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tne country, win Wow 10 prepare lor
that event in time, bill was repo rled
laying the foundation or system Of in
terual improvement extensive with
the whole country, 10 absorb this sur
plus Of Is millions year, after the pay.
ment OF The public debt, by organizing
a board Of internal improvement 10 sur
vey ell the great llnes Of internal com
munication, and have maps and plans Of
the whole, with estimates Of their costs,
in readiness, whom the debt was paid,
on which 10 expend the surplus. This
bill was passed with the powerful cid Of
the distinguished Senator from S. Caro-
lima, mr. McEuffie and six years
thereafter, when these surveys and es~
Inmates, under the direction Of Mr.. Cal
houn, we're nearly completed, and the
public debt nearly discharged, o bill for
the subscription Of stock 10 the Mays.
vile Foad--a link in great chain Of
communication proposed TO connect the
Ohio river with the gulf Of MEXICO
was passed, and this was the occasion
seized on by NJ, Van Buren,, as he would
show TO break down this whole system,
and thus force back upon the Treasury
the enormous surplus, which could be
in no otherwise expended, and thereby
break down The tariff destroy our man
u(aclures, ruin agriculture and the me-
chanic arts, inundate the country with
foreign goods, and export all The hard
money in the country, 10 pay for them,
and throw upon the States the burden
of making these works Of internal i'm
provement which they were moreover
tempted 10 undertake by the promise Of
the distribution among them Of this an
nual surplus Of Sl8000,0C0. But the
first distribution Of 45 millions had not
vet been paid over, when Mr.. Van Bn
rem was elected President, who imme
diately called an extra session OF Con.
gress, recommended the repeal Of the
law, and withheld from the States more
| than $4,000 900, the 4th instalment Of
the first distribution. The States thus
tempted having commenced their sys
TENS Of improvement, were obliged to
60 on, still hoping for the promised nid !,
until they found themselves involved
IN a debt Of 200 millions, which this
Government was bound in good faith to
pay out Of tho proceeds Of the public
} lands or the surplus revenue, which
would again result from a protective
tariff, II that policy wore again adopted
and adhered 10.
Now, was it no, clear that If the Whig
system had been maintained, and the
annual surplus OF l8 millions had been
applied to internal improvements since
the payment Of the debt in 1882 sll the
works made by the States would have
been accomplished, and much more
without debt or embarrassment OF any
kind, He would now prove, that Mr..
Van Buren, had himself conlrived the
whole plan Of breaking dawn This sys
TEN which would ere now, have eleva.
ted this country 10 point Of prosperity
= and power without e parallel, and sub
sltuted his own destructive system
which had crushed this great nation in
spite Of all its youthful energies, down
to that degraded condition, struggling
amid bankruptcies, and regulations,
State, national, and individual, in which
il was found when the last Whig Con.
gress assembled and from which tha,
Congress had succeeded in partially rs
Iieving it by passing the Tariff Of 40,
and thus restoring The protective policy.
To prove that Mr.. Van Buren, was, in
fact, the auther Of this mischief, he re
ferred 10 his letter 10 Sberrod Williams
Of Kentucky, dated al Albany, the 6lh
Of August, 1885, in which he says. that
although he doubted the constitutional
power Of Congress TO distribute The sur,
plus revenue among the States, yet, that
he had favored The idea as The only
means Of arreslng internal improve
ments by the General Government; ;
that General Jackson concurred in this
opinion, and he had accordingly recon.
mended this plan Of distribution; not IN
one, but in two messages, in which all
the objections now urged by Mr.. Van
Buren's friends against it, were fully
and satisfactorily answered; and he
would commend this message 10 the at
tenton Of gentlenmen now opposed 10
distribution. They would find this po-
Iicy most ably advocated and defended
in General Jackson's annual message,
dated 7lh Dece mber, 1880, in which
the fear was expressed, that Congress
would appropriate The money TO local
objects, and to avoid this, hS recon
mendsd that it bs given TO the STATES,
that they might appropriate it 10 nation
al objects.
Comparative expenditures of the Van Bu
rem and Wing Administrations.
= When Mr.. Van Buren, came into pow.
.