Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1852-03-25

lCct TO taXation-an imount greater IN area
than the whole Of your State-to make such
works as are projected and commenced, and
such as are needed, through the public do
main? You may be prepared to ask me,
why we do not follow the example of New
York and Pennsylvania, and make these
works, if needed, out of our own resources?
| answer the interrogatory thus: You have
no public domain not subject to taxation,
but every acre of land within yonr States, !
presume, may be made tributary to every
road projected within your limits, Not so
with Missouri. She has but 100000 Of
acres subject to taxation, while there are
29, 900, 900 of acres which she cannot touch
because it is the property Of the General
| Government. Can you expect us, under
such disadvantageous circumstances, to
made roads through the domain, when we
have but l2,O00,000 OF acres out of 49,
900 OO0 which yield us any revenue?
beg gentlemen to remember this further
fact, that every State and county road with
in the limits of Missouri, has been made by
the citizens of our State. They have
marked out and surveyed, not only the roads
which pass before their own doors and
through their farms, but those across those
vast, untenanted, and uninhabitcd prairies
of the west and where the wilderness in
tervenes they have cut them, | might say,
almost unaided by the General Government,
| from which we have only received, under
| the compact between Missouri and the Gen
eral Government, three per cent Of the net
proceeds Of the sales Of lands, within the
limits of the State OF Mssouri--thrcc per
cent of the net proceeds upon the sale Of
| 100000 of acres. All our roads have
been opened, all our bridges have been
erectcd-and yet the General Government
has never contributed anything save the
three per cent, which have mentioned, and
100000 acres OF land which were donated
a few years since.
| beg. in this connection. 10 quote from a
speech of one of South Carolina's most gift
ed sons, in debate in the Senate Of the
United States, which for loftiness Of clo-
quence, for strength of argument, and pun
gency of satire, has never been surpassed in
the British Parliament in the days Of Fox,
Of Pitt and Of Burke. beg leave to read
the extract, in connection with the remarks
which | am now making:
II can easily conceive that it may be eX-
tremely inconvenient, nay, highly injurious
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WITHIN ner chartered chartered 'ilh.ts, locheu up IRON m
sale ana settlement w'i'uiaMn avn rom 'ne
power OF taXa'lon' ana eohtlloutills IN h'
respect TO her wealth. ana prosperity
Il ask does not thtS s'a'e OF thi'gs' "clu'
sent strong claims upon the Government fol
the adoption OF a liberal policy towards thai
2ta'e; we t'''t' d ''i HO' u J's'eo ~ u
'ne aid o, 'h4S government III conS'IucS',it
, .heSe ro'US oyer vast 'IIc'S C' ti'o pUoli'
CONAN Which are 'ocNeu up from say, 'Ii'
Wlich !'e'u 10 -IlSSouti ho revenue III.
OUT grant from me UeIera' Government
me great Pfopr'etor' WHO il 10 Oe 50 SI'"'
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ro'oS' we ca'.ho: coiipIg.e Ci. Si,sih @ t.ne'
MOI IN tI'' interior j our oi"le many '|,s
CAPITALISTS Fet,reo geh''t'nei' WHOSE LOT
'uhes are Naue' an" WHO are ANXIOUS !.
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h'f"y' ehI'tpriN"'S PeoPiV' "lel u - si'''
) 'oF'uilc$' VINO arc "IP'''"HH, upon tiie ~
d comes from ,ne'' i!ocNs "''u Lel"s ana 'h
. produce OF 'heir ie'oS' 'or 'h' support
: their Ia'nl'ioS' incSe afe noI tile % men Nn
can oe cAPCceo " p"'" " ''''S' az,
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ahousn' Sir' lnc! '''Se s'sPPeu 'ot""'o t.'.
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n WORKS. I'"c' sIm ti'"' tiits Wa, i'J ii.;
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