Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1843-02-10
HER AID.
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10. ls43.

~ The Legislature adjourns to-day. Next
week we shall probably be abls to lay the list
Of acts before our readers.
The ORrcoN BILL.-Dr. Inns bill for IN
settlement and occupation Of Oregon had ne
vet passed the Senate of the Unite States ae
the date Of our last accounts from Washing
ton.
II meets with more opposition than was an
ticipated, and from source somewhat unex-
pected.
That Wing Senators should be found oppo-
sing it-and especially those from the Eastern
| Manufacturing states-does not surprise Us.
They have opposed most of the important
measures with regard 10 the West, which were
at all liberal, and calculated to advance her
| growth and prosperity. They have uniformly
| arrayed themselves against the presumption
system and they have done SO for the reason,
doubtless, that the effect Of all such measures
must be to draw population from the east to
the west; thus-at the same time that it d.
minishes their political power in the Union
keeping up the wages Of the laborers there,
whose services it is their interest tc secure in
their manufacturing establishments, at the low
est possible prices.
The eastern manufacturer witnesses with
lily disguised jealousy the emigration which
is rapidly taking place to the great west. He
counts every emigrant who comes here to
make farms for himself and his children, as d.
mlnishing-by the numbers Of which that fam
lily may he composed-,he number of those
whom he would prefer should become 'ope-
ratives" in his overgrown manufacturing es-
Establishments, at p,tance which will barely
allow them to make their bread.
Draw IF the laboring classes from the east,
by holding out liberal inducements for their
emigration 10 the west, and, by thus increasing
the wages of labor, there you strike serious
blow at the interests of the manufact,lrers.-
This was the true reason Of the opposition Of
the Wing Senators from New England to the
pre-emption laws, and other measures Of a sim
lar nature, designed to promote the prosperity
Of the west and this too is the secret Of their
enmi,y to the Oregon bill, disguise it under
whatever pretence they may.
Let that bill pass, and in less than 20 years
west Of the Rocky misunderstanding he ma ac
bob manufacturers TO take care of themselves,
as best they can.
The apprehension that such will be the case
accounts sufficiently for the course OF Mr..
Choate Of Massachusetts, who is the repr esen-
ta,ive par excellence Of the New England man
ufacturing interest, in the Senate, and who led
off in the debate in opposition to the bill.
Every Democratic Senator who has yet spo-
ken upon the bill has supported it, except Mr..
Calhoun ard we have no wish TO disguise
our regret at seeing him occupy such posi-
tion.
His opposition, however, like that of the
New England Wings is by no means difficult
10 he accounted for. Mr.. Calhoun sees, in the
rapid growth Of the west, the loss Of political
power to the south.
Oregon, if attached to the Union-as he APP
prehends, no hn.L.. might be the case-would,
in time, admit of being cut up into half do.
ze" or more large states; and they Of course
would be non slave holding states.
There is where the shoe pinchcs with Cal.
koun. This, 1t would seem, is sufficient TO
excite his alarm--and thus he opposes the BILL
We can conceive Of no other reasonable ground
upon which he should do so. That UPON
which he is said 10 place his opposition, TO-
wit: that the bill is violation of the treaty. Of
1918 between Great Britain and the United
States. is not good ground, for i, is not true;
and besides if it were, the British have been
violating the treaty constantly ever since it
was made, and our government should have
no scruples. or hesitancy, in checkmating their
ambitious designs.
WhateveTmay be the fate of Dr.. Inns bill
during the present session. however, we have
little doubt but that new Congress, which.
in all likelihood, will be decidedly Democratic
in beth branches, will promptly pass it into
law. The west will demand it-and whatev-
er they demand in earnest they can pretty gen.
orally obtain.
WAR SPEECH FROM Col. BENTON ON THE |
ORseoN VuEsTloN.-rhe preceding remarks |
were written for last weeks Herald. bu, a, too |
late an hour for insertion in that oumher.
dnd H.