Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-07-08
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RICHMOND. Va. FRIDAY. july &, 1912.
AN APPEAL TO CONGRESS.
.lnd On .9nufnL 10 The ptOulet

reduced It's sripl OF iunds TO pay the necessary ap
preparations The loan has failed to great degree
Even doubt is supposed exist, whether the duties
be collecied-the merchants are paying them
with Protest-ihe papers say, that the lawyers OF
Philadelphia have advised the hants, that they are
bound pay any dutes-and torrent of litigation
let loose upon the land In this stale OF things too,
most important negotiation is going on with Great
Britain The Wings insist upon giving away the pro-
ceeds of the public Lands cut off that source Of sup
pin from exhausted Treasury. They go even fur
ther in their party rage 1t is said, that they refuse 10
any revenue at ALTO remove oil doubts ABOUT
the collection law by a temporary enacment-to pass
law TO raise the duties even II they should be want
ing for the economical administration OF the Govern
ment-nay, they even talk of refusing funds Tor The
support of the Army and Navy-lt is said, that they
appear determined 10 do nothing, acuhout Distri-
bulon--to PROSTATE at once the Treasury and the
Manufacturing interest--n word TO stop the wheels
of the Repubc--to throw the Government and The
country into confusion-to break down John Tyler,
If they can and amid the smoke of the battle, TO
smurrle Henry Clay into the Presidency, II they can
The Federal leaders may be capable of these eS
the most prudent and calculating portion OF
the Wing party, The Southern and Eastern W hss VINO
90 for protection surely proceed to these extre-
mites with the Southern and Western Disbutlonsts
At all events, n free and sagacors people will see
the game, and visit their Indignation on the heads oil
its authors.
70 nil the functions OF The President-and in the
else of high constitutional duty, he has vetoed the
provisional bill for carrying out distribution, whilst the
duties are raised beyond the 20 per cent His message
is before the country, and it bears the impress OF
mind that clearly lis duty, and of spirit that is
determined to discharge IT, lie contends, that the bill
abrogates for the time the provision Of The COMPROMISE
bill OF lS:'-whch he declared, by his resolutions OF
81 To be s'sacred and nvioate and that il violates
the pledge given in the act of A. suspend dsirbu-
ton If the duties should pass beyond 20 per cent Thus
the Provisional bill guilty of The double fraud OF viola
ting the pledges Of the Compromise act of 3D. and the
Distribution act of Al. Was i, then to have been
eypeced that Mr.. Tyler party 10 the compromise of
'S:, and who would have signed the act oil Al
without such 4 condition. and who the public
Treasury actually stript, it is, Of all cash and almost
all credit, could have forfeited all serespec ali his
constitutional obligations, by signing this PROVISIONAL
bill But cast your eyes over the elements oil the
question.
The Compromise act of 33 the bond Of peace
between the North and the South 1t was the coil
poured from the vessel of the Union to restore harmony
to the country" " What man (said Mr.. Clay who is
entitled deserve the character of an American States
man would stand up III his place in either House oil
Congress Ito mar the guaranty and disturb this treaty
of peace and amity; On the 25th of February, lc'},
he tells the Senate, that "During the intermediate
time there every to hope and believe that the
bill secures adequate protection All my information
assures me of this and it is demonstrated by the tact,
that, If the of protection, secured PRIOR 10 the
3st Of December, ls1l permanent, or If the BIZ!
were silent beyond that PERIOD 1t would command
the cordial and unanimous of the friends
of the policy What then divides, what alarms US:
He tells them too the lst March, 1888, when the
bill had from the House of representatives, and
lust before 1t passed the Senate that "lie had cherish
ed this protective system avor'e child, and he
! still chung to il, and should cling TO 1t. Why had he
been reproached He had come TO the child and found
it in the hands Of the Phstines who were DESTROYS to
destroy it, lie wished 10 raise and cherish il, and TO
find for it better and safer lie wished 10 see
the system placed basis TO plant 1t in the
bosoms and affections OF the People. But two years
ago he tells the People of Hanover that this measure
must be carried ou-tlat the protection it affords was
adequate most not ALL the interests OF the country
that the duty il imposes would amount TO at least 30
per cent Gen. Harrison expressed a similar determ'
nation 10 support the Compromise act In November,
1856 he tells the citizens of GAINESVILLE: 81 would not
agree the repeal it stands. In other words
am for supporting the Compromise act, and never Will
agree to its being altered or repea'ed.'
Who then dares violate the law-and after imposing
on the South the burthens of the Tariff for nine years
and half, will deny them participation IN the
benefits Of the Compromise When that law requires
that no more duties shall be raised than are sufficient
for the economical administration OF the Government
who will sGuander the proceeds OF the public lands,
If the direct effect be thus to raise the duties, and
to violate the Compromise Sing TO the fanfare
made chorus, that the passage of the Distribution law,
and of the Compromise act at the same session,
shows that the proceeds of the public lands were not
to be estimated among the means of the Treasury
That distribution bill fortunately arrested by the
moral courage Of Andrew Jackson-but even if il had
prevailed, how would it have supported the argument
f of Mr. Stuart and the other Clay Clique That dis
trbution bill not to be permanent regulation 1t
r was expire in five yearsour and half years be-
fore the twenty per centum duties the duties neces-
sary for economical administration, were TO take
effect Besides, who does not see, from the whole
history OF the times, that the bill would have
passed Congress for single day, if the Treasury had
!, required the Proceeds Of the Public Lands Look
at the contemporaneous expositions OF the views oil
its authors, gather them from the debates OF
the day On introducing The bill, the 9Th January,
1923 Mr.. Clay declared, cit proposes now that the
General Government has use for the money, now
that the surplus treasure really Of vexatious
embarrassment 10 us, and gives rise TO succession OF
projects to supply for short time, fund to the States
which wants assistance. On the 2lst January, MI
Ewing reechoes the statement in terms equally strong
He pleads for the Distribution that "the national debt
is now paid-this fund is longer needed for that
pupose-no any man say, that is required tor The
uurposes of revenue. Indeed have 10 look ABOUT
us to see where cut off other streams winch
bring their golden tribute 10 the Treasury, lest we be
inundated and overwhelmed with lis abundance. The
necessities Of the General Government do not require
these proceeds" Does any man now believe, that
n SINGLE dollar would have been voted away, If the
Treasury had then been in its present condition, IN
debt and if it "requlred for the purposes of re-
venue :" Is any man, therefore, willing, when
the whole condition of the Treasury IS reversed,
10 carry il out, without The slightest regard to the
chanre or to the consequences, Such man may
be partizan, may be factionst-but he is not a
statesuan patriot-and Mr. Clay himself expressly
dsconnecs, during the debate on the Compromise act
the two measures her, viz the duties in the Com
promise act and the Ds,rlbuon-for he declares in
so many words that at not his object, in referring
to that measure in connection with that he about
to PROPOSE consider them as united in their fate; be-
pm nxious partial he might be TO both, that each
should stand or fall upon It's intrinsic merits
So much for the Compromise act of '33-and now
look to the Distribution act of A. Who can trace the
history Of that transaction, without knowing that The
"A
out the 20 per cent limit, and recognition of the
Compromise of 33-and that the President would
have signed it. without such condition. And lis Con-
gress now prepared violate all the obligations of the
acts of 33 and Al. Or could any man have expected
from John TYLER party, were, 10 those obga.
tons:
But how could il be expected of him too, wing due
regard to the impoverished condition the Treasury