New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-11-11

Wing journals, even OF the South, have already
condemned it, Mr.. Calhoun's friends may go IN
with Mr.. Tyler, but they will not make great
force, all told. We believe the project OF Annex
alton cannot secure over fifty votes IN the House
and twelve in the Senate. Yet we shall watchthe
course of the demonstration with lively interest
Reputation in Indiana.
The Goshen lndiana) Democrat-a very small
scurrilous Loco-Foco print, most unlike Its able
namesake in this State-took occasion to abuse
us some time ago for our remarks on the prac-
teal Reputation of her State Debt by 1ndl-
ana in her late Election. We stated that Whit
comb preached Reputation in effect, and that the
State had sanctioned it by electing him. The
Democrat abuses us for this, but states Mr.. Whit
combs ground as follows:
MIR Whitcomb's policy husband the resources OF
the State gather up the fragments of public property pay OK
our domestic debt and be active IN preparation or the time
when the liquidation of the whole debt shall become prac
ticable What would the editor OF the Tribune have
Now, we ask every honest man to decide
aoherein this policy differs from deliberate
swindhng2 Suppose tailor goes to one OF our
Young gentlemen with his bill, and demands pay
ment. go, l can't pay younow," is the answer.
"Well, pay me the back interest on my debt"
Ono, that isl not convenient either" Why, you
have good horse and carriage-sell them, and
give me the proceeds "No, sir-I choose to
'to husband my reSOurces'-pay my tavern bill
with what changeI have, keep my establishment,
and pay off all my debts away from home
when the liquidation Of the ,chole debt shall have
become practicable" We have had a great
many debtors of this sort, and We always set them
down as no whit better than downright swindlers.
We hope this picture does not personally hit the
Editor of the Democrat.
But "what more would the Editor of the Tri-
bune have?" How many times must we an
swer that question We would have the people
of Indiana feel that they are dishonoring and
wronging themselves by their present disgraceiul
course. We would have them resolve to pay the
interest on their debt, at whatever cost. If they
really aoonted TO pay, itwould be easily effected
The Exports and Imports of that State cannot
certainly be less than S5,000,000 each per an
num-who will pretend that they could not get
along with one-filth less of imported fabrics than
they consume? They pay that much, to say
nothing of Tea and Coffee, for Liquors and To
bacco alonc-artices that do them no good but
great deal of harm. We name these, not to
indicate that these should be entirely given up,
but to show how easy it would be to pay if they
chose. We get along very well without parti-
Gle of either Tea, Coffee, Spirits or Tobacco !;
and we would far sooner uniformly go to bed
supperlcss than have our State plead poverty and
neglect to pay the interest of her Debt One
weeks work extra from all the adult males of In
diana would more than pay her defaulhng inte-
rest and how many OF them could not work that
much more III yearifthey deemed it essential
Suppose the country were involved in War, and
War-Tax of Sl,OO0,000 per annum were ne
cessarily laid on Indiana-does any man believe
1t would be repudiated on the ground Of poverty?
Shame on the paltry subtcrfuge for deliberate
knavery
But says this Goshen beauty
The Editor Of the Tribune pampered IN luxury knows
nothing of the Pvatcns Of the West Let him so with
TO the log cabins such gaced lSU but
to the real csbius which our hardy settlers occupy Let
nm sat down the rough BENCH aud look around the
furniture oil that humble cabin the puncheou table, the
humble bed the i';e shelf of crocksyhe whole value Of
aot eNeseoirg twenty doliarSlet ham s.t down
at The frugal meal at which dandy ops of the East would
tua up their noses Leshim look out upon the dense To-
rest and what Of toll undergone before COM
fort and shall reach that wilderness hsbi,sonanJ
then ask himself The question whether the peops of Indiana
able to bear the high taxation he urces MANY and many
the who does handle i've dollars in money in
year Many honest, hardsed farmer have we heard de,
clare that for months he had been master of shl.
ling Our light yet III ten has
the money pay hem and YET be s,ignased by
this organ Of wggery knaves and scoundes because
do not quadruple them"
Now the Editor of The Tribune has lived in
log cabin for months, with just such furniture
and fare as is here described-and thought it no
hardship either. There is hardly one Of the
dwollcrs In log cabins who would exchange his
frugal meal for ours--but what is all this to the
purpose We know quite well that money is
now scarce IN the West but we insist 1t will
never be rendered more abundant by Reputation
If Indiana had resolved from the first that the
Interest on her Debt should be paid at any sacri-
fee, and nobly adhered TO that resolution she
might have completed some of the most essential
of her Public Works and been ere this deriving
an income from them, at the same time that she
exported much larger amount of Produce, and
received greater net return for it than now.
She cannot make money plenty by refusing to pay
her debt; let her pay to the last dollar, and she
viii have credit, character and resources. a no.