sY nommnal wilzrn mtnr):..vrom]
A IWERIISENIENTS
AN APPRENTICE
PRINTING BUSINESS
eat. Will be taken at this Office, if uppbca
Lion is made iniinedinte!v•
PUBLIC SALB.
THE Subscriber, Administrator with the
will annexed, of GE° BERCA.W, de-
ceased, will expose to Public Sale, on the
premises, on Friday the 6th of October next,
TZM .7.6.1101 c
of said deceased, situate in Straban town-
ship, Adams county, containing '2 I 7 .11-
c res, more or less, on'which are erected
a good
4.73,11.•
Ark , ILA 0 G 111011,3 SIE
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ve .,,gnirnt and Barn, &c. The land is
of good quality, and well improved.
pr - 'The terms will be mad© known on
the day of sale, when attendance will be
given by
ISAAC MONFORT, Adner.
September 8, 1e37. is-23
BARGAINS! BARGAINS
Nl. AV GOODS:
AT PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES
GEORGE ARNOLD & CO.
HAVE•just receiyedliorn Philadelphia
4 ". an unusually large stock of
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Purchased on the very best terms for CASH,
which will be sold at a small advance, and
at such prices as RAVE NOT BEEN OFFERED
TO THE PUBLIC HERETOFORE
They deem it unnecessary to name arti
cles or to give prices ; all they ask is TO
GIVE THEM A CALL, and they pledge
themselves TO COME UP TO ALL
THEY SAY.
o::rTheir Stock consists of ALMOST EVE.
EY ARTICLE IN THEIR LINE OF BUSINESS
and either the CASH or PRODUCE will
be taken in exchange for GOODS.
GETTYSBURCH, Sept. 29; 1837.
BARGAINS.
SELLING OFF AT COST!
THE Subscriber,' iritonding to retire from
the Mercantile business, will dispose
of ENTIRE STOCK OF
0.00.1:11C,
AT COST, Imm:, WHOLESALE OR RETAIL
CONSISTING OF
DRY GOODS:
Such as blue,black, brown and green Cloths,
Cassimeres, Satinettes, Merinoes, Flannels,
Cords, Muslins, &c. &c.
Groceries, Hard-Ware, China,
Glass and Queens-Ware;
AND ALSO
voulisGs rivtxTs.
Those desirous of purchasing GEAT
BARGAINS, would do well to call without
delay. To a wholesale purchaser a REA•
SONABLE CREDIT will be given.
The suhicriber offers for rent his Store
Room, Ware-House and Cellar, situated in
the village of Petersburg, (York Springs,)
all to good order, and possesion given this
Fall. The location is an excellent one for
the Mercantile business.'
THOMAS STEPHENS.
PetersbUrg, (Y. S.) Aug. 18, 1837. tr.-20
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
THE COURSE OF LECTURES will
commence on the First Monday in
-November, and be continued under the fol
lowing arrangement; •
Practice and 14cory If Medi-
NATIIAYIEL CIIAP)TAN,M.D
11011 HAUS, M. D.
Chemistry,
Surgery, • Wn.LIABI GI »sox, M. D.
Anatomy, • WiturAm E. HonNELM.D
Institutesof ItierNine,SAl.4 US/. JACKSON, M. D.
ilateria Medica and Plum
Macy, Gtorton B. Woun, M.D.
Obstetrics and the' Diseases of liro
men 4 Children, H1,G.11 L. Hon6E, M. D
Clinical Lectures on Medicine and Surge-
Ty aro dOliVered regularly at the Philadelphia
liospital,(l3lookley,)and at the Pennsylvania Hos
,pital,from i,holvionning tulle end of the Session.
Thourifountof the fops of tuition is the same as
heretofore; no increase having boon made in con
s.equenao of the augmentation in the number of
PaorEssonsturs,and the improvements in Clinical
inKruction.
W. E. HORNER,
Deou of the Medical Faculty, Philadelphia.
July 28. 1837. eow6t-1:
EAR.. .WEAVER'S CELEBRATED
-I- 7 EYE SALVE, an article highly re
commended .as superseding all others for
sore, weak and inflamed eyes. It has fre-
quently effected cures after all other prepa
rations had failed- -Its efficacy is attested
by many certificates, which can be examin
ed on application to the subscriber.
Price 25 cents per box, and for sale at
the Drug Store of
June 30, 1837.
Carpenter's Compound Fluid Extract of
ISt
Just recoil* from "the 'ware-house of G.
