Tioga Eagle (Newspaper) - December 17, 1845, Wellsboro, Pennsylvania pet a cents deducted and for in a at the of lion of the Editor I preceding twelve lines in- ic ole 383 establishment of a of treasurer and n it hit to re- keep lhal money of tbe United and at all times to to tbe Secretary of the and the amount of received by treasury in which the public money shall pe kept I deaire hat adequate rovision by law for its safety and t parties into bat all or over ler or either oF them the moneys in hands banks national or stata while tha of the the capital of the we be used as a substitute one ra and cents En of in the constitution operatives or labor as keepers of tbe pu and eleven dol af fact that a that lUne there was no banks of limited cap tal existed in the coun or of and low pri tit the people are subjected by it to heavy articles of finer qualify and -i or of luxury which can be to opulent are lightly taxed It ifi and unjust burdens on the ths man and f other tha ci pi- made his in n an- Alii toe great interests of the not aa nearly as may be prj by it in knows no or and sh upon same favors and privileges I may not It if founders to Ihoy reared the of justice and if administered in conceived th i or ibe benefits which uld at resorted to t with no ire wed inte try Their at depositories a limited but tien of continuing them permanently in place of tbe treasury o the constitution they were afterwards time to time employed it was from of supposed convenience Our ha i when king corporations have been the keepers ol the public money and been thereby in the treasury no guaranty that it its for p Bank The Stain b the ward i employed rv r f for themselves hearts of more arnies anil all the r invented to austain go in injustice oppressi T- weli known fact lhat tariff pissed by a majority of one and Iwo in the of and that some of wl be government can have the use of blic Tha lale to be which were after- re faithless Bui a few ith mil keeping tbe almost to bankrupt impaired ty or public in by the consli real ould de- I curred in sns ct of vote the at the its defects and 11 to aid in ita en ue opportunity affords c that it was b of 1 of its thorough ir to Congress a rei if present of daty and a ri T of the act of I opinions unfriendly Or contrary I ai far as they ca imposing on under any oa within the he in of th and gf this DO and lots v lie it H u'd I in a foreign war I would have bean R have resulted in ej The mane with the private f all er be used for it ii placed in ban effect loaned to Ih loaned by them up ions of public iu was brought y and the public credit of pay on demand to the currency failure oc f peace and great ere by tLe la country been involved si and neb greater and public f should not nds of banks or purposes s for safekeeping il is m and is interest to he public money ia epn lot in- verted into bankin capital and it used and o private profit of bank whin called for Cat war be in the o strong ers from Thi ui ot up will ic lo the ibo or assumed a of Jut in ib ii tbe place of ad and most c tax which be imposed in principle all articles ar cost or value ai 1 are o inferior qualify er bear the just proportion a which am far lo the i be to other er in- slack c Ibe b ins i for are of superior or ion of es and le in- By the taxed small he tax const tion ey pa Baaks which d by all m of td a n d a in II afford often their thus or la used l bank neat the lion se J i rowers i the banks of t ulion Tu d into t to private 1 of the go contemplated by the i framert ol the ould navar lave intended thti mon should con jse and placed beyond roil The M rate A syal u wilh proper guarda against 13 it is not doubled T to anJ enable them to aa great r ii can derived from any other It ii believed inch a 1 within the revenue manufacturing on a footing and inure to their permanent it will as as may extend to all griat inter- tf ht country the incidental can afforded by our revenue Such a system when once would be permanent and nut be lo the constant c- which mast ocean when ror but fir merely of a favored he of Congress on this it ft hoped that a spirit j of mutual and lnt may prevail and that labors may with the consequences I he constitution of the United Statts it that no drawn treasury but in ef by law A undoubtedly contemplated and Io D8 created in the money be tb period olf needed for public ases Ill the 1011 ot money by law as ware appointed the directly t it ind under id Ih pri old the public money ai templed desire of gain lo extent loans increase circulation an stimulate if not a spirit o and extravagance soone er must res ill in ruin to 1 money be net permitted to thu but ba kep in treasury and pai ibe public creditors in gold and silver by desposite wit Io an undie of bus wauld be the amount o 1 lefl in circula would by its would in cense in the public col ike banks ice be found i l present S t shall except as may be in directing in uance of appropriations made by law land limiting be price at which the public lands an be entered to one-dollar and per quantities of lindt of quality remain because they lhat price From the re- ords of thai Office it appears hat 3 of thel public untold in he States and Territories in which hey are ait lated millions one and five thousand five hundred and n