Litchfield enquirer., 1830-02-11

I standing on his own soil. Was this the
conduct Of hard step mother? liza diff
ferent policy had been pursued, il would
have been breach Of duty. He thought.
therefore, the conduct of the Government
was free from reproach.
The gentleman from South Carolina
said, he did not regard the public domain
as a source Of revenue that the distribu-
ton Of a large revenue tended TO CONSOLE
date the Government and corrupt the peo-
pie. There were men in the country
whose opinion led them to think il desira-.
bic to weaken every thing leading to what
they call consolidation, but which he call.
ed the Union. Those who formed the
government told US that their whole OBJ
ject had been to consolidate the Govern
ment. They meant, as no did, union.-
Those to whom he alluded, would see it
so arranged that there should be no con-
troll beyond the temporary expedicncy to
60 into it, or to 60 out Of lit, 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 81. He thought
it dangerous TO the Union that such opin-
ions should be disseminated. He was an
Unionist-he was "a National Republicans
he was in favor of such consultations
as held the Government together, and en-
abled them to sit there. He wished the
Union might be preserved, by showing
that it was useful to ourselves /; for its be-
neficence, its utility Its glory. He wished
the children to see, as their fathers saw,
the necessity for the Union. If this can
be a common fund, and can be used for
such purpose, he would not withdraw it.
The public debt was in the progress of
a rapid discharge but there seemed to be
a morbid fervor 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
country which paid the interest in it. He
could not but suspect that some Of the fer
vor upon the subject had been exercised,
not because it was onerous to the country,
but because it was a link which held the
country together.
1t was said the distribution of large
fund corrupted the people. He did not
see how. If they sold the land to free
holders, they did not corrupt. There
was proposition to dispose Of them for
education. Schools and masters did not
corrupt. Spelling books and the Bible
did not corrupt. II they were given for
roads and canals, they did not corrupt
lie begged to know where wastle corrup-
ton.
It was said the United States reserved
them, keeping them from the taxation and
sovereignty of the States. Ii they were
leasehold, rendering a regular rent, there
would be something in the argument
But it was not so. The United States had
them to sell, they owned a parcel of bar
rem lands. If the States held theuis they
would not tax them until they were settled.
The obnoxious, the rebukedl, the re-
preached East. The East was, charged
with disposition to suppress ehignation-
1t was the Tariff Tariff! Tariff Every
thing began with it and ended with it. He
believed, if there was any word to rhyme
with it, all their sonnets would be on the
same subject. As for the policy of New
England, the tariff was none of hers. 1t
was forced upon her.. How stood the
Western States in 1916? How stood the
West and South votes in 1924? Not on
lv did all the Western States, but Virginia
herself, give more votes than Massachu-
sets. 1t was a reproach upon them in
1924, that their factories could get along
without tariff. and that therefore, they
were opposed to tariff. The tariff 10
now New-Englsnd measure; it did not
originate " ith them. But when the Gov
eminent had taken it up, having dense
population. and little space. they invest
cd their money, in the suppostion that the
Government would support it. From the
first tho people Of New-England had
shown as much zeal in favor Of the West
az anv portion Of the people wbatever.--
II was not true chat they had opposed en-
igrati'n.
[At this place we lost a portion Of Mr..
WIS remarks.
Mono Of tho shineling,' as Il was called
in the West was 10 BIO found where the
United States granted lands. There
were no lands covered by titles so deeRs,
and no had seen them 20 deep in the Soc
premo Court while Ia that part Of the
West where tho other system was pursued.
no man could soy that he had clear tale
to any land. -,
In alllsion 10 the act Of 1877. be- said he
should like TO see any stronger indication OF
long sighted wisdom, than was % % discov.
cred 10 the difference between the right and
the left bank Of the Ohio. u was the glosy