Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1842-02-11
son to believes tina. Great Britain will ever q.

son to believes that Great Britain will ever a.
cede TO its just settlement, except under some
species of coercion. The proofs Of the rapaci-
ty and injustice Of England, are multiplied
each succeeding year, and in every quarter Of
the globe, and we have no reason to doubt thai
she will apply to US the same code Of ethics
which she administers elsewhere. If any
thing need be added, after her twenty five
years refusal to yield to our undoubted rights,
II is found abundantly in her recent protracfion
Ut the negotiation for a joint commission Of
survey and settlement. Two years have clap
sed since she hypocritically assented to the
principles upon which such commission
should be based, and yet the period Of its con-
Summation seems as distant as ever. A DELAY
so extraordinary. and finding no Justification
either in the er parte survey Of the United
States. or in any other imaginable circumstance,
cannot but deepen the already through convic-
ton of her treacherous insinceriiy, and painful
ly confirm the belief that Maine must finally
owe the recovery Of its rights to belligerent
force, either exerted or threatened.
BANKRUPT LAw-SAe RICHNESS or DEBTs.-
Now that the attention of the public has been
attracted to the subject Of debts and contracts
in connection with the general bankrup. law,
by which the sponge is TO be applied 10 debts
to an incalculable amount, We cannot better
express our sentiments, and we doubt not the
sentiments Of the great body Of the people Of
this Territory, than by publishing the following
extract from speech lately delivered by Col.
contained in it is true.--Burlngton Gazette.
"A debtisa sacred thring, and should be
but little interfered with by any Government.
No man becomes the debtor of another without
receiving something from him-money, labor,
property or credit or BY enabling somebody
else TO receive these things. He receives some.
thing and receives il by promising TO pay for
1t; and this promise becomes sacred oblga-
ton which morality sanctions, which our Con-
s,ituion forbids the States to impair. and which
Congress has no more right to impair than
they have. 1t is tremendous exertion of
power for any Government to cancel debts
without payment even upon the surrender Of
all the debtors present property. Property is
not always the source of credit, nor the only
means of payment. Men are credited upon
their character-upon their Professionalism
their trade--upon their capacity for labor or
for business-upon their expeciaiione--apnn
their station in society-from the Office which
they fIl-upon the prospect Of future earnings
or acquisitions: and creditors have a right TO
retain those chances in their hands, and look
out for future payment, if they cannot receive
it at present. Is il in vain to talk of the cru
city and the hardheartedness Of credtors.--
There is but little Of it in the times in which
we live; and the State laws are everywhere
a barrier against oppression. The tendency Of
the times is the other way-in favour of relax
alton instead of the rigorous enforcement Of
Few creditors Cypress their deb
tors. Many debtors defraud their creditors.
We have nearly all been practising lawyers;
and doubtless every Senator who has been at
the bar can say what can say, that for one
creditor expressing his debtor, they have seen
an hundred debtors defrauding their creditors
Beautiful ExrkAcr.-s.lf had been amb-
tiouss should have sought an alliance with
that powerful institution, The U. S. Bank
which even now aspres to ls divided empire.
If had been venal should have sold myself
10 the performance ofmy arduous duty, | should
cease 10 modest it. In the history Of conquer
crs and usur,.ers, never, in the fire Of youth, !
nor in the vigor of manhood, could find an
attraction to lure me from the path of dutY;l
and now, shall hardly find an inducement TO |
commence the career of ambition, when gray
hairs and decayed frame, instead Of inviting
10 toll and battle, call me to the contemplation
Of other worlds, where conquerors cease 10 be
honored, and usurpers expiate their crimes.
The only ambition can feel, is to acqut N.Y.
self to Him to whom ] must soon render an
account of my stewardship, to serve my fellow
men, and live respected and honored in the
history Of my country. No! the ambition that
eads me on, is an anxious desire, and fixed
to return to the people nnimpair.
ed, the sacred trust they have confded to my
heal the wounds of the Constitution.
and to preserve it from further violation; to
persuade my countrymen, as far as may, that
it is not in splendid Government, supported
by powerful monoplies and aristoc.atc estab
ishments, that they will find happiness, or
their liberties protection; but in plain system,
devoid Of pomp protecting all and granting ia
vors to none dispensing its blessings like the
Jews of Heaven, unseen and unfel;, save in the
freshness and beauty they contribute to pro-
uce."-JAcKsoN.
DIED-In Burlington, on Monday the 3lst ult.,
If congestion of the lungs and brain, VIRGINIA,
'nly daughter of John H. and Mary A. McKenny,
lged two years and three months.