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Corydon Press, and Jinti-Masonic Democrat.

, ,,. : ? For this purpose we see Mr. Clay using: hiz per POLITICAL. 80Dal exertions, and for this purpose we see Mr.

ebster and all the coalition party uniting in sup.

From the Kentucky Gazette, Lexington. Port of thl8 biI1- li wa9 no ,ove for the Western It hnviog been rumored that General Jackson Country that animated them in their endeavors would withhold his signature to the bill appro. io Pa8 ,his Ml; but a desire to force upon the printing 150,000 to the Maysville and Lexmg- President the alternative of signing, or if he re ton Turnpike Company, and the opposition hav- ued then 10 i9e he huc and Cl7 a8ainlt b'im ing exerted themselves to excite the clamors of a8 bei0S opposed to Internal improvements. If the people against him on this account, r;e have he fiigIiefl il thcn lhy wou,d unie uPon every deemed it our duty to correct misrepresentations prjct of the same kind, and in three years they and to state facts. would vote away fifty millions of the people's General Jackson in his message of December money, of which amount we venture to say that last, declares that he has much at heart, the pay- Kentucky would not obtain three hundred thou. merit ft f thm miMir rfplif. nA nffor ifinf fnrfitnntP Sand.

period shall have arrjred, he is then for prose- By the plan proposed by Gen. Jackson, she cuting in earnest works of Internal Improvement, would have a certain annual um of 700,000 to not by the General Government, but by the States, turnpike her roads and clear out her Ftreams, . and proposes that the surplus revenue which This sum would enable us to turnpike 240 miles would then remain, be appropriated among the a year, and in four year? near a thousand! We several Stales, according to their ratio of repre- would ask the people of Kentucky, if they would scntation. During the first year of bis adminis- not then prefer the latter plan, to receiving at tration 12,400.000 was applied to the liquida- this time 150,000? We believe that when iher tion of (he public debt, several hundred thousand come to understand it properly, they will concede dollars more than in any former year. At this that it is their real interest to wait the payment ratio it will be paid in about three years. The of the debt, and then recite their proportion of whole revenue of the United States amounts to the surplus funds. To prefer the pitiful sum of 25,000,000, and the current expenses of Gov- 150,000 (involving an appropriation to other ornment to 13,000,000, of course there would States ot twenty. six millions more, a large portion remain a surplus of 12,000,000 to appropriate of which is our own money) to the certainty of among the States for the purposes of Internal 700,000, commencing only three years hence, Improvement. The population of the United would be worse Jhan cutting open the golden States is now about 12,000,000, and estimating goose. That Gen. Jackson is opposed to Interthat of Kentucky at 700,000, of course 700,000 nal Improvements, we deny. In his message he would be distributed annually amongst us. The observes, that "very member in the Union, in opponents of General Jackson, well knowing the peace and in war, ivill be benefitted by the io unfading glory with which the payment of the provement of inla'nd navigation, and the conpublic debt, and the distribution of so much mo- structiori of highways, in the several States. ney among the several States, would cover him, Let us then endeavor to attain this benefit in a have made every effort to defeat it. With the mode which will be satisfactory to all. That hope of squandering away the public money (and hitherto adopted, has, by many of our fellow consequently postponing the payment of the pub citizens, been deprecated as an infraction of the

ic debt,) they have projected roads upon the Constitution, while by others it has been viewed plan of the Maysville and Lexington Turnpike as inexpedient. All feel that it ias been employ, iu every part of the United States. There were ed at the expense of harmony in the Legislative before Congress at the last session, bills of this Councils." It was to remedy these evils that he sort involving an expenditure of twenty six mil- thought proper to propose 6a just and Federal iion or dollaus! Yes, twenty six million of dol- distribution of the surplus revenue," which would lars asked for to construct roads in different parts forever rid us of the perplexiog question. Our of the country. For the passage of the Maysville fellow citizens in other quarters honestly think Turnpike Bill, the friends of Mr. Clay exerted that the General Government have no constituall their energies, and for what purpose? Jt was tional right to vote the common fund for roads to involve the Nation in bankruptcy; for if Gen. of a local nature; others think that it has, and Jackson should sign the 1 50,000 for the Ken- are ever in a bad humor if this power is not extucky Turnpike, it would follow of course, that erted. To settle forever this disputed point, and he must sign appropriations for twenty six mil- that too without surrendering the question, we lions more, for roads in other States; roads in are clearly of the opinion that the union and which we have no sort of interest. Of the many happiness of the American States depend upon projects of this nature, Kentucky was first select- the success of thciD proposed by Gen. Jacked to operate upon, it being the wish of Mr. Clay, son. By that plan, plucky wilbe the gainer. t9 have her tbo first to denounce Gen. Jackson. In a few years 8he( have eiery mile of her