W. Carpenter, and fur sale at the Drug
Store of Dr. J. GILBERT.
April 17, 1937 tf-3
TO TOP
Dr. J. GILBERT.
' tr-13
L -
LODGE!!
eismi
NEMO,
: 0 1*. "
>`.
ORM
•
Hear the horrid Oaths Royal :arch
Masons take- npon themselvs:
0 I
furthermore promise and swear, that I will answer
lIMI and obey ALL duo signs and summonsplanded, sent or
thrown to me from a Chapter of ROYAL ARCH NIA-
SONS, or from a Companion Royal Arch Mason!
I furthermore promise and swear, tut I will assist a Companion Royal Arch
Mason, when I see him engaged in ANY difficulty, and will ESPOUSE HIS
CAUSE so fur as to extricate him from the same, WHETHER HE BE RIGHT
or WRONG!!
I furthermore promise and swear, that I WILL PROMOTE A eOMPA.
MON ROYAL ARCH MASON'S co-Political Preferment IN
PREFERENCE to another of equal qualifications!!!
I furthermore promise and swear, that a Companion Royal Arch Mason's SE
CRETS, given me in charge as such,and I knowing them to be such, shall remain
as secure and inviolable in my breast as in his own, co - alherder and
Treason 01 0 TICI EI'TED!
Fellow Freemen! Are such men fit to represent
the PEOPLE of the Free, Democratic Anti-Masonic
County of Adams? Surely not. Every Anti-Ma
son, then, will see the necessity vd* goiwg
. to the Polls
and voting for JACOB CASSATT, CHARLES B.
PENROSE, THADDEUS STEVENS, CHARLES
RETTLE WELL and the WHOLE ticket. Act
thus, and we will defeat the LODGE triumphantly!
11,t5: --- The Van Buren Remedy!
Specie for the Office-Holders: Bank Rags for
the People ! !
er.-7'The Secretary of the U. S. Treasury can find SPECIE for
Members of Congress: But he offers to the WORKMEN employed by
he Government their choice—to take PAPER or QUIT_WORK !I!
0;7 - HEAD THE FOLLOWING! •
[From the Washiugtou Globe, Van 13urcu'a Official Organ.]
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 16, 1837
Sir—The near approach of the session of Congress makes it proper for me to
apprise you, in order that the information may be used for the benefit and accom
modation of the House of Representatives, that this Department will be prepared
to furnish funds for their payment in notes of the City Banks or Specie, or
to give drafts upon several of the Collectors of the Customs and Receivers of the
Public Money, or the former Deposite Banks, in suitable sums, as may be most
convenient to any of them. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
LEVI WOODBURY, Seery of the Treasury.
W. S. FItANKLIN, Esq., Clerk of the House of Representatives of the U. S.
cpNOW READ 7HE FOLLOWING!
[We quote from the same Government Organ, of Sept_ 14, 1837.]
Spec ie—Members of Congress and others aro respectfully
informed, THAT THE HIGHEST PREMIUM FOR GOLD AND 51L
VER will be paid by the subscriber.
CHARLES J. NOURSE, Corner of 13th st. and Penn. Avenue.
i7The People can here learn why the petty Post Masters through.
out the country make the Laborer, Mechanic and Merchant pay SPE
CIE for their letters! It is for the purpose of fhvoring Members of
Congress and enriching such SPECULATORS as Mr. Nourse, whilst
the POOR MECHANICS, working on the Public buildings, must take
BANK RAGS for theii labor, or QUIT WORK !I! These are glo
rioiCs times, truly, compared with the gdmimsfrations ofJames Monroe
and John Quincy Adams! Then we bad a good Currency—the People
received the same treatment with the Office•holders. But notn, it is
RAGS FOR THE PEOPLE, and KrSPECIE FOR THE OF
FICE HOLDERS!!! Will the PEOPLE submit?
sIIESSaIGE OF . GO PERA OR RITAER.
On returning to the last Masonic Legislature the
Bill making . Appropriations to the Improve
ment System, giving his reasons for refusing
his signature tl►ereto.
'To the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives:
GENTLEMEN :--1 return the bill entitled "An Act further to continuo and pro
mote the improvements of the State." .
