Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-03-19

desposm by which this class Of creditors may be coerced
TO into confederation with them to compel the
United States to pay them all at par. Yes sir, this
gang is to knock down and impound those who
not willing to hold out
Let me cite What would be thought in private
life of conspiracy among band of creditors TO prevent
those who willing to compound with their debtor ut
twenty cents the dollar in doing so? What court
of justice would sustain injustice fragrant and op
pressive?
If there is poor man under this settlement Texas ten
ders in his need and necessities, is willing take
fifteen cents the dollar Congress has right to aid
combination of individuals for their selfish purposes,
to prevent his taking the Texas has appropriated for
his payment
What sort Of depotsm is that which enables one man
say another it is my fat you shall not receive your
money because am not willing to take naines
Besides, there many creditors who have assigned
their certificates Of the steck of Texas to their own cred
tors Texas has, the 1st of july 1850 stopped the
interest her public debt while the debts Of these
creditors the interest is running by certainly most
unproptons sinking fund, the consequences VIII be that
the fund Of the poor debtor win be absorbed and has debts
not paid.
But the question may be asked What injury posi-
bly, inure those creditors who refuse sign their
leases and receive the in the Treasury of the Uni
@ .ea states texas mas appropriated Tor Their
The same amount will abide pro rata in the Treasury OF
the United States with the accumulation of the accrung
interest and they will be rs free then they to
prosecute their absurd claim against the United States for
par their wefounded against the State Of Texas
with the far farer chance of success, either Govern
mcnt would have a smaller deficit to provide for.
large creditors who lent par receiving par ask where
derive power to prevent Texas from paying pro
taHto at least just debt? But throw these large cred
tors the question will take the Of suffer-
ing and needy widow who is willing take what Texas
has appropriated for her. But then opulent
broker from Philadelphia, Baltimore or New York. who
says to this poor You shall not receive your mo-
because Texas does seventy cents the dol
lar Sir there is great hardship and justice in all this
If deny this privilege, let illustrate the national
faith and justice by and grand national painting
nf pt.h .ha fhn nFn nlf
Esops fables-The Dog in the Manger. Oh, for the ge
MUS of Hogarth to represent rich bulldog with gold
chain round his neck growing off the hungry destitute,
and necessitousl
Sir, if Congress did enact in the provso absurdy
so impracticabe call sixteen hundred men die
reny paid to be of mind, which contend they did
not do then say bound to say in the emphatic
language of the amendment of the Senator from Virginia.
we do not abide this blunder
The hour (for it is past midnight) admonshes me no
longer respass upon your patience but cannot take
my sedt without one remark said rather in than
anger" the rapid strides which making towards
imperial consolidation of this Government by reducing
the States into contemplate parish corporations.
by passing the bill Of the gentleman from Maryland,
distinctly power to fix, define, and pay her
public debt in such proportions fit totally irres-
pective of her will consider this the most daring as
sault the sovereignty of State in this Union which
the history of this Cenfederacy aordsso rich in the
records of progressive usurpaton of the powers
ed to the States respectively Nor is this invasion made
more paatable by the conumely and insult combined
with it. Does say any thing less than this to
Texas: We consider you untrustworthy regaes we
take out commission of bankruptcy against you,
and pay your creditors which you have not the honesty
to do. You shall not pay creditor par from whom You
received par until you pay creditor par who
sixteen eentsn the dollar Does the history of any Gov
erncnt afford equivalent instance of audacityy but
our prcensiops do not end here The gentleman from
4 Indiana offers amendment by which we are made,
not the apprentices hut the master workmen Of repuda
ton, by scaling process far comprehensive than
that reproach Texas for practcing indeed, by the
way the United States have some fifteen tons of CONT
mental money unpaid and it does not lie in mouth to
reproach other people with repudiaton The gentleman
from Indiana proposes scaling down the creditors Texas
proposes to pay par to fifty cents in the dollar that
those whom she has scaled at thirty cents may be placed
the same level very commendable depletion, GER
Itainly
Sir, win say but word MORE that when PROPOSE
ons of this kind entertained in regard sovereign
State in this Unon it is high time for to get rid of
the feeble and contemplate subordinate corporations
called State Governments and take imperial master
who castgate State into paying debt which she
bumoly says is not just Burke somewhere says State
cannot be indicted but / think have reached
truth in confederate history that she may have
commission of bankruptcy issued against her. and be held
| to bail.