The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1843-02-21
vVAaGe is the Cause OGeiIc Hard
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| We do not propose to aasuer this question fully
but only TO ask it in such way that it may find n
Judgment in the minds Of some persons, who, fthcy
will reflect carefully upon it, may find for themselves
| n more satisfactory answer than any they have vet
had.
We do not undertake to say that the Wings can
give uuer answer 10 this question, than any other
party, but we do urge upon the Wing readers TO
press tho question upon all the disputants and de-
Chalmers OF the other party. Urge them 10 reason
able and sensible answer. Make it hist0yicul go
into the Facts oIthc together the chQias
OF causes do not allow any rest upon single
for such universal Distress or to rely upon an
event or procedure Of yesterday last month or last
year as the cause Of state Of things which has been
going forward from bad to worse for wears togeth-
In Illinois, they arc having very particularly hard
times. Their Governor says the State cannot pay its
debts and that the people benr taxation They
are begging literally begging to give them large
grants of our Western lands to help them out of their
dilicuesto construct their canals 10 sustain their
schools and 10 them the disgrace O. !evying tax
es, which they declare they cannot pay.
Very particularly hard arc the times in Illinois
indeed they are quite blue. Read the following:
'In the Illinois Legislature, on the 18th inst, after
the day had been spent in discussing the financial
policy of the State, and upon the disposition of the
States port on Of the land fund.- tho Secretary of
State appeared within the bar of the House. and read
communication from the Governor, urging upon the
Legislature the immediate necessity Of action in re-
gard to the finances Of the State. He affirmed, that
FOR the want of means it was the utmost diulty that
the necessary supplies could be procured for the
two branches of the Legislature, and when they WERE
it was at most cXorbtant prices. Wood, which he
stated could be purchased for dollar and seventy
five cents cash. the State had pay three dollars
and half for; candles, which for money could be pro
cured for thirty cents per pound costs the
State one dollar, and other things in the same pro-
portion-al arising from the fact, that there was
nothing but Auditors warrants to pay them with.
He also stated that it with the utmost difficulty
that money enough could be procured to pay the
postage on letters addressed to the Executive Depart
ment, and enreated that some action nigh, be had
in regard to the finances of the State at oncer'
Now it is a fair queation, and somebody must an
swer it, some time or other,-What is the CAUSE of
all this? A Sovereign State-a democratic State re-
duced to extremes for fire and lights! It can't be
any Wing ascendancy Wing iniquitics that have
brought things TO this condition, for Illinois for years
past has gone by thousands the other way. She voted
in 1910 for Mr. Van Buren-that worth politician who
is very DESTROYS that Illinois should vote for him
again. 1t cannot be hard cider and log cabins that
have brought Illinois to such lew ebb, for then,
some of the other States ought to be much worse
off, and we believe that Of them as yet
have been reduced their last candle and last log Of
wood
Seriously we lament and deplore such condition
of things in of sister States II is painful even
for as TO reflect upon such facts.
But is there not CAUSEs What is itl
We will however. just add the following from the
N. Z. Express as being mind true answer.
We are reduced ia point Of fact to tbe practical
workings of the sabT4sasury; and what was said by