The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-10-11
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PROPERTY.

president having vetoed the river Dill, The sHd5:
are to be permitted to plant themselves in The
noble Mississippi, and will probably destroy
j millions of dollars worth Of property, until thu
west can arouse itself from party thraldom, ane
place national man into the presidency, insteae
Of the narrow minded politician WhonoW occu
i pies the executive chair of the nation.
On the veto Of the bill, the secretary Of wa
directed sale Of the government property, ant
here is the result at st. Louis, given by the St
Louis Democrat
/ SALE OF THE GOVERNMENT SNAG BoATs.-Tht
veto Of the river and harbor bill has caused the
sale of the government snag boats which were
employed on the western waters. On yester
day were sold, in this city, two of the govern
ment boats at auction-bringlng about s8 900
while the original cost Of the same but tvs
years ago, was over $50, coo.
Thus we find that the exclusive seaboarc
policy which has actuated those who now have
influence at Washington, has resulted In strip
ping the west of all the benefits of a fedora
government, and has even gone SO far as tc
make sale of those preliminary arrangements
| to benefit western commerce made under a for
mer administration This is matter that
should be looked at candidly by every western
man, and should induce the reflection on his
part, that, no matter what party he may belong
to in theoretic politics, he yet belongs primarily
to the western party, and should stand by and
uphold western interest.
| The St. Louis Intelligencer, in speaking of
this sacrifice, says: ~ .ay 44 ~
Not only must the appropriations be stopped,
but the very instruments and engines must be
r IL + OF itr,+;o mol
lawful to use them for the public good. So the
snag boats are sold at auction. One fetches
IS, 745, the other, 81, 200 The rigging, chains
| &C., bring few thousand more. This is the
return for two boats that cost the U. S. govern
ment $8l 900, and they are sacrificed cast off,
thrown away, here in the west, at our shores,
right in our faces ..z s.a .a<e..ael
Whence came the money whereWith these
boats were built? In part-in great part-from
western pockets. Every farmer in the west who
has entered few acres for home, contributed
to build these boats. His $1-25per acre went
into the national treasury, and thence came
these boats-to protect the products of his farm
on the dangerous and costly way to market.
"No," says Pierce, sit shall not be so. Let
us crush this SYSTEM" e4
''No," says Douglas, ''et us crush it. Let
the general government own all the public lands
in the western states-sell them and pocket the
proceeds. And let the western states tax them
selves and improve their rivers and harbors.''
"Most noble idea," says David R. Atchison.
of Missouri Damn the western rivers and
harbors-who cares for EN-"
"Now you speak true democracy" chimes in
John S. Phelps and Alf. W. Lamb servile fol-
lowers Of the more conspicuous tyrants we have
named. And So these renegades to western
rights and interests, sanction the Infamous policy
that robs the west of money, and then crush
and destroy every attempt to make it return to
benefit us. ...-uf Era
WHAT'S the excuse for this outrage and insult?
Phelps, Lamb, Atchison, Douglas, you all op
posed the river and harbor bill, and aided in
this sacrifice of the western snag boats, tell us
what excuse you have for this result? s'Uncon-
stitutional." --5.
Unconstitutional Furies how do your con-
stituents spare you? Then how is it constitu
tional to give $40 OOO,OOO to foreign scoun-
drel and tyrant, for a commercial highway
across foreign lands, fit is Unconstitutional
to improve and make safe a commercial high
way within our own populous, tax-paying bor
explain it! -".s ,,...g WI, sr .....-.,>. Il
1t makes us sick to contemp late this outrage.
Will such dastardly deeds never cease? Will
sham democracy never be buried? Will wes-
tern locofocosm-represen by Douglas, At
Crimson, Phelps and Lamb-never cease to be
the minions Of a tyrant executive that brushes
western labor and commerce, and builds up
steamship and railroad monopolies
for the eastern cities, and for Santa Anna. I
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THE REc1PRoc1rY TREATY.-The Washing
ton Union publishes, officially, the Canada
trade reel procity treaty, negotiated in Washing
ton last June between the secretary of state
and the British minister, which has been ratified
by both governments, and the respective ratif
cations exchanged in Washington on the 10th
instant. T:5+"
The treaty will not go fully into effect till
laws are passed by the British North American
colonies, which are affected by it, to carry out
entirely It's provisions. But there is no doubt
that this viii soon be done by all
the colonial governments concerned. The trea
ty gives to the citizens of the United States
equally with those of Great Britain the right
Of fishing in the waters Of the British colonies
10 catch sea-fsh, and the same right to British
subjects to catch fish, except shell-fsh, on tie
eastern sea coasts and shores of the United
States, north Of the seth parallel or north lati-
ude. These reciprocal privileges apply exclu-
'iYely to the sea-fshery, the salmon and shad
fisheries, and all fisheries in rivers and the
mouths of rivers being reserved exclusively to
The citizens of the countries in which such fshe-
res lie.
The treaty also secures reciprocal rights to
he citizens of the United States to navigate the
'iser st. Lawrence and the canals in Canada
connecting the great lakes with the Atlantic
.4a, 9ress - tts2s5 ==%@s ~ tItess Britain the
right TO navigate lake &saufgah, H. r. .a,a
Stipulated .l1at the government Of TIE United
ststes will urge upon the state governments 80
eeure 10 the British the right to use the several
.anals ON terms of equality with eiizens of
he Cnitaa States,
II ~ also agreed thai the following articles,
icing The growth al tne Btiash colonies or of
be United States, saall be admitted into each
ouHt5Y See ~ hesg. II
Grain, -four, ard hfcadstufIs, of all kinds.
aimals of III kinds, fresh, smoked and sailed