I regret to bo obliged to withhold the Executive approbation from an act which
involves no question of constitutional right. Nothing but a firm belief that the
best interests of the whole State demand it, could induce inc to do so. This reluc
tance is increased when duty requires the disapproval of a bill for continuing the
Internal Improvements of the State. Could I believe that the measure was calcu
lated to hasten the completion and promote the usefulness of those works, it would
receive my sanction without reference to the amount of money appropriated.—
True economy demands that the main lines of our canals and railways, now under
contract or partially completed, shall be pushed on with the least possible delay, to
the points of their original destination. But it seems to me that this bill is calcu
lated materially to retard their progress, by dissipating the funds of the common
wealth upon a great variety of objects, which, however meritorious in themselves,
and interesting as local improvements, are not part of the main lines, but lay the
foundation for a vast increase of public debt. The bill contains the following
items:
I.—APPROPRIATIONS TO STATE WORKS:
Erie Canal, $400,000
North Branch Canal, 400,000
%Vest Branch Canal, from Tangascootack to Sinnemahoning, 100,000
Canal from Kittanning to the mouth of the Kiskimimitas, 75,000
Inclined Plane at Columbia, __
87,500
West Branch Canal,,Tangascootazk line, . 33,943
Gettysburg extension of the Columbia Railroad, 150,000
. Reservoirs at Hollidaysburg and Johnstown, 25,000
Marietta extension of the Columbia Railroad, 40,000
Survey, to avoid the Portage Inclined Planes, - 5,000
Shaver's Creek Feeder, - • . --- 5,000
Outlet Lock at Duncan's Island, 10,000
Examination of the North Branch Canal from Nanticoke to
Lackawana,
To commence Wisconisco Feeder, ...
Cutbush Feeder ,
_ Delaware Canal,
Outlet Lock at New Hope,
Bristol and Philadelphia Steam Towjloat,
Survey to avoid Schuylkill Inclined Plane,
2.—SUBSCRIPTION OF STOCK TO COMPANY
•
4 'l WI9II NO OTIIER HERALD, NO OTHER SPEAKER OF MY LIVING ACTIONS, TO KEEP NINE HONOR FROM CORRIIPTION."-EHAKS.
WiIinFTZMV,22(O...V O pro LgiaLlSilat o covuicomatai a. alaast.4
I=l
CANALS AND RAIL ROADS:
Danville and Pottsville Railroad,
Bald Eagle and Spring CI etk Navigation, •
Cumberland Valley Railroad,
Monongahela Navigation,
Pittsburg and Laughlinsiown Railroad, (when incorporated,)
Beaver and Conneaut Railroad,
Franklin Railroad,
Lewisburg, Penn's Valle . ) , and Hollidaysburg Railroad,
Chester and Delaware Railroad,
Codorus Navigation,
Norristown and Valley, or West Philadelphia Railroad, if
either be adopted by the State, to avoid the Inclined
Plane at Schuylkill,
Union Canal Company,
B.—SURVEYS FOR RAIL ROADS
From Chambersburg to Pittsburg, by LaughlinstoWn and
Ligonier Valley ; and from Harrisburg, by the valley of
the Juniata, to Pittsburg,
From the State line in Susquehanna county; by the mouth
of Tunkhannock to the Nanticoke darn,
From the town of Franklin to Erie,
From West Chester towards Port Deposit,
4.—SUBSCRIPTIONS TO TURNPIKE COMPANIES :
Pittsburg and Butler,
Butler and Mercer,
Butler and Freeport,
Brownington, Harrisville and Franklin, (when incorporated,)
Perkiomen and Rending,
Downingtown, Ephrata and Harrisburg,
Sugar Grove and Union,
Washington and Williamsport,
Warren and Franklin,
Bedford cud Hollidaysburg.
Susquehanna and Waterford,
Washington and Pittsburg,
Washington and West Middleton, . • .
Susquehanna and Tioga,
Mercer and Meadville,
Ebensburg and Indiana,
Birmingham and Elizabethtown,
. Pittsburg Farmers' and Mechanics, •
York Haven and Harrisburg Bridge,
•
Armstrong and Clearfield,
Armagh and Johnstown,
Harrisburg, Carlisle and Chambersburg,
Willow Grove and Dpylestown, (when incorporated,)
Somerset and Johnstown,
Somerset and Cumberland Road,
S.—SUBSCRITIONS TO BRIl i tE COMPANIES:
Monongahela at Williamsport,
Jersey Shore,
Tunkhannock,
Sultsburg,
Shanon,
Elizabethtown,
6.-APPROPRIATIONS TO STATE ROADS:
Saltsburg and Curwen.sville,
East and %Vest,
Franklin and Batler,
Pittsburg and Beaver,,
- Pittithar s Roownitastoirs, • .
