Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1848-04-22


T eminent 10 the step thus take in advance
Nor can avoid the occasion of SAYING tina,
the memory Of the ancient alliance ano
friendship between France and the United
States is ever fresh and grateful with us
and that am of nothing more sure than
that the voice Of my country will be uni.
versal and loud for the prosperity, happi.
ness, and glory Of France under the insti-
tutions she has announced, subject to ral:f
cation by the national will. All will ar.
IDENTIFY hope, that through her wisdom, the
results may be beneficial 10 mankind, which
the magnani.nous bearing of her people in
the late events affords SO CONSPICUOUS a
! promise. Ii is under such institutions that
| the United States have, for seventy years,
enjoyed constant prosperity. with Cow
eminent of uniform stability; and, whilst
they invariably leave to other nations the
choice of their own forms, without inlerfer
ence in any way, they would naturally re.
Jolce in behoding this great nation flourish
under institutions which have secured for
themselves the blessings of social order and
public liberty
Allow me, then, gentlemen, using the
words of the great and good Washington,
the immortal founder of my country, on an
occasion which the present recalls to signal
lze this address to you, by mingrg my fe.
licitalions with a fervent aspiration tina,
"the Friendship Of the t,co Republics naay be
commensurate r2M their eTiStcnce'
Legation IF the United States,
Paris, Feb. %, 1913.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge
your note of yesterday. Informing me that
the Provisional Government of the French
Republic has contided the department Of
Foreign Affairs to your hands. The choice
sir, / will dare say. will be regarded by the
world as favorable first step in the new
order of things; and shall have great sat.
lstaction in transmitting to my government
oy the earliest opportunity, a copy of your
communication not doubling its cordial re.
ception. In the mean time, sir, will be
ready, under your permission, to transac,
with you whatever business may sppertain
TO my country, or American citizens in
France.
The United States having learned from
their own experience the value # free in
stitutions, will naturally anticipate. from
similar institutions in France, administered
with the wisdom and moderation of which
the enlarged and benefcent principles an
nounced in your note are the suspicious
harbingers, nothing but the best results, TO
the interests and well being Of both coun.
tries.
pray you to accept these early assu.
RANGES Of the very high consideration with
which l have the honor TO be, sir. your
most obedient servant,
RICHARD RusH.
To his Ezcelency NJ. de Lamartine,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, &c.
INTERESTING IN THE SENATE.
During the discussion Of the loan bill, in the
Senate on the 9Th ul,imo Senator Miles, oil
Connecticut, a prominent member Of the party
in power, made speech not altogether agreeable
TO his political friends We copy from the Bal,
timore papers a brief sketch OF his closing re. |
marks, and Of what followed between him and |
Mr. Athehon, who is Chairman OF the Finance
Committee in the Senate. Mr.. Aher,on, it ap>
pears, is not prepared to say lha, the National
Debt is less than Hundred Millions Of Dollars:
Mr.. Niles said in regard 10 Inc tariff, it had
been stated by the Secretary OF the Treasury that
more revenue would accrue from the tariff Of As |
than from the tariff Of ~. He did not think So
whatever might have been the result so far.
The opinions which he expressed when the act
OF 1916 was under discussion here, he entertained
now. And if the new system had, so Ter, yiel-
ded more revenue than had accrued under the
system previously in operation, it was no. Cten.
ded that 1t should do SO.
He proceeded 10 brief review Of our tariff
system, from 1924 to the present tirne--of the
changes which have been made, aud the conse
quences flowing Ihereirom. He was in favor Of
q medium course. and believed, in regard 10 the
system OF revenue now in operation, that they
had gone TOO far.
The annual report OF tho Secretary Of the
Treasury was examined with view 10 show that
his estimates could not be relied on-tha. The an.
licPaed revenue Of the next fiscal year had
been over esImated-lhat the excessive impoIla>
tons must cease, and the revenue from this
source necessarily fall of-that the falling of in
this speculative trade should have been taken into
consideration in the Secretarys rtpoTt-and that
1t was not prudent TO calculate that the revenue
oil the mex! will be quarter Of tha! OF the past
year.
Mr.. Niles advocated the doctrine Of protec>
ton. contendng that by protecting cur manulac.
lures, we should be able ultimately TO supply
our own and other countries with the articles
which we ale now, under the influence OF low
duties, obliged to import from England, &C. He
insisted, also, that the golden dreams which had
been INDUCED in of the great advantages which
the agricultural and planting interest was TO de-
Mr.. Niles concluded by warning The country
against the consequences Of accemuaiing large
debt.
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