New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-23

waters feouently rice fifty fest above the summer esv
and hurry downward 10 the Gull wne,e IN. rs' r,rs,s
lansud ocean tde of eighteen inchcsi lac ~eIASs
volume of wster throughout the year, NJ t's w.
mouth exceeds in cubic contents, nearly ou YIN
Of the cataract Of NAgars andoiten pushes ." -.
SO or many miles Now Is Il reasonable, rsat These
Tn,Esh tide notions OF nsvigabre n'rr- sAh ~
srrGed on this side of he Atlanticf Shsl se ie rVu
lets Of England give law 10 Continental river Ike oaisi
And nevertheless petty politicians, small men "1n
smaller IDEAS do take their law from England, AMI h'
wears have commended, and some even ye eon'eni sM
In the eye OF the American Constitution, TIE Mississippi
above the ocesn highiide wster mark any stsen marx
there be-k not navigable rver, nor sui9NA ~ sA'
10 the national authority
Now, wre not this encngh 10 make whoc people 50
10 war; But they did not, and again they went 70 N
Once more the authority OF the supreme Jul'lhi uiee
nal nj tho Erion was inyokedund during the year IcSi
snd not until then il tsaliy eetsnhshei el tls
narrow rules drawn from the English rivers were hS'
fpplcsble 10 our navigsbe streams Cooweos ana aD-
,r,ccns wore sxcpt away and nayignble waters were
decided BY Chief Justice TANEY 20 be waters at eoa
he nsyicaied One Judge only dissents, and ne came
from Nirgnie-oi course. -, H., ~ L.. a..
The tdewster question beng tnus tuspoeeu ", y. -
al uaveable waters OF our great rivers AMI hAs
in fact constitute channels OF commerce VII" io''s
nations and among the seyeralstae-' ,.a,.. 5000
Now ns 10 foreign commerce, isVery aiOu ~ 80,
rot yvb, 70 (, begins but where stors Casoes may
lie shirped from Nova Scotia directly 10 OhAS"So S
Vera Cruz directly TO Pittsburgh In -uoh oase, ey
rsss through several States on their way 70 ue pom %
aetinn,ion Surely such cargoes ere suIcel'y olesn
10 he iurnshed with harbors, or proteet" troI ms
IN ,ber WAY : and even il the steamboat oouna ior
Pittsburgh should be stopped ~ ~ OWL o. ~
tho Oli, and sent into the Wabash, me cha'at, vi
tho commerce would remain unsltered VT 70 ,aNo"
case nearer hCmc vessels from Nova Scot'a IN oon
onily be seen ascending the Hudson a ar As Asly'
md Above the OrcrSdb9h, upon Nhicn ~ nh"0" ''
.,tuti, mel argument has been expended 49,.
But even Il difficulties could be found IL ',te1Ii'ii
tic precise point in the interior, where 80 w.
for.iru nftions" oerscs retain that cha te ,nee
r,iv con re none in asceitainng the meaning OF inc
term "Sosnmercc Gnong TIC states. -, a., MO
For here again the yssssippis ar hsnd. ~ ~ -.
ducts Of O ,ss tlnn sixteen State, whch no" e ~ n
y,Ilev arr IL ly intcrnngled It's waters IL th's =
&c, commerce among the States. we may WI, dpi
ct finding sn instance For let us look =" Htu VA 'o
y;rucly into the Interior and what tue peoie are
chen, Nc, 20 mention their vast intcrcha,lges-Toh
cent from Tennessee two thousand miles 20 ipsoueH
sud returned, manufactured, two thousahd ni'sS
or inc timber from Southwestern New hh'hs
,s way 10 the I'pper MssYspp-s there nook or cor
usr in the whole valley remote that merchandise does
not reach from this cur own city has ha'Sao'o
treYm so snal that il this moment bearing on
NJ waters the fabrics OF the very manufacturers am
mechanics zee about mel And cannot we all see anu
feel how vital il cur interest IN the proper tss'uAlon
End safety of such commercef why IL l. the Noi(
Ifs blood Of the system flowing through every artery
and vein, and goTsns body polite to ITS renoeS'
sxtrenities .. s.,o, 60
chr commercial cifics Where in all the widespread
Wet il there hamlet small that 1t does not consume
de cotton the sugar and the tobacco OF he snutn-hs
sunny South-stretching away from the chesapeake,
i
sud one manufactures OF New-Engandi DO not wooden
slocks from good old Connecticut Try the temper OF the
yoodsmen of Minnesotal Why, the very oysters now
eaten al the Falls of ST. Anthony, first carried from
bsir OCEAN he'd in New Jersey through the long conra
enntie Of rivers and railroads, and canals, and lakes
and railroads again. which stretch more than thousand
miles from the Atlantic to the Mississippi; seasoned too
with salt riyerbone from the interior OF virginia and
pepper ocean borne from the iarhermos Islands OF Asia