Butler and New Castle,
Waynesburg and Cumberland Road,.
Kishiminetas and Virginia line,
Robbstown, Brownsville and Virginia line,
Steen's Tavern and Cnnnellsville,
Waynesburg and Virginia line,
Monongahela Bridge and Virginia . line, .
Greensburg and West Alexandria,
Monongahela Bridge and Uniontown,
Virginia line and Monroe,
White Horse Tavern and Virgina line,
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AP11.115.7
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1
1111
Of which the amount of appropriations to the State work is $1,399,943
Subscriptions to Company Canals and Railroads, 1,298,000
Appropriations for surveys for new workS, 17,500
Subscriptions to Turnpike Companies, 189,000
Subscriptions to Bridge Companies, 42,000
Appropriations to State Roads, 85,500
Total of appropriations and subscriptions,
I cannot sign this bill for the following reasons: Decal/se,
Ist. Its main feature is the diitribution of a great portion of the, present re
sources of the Commonwealth, among works not owned by the State, and its con
sequent withdrawal from the future prosecution of tho public works,. and from the
present decrease of the State debt.
2d. It bestows on capitalists and speculators, the money which is the property
of the whole people, thereby enriching individuals and sections, to the injury of
the rest of the community.
3d. It not only thus fritters away the means which should now be otherwise
applied, but, by eiiabling the companies who are the recipients of its liberality, to
commence and prosecute works which they will not bo able to complete, it em
barks the State So far in those. works, that she will, at no distant day, bo compelled
to increase her present debt for the purpose of finishing them, or lose what is now
proposed to be given:
4th. It will inevitably increase the State debt, in four years to $45,000,000,
as will appear by the folloWing short statement:
The Erie Extension of the main line will cost,
The North Brunch Extension, • -
The Gettysburg Railroad,
Tungascootack and Sinnemahoujng Canal,
West Branch and Allegheny Canal,
Red Bank and Franklin Canal, •
Red Bank and Freeport,
Wisconisco Feeder,
voiding, Inclined Planes on Columbia Railroad,
.
Total to complete State works, $16,200,000
The company works commenced by this bill will coat as follows:
Freeport and New Castle'Railroad,* $1,600,000
Pittsburg and Laughlinstown Railroad, 1,500,000
Chambersburg and Laughlinstown Railroad, (which must
-be constructed to complete the connexion,) 3,000,000
Lewisburg, Penn's Valley and Hollidaysburg Railroad, 2,500,000
Beaver and Coneaut Railroad, 460,000
Total to complete company works, 595060,000
Of this last sum, before the different works are completed,
the State will, beyond a doubt be compelled to 'advance
not less than one half, or else lose the whole, say $4,590,000
To which add the above cost of State works, 16,200,000
Making of debt which this bill will produce, $20,790,000
To which add the present State debt, 24,330,000
Total debt which will exist wheti7the system con
templated by this bill is completed, 1845,120,000
It is presumed that the above estimates, if they should vary from the actual
coat of the works, will be found to fall below rather than exceed it; They are all
derived from the reports of Engineers, which am found in most cases to be far short
of the ultimate expense, or from a comparison with the known cost of similar
works.
500
20,000
30,000
3,000
7,000
5,000
'NOTE—Owing to the baste io which the bill was necessarily examined. this work
was included in the list of company . works authorized to be commenced by the bill. It
was not contained in the bill as it passed the two Houses, and the appropriation iii there
fore to bo deducted from the amount of money intended to be given to companies. This
will reduce the estimated amount of debt in 1841. to 943,6'20,000.
150,000
70,000
140,000
85,000
140,000
60,000
40,000
50,000
20,000
20,000
120,000
400,000
12,000
2,000
2,000
1,500
10.000
5,000
8,000
4,000
5,000
10,000
3,000
18,000
10,000
10,000
o,ocif)
5,000
4,000
4,000
500
2,000
3,000
2,000
3,000
3,000
6,000
When such a state of things is produced, the path of duty is Alin. Although
the veto power should be cautiously used when no constitutional scruples exist,
yet cases like the present, of mere pecuniary expediency, will arise, affecting so
deeply the paramount interests of the State, as imperatively to demand its exercise.
