Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-07-07

love my country too we'll, and have too
much regard for the stability of its insti-
tutlons, TO lnculcate such doctrine. Where
safe choice, in such a case as that or
any other, can be made wilhou, impair
ing the dignity or stability of cur insti-
tutons, Notwithstanding may, for per-
sonal reasons, prefer another, cannot
but think that it is better to yield TO such
choice, rather than convuse and agilate
the country by continuing contest, and
that, too, of more than doubtful issue,
merely for personal qualification. or
the propriety of these sentiments, how
ever, you are to Judge-I submit them
TO you as the sober dictates oil my best
Judgment.
But as reason for opposing, and un-
ceaslngy opposing, the election OF Mr..
Adams, II was then, and is yet said, that
he was not western man, and that he
would not, therefore, sufficiently favor
The interests OF the West: have said,
that believed Mr.. Adams would ad.
minister the government fairly, and do
Justice to all. IL he has done this, he
has done all that could be required-ior
| trust that 1t Is measures, at last, thai
we support, and moi men merely. What
tneD, has Mr.. Adams done He found
the West--he new states rticularIy-
groanng under load OF debt, created
by the purchase OF public lands, the mere
al, -
cumstances, the people were unable to
pay. He had seen, under the influence
oftbe laws that had been previously pass
ed, great relief afforded to them. That
rellet, however, was not complete. Al
though debt of more than twenty mil
lions OF dollars had been reduced under
those laws 10 less than seven millions,
yet there still was great distress. In the
exercise OF that impartial Justice and IL
oerality which belongs to him, he Ia AIDE
the following communication to Con.
gress, at It's commencement,o on thai sub
Ject: " The act oil Congress OF the 18Th
May, 1924, to provide for the exiln-
guishment of the debt due to the United
States by the purchasers of public lands,
was limited in its operations Of relief 10
the purchaser, to the tenth OF April last
| S effect at the end OF the quarter during
which II expired, was 10 reduce that debt
from zen TO seven millions. Is. the OBS
ranon OF similar prior laws OF relief.
from and since hat of Cd March, 1891,
the debt had been reduced, from upwards
OF twenty-five millions to ten. Il is ex
ceediosiy desirable that it should be ex-
tinsushed altogether; and 10 facilitate
hat contamination, Recommend to Con-
gress the revival, tor one year more, of
me act OF 18th May, 1924, with such pro-
Vls'onai modification as may be necessa.
ry 10 guard the public interests against
iraVduieDt practices in the re sale of the
resi7quished land. The Purchasers Of
f'"oHc lands are among the most useful
Of our Jelloz2- citizens; and, since the
system OF sales tor cash alone has been
Introduced, great indulgence has been
justly extended 10 those who had pre-
vieus'y purchased upon credit. The
debt which has been contracted under
be credit sales, had become unwieldy,
and Its extinction was alike advantageous
TO the purchaser and The public. Under
he system OF sales, ma,ured, as il has
been, by experience, and adapted to the
s%igencies OF Tue times, the lands will
continue, as they have become, an album
1ant source OF revenue; and when tht
pledge of them to The pubic creditor
shall have been redeemed by the entire
discharge OF the national deb, the swell
ing tide OF wealth with which thew re.
plenish the common treasury, NAV be
made TO rc'how in unfailog streams OF
improvement from tho Atlantic to the
Pacific Ocean"
In pursuance of this Recommendation,
what was done Al act was passed more
liberal IN It's provisions than any that had
been previously adopted, and the PEG
pie are no7v placed in that situation
which will enable them to relieve THIN
selves from this great load OF debt and
interest, on the easiest terms that could
be possibly expected. The act itself has
already been published, and most of you
nave doubtless seen it. But what has he
done more ?-Until the present day, six
of the Western States have been denied
an equal participation in the benefits oil
the Judicial System OF the United States
In his opening Message to Congress,
he also recommended that that System
should be SO changed as to give equal
justice to all the states, and but for diff
ference among the members of the Yves,
themselves, the necessary change would