Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-02-20

olutisn had not been paid from the public lands
then they must have been paid from other funds OF
the peopeand if so, it is an additional reason why
the people should be reimbursed by receiving the
proceeds Of those lands which were given for the
purpose of extingushing those debts Mr.. W. had
also charged against the Public Domain various
items OF expense, and especially the expenditures
for Indian relationships was truly a counting
house view Of the subject, Our expenses for the
| Indians grow out Of the most solemn obligations
to protect and take of those tribes; but if the
lands to be charged, is there nothing with
which they are to be credited! are they not TO be
credited with the great advantages flowing from the
acquisition Of Louisiana, and the Navigation OF
the Mississippi. Is the sovereignty Of that State
nothing! is the sovereignty of Florida nothingl are
the customs are the wealth and exhoustess resour-
ces of Revenue there opened up, not to be taken
into account
Mr.. Clay spoke with severe Reproduction of the
negative proposition brought into the Senate at the
last session, on the assumption side by the General
Government of the State debts. He characterised
it as a vindictve, malignant, Danton-like PROPOSE
ton. No Senator had ever suggested such an as
sumption, and the wanton course of the Admins
tration party was calculated to impair the credit of
States at time when some of them were deeply
embarrassed. The Government could not assume the
debts OF the States. but there is vast difference be-
tween paying debts for them, and paying them what
is Justly due. He said he cordially responded 10
the sentiments expressed by Mr.. Webster, soma
days age, on the subject of State debts aud State
credit He was proud of those sentiments was
proud of the eioquence with which they had been
clothed and enforced. They were noble, hgh-mind.
ed patriotic and,worthy of his distinguished friend
There was some who seemed DESTROYS that the
States should violate their public engagements
He would repel such a wish as disgrnceful to the
man who could entertain it. No State could lose
its honor without bringing some degree of disgrace
upon the whole. The fate of the different States
said he, is ours; their honor is ours give them
what belongs 10 them, and let their credit remain
pure and unconaminated.
He pronounced the charge which has been Sc
frequently ruug into of late, that the latc
election was carried by foreign influence, q foul
malicious, atrocious libel upon the country, it:
character, its Institutions, and upon liberty ITSELF
He treated with merited contempt the pretended
proofs brought forward to subsantate this charge
such as the Missouri correspondence with SOM
London Banker, &c. The truth is, the men in pow
err have administered democracy so badly, that the
find themselves without credit at home or abroad
and now they come with whining complaint, tina
they have lost credit here, because they have non
at all in any foreign country.
Mr., Clay closed with most animated and elo
quent appeal in favor of distribution as means o
Strengthening and perpetuatng the Union. Year
may roll away. and yet the land fund WILL if wisel
administered, still continue unexhaused, and on
Children TO the latest posterity, enjoy its ndvantc
ges. 1t is indeed. measure of Peace, Of Amity
and of Union