Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-03-26
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''WAsHINGToN March 90 1890
''The signal gun has ut length been fred-The II
of Representatives yesterday entered upon the Discus
sion of question: fraught with consequences of the
utmost importance to the stability and perpetuity the
Union. | trust i'm God, every member will manifest by
his that he is truly Representative eff 900 /ree1
men, whose fathers " fought and lied in freedoms
cause The question is upon bill reported by Mr.
Hemphill from the Committee ON Internal Improve
ments, "a Committee, by the way, which should have
had no existence except i'm the State Legslatures) to-
construct national road from Buffalo New Orleans.
Mr. III. made a long and plausible argument i'm the
atirmative.-He commenced yesterday about half past
p. Nj. and concluded to-day at 2--As he sat
down, Mr. p. p. Barbour took the floor with two little
pieces of paper before him-whereas Mr.. Hemphl had
file of MSS. sheets and number of books.-I need
hardly teli.you it was no match after all.
"Thc Old Dominion ably personi6ed by p. p b.
He spoke Nth her mouth for more than hours in
strain of argument and eoquencc which has seldom if
ever been equaed hero. The utmost attention was
paid 10 hin,-a the talking, Whispering and longing
ceased and, during his awful pascs, you could have
heard pin drop. Blessed Old Dominion! | repeat a
gain, would that her counsels listened to- We
should then perhaps be no, quite splendid" nation
but, ainy far united frugal, republican and
happy. believe with p. p. B. that national avenues
across the States, adorned with OF elms and emil
vcned with glittering equpagcS will rather mark the
decline of that liberty which the State Governments
were wisely ordained to guari, than the gradual in
crease OF it-My motto sirom ma iOndi roads, from
national canals from national banks, and above all,
from nafionri republicans, GOOD Lord, deliver u.s.
MIR. Barbour did not touch the consiituionality of
The question; he entered his solemn protest against the
power assumed in the BILL and said he shoultIsforIea
TO rehearsc hrcetod tale the principles of wbch had
been evsccraed by the public writers and speakers of
The dayHe struck at IN erpedieicy of the and,
II may be allowed oindge, success'u in the blow.
Hi, appeal TO the members from New York and X
lucky, produced an extraordinary sensaiiou;" and,
asurcd'y icannot be altogether in vain lie dcpre-
Gated the idea Of an verfowirg Treasury, and con-
demned the policy Of taxing the people, by way
impos to produce capital for Internal Improvemc ns,
which must necessarily be local and not national -
| His plans he sgidS would be leave the money in
The pockets of the people hy reducing the mposts
Ihn pnIf
duties to the amount of S7O0O,000 on tea coffee,
salt and other necessares of the like XII d. might be
abolished without interfering in the least with the
uacfres al the North If Congress thought fit adopt
the measure Virginia in year would retain in
the pockets OF her people, than the SI500OO which
portion OF them, contrary 10 his cish, received from
the General Government for the Dismal Swamp Canal.
/" cannot pretend 10 do justice TO the argument OF
Mr. Barbour and must, therefore, break Off The day.
star OF 1900. about rick his beams and with
new spapged ore to flame in the forehead of the morn
ing sky" Amen -