Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-01-30

the Sotcs, II they were n lcasohoj, rendering q
r-:''si rcat there would De some,ning IN inc a'ga,
,A,nn IL sell: they owrcd parcel OF barren iands
II the stsSs held them. they would not tax ihein
until they were settled.
The obnoxious, tho rebuket, the reproached Fast.
Tho Epst charged With disposition Ia suppress
emigration II was the Tariff Tariff! Tariff! Every
thing began with il and ended Nth il. lie believed,
if there were any word to rhyme with it, all their
sonuets would b. on the same subject. As far the
policy Of New England, tho tariff none of hers.
Il was forced upon her. How stood tho Western
votes in 1916. How stood the West and South
votes in 1924. Not only did MI the Western ~ ates,
but Virginia herself give more votes than Mnssa'
chusctts. II was rcproach upon them in 1924. that
their factories could get along without tariff and
that therefore they were opposed to a tariff Tho
tariff is New England measure; 1t did not
originate with them. But when tho Government
had taken it up, having dense popsa' ion, aud lit
tic 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
much zeal in favor Of tho West any portion Of the
people whatever 1t was not true that they had OPP
posed emigration.
rat this place u-u lost portion OF Mr.. VS. re-
marksI
There were no lands covered by titics so dep and
he had seen Thorn 20 deep in the Supreme Court;
while in that part Of the West where tho other sys
tenn was pursued, man could saythat he had clear
title TO any land.
In aluson TO the act of TeT he said he should
like To any strorg indie alton of long sighted Wis
dom thun was TO be discovered in the difference he
tween the right and left bank of the Ohio. It was
tho glory of the people who were born In Ohio that
! they born in a land incapable of producing
slaves THAT ordinance Of 81 vas from tho pen of
Nathan Dane, Of Massachusetts,. Was there any
thing in that showing hostility to the vcsl Lot gcn
tlemen Judge for themselves, whether such ordn,n
Cos showed want Of wisdom Tor the government of
the people II wac necessary at first that something
should be done for the west 1t was undoubtedly hard
that much should be annually drawn from the
Neaf hui NJ wa yho
ken altogether from them. No man in the Eas.
complained of tue emigration. The argument that
manufacturing people wished 10 restrain cinGra-
ton was, in his opinion, wholly fanciful. He wished
to sec any devised for tn. benefit of the
| West which had been opposed ty the East Who
had made the Cumberland Road; was it made by
East ern votes or by Southern voes' pike the Port
land Canal; the Wabash Canal. Take tn, ayes and
noes, and strike from the ayes the New England
votes, and the Southern votes will bear down tho
West. II is the reproached New England that has
supported these measures
Much had been said of report of tho late Sec
| rotary of the Treasury He had forgotten the re-
port, but he believed mach injustice bad been done
to that SecEstary. The substance of his argument
w,s that in protecting manufactures, The agriculture
OF the country was receiving constant bounty.
Mr.. w. did not speak ofthc wisdom of that n,ea
sure nov; his object to show that the East had
not been guilty of that narrow policy. He believed
that IT tho Secretary had borrowed his notion any
where, II was not from a New England source Mr.
w. read from speech of Mr.. M'Dufie an extract.
IN which Mr.. M'Dufie said IL any thing was for the
benefit OF Southern States il was To stop the sale of
the Public Lands. Mr. w. was understood to al
Jude to this the source of the Secrctarys views
If they were borrowed at all. Mr.. w. read from
the same debate an extract from his own speech in
which he commended, in opposition to Mr.. ND. that
the lands should be sold low possible and SET
tied, and in addition his argument that the settle
ment of the West had been assisted by the Eas, in
stead of the South.
lie had never heard it suggested any where, as
matter of policy, that emigration should be res
trained. Sumo people might be somewhat uyefse
to the deminuton of comparative imporan hut
there hostility Woo nat the neonIe of ,ha
Wcst the descendants of the East, we're pt6,v I my
bnne OF her bone, and flesh of tcr flesh. IL was not
his disposition at first 10 have uttered one word on
this subject, but when he heard so many hints snr-
misses, and 80 many local Illusions for one he could
not hold his peace any longer During the whole
fifteen years that he had born a member he had nev
CT made so many remarks of sectional character
as no had during the present debate.-But while
he stood there as q representative of New England.
by the blessing of God he would be nor true repre-
sentative, and oppose any misrepresentation as to
her policy or any imPutation upon her honor.
None OF the 'shingliDg,' as it called in the
West, was to DO found where the United States gran
ted lands.
Wr. w. concluded by moving the ndcGste post
ponement of the resolution and the amendments
MIR. BENTON replied that if it had been depen.
ded upon New England he would proclaim it. tina,
there would never have been a sentiment in the
d.
said that ordinance would have stifled the West
II tho policy Of that first reported had been
supported the West you'd never had an existence
SO far as depended on The New England States, tho
Vest never would have hecn settled The struggle
for the navigation of the Mississippi was still
stronger argument against the East The articles
OF treaty then discussed showed that the BIs.jssip.
pl was to be shut up for 30 years and as sine Qsn
non Spain was to take train oil and Goldfish from the
United States, id CIT from New England In the
debates carried on for three years nine States con-
tended that the failure to make treaty made the
surrender OF the navigation obligatory seven States
commended against il. How did il terminate? Upon
the remonstrance Of The State of North Carolina
presented with all tho energy Of n State determined
not to allow her citizens To be maltrcatoG the States
north OF Maryland went ~ favor Of, and the States
SOUTH presented ono undivided front against tho ces
sion. God protect him from such allies
In relation to the seitlement Of Ohio and tho fri
umph Of Wayne, Mr.. b. said that thore never was
Federal Soldier north Of tho Ohio. The battles
were fought by iae volunteers of Kcntuclsy who
swan the river not only against the rifles of tho In
dams. but against the law Of the limited Sto,ca