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

If The States held them, they wou,; tax thcm
until they settled.
The obnoxious, the rebukcd, the rcproached East.
The East charged with disposition to suppress
emigration 1t was the Tariff! Tariff. Tariff Every
thing began with it and ended with it. He believed,
Ii there were any word to RHYME with it, all their
sonncts would be on the subject. AS for the
/ policy of New England, the tariff of hers.
! 1t forced upon her. How stood the Western
votes in 1916: How stood the West and South
votes in 1924? Not only Gid all the Western State
but Virginia herself, give more votes than nIassa-
chusets. 1t was reprooch upon them in 1924, that
their factories could get along without tariff and
that therefore they we're opposed 10 tariff. The
tariff is New England measures: il did not
originate with them. Eut when the Government
had taken it up, having dense population, and lit
tie space, they invested their money, in the supposi-
tion that the Government would supper, it. From
the first, the people OF New England had shown rs
much zeal i'll favor OF the West any portion Of The
people whatever. II was not true that they had OPP
posed enug ration
! [At this place we lost portion, Mr.. WIS re-
marks
] None ofthe 'shingling,' rs it was called in the
West, was TO be found where the United States gran
ted lands.
There no lands covered by titles 80 deep, and
nc bad seen them 90 deep i'll the Supreme Court;
while In tina, part of the West where the other sys
tenn was pursued 10 man could say that he ,u clear
title to any land.
In ailusion the OF 1897, he said he should
like to see any stro~g indication long sighted wis
dom tilun De discovered i'll the difference be-
tween the right and left bank OF the Ohio II was
the gory of the people who were born in OHIO that
they We're born in land incapable OF producing
s.avcs That ordinance oF o? was from, the pen of
Nathan Dane OF Massachusetts Was there any
thing IN that showing hos ty the wes'i Let gen
uemen Judge for themselves, whether such ort,an
ces showed want Of wisdom for the government OF
the people 1t was necessary at first that sometime
should TIC done far the west 1t was undoubtedly hard
That .t SO much should be annually drawn from the
w est, but II wa. proper. Fhc money was not IA.
ken altogether from them. 80 man in the East
complained OF the emigration. The argument that
manufacturing people wished 20 restrain cmrra-
ton was, in his opinion,wholly ancul. He wished
70 see any measure devised for the benefit of the
w est which had been opposed ty the East Who
had made the Cumberland Road; was il made bv
East ern votes or by Southern votcso Fake the Port
land Canal; the Wabash Canal. TAX. the ayes anl
noes, aud strike from the ayes the New England
votes, and the Southern votes will bear down tho
w est. 1t is tie reproached New England that has
supported these measures
Much had been said Of report OF tine late Sec
retaiy Of The Treasury. lie had forgotten the re-
port, but he believed much inut;ce ird been done
tn tIat Secretary. The substance of his arnumsnt
WIS that III protecting manufactures the agriculture
OF the country was receiving constant bounty
FIR. w. did not speak ofthe wisdom Of hat non,
sure n"w his object was to show that The Eas had
not been guilty of that marrow policy. He believed
that If the Secretary had borrowed his notion anv
Where, 1t was not from New England source Mr.
W. read from a'speech of Mr.. M'Dutiie an tytrac, =
IN winch -Ir Nf'Dniie said fany thinr was for the
benefit Of Southern States, it was to stop the sale of
the Public Lands MIR. W. was understood IN al
lude to this, the source of the Secrcarv,s views
II they were borrowed at ALL MIR W. read from
the same debate an extract from his own speech in
yhich he commended, in opposition 20 Mr. NJ D. that
the lands should be sold as low as posyhIn and
tied, and in addition to his argument that tho settle
ment of the West had been assisted by the East in
stead of he South
lie had never heard it suggested any where as
matter OF policy, that emigration should be res
framed Some people might he somewhat ayetse
10 the dl'ihution OF comparative Importance but
there was 10 hostility. Were not the people ofthe
w est tie descendants of the East were they not
hone other bone, and flesh Of her flesh 1t was not
hs disposition at first to have uttered one word on
THIS subject, but when he heard SO many hints sur-
misses and so many local Illusions for one he could
no ,ct ho'd MS peace any longer During the whole
hfieen years that he had beon a member he HAD new
or made so many remarks of sectional character
as he had during the present debate.-But while
ne STOOD there as representative of New ENGLAND
by the blessing of God he would be her true Tepre-
sentative, and oppose any misrepresentation as to
her policy or any imputation upon her honor
MI w concluded by moving the indefinite post
ponemGn M, OF the resolution and the amendments
ME- BENTON replied that if it had been depcn-
ded upon New England, be would proclaim it. that
there would never have been sentiment in the
west In relation 10 the ordinance Of '85 Mr. b.
saa that ordinance would have stided the West
Ii the policy of that act al first reported had been
supported the West No;3d never had an existence
30 far as depended on the New England States the
West never would have heen settled The struggle
Tor the navigation of TIE Mississippi was still
stronger argument against the East The articles
OF treaty then discussed Showed that he NissssiD
'l was to be shut NJ for so years and Us sine 0un
non, spain was to take train oil and Goldfish from the
United Stacs, III est from New ENGLAND In the
debates carried on for three years nine Statcs con-
tended that the failure to make treaty, made the
surrender OF the navigation obligatory; seven States
coniended against II. How did it tcrninaeo Upon
ihc re1nonstrsnce of the State of North Carolina.
presented with all the energy Of State determined
moi to allow her citizens tn be mareatad the States
Forth Of Maryland went IN favor Of and the States
south, presented one undivided front against the ces
SION God protect him from such allies
IN relation TO the settlement OF Ohio, and the fri
J;,i' o, " ayne' e5r. b. said that there never was
Federal Soldier north Of tho Ohio. The b,trles
wee Fought by The volunteers Of Kentarl;y, Who
s"ani tho river moi only against the rifles Of the In
u'2h'' O1t against the law Of the United States .
in relation to the Tariff, Mr. Is. cog,erded fl,ot
.he West had assisted to make Tariff and that fhe
New England votes went together against the fur