Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-02-05

the remark; ana SnOuld WISH 10 Understand I'm
port; and how aud in what this surrender had been
made. Is it physical power which is surrendered?
What can he mean. Has IL come to this, that the
people Of the West urged to resort to their
tive strength to take back What they have fairly and
constitutionally conceded, rather to exact more
than we have conceded TO them1 hope and trust
that the time is far distant when any bold ambi-
tous usprant will be able to sedhce them from their
allegiance to this Union
But told that, by series of measures pur-
sued by the East, we have evinced a settled and
determined hostility to the West; and that too, for
the purpose of checking emigration. Sir, this is
heavy charge. For what purpose or from what
policy could originate this hostility? Are they not
our own brethren, "bonc of our bone, and flesh of
our flesh" We're not those lands coded to us for
the purpose Of settlement? OF what value would
the ccssion have been TO had policy been not
to settle tben7 we know that these lands would not
and could not pay any of public debt unless they
could be settied-it is preposterous, therefore, to
suppose that any statesman would wish to throw
stumbling block iii the way of the growth and pros
perity of this immense and delightful country But,
IT you insist that it is so, hete paradox to be SOL
we'd. How does it happen that, with the savages on
one side, and our tyranny the other this country
mas increased and iiourshed beyond all parallel Al
the time of the census of 1890, what is now Ohio,
had perhaps population of 10 0oO at that of 1900
about 40 O00 IN 1910, $50 900; and in 1890 $50 OOo
and was now probably miliion And all this in spite
OF savage rbartes and domestic expressions. All
the West, in the space of forty years has increased
100000. Sir, with facts like these let an impair
ial world decide upon the cruelty and TYRANNY of
the parent Statcs
Is the ordinance of the 18th July, 1857 state
paper which does us honor, and which was drawn by
citizen OF Massachusetts, evidence Of this hostitv7
FIVE States marked out and defined, be admitted
into the Union, when each or either should have
population of 90 900, and the pledge in this respect
moro thun ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS freedom trial by
Jury Huoeas Corpus, representation, common law
ball-a!l the securities of HE, liberty and property
-euardnfied, and excessive fines cruel punishnients
.uIr nrfi lao =,
all the essential rights for which our revolution was
achieved, and which raise the freeman above the
slave, secured! Docs this look like hostility to the
West? Moreover, is the admission into the IJnon
before they had the requisite numbers proof of this
hostility! Does the admission Of Missouri evince
such hostility? Sir, this is event which I shall
long remember. But for eastern members, Missouri
would now be Sarouiucc That Senator would not
he here. This hall would never have Witnessed the
triumph OF his eoquence, The arder Of his patr
o,ism. Eastern members took their lives in their
hands When they defended the cause of Missouri.
They acted against the honest preiudiees Of thew
constituents Prejudiccs did saya No, 7,yincipLes
which they deem CORRECT, enanating from the best
feelings of the human heart. will appeal TO both
OF these Senators for the truth OF what say They
were literally knocking the door Of the Semitic and
eastern men were exerting their powers to burst il
open and let them in It ilIiberal 10 charue the
East with hostility to Missouri.
But because 1t was proposed by eastern members
OF the old Congress, to provide III the ordinance nj
81, that every section IN one township should he
soi3 before another should be offered for sale (which
proposition did not preva) the Senator nfers that
M1s Is evidence OF hostility. Now it seems 10 me
that this inference IS, to say the least little unchar
table l could easily perceive that very patriotic
ard charitable motive might have induced this promo
Sltlon at that time the settlers would be onnosof
10 numerous and powerful savage tribes They would
be Obliged In some measure to defend themselves
1t would be safest, therefore, keep them as conpac
as possible; for the more thej should scatter tho
m. more would they be exposed. The members from
tho E,pcfh had l. -.
.i s l4ss nau near ana dear friends who bad emgra
ted to that country, and it might be their motive to
project them. When good and bad motive may
be assigned to an act it is the part of charity to as
sign the good especially when the person implicated
uen' ana Cannot therefore defend his motives The
Senator from Missouri illustrates this case bv n t,D.
| Eey' man has two turkies cooked and on the ia
BILE, and he obiges his guests to eat one bones and
all before he Will carve the other. The analogy
seems TO me most unfortunate. We have sold bI,
twenty millions of the public lands and there are nov
two hundred millions to be sold. HIS turkey the,
has one tenth of flesh, and nine -tenths of bones
poor turkey truly Is this fair description of til,
checking emf grafton. But to carry his figure of tn,
turkey little further, and his case would be this
n man has twenty guests and he serves I'D tweot,
tnrkes, one TOR each, and CHI takes his dinner on
OF MS turkey, and they all left partially eaten snr
all mapgied. Now this is exactly the case IF hr;
ing more land into the market than carnossihlv be
wanted '1y oe
The Senator (Nr b has read from the debates
~ CONVENTION, 10 prove that the
were disposed TO give to Spain our riqbt of n,v;ns
ton OF the Mississippi 1t thai this alienation
came incidentally into discussion, and it was appre
iended that under the Constitution which was To ba
adopted, the new government would have more noyv.
eT 10 10 TINS than would the old confederation A
Mr. Grayson had stated that his was the d,snos;,;o
OF the East, and chiefly inferred it from the snnosed
iact that we had no interest in that navigation II
this same Mr. Grayson was an able statesman he
had not then learpt much Of GepqroD5o H., h.
stated that Massachusetts had no Intercourse witt
the MISSISSIPPI, but by the ST. laurence "a, Tie Hud
son! Wnen the fact Is, that Massachusetts for hal
century, has had more intimate intercourse with
me MISSISSIPPI than even the State of MARYLAND
a man VINO could deliberately advance such an opn-
ion' can scarcely be considered very high authority
on any subject. Mr. Madison however, a real states.
man, put it all rIght-shewcd he connection of the
East with tie West and denied that the eastern ueo.
PIE ever wouid be wiling TO make the concession
The next charge against the East is that distin.
guished citizen OF massachusetts had discovered hos
THEY to the West in giving up claims upon Tex-
US! Ehe FLORIDA Treaty was negotiated when he
was Secretary of State, and if vas lone in o,,;a