The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-06-14

thus imposed would enable the domestic manufacturer 70
rse The price of the homemade article and IL the guam
ty OF that article consumed In the United States should
only be double that of the imported one and the
the price should only be equal one-haf the tax inn
posed upon that imported the result would be that the
eonsumers-hat Is the people generally lywouid be
PEELED necessarily pay $4,000 900 more which would 90
not into your treasury but into the pockets of the
acturers.
regret that have not time to elaborate this argument
but, viewed in any light this policy OF distribution
never be anything but unmxed evil the southern
States and can only benefit those interested in thoroect
i've SYSTEM of which distribution is part being nothing
more nor less than protective in disguise.
Ny colleague in the of his speech, INDUCED in
piece OF dry huinor with which ! highly amused.
with gravity altogether becoming serious subject he
made use OF these words:
Had the principle of distribution been established as was
contended by party in this country should be-
ago the blessings Of education would have pene aed many
an humble cottage where traces of them be found
but IN their stead ignorance and misery"
To my mind that passage equals any thing TO be found
In the Pickwck papers Lest however others may think
he was serious let ask whose fault is 1t that this dstr-
button policy which he nurn has been adopted
and carried QUIT Ny colleague who is very young
not go back with me in his memory and recall the
Of ls40; but sir who have almost thank Heavenl not
que reached the age of the sere and yellow leaf re-
member the circumstances which attended the mighty
struggle Of that year. You remember that the party to
which my friend belongs made distribution of the is
sues in that contest My colleague has condensed into the
brief paragraph have read one Of the te stump speeches
which his friends then accustomed to make Many
phrase the rich blessings that would flow from their policy
Many the promises they made the people of North
Carolina the of the State to be developed
railroads give every farmer ready to the
markets. education be difused and sits blessings
to penetrate many humble cottage" All these ben
ets were TO flow from their policy of distribution which
was to be carried out the people would only place them
in power Well, sir they borne into power like the
sweeping OF mighty avalanche The people took them at
their word "Tppecanoe and Tyler too elevated
the two highest offices in the gift of the people by
whelming majority; the whig administration organ
zed and they found themselves supported by large
jory in both ends of this Capitol They had it ALL King
good Did they fulfil their promises? Did they redeem
their pledges Did they carry out their policy of dstrbu
ton, that policy which to bring plenty to smiling
land? Tis true, and pity tis, It's true" they passed
bill TO distribute the proceeds Of the sales Of the public
lands; but how? Like wretched parent afflicted
with hereditary disease they implanted in the system of
their offspring the germs of its inevitable dissolution
They coupled with il proviso to the effect that whenever
the duty upon any article imported into this country
ceeded twenty cent ad palorem distribution should
cease and before the old States received anything
than mere ptance, they passed tariff act by which
duties were raised far above that standard, and Of
course the law became imperative Yes sir these ur-
natural parents seized these two political bantngs of
theirs by the necks and most cruelty and numerically
beat their precious heads together until distribution which
happened TO have the softer skull got its brains bursted
and that the way they themselves crushed OUT
that policy which my friend weeps bitter tears of
regrotl But they did pass distribution bill of that sort
which provided that of the States should
Of the sales and should then share equally with the old
States according to federal population The States
got the 100000 Of land but the old States got al
most nothing; and this is the justice which they meted
out to the muchnured old States of which they proessed
themselves the especial guardians And what has been
the effect produced upon State legislation by the promises
held out by whig friends OF golden harvest to be
rcaped from the federal treasury In North Carolina the
legislature has been induced to involve the State in debt
of 100000 when she had not the Of paying
the interest upon without increase of the taxes and
there reason to believe that the next legislature will feel
itself called upon the debt 10 probably double
that in order to complete the works already COM
menced and 10 endeavor render them available and the
people of that State will be subjected TO burden OF taxa
ton hitherto unknown.
Mr. Chairman, feel anxious desire my colleague
10 the State Of North Carolina in which every earthly
interest possess centred and which has honored
with seat this floor prosperous and happy would
go far according to my humble abilities, any Of her
in all proper efforts TO promote her prosperity and
happiness but cannot view this policy of distribution in
any other light than unjust 10 her injurious in its opera
TONS corrupng in its tendencies and disastrous in its
suits and shall therefore vote against in all its forms