The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-05-10

INC rlateA, ana eight To 20 that way,
" a true hat he afterwards sgFangiel
The land proceeds distribution bill,
shea he found that the child Was Ia Be
.rahed After Henry Cav. and named
a. enc az has brad and generation.
Bot fn~m Jscks..a Sowa TO the present
prrivd. has ser Administration ever
pot ~ errdit and character upon the
rees~messasiiou Il a plan Of fhissort:
Ma. sir.
The bill. Mr.. President, is 10 ne
sinsular in many 81 lis aspects and I
hope | shall not be out Of order in al
inding 10 che action Of the other Hsuse.
They passed-this bill short time ago,
giving away. so far as IL will be settled.
the whole Il the public domain to the
first occupant, or the 6rst conner, who
ever he may be. Since fhat time they
have passed bill graduating the price
aI the public lands. Ii looks to me as
II there was sort Of demagoguery over
che land. aud that the House, IN refer
ence to this subject. sss sstiag thus
because. nsea the hezt August elec-
fion comes roand. they do not want 20
iaake any explanation to the whisky
boys Of the country when they wish 20
be returned 10 Congress. Laughter. \
They seem To pass the bill as il they
thought the Senate would have steadi,
ness aud sense enough TO reject IL.
They pass this bill, and then one for
graduating the price Of the public lands,
and then bills for railroad purposes /;
and they are proceeding as il the whole
Of II was a solemn farce, with the hope
that no explanation was to be made
IN refersace 90 il at all, | hope that
we shall act disappoint them. They
voted for the homestead bill they yo>
Ted for the graduation bills still, they
are going on. voting for railroad bills
as il aothing had eyer happened in any
shape whatever in the world. Laugh
ter.
| suppose, Mr.. President, that &C,
corlling to the notion of progress. and
the bellicose propensity Of our people,
we must acquire territory--fos fuss
they will externally aud sysrIastingly
have. You can hardly keep old lash
toned Wings now 10 the traces, for
they want 10 annex Canada, and get
another State or two from Mexico /;
war, or some little fight, they must
have ; for The whole Union, in reference
to that, seems to be like Simon Wild
lire; if they don't have a fight they
would spoil about the breast aud shout
ders gerely for the want of il. I Laugh.
Ier. But, sir, il you are To go on in |
acquisition, keep the territory to pen
sion the old soldiers Yjth. as you have |
lone heretofore. 90 gitb ny friend
rom South Carolina. Mr.. Evans, and
ind pay of the claims which you owe
o the old revolutionary fathers and
he'd descendants pay of what you
I'VE to the men who fought in the war
4 1879; pay those who fought in Mex
CO, and keep litila back for future
lighting, Do not dispose Of il ali ia
he way you now propose we shall
want it, because--l suppose il is q SOFT
It North American sentiment--tkere
) no people in the world who re.
pond TO the call Of liberty as readily
$ oufs do. Seed fellow to Texas
nd Mexico to fight, bet keep a little
and to let him know that when he has !
one fighting he will have home to I
oWe TO. DO not give it all to foreign {
dventurers who come here as crimi> $
ais o. ifom cowardice. DO not give /,
to those who cpme here on such ac-
cunts pot because they love Ameri, ,
a, but because they can here impose (
pen American hospitality and gene a
Dsity.
| have some other things to say in a
egard to this bill and probably, IT, II
get a chance in the progress Of its I
iscussion, | shall go into it more full 9
for am not prepared to speak to- a
~ upon some points to which | de- .
re to address myself. 1t seems to S
e, since | have had the hoaor to come :
The national councils, whether in i
is or the other House Of Congress, the h
iblic lands have been banded about e
ernaliyas a bribe in the shape of cess 0
on and retrocession, in the sharpe of il
and of distribution, aud of
cry imaginable project. Thus am
tious men act with them, instead Of
anding up as the guardians Of the pub Il
domain and public treasury, doing I'll
"a, they ought to do. Millions upon cI
lllions Of lands have gone for rail III
ads aud canals in the way of grants of an
Iernate sections and swamp lands tb
. the advocacy ofsuch appropriations 81
$ eternally been predicated upon the vi
lbition of some presidential aspiranf. be
is useless to discuss it. 1t il use, br
5 to talk aboutit Ii there had been an
provision in the Constitution of the II
lifted States that men standing on or
5 fioor, Or on the floor of the other of
~ II