Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-08-10

The billof the committee will great
4 augmentthe population Of the Union.
/ Il snundisputed principle of The law
{. population, that it Is most rapidly /,
increased, BY increasing the facilities
{ subsistencc. The vast effects OF TINS
are illustrated by comparing |
he relative advance in population oil
)hio, with any Of the States upon the |
ointment Of Europe. Where, forty 4
ears past, was one VAST and untrcd-
81 y isarTIIcss, now IS mighty state,
nth population greatly exceeding Al
aillion, planted ere the present balet'il /
pirit DC speculation and nnnopoly OF [
he public lands had seized upon the
capitalists Of the Union. No man will +
pretend that, if the Union had been
confined to the origiaal thirteen States,
With their present diaries, and the
new States remainGl Wholly unsettled
and uncuiiiyaled, that me population |
Of the Union would have been as large
bv several millions as II now Is. Upon ]
every principle that has governed the
progress Of popdlation, there would
now be at least two millions Of people
less within the limits of the Union, had
that Union been confined to the present
u 5pndariesofthc originalthirteen states.
r ~ 6f two millions Of people to this
'Dnl5n would be indeed incalculable.
1t would diminish one-seyenth, the
power and strength of this nation, both
in war and iEpeace. Itwould greatly
decrease the moraisand physical power
of this Union, render>us less prosper
Gus in peace, less POWERFUL in war,
more liable to foreign aggression, and
less able to rcpel It. All the revenue
from imports and from public lands
bears no comparison with the value Of
two millions ofpeople. Will the Just,
the humane. the generous people OF the
old States, desire to retain the poor
man forever poor within their limits,
when, by reducing the price of the pub
lie lands, they may enable him to pro-
cure for himself and family a happy
home in the great valley Of the wests
Are the old States willing TO ayow the
principle that they desire to restrain
emigration to the west? 1t was one Of
the complaints Of the thirteen States,
in their declaration Of independence,
that the British Crown desired to re-
tard our growth, by increasing the diff
ticultics Of obtaining lands ID the colo
MES: and these same thirteen States
now act upon the same odious priaci-
pie towards their sisters Of the wests
The resident Of Rhode Island. who be-
comes resident Of Michigan, does not
cease to be citizen Of the American
Union; and il, by this change, he im-
r.. S4;asss,if asssa f-
mily, why should Rhode Island OBJ
,ject, when the increased prosperity of
es.s;:j a citizen, augmcnts the
national strength and glory? Suppose
that the new and the interior States
should all act upon this narrow aud sell
fish policy towards the States upon the
Atlantic scaboard? Suppose they OBJ
jected 70 terrifying the seacoast, upon
the Ground that it drained the money Of
their citizens for expenditures beyond
Al6ir limits upon the maritime ff6ntier:
what would Sc the reply Of the Allan
liz Statesl II would Be, that, ia de-
tending the seaboard States, the west
aided In defending m RI AZ fhn ren,,I,.