Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1846-08-27
From the N. Y. Tribune.
Clase Of the Session.

ing on the Government. They found the Country
enioying Peace and Prosperity Its Labor compar.
atively well employed and fairly rewArded--the
products Of its diversified and expanding Industry
commanding fair prices in nearly every department
building improving, &c. every where active or
checked ouly By the apprehension of what this
Congress might do--Ihe Revenue conlessedly album
dan, TOO abundant, the Executive journals appre-
hended J and the Public Debt created during the
last experiment al deprivng Of Protection our great
Industrial Interests rapidly diminishing and about
10 be extinguished while the Treasury boosted a
daily increasing surplus Of Ten Millions. Eight
months Of uRcurbed LocofOco rule have suficed 10
change eRtirely the aspect Of things-o substitute
War Tor Peace and most cowardly, guilty War at
ihat--io palsy in great degree the arm Of Useful
Labor and TO draw away thousands from the pillow,
and the workshop, to shed the blood Of our limo
cent fellow men on the distant plains Of Mexico
20 render tame and distasteiul TO thousands the
peaceful walks and achievements Of honest Toll
10 open wide the sluices Of the Treasury and drain
il al the rate Of az least One Million OF Dollars
weekly to render necessary abe issue Of Ten Mil
lions of Treasury shnplasters, 10 be inevitably fol-
lowed by Millions Millions more and at last
we had Message from Mr. Polk asking for a spec
ial Two Millions to make Peace with. after SPEND
ing many Millions fruitlessly and wickedly in max
ing War Such some OF the leading achieve
ments OF the last eight months
Long the Session has been, few will complain
that it has effected too little very Few we think
will say that it has effected what il ought. The
Tariff OF 1912 has been repealed aud a wholly ad
paiorem and professedly Revenue Tariff enacted in
its stead-a measure baefully mistaken in princi-
pie and disastrously bungliug in detas--a Tariff
which discrminates in repeated and important in
stances agaiast the Industry of our People aud
in favor Of that Of Foreigners an act which sets
aside one that did provide ample Revenue in favor
OF one that assuredy will not--an act which vrtu-
ally allows Importers TO assess the duties on the
goods they import. contrary all right reason, and
the example Of every enlightened Nation.
Having involved the Country in a most expensive
War, and destroyed the Tariff which would have
provided good part of the Revenue required to
sustain It-haTing exhausted the Treasury aud or
dered the issuing Of Of shinpasters to Gil il
the next step naturally the Sub Treasury act.
by which the Government declares itself afraid 10
trust and too pure to deal with specie-paying Banks
IN order to give the issues Of its own gigantic rag
mill reader circulation True these are re-
deemable in nothing except at the pleasure OF the
Government, or, received by for dues like the
groggery shinplaster Good for sixpence at the Bar
but no maiter-'uurrah for Free Trade and Hard
Money! When the Government had Millions on
deposit it had them kept, transferred and dsburscd
without cost or trouble that il has run ashore
it viii soon have lot Of Sub Treasures al two to
-Four Thousand Dollars each per annum with ret
inue of Clerks. etc to see that the cash is taken
care Of Its Money was very well kept BY Banks,
but IFS evidences OF its rsggedness must be
specially guarded with costly rgor. Such is the
restoration of the Constitutional Curency-such
is Legislative wisdom in the Nineteenth Ceniurv
The two best measures OF the Session were blast.
ed BY the Presidential Veto The River and Har-
Dor bill proposed TO abstract little over One Mil
lion oil Dollars from the general wreck and spend
It so that our Free Laborers would get the money
and our Country enduringly resp substantial benefit
from the expenditure. This is X Royalty forbidden
we need SO much money wherewiih do evil that
we can spare none TO be employed in doing good
So in the other We invade Mexico shut I'D
her ports. capture her towns and butcher her peo.
pie Proiessedly because she does pay us for GER
tain SpoliatIons committed on our citizens few
years since, though she has admitted the debt paid
in part says she has paid our agent stil more for
which she holds his receipt YET like claims for
French Spollations assumed by and Justly due
from our own Government forbidden TO be paid NJ
all Mr. Polk complains that the debt is old, as IL
past iaIthessness were not a reason for signal
promphude instead OF farther delay; the is too
small, as II that. though good reason for giving
more, were any reason all for not paying this
and that the payment is To be made ia Land as il
that again were not the claimants misfortune
which Congress at any future day may correct, By
simply Withholding the Scrip (which cannot be is
sued al any rate undes two three yearsl and nav
ing money instead lie alleges doubts about the
justice OF the debt x4en he every day signs claim
oills which he had never even read in the iusti6a-
PIE conviction that IN deciding merely that sum
Is due and should be paid Congress may safely be
trusted NO veto on similar grounds was ever be-
lore interPosed between act Of tardy aud partial
National Justice and band Of long-suiIerinq wild
ows and children. We rejnice at every thing cal
eaaten 10 render this despotic aad irrational Veto
rover loathed and detested but here the price is
quite too high
Not all the mischief meditaied by the leaders Of
tins Congress has been achieved. The bill to IA
ehliae and stimulate gigantic Land Monopoly
unoer the title Of Graduation finally laid very
hard upon the table OF the House, the motion Of
DIR Brodhead, OF Pa, Loco. The barefaced al
Tempt to repeal that Salutay feature Of the Postage
Reform bill OF last Session. whereby Postmasiefs
are required 10 advertise the List Of Letters unca
Ell ior IN journals having the largest circulation
was deteated by the hrmness OF the Senate which
insisted on having II struck ont Of the new Post
Routes bill. So with the clause restoring the
ranking Privilege 10 the Postmasiers The bull
lying gaseonade about Oregon "a 40--the whole
OF none. our title clear and unqucstionabe' &c.
hnally tapered of into the neekest Of all possible
dispositions, and the dispute is finally setted, not
very crednably nor advantageously for US. hut still
iar better than to have it remain unsettled. We
oeiege tins Is the only good thing Of moment ac-
complished At Washington since las, December,
and This with every possible drawback the
uhcaion with which il would naturally have been
regarded.
No. there has been one other good thing effect
ed al this Session--not designedly nor thoroughly
bot yet result Of great and beneficial import We
aiisde TO the arousing Of a NoRTHERE sentiment