The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1854-08-26
VOL. XV---N0. !.
Mr.. Richardson on Ia .hor Veto.


In a running debate in tie House On tho
9Th, Mr.. Richardson sliJ:
IL am only desirous CT saving, in relation
to this matter that differ with the President
Of the Cniteu States in the views which he
expresses on this question And at the an.
propriate time | want to place before this
House and the country why diler W tn him.
Ii is due to myscl--it is due u him--snd it
is due 20 US aIi-that should state now that
there can be no reason why, il Congre 80
make appropriations for imrroy mtnts on
the shore Of the Atlantic and Pacific, i should
not also make appropriations for improve.
ments in the interior. ifyor must have app
Droprations Ut all let all share alike, all sec
tons; If you are ready to quit all, am with
you.
he policy that he pu,sues of vttoing ap.
"idns, II II 10 i'su, 80 p'yI'E ioi tii0Ses' nj.
proyements any vi ere. If we a.e TO have
spproprstions for improvements upon the
Atlantic and the Pacific, there is no reason
why We should not have them in tie interior.
| The Government becomes Gnerous to US, and
unjust to Us II Is wrong; diff with him
upon that point"
During the same discussion, in reply to
Mr Barksdale, of Mississippi, lie further re-
marked as follows:
Il have but a single reply 70 the gentle
man Of mississippi (Mr. Balksdalt) He con-
graduates me that find myself in company
with strange bed-!cIlows. have laid down
the position upon which stand and s,aud
there, care not who stands with me, or who
against me. form my own opinion upon
every subject, and act upon that without
regard TO the opinion of anybody else. re-
peat, here, TO the House, that | do not care
what the President may think upon this, or
| that or other subject The policy Of the
Government which aIlows appropriations to
the sca.bOard and claims them to bc consti-
tutiona, and yet denies il to the interior, is
wrong AMI unjust, and condemn it. do
not care who goes with me. As for the posi-
tons which take, assume them fer mystf.
the position which take assume for my
self ! assume it here and elsewhere, and .ev-
erywhere. ! have voted on these principles.
Nor are they the opinions Of a day. When
Congress determines to strike down appro.
priatiOns for every thing in the shape of pub
lie Improvements, and to leave them entirely
to the several States when it discontiues its
appropriations for New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore New Orleans, and every other
place, for lighthouse, and buoys, and Gus
tom-houses, and coast surveys, ] will then
stand by the gentlemen who support this
veto, and will 60 with them. But when gen.
tlemen come and say, we are for these things,
but we are against those things which are for
the benefit Of internal commerce, denounce
that policy as unjust and wrong. When you
claim the right conati,utiona,ly to make ap-
preparations for the sea-board, and deny the
same to the interior, do not care who stands
against me, but | oppose that policy. Iwak
the track in opposition to II, and | care not
whether nave to trudge it alone. The posi-
ton assume is just, It is right, and will
stand by it, 10 not care VINO is against it
or who is for it.
Mr. BafksdaIe. VIII the gentleman from
Illinois yield me the floor for question
Mr. Richardson. Certainly.
Mr. Barksdale. desire to ask the gem
tlernan from Illinois what works he regards
as national. what as local. and what Works
he nprvovssr Nothing more than that
Mr., Richardson. viii answer the gem
teman. Ny opinion abou. this thing is that
, follow safe precedent. think that Gen
cral Jackson MAS about as good man TO
strike hands with on this subject as could be
found in the country.
Mr.. Florence. He is very good au,hori.
ty with our people
Mr.. Richardson And he is pretty good
i, authority with mine. When go home and
t. tell my constituents that / stond where Gen.
ersl Jackson stood, it is no disgrace to me
to say that the gentleman from Ohio Cir.
n CampbrI) follows in the wake # the lights
# laid down 10y lin, and that he says it is right
n t. follow him.
b. Nov, | have one single thing fuher to say
f I have slid that if appropriations wci' to be
If made at all, was in favor of appropriation:
!. for the improvement of the western rivers
=, And may ask--and ask triumphantly-.
|, the reat Mississippi river is no, natona -
: running through and touching, as it do, $
some ten States of this Union? What i.
!. the Atlantic morel