The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-12-20


In relation 10 these subjects so intimately con
nected with the welfare and happiness of the
United States.
Simple grants from the Raj abs or Nabobs to
erect trading houses-one at Madras, the
other at Calchtia-iorm the basis of the Gov
eminent of Britain east of the Indus. The
trading houses soon became Fort William and
Fort George and IN order TO secure the plum
der OF millions to the favored few, and to shut
out their own People at large, the Govern
ment granted a charter of incorporation
to this privileged class, by which the
Government and the favored few, by happy
combination forthose in the copartnership, has
crushed tohe earth the Indian and the Brahmin
furnishing newmeans to keep in subsection to
this chartered and favored class, the People at
large, in the British isles, and excluding all not
partners in thisrompany of iniquity to any par
ticpalion of its Fofts.
The two traditg companies at Madras and
Calcutta have gftwn into an empire more popu-
lous than great part of Europe.
And the whole history of the incorporation of
Government for the purposes of trade, furnishes
one of the safest precedents for any combination
between the rich, and the Government to keep
down the peon(e at!arge, and for their own pc
cuiar benefit and political Importance, that cum
ming, cupidiy and corruption, can, or has ever
devised. But our experience in this country has
shown similar precedent not entirely safe for
all the persons incorporated; and the people at
large still smart under the efforts that this chart
tered incorporation have made to get possession
of the public treasure of the people at large, and
TO combine with the Government to assist the
People in choosing President, and regulating
all the measures of value for the benefit of the
Incorporated.
BY this happy combination of the chartered
rich with the Government of Great Britain
they have secured domain for riches and i'm
portance not easily told. This grant to erect
two trading houses, which has grown into
complete subjugation of the entire country, and
should be a warning to us that similar permits
sion or connivance for trade may ripen, and
most assuredly will ripen, into strong assertion
oil right; and would terminate as it did with the
Hindoo, and the Brahmin, were the people with
whom they will have TO deal, in this case. of
The same East Indian stamp and blood 1t
was proper, then, that the President should
enter into minute detail touching this most
important subject. And when it is seen, that
by the Oregon river, there is a most direct route
between Asia, and the valley of the Mississippi,
II IS plain that the Asiatic supply for the vast
population, which will soon fill up the countries
drained by this father of rivers will and must
take this route; the vast importance Of securing
This portion OF our territory beyond the reach of
any combination or act of incorporation or arti-
hce from permission 20 trade, the importance, |
say, of an immediate attention 10 this Oregon,
has been most properly set forth in the Message.
upon other considerations Of paramount impor.
lance.
Nor are we less indebted TO the President for
the minute references which he has made to
the conduct Of the British in relation TO the
slave-trade. And the necessity of sleepless
vigilance, on our part, in this quarter, is based
upon some facts not sufficiently known or recol.
lected in relation to this subject; and which, in
some points Of view, i, destined to exert by its
connection with another topic, an interest of
countless magnitude 10 the existence OF our be-
loved country,
In order TO place this subject in its proper
light, it will be absolutely necessary to take
retrospect of the past, whilst keeping the eve
steadily fixed on the present Experience is
our safest guide, and we shall be wanting to
ourselves if we shut our eyes 10 the signs Of the
times. The cloud no bigger than a mans hand
III the distant horizon, spreads from day to day,
and lovers over larger and larger portion of
the heavens, and admonishes Of danger ap-
preaching with rapid strides.
But most fortunately there is a moral law lust
as fixed as any law of the planetary system
that as we sow, so shall we reap. The rich,
the titled and the incorporated of England have
held in chains worse than negro Virginian. the
people at large of the United Kingdom. The
reports to the Parliament, made on the motion
Of Lord Ashley, tell Of deeds done in the foul
air above, and in the earth beneath, and Re
beccaism, and Chartism, and Repeal, and kirk
ism give signs, that in the Providence of God,
the harvest is ready for the sickle. Here is our
security. Judgment will begin at the head
Wo unto them that are wise in their own
eyes, and prudent in their own sight.
Oh may the solution of this problem not
be made in force or in selfshness ! but in
charity. BY the desire Of domination, the an
gels lost their first estate Man, his, by selfish
ness; but oil charity there is no excess; nor an
gel, nor man, ever came into peril by it,
Macon.
DECEMBER, 1913.
There can be doubt of the accuracy Of the facts
set forth in the memorial and it exhibits careless