Vincennes Gazette, Volume 6, Number 6, Vincennes, Knox County, 9 July 1836 — Page 1

in VOLUME 6. VTNCENN CS, INDIANA, JULY 9, 1335. I NUMBEH 6.

POKTICAIi.

From the Huston Hook. THE DEPARTED B p. benjamin. "Tis sweet to bslieve, of the absent we love, If we niiis iliein below , wo shall meet tlicui above.'" The depn'teil the departed ! They vi-it .is. in dreams; And they elide above our memories, Like shadows over slri-ams: But where the cheerful lights of Lome In constant Ill-Ire burn, 1 he departed the departed Can never mart) return! The Re1"', the brave, the beautiful How drrmiile-s i their sleep. Where rolls the dirge-like muiic Of the ever. tossing deep; Or where the mournful night-winds Pel- winter's robe have spread Above thrir narrow pitm en In the edits of the dead ! I look around, and feel the awe Of one who wiilksnlone Anion:: the wrecks of former days, In li.-mnl ruin strown ; I start t' hear the sttrrini; sounds From the le;ivr r.f withered trees, For the voice of the departed Seems borne upon the breeze. That solemn voire! it mingles with Eneh. gay nnd oar, le:s strain; I teaice can think Earth's minstrelsy Will cheer my heart again; The glad sona; of the summer waves, 'I he thnlluisr notes of hirJs, Can never bo so dear to me As their remembered word". I sometimes dream their pleasant smiles .Still on me sweetly full; Their tones ot love I faintly hear My nan.e in sadness call 1 know that they are happy, With their msel plumage on; But my hait i- eiy desolate To think tiist tliey are pone!

ment.or the education of their children,, would detect the fallacy of those calcula. or to lessening their State tax jtions. They seem to forget that (he surMr. McC'omas said lie would now tahe plus in the Treasuiy on (he 1st of Febtu-

a d i Here tit view of the subject . That he ary was t he receipts of I 835 . h ml in t hei r would vole for this mode of distribution, eagerness to devour every dollar of the because it was the only effectual mode surplus in the Treasury, they overlooked of making internal improvements. Htid an important fact, thnt for the year IC36 that internal improvement was the most ; about 40 millions rf dollar mut be ie effectual way to strengthen the. union of.crived into the Treasury. He would the States. He sa id Pi evidence had hies-! lea ve gf nllemen to reconcile these dilli ed u with a variel- of soils huH produc-' cullies for themselves, and in conclusion tinns. and watered our beloved country (of this part of the subject, he would mv with innumerable streams for the delight ; that the lull to distribute (he sales of the arid accommodation of its inhabitants. A 1 public lands does not propose to disl, ibute succession of navigable waters forms a (any money but what is a surplus; ntid il kind of a chain around its borders, as if to : there is no surplus, then, of com e, t lie re bind it mote firmly together, while Iheem be no distribution." most noble livers in the world run at con. j , INCiEHSALL. Mr. Chairman, venier.t distances, which, when proper ly : v jnJ ,lfMvn ,, lhe f(n,e ,,f the public improved, w ill give lacilities for the t tans-j U11, vlU .,(niit ,lc. pn!!Saee 0f the land port at ion of their various commodities. : lu 1 1, I would now he glad, f I could, to lie said gentlemen might say what they ;.atj.y ,,,, House that the interest and pleased about the disinterested patriotism ; efare oflheo undy require its passage of the Americau People being a suffi- p,,,, n (ni, undertaking. I am met in the cieot guar anty for the maintena nee of this 0;!ie( obstacles against which the Union. He said tin man on t hn t 11 lor en-j ,jt ,,, ,n(jve ,easont"g of ai iti.met ica I tertsined n belter opinion of the patriot- : calculations cannot be mTerpnsed, with oh ism of the People than he did, but he'eficles more pnw ei lu! than those eon. bethought it was tnxit-g it too heavily to',,, shape of strong argument ors'iist)pinso that it could of itself be sufficient j rjnr elrnucnce- obstacles wh-ch n- t':nr

