Washington telegraph., 1853-07-27

all bills for this purpose. Unless his opin-
ions are changed, he would veto any Inter-
nal Improvement bill on constitutional
grounds, and as Col WARREN occupies the
same platform. and he declared he did, be
would necessarily be compelled to sustain
the veto. Where then would be his finely
drawn notions of nationality!
Col. WARREN's explanation Of his votes
in the Legislature Of 1913, was exceeding
ly rich and unique His reason for advoca-
ting the distribution Of the proceeds arising
from the sale of the 70 sections Of land do
mated to the State for the purpose Of estab
fishing a seminary of learning, ought to be
patented-they are solely bis own invention.
Much OF this land has been sold for seven
dollars an acre,-the selections are made Of
the best lands in the State, and the fund, If
husbanded would have been amply sufi-
cient to have endowed seminary Of
high order-just such an institution as eve
ry man in the State feels the necessity Of.
What think you was the Coils reason for vo-
ting to distribute this fund among the coun-
ties? Why that to have retained it for
Seminary would have been rliR0HS yes,
that's the word-to the interests of tac
State 7, We wanted, he said, Common
Schools. and this fund was distributed among
the counties TO be appropriated to purposes
of Common Schools. Did you ever make
a. calculation, reader what was the di>tribu-
tive share Of Hampstead county Why it
is most Insignificant. We are only permit
ted to use the interest, and each township
in tie county would be entitled, under the
bill which Cor. WARREN advocated, to the
enormous sum of about ninety cents year !;
This IS bringing the schooi-housc 10 tie
d0or Of erery chika in The State lcih a
ceageance' The Colonel stated that many
of US were not able to send our children
abroad to a seminary of learning-true, -
and he might bave added. that many of US
will not be able to educate them in Common
Schools at home, if his theory il continued
in practice.
In regard to to the distribution Of the
100000 acre fund, the Col admitted that
he went for the bill in committee of the
whole, voted for it, and would have voted
for it on its final passage. had be been there.
He says he advocated this scatterution bill.
because it was the only bill that the legisla-
ture was likely to adopt. The Journal shows
that other bills were proposed and advoca-
ted, and that amendments were offered to
the bill which passed, calculated to better it,
provisions and to prevent waste of the
fund,-but did Col. Warren advocate any
of these amendments No-but on the
contrary, he made several speeches, urging
members to vote down every amendment
proposed, tina! they were intended to defeat
the bill and that the bill was as perfect as il
could be made. 1t was doubtless The Colo
nePs tact and influence that carried the bill
IN all its hideous deformity through the
committee of the whole 1t was he who
moved the previous question, which operates
as gag, precluding any speeches-and BY
his exertions the bill was choked through
the committee. The Colonel, explain it as
he will, is to very great extent responsible
to the State for the passage Of that odious
scaiteration act
We have already continued this article
to greater length than We intended, and
will dismiss it by consiguing the Colonel to
the tender mercies Of the people, at the polls
on Monday next.