And can we not from these homey examples, perceive
the universally Of our inland conssercef
1fnil gxVill
lie idea of liz pecuniary value The admirable report
10 The Senate of the United States by Col ALBERT Chief
Of the Typographical Engineers, made afterVery close
and investigation, estimates the annual tfade OF
Me mississippi for the year 1850, at two hundred and
ssventyour millions of dollars, and for the year 1862 vt
four hundred and nnety-four minions But what may
expect before the present generation shall pass
| away Why there men now before me who Will
see the annual movement on the Mississippi and its trib
utaIies numbered, not by hundreds OF milons ms az
present but by thousands OF millions. And Ii not thls
"conmerce among the States = Is not a commercial
movement like this-a laborsaying machine working on
scale 70 vast-a Godgyen stream, thus developing at
every moment elements Of national strength and pros
perity 20 gigantic as well worthy the attention Of
Government the barren and worthless distractions
by which political fanatics seek to paralyze it, powerst
The ennual lofses Of boats and their cargoos ON
the writers of the Mississippi by "snags" sandbars AMI
smilrr distractions, was estimated in the year 1916,
Nv Committee of the Senate of the United States, up
authentic data, TO have been s26Ol 200, and have
doubtless keptpace since thaime with the increase Of
the river commerce. We insist that the Government
Of the Unonis bound TO every legitimate power
pcssesees, TO prevent losses like these
At the time OF forming the Constitution, the common
right Of all the citizens Of all the States 10 navigate the
Mississippi and the Great Lakes emphacaily de
nom mated RIGHT Oh THE UNION" as cOntradlstin.
psbed from the right of any separate State We claim
Hat RIGHT 30 sacred and fundamental was accOmpa-
nied by a equally sacred and fundamental The
stees surrendered 10 the tnion all revenue derived
fvm commerce, and thus parted with the very mems
Of facilitating the business which produced that
nue. They parted too with the control of all the nayi
gable wsters, which furnished the channel tor that
The doctrine this sub ext has been clearly
stated by eminent felOwlabor in our cause that
beg quote his words: THE States" said he could
have intended to deliver themselves up the
OF the Federal Government, stripped of the means of
securing the hrst elements of their prosperity and thus
m0nacled and fettered, without equivalent. And
what was that equivalent The only one the adj
mited-the substitution of the Federal Government for
ls exercise OF the powers, and the performance of
those coTrelaivo duties, which the exigencies Of the
soniedercy forbade 20 the States In the very Of
things, the Federal Government took the place and
seiyed the powers end thereby assumed those duties of
he States respectively, whichthey could separately
ererce consistent with the peace and prosperity of the
whole. This was the great compromise Of the Constitu
non.
The neglect Of the Government 10 discharge the duty
30 plainly devCying upon IT, is she cxcusabe when
we reflect how well afford 10 take of the navi
gube writers committed TO It's charge IL took these
Teht channels Of intercourse expressly subject the
burdens which Nature had imposed upon theInburdens
hetrng 10 sort OF proportion TO the benefits received
The whole sum hitherto expended on the Mississippi
and all il great tributariesthe Missouri the Ararisas
the Red the Cumberland and the Ohio Rivers less
Man three millions OF dollars and shall we begrudge
Mat suin for commerce counted by hundreds of mil
honsi
is the very magnitude Of these great streanis which
produces effect, which call for corresponding energy to
eeunieract IL Is their Office carry off the wash Of
more than half continent-in doing which they sweep
along net only the ssnds of the widespread plans but
immense masses oftrees which they uproot ia their tur
bslent career and strew along their way Their chan
nsr OF course become endangered or in the case of
the raft" ofthe Red River, obtructed altogether
Now we admi; 1t TO be chlds play to curb the Hcen
nousnets OF Nature Incorporating ON scale like that
Ist we claim that Nation has been rased up by Provi
dsnce strong enough do it, The great NAPOLEON was
ente master OF the largest portion Of the valley drained
~ the Mississippi Think you, If he had REFINED mis-