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

a State in thai Car. o. region, out q
the ruined fortunes, The ransacked
homes, and the brnken hearts 0f the
red men Of The foresls Is this your
philanthropy! I fear this Is exactly
what il Wilt result in.
Mr.. President, ] have minated that
there may be some designs for the Pre-
sidency CONNECTED with this bill. 0i
course | would not intimate dat any
gentleman here thus seeks the Presiden.
cy. lfany should. 1 wsuId ask them 70
look at the last few instances which
have happened, and. | think. they
will find that they need not go out 70
the people on any great public measure
IN order to reach that station. For ex-
ample, we had Mr.. Polk, sery clever
maE. who is now dead. lie reached
the Presidency accidentally. I will
say nothing further Of him for demo
fms nii nisi 6onim. President Taylor
next reached that station. fife was a
soldier. fine citizen. aud tolerable
President.
A SEsAroR. lie did not know much.
Laughter.
MIR. THOMPSON. Not oyermuch. IRE
newed laughter.1 Then MIR. Pierce
got there. | know he is busy now. I
do not mean to strike at him, because
at this time know. and the Presiding
Officer Of this body knows, that the
greatest of his troubles is to decide a
question, upon which l suppose he is
segy Fe!igiously aud anxiously erercis.
ed; that is. in reference to The distri.
button oi the spoiis and plumber. Tile
= engaged IN deciding whether q fell
low who came on the last platform,
but who was wrong on the BALTIMORE
platform, is or is not entitled to consi-
Iteration in die distribs tion Of offices |;
and the most politicoreiigious question
which have ever known, in ms aay,
Is The grave question ROW before the
Administration of this country, whcth.
er the prodigai son came home before
Nc was hungry, or, being half lean,
cane home because the old saan had
a good Eat cali. .asgilier.l That is
the grave question which they are con-
sideriag At this this time.
Well. SIR, from these iIIsstsations |
woald say 20 men Of dis description
that they should take the thing very
quietly; for, sir, no gentleman in the
country IS safe now. lie does not know
what day he may be snatched up and
made q President before he thinks about
u. ! would say to gentlemen. there.
lore, that they had better avoid orjgia-
atipg great measures which are wrong
IN themselves. but should stand BY
quietly. ard somebody may be kind
enough to invite them ont for the Presi.
dency one Of these days. [Laushter.l
Mr.. President, there is another con-
slderailon connected with this matter. |
will not say anything about pro-
sress and young America. for some one |
Hlght wish to contravene il; but | say |
hat our climate, and the character Of |
,ur soil and population, have eagen.
Tered and inilamed in QUE people a
Wild, progressive, rabid notion. dol
lot know whether it is socialism from
france, or whether it is kossuthism
rom Hungary and Italy; but ! say that,
rom the infusion Of foreign material, 1
Z from the idiosyncracies of our own
eople. they bave become SO intlamed
MI so restlge Of power, that il! thew
we're concentrated in this country and
ould make a revolution here as in
rance Or IN England. by getting pos.
esslop Of the capital, our inflammablc.
evolutionary, discontinued, dissatis,
ed people would go far beyond fill.
bqsterlsm or ANYTHING of that sort,
nd would strike Tor the overthrow of ,
ne Government itself. II is blessing |
lat they are not so concentrated. IL,
SIX you, the u, sir. for the sake of the
iletv and the perpetuity Of this I'm
~, TO Keep our public domain, not for !
'relgners, but as safety valve, as O &
leans OF escape to let of the wild,
nrestralncd spirits whom we have i
m"nsst US; to keep il as place where,
mons Indians and bpifaloes, and in ID
'e deep recesses Of the mountains, and q
reckless and perilous adventures, !
'ch men, iptolerantof society, averse S
toll, and opposed tn labor, may go q
y and waste away that spirit which, o
cramped up ina capital that control. "
d anatlon, would sabvert the institu v
pn, o. the country. That. sir, with il
IS grave consideration. K
Sir, trust that some older member il
the body vii! give the Senate the d
,tlstlcs ~ regard to the value Of our is
blic domain. lam ,lifli,lent to do so, al
cause Lam always avcrse to speaking. W
re,pass but seldom upon the attention |
the senate, and when | do SO, it IS !if
" when think duty requires il ofme. pl
ave scntured now to speak upon this "
Dlect, because | think deep injustice fe
u be done Ia the old States he 10 Il,