Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1844-06-07

'lon Oy wnlch no not only stultIiles
ten Jackson, but himself also. Gen.
Jackson. in his first message, advocates
the policy nf distribution, and says, the
most safe, just, and federal disposition
that can be made Of the surplus revenue
will be its distribution among the States
according TO the ratio Of representation.
In his next message Of 1880. he renews
this recommendation, and takes up aud
answers, al great length, and with great
ability, all the objections that had been
urged against the policy Of distribution
the very same objections that are
here urged by Mr. Van Buren, and his
friends. he answered and overturned in
their order, No /, 2, 8, 4, occupying
several pages of his message, 10 which
he commended the gentleman from Vr,
ginia (Mr CromgoOIel who had report
ed this bill IN his message OF 1889,
Gen. jackson again took up and discuss
ed, at great length, the subject Of tho
public lands: he says they ought TO
cease, az soon ss practicable, TO be a
source Of revenue;' that the idea Of
raising revenue from them ought 10 be
abandoned;' that they would endanger
the harmony and union Of the Slaes;'
and he expressly declares. what is un-
quesIionabIy true, that these lands were
pledged 10 The General Government to
pay the revolutionary Vsr debt, and
that that debt being pow discharged, the
lands we're released from Tho pledge
and it IS 10 The discTe ton of Congress-
he says, 10 dispose oflhem in such way
as may seem TO them best Such are
the sound and deliberate opinions Of
Gen jackson: yet Mr. Van Buren,, who
concurred with hun al the time, now
says, in his Indiana letter, that the peo
ple would 'stuIti(y themselves by the
adoption OF a proposition so preposter-
Gus , These are his words--a high
compliment to his 'illuslrious predeces
sor'-'a preposterOus proposition which
Mr. Van Buren says, no one but 70 oI
would think of, and that its agitation,
he regrets to say, is calculated TO do
grade ihs character Of the American n
people 10 the estimation Of mankind
These, sir, are perhaps some Of the
Developments which gentlemen intend
ed 10 suppress by the previous ques
tion.
Why not give the land proceeds to
the Slalesl We are uow receiving un-
der The tariff of 30 more revenue than
we want; during the last month We have
received mote than two millions ol dol
lars in the single port Of New York
Suppose we receive 10 al the other ports
in The Union 20 more than is received
in New York, and it will amount 10 four
millions per month, equal to forty eighI
millions per year. Still gentlemen are
not satisfied, aud bill has been report
cd by the Ways and Means to repeal the
tariff OF AZ. because it has destroyed
The revenue, and they have substituted
one which they say will increase the re-.
venue. Yes, sir, the Globe also, in an
editorial article of the 10Th OF last month
stated. that the last Wing Congress had
doubled the expenditures Of the Gov
ernmeDt. and reduced the revenue one
halF--a statement made in the face Of
official documents showing that The re
verse was much nearer the truth. Yes,
sir, The report on finances at lhe open
ing OF :his session shows that the ordi
nary expenditures during Mr. Van Bu.
ten's administration amounted to near
ly thirty four millions in one year, end
averaged more than twentv eight mil
lions; white in lS42 and '43. under o
Wing Coma ress, the average was little
over twenty three, and that The revenue
had been increased by the Whig tariff
Of 40 from less lhun fourteen millions
in 1910 and d TO more than eighteen
millions in 1912, and it would be more
than twenty five, and might possibly
reach thirty millions the present year
Yet the Globe saws in The face Of these
facts that ;he Wings have doubled the
expenditures and reduced The revenues
one halin
From present prospects, | am JUS
tilted, sir, in saying that we shall have
a large surplus over and above The cur
rent expenditures? Why not then give
the proceeds OF The lands to the States
to relieve the people of the indebted
States from tho loads Of taxation by
which thew are now ground down 10 the
earlhf This fund justly belongs to the
States-in The language Of Gen. jack
son, this Government now holds it in
trust for the States after the paying Of
The revolutionary debt for which it was
pledged, and a court of chancery upon a
bill filed, would decree this fund to the
States on proof Of the payment OF the
debt for which it was pledged, You
have no use for this fund, then why, |
repeat sir, not give it 10 the States to
which it righ,luIIy beIongs2 What bel
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