Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-07-23

OF %circuity of the route, whether it
passes through a custom-house on the British
side OF the St. Lawrence, or descends thro'
that Tver and its connecting canals, to the
ocean, or whether 1t passes along the artif-
clal communication and natural streams of
any OF the States TO the Atlantic.
8. That the general government by EXTEND
ing It's jurisdiction over Lakes and naviga-
be MYERS, subjecting them TO the same laws
which prevail on the ocean, and on its bays
and ports, not only for purposes of revenue,
but 10 give security TO life and property, by
the regulation of Steam Boats, has precluded
hseli from denying that jurisdiction for any
ounef legitimate re ulation Of Commerce. If
IL mas power to control and restrain, it must
nave the same power to protect, assist and
laciltate, and if it denies the jurisdiction in
the one mode Of action, ii should renounce it
in the other.
D. mat In consequence Of the peculiar dam
gers OF the navigation of the Lakes, arising
from the want of Harbors for shelter and of
Tue western Rivers from snags and other OBJ
struciions, there are no parts of the United
states more emphatically demanding the
prompt and continued care of the Govern
nlent 10 diminish those dangers and to pro-
tect the property and life exposed to them
ana That any one who can regard provisions
Tor those purposes as sectional, local and not
national, must be wanting in information Of
the extent Of the carried on upon
those lakes and rivers, and of the amount of
teeming population occupied or interested in
that navigation.
III. That having regard to relative popula-
non or to the extent of commerce., the appro-
nT1n1Innn - - II .A. -
ers and lakes and the streams connecting
them with the Ocean, have not been in a just
and fair proportion to those made for the ben
eht oil the Atlantic coast; and that the time
has arrived when this Injustice should be
corrected in the only mode in which it can
be done by the united, determined and persc-
Verlng efforts OF those whose rights have been
overlooked.
ii. That independent of this right to pro-
lection of commerce among the States"
the RICH: of "common defence " guaranteed
by The Constitution, entities those citizens
lnhablting the country bordering upon the in,
terror lakes and ri vers, TO such safe and con-
v%enient harbors as may afford shelter to a Ma.
Wy whenever it shall be rendered necessary
by hostIlities with our neighbors and thai
the construction Of such harbors cannot safe
ly be delayed to the time which will demand
their immediate use.
IL. That the argument most commonlv
urged against appropriations to protect ''com
rnerce among the States" and to defend the
inhabitants Of the frontiers, that they invit
sectional combinations, to insure success Il
many unworthy objects, is founded on a prac
teal distrust of the Republican principles o
cur Government, and Of the capacity of TIT
people TO select competent and honest repre-
sentatives. That it may be urged with equa
force against legislation upon any other sub.
ject, involving various and extensive interests
That a just appreciation Of the rights and in
terests Of all our fellow citizens, in every
quarter of the Union, disclaiming selfish and
local purposes, will lead intelligent represen
tatlves to such a distribution of the means il
the Treasury, upon a system of moderation
and ultimate equality, as will in time NEE
the most urgent wants Of all, and prever
those jealousies and suspicious which threa
ten the most serious danger to our conledera
cy.
l3. That we are utterly incapable of per
ceiving the difference between a harbor 70
shelter and a harbor for commerce., and sup
suppose that a mole or pier which will affor,
safe anchorage and protection 10 a vesse
against a storm, must necessarily improv
such harbor, and adapt it to commercial pur
poses.
II. That the revenues derived from tn
imports on foreign goods, being the commo
property of the people, and the public land
being the common heritage of all our citizens
so long as these resources continue, the in
position of any special burden on any PORTO
Of the people, to obtain the means of accom-