to accomplish that (ml. He aid man had bt individual clf f xaniinnlion at-.d

new States, fTe per cent, on tl.e amount of the Shies of the pul tic lands w,i.m their respective limits, is granted !v (' n ptesa, ei l,er for pur poses nf inter nal im provement or education. And are we now to be met with nn aigumrnl nguinit llie power of Ci'i grrss to make this disti il ution? I trut not. Sir, if any cotisli'ut ir tiM I fjupstiori can be consider ed e.s se ttled by a long, uniform, tnd uninterrupted r urse of practi' nl legislation, this gener at power over the public lands is one of them. I have been amused, sir, at the variety and contradictory rhniacter of tl.e objections which ate marie to the distribution

whirh increase in the new Slates the a nioiini of their respective land tales is the I e-t i a 't ir a I Hdrseannemerit. Tut the oljfcti... is contradicteil and overthrown by another, still more extraordinary. Sir, in a public document, where I find tr is ob

jection most sir,)ngy urged, and most la

boriously msiMfd on, the final viervsof the author are summed up in the following lar gunge I give it rer latim tt liter, auvi: - do not doubt that it is the real interest of eech and all the States in tho I'nmn, hiid parlieularly of the new Stalei, that the prire of these lands shall be reduced anil graduated; and that after ther

have been offered for a ctrtain number t'f

ns proposeri by the land bill rn your table, htars, the refuse, len'Hinirg unsold, shall

I lie pronenees to contrailn don in the ar- joe abmulontd to iht Statu" Yes, sir, we guments which are adducrd egnitist thisiaie told !hat il is unconstitutional, a vioineaMiie is so grent, that you seldom hear I lalion of compact, nnd unjust to the ol.l an oljection raised by one (entlemnn, but j Plate, to allow (be new Slates, in a meathe next one yru listen to astounds you sure of general distribution, a small per

w Mh one of a directly opposite character; centnge on the amount of the tales: and

at..' you rarely meet n ith a s ogle eerh or piit ii-j document ngainst ibis distill till 1 n , in which some prominent position as-

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ji, iiiok. nin i n uaniiu nun infllQ are sold, it will be perfectly constitutional

'timed in one pmagraph is not or ntradicted and cverihrnwn by that contained in

I a succeeding one. lain pursunded, sir. ; lhal ro mote Ifrcttial way of oveithrow1 mg rill lh e nrgnments conlri be ic ised.

read past history to lill'e advan'age trcr!dent patriotism con ic nm e--tl e ob-' ' r' dier lin.' thc m nil logtiher, ard

suppose mar a country "i-ua-e,! like tins, sHCe o pii pi. lice nod j arty fetiifg

combining a variety of climates, of pur-' Sir. the great misfortune of this tr.canre ui's, as well as of interests, could be '. f ( l6t , j t ion i. , no l th a 1 it is a bad mei! held toge;r by fti-h a frail tenure. Hes,Ue, but that, with the mi-jority. tt has said in his judgment that unity of interest : gt a bad nptno I sineeiclv with", for the was the only effectual bond of union in any good of the conntrv, that it bote the iihtc country. That a community of let ling 0f so-ne popular "politician, rather than could alone be produced by n sy stem of t)(4i of a persecuted statesman. I wish canal? nnd railroads, that would bring our j,t yVH a Jackon or a Van Lnienbill, be scattered population together. He said caue 1 be lie ve it would then pass the he would not give t o hundred millions ol , Ilr Ue by irclamaiion. Sir, this ought

money spent in tliRt way lor nalionanl de- nn to be considered a party ni'vuure II

fence, lor money enough tr line our Atlantic seaboard Irom Man e to JVew Or

leans w ith foi titicadons

piling t In- rn iti j"xi ipo.ition with em o

other. I I h I1 k ' hn r rn ei e cent ract would be tht'ir sufli' tent rciutalion. 1 will not di tain the co in tn idee bv noticing a!! of the f x' ruotd mary objections w hie h the ingenuity rf gentlenu ri h is deviled against Ibis mea-ure of distribution, but I must beg leave to rolice a few of (lit1 most pu oiiiient of them. Sir, one person objects against this bill because it is temporary, is limited in its operation: it only proposes a disti il ution

