New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-27

lie tributary country Tor tCcities II It's an plr
emit In this sense we Of the West-particulary
of the Northwest-are, and ever shall remain
tributary to the Atlantic States, il we aohere 20
agriculture We must always use and pass their
channels end avenues of commercial transport 10
reaching market with our surplus. In country
producing large agricultural surplus, neither the
greatest profit IS made or sustained IN the mere
production, but 10 the manufacture OF the proluct5
and in the carry ing and barter trades connected
with them With oUr Tributary position, these
profits must always be monopolized by the Ola
States: and the greater our production, the
greater the profit thus realized by them
Hence it is plain that the more western
land you can put under cultivation ana the more
producers you can establish there, the more You
enhance the interests Of the commercial and man
ufacturng States in the items mentioned. put
further YOU vastly increase Il ability OF the class
YOU would send there TO purchase aud consume
the fabrics Of the North and the peculiar iaocs oil
the South 1.-THE population and production oil tne
West should be doubled, the mutual interests OF
the North and South in all these particulars would
be doubled also; and so on, IN like progressive
and corresponding proportions.
But, if the argument be still deemed fallaclous
let me test it by another general argument W ha'
sir, is it but knowledge and acknowledgment Oh
my positions that have caused the Atlantic states
to vie with each other in extending their Puouc
works toward the Western country Gan II De
possible they would have done so had there been
no West? No, they have been and are so acting
with view to making their works the channels
and their cities the marts OF Western trade'
| Would New York and Mass achusetts now, II they
| could have rolled back upon them all their lmml-
grant people, with the wealth they took away,
| consent, in view Of their Pecuniary interests, 10
see the West depOpuated, and its production
! stopped No sir not if you would give them TO
boot the entire cost of their Western public
works in money If there were no W est, they
would have to lay up one-thlrd OF their boats and
shipping and diminish fall one-thrd their manu-
| features. Comparative silence would reign where
now the tireless locomotive, never resting, rolls,
| and commerce floats. When the West has ad-
vsnced fifty ears they would not for the sake OF
| their commercial and manufacturing interests, set
| her back then if they could; and 1t would promote
| their true interest to advance her in population
and production ffty years III five, if in their pow
| err Away, then, with your petty jealousies oil
the growing greatness OF the West While we
remain OF the same family politic-and God grant
we may ever so remain Our greatness is your
| greatness; the prosperity OF each is mutual-our
! destinies the same.
THE Senate here adjourned and on the next
day Mr.. WALLER resumed as follows;
| Mr. President, have so far used general argu.
ments only 10 prove the interest which the ola
States have in the measure before u.s. But etus
try figures The net proceeds OF the public land
sales for ls49 were S9s3,3f3. If this were dis
tributed directly TO the States according to Popu
latiOn, New York would receive about $4,000
only, supposng the population Of that State TO be
3250 600, and OF the Union % 500 600. Now assum
gthe freight on the Erie canaltor the same year
to have been no greater than torthey year 1876 tine
| downfreight from Lake Erie was 5O6s3O tuns,
and the up.freight 49, 600 tuns, making an aggre-
gate Of 555 $50 tuns for tie ne'c States alone On
this the State toll was twenty-fOur cents per hun
bred pounds, yielding to the State S2,661,9s4 IN
| tolls only. The freight op this tunnage, over and
above the toll, was fifteen cents per hundred
pounds, making 81, 667, 400 more, paid to the CIT
| GEMS of Newly ork for freight. The whole amount
of tolls on the Erie canal for l847 was So 1888
and on the other canals of the State S302,O33
| total s., 635,380. To show that have not over
estimated the relative proportion OF western
commerce TO the aggregate, will statethat l, 43l,-
252 tuns were forwarded in the same year from
| Lake Erie alone, aud reached tideW alter; While
only 81 OBJ tuns reached tidewater 10 NewYork
from all other quarters. No fail to per
| ceive the immense Importance OF this trade to
the State of New-YOrk, Notwithstanding the
| West is vet in her infancy. What further New
York and people received from the throngng
travel to and from the West; what more from
| the manufacture of Western products and what
still more from the barter trade connected with
them, here and in foreign markets cannot be
known but the amount must have been immense
| indeed. Immense as 1t may have been, however,
| il would be doubled in future by doubling the pro
| duction and population Of the West.
The same may be said, 20 great extent In re-
| gard to most Of the Atlantic States-classing
| Pennsylvania among them--if they will but strive
| for Western trade rs have New York and Massa-
| chusetts. Can they, then, desire to retard the
growth of the Vest Can such q degree offatui-
| ty have seized upon them as to have rendered
| them blind to the deep and perpetual interest
| they have in settling the West with labOrers and
| producers, and putting her lands under cutiva-
ton ? Sir, if they owned those lands exclusively,
it would rebound to their interest to grant them
free to actual settlement and have no doubt they
would do it. France did so in Louisiana Spain
did the same in Florida and Mexico and Mexico
the same in her intendenciss.
There is, then, no argument against the mea-
sure under consideration 70 be drawn from any
supposed injustice in 1t. IL contains not only
compensatiDg equivalents, but remunerating in.
ducements to the old States 10 yield their acqui-
escence in its adoption
But YOU NAV say you possess and can retain all
these advantages without cedng the public lands.
We are arguing a question OF justice this argu'
ment sounds like one of right, based upon the
score Of our necessities. However let 1t pass.
| That you possess these advantages concede
that you can per force retain them, deny. Bat
suppose you could, is there no Importance to you
in having them doubled in ten instead OF fifty
! years Is the annual double of S2667 ,9Si moth.
/ ing to New-Nork as q State compared with
: l3,000-her distributive share OF the land sale
proceeds-and this received not directly but Incl
/ dentally only But YOU cannot retain these ad-
/ NahtdSes oy your pTeseut pu!tOy' lOV VIII iVlO0
| us to become a manufacturing as well as an
| agricultural people; when wo betide the COM
merce and manufactures of New. York and New
/ England, at least so far as the West and South
shall be concerned. We have equal facilities
with you in water power, and greater in steam,
for We have cheaper combustble. Our resources
IN coal, iron, lead, copper, timber, lumber, clay
aud limestone are inexhaus;ible. We can beat
the world in woolgrO wing, and are nearer than
you TO the cotton region-with the broad Mlssis
sppi to float our interchapging products; its con-
tributng branches-the Arkansas, Red River
Ohio, Wabash Illinois, Missouri, aud Wisconsin,
and their Notwithstanding past our every
domicil and hamlet; with railroads and canals in
progress to unite the whole All We lack is cap
ital, which we are fast acquiring, and shall SoOn