Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-06-26

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interests ~ tie Confedertcv, has, for the first
lime on the part of any Executive Magistrate of
this country, declared: 1T to me (says the
Presidency 10 be our true policy ttd the public
lands shall cease as practicable TO be source
of reuenue, nd that they should be sold to settlers
in limited parcels, at price barely efficient TO
| reimburse the United States the expense Of the
present system, and the cost arising under our In
dian treates,'" &c.
| MIR. Buckner Ian Administration Senator
from Missour) also refers to the same message Of
President Jackson with appreciation and COM
mendaton
| His colleague (Mr. BENroN) in abiding, on |
that occasion, TO the same message, says "The
President was right. His views we're wise, pa.
triotic, and statesmanke" "He had made it
| clear, as he hoped and believed that the Presi.
dents plan was right, that all idea of profit from
the lands ought to be given up" &c.
necessity for it. Why go back eight or nine
years? We need only trust 10 our own ears,
and rely upon what we almost now daily hear
j Senators from the new States frequently express
their determination to wrest from this Govern.
ment the whole Of the public lands, denounce
its alleged illberaity, and point exultingly to the
strength which the next census is to bring to
their policy. 1t was but the other day we heard
the Senator from Arkansas (Mr SEvrER) ex.
press some Of these sentiments. What were we
told by that Senator? "We will have the pub.
lie lands. We must have them, and we will
take them in few years"
Mr.. SEWER. So we will
: Hear him Hear him. lie repeats it. Ut
ters it in the ears Of the revenue.p pleading Sena.
tor (Mr. WRueHr) on my left. And yet he will
" vote against distribution.
> will come now to document of more re-.
cent origin. Here it is--the work nominaly
e of the Senator from Michigan, (Mr. NoRvELL,)
II but take it, from the internal evidence it bears,
: to be the production Of the Senator from South
II Carolina over the way, (Mr. CAUTIOUSLY This
report, in favor Of cesslon proposes 10 cede to
the States within which the public lands are sit.
e uaed, one third. retaining, nominaly, two.thrds
u to the Union. Now, il this precedent of cession
0 be once established, it is manifest that it will
= be applied to all new States they are success
f. sively admitted into the Union. We begin with
s. ceding one.third; we shall end in granting the
Is whole.
'el Mr. Calhoun asked Mr.. CLAY to read the
at portions of the report TO which he alIuded.l
10 | should be very glad to accommodate the
Or Senator, but | should have to read the whole
q OF his report, and am too much indisposed ant
ut exhausted for that. But | will read one or two
IN paragraphs;
- and new States should take different views, have
different feelings and favor different course o
>e policy in reference to the land. within their limits
W 1t is natural for the to regard them chiefly
TO n source Of revenue, and to estimate them accord
i'll ing the of income annually derived from
nd them; while the other as naturally regards them
almost exclusively, portion Of their domain
and the foundation OF their population, wealth
~ power, and Importance They have elnphat
ically the feelings of ownership, accompanied b,
al
rs pal control, and the greater share of benefits de
wv rived from them" ''To sum up the whole in
We. few words: OF all subjects of legislation land
,ry that which more emphatically requires local su
perintendenceand administration; and, therefore
is engh pre-eminerty to belong, under our system,
- 10 state legislation, to which thi, bill proposes Il
subject it exclusively in the new States, it al
VI way has been in the old
nd 1t must be ack nowledged that the new State
IN. will find some good reading in this report. Whf
q, is the reasoning? That it is natural for the oil
= Of States to regard the public lands as a source
revenue, and as natural for the new States to tax
-, a different view Of the matter; ergo, let us Civ
~ the lands to the new states, making them
~; course, cease any longer to be source OF rev
-; nue.. 1t is discovered, too, that land is subie
w. which emphatically requires local supernten,
- ence and administration. 1t therefore propos,
oI TO subject it exclusively to the new States, as "a
;n cording TO the assertion Of the report) it alwa
r. has been in the old. The public lands Of tt
United States, Theoretically, have been subje
T to the Joint authority of the two classes Of State
WIS in Congress assembled, but. practically, ha
been more under the control Of the members fro
'ss' the new States than those from the old. do r
It is think that the history OF the administration
; as public domain in this country sustains the ass
as ton that the States have exhibited more conn
11Ss tency and wisdom for the management Of it tn
il is the General Government.
the stated that | would come down q shot
the have said went up) from the late President Of
qua, United States to the Senator from New York.
Let us see what sort of notions he had on this m
The ter Of revenue from public lands, when acting
vn." MS character OF chairman oil the COMMITTEE
that Thn,a To- hoaro &c no., 80 80. e.; 49,
ntry Sonot. At tn,as J,rno tha los, ,'uoI,,o o en-
last oaro ,,onoo;,io Co. H. ,aIo,;a, oc H. ~
,,t Of public lands, under the imposing guise
NY graduation" bill, according to custom,
oou been introduced during the present session for Il
al object. To give it eclat and as matter of 70
SsJol and dignity, it referred to the Committee
nc'' Finance Of which the honorable Senator fir
'e'i' New York is the distinguished chairman;
DIS same gentleman who, for these two days,
re- been defending these lands from waste and spt
oe alton, according to the scheme OF distribute
% 10 their proceeds in order to preserve them as
min, fruitful source Of revenue for the General G.
uceG eminent. Here Was fine occasion for the
'a"u play Of the financial abilities Of the Senator
nN He and his friends had exhausted the most ann
wi treasures that any administration ever succeed
'e to. They were about retiring from office, leav