The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-02-11

was 10 apply part and the State part and both in
way and It would have been just as much violation
OF he compact Tor Congress to apply its part different from
the compact as II would have been in the State to have
deviated IRON the terms OF the law.
we now come to the state Of Missouri. A compact
was made with It in 1890; and, cir. in that compact the
State OF Missouri, in accepting the conditions which
were lad down by Congress, showed her full sense of
her Iights-,hat this whole Eve per centum was hers
whole should be given up her With great foresight.
with great forecast, (andI say il with more read
ness for was not member OF the convention that did
itD Missouri seemed to have foreseen what has hap
pened to-day, Improbable that happening would
in 1890 ln accepting that condition, the State of Mis-
sonI al the same time made request to the Congress of
United States which Is preserved as part OF her act
Of acceptance. She made request. which will read to
the Senate:
And this convention doth hereby request the Congress
Of The United States to modify the third proposition that
me whole amouat Of the tive per centnm the sae OF
the public lands thoe,~ offered may be apped IN the
o. roads and canals and the promotion Of
education within this State under the direction oi the eEs
iaturs thereof"
This is most essential proposition. II goes back to
the birth OF the Stategoes back thirty years toahe
venon which framed the constitution Of the State and
formed the compact with Congress; and il shows that
that day she looked upon the whole OF this five per
tum as belonging TO herself, being her money,
and OF which she desired TO make the application her
self, and within her borders, and in the improve
ment OF the mind well in the Improvement of the
country She knew il was hers, and knew that she had
purchased upon hard ermsabout such terms as those
on which young heir purchases money from an old
miserthousands 10 be pail for hundreds received She
gave up the taxation OF forty millions Of acres, worth
forty times what these per cenlums would be worth
to her She gave it up She purchased this miserable
pitlance in lieu of taxation under the belief that
her own, and to be her own, and to be laid
even in Ohio. pon,ap ., herIdrecns one end towards
her. She never thought of such thing as that She
thought words were words and stood for what they
stood to her part Of it. She has not taxed the public
lands. She claimed this money from her birth. and she
had hard birth well hard bargain-long de.
ayed and then born into the Union almost by the Casa
operation. She claimed this whole money as her
own; and just at that time s2o the construction of the
road took form which promised an indefinite delay in
that Missouri claimed this money thirty years ago, and
that the senator Is totally mistaken in supposng that she
dssened from the application which made OF
il in other States She dIssented from the beginning
if she had been able 10 look into fauy and herself
deprived OF tby Congress But this only the begin
ming In the year 1879 the general assembly of Mis-
souri, with experience of what was going on.
morazed Congress upon the subject OF this road The
general assembly became uneasy al the slow progress of
the road and the millions expended of the Ohio
river and in States remote from her borders and
straed against It, Here extract from the memorial,
which will read:
The general assembly of the State of Missouri, consid
erng that the people Of this State greatly interested in
the speedy location and The Cumberan
road ciy Of Jefferson assume the beny present
for the Of Congress the propriety Of providing
by the immediate Ice alton ot thai road th ghou
its whole extent, and earnestly recommend the pocy
ediy opening, gradu sting and 80 improving the
by bridges and csuseways TO facilitate the passage
the difficult aud swainps. This general
s,mbIy well that the amount already expended
ia the uction OF this rod from the point OF
Cumberland has been great, and perhaps
exceeding the OF the two per
fund heretofore arising from the proceeds OF tho sales o
public lands in the Saes and Appropriated that
object by the general government Yet must be obvious
Cong United States that, considering
great stance s parts Of this Improvement from the
limits of this State o the capital Of which /. destined
TO reach the conveniences arising
In slightly collateral It's citzens. And considering
already elapsed sioce the commencement Of that
great object Of internal improvement, and the pfogcs.
heretofore made towards its nccompishmrn II appears
your oralss that person OF the
senersliop v, experience the benefits resulting from it,
witness its petion In acco'dnucs with the original
plan and patriotic intention Of the general government
There, sir, 10 the argument which the senator from
Kentucky wants, and which he supposes did not exist
He wanted protest from Mssouria dissent from the
manner in which this applied so foreign 10 her in
teess and he has got IL She protested against the slow
progress of the woTk-saw il would not reach her in the
life of any OF this generationand asked for com
road TO be made At once She wanted something in
return for her money. She spoke, and formally and au
thenticay through her legislature Congress and the
senator from Kentucky must see that he is entirely
mistaken in supposng that the State has never dssened
from protested against the manner in which that fund
was applied,
come to another protest II is an extract from the
OF the present governor OF the Ss'eoi Missouri
the now y 10 ~ dsmsnd ne nj.
from the government of the United States and carries
the subject for the second time before the general
bly, OF the State. he says:
81 beg leave call attention. did two years since. in
my first address the Legislature, To the question OF the
light Of the State to The two per cen, fund
" One OF the propositions made by the general
men and eped by Missouri upon her admission into
the Union was five per OF the net proceeds Of
BE- sod nv c.nae and a. x.
OF January tIS2l alter deducung all the Incl
dental The same, shall be reserved FOR making public
those objects ih~ the State under the direction OF the
legislature hercof aud the other two hth, Ia defayng
upder the direction OF Congress The expenses TO be tncjed
In tho making Of road or roads canal or canals leading
the said State This condition. lar as relates To wo
6hs per cent has been fulfilled by the gen
esl government /. desirable the part of Missouri
that should be done. The introduction Of s'esm
and its application TO boats and railroads. has u
seded necessity Tor performance OF this part of the
compact But IL leaves Missouri with equitable and
legal claim upon the general government tor the
this principle ba, been repeatedly recognised by Con
the of the two per cent fund 10
sal of Sates under similar compact to this nnder
which Missouri now asserts her right
In this paragraph OF his message Governor King shows
the rRh OF the Stale 10 this reclamation In subsequent
parag phs he shows the enormous consideration which
the State gave for il. He says.
The Ave per cent agreed be paid and for the
bsnc of Missouri gratuitons gift most
confederation given by the people oi the Sate
when in the coavenfioa which they had caused
consider OF this offer tho general govcrnment and
condition of the admission Of tho State into ths Union
agreed by ordinance that the lands Of the United
States In Missouri should not be tsxed and a-o that the
lands should ke exempt from tar for any purpose
vs years from and after the respective days
Of ssls thereof Thus Will be that Missouri has
rendered her land for thirty years upon upwards
Of sndhe number OF shown by late report
Of the Commissioner OF tho General Land Olceo belong