been in the market ti e itry more than twenty yean six hundred and six and forty-four acres for mtre than fifteen years hree millions seventy-four thousand and lix hundred for more than ten years and one hundred and six millions one hundred and thousand nine hundred and one for more than five yean Much he largest portion of these lands will ue to unsaleable Bt price at which are permitted to so long laree of from th hafe not been ed are annually into market by Ibe With view to he sale anc settlement oT these lands 1 jerom trend price be graduated present minimum the the reduced prices cultivator in If graUu and in price for a term to one dollar per acre and the eXpira tion of th it period for a and third term r j lo a large portion of would many worthy cili zens whc to pay bibber rales purchase homes for themselves ilies By adopting Ibe policy o their fair Mor th and reduction of price these will be told for real Value they lie will be freed fro n the inconvenience if not te which they are subjected in of the U if ted States continuing to own Urg of within their Bor liable to taxation for the support o Ipc il governments I the continuance of the poll inling in its most lib ntr la all who have settled or rafter tettla on public lands unsurveyed to which the lie may have been of It edce that in of Sta at the of du u rl th pin rhan of may ed the injury by the public of lihe careless an g tna mines of timber manner of ha system has given much between Ike United and individual citizens producing and excitement in the mineral region the government in heavy expenditures sses and or tbe pr t is believed that issmvnts will sent system of leasing War i of which they of tbe con inti a View to justice to end if pc unhappily divided Tbe to adjust dim sen If em have proved thera no object can ba pe aid af further legislation at an early period of the for your with an wbic i the ii divided with hem and cUims of Iht several of enable the executive to respectively and lo to the dissentient whick bare long and still prevail F I refer you td report of the Secretary of the present condition of lhat branch defence ant for lands ur changed lands n under the aud care relent the have no proper or of d tbat lands be ceil under the tup and eat of the Gene al Office at other I c lands ani I into market and such ten it ai in their wisdam miy to the vern nent an equitable per of Che amount of mineral product and lhat principle extended lo iden miners and upon them al the minimum price be established by I d t ri e prominent objects ol national interest orders we e given during the past un tner for concent refer you to the Secretary of Wl the present sil prralioris during ur defences th and our reli suggestion crease of my in its tbe officer ty in a which ba with proT its efl for their abject tbe in ciency and a greater acana paat yeai and nen have par for mad their du clory manner The a bat i given been executed ften tka u than has Sag was It ii standing no act wi of an ir act ef of the duty ha and fidelity A larger force one under oar concentrated in Gulf of to bt observed bat on of sa a force Mississippi and the of Ibe enVire if river end ite U baa never benn policy T0 in of are contrary to ibe of onr free ions would impose heavy OB end dangerous to public liberty Our reliance for protection and defence be land mutt he mainly on oor diets who will be ever they been ready in past to roth with alacrity at the call of their Country to bcr defence This description of force however defend our barbers and inland nor protect onr commerce on tbe ocean or the Theie mutt by ear navy Considering increased force tod especially of steam aur growth and as nation and proportioned to the increased and ing- naval power of other nations of im- aa our and the great and growing to be protected by it I recommend The tai of Congress The report the General with contains mrnt of the of his department the year It will be seen tbat fiom postages will fall the for tae year between one and two of has been by tha of of pottage which was made by the act of the third of March last Ha principle has been mere acquiesced in by the ple than should by its to in- come has never Bought to make it a source of ravenne for general purposes except for a war power could as an n j ind that trie commander and in strict Ih their holding er for tbe most active accompanying report of F for information lalion of the army and the past year tbe elate condition of the our ships war have keen dis- wilh Great Britain nor should it ever be- come a charge on the general treasury If aball this principle I think they ought it will be cither lo curtail the mail so as to reduce the expenditures or to lo modify tha even the jealousy J act of tbe third of March last ta improve ila The of mail additional facilities which will be by rapid extension and increase of population on our western frontier will not admit of such curtailment will materially reduce present expenditures In adjustment of tbe tariff of of the demand that re the still purer of the preservation of peace It ia all our foreign stations the honor of our has been maintained and rates ba adapted which will produce tribes within o yo contained in liens with tbe various In- ir or upon to hal report in relation