The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-02-22

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that we should have oar share a ihemi
but thew viii NOT uniie with ne. And,
therefore, As cannot make am oppo-
sition which will result in ans gord
10 the old States. whose interests. l
think, have been uniusily overlooked.
why should ] exhibit myself here as
making opposition II once ungrAeious
and b0otless against the advancement
of any State n this Union:
The Senator from Maine saws that
this bill. or another bill before u this
moFHins. 4 do not know which. as IL
departs from the original principle ON
which these grants Of alternate sections
were made, and gives land for the pGr.
pose of aiding IN the constructing Of
rad, beyond the line Of the ruad and not
contiguous 20 IL. Is in effect either
disguised ar undisguised application
Of lands for internal improvements.
Well, sir. the legislation Is not less
acceptable 20 me gu that account.
Ifyou aill not distribute these lands.
nor the proceeds IL them among all
the States, WHY should you not apply
them 10 useful and advantageous pur,
poses, why nat 10 Purposes OF internal
Improvement! Surely, il Il Is uncon-
stiiptional 20 give them 10 the owners.
ii must be constitutional 10 give them
somewhere else. The Government
cannot be bound TO keep these lands.
Nv friend from Iowa has suggested
what is really al last comfortable re-
Election that iIasmuch rs the domain,
however large. Is not incxhaustible, our
brethren aud friends in the new States
will at length have absorbed the whole
of il, aud then the Inconvenience OF
making further grants TO them. If il be
an Inconvenience. will have ceased.
But permit me TO tell him that that
Characteristic Of the public domain
does not make il Distinguishing cha
racteristic, which separates IL IN cha
ractcr from the public Treasury; for
il is as true with regard TO the public
Treasury that, after you have exhaust.
cd il all, there will be no more that
yau can give lrom il. The only differ
euce IL. that BY resaFt 10 duties or
TAXATION, we may put more money into
the Treasury. And permit me to tell
him we have similar aud more eiiica-
cious mode for putting more lands intu
the public domsin,
Here stands Mexico; another treaty
with Fifty million of acres Of public
lands ceded To US will replcnish the
domain. Aud after we have exhausted
that, we have the residue of Mexico
and the whole Of South America to look
TO. So that | do not see, at last, that
We shall derive any particular o.
special advantage from the prospect
that the present public domain will be
exhausted finally, any more than We
could tl,st the present sum Of money
in the Treasury may be exhausted fur
assure Yourself, sir, we shall take car,
to replenish both o. them, and keep III,
country with an abundance ct public
lands to dispose Of, and Of public mo:
ney to spend.
/ have made these remarks in an
swcr 10 NV friend from Georgia, an,
the question which he SAYS might b.
asked by our constituents | am on,
of those who have never been dispose,
To iDte.pose a lactiops or i'll nature,
opposition To anY measure oil this KIND
could nDt have ilope il consistent,
with my own feelings, because ! ha,'
no enmity or desire to obstruct the ad
,ancement Of any portion OF the peopl,
Of the country and because | rcall
see no objection, ia principle, to TIN
application Of public lands in this way
Not that there have not been ohiec
tiunabIe cases. There have been som,
aucia, and in every mode Of expcndl
| ture there will be such. The real ob
lection is, that while these grants arr
made to the new States, nothing i
given to the old. In my opinion 1t !
unreasonable, and it is unjust. 1t j
misappl:cation Of the public domain
II ought to be corrected. But We 4
the old States have no right to com
plain, for large portion of US have Va
: UNFAIRLY come To the conclusion tina
it is unconstitutional to give US an
portion Of our own property.
Bill NEwooMR.--On Monday til
18th inst, the L. 5. Senate passed
,
bill in favor of Bill Newcomb"--no,
,, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, the heroine
! who, in male attire, enlisted and ser,
ed in the Mexican war. q BIil'
I ,..ll go ,n,,ntls ur.0ns fhrp