Indiana State sentinel., 1847-07-01

I.rthsps which
RI Of three
Eeas; and
reduced
Aiy from
7pced TO
Ybfck.ed
Ion, and
ksh expor.
Eck and a
ed States in
one branch Of
that way, taxed !
)shd necessares.-l
picked fish are
United States, and
liars year paid IN
chiefly cod, and far
and these about
year-some years as |
we're paid. Now when
%. the bounties re-
sish exported but not
st is, they reduced.
e insignificant item Of 1000
hitude upon the large sum OF
Jas only computed 10 yield about
not yc, It's exact product
treasury estimate of 200 900, IL
le, and about half a much more, TO
in lieu Of drawback. to that branch Of
ed in the cod, bank fisheries. And
/feceive and will continue receive, until
kct Of the last year is altered in that particular.
pthe solution Of the enigma salt tar on q nation
geniy millions Of people, and nation of some hun
millions of horses cattle, mules sheep and hogs
al became private few thousand individuals,
with half much more added it, Let one in Mis-
sour, in the nnocsnt simplicity and downright integrity
of his heart suppose for instant that this monsrosty
the effect of Ignorance nadverence, neglect acci
dent the part of Congress No such thing. All
perfectly understood from 1889 to the present day. But
the anttarf representatives of the Goldfish interest would
vote for The bill, unless they saved all their allow
ances; the tariff could pass without their votes
aad thus the 100000 dollars annually paid the cod
fisheries became the price of the which passed the
last tariff BILL Against all this, he (M struggled al
the times and would continue struggle while the enormi
ty existed and he had power to combat it.
COL B. turned to subject Of great interes, TO the peo
pie of Missouri and justly he alluded to the improve
ment of their rivers This the established poll
cy Of all branches Of the government nOw though unhap
PLY suspended and baked for while. The suspension
condemnation of the policy, but the effect of vi
cous leglslaOn-mxng local objects with national
ures-puDg small streams into the same bill with such
rivers Missouri and MssssPpi and harbors which
harboed any thing but their owners interest," local
trade, with the real harbors which shelter the
and ships, and steamboats, of nation. The policy
not abandoned The fault of the suspension should
upon the President but the members Of Congress who
negligenty, sinstrousy. permit local objects be mix
ed up with national the BILL and thus force
the national carry the local. all sink together. There
constituent should observe the conduct of his representa-
| tive.
Col B. had long been advocate for the improvement
of grear rivers Above 20 years ago, and
when fesher from the classics and from his Roman read
ing than present. he had characterized the Mississippi
the Senate the Romans did their Mediterranean sea-
.Hdre aOstram the term he applied it, in aIluson
the which divided the earth in the middle, and saw
one flag it all. The Mississippi like that sea
divided land in the middle with the help of steam
and its tributaries, afforded much navigation as the
Mediterranean, and collected all its waters and rolled al
its floods under the single flag of the American Union
He called il OUR SEA, but without the slightest suspicion
that he was making 1t into altering clause in the
constitution of the United States A short time ago q
convenon-he believed it called river convention
assembled at Memphis it made the discovery that mare
nosfraH was not mere figure of speech, but reality
that what formerly only rivers, had expanded int
seas-inland seas-and that the constitution accommoda
ting instrument, like that miraculous tent in the ARABIAs
NIeHTs, cOmpressible that it might be squeezed
the grasp of shut hand and expansle that cou
spread over the whole encampment of oriental army
had expanded also the length and breadth Of ih
sea! and that now these improvements pcrfcc,
constitutional, in the river under the of "ir
land sea-, which perfectly unconstitutional under il
own name, under the classic establishment of mGr
n0stram the equally classic, and still appropriate
title at the same time bestowed upon it Of REX FLUvIO
RUM-kiLg Of Rivers The constitutional difficulty wa
solved but there practical difficulty. There wer
many rivers in the United Sae and of many sizes,
all could not be The pinch to assort them
and the genius of the convention equal to the Difficult
ty of the task. A rule given-a general rule-no
thing like generalization 1t laid down, and accepted
that where river washed three more it becam
sea-an inland sea-and entitled the benefits of th
. constitution: and where not, not This the rule
and now for the application. Applied TO the little
in New England, and river of three hundred miles lon
became a sea, and received constitutional improvement
applied TO the Great Vest and river three thousand mile
long, Che Mssouri,) remained only river 1t
by the rule, for it had but state upon it, and
scquenty, could have constitutional improvement.
This was an awkward exemplifcaoD of the rule but
was not of despair, and hope consolation
There was light ahead, and, uerr0ns. Other
might grow up the Missouri: in fact another has al
ready come (owa)-and in time, there may be third
Then this great river which from the setting sun
and washes the base of this capitol, and goes toward
the rising may complete its growth, and become
sea-an inland sea-and be entitled 10 constitutional i'm
provement Col b. said the idea of the growth Of a riy
was not new and not original to the Memphis
tiOn-only borrowed for the occasion by that lustriou
body. Ii was old idea and often shadowed forth i
the exclamation of the asonshed traveller at finding
! large river, like the Mississippi, the Missouri in
n country Mis is large river for country /
this exclamation the seminal conception of the idea
the growth of rivers feicitousy developed in the pre-
# ceedlngs Of the Memphis convenon-Oh metaphysics
IS political metaphysics thy shall henceforh be, Men
phis convention.
Abiding then to the prospect which late years had
that the trade Of the East Indies would yet the vale
= of the Mississippi by the Columbia and Missouri river
and The short portage of about five hundred miles betwec
ther waters when navgabe by steamboats,, he excamed