The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-03-11

from Halifax, had not arrived when our paper went
70 press. She is looked for with much anxiety, by
those deeply interested in the fate of the Caledonia.
II is to be hoped that she may bring some ntelli-
gence of that missing steamship.
The state of the Country-vhat Is to be
Done!
What is the country coming to What is to be
done No money in the treasury! Our ships
can't sail The home squadron lying idle The
workmen in our navy yards, arsenals, SC, unpaid
and all prumbling! Our difficulties with England
growing darker and our defences stopped in their
progress for want of means. What is to be done
Congress is three months advanced in their session.
and still engaged in long speeches and party broils
lntrgues, speeches and president.makIng are the
order OF the day. What is to be done The Co.
vernment must have money, or stand as still as a
broken German clock.
The remedy is simple one. We cannot expect
10 have all the benefit of government without any
of its burdens. We cannot support government
without taxes Of any sort. And to suppose that
free government, with republican Institutions, can
be upheld without taxation, just as preposterous
as to suppose that liberty means state of perfect
idleness and no exertion of thought or deed. The
American people always involve themselves in diff
was the way in which the continental money was
dshonored and fell into worthlessness in the hands
of honest hearted revolutionary soldiers, who well
earned in the hard fought battles of their country
Thus it has happened that the states have been led,
IN many cases, into bankruptcy and reputation
Put on taxes, and thus save the country and lis
credit like men. Take back the money from the
sales of public lands-curtail and cut off all use
less Representatives, greater economy and energy
into all branches Of the government not alone in
poiers, and clerks hire but in the mileage Of mem
bers and other extras Of various kinds. If all this
don't do, why then, advance the duties for revenue,
not for protection to 26 TO 80 per cent, if you
will, on horizontal scale, on all imports.
Then let the people, each man, commence their
reform at their own doors-ge less in debt-live
more within themselves-ray all they owe as fact
as they can-and, above all, paw cheerfully the
means necessary to sustain the free government
of their choice, and rely upon God, good ploughs,
good harvests, and industry and temperance, and
sound money, for prosperity in life, and peace in
death. r-on
Let the people send more practical men TO the
legislatures and to Congress. We have too many
lawyeH-and political game players and Office
seekers in our Legislative halls. The producers, the
farmers of the country, number over three millions,
yet, how few, very few, Of their number appear in
Congress, or elsewhere in places Of rustl The Con-
tinental Congress that signed the declaration Of In
dependence, had more farmers, more practical men.
and fewer lawyers, than has ever belonged TO such
a body since, and a wiser body never sat. And, if
we wish Providence TO bless us and prosper us as a
nation, we must fall back upon such men, and
upon such times; and, above all, avoid debt banks,
spectators, and snares of Satan, which politi
cal wire pullers.