Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-02-02


prosecution of their measures. They should rot
alarm and aeilate the country; yet this inquiry, il
goes will give the greatest dissatisfaction the
new States IN the West and South. Ii will ala nj
and agitate them and ought TO do it. It will con
meet itself with other inquiries going on* to make
the new States of revenue to the old ones
to deliver them up'o Il new set OF masters, to throw
them grapes into the WINE press, to be trod and
squeezed as long drop of Juice could be pres
sed from their hnls These measures will ro toaeth-
err, and if that resolution passes and this one
the transition will be easy and natural from dividing
the money after the lands Sold TO divide the lands
before they sold, and then renting th.. land and
drawing annual income instead of selling it for a
price IN hand The signs are portentions the crisis
Is alarming 1t Is time Tor the States wake up
To their danger, and to prepare for Struggle which
carries ruin and disgrace to them If the issue Is
against them.
III alluded to the coaXing argument of some
gentlemen, who cdoavp,et to carry this resolution
through, by promising the Senate that the Commit
tee on Public Lands, to whom it was to be referred
would report against it. He riilcued this species of
argument. Such an inquiry would become nugatory
anu ldie' way send resolution of inquiry to be re-
turned non est 'nuentaS? Why send your bucket 10
the bottom Of dry Well, Why this perseverance,
.or .hrec weeks TO get the inquiry before commit
tee VINO arc to reject ii? Surely for some purpose;
ana that purpose may be to gain foot hold, to get
jurisdiction, to get the tuect agomg, and then re-
fer to another committee that would report favora-
ply, under the plea that the first committee was
composed of Interested members from the Eeyy STATES
lie then TOOK notice OF the terrifying argument
winch was use4 TO get the resolution through H.
was SAID 1t would excite suspicion and prejudice
Against US, If we did not agree to it. Suspicion OF
what? Prejudice in what! Explain these terms
Name the thing, foul hidden, which the neg
States have To avoid in this inquiry There is none
None can be naRied. It 10 an etternL. 10 tsrrifv
Lille cA'ldren and aged women. Prejudice indeed.
ile way 10 avoid 1t, and ccnlmand respect s &,
shcW knowledge Of your rights, and determine
ton 10 defend them
ite next advertcd to the class of arguments Which
ufdeFtooI to snugylc this resolution through-to
convey 1t along ufohservedy as one Of the harmless
OF beneficial inquiries which daily passed as a mat
Ter or course. This was puttinue the enemy INTO a
Covered wagon: but he would pull of the cover ana
shew the cha acter OF, the cargo
He annisziverted upon the Suggestion. that n TO-
1ection o. the resolution was suppression Of INQUIRY
lie thought the attempt to send it off to committee
room was more like suppressing debate. But he lad
no notion or letting II escape undcr.a fla sh AMI a
smoke. lie would wait till the atmosphere clos red
up and then can gentlemen back to the character of
the resolution, and urge them TO meet him on the
Pefh!conSnesss OF that character. He Disseminated
"e'"aen RESOLUTIONS for good and for evil; the former
passed, OF courses the latter should be resisted Jf
hot, the whole country may be alarmed; aritated
ana cnraged with nischievous irouir!es the Soutb
about lis YES and Indians; the est bout it,
tue n"rtH east on the subject OF its fisheries lis nav
lgaton, It's lighthouses, and lis moruf,ctorias
" hat would DC the condition of the Union what IN.
CHANCE Tor the preservation Of harmony if each part
struck at the other i'll system of nerpic,nrs and
alarming inquiries And vet unless he dscr;,,na
ton Is made which propose, all this NAV be done
Inc argument, used by the Senator from Aiobanla
Mf' McAinney,) and the Senator from Connecticut
lar. Foot anu others, would carry through ever,
species OF inquiry, the most fatal TO The inter
est, the most insulting to the pride and the most de-
strnelive to the harmony of the States.
But tins resolution is no. only unjust to the neu,
States but 1t is partial and unequal in its operation
anlouGs them 1t bears hard upon some and moi at
all upon others. 1t would lock up twenty-iive mil :
mons OF acres from sale ana settlement in the State
I,nU re,ry nd
oiac Florida, and do comparatively but sle mischief
in Michigan. w '
Il is not sufficient to reject such resolution-the
sentiments IN which originated must be eradcated
we must convince gentlemen that it is wrong tn on
terrain such sentments-that it Will be wrong to act
upon them IN the progress Of any of our land bills
rms whole idea Of checking emigration to the west
must DE shown to be erroneous, 1t is an old idea
ana lately brought forward with great openness of
manner, and d.stinctness of purpose Mr. Rush's
treasury Report of 827 placed it before CONGRESS-
and the People. Since then, there has been no am
oiSuty ABOUT IT, The doctrine has taken decided
turn. Inc present resolution is in effect mart of
Tue same system, and a most efficient part Tho
public mind has laid bold Of this doctrine and snb
jectcd it to the ordeal Of reason and discus SION.
Professor Dew, in The College of IViliarn and Mar
in his able lectures has spoken nv sentiments ~, t
point, and will avail myself Of his lanounoe "a
vey them to the Senate.
Mr. -. then read as follows fran, Mr. Do,,,, T ~
lures, page 43.
In the second place these Tariff measures ni,r.
me south and West, by preventing that emigration
which would otherwise take place. Now this is an
iJuStce committed upon those States, towards which
the tide ofernigration sets. Ifthere
was bounty upon emigration, thrn those States
Woud nave no right to complain of the adoption of
any Tfeasn'e whch might counteraet Tie effects of
ne ne bounty; but this is rot the case. = =
~ I5 truez the Secretary Of the Treasury 10 his
nuai report, IN December, 1897 thinks the low price
~ wh,eH i th1 Pnbii' Lands are sold operate as
:'."'y; "a1 dor'' ouch whether government price,
IS leo lowj were this the case would not cnfer,ri
ing Individuals With large capitals quickly bny Gov
IN 1n5 on, nofdeT that they mg speculate on
ne lands, and thps rnlsn them to cjr poncr vs,un5
onc thing is certain, that his mr..
.'nsloh OF emigration TO the Western coantrv is in
Mr. agreed with The Virginia Professor, tl,at tic
prevention OF emigration to the West was an ini,rv
o THAI quarter Of the Union. He said f1ffhgr !,
vas an lnjury to the people Of the North Fast who
Vere 70 0s prevented from beterng their conditin1
y removal; and that it an injury to the whoIa
lunar race TO undertake to preserve the vast and
naRneen valley Of the Mississippi for III hauni Of
,sns.5 ana saraTcs, instead ofmokinr it The aboIc ~
iDerty ana civilization, and the asylum Cit, -