New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-08-12
Close of the Session.


Washington to cooperate with Mr.. Polk IN carrying
on the Government. They found the Country en-
loving Peace ard Prosper1ty-its Laoo' 'o,iPa'"
lively well employed and fairly re" araeo-Une piO-
dncts If ;ts diversified and expanding industry
a;r,,, fair nrices in nearly every department
.-bui,dinr improving, &c every where active or
onI, t,y the apprehension of what this same
r,,,oress might do--the Revenue conessediy abund-
an. 0oo abundant, the Executive Journals hPPle-
h.na.d , and the Public Debt created during the
Inst experiment at deprving OF protection our great
Industrial Interests, rapidly diminishing and about
m be extinsuished, while the Treasury boosted a
daily increasing surplus of Ten Millions Eight
months Of nncurbed Loco Foco rule have sutced to
change entirely the aspect oil things-to substitute
War for Peace, and most shameful. cowardly
guilty War at that-to palsy IN great degree inc
arm of Useful Labor and to draw away thousands
from the plow and the workshop to shed the blood
Of our innocent fellow men On the distant plans oil
Mexico-to render tame aud dstasteful 20 thousands
the peaceful walks and achievements OF honest
Toil-to open wide the sluces OF the Treasury and
drain !, at the rate OF least One Million OF Dollars
weekly; to render necessary the issue Of Ten NH
lions of Treasury shnpasters, to be inevitably fol
Ind Message from Mr. Poll; asking for a special
Two Millions 10 make Peace with alter spending
many Millions fruitessly and wickedly in making
War Such are some Of the leading achievements
OF the last eight months.
Long as the Session has been. few will complain
TINT it has effected too little very few, we think,
will say That it has effected what 1t ought The
Tariff Of 1912 has been repealed and wholly al
ea1orem and professedly Revenue Tariff enacted in
its stead-a measure baletully mistaken IN princl-
pie and disastrously bunglins in detniis-a Tar1it
which discrimnates i'll repeated aud important IN
stances against the Industry OF our own feoP'e
and in favor Of that Of Foreigners-an ACT WHO"
sets aside one thnt did provide ample Revenue III
favor of one that assurediy will not-an act when
virtually allows Importers TO assess the duties Oh
tho goods they import contrary to all right reason
and the example of every enlightened Nation
Having involved the Country in most expensive
War and destroyed the Tariff which would have
provided good part of the Revenue required to
sustain it-having exhausted the Treasury and or
dered the issuing of rcams Of shnplasters to hlit-
the next step was naturally TO pass the Subrreas
urv act bv which the Government declares itself
afraid TO trust and pure deal with specie pay
ING Banks in order to give the issues OF ITS own
gigantic rag mill a reader circulation. True, these
are redeemable in nothing, except at the pleasure
Of the Government, or us received by it Tor dues
like the groGgcry shinplaster Good tor slxpence nj
the Bar.' but no matter Hurrah for Free Trade
and Hard Money When the Government had
Millions OH deposit it had them kept transferred
and discussed without cost or trouble now that 1t
has run close ashore, it will soon have lot OF
Sub.Treasurers at Two to -Four Thousand Dollars
each per annum, with retinue Of Clerks, etc, to
see that the cash is taken OF Its Money was
verv well kept BY Banks, las its evidences OF its
own raggedness must be specially gubsded with
costly risor Such is the restoration Of the Consti
rutional Cuuency-such is Legislative wisdom IN
the Nineteenth Centur1
The two best measuycs ot the Session were blast
ed by the Presidential Veto The River and Har
Dor bill proposed to abstract little over e Mil
hon Of Dollars from the general 'reck n end
it so that our Free Laborersw nd get Il. -ney
and our Country enduriugiy reap substar i benc
lit from the expenditure This * 10Y ally forbidden
we need so much money -sNwitl to do evil
that we ran spare nooe to be oyed in doing
good So in the other ease; invade Mexico
shu, upher ports, capture hge towns ana butcher
for certain Spohations committed on citizens
few years since though she has admitted the debt.
paid il in part, says she has pHd our Agent stili
more for which she holds his receipt; Yet like claims
for French Spoliations assumed by and justly due
from our own Government are forbidden 20 be paid
a, all Mr. Polk complains that the debt is old, as
IL cast taiihlessness We're not n reason for signal
prompttude instead oiiarther delay the sum is too
small as if that though good reason for giving
paore were any reason at all for not paying tins and
that the payment is TO be made in Is and, il that
again were nor the claimants msrogtune, which
Congress at any future day may correct, by simply
Withholding the Scrip (which cannot be issued az any
rate under two three years and paying money
inssead He alleges doubts about the justice OF the
debt when he every day signs claim-bills which he
has never even read, III the justifabe conviction |
shat in deciding merely that sum is due and should
b PAID Congress may safely be trusted, No Veto
ON similar grounds was ever before interposed be
tween act OF ,aray and partial National Justice
and band of long suffering widows and chill.
dren. We rejoce at every thing calculated to rem.
der this desponc and irrational Veto Power loathea
and detssted but here the price is quite too high
Not all the mischief medtased by the leaders
Of this Congress has been achieved The bill to
facilitate and stimulate gigantic Land Monopoly
under the title of Graduation was finally LAID very
hard upon the table OF the House on the motion OF
Mr. Brodhead OF Pa Loco, The barefaced attempt
10 repeal that sartsry feature OF the Postage Re,
form bill of last Session whereby Postmasters are
required TO advertise the Lists OF Letters un.
called for in journals having the largest circulation
was defeated by the firmness OF the Senate, which
insisted on having it struck out of the new Pos,
Routes bill So with the clause restoring the
Frankiug Privilege TO the postmasters.--The bully
ing gazconade about Oregon So 4o'-the whole
q none. our title clear and unquestionabie &c
finally sapered Of into the meekest OF all possible
di'pos'sons, and the dispute is finally settled, not
very credably advantageousy for US but ssiil'sr
better than 10 have it remain unsettled. We believe