Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-03-17


deserve the name-very properly refused 10 attach
any such condition TO the resolution, authorizing M
receipt of the money ~ The Tariff viii be III
creased as high perhaps 30 per centun', and that
ndapendamt Of Mcaction Of inninia Hpon eahcr sub
ject. majority of Congress are in favor oian in.
crease OF the tariff, and the majority are The friends
OF distribution. (2) The President the Hero Of Vroes
is likewise the friend Of distribution C0 He acted
with the aoriiy Of Congress in creating and he will
doubtless act with that jory in preserving the law
We have his Gond IN his consistency. (l) Moreover,
Congress has anticipated the refasa alias The indirect
rpt0' policy, by an enactment, providing that such
portions Of the Land Distribution fund may he
fused by States entitled 10 receive The same, shall be-
distributed among States that will receive 1t. ~ In
the face of these facts nerposing insurmuuntahc OBJ
sacl.s 10 the repeal of the law, and in view OF an emp
~ State Treasury the Senate of Virginia, rather The
Opposition in that body have rejected the State por-
ton of the Distribution fund, amounting to several hun
dred thousand dollars annually. (6) The Distribution
law, repeat, will be preserved in defiance of VlrgI-
mia az The Opposition, therefore, in rejecting the
money! have made it present 10 the receiving States.
~ How many of the poor youth OF the State, would
this rejected fund have saved from ignorance.
"Contrast this of The Opposition in the Senate
with the course pursued by Virginia in Sc During
that year. the State through agent appointed by the
Legislature received million and half dollars her
share of the Surplus fund Tan of revenue from
customs, &c. collected in the National Treasury dstri'
huted at the time among the States. ( Now, we are
trbution money-that it is 'bribe, &c. And this cant
is relied upon by Senators TO reconcile Virginia 10 the
loss of several hundred thousand dollars annually
When reflect upon the blessings of education, this
is calculated TO duse, and will dituse, among the
youth of States, already possessing advantages over
Virginia in this respect we constrained cry aloud
God save the Commonwealth from such legislators as
these Senators. IG)
0) In the eyes of the Fredericksburg Arena the
protraon Of the Compromise act, the increase OF the
d. Of ,ltn de The
defence of the nation the augmentation Of The public
debt 10 The amount of the Proceeds, Of no sort OF
account, in comparison with Mr. Cays farorlte pro
;ect of distribution What though il compels the peo
pie pay through the for the increased duties mn
the articles they consume-it makes no odds The
course of these Wings is indeed "sulcda For every
dollar that Virginia receives she will have to pay two
or three. lfhs be ROT suicidal, we know not what 10
(20 The Tariff, 10 the extent, will not be Inn
posed without The consent of Virginia Tie example
of Virginia. in refusing distribution, backed she rs
by South Carolina, and Alabama, and Mississippi, and
fortified she will probably be By the course OF New
York, will seal the fate of The Distribution law-and
what then: You reduce the Tariff TO the extent
Mr.. Clay himself held the other day. IN the Senate.
that if The Proceeds Of The lands which he estimated at
len millions, retained by the Federal Treasury,
the duty would only be raised PSI per cent. II II
amounts to three millions, then twenty five per cent,
and III The same proportion.
GsO The President will be bound by his
solutions If 80, to veto tie bull lie declared that
no distribution should be made al the hazard Of
raising the duties, and If trampling upon "the sa'
cred ard involac act of Compromise.
(i) His consistency will prove his bond that he will
resist this unnecessary violation Of the Compromise
Act
(5.) Congress has taken such siep-and more
over. dare not. II would be literally robbing one
State for the benefit Of anoher-to punish the honest
and reward the subservent.
(61 Fudge, Sererai hundred thousand dollars II
tpS
Virginia would receive only about 500, COO after de-
ductnr crpen.cs and the shares for The States But
oppose it several (say, the veracious Wing states
IT, SEQ 600 doarsl then does not the Arena see the
dilemma TO which il is reduced; The they give
to the States, the they take from the Federal
Treasury-ihe they abstract from the public de-
the less necessity of increasing the Tariff
one cent.
as Not So The moral force of Virginia would blow
the whole absurd scheme SIX thigh.
~ Not They dare not pirate il for the benefit
of The would.be receiving States.
(9) Yes: contrast the course OF the Wings IN so,
and IN l-l2. Iken, the public Treasury was IN state
of plethora There was a surplus of 40 millions in the
Treasury-Ict under those circumstances, many Vi
the Republicans protested against the deposite, mot
distrbuton-ioi Gen Jackson would not agree to the
measure in that iorm But noe, the public Treasury
is literally Impoverished w Whatever may be thought
of the principle Of Opposite them the is infinitely
stronger now-when Congress is virtually raising mo
ney for Tie purpose Of Disribution-and what clause of
the Constitution, or what sound principle, jushes
such course
NO) Every tvro knows the importance of money in
such mat,crs-but Experience is sad teacher The
example Of 90 ought to against similar err
ror no does not know. the mischief, the eXirava-
nancc introduced nio The State Governments by that
d,yosite--and the heavy debt into which il plunged The
States until they amount 10 at least 200 millions. Are
we never 10 profit by experience?