Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-07-05


Government and to the manufacturer have been the
cause of the deficiency in the Treasury
| Add 10 this measure the most extraordinary o
these extraordinary times, the distribution OF the sale
of the public lands, taking from the treasury iuh'
ock NOW edped 10 be common fund for the whole mon
nd d,vidna it into inconsderable fractions among The
State Governments, empovershing the one without
much errching the other surendeng one source oil re
venue in order to impose burden 10 greater amour
nnon another in violation OF the Constitution ana SUD
versive Of the objects for which the Government wa
instituted.
Believing as we do, that these are the measures o
tho noltcal party opposed TO us, that these are thel
cherished principles, that these measures have brough
us TO the brink OF bankruptcy that they ought TO be ant
can be changed, forced to pause IN our wiling
ness tn increase our burlhens for the sake OF revenue
Looking too 10 the future-hehodlng disposition II
tho o,mp 3ar,v Ia extend wider and wider the Hamil
onian system Of keeping up and funding the naIiona
debt upon the ground "thut will extend trade, pro
mote agriculture and manufactures by furnishing great
or canal lower the rate of interest by increasing Inc
quantity Of money and The quckness OF c'!cuaon ant
by combination of tile effects, furnish additional DIS
10 labor. 10 industry and to arts of every knd'-See
mo too that we are already threatened with an nssump
ton of State debts, pronounced by the same Alexander
Hamilton whose very name should carry WIN u 10 Inc
mind of every Republican hesitation and m;srust, "to
he MEASURE Of sound policy and substantial Justice
and that enormous loans to be recommended as they
were recommended by hun, "io the full amount OF the
debt as well OF the particular States as OF The union
the whole to be funded producing, in the language OF
MIR Jefferson "a contriyance invented for the purposes
ofcorrup,ion and for nssmating US in all things 10 the
rotten as we'll the sound, parts ofthc British mo-
del'-Seenr too that this very measure was INTRO
duced on wednesday last in the House oil representa-
tives by Representative from the State oil Alary!and
who was the OF the Distribution bill, during the
Extra Se-sion-Seeing, that this assumption IS urged
as substitute for the Distribution, which The ffcsi'
dents veto rerudiacs least for the present. we are
compelled again pause in our willingness to raise
the revenue, until we have some assurance mat
our burlhens By such viii not be in.neraeP'
When we recur 10 the expressed opinions OF virginia
upon this last subject; when we hear The Genera AS
sembly OF the Common wealth in their memorial 10
Congress on the 25d Of December, 1890, demonstrating
against this measure; declaring "Tha 1t - with great
concern they find themselves compelled, from sense
of duty TO call the attention of Congress 10 an act
of their last session. entitled IAN act making provision
for the debt of the U. S. which the General AS
ssmbly neither policy, justice nor the Con,ll'
tuition warrants asserting that "during The whole DIS.
cussion Of the Federal Constitution BY the Convention OF
Virginia your memnralists Taught 10 believe 'that
every power granted, retained under inns I'M
preston and upon this positive condition declared IN
the instrument of ratification. the said Government
was adopted by the people Of this Common but