The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-11-30

and will be we'll understood oy tnoso mno
have to legislate in relation to II. EXCLUSIVE
of this measure, variety OF other apPiiCa-
tions for Roads and Canals, founded on the
reports which will be made by the several
brigates of Engineers which nave ocen en-
gagged on surveys during the past summer
must be expected. The spirit OF improve
ment is abroad; and rapidly increasing pop
ulation, property and influence of the west
render more necessary every year tne !ac,'r
tiles which it claims for sending the fruits OF
its soil and the productions OF its industry 10
the best markets, and the return OF the COM
forts and luxuries which arc poured from
other nations into our Atlantic marts; 1t IS
certainly due to this important section OF the
Union that to her also the fountains OF po-
litical, moral, and literary intelligence,
should be open, and that she may be enabled
to cherish her native genius, by feeding it
from the streams which will flow from them.
The plan for the extension of territorial
government, to the Indian tribes, beyond the
Mississippi, will probably, be discussed at
the coming session. The subject is one of no
ordinary interest; embracing, as it does, a
plan by which the remnants of the aborgin-
al inhabitants Of the Union can be collected
and preserved from entire annihilaton.-
Like the bear, the wolf, and the deer, they
are now compelled to retire before the adj
vance of a civilized population, and like those
quadrupeds, they are scattered through the
forest and the waste. condemned TO lead
life of plunder and depreciation. Justice and
humanity seem to require of us to adopt ev-
cry means in our power to reclaim their hab-
its, meIiorate their condition and elevate
their minds.
In addition to the proceeding subjects,
there remain, to be acted ON at the coming
session, numerous public and private bills.
of greater or less importance, which were
left Enacted upon at the last session. 1ndivid-
uas who have claims on the government,
which are founded in equity, and sustained
by all the evidence which would substanti-
ate claim between man and man, have a
right to complain. when Justice is withheld,
and the obligations of contracts are violated.
4 view of all this mass of business swelled
as it will be BY the variety of new public and
private bills, which every session originates,
leads to the necessary conclusion that, either
the coming session will be one rather, Of bu.
siness than of defamation, or that a great
many national or individual interests will be
neglected. We incline to believe that the
former will be the case.-NVe would also
hope that the effect Of time and reflection
will be visible in the softened asperites OF
party feeling; in an increased confidence in
the Executive, whose policy has received
the appreciation of the People; in the disap-
pearance of that disposition to carp and cav
IL against particular measures, because they
originate in particular sections of the Union,
disposition which is subversive of all na-
tional feeling, and hostile to all national in
terests; and in visible and active deter
mination to keep in view, in the discussion of
all measures. on which legislative wisdom
may be called to act, the principles and pol
icy which have been acknowledged as most
in unison with the character Of our institu-
tons, and the prosperity Of our common
country.
american Mstory.-A Although respecta-
bic histories Of sixteen of the American
states are extant, yet comparatively, but lit
tie is known of their colonial history.
It's said in the Savannah Republican,. that
there are at this time fifteen vols. of NJ S S.
shut up in the Office of the Board of Trade
and Plantations IN London, relating to the
Colonial History of Georgia. from its first
settlement down to the Revolutionary War.
Many of these Manuscripts are from the pen
of Gen. Oglethorpe, the founder of that
State. These can be obtained if properly
sought after. Our minister a, London, not
long since, made application for them, and
was promptly answered, that copies could
be made whenever required.
But still further--the last North Ameri-
can Review asserts that all the colonial
history of America, is shut up in the Office
of the Board Of Trade and Plantations in
England. The original papers are all there,
and no toerable history can be written with
out the full use of them. A copy of the en-
tire mass OF those papers, ought to be OBJ
tanned and deposited in the national arehiveg
at Washington. Our government should
take this matter in hand before it is too late.
Among the convicts sentenced to the
state prison by the Recorder of New-York
last week, was one John Armstrong, a bar
dened rogue, for the term of IA years. This
is the man who robbed the Bank of New
York, of S11 ,3l6. by a very dexterous trick
He discovered by some means that this
large sum of money was to be received at the
bank IN June last. On that very morning he
entered, and by withdrawing the attention of
the first teller, he contrived to carry off the
whole booty. He had been about eight year
IN the Philadelphia state prison. Armstrong
went to Philadelphia, and was there caught
on suspicion. In that city he went to bro
ker to change one of the $1,000 bills, and
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