Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-01-27

The House; and each case, so entered, shall as q
matter oil right, be taken up and decided on, when
such matter ials within the standing ordereof the
| day.
g. Resolved, That the third and fourth Of tho
| foregoing resolutions DO added to, and become
part OF the standing rules and orders of this House.
On motion Of Mr.. Clifton, ii was
Resofred, That the Committee Of Ways and
Means be instructed % inquire into the expe6ieIl-
! cy OF masking some provision for the payment and
redemption Of such notes. bills of credit, issued
during the Revolutionary war, still remains IN
the hands OF the soldiers Of the Revolution, aud
which were received by them as compensation Tor
their military services.
In support Of the resolution, Mr.. Chiffon maSe
a lew remarks by way Of explanation, disclaimIe
all intention oil presenting question which Would
enable unprincipled persons TO speculate on ths
necessities or ignorance OF our Revolutionary SOL
diets, having som Of these meriiorious n6ivi,l,.-
ais in his own district he had felt his duty TO make
tins effort as well for their benefit, for that of
others who had bought our liberty by their blooi
and TOLL and had to this day failed to receive tho
poor pttance which was promised them in tho
shape Of wages After complimenting the &C
knowedged courtesy ofthe House, and expressing
ms confidence in the wisdom and fidelity of the
Committee OF Ways and Means, Mr.. C. concluded
by intimatiDg that il not probable he should
much oiteDer trouble the House on this or any O.
thes subject.
The question being put, the resolution was s.
dVpted Ayes 90, Noes SO.
TERRITORY OF HURON.
ne Dill establishing new Territory Vast OF
Michigan, to be denomnated the Territory of H.
ron, having been set down for this day, taken
up and considered.
Mr.. Strong, Chairman OF the Committee on the
Territories, briefly recap;tulated tie ground on
which the bill had been proposed, and after stat
'hg Inc population OF the country which il pro-
posed to erect into Territory to amount TO be-
"een ten and fifteen thousand persons, insisted
that the territory might be established with little
or no expense TO the Government, the great mass
finn hahn ~
lands leased to them by the United States, Ola
winch they paid an annual rent OF about one mil
non oil pounds Of lead, worth TO the Government,
say forty thousand dollars: that citizens thus situ-
ated were entitled 10 the protection of the Gov
eminent, and the enjoyment of the same civil
risnis and privileges as other citizens Of the
Union. Though they were not owners OF the
SOIL, they were not intruders, but were there By
the express permission Of Government: that al
though the jurisdiction of Michigan Territory ex-
FENCED over part OF the country embraced by
the bill, that jurisdiction nominal, more than
any thing else; the Council sat az Detroit, the
distance from which TO Green Bay was six hun
ared miles, to Prairie du Chem eight hundred, and
10 Gaiena more than one thousand. The Council
nsuaHy sat Tor sixty days in the summer aud be-
lore the laws passed at such session could be pub
IShea and forwarded to Green Bay, much less to
Gsiena, The waters were usually frozen and the
practical result was, tina: the people for whom the,
laws were made did not hear Of their existence
tiii nearly twelve months after they were posed;
and II mad actually happened that laws, at tho
time they began 10 be enforced, had been repeai-
ed by the authority who passed them. Hence the
whole Jurisprudence Of that regioD was necessai.
iy irregular, and sometimes illegal. That this
was state OF things to which no free citizens OF
the United States ought ever to be subjected Tho
frontier to which the bill had respect, was in ey-
cry view, OF very interesting character: il Ac.-
dered on the territories of an alien Government.
aud was hied with Indians, some Of whom were
ayowedly hostile TO the United States II was
in hat <
the Union should be fully protected by the Gov
ernment nor could the whole valley OF the lower
Mississippi be Indifferent to such protection. u
would prove great relief, in the event of sudden
nostiiities, operating to relieve the Middle States
from the necessity Oh sending their troops North
| ward, when they might possibly be still more
wanted at the South. There were various poih u
IN the argument, which Mr. S. declined to touch
unless any opposition should render i, his duty.-
| tie concluded with expressing his conviction that
the proposed Territory ought to be erected, and
| that without delay, and his hope that the bill
would now be allowed its third reading.
MIR. kremer was opposed 10 the bill II pE1pos-
ed an expense OF twenty-five thirty tho,ysand
dollars year for the accommodation Of few In
dian traders. He did not believe that thew wers
near SO numerous as had been stated, for the whole
o! Michigan Territory contained last year but
eighteen thousand inhabitants. AS to the ol,;ec-
ton that those people could not enjoy the laws Of
Michigan, who believed that they cared any fhing
about the law: Few, if any of them, held any
| property, and they might very well be left 70
make such laws for themselves, az they could a.
gree upon. Here Mr.. X. referred to the case of
certain adventures before the Revolution, who
| settled beyond the limits OF the United States and
were known by the name Of the " Fair play tbea-
iers, who made laws for themselves and faithful
| ~ ooeyed them. The dividing of the Territory of
Michigan at this time, might retard its admission
as State into the Union, for twenty years,
| Mr.. Bates Of Missouri, spoke at conside rab,,
length 10 favor Of the bill He replied 10 the oh.
lection as to the want of ownership, referring OF,
that subject 10 the established policy of the Go
vernment granting presumption rights, and en-
couraging and iavoring settlers on the public DO
rnain;but the settlers at Gaena were not intruder
| they leased their land from Government and nail
their rent: On the subject of the amount of popu-
laion In that territory, he stated the fact, tina,
regular weekly steam boat piled between ST. Lou
isand Galena. He yindicated the respectabjljtv
oi me settlers; and as to such of them as were,
transient persons, nothing would be more likely
10 render them permanent settlers than eyleDtfin,
70 the Territory the benefits proposed in The bilf
an agricultural population would be atr. cted and
me culture would be improved He had had am
pie opportunity to form judgment on this subjeot,
| having been an inbabtant Of a frontier country
| during fifteen years Of his life and he would ven
ture to predict. that, " this bill passed. the new
territory would exhibit large an influx of set
tiers as was TO be in the Territory of
| Arkansas.
The question put on ordering the hiI
to its third reading and decided by yeas and nave
as follows: Yeas ll3, Nays 10.
ARMY COMMISSARIAT
The bill for supplying the Army next came 10.
Mr.. Drayton moved further amendment 10 ia,
biil,by inserting therein the following as the third
section: