Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-08-15

ed, if | may use the expression; no, not so-~'up-
piled by the same thunder shower, the one tuF-
bid. loathsome, OVERLOOKING its banks, sufficient
to give one bilious fever TO look at 1t; the oth
er npre. calm and clear---the one ran through
woodland, and the other thro' naked worn out
quilted channels. The same rain fell IN oolh---
there was no difference in the quality, except
one land let the rain off directly, and lett the
bare torrid soil to repel the clouds like the
great Zahara does When once the drought
sets in The difficulty is to get the first rall---'o
oct the earth TO act as a condenser, not as re-
teller and eyaporator---CeSt le premier pas qu
coute---then, sir, it never ralns---bus 1t pours
During the discussion OF this famous bill, the
tariff bin. with which we Southemers have been
terrifea--it is a provincial expression, used in
the Southern country, and by very good people,
too, for scariGed---as "ambition" is used TO eX-
press malice---an ambitious man means III
common pariance vindlctlve man; when
that Tariff Bill was under discussion | SAID
this famous Ohio, which was to float the manu-
features Of GAINESVILLE, and all the other a1HeS IN
the Western country, would be found on triai
10 fail, and the difficulties would so on increas-
ing as the country should be more thlckly set
tled---that this magnificent river---not the Mis-
sissippi, sir---yet believe might apply II to
the Mississippi in one Sense---would be found
TO be unnavigable ell the summer, from low
ness Of water, and that it would be frozen up
all the winter My friend has taken leaf out
Of my book to serve his purpose now, which IS
TO get this arrangement ofDiStricts 10 suit him.
Let me request him, when we come TO discuss
the propriety Of doing--wha,? Making Canal
10 the Youghiogany---the most Dreposterous
scheme ever thought of-which, if il were COM
pleted tomorrow, would be ofno sort OF use---
it never could be put 10 any---if we could have
the Canal cut tomorrow, though IL should not
cost one shiing---f we could borrow the seris
Of our good allies Czarovitch or tothervitch, il
we could borrow all the sertsof our umpire and
pattern--.the glass III which we dress ourselves
land all the paper money of that great poten
tate and power whom we arc about TO initiate =
about, did say? No---that we have initiated all
the tme---I mean England---if we had all the
serfs Of Russia and Poland, all the miserable
slaves Of every sort and degree in Spanish
America, and The paper money Of England, and
wereto cutthis Canal, it would be ofno service.
1t is like the canal, in which gentleman |
see in my eye has an interest, as have mean
the Roanoake Canal We took il into our
heads We wanted canal round the Falls, to
make the produce Of our lands accessible to The
markets. We forgot one thing, it was just be-
fore the great blow up of 1918, when thought
| had so much money did not know what to
do with it, and in two years was in danger Of
being sued, and it was only owing IN the for
bearance Of a creditor that l was MOI sued -
Some gentlemen took the liberty Of taking my
property, and giving me what is called an IN
solvenCy in return. 1t never occurred to US,
that the people who lived below the canal, and
whom NOBODY could hinder from going to Ha-
lilax or to Norfolk, those very people do not
use The river below the canal We cut the
g9Ssr VT hight puff Ourselves on footing
with the people below the tails, and alter we
had paid | don't know how many instruments
upon it, the planters turned their backs on the
river, and Halifax and Norfolk, and went to Pc
tersbure with their produce. What am now
saving is of very great importance TO the vital
interests OF this country. 1t is this: Whenever
any proposition shall be got up to create ex-
pense here, there will be some very plausible
reasons urged for going into that expensc-be-
cause somebody will always have TO tarnlsh the
mofcriek. Suppose it is turnpike road, some
body must superintend that road, with better
salary than the Governor Of state. Such pro-
iects, Mr. r. said, would be voted FOR, whether
conducive to the public interests or not.
Here, said Mr.. II. we are TO take our mea-
sures for man as he is-not the creature ne is
described to be in romanceS, in Eutoplas, At
lantus's or in romances Of any sort, whether
of the circulating library, or the deeper reveres
of philosophers. Do you believe that, ii the
rauner is applied to- to fortly the town, there is
any material SO good as leather? II we leave
it with the carpenters, is there any thing SO
good as wood? They win make out their case.
Leave it with a committee of Carpenters and
bill will be brought in to fortily the city with
wood: leave it to the tanner, and ii will be leath-
er: leave it 10 the stone mason, and 1t will be
stone. Then comes the bog-trotter, with his
spade on his shoulder, and his wheeibarrow In
his hand and says, there is nothing, my dear
sir, like turf:-all Notifications should be made
Of turf Pat is right, and am very glad he is in
a country where he can cut the soil, without
having middle man to hold the scourge over
him-and whyl l. find have fallen into bad
habit, when addressing the Senate, Of saying too
much-ae quid nimiS-but when we agree to
take stock in the Ohio and Chesapeake canal
not Potomac-no, we don't so for any thing
less .han the Chesapeake-my friend will re-
collect he has Ins a leaf out Of my own speech,
delivered TWO years ago, showing that the fair
Ohio river is, during par, of the year, unma-
nageable from drought, and, during part OF the