The Arkansas advocate., 1830-04-07

contended.
 The Senator from Massachusetts has
 thought proper to present in strong con trast the friendly feelings of the East to-
 wards the West, with sentiments of an opposite character displayed by the south in relation to appropriations for Internal hnprovesaent. Now, Sir, let it be recolleeted that the South have made no professions; l have certainly made none in their behalf of regard for the
 West. 1t has been reserved to the gen tleman from Massachusetts, while he vaunts his own personal devotion to
 Western interests, to claim for the en- tire section of country to which he be- longs, an ardent friendship for the West, as manifested by their support of the system of internal improvement, while he casts in our teeth the reproach that the South has manifested hostility to western interests in opposing appropri- ations for such objects. That gentle man, at the same time acknowledged that the South entertains constitutional scs7,- ptes on this subject. Are we then, Sir, to understand, that the gentleman con siders it a subject of reproach, that we respectour oaths, by which we are bound t to preserve, protect and defend the Constitutional the U. Statesg7 Would the gentleman have us manifest our love tothe West, by trampling under foot our constitutionalscruples? Does, he notper- cieve, that if the South is to be reproach- ed with unkindness to the West, in vo- ting g. against appropriations which the gentleman admits, they could not vote for without doing violence to their con- stitutional opinions, that he exposes him. self to thequestion; whether, fine were iii our situation, lie could vote for these appropriationsregardless of fhisscruples2 No, sir will not do the gentleman so great injustice. He has fallen into this error from not.having duly weighed the force and effect of the reproach which he was endeavoring to cast upon the South. In relation to the other point, the friendship manifested by N. Eng land towards the West, in their sup port of the system of Internal Improve ment, the gentleman will pardon me for saying, that think he is equally unfor- tunate in having introduced that topic. As that gentleman has forced it upon us however, l cannot suffer it to pass unno- ticed. When the gentleman tells us that the appropriations for Internal Im- provement in the West, would, in almost every instance, have failed, butfor New
 England votes, he has forgotten to tell us the vhen, the hozU and the where;ore -this new born zeal for the west sprung up in tbe bosom of New England. If we look back only few years, we will ind, in both houses of Congress, an uni form and steady opposition, on the part of the members from the eastern States, generally, to all appropriations of this character. At the time l became a member of this House, and for sometime afterwards, decided majority of the New England Senators were opposed to the very measures which the Senator from Massachusetts tells us they now cordially support. Sir, the Journals are
 before me, and an examination of them will satisfy every gentleman of the fact. It must be well known to every one
 whose experience dates as far back as
 lo25, that up to certain period, New England was generally opposed to ap- propriatoins for internal improvements in the West. The gentleman from Mas sachusetts may be himself an exception, butifhe went for the system before 1895. its certain that his colleagues did not go with him. In the session of 1924 aud '25, however, Ia memorable era in this country,) wonderful change took place in New England in relation to Western interests. Sir, an extraordina- ry union of sympathies and of interests was then effected, which brought the East and West into close alliance. The book from which have before read con tains the first public annunciation of that happy reconciliation of conflicting interests, personal and political which brought the East and Westtogether, and locked in fraternal embrace the two great orators of the the East and the West. Sir, it was on the 18th Jan., 1895, while the result of the Presidential election in the House of Representatives was still charlottesville the whole country was looking with intense auxiety to that lc- gislatiye hall, where the mighty drama was soon to be acted-that we saw the