Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-06-14

observed,
culaton, to meet the estimates from the different
DEPARTMENTS, and not such appropriations as
might he made by Congress over and above these
estimates.
There was embraced in this sum of sis 900 600
estimates to the amount of about 81 $50, 600 for
the three volunteer regiments authorized by the
act of Congress approved April Z, 1853 for two
Of which, il not for the third, no appropriation
will now be required To this extent a portion
OF the loan of Slj 600 900 may he applied TO paw the
appropriations made by Congress beyond the es
tlniates from the different Departments. referred
to In the report Of the Secretary of the Treasury.
TO what extent a probable deficiency may
exist IN the Treasury between the LIST July and
the LIST January next, cannot he ascertained until
the appropriation bills well as the private bills
passed
Adversely teaches useful lessons to nation. as
well indi viduals. The habit of extravagant
expenditures, fostered by large surplus in the
Treasury, must now be corrected, or the country
will be involved in serious financial difficulties
Under any form of government extravaganza in
expenditure must he the natural consequence,
| when those who authorize the expenditure feel
| no responsibility in providing the means Of pay
ment such had been for number Of years
condition previously to the late monetary revul-
sion in the country Fortunately, at least for the
canse OF public economy, the case Is re-
versed and to the extent OF the appropriations,
whatever these may be, engrafted on the different
appropriation bills, as well as those made by
private bills, over and above the estimates Of the
different Departments, il will be necessary for
Congress to provide the means Of payment be-
| fore their adjournment. Without this, the Treas
ury Will he exhausted before the first of January,
and the public credit will be seriously impaired
This disgrace must not fall upon the country.
Ii is impossible for me, however, now 10 ascer-
tain this amount nor does there at present seem
to be the least probability that this can he done
and the necessary means provided by Congress
| To meet any deficiency which may exist i'm the
Treasury before Monday next at II O'Clock the
hour hXCd for al JOurnment, il being now Satur-
| day morning at half-past II o'clock. To accom-
Pilsh This object the appropriation bills, AS they
shall have finally passed Congress, must he be-
| fore me, and time must be allowed to ascertain
| the amount of the moneys appropriated, and TO
enable Congress to provide the necessary means.
| At this writing il Is understood that several of
these bills vet before the committees of con-
| ference, and the amendments to some of them
| have not even been printed.
| Foreseelng that such stare OF things mig hit
exist at the close Of the session. stated, in the
| annual message to Congress of December las:
| that ''from the practice OF Congress such an ex-
| animation Of each bill as the Constitution re-
CURES has been rendered impossible. The most
| important business of each session is generally
| crowded into its last hours, and the alternative
presented to the President is either to violate the
| constitutional duty which lie owes to the penple
and approve bills which, for Il want Of time II
| IL impossible he should have examined, or by his
refusal TO do this, subject the country and indi-
| viduais to great loss and Inconvenience. 4
| For my own part, have deliberately determined
| that shall approve no bills that have not ex
| aInined and 1t will be case of extreme and
| most urgent necessity which shall ever induce
| ne tn depart from this rule
| The present condition of the Treasury abso
iutriy requires that should adhere TO this Teso-
| luton on the present occasion, for the rea sons
| which have heretofore presented.
| In former times, II was believed to be the true
| character of an appropriation bill simply to carry
| into effect existing laws and the established pol
| Icy OF the country. practice has, however
grown up OF late years TO engraft such bills at
the last hours of the session large appropriations
for new and important subjects not provided for
| ny preeXis,ing laws and when no time is left To
| the Executive for their examination and investi-
CATION. No alternative is thus left to the Presi-
dent but either TO approve measures without ex-
| animation, or, by vctoing an appropriation bill
| seriously TO embarrass the opeTa of the Gov
eminent. This practice could never have pre-
vailed without surplus in the Treasury sui =
| GENTLY large to cover an indefinite amount OF ap-
| Preparations. Necessity now compels US To arrest
it, at least far TO afford time to ascertain the
amount appropriated, and to provide the means
| of its payment.
| For all these reasons, recommend to Congress,
to postpone the day of adjournment for a brief
| period. promise that not an hour shall be lost
| In ascertaning the amount Of appropriations
| made by them for which it will be necessary to
| provide. ] know it will he announcement for the
| members TO attend a called session, and this
above all things, desire to avoid.
| JAMES BUCHANAN
TEXAS ON THE SLAVERY QUESTION The
| following letter is from a gentleman of high
character-an old citizen of Texas, whom we
regard as, take him all in ALL the best il formed
| man in the State:
| PHILADELPHIA, June q, 1S5s
To the Editor Of the Star:
Will you permit me, through the columns of
your paper to contradict the statements contained
| IN the following paragraph which find in the
| Philadelphia Ledger Of yesterday?
| SLAVERY IN TEXAs.-There is a serious danger
OF the utter defeat OF Southern hopes and aspifa
| tons touching Texas and that in the yery heart
4 10 of all thor,
adapted TO the successful cultivation Of Southern
products, and to the consequent remunpratinq
employment OF slave labor, a feeling of settled
opposition to slavery exists, which, if not coun-
teIactsd, Will ultimately neutfaliZe the entire
b'neft conferred by the act Of 1850 and incorpo-
rate the largest, finest aud most fertile part Of
Te1as into The family of free Statts.-N Orleans
| Bee.
have recently travelled over large portion Of
Texas, and have resided in that State nearly
| quarter Of century, and I can truly saw tina,
there is no other State in the Onion where public
| sentiment is more directly in favor OF Southern
Institutions or where there is a more settled o.
position to the Abolition schemes of Northern
fanatics. There Is 10 other portonp0f the Union
where slave labor is more productive or slave
property more secure than in Texas The citi-
zens of Missouri are so we'll aware Of this fact
that large numbers are emig ratinp with their
slaves to the northern counties Of Texas where
they are entirely aloOf from influence of Aboli-
ton a@itations, and where they find the soil add
Il "a
pies OF their native State. During a recent visit
to the vicinity Of Fort Belknap, met with large
| numbers OF Missourians who were settling in
that section, and they expressed the utmost salts
| faction that they had found region where their
Save property ls entirely secure, aud where they
| can blend the culture OF cotton and tobacco with
that OF wheat, rye, hemp and other staples Of the
| MIDDLE aud northern States. LINING rants who
1 had removed to- that section from Tennessee
| h"ntncky, and Virginia, expressed similar opin-
| IONS ltIs true that many emi grants from Illinois.
| Indiana, Iowa, and other free States have with
in the last thee CT four years removed to Texas;
Dat so lar as my observation has extended, these
seuiefs are nrInly attached to the institutions of
| the south. find that settlers from the northern
| states, whenever they have the means are as
eager 10 purchase slaves and increase slave labor
| as the natives Of the southern States: and I
| shrewdly suspect that IL slave labor could be
| made profitable in the New England States
| slavery would continue there I think that four
nfths OF the natives Of New England who reside
| In Texas, and have the means to purchase slaves
1 are slave holders.
IL has been well remarked that !sclimate settles
this question of slave labor. - am confident that