Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-08-06

he meant absolutely requiredor if any would show
the other means which would answer as substitute
how the duties of the Government could be performed
without this auxiliary effectively economical
y with less exercise Of the general powers or the Gov
eminent, then, as strict construction Democrat he
would accept the proposition Applause Under every
construction which had been placed upon the
various powers of the Government to bend them to
porary convenience individual advantages under every
ramifcaton which ingenuity had suggested TO supply by
sthmus railroads and canals the wants Of commerce
sutng from that deficiency of inercommunication he
had that the end should be the discharge of dele
gated trust and that the should be necessary to
the performance of the duty. To defend and maintain
the inhabitants and territory OF Pacific possessions
was undeniaby delegated trust and the question was
What necessary to the discharge of the duty
In vain had il been attempted to be shown him how
the military power Of fhis Government which consisted
in the snews and strong hearts Of its citizens could be
used the slope of the Pacific, unless there rail-
road to transmit it, Applause. II, then, it could be
done by such means only and if that hazard existed on
the shores of that ocean, he would say that the rest fol-
lowed consequence. Within the territories belonging
to the United States the General Government could
anly construct roads for military purposes This pow
er long acted on, would not change its nature with
the change of the material to be used in the constructions
and surely constituted objection if the means en-
poyed for legitimate object should contribute to the
increase and development of interests which they were
not specially designed to promote Whether By these or
other means effected lc would rejoice in the fulhment
of the anticipation that the smoke of Pennsylvania coal
might be the desert waste, beneath the cloud
Capptu anu iioh WIN NV W.
stamp Of her foundries upon it, might be seen
creeping in long serpenne track to the slopes Oh the
Pacific. Applause.
1t was not Pennsylvania mineral resources alone
which be benefited in connexion with these great
works She the great agricultural State OF the Union
Her mines and manufactures, with their concentrated
power, welding political influence have attracted aten-
ton greater than that which belonged to her agriculture
yet her agricultural interest many times more I'M
por tant. Nay she had commercial interest
which exceeded her mineral and manufacturing interests
combined. And why should not commerce, the hand
maiden of agriculture bear from her huge and well filled
barns the accumulated store for which the millions OF
Asia suffering? Happy in the unfang abundance
their surplus store Not only free from want but
from the fear of it, their attention could safely be turned
to the suffering of other lands.
And there something which seemed to him ought
to swell the heart of Pennsylvania with peculiar pride
when she looked back the land from which her sturdy
farmers sprung, and upon her own broad bosom
those crops which could hush the wall Of hunger when
the years of famine upon her faherland The po
tca temple she had reared in the woods of Penn stood
with open portals from which went forth an invitation
and welcome not merely to land of refuge but Of sup
port. [Applause.l
He felt that the occasion not to wander into
broad themes of discussion lie had respassed too much
already. [Cries of 60 on! go on]
Mr. DAVIS (resuming.) He would close by referring,
with their permission, who to him, his
friend, long the representative of Pennsylvania and
whose name came unbdden when her mention
ed. Immense applause.
He gave the health of Hon. James Buchanan.
The Mayor who presided at the banquet proposed the
health Of the Hon. James Buchanan which received
with six cheers.