If my fears aro correct as to the great increase of the State debt, of which this bill,
if passed, will be the parent, I should feel it to be an abandonment of duty to the •.
people, were Ito omit any constitutional means to arrest it. Our coormons public
debt must have a tendency to retard the increase of our population and productive
industry, if not to diminish them. Although such debt is not in form a judgment
upon the property of the people, yet in effect it is an absolute lien. The faith and
the propriety of the Commonwealth, and of every citizen in it, are pledged for its
redemption. It is obvious that the lands of a community incumbered with a line of
fifty or an hundred millions of dollars, are worth lesi than the unincumbered prop
erty of other States. Hence, if the amount of debt bo increased beyond the corn•
mon advantages to be derived from the undertakings that produced it, it is plain
that prudent men will be unwilling to purchase and held property which must '
remain subject to its repayment. Such incumbrancei must finally and unavoida
bly rest upon the most meritorious class of people—the farmers and mechanica.—
Capitalists and trades may easily withdraw their transitory means from our juris
diction, when the day of taxation shall arrive; but the lands end buildings of the
mechanic, manufacturer and fanner, admit of no removal. They must endure the
whole burthena which hasty legislation may impose upon the community.
If this bill is intended as a distribution of our portion of the surplus revenue
among the people, it seems to me to be unequal and unjust. The sums appropria
ted to the different parts of the State bear no proportion to their population or taia.
We property. But if it should become necessary to return this deposite toithe
General Government, it must be raised by taxation upon all without exception....
And yet an equitable application of it may be made for the equal benefit of
citizen of the,Commonwealth, without an actual distribution among the taxable:, •
citizens. If appropriated to those works of internal improvement which thq State '
has already authorized and pledged her faith to complete; or If applied to the redue F.
-
lion of the State debt already contracted, or sat apart for common scliool.putjwses, ‘
every citizen would have a direct interest in, and derive immediate advantage from
it. But no such equality is contemplated by the provisions of this bill.
I regret exceedingly that many valuable provisions are connected with the ob:
jectionable portions of the billorin such a manner us to impose upon me the necead
ty of returning the whole. The appropriations toihe Commonwealth's candle and
Rail Roads, and to some of the turnpikes, if they stood alone, would be most ail- V_
lingly approved; but, accompanied as they are, it is impossible. 'Permit me once
more respectfully to remark, that this practice of combining in the same bill subjects
distinct and similar in their nature and merits, is extremely.embarrassing ,to the
Executive, and highly injurious to the public interests.
$3,031,943
$3,000,000
3,000,000
1,300,000
1,000,000
4,000,000
2,000,Q00
1,200,000
200,000
500,000
There is a glorious future of prosperity before us, if we do not :prevent itrl
arrival by embarrassing the present. The times are unpropitious for speculation,
either by individuals or States. The project under consideration is a risk of this
kind. It is the hazarding of money which should bo otherwise applied, on the mere -
contingency of the continuance of the present state of trade and commerce, at a
moment when every mail brings fearful proof of the instability of both. It is the
adventuring of all the means of the Commonwealth, on the bare hope that the
same fortunate circumstances which so recently filled her ,Treasury, will again
occur. It concerns us nearly to consider all the chances °ranch an event, - before
we place the State completely at its mercy. To my mind they appear; very 'slender.
But even if they were much stronger, we should not depend on eztraneois and
occasional aid. Our resources are at honor—in our ifitlzena—in oar chanteter—...
in our mountains, and in, our valleys. Let us not be tempted beyond our steady
pace to prosperity by accidental circumstances, or retarded by theirfailtire. :While
the credit of the State is made to depend solely on the prndent and punctual man.
agement of her affairs, and her wealth flows from her own inexhaustible aid uss-
borrowed resources, rto outward cbangett ean materially affect her.
With these objections, I hasten to, return the bill, that the Legishittate mar
have time to To-consider it; and, if the opinions herein expressed should bitappro..
veil, may be enabled immediately to provide liberally far the prosactitioh aiworllts
Which all agree to be propecand necessary. In each a measure it Will area
great pleasure to concur. Should it, however, pass by the constitutionsApefwisc of
the Legislature alone, I most sincerely hope that the, evils that have been pre ad
may not be realized. In that event I shall participate in the telllool4 joyas kit
good effects, and will be gratified that the superior intelligence of the Legildatt — trob
foresaw certain benefit where my ham beheld only impending danger.
w, S KPH iittreirigrea
Exacurrra CRAYS ZII , Haarisburgb, April 24, 1831..
