Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-08-15


rid soil to repel the clouds like the great Zabara
does. When once the drought sets in, the difficult
~ to get the first ranto get the earth to act as
a condenser, not as repeller and evaporator-
c'est ie premier pas Qui coute-hen, sir, it never
rans--but il pours. During the discussion of this
famous bill, the tariff bill, with which we South
erners have been tarifed-it is provincial ex-
preston, used in the Southern country, and by very
good people, too, for scariied-as F" ambition
is used 10 express malice-an ambitious man means
in common parlance vindictive man; when that
Tariff bill was under discussion said this famous
Ohio, which was 10 float the manufactures Of
GAINESVILLE, and all the other rifles in the Western
country, would be found trial to fail, and the
difficulties would go on increasing as the country
should be more thicky setued-that this msgnif-
cent river not the Mississippi, sir yet believe
/ might apply i, to the Mississippi IN one sense
would be found to be unnavigable all the summer,
from lowness Of water, and that it would be frozen
up oil the winter. My friend has taken a leaf out
OF my book TO serve his purpose now, which is
to get this arrangement OF Districts to suit him.
Let Inc request him, when we come to discuss the
propdeiy OF doing-what? Making Canal to
the Youghiogeny the most preposterous scheme
ever thought of-which, ii it were completed to-
morrow, would be OF no sort Of use--it never could
be put TO any-if we could have the Canal cut to-
morrow, though il should not cost one shilling
II we could borrow the serfs OF our good allies Ca-
sarovi;ch tothervnch: if we cosd borrow all the
serts o: our umpire& pattern-the glass in which
dress ourselves-and all the paper money of that
great potentate and power whom we are about to
initiate about, did / say? No that we hare i'm
itated all the fine mean England if we had
all the serfs OF Russia and Poland, all the misera
bic slaves OF every sort and degree in Spanish
America, and the paper money OF England, and
were TO cut this canal, il would be of no service.
II Is ike the Canal, in which gentleman see in
my eye has an interest, ~ have mean the
Roanoke Canal We took it into heads we
wanted canal round the Falls, TO make the pro-
duce of our lands accessible 10 The markets. We
forgot one thing. 1t Just before the grea,
blow up Of 1918, when thought had so much
money did mol know what to do with it, and in
two years was in danse, OF being sued, and X
was only owing TO the forbearancs of creditor
that not sued. Some gentlemen took the
liberty OF taking my property, and giving he vha,
is called an insolvency in return. II never occur
red TO us, that the people who lived below this ca
nsl, and whom nobody could hinder from going to
Halifax or 10 Norfolk, those very people do not
use the river below the canal. We GU. the most
beautiful canal ever saw in my life, in order that
we might put ourselves on footing with the peo-
pie below the fails, and after we had paid don't
know how many instruments upon it, The planter,
turned their backs on the river, and Halifax and
Norfolk, and went 10 Petersburgh with their pro-
luce. What am now saying is of very great
importance to the vital Interest, OF this country II
is this Whenever any proposition shall De got up
to create expense here, there will always be some
very plausible reasons urged for going into that
Irense- because somebody will always have 10 fur
nish the D1dferlfi. Suppose it ~ turnpike road
somebody will have TO supefintend that road with
a better salary than the Gov ernor ola State Such
projects, Bis. Il. said would be voted for whether
conducive to the public interest or not
.o,.l ~
for he is. not the creature he is described
20 be in rouances. IN Eu,oTias, Atantus's, or in
roEnalces Of any sort, whether Of the circulating
library, the deeper reveries Of philosophers Do
you believe that it the tanner is applied to- TO for
tfy the town, there is any material SO good as lea
ther? If we leave it with the carpenter, is there
Gny thing so good as wood? They will make out
their Leave il TO n committee of carpenters
and bill will be Vi ought in to forfy the city with
wood leave il 10 the tanner, and will be leather
leave i, TO the stone mason, and it will be stone,
Then comes this bogtro;ter, with his spade On his
shoulder, and his wheebaIrow in his hand, and |
says, there Is nothing, my dear sir, like turf all
Notifications should X made OF turf Pat is rieb,
and am very glad he is in country where he |
can GU, the soil. without having middle man to
hold the scourge over him and why? l fad |
have fallen into bad habit, when addressing the
Senate, of saying too much ne Qutd minis |
but, when agree 70 take stock in the Ohio and |
Chesapeake CANAL not Potomac no, we don't go |
for any thing less than Chesapeake my frien will
recolec' that he has read leaf out OF nv own |
speech, delivered years ago, showing that the fair
Ohio river IL, during part of the year. unmanaeea-
bic from drought, and during part of the year,
unmanaeelahe from ice, running or standing
Again, hope my friend will recollect, that
even the Mississippi himself, the Father of Floods.
is, at ST. Louis, and as low down as the Chicka |
saw Bluffs, rdged, with ice in the Winter which |
proves what has been often said and what Drake |
OF Cincinnati has asserted, that the climate West
OF the Allegheny Mountains, under the same paral-
lei Of latitude is not so mild in Winter As on this
side there never was such degree of cold, in the
same parallel of latitude East OF the Mountains az |
to bridge such river as the Mississippi at the |
Chickasaw Bluff.
Now, hope my friend from Missouri will agree |
that the money Of my constituents shall not be |
taken, in the shape of taxes on the salt the iron
the coarse goods, the pewter sleeve buttons the |
commodities, as my friend from North Carolina |
said the other day Il wish he could have been |
heard-the only things the People consume-and |
who are tire People? They who are now turning |
The iurrov, and whistIing-I hope they have the |
heart to whlsle-while their corn is putting in the |
ground and they are giving i, the first working
out OF whose corn houses the horses and asses of |
Washington are TO be fatted the articles consumed
by the People, the bulky articles the cheap articles
which they are obliged TO have, and have they |
must the coarse woollens, which they can do
without after sort, the Waverlev man said |
being asked how he served the King being in ia
vor Of the Pretender, he replied he served him af
ter a sort-sO they can do, after sort-wirb-
out these thiDgs-but how? Some Of them, who
are good managers, may rave their rags, and
make blankets out of them-in small family.
there will not be rags enough, there will where
there are plenty Of negroes but in small
family OF white folks, they will have to buy