New-York daily tribune., 1842-09-06

SeCrateQ power DaQ NISSleO lllc peopie VI
imposing taxes in their own chosen way. call
it a censecrated power, and SO it is enphaticaiy
-consecrated by the most glorious events in our
own history, to say nothing OF the history of that
nation from which we sprung-consecrated by all
the considerations which belong 10 the safety, the
very existence of the free institutions of this
beloved country (Cheers.) And yet the specta-
Gle is presented to the verdi verify believe for
the first time in the history Of any nation, limited
or unlimited in its goyernment-that the most
deliberate acts of both Houses of Congress with
reference to the taxation OF the people have been
nsllified by the arbitrary act of single man
have listened attensivey to the remarks of the dis
tiDguished gentlemen who preceded me en- the
veto power; and l add to them an emphatic
institutions of your ceuntry-as you revere the
memory OF your iiustrious ancestors-to look to the
matter before you allow any one man. no matter
how high his station or how great his power to set
al defiance the deliberate judgement of the Senate
and the House of Representatives upon the sub
ject Of Tax alton and of Revenue (Cheers.) 1t
invades the fundamental principles of the Govern
ment, and in the end, if not checked, it may
shake the fabric OF the Government itself
Cheers
The President sent back the bill with his OBJ
jectons and in that House it produced a sensa-
ton which | confess myself utterly unable to de-
scribe. 1t came upon US as q blow struck at the
rights and the liberties of the people of the United
States, whose Representatives we were; and there
were not wanting those who were anxious for an
adjournment forthwith, that they might make an
immediate and powerful appeal TO the people
upon this issue (cheera.) And had that appeal
been then made, I should have had no fears for
the result.
But the Wings of Congress felt the embarrass-
ments into which the nation was plunged, and they
felt, too, that they had another duty to perform On
this occasion.
They met, gravey and soemnly to odeiberate on
the position of public affairs, and determine the
course it became them to pursue under the circuu-
stances They did meet day after day for nearly
a week they discussed the subject and compared
opinions, until at last it did seem as if there would
be division among the Wings. But what was
the country's condition Its credit destroyed at
home and abroad, its land fund distributed and the
Government on the very verge of dissolution the
people struggling beneath the pressure which bore
them down. were every where crying for rellet to
the Representatives of the nation they had looked
to the result of the contest of l840 US the dawn OF
better times. After contest, unparalleled tor
its severity in the annals of this country, they had
succeeded in removing the administration under
the misrue of which they had so long labored,
and had got the Government into their own hands
they had suffered under the infections of the one
man power, and while yet bleeding at every pore
under it, they had come to the deliberate deter
mnation that it was unwise in TIE Chief Mags-
trate of the nation to WELD it it had been WELD
ed. Every portion of the people was in unpar.
alleled distress.
When we looked TO tine condition Of the Gov
ernment on the one hand, and of their constituent
BODY on the other, who were bleeding at every
pore under the mass of msfortunes that had be.
fallen them from the failure of the Chief Magis-
tratc to carry out his pledges we to the sol
amn determination that it was not their duty to
adjourn without doing something fer the good of
the country. We were not prepared to obey the
President, but to obey the people. Cheers. II
he thought proper to forget his obligations to the
country, and to prove recreant to the high duties
imposed on him by the constitution and the sufira
ses Of this nation, for that reason we believed thai
it was duty to stand up still more strongly for
the country There we were with the power ir
our hands; we had been taunted by our adverse
ries, who said, You have but to WELD the power
and it is done; give up your Distribution bill Of
1341, and pass your revenue bill. Under the pc
cuiar circumstances Of tho case, bill was pre-
sented in the House of Representatives, and the
event is as has been told you. By the gentlemen
from North Carolina Mr.. STANLY) and Indiana
(Mr. THoMrsoH) and one from Kentucky, { MIR
L. w. ANDREWS coming up TO the relief cheers
the bill was passed by the majority of one vote
and came to the Senate. There we had expected
there would be great difficulty to encounter. Blu
will no. go into details. There was greatrepug
nance on the part of the Wings who had been il
favor of the Land Bill to give up this great lane
fund which belongs to the States. But looking
to the condition of the country, we determined tha
we would give it up for the people. And now
while my friend Mr. FnLMoRE) has paid a com
pliment which l appreciate, to the gentleman
from North Carolina, (Mr. sTAsLr,) permit m'
to tell you what perhaps you do not know, that, i
that bill had been placed on the casting vote o
the Vice President, another distinguished Whis
from North Carolina (a1r MAseUM) would have
voted for it, Hearty cheers. Ispeak by al
thoriry. Renewed cheers. That gentleman ha
been in all his previous career opposed to th,
Protective policy; and he has believed that th.
people Of North Carolina, as part of the South
also were opposed to the Protective policy. Blu
if necessary to save it, he would have voted 70
the Bill.
No man will doubt, but when this measure
passed, the Wing party made a sacrifice ofa cher
ished measure-whch had been cherished By tn,
iVhig party for ten long years-which had fale,
under the veto power of the President of the Uni
ted States in 1882 or '33, and which the people o
this country vindcated in the contest of 1910.
l have heard it stated that it has been said il
New-York that this great Tariff Bill has bee,
passed by Democratic votes, and that the credi
of it was given to the Democracy of the Union
and suppose it was because one of your sena
tors of the Democratic party voted for it. Tha
Senator although he acted high :psrt in yorn:
for ii. assigned as one of his principal reason:
that il aimed 8 bloY at the very germ of the dis
tribution Of the public lands. The almost united
Deroocr,tc M rt,. in the Senate stood LII ga; ms