Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-05-13

that he wants to take 1t from you ana mat you snail moi
have it, either for schools insane, or paupcrs or ol
any thing else that it shall be snatched away from you
and given Hessian that buchered your ancestors
in the revolutionary that 1t shall be given to some
man who then was in the army OF our enemies that
shall be handed to German, with broad feet
long back that it would take three generations to
feed into the shape OF an American gentleman A
nice proposition that Isl and yet that is the proposition
made by the Senator from Ohio The old thirteen States
are get nothing. Whatever we may claim We are to
have nothing. The Senator's proposition not only comes
to that but it turns round and says, IN reference 70
Nebraska and the Missouri compromise, to Southern Sc
naors only the old thirteen States to be deprived
of their rights but will let these 1rish and Dutch
and any body yoa pease-I do net speak in drespecful
termscome into the territory and if you want to go
any where from Virginia, Louisiana, or Texas, or
any slave State you stand back and let them tak6
the land Is there Southern man, who has o regard
for his constsncy the interest Of the sectoA wheh
he who inendsas he knows 1t is nfoYegone
conclusion that this Is all DO reesc errtoryo let
them take il, and let them snatch it away from them,
and say that from the South not to 90 into il be-
they tainted with negro property Are we to
be told shat must stand back and let strangers and
aliens in Blood in fesing, and language have 1t? But
do not know what Southern Senators Senators from
the old States may think in reference TO this sort of
thing because they have got recently to- arguing about
matters in such way that scarcely Knows unless
he examines closely, whit they really design.
The Senator from Indiana, (Mr. PETrIT;f for whom
entertain very high regard yesterday said that this bill
approved itself to his heart and his head can easily
how, he being liberal man. such thing would ap
prove itself to his heart. He is Of large head
of great deal of faculty; but rather think that
his heart has 5c the better of his judgment in this
in support of the proposition he set out to PROVE hstcr
cally, that this right poicy He alluded believe
10 the Assyan and the jews and the Spartans and he
cnme down to the Gracch but being Democrat in this
age of progress lie could cite instance that had
occurred this side the discovery Of America since the
birth of Saviour. Laughter In talking about this
iberaty want you just to look at the question and ask
Yourselves how this territory stands for it is well enough
70 foit in on fhe.
oppression of the system which will restrict slavery from
going there to be settled, how will it stand and
how do we stand? We stand as powerful and great
nation / know-at least there newspaper rumors,
and suppose may speak egtimatcly Of newspaper
mors-we propose to buy immense territory in addi-
ton to present territory For what do you buy that
territory Are you to pay So O00 600 or $50 OOO
and you getit you to give 1t away! Are
you adopt such policy in the disposition OF the lands
which you ebtan may say by violent socitation that
to say, by whipping AID logging the Indians by brow
beating the Mexicans until you whip them into peace,
and, sayo to the conscience get what territory you
can? Are yea, not only in reference to- the poor red
man. who fading away before the face Of the white man
the mets before the face of the but in refer
to the neghboring Republic; you, by bullying
and browbeating to obtain territory, and wien you have
obtained it you to turn round and'say that you will
give it to these foreigners and emgrants who here
and to lazy fellows and loafers in midstg Dask in
the of sense is that what the Gcvornment
is to do And then, after the General Government has
done that and you come to make distribution of the
spols is half Of the nation TO turn round and to
the other half You smell of the lgger ana you shall ',"
have any of the land; will give it to the
and YOU shall tai1A rnrtica Of it II You 81 there
with slave property?
And then as to the old States although President Of
the United States has recommended this will rob
you of and to the foreigners and then we will get
up German interest having its centre at Cincinnati
and Louisville and other places over the Union and al
though you boast of being AngoSaxons you shall be like
that other AngoSaxon which has been for centuries
ruled by halfcrazy Dutch Princes and Queens We will
scent and Saxon blood We will build up foreign power
that shall control the whole American people This we
will do in the of generosity and berahty and in
the of our modern Democracy This is what is to
be done by q radical change in our policy.
have other things to soy in regard to this bill;
and probably if get chance in the progress of its dis
cussion shall go into it more fully for am not pre-
pared to speak to-day upon some points to which de-
sire to address myself 1t me- since have had
the honor to the national councils, whether in
this the other House of Congress- the public lands have
been banded about eernay as brbe in the shape of
cesson and retrocesson in the shape of and
Of distribution, and of every imaginable project Thus
ambitious men oct with them, instead of standing up as
the guardians of the public domain and public treasury
doing what they ought to do. Millions upon millions Of
lands have gone railroads and canals in the way of
grants of alternate sections and swamp lands and the
advocacy Of such appropriations has eternay been pre-
dcated upon the ambition Of some asprant
It is useless to discuss it. 1t is useless to talk about it.
If there had been provision in the Constitution of the
United States that standing this floor or on the
floor Of the other House, should be forever debrred there
after from looking the other end Of the avenue such
propositions would never have been made Members OF
Congress would have husbanded the lands old fellows
take Of their lands their and daughters grow
up for the purpose giving the young fellows home
and place to emigrate to- Thus instead Of looking to
the other end of the avenue and making such PROPOSE
tons they would have held to these lands as ON in
heritance TO our children and chdrens children for
ages to come do not know, sir, Of any man in this
body who looks to any thing of that Sort you sup
pose my remarks applicable to any one then name him.
and well except him; but one thing will say
have scarcely ever seen a public in this coun.
try who had turned his eyes upon the purple, and
gazed intenty at the White House, that ever after
wards seemed to me to be fully sane man. Laugh
ter His head reels be had the vertigo, and he
puts up at auction whatever he thinks, defeated
would help him the Presidency at succeeding cleo
tom and that is the way in which the public domain has
been controlled Say what you will aboutit oil men feel
it and know it.
Mr. President do not know that exactly concur with
him who said some years ago. in commenting upon this
matter that We never would have frstrae man again
as Presidents for he said that undersappers and under
strikers would let Of prominent ability attain
to the position that such could to the
Presidency of the nation because the understrappers and
seekers for office would be eternally for catching
whom they could control. He thought we never would
have President Of any size account again So far as
that is concerned the first thing that you these Pre-
sidentia asprants dol am sorry to say 1T apply IT
party or men-s start out demagoging and,
sir, he draws himself up he is not an American at all
bis father was an Irishman and his mother Dutchman
Laughter] That is the beginning Of it. Then, though
has respect religion regard for things Of that
Sort supposng himself in his peculiar views to be in the
minority and though be nfdel and hate all