in clear confoimity with compact, and

pi rfertlv just to the old Stales, to cede th whole of ihe lands to the new. Sir. wai there ever any public measure which met w I'h such unnccnuotahle, such extraoidinaiy is it too much lo say, absurd objections? And wIikI, sir, is the object of this war upon reason nnd common sen'e? H by, sir, no other, tail I can discover, (him lo cable (he very persons who ate earning on the war lo reap a rich bartest of patronagn, by controlling and directing the use of ihe money, whose distribution they oppose. Arid this brmgi

me to the coi liberation oi another objec don, which has been made, and the last one which I shall notice. It if said wo have no security that the States will make a wise use of the money. I would ask, sir, what security have the People that K-e shall make a wise use of il? Hhv they not the strongest possible reasons to believe that, if it remains undisturbed, we

LAND BILL AND KATLIFF BOON , I,P he ''"I?'1 Jhf ans,e,3' of Pp,l,,e-

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carinot operate lor (lie peculiar nenun or , ,. ,

!anv parly, or of any particular section fl"l""'" ' ,r"J q-'e-tion in regard to ibe.

He said he was d will o.ieiate enuallv on all the People i I l?""13- 1 ''f l"ve this one of the

like Jefferson and Jackson on that subject ;' unrl on ibo ulmls ronntrv ; and w hatevei ! objections in the Veto M; -sago lo the bill

he knew it lo be impossible to lortifv a sen : I. ,,. I,,,, briomfme t bono h t " h'f h p'i sed t be (wo Houses in 33. ! shall it Oiot svastefully and nnproTi

cost of three thousand miles; thai fortili i,, regard to it, ho we. ve r they may have Another objection now made is, i hat the I dentl) ? If they are not already sensible cations would be useless without armn .j uuun rlv voted on it , it is now presented mr:lf ,,re " 1,1 1 ptrwanrt.t one. It is ( 'hey have read but poorly the signs ment, which would create a eland. tig nr- Lt,der c u cu mst a nces 'so entirely new, '.hat '"' lf ,lie distribution is ce made, if'"' H"" times, Iihvc wad bed but carelessly my strong enough to turn upon the country ' they may . without making themselves lia- j "'e states an.! 1'pople but o,,ce pet n teste movements of their representatives, and destroy I ha liberties of the Peoide. - l.lo i , i,r.,r. nl ibe sh.-btest incnnsis.1 of this 1 1 ensu r e. thev never w ill eiv e it ; Sir, 1 w ill not at this time go into this sub.

tencv, give it iheir waim support. Here-!"!'- Ann tr.is last areurnent, s.i compli- l more muy man i nave already done.

his injurious party course ; and once for g"iemen spone iigimy ai.ont die .itsso-

MJMuii ui sin; iiuni aw i i ii u u f 1 1 1 1 S s lilliii

men to iret i id of the surplus revenue i if.,r- pvp.,1 nf tbete he irn n sur tins : nier.'a ry to the wido.n and intelligence nl , I 1 would ask if Iheieis a man here

To expose the frequent attempts of U j w,,d nt ii,lff upon the country a stand-!,0 we divided was matter of calculation &: I,,c lV"d, i' fe that is urged wMh con-1 "ho seiiotisly and t uly believes (hat (he

lioon, to delude the people in relation to! ing army in timii of pe.ice. He said some et,male. Now. the exister.ee of the sur table earnestness; and I do not know.a'ates could not a.al would not make a

