New-York daily tribune., 1842-09-09

hands, he was commanded 10 deslsti ehu "as
compelled to obey the mandate and to discharge
! four hundred men then in his employ. And thus
must the public interests suffer, and works which
have cost hundreds of thousands Of dollars go TO
dilapidation and ruin, to carry o,t the particular
| views Of party. Was not then th1s work 10 pro-
secution as long as the Wings were in power ano
even after our opponents came into the admlnlstra
ton, until this i'll advised bill passed Every
Senator, every citizen must answer IN the afhrma-
tive. But, sir, this was not solitary case; the
whole line Of the canal eastward from oufaio eX-
hibit. the evidence that the policy which bears de-
stYct;oa marked in bold characters on Its front, Is
in full. vigorous ex.teace Look at the FIRST large
aausduct, going west from this city. There we
| find work having already cost Sl,800,O0O IN It's
construction, and to complete which, and put 1t In
condition in which it will remain beyond the tear
of deapidatioD land be of to the State requires
only the small sum Of s400. And yet that sum
so rihing-so Insignificant as scarcely TO be taken
into consideration in this connection, as retused-
Yes, sir, absolutely refused, as il the declaration
| was openly ard fearessly made to the world that
our opponents would prefer to see those great
works upon the line Of our enlarged canal, and IN
every other part of the State, upon which millions
of dollars have been expended, go to utter ruin
before they will consent TO aduance single dollar
TO render those millions available and productive to
our people, What theh shall we say, MIR. Presi-
dent, OF party that thas stands up and so reck-
essy tries with the interests of the People OF this
State? That people will call them TO strict and
rigid account for thus trifing and negecting the
| IN portant trust committed to their hands. Can 1t
| be said with trath that the Wings stopped the Pub
| lie Works? Never, and never again, let that as
sertion, so utterly and entirely baseless, be pro-
! nulgated in this House.
But if the Wings did stop the Public Works
as we have always found the Senators belonging
to the other party voting against all Whsg meas
ures-here, Mr.. President is opportunity afford
ed to redeem themselves from the odun sought
TO be cast upon them. Let them new redeem their
Characterization the State from her present
ingorious position, and vote for the prosecution of
these great works, by voting for the resolution
now under consideration. Let them carry out the
policy there marked out. They have the power,
tor they have the majority here in this Legisla-
lure. Let them show that they are friends of In
,ernal Improvement, by voting for the construction
Of our Public Works. But, no! Mr.. President,
that they never will do the policy of the party
aow in the ascendant has always been, as 1t always
will continue to be, till the end of time, opposed TO
Ill Internal Improvements. place this charge
apon these broad terms. wish to be met in that
harge, and to afford the Lecofoco party an oppor-
unity to show that their principles and acts were
ever in accordance with the true Internal Improve
nent policy of this State. 1t is true that in one
TWO instances they have voted for such improve
ments; but it was either when the People impera-
lively forced them into that position against their
wishes, or when they thought they couls make
political capital by an apparent advocacy OF that
,ystem.
Sir, to advocate the prosecution of system of
Internal Improvement in this State, Is only advo-
eating principle which has been cardinal doc
irine among all the civilized nations of the earth.
And it may be laid down an axiom of political
economy, and one which must be admitted to be
rue that as any nation advances in civilization, SO
,loes it become the more sedulous in the prosecu-
ton of measures for the improvement of the inter
nal condition of It's country. Such policy adds
not only to its glory but its trade, its dustry
and to the reward of the labor of its inhabitants.
The prosecution Of such works has marked the
policy of all enlightened nations in all ages. speak
boldly, sir, in this matter for the history Of the
world will bear me out in my position. The plain
,f Babylon, the site of one of the most ancient
cations whose history has come down to US, al
though it now scarcely marks the seat of that most
noble and splendid city, and has not preserved to
ns the relics of the stately palaces of her kings
and mobiles, yet it has marked upon its bread sur
face and through its valleys the evidence that that
nation in the early ages eff the world prosecuted
works of internal improvement, and history has
conveyed to the names eff FIVE or six of her most
important canals. One Of them, Fluvius Regius,
was four hundred miles in lexgth, and one hundred
and fifty feet in breadth. Truly might it be called
the Royal River. These mighty works were con-
,truced for the purposes Of commerce, and to ena-
be those extensive plains to be inhabited, and the
soil titled for the support of teemng population.
And while this system hourished among that
people, the fertility and prosperity of Babylon
the theme Of all writers. Herodotus tells US that
although that country with the rest OF Assyria
formed but the ninth satrapy in the immense en-
pre of Darius, yet it contributed full third part
of the revenue of his whole kingdom The great
wealth and productiyeness of that country did not
arise from its natural soil for at this day It's al
most entire desert, producing little besides a
| scanty sprinkliRg of tamarsks and thorns. But ii
was effected by the wisdom of judicious govern
ment, which aiding the efforts of industrious
people, supplied the means for constructing those
great and important works which wero necessary
them as they are to US, for their prosperity and
comfort-aye, indeed, for their very existence
Such continued obe the stat of Babylon so long
as her system of internal Improvement continued
10 be sustained and in active use; but when her
public works were stopped and her government
thought its duty lay in other direction than in
continually ministering to the happiness and ad
vancement of its people, her plains became gradu-
ally depopua,ed; her canals filled up themselves !;
her fields ceased to be cultivated, and that ence
beautiful plain in which the ancient city rested,
once the most fertile and highly cultivated portion
of Asia, ID now to great extent dreary waste of
! sand, without tree or plat of vsrdure to relieve
This death of nature.
The facts thus shown to us by the history of for
lner nations, should, Mr. President, teach us wis
| dom, for we cannot hope that we shall be made an
| exception from the general rule which has gov