The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1839-08-01

,.riOd, 70 Surrender 70 ihs asw states al
ne unsOld lands within their rsspeeliEs
Iuils. The effects Of such = bill if ear
med into operation. II will be readily
,ssn, would Be % depriss The old stale.
ol any participation in he benefits which
dis rich domain 10 calculated 10 confer
vOon The uhsle union. The lands in the
req states. which nav remain unsald.
smaual 10 absal TO hundred and thirty
Millions q acres. Under any eireum-
slsaes.. boz . very small portion Of 90
large q qaaniiiy u land could be sold
within lie short spare af 6se years; but
with he prospective reductions under
this bill. is IL MOI reasonable % suppose
hat he smooa. pf sales Mould be great
Is rd.eedl low many would give .
dI!lE aud suarler. IL BY waiting few
wears lhey could Get the same lands for =
dollar. or ssseniy.iss or ffy cents per
s,re. Fsw. We now; and yet these
Wers lie provisions III ,hs bill Il fen
yrn, The value VI lhrse lands were to be
r'sresy rsduesd more Than my per cent.
sal al prosres. 81 advantage 10 The Did
states would be totally obliIersIsd.
I,wss obvious from The array Of par
Gr.. thai this bill waald pass tie Senate.
tie administration having 10 that body .
drslird mJpri'y. The unly hope Of the
o. states, therefore. vas to restrieI iis
operations: anil siih that view Mr.. Clay.
on tie Oh Of January, Offered a subsu-
lu,s. which postponed The period Of re-
dacIiOa to iifissn years, snd restricted
lis purchases Il the reduced prices 10 ac-
tai ,sllsrs AMI in small psreels-si iifiy
cents. moi mare Than Sd acres; II seEsn-
Y.fse ceals. 100 acres: Al one dollar,
go acres; any larger quantity ., not less
than one dollar and . quarter per acre.
II this substitute offered by Mr.. Clay.
provision was also made for an equitable
disisioH efths nett proceeds efths sales
sfas public lands among all the states.
This substitute vas rejected By vote Of
10 10 30.
HsI -Ms.s,. Biyard. Clay Of Ny c;iitSn.
dea. DAVIS. KAight. MKsan, MoHick, Pren.
ts'. Robbins. Saith Of Il. southsri. sw.fI.
Tipiua.
.Nsyt-- Msssfs Alien. Benton. Blown, Ba
thIaan, Calhoun. Clay Of Ala. Foster. FULTON,
Hubbard. King. Linn. l.umPkin, Lyon. Mon
tor, inches. miles, sorssll, Prcsion. Rve.,
Roane. RtbIuson. Strange. wa'ker. wall
White. Williams II Ma,as, Williams Of Nilsson
Vi Wright. Young.
On The i7th Of January. the bill came
Up FOR It's Third reading, when Mr. Clay
sttrss'.d The Senate al considerable
length in oppOsiiioa 10 The bill I. vas
then read lhird line and psssed-ysas
%. nays 22-Mr. Clay rOiing against
IL.
The course Of Mr. Clay in all this
matter is easily understood. Ills speech
and his votes show that he Is opposed
70 graduation. O. 10 . reduction Of the
value Of the public land. in any way
whatever. No one knows The truth OF
this better than Dr.. Montgomery; ye, BY
Garbled extracts from The journals #
Congress, he has endravorcd 10 make the
people believe that Mr.. Clay was as
much in favor Of graduation as any one
else; and gully also Of tie farther sin Of
sndeavoring 10 "plunder" the old states
fur The benetiI Of The new. In his aaur-
i'hes upon this subjsei, DR.. Mon,so~e-
~ was sometimes ridiculuusly absurd ;
81 for instance: In the substitute offer
ed by Mr. Clay for The graduation bill,
/" was proposed ilta, is operation should
be postponed until the expiration Of Ct.
teen wears; this DE-. Montgomery seemed
to lhink would operate greatly TO the
injury of the oil states; hr in the mean
time he sail. nearly all The land would
be sold. and The ten per cent "plunier'
would be taken or aud given TO the new
states! just as though the t'csnfy pei
cent, which The graduation bill proposes
10 deduct from the public lands al th'
expiration Of FIVE years. was not create
tian the fen per cent. proposed by MIR
Clay's biIl-leaving out Of consideration
the greater reductions Of forty and si.rfJ
per. cent. for which The graduation bal
provides. ~
Blu. DIR. Montgomery says he has dom