The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-09-13

nr;ncinle of tina, act. So far from being
true. this view of the case is faliclous and
deceptive though we dare say 1t is honestly
entertained and expressed'
No action of Congress at the present SEES.
sion has in any manner Jeopai ded or en-
donpered the principle of distribution of the
proceeds of the Public Lands among the
States, to whom they righrfuliy belong. II
really ieopardIzd,i was not at the session oil
Congress just closed, but when the Distri-
button Act was passed containing the re-
,lricuve clause. If endangered at all, II
was bv the insertion. in the very act recog-
Using the principle and establishing sys-
EN- Of action upon ii. of the provision Tor
lis suspension upon certain contingency.
The WHIGs in Congress might, indeed,
BY retaining from laying duties on imports
higher than at the rate of twenty per cent.
upon the value, have avoided the contin.
gency upon which the operation oil the Lana
Law is suspended But is it not enough
q iusli v to every patriot heart the course
which they pursued, 10 know mat mad 'hey
acted dif.e en- ly, they wo II have The
,;,,yernment in disgrace. with bankrupt
Craosurv and dishonorcd credit, the pro
I,c,s and manufacturers of The county over.
wbeImed BY the food Of foreign comPeli-
lion: the People Of every class who make
heir living BY labor, now without employ
and almost without food or raimeni, ground
o the dust by this last Turn OF the wheel,
amidst the ruins Of the manufacturers, the
arts. and the commerce, 10 which they have
heretofore owed their employment and their
.ubsistencel Were all these elements of
ndividualprosperiy and national wealIh9nd
character TO be sacrifced-for what Yes.
,fer all has Tern said about l., 'or what
Why. 10 redeem the legislation of the last
session-of by-gone day-trom the re-
proach of having apparently compromised
he distribution principle. We say dppa-
rently, and we mean what we say. The
act of the last session was right. prouiso and
all, since that act could moi have passed
without the proviso, for 1t esta0hshed a
great principle and that principle stands
npon the statute book, usnhaken, unmoved
BY any hing that has occurred at this ses-
sion. to take effect whenever the Executive
aud Legislative branches Of the Govern
ment shall again be in harmony
Nay, more. by the very course Of events,
including the Executive veto OIL The land
distribution, the principle of the existing
law has gained so much strength that it is
happily now placed beyond the danger Of
repeal, with Which it was threatened at +, the
beginning of the late session. The bill TO
repeal tic restriction which it contains. and
thus put The &C, into immediate operation,
Though defeated by the Presidents refusal
% sign ir,) passed boih Houses of Congress
by grea,er majorilies than the original bull
containing tina restriction. 1t is thus prov
ed that the principle has gained strength
and power by tire trials ii has undergone,
and may nom be considered as firmly estab-
Iished as the foundations of The Constitution
iiself-never, we trust. to he broken up TIL
-"wrapt in fire the realms of ether glow,
And Heaven, lat thunder shake the world be
low"
NAT INTELLIGENcER.