Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-02-26

or the eettiemen OF the wild lands and growth of tn
west have been injurousy retarded prevented
they have been owing to our own acts in holding u
TO pubhc view the prospect of kind of meniur
ABOUT to be ushered In upon ,them when lands ma
De mad for nothing, and all the good things of LIT
shali court their acceptance; and thus producing
suspension Of purcshae settlement and growth
The req! fruits which such representations an,
schemes have borne, are general alarm in the oil
States TOR the safety of their common property in thu
new, and disposition to distribute the public lands
or their proceeds, among the States, according t,
their present representative numbers: measure tina
we think would be very injurious to our young ant
sparsely populated States; and weaken the bonds O
the Union. And ssthey who have wounded us are o
our own household -
The whole spirit of this debate, from the momen
1t abandoned the resolution before the Senate and
assumed party character. is reprehensible Afte,
ten minutes attention to the resolution, 1t suddenly
abandoned the living, and taking the back line of the
iilustrious dead of New England, found the graves
and then the bones, of the fathers of New England
and called them from their graves to answer at the
heated and sinister bar of party spirit for the deeds
done IN the body; and profanely drawing down their
motives from the high Chancery of Heaven pre-
snmed to blacken them with the darkest hues
must approach that neglected resolution should
1 even do no more than follow the examples before
me- OF STOPPING to it as eagle to his prey, barely
touching the feathers the back, and them ascend
ing, fly all around the rmqment until brought down
again by mere fatigue and exhaustion
But before go there, let me shrine myself like
pentent sinner, and confess my real situation in
stand here under the instructions of my Mace
mas and my Minerva-my instructor and my guide
passed through the digestive organs of the egisla-
ture of Missouri without either decomnosit;on or
change! They look to the past, the present and the
futures and all around, to every point of the compass
wherever land can be found belonging the United
States upon this terraqueous globe. They instruct
me to vote foral such amendments as may be off red
by my instructor, to one certain graduation bill
pending before the Senate! So that, if the label over
the door be "a, .dtnshouse" and upon entering you
lind your mistake by a full display of smiling cyprau
beauty, it is Almshouse STILL for that is proved by
the label! Or if the label be and yon meet
40 the Threshold picket of the palace guard and
hear the revelle beating for the whole guard to turn
out, and put down your inquiry by dashing out all
your lights around you; it is reform still, as proved
by the LABEL
Thus, you see, am bound to the triple alternative
Ito follow the indicative leads fmy Men or, as an
obedient Telemachus; Co show good cause, at home
why cannot or to be treated, by my masters in Mis-
souri,, queen Elizabeth treated her cardinal when
she exclaimed, 81 frockd you, sir! And by Cd I'll
unfrock you!" Her majesty must have been angry;
for learn that ladies' never swear but when little
excited.
In these uncharitable times the motives of myself
the Senator from Alabama (AIr. Mckinley and
others disposed to let this inquiry go on have been
questioned by the author ofths debate 1t has been
alleged that this resolution has impaled on high
held up to the Indignation of the west! and that
taking the alarm, disposed to avail ourselves
OF the fact of our captain general Massachusetts,
d.
indefinite postponement! 1t was even suggested that
if consulted at earlier stage of the campaign, he
might have saved us from the dilemma!
We are against harboring prejudces against such
captain general; but we decline the motives impu
ted to u.s. although not at all surprised the mputa
tion cfthem
Common charity might have suggested such mo-
tiyes those avowed by the Senator from Maryland
fGen. S.} who declared he would not, at the very
commencement of this administration, set such pre-
oedent of suppressing inquiry into executive discre
ton: for these surveys and sales, know, th,
President possesses absolute discretion, as the laws
now are.
But after what we have experienced of the organ
ization, discipline and power of late opposition
not surprised to find the idea of Military Chief
tain uppermost in the imagination that side of ths
chamber. No, nor would we be, if the orator, ii
making this iniputation, had even imagined he fel
the wire of the Great Magician up yonder. twitch
ing at his elbow-ike the master of puppet SHOW
setting Punch, and. the others, into true partisan
dance!
Why did not the accuser remember that magn
charter-not of Runny Mead but of Goose Creek
of the 4th day of March, ammo donini, 1929, guaran
tying this right of reform to US?
Are not the means of enjoying that right, such a
free ingress, egress, and regress of the great
sion of the public domains, nclnded in the grant
Why was not the old common law, as it was be
fore the great Goose Greek Charter thought OF!
Or at least the report of May. 1926, saying 18th
uncomfortable exercise OF executive discretion make
a President Monarch! Names are Eothing?'
The Senator from Connecticut is known as airicn
in Missouri. He now dsayoWs eli sectional hostilit
in proposing this inquiry. let him have it. 1t wi
satisfy Connecticut and do us no harm in the Yves
The Commissioner of the General Land Office in Il
annual report, points out some reior IN this subJec
ns necessary. Then comes the Senate, with the nt
desty and economy of true son Of Connecticut, an
asks only "a farthing rush light to oo! beyond th
point, to see ifmore be necessary; and if SO, whei
to begin, how far to CO. and where to stop. This Ii
quiry he would make through the Committee on Pu
lie Lands every man of whom comes from the ne
States supposed to be most interested in the questic
fresh with the clods of your public domain anio
sticking around them.
The President will be glad to see this unassun1ir
son Of the Pilgrims comparing his humble rush lig
with the brilliant chandeliers that illuminate the Pr
sidents way.
There is no Yankee trick intended, TO 60 back in
some remote apartment of this mansion of the publ
lands and draw thence your Consul to Mexico, with
his trump the-trick and Faro-Banl apparatus abo
him, to make you blush for your Administration n