Litchfield enquirer., 1850-08-22

valOrem; or whether the principles ol 1 the Tariff of l642 should obtain, oi
 those of lS46. The effect and opera.
 ton of the one on the other will ever bt
 general. If the system be good. the
 benefits will inure to all. though not per.
 haps to the same extent; and if bad,
 the evils will bs cOextensive with the country, though the pressure may be greater at some points than at others We cannot say to the good or evil lcgis' latiOn in this regard, hitherto Stalt thou come, and no farther"
 5. On promoting the internal trade and intercourse of the country. by a proper system of harbOr and rixer i'm prOvement. { 6. Ditto the external trade, by fa.. eilitating access to our ports by means of light house, beacons. and buoys, and the survey and exploration of our coast. to ssy aothing of improving our salt wa.' ter harbors.
 2 On developing and maintaining our postal system, and making the same commensurate with the wants of the country.
 8. On a wise administration of our public domain as to promote rapid set clement of the new States, and extend requisite aid and encouragement to im- pOrtant works of public improvement and to educational and other beneicent objects.
 9. On a faithful administration of jasl'ce by learned and able judges, and tue execution ot the laws by competent and faithful officers.
 Who has ever heard of any distinc- tion being made between free States and slave States under any of these heacs of or administration ? Is there the slightest ground to apprehend that any such dlsIlctlon will be attempted hereafter, or that 1t would succeed Ii at attempted ?
 But. Mir. President, there are. am sensible. many objects ot local interest which are at all tunes before Cong ess, and require much consideration and a proper dlspvsillon at It's hands. have been acting on such questions ever since 1 have been Tn Congress, and have never been conscious ot making the slightest difference between free States and slave States. represent a constituency who seldom ask any ythlng at the hands of this Government. During the ten or eleven years 1 have been ln Congress, have sought almost nothing for my State.- Some two or three appropriations for harbCr Improvements ate the sum of the whole matter. 1 recollect obtained Mr. Folks assent to one such improve ment by putting it into light>house -bill. black Rock harbor is highly im- porIanL to our coasting trade as a harbor of refuge, and it was in danger ot belng destroyed by the acton of the sea on the island constituting it; and finding light house bill travellng through the House. l moved an appropriation for the harbor, m the name Ot saving the light house on the island, and this succeeded. 1t was the only harbor improvement sanctioned by Mr. Polk during his whole adminls' tration.
 Mr. Foots. I merely wish to inquire whether the honorable senator intended to deceive the late President.
 Mr. Smith. intended to put into the bill highly beneficial provision. and one that the President ought to approve. 1t is a source of some satisfaction to me shat succeeded in snalching 50 much money from the gulf of the Mexican war. got the money--lhe harbor, flight house and alD is saved--and l thank God for it.
 But this is a departure from the sub- iect under consideration. l repeat. 1 have been almost necessarily voting for local objects of every kind, which apper- tained to other States and section, and particularly to the Northwest. West and Southwest. l do not claim to be pecu> liar in this respect-almost the entire N. Eng land delegation have gone with me, under the lead of our commander chief, MT. WEBsrEs. though not our commander in-chief oM this bill. Laugh. ter.l have not yeered my course on any distinction between free States aad slave States, between the Northwest and Southwest. could bring thousand il> lustratiOns of the truth of this remark. One will suffice. We had before us the other day proposition to grant alternate sections of the public lands to aId in the construction. of railroad from Galena, via Chicago. to Cairo, in Illinois, and thence across the States of Kentucky, Tennessee. Mississippi and Alaoama. to Mobile, ln the latter State--a magnificent unde, taking and worthy of the natien and of the age in which we live. Did we. (tbe men of the Nortb) manifest q disposition t1 cut oil the appropriation at Cairo The idea that . large part of the road would run through slave hold ing States did not even occur to me. ] voted tor tt with the utmost cheerfulness and l take deep interest in its success in the AOusa vsh,.rs. smeh measures have