The Northern star, and constitutionalist. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1834-1837, 1835-03-21

POLITICAL.
REASONS WHY THE
Hon. ELISHA r. POTTER
Should not be Senator in Congress

Should not be Senator IN Congress
nv ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
Continued from our last.
Has the South a title to such Senator as Mr..
Robbins and must the north be satisfied WIN
Senator, who has done no more by cultivating ms
mind to qualify himself for the high and distinguish
ed situation than Mr. Potter has done! Admit that
Mr. =. be man of strong mind ; has lie done any
| thing to fill that mind with knowledge of all
those things. necessary TO be known by Senator IN
| the Congress of the United States } AZ no othe
time has that House been filled with Dlen equally
distinguished Great men, long experienced III
national affairs with minds enriched with science,
literature and every descr pition Of useful und or
nanental knowledge. These men are ready ana
PREPARED on oil great national questions and nble
1T all times 10 guard, deisns and secure tho rshs
Of their several States Have We not men IN H..
Island, whose native strength Of mnd, whose IN
,eectua cultivation, extent Of knowledge, aud ex-
perence in national atiars if they do hot allogeti-
er equal those qualities 10 other Senator'S may De
Justly said to surpass those Of MIR. Potter
IT. however, il be admitted that MIR. Potter Is
man not only of strong but Of cultivated NINA !;
YET are there other great and over power'hg rea-
sons why he should not be our Senator ~ Con
gress. Mr. Potter is welded TO that, ana to'ahy
enslaved by, the new policy and system oi admin
istralon of national affairs, introduced INTO our
Government. during the last five years During all
former administrations, the public lands have been
! REGARDED as great national rundown equally
| by the people of all the States On THIS pr,ci-
| pie alone, conld Rhode island ever hope 10 re-
ceive any benefit from those lands. Every oiher
State in New England. has II resource RON these
wild lands. Connecticut sold all her western
| lands, and has realized an immense fund, now u
| mounting to nearly S2,0OO,O00 from iha' sae'-
Massachusetts, Maine und Vermont have each d
lit. :. a. land L. nln
surrounded by the ocean aud other States Is cut OH
| from all this resource. Unless the sales OF lie
area, national domain shall be divided among all
| The States Rhode Island will never realize SIM
Gle cent from those lands while 'Gcoigia has al
ready received, more than $25 ,COo,0Oo, nom Tho
United States, in money aud in lands, purchased
| for that State, from the indian n"llons.
| Al the session Of Congress next before the last
Sill pissed through both Houses, providing hut
the proceeds Of the saes othe public I"hds, should
be di, ided among the States IN proportion to tie
federal numbers ofthe people in euch state re-
speclive,. BY this Bill. had i been approved by
| the President, ,he State of Rhode Island would
have received annually, not less than twenty two
! thousand dollars. W la, perpetual iuhd her Q
| would have been, for the education oi children.
both rich and poor, high and low How did II
happen thar Rhode Island was tePr'ed oi 'h!s
| benefit this rich scarce Of future blessings he
| President
| bill. and then sent il back to Congress, wns his
reason for giving all this ano 10 Inc s'a'es' ""s'e
il is located.
Mr.. Potter is devoted 10 the policy, and ndm'n
is,raton of Gen jackson and lusliies ihese meas
ures of that man, so iragantly unwise and UNJUST.
If sent to the Senate, he will oppose any law, to
distribute the amount of sales OF these lands, aud
at the direction Of Cen Jackson, vote to give them
all TO the new States. Will the people OF Rhode
IL. A. ,.uhi
the battles of the Revolution, and won th4o
lands from, the British Crown viii they elect Mr..
Potter to the Senate and thereby do all IN their
noyer 10 cut off themselves and their children from
all homo of any heneit from this rich mine OF
wealth earned for them, hy so much blood aud
,roasnre . viii those children, if this be done,
r;se nm and call him blessed VIII they rot la
ment in bitter anguish a, the folly and execrae
that destroying spirit Of purity madness, which
shall have done this
Another area, portion Of American policy. ever
cherished and held sacred. from the opening OF
the first Congress, unit after Gen. Jackson was T.
iected TO his second Presidential term, is the en-
lcouraqement and protection Of Domestic Industry
JTnt,l then all his messages TO Congress, and all
the declarations Of his friends throughout all the
Eastern. Middle and Western States, gives iul de-
mons,ration of his high regard, for that policy
and of his determination TO persue IN that respect
the course of all his predecessors in his message
of December 1881 he came out against that poll
cy 1t is true, that some o the friends OF the sys
tenn did believe he intended to denounce II, IN hs
Bank Veto Message, and that he regarded 1t a'
one of those schemes, adopted by the wisdom o
Washington and Madison, - TO make the rich rich
er. and the poor, poorer" as he openly declared
the Bank to be- His friends stoutly denied tins
and persisted in the denial until he was reelected
Al the commencement Of that session, bill wa
reported by the Committee OF Ways and Means
ostensbly 10 reduce the revenue to the wants o
the government; but in reality, 10 destroy .h'
whole system so long established for the encourage
,nent and protection Of Domestic Industry. Tc
prevent, as was said, the sudden overthrow o
that system. and the immediate destruction o
manufacturers Of the country, gradual reduct
ion of the rate Of imports, was adopted IN TN
place Of that Bill and the death or resussitatOi
and improvement Of the whole system postponed
until after the year lS4O. When that time ar
tyes unless by successful legislation, the system
can have been so restored, as TO give protection u
the laborers of our country the whole Manufact
urnp Interest," in this and other states Of the I'm
, ion. will be at the mercy Of the English importers
and must be oyerthrown and destroyed by then
Tbev will be then secured by a shield Of 20 pc
cent only instead Of 20 or so, which now pio
> tects them. What their condition will then bc,
il NOT nesdful noo to state for all people will re
member what were their apprehensions last win
ter, when the Comptroller Of the Treasury, enhe
b,, oydey,. or bv mistake, directed collectors
,5e Customs. TO reduce the duty, then about
cents on the squire yard Of cotions, TO some,hin
less ,hap one cent and half II is believed, tina
this order was coun,ermanded, not because II wa
given by mistake bu, because the political NOV
. mens Of Virginia, became so rery early, so rcr,
Jscidediy hottie to the administration, on ,h
limpor,ani question Of removeing the .ublic m.n
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lev. should the ..ss. congressional elections, ,uo'
"a orcsre,, IN so many Of the states, result tavoru
: mt ~ thst administration, the law which no'
- o,,,s,n Som,,,i, L.snufseturers, will be IN sh