Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-02-15

OF Illinois, an the House of Representa-
taUeS, on the resolutions referring The
Presidents annual message 10 the carl
Gus standing and special committees.
(CGNCLUDED.)
have reason to believe. sir, that the
plan proposed by the President will prove
satisfactory TO the State have the honor
in part to represent. Bounded on the west
by the Mississippi, on the south by the
Ohio, OH the east by the Wabash-three
great rivers floating vast amount of
commerce and -navigation-she would be
furnished with ample means, at the lowesf
rate oil tonnage duties, to improve and
perfect the navigation of these and other
rivers, including, the Illinois and Rock
rivers, in which she is immediately and
greatly concerned. Bounded on the north
by Lake Michigan, there she would be
equally well supplied with the means of
improving and securing her only two har.
bors, at Chicago and Little Fort; the
trade at which, especially al Chicago. the
pride OF our State, is now quite large and
is rapidly increasing. Ii willnot only &C.
complish all this, but more; it would ex-
empt Illinois from the burden of paying
heavy and perpetual contributions for the
! improvement of harbors and the naviga-
| ton of rivers in which she is not interest,
| ed. And this reasoning should apply with
equal force 10 Indiana, Kentucky, Missis
sippi, Arkansas, Iowa. and Missouri
whose rich and populous city of ST. Louis
would afford abundant means to make and
preserve one of the best harbors in the
and. In fact with more or less force
to all the States. Upon the ground of ex
pediency, therefore, upon. which place
this argument. the plan proposed by the
President should prove generally accept
able.
But, SIT, time presses, and must pass
on more rapidly. Early during Mr.. Polk S
administration, the question of the repeal
OF the law distributing the breeds of the
sales ofthe public lands among the States,
came up for consideration. This m, asure
originated with. the great man OF Ashland,
(Nir. Clay,) who continued to urge it with
his great talents and influence, until il
obtained the sanction of Congress- Gen.
Jackson. with different views Of public
policy, regarded the measure as of dan.
gerous tendency sand, therefore, arrested
its contamination by the Executive veto.
We all recollect the fierce partisan wal
that was waged against the "Old Hero
tor this act. and how he bore himself tri.
umphantly in the contest. Thus defeated,
the measure remained imperative until
lS4l; when ''tederal Congress" exhum
ed it from the grave, and galvanised il
into sort of quonddm ricketty existence.
| Tradition tells US then that it was dis,ri.
button, and that other short lived and exc
cradle shape, the bankrupt lar, came
forth as twin and dependent offspring o.
the same act of political acutery. They
came forth as the formidable shapes tha
sPrang from the brain of Lucter to guarc
the gates of He'll: ~ ....-. -, .....s ..--.
"fhe one seem'd woman to The waist, and fair;
But ended foul, in many a-scaIy -fpd, E .ET
2 yolumlnous and vast !! A serpent ann'd -,
| with mortal sting; about her middle round,
A cry OF hell-hounds never ceasIng berk'd
With2wide Cerhe rean. mouths folI loud, and RIM
! A lndeous peal; yet, ben they liss would creep
IT aught disturb''l their noise, into her womb,
. And kennel there.''' 800 -
. Such vas the image of that frightfu
moral prodigy, the bankrupt law, with-it
foul and double features of voluntary an,
involuntary bankruptcy; which Knocked
at the. faith of contracts, and afforded ,
sanctuary for near fifty thousand debtor
the demands of their creditors.