The daily union., 1854-07-19

of that lustrous hero aroused against him the pese
vering and inscriptions opposition. With all his great
popularity back his fearless resistance to loose and
constitutional expenditures, he left upon this ques
ton in a minority in Congress. Like all his other
TONS however experience proved that he right and
thousands who had denounced his prompt resistance to
special legislation lived thank and to applaud him for
hp hrmness
The fact that the exercise of the power of Congress
this subject has been pronounced unconstitutional and in
expedient by Jefferson and Madison and the fact that when
it is exercised it is TO lead to the most profgate
unlicensed expenditures eloquent and invncible
nvocations to duty whenever the attempt is made to imi
tate the legislation which Jefferson denounced and jack
nobly attempted to arrest
1t will be remarked that President Pierce adverts with
evident satisfaction the pursued by Gen jackson
in regard the Maysve-road bill We deem it. there
FORE peculiarly appropriate reproduce this time,
much of the Maysvileveto message will show the posi-
ton taken by Gen. Jackson
Ertracs from Gen. Jackson's HaysoiRe Veto.
"From the official communication submitted to YOU it ap
pears that if adverse and unforeseen contingency happens
foreign relations and unusual diversion be made of
the funds set apart for the payment of the national debt
look with confidence to its entire extngushment in the
short period Of four The extent which this pleas
ing anticipation is dependent upon the policy which may be
under consideration must be obvious to ALL and equally
that the events Of the session well calculated
awaken public ocitude the subject BY the statement
the Treasury Department and those from the clerks of
the Senate and House of Representatives herewith submit
ted lit appears that the bills which have passed into laws,
and those which, in all probability, viii pass before the ad
of Congress- anticipate appropriations which, with
ordinary expenditures for the support of government will
exceed considerably the in the treasury for the
$780, Thus whilst diminishing the revenue by
duction of the duties coffee and the appropr
atons for internal Improvement increasing beyond the
available of the treasury and to this calculation
be added the contained in bills which pending be-
fore the houses may be safely affirmed that ten mil
lions of dollars would not make the the treas
receipts unless the payment of the national debt be post
poned and the pledged to that object applied to
those enumerated in these bills. Without awelreguated
system internal Improvement this exhaustng mode ap
preparation is not likely to be avoided and the plain
quence must be either continuance of the national debt or
a resort to additional taxes.
although many of the States, with laudabe zeal and
under the influence of enlightened policy successfully
applying their separate efforts to works of this character h
desire to enlist the aid of the general in the
srucon of such from their nature ought to devove
it, and to which the Of the individual States in
adequate rational and patriotc and if that desire is
gratifed now, it does not follow that it will be-
The general intelligence and public spirit of the American
people furnish guarantee that at the proper time this
policy will be made to prevail under circumstances more
pcous its successful prosecution than those which
exist But great this object undoubtedly is it is not the
only which demands the fostering of the govern
ment The and of the republican prin
cipe with TO elevate its character and extend its
influence rank among most important duties and the
best accomplish this desirable end those which
will the attachment of citizens to the of
their choice by the comparative ghne of their public bur
dens and by the attraction which the superior of its
operations will present the admiration and respect of the
world Through the favor of overrulng and ndulgen
Providence country blessed with general prosperity
and our citizens exempted the pressure which
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to bear; vet it that of the collected from
citizens through the medium of nposts have for
siderable period been In particulars these
taxes severely upon the laborng and less
porous of the community being imposed on the
sares of eand this in where the burden was
relieved by the consciousness that would ultimately
contribute make Independent of foreign nations for at
ce of prime necessity by the encouragement ofhe growth
manufacture home They have been cheerfuy borne
they thought be to the support of
and the payment the debts unavodab incur
the acquisition and maintenance of national rights
and liberties But have right to calculate the same
cheerful acquiescence when it is known that the necessity for
their continuance would it not for irregular i'm
provdent and unequal appropriations of the public funds
Will not the people demand, they have right to do such
prudent system of expenditure will pay the debts Of the
Unon and authorize the reduction Of every tax to low
point the wise observance of the necessity to protect
that portion of manufactures and labor whose pros
perity essential to national safety and ndepend
ence will allow When the national debt is paid the duties
upon articles which do raise may be repealed
with safety, and still leave trust without oppression
any section of the country accumuatng surplus fund,
which may be benefciay applied to weldgesed
tenn of improvement. fi A
Under this view, the question to the in which
the federal government ought to embark in the
sructon roads and canals and the which
impose burdens the people for these purposes be pre-
sened its merits, free of all disguise and of
embarrassment except such may arise from the consu
ton ITSELF Assuming these suggestions to be correct will
not constituents require the observance of by
which they be effected Ought they require
With the best disposition aid, far conscien-
ousy the furtherance of works of internal Improvement
my opinion that the sounast national policy this
time point such course Besides the avoidance of an
evil influence upon the local of the country, how
solid the advantage which the government will reap from
it in the elevation of its character How gratifying the eff
feet of presenting to the world the sublime spectacle of
public of than twelve millions of happy people, in the
fifty fourth other existence after having passed through
two protraced warsthe for the acquisition and the
other the maintenance of bertyee from debt, and
with all her immense unetered What salutary
would such exhibition exercise upon the
of liberal principles and free government throughout the
world Would ourselves find in its effect addition
guara that political institutions will be transmit
ted to the most remote poerity without decay course
destined witness like these cannot be ben
Gifted by legislation which toerates scramble for appro
priaons that have relation any general system of inn
whose good effects of necessity be very
limited In the best view of these appropriations the abuses
which they lead far exceed tho good which they
BILE of promoting They may be rcsorted to artful
dens shift upon the the losses of unsuccessful
private speculation and thus by minerng to personal
bton and self tend to the foundations
public virtue and aint the administration of the govern