Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-06-23
n,sTRI8UTIoN IN CONNECTICUT.

The Eve Journal of Friday last, exults in the follow
ing strain
&c thounb il be- has shown It's good sense by voting to
C sccen the portion of the proceeds Of the land sales
which, under the Wing distribution law OF lo4l, ias
&C 20 that STATE
The Hartford papers of Saturday now on our
table and enabled TO say that this IS mistake
The Legislature of Connecticut have not voted to ac-
cent Its true, the House, by vote Of ii to 6l, de-
termined to accept-bu it is well to remember that Tie
House is NOT the Legislature There is another body,
called the Senate who had word 10 say in this matter
and when thus question before lhem they decided
for acceptance and 6 against it, Three to one, for
rejection OF the proceeds of the public lands The
resui; returned TO the Housc-tha body adhered.
The Senate refused to recede, and the public laad mo
remains in Steta iUO: 1t IS not accepted oP Con
necticut, and now subject 10 the order OF tie U. .
Treasurer The Evening Journal would do wen 10
make "reiracon OF Ibis important error IN lhe MS
tory OF the times
Governor Cleveland, though opposed to the original
law, bad, from convictions OF duty, and win JUST ana
honorable motives recommended an acceptance oil lhe
share of S2 600, in his message 10 the Legislature,
and the House, although decidedly Democratic, voted
accept But there difference OF views IN the
Senate every Democratic member Present-Qo)-
voted against acceptance, and thus saved Conneeu
Gu, from the Illuminating position OF taxing aims from
an impoverished Treasury.
Connecticut is, every respect, richer ana more
independent than the General Government ohe is
free from debt, and her expenses are unqoesohao'y
within her means Not with the General Govern
ment. To accept the land money, under such c'rcu-
stances, would have been too much Ike making Inc
rich richer and the poor poorer and the people OF
that State also too shrewd TO BE- duped me see
that this not gift from the pockets o DINERS, oul u
is money taken by taxation from their own pockets
and returned 10 them again. with the expense super.
added of collecting the same and re.distrOutihg II
THIS not generosity, but legislative quackery Even
this light they perceive they can be no gamers
The Distribution law Of IS4l seems peculiarly un'
Fortunate Every door closing against II ana us
parasitical offspring II has already become so ooious
that by the honorable self denial of people loving no.
nor and principle more than they do money IS almost
imperative bride is offered and though the rcces
of Of the States are SO pressing as 10 ren
der the temptation exceeding strong, they mabiuily re
fuse 10 take penny of the money. Virginia SCUM
Carolina, Alabama, New Hampshire, Name, New
York, and, finally, Connecticut have refused their
share The law VIII be swept from the statute book at
the next session of Congress. It's repeal VIII De Tue
becoming signal of n restoration OF Democratic princ
plies in our National Lrgisa,ureor 1t Is the nucleus
Of every measure with the principles Of The De
uocralic party. Assumption can easily be wound
around its shell. This the Wing party we'll know, and
hence struggle hard for twhie within 1t, IS con-
tanned the germs Of increased taxation on the people,
by means Of high Tariff, rendered necessary by a
Distribution law-arge expenditures, Too, Tor one ex-
trayanance bece,s another-anG, finally, The bGn,lng
which was spring full grown from this shell, under
the quckening influences of Assumption or Dstf'bu
ton, would be Issue Of U. stock, based on thc
Government lands, to be The capita of new National
Bank Of FIFTY MILLIONS, and thus carry out the
splendid schemes o? Henry Clay.
We insnctively feel, that this is the reason why the
great minds ana clear heads of the Democratic party
have declared such ex.erminallg war against TINS Can
gerous serpent, and have sought to strange It ere 1t
can wind it's seducing, but crushing coils around the
laws, the habits, the sympahes ths institutions of
the country. They would stamp it dead ere II has laid
single egg 20 produce new brood OF vdmPyre mea
to suck the labors Of the producing many, for the
benefit of favored lew.-.7ibany Argus