Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1841-09-17

81 schools and academies; more destt0te OF
churches and public hospitals. We, tobe sure,
grant something to them at times for ordinary
expenses beyond what we do to the States.
But we grant them usually nothing as Terrific
res, for several Of those important objects be-
fore enumerated. Then why should we not
admit them to have at least ten per cent. OF
the sales within their own limits, to relieve
them, and TO assist them in these important re-
spects, as we let the new States have it!
The equitable rights great. Their wants
are greater: The usefulness of it is at least
equal. The law and constitution are stronger
and clearer for gifts to the Territories than the
States. We can do for them what we can
not for the States. They may furnish us with
Presidents and Vice Presdents-Heads of De-
parslneu,s and Foreign Ministers-and how
irrational, then, is it not to see 10 their educa-
| cation and improvement
But the President argues in his message
that this distribution is to aid several OF the
States in the payment of their debts rather than
for internal improvements or education. Then
most conspicuously is one of the Territories,
Florida, more in debt than, and more in need
than the neediest the States.
But there is another right in the people of
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implied in this disribuiion-not only equal,
but even beyond that of many of the States.
All the lands to be sold and divided within
the limits Of the States and Territories, are
about two hundred and twenty millions Of acres.
Of these, near sixty-eight millions are in those
three Territories, and the money to be expend-
ed for most of them is to come from the sweat
Of the brow of their own citizens. Should not
they, then, receive portion Of the proceeds as
well as the States?
Again the land in two oil these Territories,
Florida and Iowa, was purchased by the gen.
eral funds In the Treasury, most Of them, then,
are the fruits of the tariff.
These funds were also raised more from the
middllng and working classes, such as are the
people of the Territories, than from the rich.
They came from high duties on the great ne
cessaries of life, such as salt, moiasses, iron,
sugar. These are consumed in the Territories,
and therefore the revenue from them paid there
as much as in the States. The citizens there
helped thus to buy the very lands they till,
FIRST from France and Spain, and not by cesslons
from the other States, and then from the Cen
eral Government, by their own private hard
earnings and economical savings.
Again this very money to be distributed,
comes, in part FROM them. You are obliged
to raise the whole amount of this very distr-
button (if made) from the tariff, and these har-
dy borderers in the Territories help to pay for
tin their proportion as largely as in the States,
because you have no surplus to give away. If,
then, you give three millions from lands, when
you can now, in any way, realize our sixteen
or seventeen millions without them, from do
ties, and you need twenty millions for expen-
ses. you are Obliged to raise from duties more
by at least the three or four millions you give
away from lands.
These additional duties are likewise TO be
imposed chiefly on the necessaries of life,
such as tea and sugar; and being consumed In
the Territories as well as the States, the adj
ditional tax is imposed on the former, and paid
by them as well as by the latter. Why then.
let me repeat the enquiry again; why should
not they as we'll as the people of the new States,
o! Of this District, participate in some portion
of the distribution Why, when they not on
ly in all possible ways, contribute to it, but
expose their iron bodies and brave breasts be-
tween you and the Indian tomahawk and war
whoop on your frontier! Why when they con-
tribute nightly to protect your slvmbers, and
daily 10 secure your fields and villages from
rapine, devastation and butchery1
But, say the gentlemen on the other side,
they will, ere long, be States. and then they
NAV receive a share. But is that to provide
for the present? Does that relieve existing
and pressing wants and now asks bread to gire
him stone. till he becomes an adult! Tore
fuse aid in education, and Indebtedness, and
improvements, now when most needed and
most useful, because it can or may be bestow-
ed at some future period when less wanted, s
barbarous, Yet, not to help a drowning man
in the flood, but cucumber him with aid after
he reaches the shole, is mockery and hard
hearedness.
That is your lberality to your children and
neiehbors in the Western wilderness. That
is your kindness towards those under your
guardianship. They may, it is true, in time
become States. But may not the District be
reroceded to Maryland and Virginia, and also
become States! Even as soon as some of the
Territories become States! Have they not
asked it! Has it not been vndicated :! Yet
you give share to its fashionable, and in some
respects, deserving citizens, but not to the har-
dy pioneers ofthe Territories. Shame on such
justice
TENNEssEEr-Compete returns of the late cleo
ton in this State show the federal majority to be but