The North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1834-1850, 1850-10-23
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willing to receive them. 1t would be @ 1saseaabls
to expect to empty the ocean with teaspoon 40 70
effect this great object with single line Of ssamsss,
to which this Government is expected to contIbute
annually Those able to pay their passage,
themost industrious, and the best, might 20 none
others could for the steamer s expected to work
gratuitously. The most idle and vicious would re-
main here, and the amount of evil would be greatly
aggravated, far the United States are concerned
Should the whole freesblack population consent to
many other lines of steamers for the purpose
and we should degenerate into organization for the
purpose of exchanging the different races of mankind
from one portion Of the earth to another. -
MIR. Chairman, neither colonization nor commerce
succeeded by this system of hot-house culture
Supply and demand-the desire of gain, and energy
in industrial pursuits, protected by the laws, are the
elements Of prosperity-and nothing else is or should
be. Admit the propriety OF such connection with
the interests Of corporations and individuals, and you
will make this Governments jobber, in every species
Of industrial pursuits, from the manufacture and sale
OF revovers the construction of Ships If the Gov
ernment may properly select classes for emigration,
they may also regulate domestic relations and in
a few years We shall know no authority but that
which exists in the General Government and feel The
effects of accumulated debt and the oppression Of
unmitigated taxation. If colonization is legitimate
enterprise, we shall have enough to do: the field is
the world, and high modern philanthropy will furnish
enterprises sufficiently numerous and important to at
tract our attention, and employ our energies. The
partners and dependents on the Government and the
Treasury will constitute trained band, who can sub
sdize the press, manufacture public opinion control
elections, and govern the people. To such con-
summation things rapidly fastening and the SOW
ereignty of the States, in the process of absorption
by the great principles of nationality, and all party
names and party organizations, are tendinc to the
Gam EOr I odb
which limits our Government to the objects for which
it was created, and which alone are worthy of the
respect and veneration of freemen.
There is yet another objection to the complication
Of the interests OF this Government with the specu-
lations of individuals. At every step you increase
the influence, the pressure from without to affect the
Legislation OF the country You create local and Sec
tona inerests-you enlist capital and create power
which, by combination and concert must finally se.
cure the control of all the patronag ge which is con.
cenrated here. None OF US can be insensble of the
effects of such combinations, upon this House.
Measures for the distribution of the favors the mon
| ey and the lands of this Government, which would
fail the separate merits of each, are triumphant
when sustained by union with those having sim
liar object in view. have, within few DAYS. seen
an application for lands to make railroad referred TO
a committee, and receive its Quietus, when it was
avowed by the friends of that system of improvement
to be question, to all similar applications
and on the succeeding day combination of such
measures received the sanction of this House. The
short Alabama railroad failed. but when one hand
was extended from the lakes, it met by another
stretched out from the Gulf of Mexico. They grasp
ed, and under their resistess pressure millions of
of the public domain passes from to corpor-
ations and spectators. l have looked with sorrow
and with shame at the effects of such system, and
unwilling to aid in creating another of claim
ants, who plead that they partners in aid
future combinations to seize upon the resources of
the country, the labor of the people. Those whose
interests represent have never asked or received
any Of the public moneys, except that which is ex-
pended in mail facilities. My constituents make
their living and accumulate their wealth from small
and nconsiderable incomes. Their labor and econo-
my is their only resource, which they proudly claim
as the only Legitimate fountain of independence and
virtuous feelings. They know that their sixpences
will have to be collected to make the fortunes o the
avortes of the Government; and they will sane
tion such transfer of their money TO those who,
like the lilies of the valley, neither toll nor spin but
who enjoy the wealth, the luxury, and the ease Of
Solomon in all his glory.