Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1830-02-02

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neither south nor west.
| We do not wish to irritate feelings, nor
widen jealousies already existing but
there is point beyond which silence is
baseness, and we are only left to decide
whether we will sit down quietly and COW
er ourselves with ignominy. or cast into
the teeth of our opposers the taunts and
leers and insults that have been so LIBERAL
ly thrown upon us by the pseudo-republi-
cans and real aristocrats of the South =
The gentlemen from South Carolina said,
he did not regard the publick domain as a
source of revenue; that the distribution of
large revenue tended to consolidate the
Government and corrupt the people. There
were men in the country whose opinion led
them to think it desirable to weaken every
thing leading to what they call consolda-
ton. but which he called the Union. Those
who formed the Government told US that
their whole object had been to consolidate
the Government. They meant, as he did,
union. Those to whom he alluded, would
see it so arranged that there should be no
control beyond the temporary expediency
to go into it, or 90 out of it, as matter of
opinion: the people who thought it time
to calculate the value of the Union" who
said they would not suffer the control of the
Union after July 1881. He thought it dan
gerous to the Union that such opinions
should be disseminated. He was Union
ist-he was a National Republican-he was
in favour of such consolidation as held the
Government together, and enabled them to
sit there. He wished the Union might be
preserved, by showing that it was useful to
! ourselves for its bene6cence, its utility,
its glory. He wished the children to see,
as their fathers saw, the necessity for the
Union. If this can be common fund, and
can be used for such purpose, he would
not withdraw it.
The publick debt was in the progress of
rapid discharge; but there seemed to be
a morbid fervour in some parts of the coun-
try to have it discharged. He wished to
have it discharged; but it had been one
effect of the debt to hold together the coun-
try which paid the interest in it. He could
not but suspect that some of the fervour up
on the subject had been exercised, not be-
cause it was onerous to the country, but
because it wasa link which held the coun-
try together.
Il was said the distribution of large
fund corrupted the people. He did not see
how. If they sold the land to freeholders,
that did not corrupt. There was a propo-
sition to dispose of them for education.
Schools and masters did not corrupt. Spell
I ling books and the bible did not corrupt.
If they were given for roads and canals,
they did not corrupt. The Government had
no patronage in it. He begged to know
where was the corruption.
1t was said the United States reserved
them, keeping them from taxation and the
sovereignty the States. If they were
leasehold, rendering regular rent, there
would be something in the argument But
it was not so. The United States had them
to sell they owned parcel of barren lands.
If the States had them, they would not tax
them until they were settled.
The obnoxious, the rebuked, the reproach-
ed East! The East was charged with a
disposition to suppress emigration. 1t was
the Tariff! Tariff Tariff! Every thing
began with it and ended with it. He be-
lieved ifthere were any word to rhyme with
it, all their sonnets would be on the same
subject. AS for the policy of New-Eng
land, the traif was none of hers. 1t was
forced upon her. How stood the western
votes in 1916? How stood the West and
South vote in 1924? Not only did all the
Western States, but Virginia herself, give
more votes than Massachusetts. 1t was a
reproach upon them in 1924, that their fac
tn nj o,,J
that therefore they were opposed to the tar
if. The tariff is not New England meas
ure: it did not originate with them. But
when the Government had taken it up, hav-
ing dense population, and little space,
they invested their money, in the SUPPOSE
ton that the Government would support it.
From the first, the people of New-England
had shown as much zeal in favour of the
West as any portion Of the people whatever.
1t was not true that they had opposed emf
grafton.
In allusion to the act of 1857, he said he
should like to see any stronger indication of
long sighted wisdom, than was to be discov-
cred in the difference between the right
and the left bank of the Ohio. 1t was the
glory of the people who were born in Ohio,
that they were born in land incapable of
producing slaves. That ordinance of 1887
was from the pen of Nathan Dane, of Mas
sachusetts. Was there any thing in that
showing hostility to the West. Let gentle
men judge for themselves, whether such or.
dinances showed want of wisdom for the
government of the people. 1t was necessa-
ny at first that something should be done
for the West 1t was undoubtedly hard
that so much should be annually drawn
from the West, but it was proper. The
money was not taken altogether from them.
No man in the East complained of the en-
igration. The argument that manufact-
uring people wished to restrain emigration
was, in his opinion, wholly fanciful. He
wished to see any measure devised for the
benefit of the West which had been oppos-
ed by the East. Who had made the Cum
berland Road was it made by Eastern votes
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