Courier.
THE CRY ELECTION FRAUDS. The utter
folly and intended criininality Of repeating the
Registry Act has been demonstrated in deposit
tons already published respecting the election
frauds of this city. 1t is cleaI that Tammany
Hall desired this repeal in order to perpetrate
iniquities, such as they began but few days
after the repeal.
The dispositions taken by Justice Taylor, Late
of the Upper Police, and probably removed
because he thus deemed it his duty to investi-
gate these matters, disclose these facts.
LIST. All the Paupers in the Aims House
were sent to the Polls to vote for May or Morris
and the Loco Foco Aldermen.
I'd. The naturalization papers ola de-
ceased pauper by the name of Jones were
used to enable living pauper to vote the loco
foco ticket.
Sd. Some fifty sixty Convicts were dis
charged from Blackwell's Island on the night
preceding the election without the shadow of
authority, taken to different cellars and watch.
houses for an hour or two, treated and Toasted
and upon a residence thus acquired, taken to
the Polls Of the Eighth and Fourth, and we
know not how many othe wards, 10 vote for
Robert Morris and his Loco Foco associate y
N. Y. Express,