The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-02-28
FURTHER PROOF OF the EOsTILIi-
~ OF THE NATIONAL DEMOCRACY
TO THE WEST.


Three or four days ago the President re-
turned to the Senate the joint resolution ap-
proprlating $500 for the deepening of
/ the channel of the st. Clair flats. Two
days ago he returned similar resolution
making an appropriation for the improve
ment of navigation at the mouth OF the
Mississippi. If there be such thing rs 4
national work, each of these can lay claim
to that title. The great mass of the pro-
ductions Of the Mississippi Valley, which
assumes the shape Of exports, find an out.
let by the mouth of the Mississippi river.
From Council Bluffs and st. Paul TO New
Orleans. the western country is mainly de-
pendent on the great river for the transpo-
tation of all it sells and all it buys Free,
unobstructed egrcss aud ingrcss at the Ba-
lize for ships of every class and every ton
mage, is, therefore, vitally essential to the
prosperity of our foreign trade The clear.
ing away of the annual deposits of mud on
the bar, though it We're to cost millions, is
work that no government should neglect
But no such sum was appropriated, or is
required. The appropriation in question
was trlfilng one-not more than $780,
900, If our memory Is not at fault
The St Clair river is the great highway
for all the commerce of the lakes-of the
entire Northwest, and of large part of
Canada, in transit to and from the seaboard.
Yet, the paltry sum Of S55,Oo0 could not
be obtained from the Government for MAIN
tanning the navigable condition of the chan
mel
But Mr.. Buchanan is not always parsi-
monious. He is ready to dispense thirty
millions IN brIbes to the corrupt courticrs
of Isabel, in expectation that their influence
may be exercised in behalf of his pet
scheme, the acquisition of Cuba. lie is
ready to give two or three hundred millions
in addition for that island lie has sent
treaty for ratification 20 the Senate, which
proposes to give feeble anti-national fac
ton i'll Mexico four millions III exchange
for privileges and territory which that fac.
ton have no right to sell-privileges and
territory which none but traitors would pro.
pose to ALLEVIATE, and which 10 honest
American President would accept from
such hands.
But these acquisitions would benefit the
extreme South the Disunion States, and
the Disunion party. This Is the key to bis
prodIgality in that quarter. and to his mise
rable parsimony in the West. for the Dis.
unionists regard the West with feelings Of
deep aversion, and it is they who govern
him. Coming down to lesser things, We
find that he authorizes or connives at the
grossest jobbing in the giving out Of army
transportation contracts, coal contracts, live
oak contracts, and government contracts q
every description.
Wa also find that the public printing as
awarded by him has been the source of a
large corruption fraud, that he has forced
the recipients OF that job to contribute 500,
900 for the support of partisan presses
which ruined their proprietors in the insane
effort to sustain his policy. He is not
therefore, Systematically parsimonious.--
He never extends an empty hand to the
plunderers and Disunionisis He open!
the Treasury doors to them at all times ant
for all purposes but the advocates Of work
which would be of great national utility
and of wholly legitimate and peaceful
character can find no magic incantation. NJ
open sesame to turn those ponderous door
on their hinges.
Such is National Democracy. IL pour
the peoples money out like water, for al
corrupt purposes, all dangerous projects
but it refuses to devote dollar to benef
cent enterprises or national requirements
st. LOuis Democrat.