to cy of gr eral may ter whether Indian t the time by expt nations of and a very small quantity of the public lands at found when sn d at public a higher than the minimum rate by an western front e widely ating a military force on of our troops occupying p The prompt a ch an army em wh remote from each d manner in more than half he officers wb col ion of of thd to protect of Texi ed and in small wag drawn together on emergency so sudden great credit were intrusted with rders aa well as upop the itself To be in and defend the and in the event uld commence or invade her territories with a army which she d I authorized the general assigned to the i a so far k sounder condition fo te banks are as but without adequate regulation aw tbe public can be th i and excesses re- ions and defalcations to ch from ovi r issues an in- nate desire lor gain or other causes they he settlers on the lands are but rarely all la to secure their homes arid at the public salea at tuat because these combinations by means i f the command and their ability to purchase render it r the to compete with them in the By putting down all tion pese combinations of and specula exposed The of Treasury has in all cates when it was collateral for the the Ian ment or ity to paid I the trol The af Beeping ol be lo a p I sktad by Uw and Ii d II to lt of the be ik and as la Publ ic money which ir The first Congress under blic public ba imagined ping of to of de ites as were binkl and o ount which by the pledge of cks of or of the n good credit of the lave given this description of hers have declined to do so the opinion that n of mom government from is for of fundi of Ibe government and tha hti I to Con- ess that provision be made by law for such anc lhat a constitutional treasury created for the of the money T ie constitutional treasury re- is as a secure for the pub ic money any power make loans of discounts or to issue any piper as a currency or circulation I cannot doubt bat such a treasury as con- ne constitution should be in- The of tb should kept in tbe ino of th the custody derne gers the s in tht them d foi of eu by dependent of i II corporations to the i bonds severe pun use funds and Cor Ikeu lie or their g not to trai and be of of- chosen la of the are directly who ara under ad- ind oaths and who are subject for any by Ir misapplication of the public failure in other respects to duties To say tbat the are or with the of their own money i i their own provided but must icly on the dents and of banking not appointed by them nor re- sponsible to would be to concede that they are incompetent for ara usually enabled lo purchase s including Ibe improvements of at the minimum price of the either tarn out of their homes t from them according their par double or quadruple tba amount r them lo government Il ii and of hardy s the Wast who penetrate the s With suffer the dan ba and hardships o a new country and pre ie way for the body of emigrants whn of a few yean usually that we are great degree thel rapid extension and aggrandizement ready to has that no are more patriotic than th and brave men frontier or mor de lo my of occupation to make from several of the a for ad the Slates the territory and ich could molt I am time fi at with it of our are and al it has portal ad for ppy ppl toNl sat ired goad and order add that the of mari- thirty dly gover seco o to ni strib Kroug rears ich could most furnish them in his opinion L larger force thin lhal un- his command nd the auxiliary aid which like circum was authorized from be required e contingency the exercise of and a create navy ou will b of dei nce Th succ war revenue lo meet Ibe tures of tbe department 1 invite the af Congress to the of the ich was Generil on this subject under the r has been made belief lhat such a modification of the late for law may be made at will yield sufficient re- no additional appropriations venue further calls on the treasury wilh very change in the present rales of postage Proper measures been taken in suance of the act of the third of March asl for establishment of lines of vail eta between this and foreign importance of this service commends itself strongly to favorable consideration Wilb the growth of our country ibe lic business devolves on tie heads of tree of United States and the n interest have steadily the organization ment unlit it it we d to Power in the werld ant day we shall probably be ne Exposed at they must be wise policy lo to three im- protection with of great of i several Executive Departments bat greatly in- th s authority depended has not oeci Tne under which two of State artillery from Ibe city were into Texas and j n service has not occurred two f New mustered C Ailed States are lly stated in the report of the Secretary of ar I to made for the of these troops well as a small Texan ers whom general thought it to receive or into During the I a sit the first regiment f dragoons made extensive through to obey rail of their country an and her rehla and her honor er am by whatever assailed They be protected and secured at minimum price t f the lands in the humble homes which they have improved by their labor ry bee vat rate era be of tail Ibe lea lo cit mu mu ind in view all vexatious or imposed upon lham by tbe pre-emption laws