Litchfield enquirer., 1843-03-16


and thus ultimately re-
trenching millions!
The Wings found, moreover, that while I
the appropriations and expenditures had F.
thus been multiplied and while waste and .
fraud and peculation were encouraged and |
protected, TRIPPING the expenditures from !
The original standard Of the Adams admi .
revenue had been in inverse /
proportion, continually and regularly redu-
ced and dilapidated, from combined imp"i.-
cy and neglect, till il hardly eqn,Ilcd ""c
half of the annual expenditures, IN cnnSe. /
ouence of which an acknowledged national
debt of twelve millions lin fact much more)
had accumulated, while our domestic indus
try was discouraged and broken dow1 by
the vast influx Of foreign manufactures, our
farmers cut off from their only competent
market, and the whole country impOveriSh-
ed BY the failure of Government to provide
for its own wants and protect the people,
neither taking care Of ITSELF nor suffering
the people to take care OF themselves To
remedy these SC great and SO complicated
evils, the Wings in Congress laborcd during
twelve months of laborious slttngs IN the
production Of sig different tariffs or revenue
bills, elaborated by the studics,c examinations
aud calculations of four different committee
composed Of the ablest and most industrious
evidence of many hundreds of practical men
merchants, planters, farmers, manutac-
turers; sitting, comparing and condensng
their statements at more than two hundred
committee meetings. After the preparation
of these bills with voluminouS reports, and
after the discussion of them for many weeks,
in the Senate,and liz Committee OF the whole
House on the state of the Union, under de-
bates amounting to several scores OF speech
es, from men of every party and section,
four of these bills passed the two Houses at
different intervals to meet various eXlgen-
cies, temporary or permanent OF these
four. two only were allowed to become
laws, the other two having been " strangLcd
by the Executive cord on presentation to Il
treachcrouS, weak, tathlcSs, vaclltatlng
and ambitious President. Und"r these two
revenue acts--hn first GOT lS4D temporary,
the second (of lS4Y pcrmancnt-a revenue
has been brought into the Treasury already
competent to all the absolute necessities Of
an economical Government, ana soon to IN
crease our resources to the ability to pay OIL
the principal of the debt incurred by the
predecessors of the Wings, and to furnish
the means of completing our public build
ines and Notifications, extending and con-
Meeting our Internal improvements, con-
structing harhors, establishing our Navy on
q footing of permanent national security,
and guaranteeing to the people all the be-
nefits of good Governments. At the same
time, by the same act and tho same proVl-
sions, is recognized the duty of our Govern
ment to protect the products OF our own
land by imposts on foreign competitions
products and that this duty is enforced and
performed is already made obvious and UNI
deniable by the voice of grateful ana en-
couraged people, heard amid profitable la
bors now resumed and extended.
The Wings found vast number of work.
men who had been employed by Govern
ment, unpaid for their hard labor, or paid
only with paper promises to pay. They
redeemed these long eg'ected promises,
borrowed good money for that purpose, un-
til the new revenue system should yield
sufficiency-paid all just claims against 60
vernment, and provided for the liquidation
of the floating debt, by the passage OF the
loan acts-permitting meanwhile the issue
of Treasury notes, only until the loan could
be negotiated under u slowly reviving ma
tional credit.
The Wings found many Of the states
overwhelmed with debts, mostly incurred
in works for the benefit of the whole nation,
and these debts pressing with new taxes up
on their impoverished citizens were driving
them to utter ruin and acts of moral despe-
ration. They passed an actto restore to the
states their ancient heritage in the public |
lands, which would soon have relieved them |
from direct taxation for state debts. The |
states received one small share of this dis
diminished by Loco Foco misma-
and then the tyranlcal interte-
renee of treacherous president. under Lo-
co Foco counsel and direction, the system
was destroyed, and this beniicent aid deni-
ed to the tax payers.
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besieged by hundreds of long neglected pc
itioners, wronged by government and its
agents, who had for years been vainly seek
ng their acknowledged dues from the guar
lians of the public faith and money. They
nave examined and approved Il large mum.
Der of these claims, and have passed more
han two hundred and fifty bills for the re-
lief of these sufferers, rejecting at the same
line more than six hundred that would not
Dear the test of IL severe and Iabouous ad-
Indication. These claims, forming in fact,
part of an unacknowledgcd national debt,
eft by the previous administration, nave
made the expenditures OF TINS
year, (small as they arc) larger than the I
expenses actually now incurred would make
hem.
The Wings found both the finances ana
The currency of the country embarrassed,
and almost DESTROYED by the mad |
destruction of the original and long-Sanc-
toned constitutional provisions for the saie
keeping and disbursement ct the puonc
money, and for the regulation of an uniform
currency, always convertible into specie
the revenue being retained in the hands of
government officers. and subject To pccuia- !
ton, theft and conversion to the uses OF IN !
di viduals and parties. They repealed the !
infamous Sub-Trcasury act,always rejected |
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