The Arkansas advocate., 1830-03-31
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The gentlemanpro proceeded, sir, to draw a frightful picture of the future. He spoke of the centuries that must elapse before all the lands could be sold, and the great hardships that the States must .:! .h .!sc United reserved
 to itself, within their limits, such large portions ofsoilnot liable to taxation. Sir this is all, or mostly imagination. Ii these lands were leasehold property, il they were held by the United States on rent, there would be much in the idea. but they are wild lands, held only till they can be sold; reserved no longer than till somebody will take them up, at low prices. As to their not being taxed, would ask whether the States themselves, if, they owned them, would tax them before sale? Sir, if in any case any State can show that the policy of the United States retards her settlement, or prevents her from cultivating the lands within her limits, she shall have my vote to alter that policy. But l look upon the public lands as public fund and that we are no more authorized to give them away gratuitously than to give away gratuitously the money in the Treasury. l ana quite aware that the sums drawn annually from the Western States make heavy drain upon them, but that is unavoidable. For that very reason, among others, l have always been inclined to pursue towards them a kind and most liberal policy, but am not at liberty to forget, at the same time, whatis due to other States, and to the solemn engagements under which the government rests.
 l come now, Mir. President, to that part of the gentleman's speech which mas Deens the main occasicsss of my ad- dressing the Senate. The East! the obnoxious, the rebuked, the always re- preached East! We have come in, sir. on this debate, for even more than a common share of accusation and attack. If the honorable member from South Carolina was not our original accuser he has yet recited the indictment agains us, with the air and tone of pnbln prosecutor. He has summoned us so plead, on our arraignment; and he tells us we are charged with the crime q a narrow and selfish policy; of endeaor- ing 10 restrain emigration to the West, and, having that objectin view, of main taining a steady opposition to western measures and western interests. And the casxse of all this narrow and self policy, the gentleman finds in the tariff -l think he called it the accursed poli- cy of the tariff This his policy, ts the gel,- tleman tells us, requires multitudes of dependent laborers, a population ofpau- per, and that it is to secure these at home, that the East opposes whatever may induce to western emigration. Sir.
 rise to defend the East. rise to re. pei both the charge itself and the canse assigned 1orit. deny that the Eas1 fhsss at any. time, shown an illiberal pet; scy towaRfs the West. pronounce tn, whole ccssss..iiou to be without the leas foundation in any facts, existing eithe now, or at any previous time. den, it n the general, and I deny each an, ah lts particulars. l deny the sum to fs'ss z E s'st ! deaT the detaih deny tha sne Essst has ever manifested hostility t, the West and ! deny that she has adopt ed any policy that would naturally hay, 4ea her zxt ssteEzzf g eearse. =fjuf fife farif9 the tarid!! ST, ! beg to say, in rsacar, to the kest that tlie original poIicy s o the layln D not hcrs, warfher it be wis
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