Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-02-15

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pened to-day improbable that happening would ia
1890. In accepting that condition, the State of Missouri
the same time made request TO the Congress of the United
States which preserved part of her of acceptance
She made request, which will read to the Senate
And this convention doth hereby request the Congress
The United States modify the third proposition
amount Of the five centum the sale of the public
lands offered be applied to the
roads canals and the promotion Of education within this
State, under the direction Of the Legislature hereoE
This is most essential proposition. goes back the
birth Of the Staegoes back thirty years the convention
which framed the constitution of the State and formed the
compact with Congress and it shows that on day she
looked upon the whole of this five per belonging
to herseas being her own money-and Of which she de-
sired make the application herself and within her
borders and in the improvement Of the mind well in
the improvement Of the country. She knew 1t hers
and knew that she had purchased upon hard
such those which young heir purchases money
from old mse-tbousands to be paid for hundreds
ceved She gave up the taxation Of forty millions Of acres
worth forty what these per would be worth
to her. She gave up. She purchased this miserable pit
lieu Of aIson under the belief that was her own,
be her own and be laid out making roads to her,
and in the moon, IN Maryland or even IN Ohio,
pointing at her-decting end towards her, She
thought of such thing that She thought words
words and stood for what they said She thought bargain
bargains and has stood to her part OF it. She has
taxed the public lands. She claimed this money from
her BIRTH and she had hard birth well as hard bargain
long delayed and then born into the Union almost by the
Cesarean operation She claimed this whole money as her
and just at that time, 1920 the construction OF the
road took form which promised indefinite delay in giving
her the benefit of any road to her. This shows that Mis-
souri, claimed this money thirty years ago, and that the Se-
nator totally mistaken in supposngh she never dssened
from the application which made OF in other States
She dssened from the beginning, she had been able to
look into utuy and herself deprived Of by Congress
But this only the beginning. In the year 1929 the Gen.
eral Assembly Of Missouri, with experience Of what
going on memoazed Congress upon the subject Of this
road. The General Assembly became uneasy The slow
progress Of the road and the mens expended it east Of
the Ohio river and in States remote from her borders and
demonstrated against it, Here is extract from the memo
| rial which will read
"The General Assembly Of the State Of Missouri,
sderng that the people of this State greatly interested
speedy location and construction Of the Cumberland road
the city Of Jefferson, the liberty to present for the
consideration Of Congress the proprey Of providing by law
for the immediate location of that road throughout its whole
extent. and to earnestly recommend the policy Of speedily
and causeways to facilitate the passage the most diff
cult streams and swamps This General Assembly well
of this road from the point Of its at Cumber
has been great and perhaps exceeding the
The Of the sales Of public lands in the Western
and appropriated to that object by the General Government
must be obvious to the Congress Of the United States
from the limits Of this State TO the capital owhch
destined ultimately reach convenences arising
from sensbly felt even operate,
except in sghy collateral way on its citizens And, con-
sderng the time already elapsed since the Of
that great object Of internal Improvement and the progress
your memorass that person of the
ration will experience the benefits resulting from it wit
its completion accordance with the original plan and
patriotic intention of the General Government"
There sir the argument which the Senator from Ken
lucky wants. and which he supposes did exist Hewanted
protest from Missouri dissent from the in which
this applied foreign to her interests and he has got
She protested sganst the slow progress of the work
would not reach her in the life Of of this genera
ton-and asked for road to be made She
wanted something in return for be money She spoke and
formally and automatically through her Legislature to Con-
gess and the Senator from Kentucky must that he
entirely mistaken in supPosing that the State has
from protested sgans the manner in which that
| fund was applied.
another protest. II is extract from the mes
Of the present Governor Of the State Of Missouri
Legislature in session. in which he shows the right of
the State Of Missouri demand this money from the Gov
Of the United Saes and carries the subject for the
time before the General Assembly Of the State He
| says:
81 beg leave to call attention, did two years snce
first address the Legsture the question of the right
of,hs State Z to the two per cent. fund
accepted by Missouri her into the Unon
that five cent Of the nett proceeds Of the sales of
Congress from and after the first day ofJanuary, after
deductng all the expenses incidental the shall be
served for making public roads and canals of which three
fhs shall be applied those objects 1vn the State
the direction Of the Legislature thereof and the other two
fhs in deaypg under the direction Of Congress- the
penses be incurred in the making of road roads, canal
canals leading the said State This condition.
relates twohs of this five per cent has been full
filled by the Gen era Government, is it desirable the
part Of Missouri that should be don The ntroduc
ton Of steam power and its application to boats and railroads.
has superseded the necessity for performance Of this part Of
the compact But leaves Missouri with equitable and
legal claim upon the General Government for the
appropriation OF this per cent fund.- The correctness Of
this principle has been repeatedly recognised by Congress
relnquhment the two per cent fund to several of the
States under similar compact 10 this under which Missouri
now asserts her right"
In this paragraph Of his message Governor King shows the
of In
graphs he shows the consideration which the State
gave for it. He says
The per cent agreed paid to and for the use and
benefit of Missouri grafuitous gift valuable
consideration given by the people OF the State when
conventon which they had caused assemble consider
this offer to the General Government and of another
sion which required of them condition of the adm-
that the lands of the United States in Missouri should
taxed and also that the lands should be exempt from
purpose whatever for FIVE years from and after the
pecye days Of sale thereof Thus it will be that Mis-
has surrendered her land for thirty
upwards OF twenty Millions Of of land the number
OF the Comms ioner OF the General Land Office to belong
the General Government and unsod at that me upon
the balance of the land in Missouri amounting upwards
thirteen millions of which, by the report shown
TO have been sold that me she loses her only
up to the day Of sale, but for FIVE years thereafter"
Mr. President, there forty millions Of Of public
lands in the State of Missouri. About thirteen millions have
been sold twenty millions remain unsold In thirty
years we have sold thirteen Millions The upon that
the lowest rate Of axatoD would have been great mil
lion OF acres valued by the United States million and
quarter OF dollars Take small Of per
on that value for each year, each mion and you will
n nFCat M,ls. L. a.