Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-07-21

frelghts, and TOR the means OF paying Tor them,
so that whatever improves the one, advances
the other; and they are so inseparable that they
should be regarded as one. That an export
| from the American shore to a British port in
Canada is as much foreign commerce as if it
had been carried directly to Liverpool, that an
expectation to Liverpool neither gains nor loses
any of the characteristics offoreign commerce,
by the directness or circuity fthc route,wheth-
err it passes through custom-house on the
British side of the st. Lawrence, or descends
| through that river and its connecting canals to
the ocean, or whether it passes along the artifi-
cial communications and natural streams of any
of the States to the Atlantic.
3. That the general government by extend
ing its juris diction over lakes and navigdble
rivers, subiectng them to the same laws which
prevail on the ocean, and on its bays and ports
not only for purposes of revenue, but to give
security to life and property, by the regulation
of Steamboats,, has precluded itself from deny
| ing that jurisdiction for any other legitimate
regulation of Commerce. If it has power to
control and restrain, 1t must have the same
power to protect assist, and facilitate, and if it
denies the jurisdiction in the one mode of &C.
| ton, it should renounce it in the other.
8. That in consequence of the peculiar dan
gers of the navigation of the Lakes, arising
| lIOul tifS Ndlib vi III cuCItClS dhu vi
| the Western rivers from snags and other OBJ
structions, there are no parts of the U. States
more emphatically demanding the prompt and
| continued care of the Government to diminish
| these dangers and to protect the property and
| life exposed to them; and that any one who can
regard provisions for these purposes section
al, local, or not national, must be wanting in
information Of the extent of the commerce car
ried on upon those Lakes and Rivers, and the
amount of teeming population occupied or in
terested in that navigation.
10. That having regard to relative popula-
| ton or to the extent of commerce, the appro-
prations heretofore made for the interior rivers
and lakes, and the streams connecting them
with the Ocean, having not been in just and
fair proportion to those made for the benefit of
the Atlantic coast; and that the time has arriv-
ed when this injustice should be corrected in
the only mode in which it can be done by the
united, determined and persevering efforts Of
| those whose rights have been overlooked.
| IL. That independent of this right to protec-
| ton OF Commerce among the States" the
| right of ''common Defence" guaranteed by the
Constitution, entities those citizens inhabiting
the country bordering npon the interior lakes
and rivers, to such safe and convenient harbors
as may afford shelter to Navy, whenever it
our neighbors; and that the construction of
such harbors cannot safely be delayed to the
time which will demand their immediate use.
II. That the argument most commonly ur-
ged against appropriations to protect "com-
merce among the States" and to defend the in
habitants of the frontiers. that they invite Sec
| tional combinations, to insure success to many
unworthy objects, is founded on a practical dis
trust of the Republican principles Of cur Gov
eminent, and OF the capacity of the people to
select competent and honest representatives.
| That it may be urged with equal force against
| legislation upon any other subject, involving
various and extensive interests. That just
appreciation of the rights and interests of all
our fellow citizens, in every quarter of the Uni
on disclaimlng selfish and oceI purposes, will
lead Intelligent representatives to such dis
| tribution of the means in the Treasury, upon
system of moderation and ultimate equality, as
will in time meet the most urgent wants of all.
and prevent those jealouses and suspicious
which threaten the most serious danger to our
confederacy.
Is. That we are utterly incapable of perceiv-
ing the difference between harbor for shelter
and harbor Cor commerce, and suppose that
mole or pier which will afford safe anchorage
and protection to avessel against Storm must
necessarily improve such harbor, and adapt it
to commercial purposes.
Ia. That the "revenue collected on Fore
ign goods belongs to the whole people; and the
public lands being the common heritage of all
our citizens, so long as these resources contin-
ne, the imposition of any special burden on any
portion Of the people, to obtain the means to &C
complish objects equally within the duty and
the competency of the General Government,
would be unjust and oppressive.
Is. That we disavow all and every attempt
to connect the cause of internal trade and Soon
merce among the States" with the fortunes Of
any political party, but that we mean to place
that cause upon such immutabe principles of
truth, Justice, and constitutional duty, as shall
command the respect of all parties, and the
Difference of all candidates for public favor.
| WESTERN HosPITALITY--A correspondent
of the Courier and Enquirer, writing from Fort
| Leavenworth, tells the following good story
The hospitality of the plain country people OF
this State tho always rough is equally ready
and it may not be amlss to give two or three
| instances IF it. On one occasion, in the midst
| of boisterous and beating storm, upon prai-
| rie between twenty and thirty miles in extent
stopped at an isolated house of entertainment,
as The term is, and on my entrance room was
made for me by the fire, and was asked by the
| landlady ii | would take dnner2 My answer
was yes: and after having somewhat dried my
clothes, commenced upon what appeared to
me feast. with a hearty good will, calling
| for many things which, if attainable, were
speedily brought me, aud ordering the poor
| woman from point to point completing my re-
| past, arose to depart and offered the price of
dinner to the obliging landlady.
"What's that. asked she.
'The money for my dinner,'I replied.
swell, reckon you might as well keep it,
though you did eat a heaps
"Why, understood this was house of en-
tertdinment; is it not?'
81 reckon"
'Don't you want the money for the dennerr
"Look year mister continued the woman,
in an evidently offended tone, IN this year part
ofth o Of ,rhora n ctr to