Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-02-04

/ tad Sefort. Is IL poftttcof power! The pOWer
sined them or thc,r anccsters BY the ordinance OF
| 1882 Did they surrender ths or any other on
their admission into the Uaon! WAS surprised at
the remars; and should Wish TO understand lis mn
ports and how, and in what this surrender had been
made. Is II physicdt power which is surrendered!
What can he mean. Has It como to this, thar the
people of the West urged to resort to their
tive strength to take back what they have fairly and
consti.utionaliy conceded, rather to more
than VIC have conceded to them' I hope and trust
that the time is far distant when any bold smbi-
tious asprant. viii be able seduce them from their
allegiance to this Union
Bmt told that. by series Of measures pnr-
sued by the East, We have cvnced a settled and
determined hostility to thu West; aud that too, for
the purpose Of checking emigration. Sir, this is a
heavy charge. For what purpose, or from what
policy, could originate this hostility? Are they not
our own brethren, 'bone of our bone, and flesh of
our fesh9" We're not those lands coded to us for
the purpose of settlement or what value would
the cession have been to u.s. had our policy been not
TO settle ,hen' We know that these lands would no,
and could not pay any Of public debt unless thcy
Could be setted-it is prcposterous, therefore, to
suppose that any statesman would wish 20 throw a
stumbling block In the way OF the growth and pros
perity Of this and delightful country But
u you i>sst that 1t y here is paradox to be SOL
we'd. low does it happen that, with the savogcs on
one side, md our tyranny the other, this country
has Increased and hourished beyond all parallel. AT
the time OF the census of 1870, what is now Ohio
had perhaps population of 10 000 ut that of 1900
about 40,oOO IN 1870 230 000 and in 1920 $50, 600
aad was now Probabya million! And all this in spite
OF savage barbares aud domestic expressions. All
the West. in the space OF forty years has increased
oo00OOO Sir, with facts like these, Let IN nuar-
tial world decide upon the cruelty and tyranny of
the parent States
Is the ordnance Of the 18th Jrlv r7a1 STAT.
paper which does Us honor, and which was drawn by
citizen of Massachusetts, evidence OF this hostility,
1--WE States marked out and defined, 10 BIO admitted
into the Union, when each either should have n
population of 60 600, and the pledge IN this
more than Observation-Disclosures freedom trial nv
Jury, Hdoeds Corpus, representation Common law
oa-ail the securities Of lie, liberty. and property
-SudTanttef, and excessive ines cruel punishm.nts
and er past Jaeto and retrospective laws forbddcn-
sil the essential rights for which our revolution was
achieved, and which raise the freeman above tho
slave, secured! Does this look ike hostility to the
west! Moreover, Is the admission into the Union
before they had The requisite numbers proof of this
bostihtyf Docs tho admission of Missouri cvince
such hostility? Sir, this is an event which shall
long remember. But for eastern members Missouri
would now be prorruee. That Ses,tor would not
he here. This nall would never have witnessed tho
triumph OF his eloquencr, the aror his patri-
otism. Eastern members took their lives in their
hands wi,en they defended the cause Of Missouri.
Fbey acted against tho honest prejudiees of the,,
constituents PreIudiccs did say, No, p,-tncfulcs
which they deem correct, enanaing from the best
feciugs u the human heart. will appeal To bot h
Of these Senators for the truth of what saw Tie,
were literally Knocking the door of the Senate. and
eastern men were ezerting their powers to bnrst i,
open and lot them in II is tliiberul 10 charpn the
East with hostility TO Missouri
bnt because 1t was proposed by eastern members
Of tire old Congress- to provide m the ordnance ,o
~. That every section N ono township sh lid be
Sold hroro another should be offered for sale (which
proportion did not Prcva) the Senator infars tina,
this Is evidence of hostility Now il seem. IN ~,
that this inference is, to say the least little nncbar
rablo could easily perceive that verv marriott,
ara charitable motive might have induced this promo
sl'ion ct that time the settlers would be opposed
to numerous and powerful savage tribes They vonlI
be Obliged IN some measure to defend themselves ~
Would be safest, therefore, keen them as
as possible; for the more they should scatter m,
more would they be exposed. Tho members f,rr
the East had near and dear friends wb had en,inra
ted 10 that country, and might be :heir motive N
protect them. When good and bad motive m, q
DC assigned TO an act 1t Is the part of charity to
sign the good, especially when The person imolicnted
r. dead, and cannot therefore defnd his n,oives S
Senator from Missouri illustrates this cnse bv 1,cr
keD. o man has two turkies cooked and on IN. ;,
oie ana he obiIges his guests to one bones anc
all' before he will carve the other. The ANALOGY
seems TO INC most unfortunate. We have sold hny,
twenty millions of the public lands and there nrc nos.
Two hundred millions to DO sold. HIS turkey thor
has one tenth Of flesh, and nine tcnths of bc.,es.
poor turkey truly Is this fair description of the
paradise ofthe Vest? II it is there is Ii,te mood ~
checking emigration. But 70 carry his oure of IN,
turkey little further, and his case would BIO this
man has twenty guests, and he serves nm tyon,,
turkeys, one for each, and each takes his dime -
OF DIS TURKEY and they all lef partially eoten
all nangiod. Now this rs exactly tho case, of h,,.
ing more land INTO the market than cal possibly br
wanted. F-' VI
Vbe Senator (Mr. b. has read from tho dobstc,
OF The Virginia Convention, to prove that the F;ss
were disposed TO give TO Spain our right of nayiga
lion of the Mississippi II seems that tIis nIionator
came incidentally into discussion, ond it was apore
hehoeu tnat under the Constitution which vas 10 be
adopted, the new government would have more no,v
CT to DO this than would tho old confederation a
MI Grayson had stated that this was the dsposi,ior
OF the East, and chiefly Inferred it from the
TACT that we had no interest in that navigation n
tins same MI Grayson was On able statesman. hc
iIad not Then learnt mich Of GeograpAD Por h.
stated that Massnchusetts had no Intercorso viii
the MISSISSIPPI, but By the ST. laurence o.. The IrG
son! Nhen the iact Is, that hasSachoscts for hal
century, mas had more intimate in,ercouyse ,v;,t
the MiesissIPP than even the State of MARYLAND
man who could deliberately advance such an opin
ion' can scarcely be considered very high nuthorc
on any subject: Mr.. Madison however, q real sstes'
non' pot 1t all rIght-shewcd lilo connection of the
LSst with the Vest, and denied that the eastern peo
pie ever woold BIO. willing TO mako the cnncessioD
fne next charge against tho East is, that a d,stin.
eusheu c'tzen OF Massachusetts had discovered hos
tity TO the Yves ms ot.