Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-02-15

4 recommend that the Legislature make formal ren
quishment TO the General Government Of the right
fund and aIso to AK that mid fund be to H.
Of Missouri and the State also declare ts willingness to
cept ssd ren9uishment In full of said fund.- and
orung with this further condition, that the aid Der cent
fund shall be faithfully applied the of the Pa
cc railroad and the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad suci
manner may be thought just by the Legishture."
That is the recommendation of the Governor and will
these suggestions the bill corresponds They in ae
cordance with each other and with the original of
stutng the fund II make continuous roads TO hs
State and through it. In which have been adopted
to pay this per cent fund to certain States Alabama o
one there clause which required the road in the State
lead the frontier, to connect with roads coming
it. Our bill corresponds with this He recommends two
named roads within the State both Of such importance that
they may be deemed national Both have initial points
the Mississippi rver-eadne and commanding points, and
points which communicate with other roads coming
Illinois They the State east and wssgo through it
according the original intent of the compacs and will be
beneficial to the United States, well to the State OF
Missouri say that these two roads which proposed
to be made which the State is exeftng herself make
will be links in the national roads which the conti
nen They will be links and most important ones, in the
great line of communication the continent There is
nationality in the object to which it proposed to apply this
two per cenum fund.
Now Mr. President having shown that the Senator from
Kentucky mistaken in many points in relation to this
roadin relation the time of It's orgin-is
continuation beyond the Ohio riverhs ots and drec-
o toards :" and in the great points that Missouri had
objected dissented TO the application of this fund
objects distant from her. have show bis equal mis-
take in reading from the journals of the Senate the names
those Senators who voted for the passage of this per
centum. was Of those Senator'S and when offered
this case to the Senate, thirty days ago. stated that
these pledges constituted the why the
Missouri had not heretofore applied the per cenum
paid to the State. We waited until beyond dispute
that the road was given up by Congress, and
go to Missouri.
But what more did say at the same tme and which will
tn hv The
lucky said that gave these votes under pledge that
the road was to 90 to the State Every given under
that pledge Every given under that assumption
And it not until that assumption failedit until
it fully and completely that the road
be made the State Missouri that felt ourselves jus
fed to forward and demand the money. Sir, did
not vote under these conditions Was every word that
spoken upon the subject of this road spoken under the
pledge that the road to be carried 10 the State Of Missou
and, the General Assembly says, through it. Yss. sir,
every vote was given under that pledge And to ask
to stand 10 the pledge, when the condition has failed would
be about equal to asking to stand to the penalty Of bond
after the condition of the bond cut of and thrown away
What would bo done in court Of justice, il person sued
upon bond should show that there condition to it,
which coLdition would make it void Would not the court
say, you make that assertion good the bond will be
void Would not every body cay II in courts OF justice
even IN nisi prius even, in any common law courts,
pledge given upon condition is void unless the condition is
preferred, will be here That is the precise in
which Missouri stands to-day She waited long for the
fu6ment Of the condition that there could be dispute
about and she has forward like other States have
and asked to have her cenum paid to her,
Now the Senator from Kentucky that the State Of
Missouri is great debtor that she is largely in debt to the
United States And what the foundation Of this supposed
Indebtedness It is because the United States has made
road from the navgabe waters Of the Atlantic towards Mis-
souri, Upon the principle apprehend she is also
largely in debt to Maryland the companies chartered by
the State Of Maryland for making roads and canal
They made roads and canals "totcardS" Missouri They
made the road to Cumberland being half the distance to Ohio
In MT nYut nj hpf ho
debt to the State of Pennsylvania. She has made roads
and canals leading the Ohio river and o,oards Missouri
She may be brought in debt to Virginia. for Virginia made
road to the Ohio river the mouth of the Guyandote point
ing in direction towards Missouri We also be brought
in debt to Kentucky for she also has made roads pointing
towards Missouri The of all the States They have
all made such pointing roads, Upon that principle Missouri
may be brought in debt every State in the Union. The
Senator reads act appopaing $4,000 to making road
in the Territory Iowa to the northern boundary Of Missouri
Why read that act patperormance Of the compact
that continuation of the great National road Surely the
Senator ought deem highly Of the intellect Of the people
OF Missouri tnan to quote that Iowa road upon them.
think the Senator, upon his own showing, would make
Kentucky debtor to the Federal Government for this
tional road He tells of the time when he mred for
three days few miles where he goes smooth few
hours. He should make Kentucky debtor by his own
showing. All the West, and Northwest, and Southwest
may ao he made debtors hope they will not all be sued
for the money Fortunately none of them except Missouri
has money in the Federal Treasury 10 be held without suit
The Senator from Kentucky gives special pleading
the point of time-that there time limited within
which the road get to Missouri. That plea might do
better in law than in the Senate of the United States
When there time fixed reasonable time is always in
tended and what reasonable time well understood
when the compact made, and when the Missouri
rial Of 1929 presented But is not the road given up
not dead Will Congress carry it inch further
Certainly not 1t is ar-fetched argument that the road
may yet emade It is two edged argument admits the
right OF Missouri to have the road and postpones TO eternity
generation has passed away and the road has stopped
to be resumed And here is the State Of Missouri
repeat for the foeh tme-he only State to which this
two per has been either reimbursed money!
the terms of the bond complied with by making road
Mr.. CLAY. will detain the Senate but very little
time. The argument Of the Senator from Missouri has not
con'roverted several positions which assumed existing
and which think must be conclusive this question: He
has not denied that there not single cent of the per
cent fund in the Treasury Of the United States He has
denied that the whole been expended the Cumber-
land road He has denied that expended under the
provisions in the acts declaring that the
bursement of the General Government should be made
that two per cent fund.- He has denied that the State
Missouri during the progress of these various acts
to protest against appropriation Of the money
advance the road He has brought forward memorial Of the
General Assembly Of Missouri sent here in S29 in which
they do not complain Of the pledge of the fund.- they do
complain all that the two per cent fund had been appro-
paed to extend the road but they complain that the work
the road carried ~h the rspijy which they
'sred they wanted extended rapidly than
it had been.
With respect to the recommendation Of the Governor
to renquish the United States all the obligations on their
part to continue the road it is very late affair, and has
grown up under the idea that there is n the Treasury