If it should bo objected to this calculation, that pert of the above orat OfState
works has either been already incurred, or is provided for in this bill, mid therefore
.should not be included—the reply is, that the portion - already laid out will not, W
all probability, be equal to one fourth of the amount which their actual expanse
will exceed their estimated cost; and that the proportion provided for by this bill,
is borrowed money—or atleast such as the State may, before long, be called on to
repay. It may therefore be fairly assumed, as a calculation within bounds, that
the passage of this bill will cause an addition of twenty-one millions of dollars, to
our present debt of about twenty-four millions—making a gross debt; at a date no
more remote than 1841, of I'ORTY- FIVE MILLIONS. I am not prepared to
sanction tins, nor to become an agent in saddling such an incumbretice upon the
fermq and industry of Pennsylvania. • -
sth. If this bill and the other proposed measures of the Legislature become
_laws, the State will be left without a single dollar of unapproprieted money in her
treasury, at the commencement of the next session. Though the last Legislature
replenished the public coffers, with near four millions; and the prosenthas received
a like sum—your successors will nevertheless, be compelled either to•abandon the"
prosecution of the public works or to borrow Immo} , to carry them on, and pay in+
terest on the debt. No aid is to be calculated on from the national Treasury. On
the contrary, care should be taken to keep the State in &condition to meet any de
mends for repayment which may be made on her from that quarter.
6th. It seems to be a tots departure from our true policy. That policy ato
husband our means for the present, and, while we push on our unproductive public
works with all prudent speed, to a state of profitable completion, to apply. the bal
ance to the reduction of the State debt. If this course bo pursued, only for two
years, the expenditure , of the Commonwealth will bo brought so far within her in
come, that afterwards the mere excess of her receipts will enable her to undertake
and complete, without embarrassment, works of any magnitude. But lf, 9n the
other hand, the income, however large, is constantly kept below the amount of
expenditure—her apparent riches will only increase her real difficulthni:
7th. Its passage will have a most disastrous effect on our present undertakings & •
In consequence of the rise in the price of labor and provisions within the , last, two
years, and of the amount of work commenced in other States, the expense of dim
structing public improvements has increased fully 50 per cent. If the prommt
pass, the largo amount of work authorized by it, will have an additional !Area of
the same kind, and will cause every contract in the Commonwealth to be tiurovrn
up, and re-lot at en advanoe of not less than 50 per cent. over the 'p rices
, of lest
year. This is a grave consideration. It must bo borne in mind, that while the
amount of public burthen is increased by this kind of legislation, the amount of.
means to sustain it remains tho same; and that a million of deht must be paid'With
a million of dollars, whether that debt is duo for the construction of sixty miles of
canal, or twenty. .
Bth. Not only will its eoneequencea be injurious to the &Lances, but to the.
morals of the State. The bare probability of the 'passage of the bill has already
unsettled the conduct of whole sections of the' State, and has given a new Stimulus
to the over-excited spirit of speculation. If this state of things be fomented
continued, there is no limit to the injury which may result. While the gambling
spirit of speculation is confined to the large towns, society may bear it without ma
terial detriment; but if it once infect and derange the productive industry of the
country, the public prosperity will be shattered in its very elements. If the mania
which now rages among those who speculate in the surplus property of the corm
try, once seize those who alone sender property .valuable, there is an end :to all
hope of continued prosperity. I fear that such will be the tendency of the Legis
lation proposed by the present bill. A. few persons fortunately located or circum
stanced, will bo unduly and immensely benefitted. The mass will either become
dissatisfied, or embark in the vain attempt to achieve like good fortune. While
all are thus engaged murmuring or hoping at the lottery door of fortune, the plough
of industry wilt stand idle in the furrow. .
9th. Its signature would be a violation of every principle and pledge connected
with the financial affairs of the Commonwealth, upon the faith of which the adminl
istrution was entrusted to my discretion by the citizens of Pennsylvania. It' is
admitted that the measures of government should vary with the necessities of the
times, always keeping the great land-marks of right In view. But when, ail in the
present case, no change of circumstances takes place sufficient to render a change
of practice necessary, the promises and pledges, both expressed and implied of a
public agent, whether made by himself or his friend; should be kept with the same
good faith as those of a private citizen.
Two of the objects contended for by those who selected me to administer the
executive functions of the government, were, the deereaee of the State debt ] and
the vigorous prosecution and early completion of the public works of the Conn-
nwnwealth. Both will either be defeated or retarded by the present bill if it be
come a law.
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