should be repealed It is the true policy of la afford to its citizens lo me tha of small of our public domain at low and moder ta to system of the m of the Slates is defective a mill of landw supposed to c lead and other minerals have been ad from eale ana numerous haive been granted to Tha system of grant ng has not only unprofitable government but unsatisfactory to ens who hare gone the lands anil if lay tbe af i future difficulty the ie Indian iem advancing a Hudson's Ba part as Tar as ry on our borders a part of to tbe of r Company in the north and be South Past of Rock and streams of he exhibition i ie head waters of the the Colorado of West f ibis military force amang ie Indian tribes in those distant regions and ie councils belli with them by the s of the it is tare a salutary rorri hostilities ha United Sut ne of these exc War influence in reil among relations betwe ing them ind and An account of accompanies the report of War Under I tie Brevet of topographical engineers nas been employed tince 1642 in exploring the country west ol Ibe and beyond he Rocky Mountains Two expeditions have already ta a close and the lorts of lhat scientific and enterprising cer have furnished much interesting and ble Ha is now engaged in a bird but it is not expected that arduous will be completed in leitan enable me to communicate tbe lult lo the present session Our with the Indian tribes are of a favorable character The policy of ving them lo i country designed for per manent resilience west of the and limits of the organized and is better appreciated by them than it wat a years ago while education is now to and of zed lift are ground among out the world For mere i than appropriations have been made expended far the gradual of OBJ naval In our the important duly of comr and in the of war has been a molt efficient means of steam navigation on t been followed by the steimen in great and increasing rs int i tbe navies of the principal Pew rs ef world A te an efficient protection large ind increasing commerce taspon ing increase von aur part No country bat greater for of than or en itself greater creased In some respects distribution of duties among them seems to and many of might We wilh advantage to tba more tima from one lo another public A for consideration of this subject by COM- gress with a view to tyitem in the lion of several and a division of the public will not probably occur moil important of tbe Slate Department relate to aor foreign By great enlargement of the af increase of our corres- of our consular of department been greatly increased In ita present organization many of a domestic nature and consisting of devolved on the Secretary They admirably which da not appropriately belong to darned protection of our commerce to thle Tapil of intelligence and to coait defence In pursuance of the of a increase of our navy of live oak limber and other foreign of government and may properly be transferred o er One of grows opt state of tbe law concerning tha a few years eince materials lor clerkship bat haa become a d Ind art now under shelter and in a ante j distinct bureau of importance Wiln of iron can Ibe built wilh rial facility in various of lie Union uae ef iron is material especially ill the construction of enter with safety of along our coast now sibly te of greater draught and it reeommendt that is should be made for this policy in whin the pin inte must gra J ily of them in Whatever miy have our of nation in infancy our ests and commerce comparatively mill ou resources limited our population sparse I extending beyond nlijs of ie original thirteen States that ke different naw that wa t an internal organization it is still connected with the Department In of its miners questions ol much importance lo to llha frequently ariae by for to aboard of which the Secretary of Slate is a number Thete are legal and tbe connexion which now exists between the Slate meat and Patent Office may with great propriety and be te Ibe General In his lait annual manage to Mr Madison invited attention tea proper vision or tbe Attorney an im- portant io tha executive recommendation ed by of hit Tbe official duties of Attorney General have much increased within a few and hai one of great importance Hit may be still increased with to public Alan ex- officer hit residence and constant at the teat of government re- quired Legal questions involving important and large amounts of public money referred ta dim by dent and executive for bis and decision publie under official management before bean to augmented by sion of our and tha of Con- gress authorizing against the United for large bodies of valuable n from three lo than twenty f our commerce in oir own ships ia found in evary sea ai II territorial boundaries and halve baen so expanded tW ir nor onr long line ef coatt the and on lakes can ba ly foreign man i of Thaie at important commercial and points but air chief reliance far obj ct must be aa i well organized ent na y The resulting from nary I re confined to tha Atlantic T ie pi ef tbe inferior which marki directly dependent on ly and oC ear of the New landa aa greatly to increase and bjr a force embarrass if I responsibilities I therefore recommend that nite the whole export of the Attorney Central placed on the
