Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-03-22

comply punctuaiy With all ats engagements. Inns
will promote and establish public credit, which adds
greatly the strength and power OF nation. In the
place, 1t will lessen the public burdens and re-
ievc the labor aud industry oil the country from the
payment of annual tax Ut fourteen millions OF dol
lara Instead Of revenue of twenty-four millions,
which is now paid, ten millions will be sum
ccnt for all tho purposes of carrying on this
Government Then fixed and settled policy
can be adopted. Il can be decided whether one
portion of this community Is to be taxed and
severely taxed, to enable another portion to
keep competitors out OF our markets. / did not IN
tend to say any thing upon the tariff on this occasion,
but my remarks having led to that subject, will
say few words IN relation TO it. Can its advocates
believe that tariff will continue long IN this country,
OF character which shall deprive tho labor OF one
part Of the country of just prots and confer them
| ON anoihcs. Surely the moral sense of this commu-
nifty will rise up in opposition To it. When 1t shall
be seen that the Government needs only ten millions
OF dollars annually, tax Of twcnty-sur millions will
not be submtcdto. My friend from New Jersey
Mr. Dickcrson tells us he hasa Specific for this evil,
an infallibc for this disease malady, which is
an annual dist ibuton of the surplus revenue among
tho States. ask him to reflect again upon this SUBJ
jcct and whether there not great danger of
oatDg the primo pies of both policy and justice by the
course he recommends 1.-THE moneyis to be co!lcc
ted by the Government, and then returned to the
same people from whom il received in the first
instance, you have gone through operation of col
lcctns and returning to its nghtful owners, money
not needed by the Government; and you have lost,
in commissions and failures of public officers, to
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you sat out, except TINT you have wasted much of the
public treasure. But suppose you collect the money
chiefly from one part or section OF the country las is
the fact ut presently and divide it equally amongst ALL
are you not practising great injustice upon that por
ton from which the tax has been levied, Gentlemen
need not hattor themselves that majority of the
American people will long permit injustice to be prac
tlsed upon portion this community. Let ma
not be misunderstood would not tear OF the tariff
fl could, and thereby place the manufacturing insi-
tutons OF this country at the mercy Of foreign gov
| ernments or foreign manufacturers. My wish is to
see II modified, SO as to protect manufactures which
have grown up under the faith of laws and the
same time remOve oppression from others. This is
practicablc it cannot be that the oppression of any
portion of this happy land necessary for the secu
ty and protection ut another.
Further, the speedy extinction of the public debt is
calculated, more than any thing that can be done
this period, TO increase the responsibility and moral
Influence of this Government, both at home aud
abroad This done, shall be the wonder of an
| admiring and astonished world. We cannot our
selves tell how it has happened, that in little more
than hall century, three millions of people scattered
along the Atlantic border, have grown to be great
and mighty nation, extending from the sea board
near 2U0O miles to tile West, and from the Northern
Lakes to the Cuff of Mexico; containing within it's
limits upwards of twelve millions of inhabitants.-
Louisiana, large enough for an empire, PURCHASERS;
the Flor:das acquired; a respectable Navy; the ex-
tensive board fortified; the Indian title to millions
OF acres OF land eStinguished two with the most
powerful nation earth successfully prosecuted and
honorably termnatcd and after all this not one cent
i of the expenditures incurred remains unpaid Will
not all mankind say, If this people and this new
government have achieved all this their infancy
what can they not do In the days of their maturity,
Sir, foreign nations Will entertain higher respect
for our country, and the Of future will be
Diminished,
i With regard to some modification of the existing
Land Laws, am perfectly willing 10 unite in any
scheme of graduation of prices which shall make a
distinction between lands of different qualities or
values, and shall nots.at the same time, retard the
sales, and thereby procrasnate The payment of the
public debt. Towards one class of individuals, the
actoal settlers, willing to go far os any man.
IN ont OF this Senate. am anxious to place 1t in
their power TO become ireelroders TO have an inter
est IN the soil IL IS good policy Eastern
tenants into Western reehulder. IL the Suggestions
made were well founded that come Eastern poli,i-
cans desired to prevent their ctzens from eigratiup
to the West IN order that they might be retained IN
their manufacturing establishments, all such efforts
would be vain and Intellectual. You might as well
Mr. President attempt to stop the torrents rushing
from thousand hills, az to the tide of emigra-
ton, which is rising higher and higher, and pouring
and spreading itself over the vast valley of the Mssis
sppi. IL is the nature and of man. and no
human Legislation can stay it. II is the duy of man
to pursue his own happiness. Competence and indie
pendence are main ingredients in human happiness
and portion of citizens viii be restra med from
going TO land OF ease and plenty if within their
| reach ! regretted to hear remarks made by the
Senator from New Hampshire, derogatipg from the
merits Of settlers the public lasds He Considered
them as trespasscis and htruders, and mortinp pun
ishment as infractors Of public law. Sir, they are
acting on the original principle upon which titles to
lands were first acquired they mixing their labor
with the soil, and improving its Condition; thew are
adding to It's value and increasing the wealth Of the
country: and can tell that Senator, that when the
country shall be i'll adversely and peril these men,
now rePled, VIII prove as prompt to step forward and
defend II, as any other portion of our citizens.
refer to tho Senator from New Hampshire, mr.
Bell not to my friend near me, (Mr. Woodbury) he
speaks IN different tones and his voice falls at all
!, times, pleasantly my ear.
have already voted to give preference 60 occu-
pants now IN possession, and at all times ready 10
do 50. This, however, falls far short of my favorite
system OF disposing Of The public lands would not
conno the provisions Of the law or preference TO set
tiers now seated upon the land, but would act pros
I positively would by no means limit the right OF
preference to the few, who in the occupation
Of the public lands, but say, all the citizens of the
United States, that any of them who would settle on
the surveyed public land, should be entitled to quar-
yer secton OF lou acres, at reduced price, soy fifty
cents per acre or less provdcd tho, ,ye,d ,o,,a,