Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

I began my editorial career with the presidency of Mr. Adams, and my principal object was to render his administration all the assistance in my power. I flatte…

The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people ... have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many trick…

For, however roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

But how is the spirit of expenditure to be exorcised? Not by preaching; I doubt if even by yours. I seriously doubt whether it will ever give place to the old …

Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds a mi…

It is no part of the functions of the National Government to find employment for the people, and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for his purpose, …