The Illinois free trader. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1840-1841, 1840-12-25

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laid upon the table and that 20, 900 copies
thereof be printed. Mr.. G.. said it was
very luminous document-and almost
any thing coming from our worthy and
talented Governor, was held in high es-
timation by him.
After a short discussion between Mcssrs. G,TE-
wooD and PEAHsoy--thc former censuring the
Governor for sending a verbal instead OF trans
hitting written answer to the Senate; and the
latter defending the course of the Governor, and
charging Mr. GtrEwoou with Selling upon this
opportunity to give the Executive a flashing in or
der to CRAFTY some private anImosidcs he enter
tanned towards that individual
Mr.. G. said that he had no private fee
lings to gratify--againt Thomas Carln,
as an individual, he had no animos ty-
against him, as such he made no COM
plant. But against that individual, as
! Executive of the State, he did, anC had
right to complain. As a Senator, he
urged those compIaints--as one OF the
representatives of the south, he should
continue to do so, until they were redress
sed. His constituents also complained,
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under the administration Of the present
! Executive. His administration had been
most disastrous to the interests of the
south -- their hopes of prosperity had
been blighted as with q mildew--they
had been disappointed-the pledges made
to them had been violated. Had they
known as much at that time as they do
now of the individual who is Governor,
he would not have been troubled with
the duties of that station. He repeated
it-that the official course of the Execu-
tive had been marked by most disastrous
consequences to the interests of the
south. His course on the subject of IN
ternal improvement; in which that portion
Of the State were most vitality interested,
had been characterized by an imbeclity
only exceeded by the ruin it had produ-
ced. Elected as an internal Improvement,
a Rail Road man, he had turned round
and aimed to destroy all that portion of
the system in which the south had any
interest.-But the northern interest must
be tostered at all hazards--bonds must
be hypothecated, aud the people of the
south taxed to continue that darling pro-
ject Of the Governors and the northern
interests, while every vestige of the sys-
TEN in the south must be cut off. And
in order to irighten the south into an
abandonment of what it had right to ex-
pect, the Governor in his messages, had
paraded erroneous statements of the
amount of state Indebtedness, in conspc.
uous relief But the public mind should
be disabused on this subject. The south,
though depressed and poor compared
with the north, had rights--they had in
terests which ought to be considered, in
the administration of the Government
and unless those rights and interests were
respected, their voice should be heard in
complaint, by their representatives on
this floor, until their grievances were re-
dressed.--I'hey would consent no longer
to do all the voting and all the tax paying,
and be treated with neglect and indher-
encc. In relation to the order under con-
slderation, Mr.. c. urged anew his view
of the question. He did not wish to be
understood as attaching any importance
to a document coming from the Cover
nor--for he had just as lieye have the
Fund Commissioners report, or copy
of the speech of a certain gentleman he
might name--but he only urged the pas
sage of the order on the ground, that the
Governor in refusing to communicate had
been guilty of an indecorum, demanding
the animadversion of the Senate. If he
had nothing to send, he could have said
so under his own hand---or he could have
endorsed one of his printed messages
But to send verbal message was prac-
tice unheard of in the history of the le-
gislation of any State--and he hoped that
such an expression of disapprobaton
would be given against the practice, that
a recurrence of it would never again take
place.
Mr.. RALsToN considered the attack
made upon the Governor, by the gentle
man from Gallatin as wholly unauthori-
zcd. He regretted it, as destructive of
the harmony that ought to subsist be-
tween coordinate departments of the gov
eminent, and without which public bust
ness could not progress. He maintained
that there was nothing in the Governors
answer, TO the joint resolution of the Lee
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be construed into contempt. He had