p'us is H-certnined-has become an eMal. ' "l die time may so,.,, come it i! has not mur n nci.er use or ir.is rnnney limn ws hshed fact on which wo are called upon I '.'' ')" nrriverl. when imir,t fHjt, i ,, should? ( is notorious that the S-ate. ,n some wav to act. Will K entlemen sn I ' HI "'f r" .1.. ,....! .o, .. - I .-.. r-wi. ---- m-caily fer tins enorin.us surplus , be sq and . ed ! t mns tor member.!.,,, in what gen, le men , " " " we do-that any State can accomhv the' central Government 6 objects re pleased to denommate the "Demo ! I 'h a g.ven object w.th halllhe amount which when accomplished, copier no cratic Party." I confess my democracy ! of money that w. can T heir agents are practical benefit on the couniiv, i athrr i ' ' rhararter. I have entire nearer to the I eople. and feel a much ban impose on themselves the labor of ! confidence in the ultima, o decision of Ihe deeper nod stronger responsibility. Ihe independent ' think ,e nn a question o. Per, le. If the distribution work, well , 1 eople thcmscl vesta ke a deeper interest -uchdeep importance M I he , I const ..-'nnd the re v cr.uo c I t ho count ,y w , II H,l m vy ' jerf, of a State character than ir, ems' W.ll they suffer n personal bia.iil." i" continued; other,., it w .11 , those of the General Cnvemment, and perhap.basdly imbibed, under the influ-jhe abandoned. !v;.,ch the agents more closely And ence of hih ,.ar!v excrement, to shut I Sir, another objection made against this w.'t ,s tins obje-ction, after all hut an ,n. out from their unndsthc light winch fac.s'h-ll is, that, by placing the Slate ,n - to the undc r;t and .ogs and .nicety and reason may shed on thia question ?-! dependent position on the (iene: a! Gv -: of the I eople? (icntlemen talk he.e a. fertunly they will no,. Gentlemen w 1! ' e r i;rnent. it will land ,.. produce con-d, j il 'hey sujpo-ed all the virtue and all the - , - . , .. i j., Tbi I fhinl; is aUn ono nf ihe wisdom o Ihe tiatinn were congregated examine this n.easuie with fairness and oadon ' 'tnnt..is m ono o, I tie f. D

ot sums upon .leposite in the banks to the ! rl,n,lr. and, having done so, I cannot veto o-jecnons. i .11. oijr-iuon is no,j... - o

rbirh tliCV will ;oi.iy oveiinrowii o .no n - crnem r.m- "

Inined in the President S A ess iee nl ?30. 3lr' 1 ,lave n" so-u oenei. i ucurr.

all, to exhibit the falsehood of the declar . Btion, that his statements have not been ... I reluted, we ask the attention of our readers to the following extracts from the speeches of Mr. McComas of Virginia, nod Mr. Ingertoll of Pennsylvania, delivered in the House of Representatives, (in the hearing of Mr. Boon, if he was in his sea,) on the 10th on I 24;li of May. It would afford satisfaction to give the speeches of both the gentlemen entire, hut our brief limits forbid the gratification If our reader, will compare the insttuc-

docs, frequently, about death ai a distance. Hut, tor himself, he should regaid the voice that announced to him the dissolution of this Union as Ihe funeral knell of departing liberty; and he would not stop to inquire w hether the Nrth oi the South would suffer most under this fatul catastrophe. Il was sufficient for him to know that they were both ruined, and the hopes of civil liberty extinguished i hi nog houl Ihe world. .Mr. AIc('oms said he would now nn siver the objection that Ihete was no money in the Treasury to destributc. By the Secretary report of the receipts and

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i.ve. passages w ,esr,M, cre,,l of disbursing officers, w hid, had doubt the conclusion to wl

san bluster ot Boon, they will join us m not been expended, ihere win, on the Isljarrivi

They must and will unite in fa

saying that his fate as a public man, and the fate of every other member of Indiana who voted against the Laud Bill, should be eternally sealed. 'Mr McComas said he had already said to graduate the price of our public domain would be in fart a law to place the public domain under the control of the rich

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bill is contradicted lV a new argument j ".at Virginia, nun ,ua, rami. Mini j r.iiiwhieh has lately come into fashion. The ; s) Ivania-- n e, L Vermont tso antl evargurnent is thi's; that the Sl tles, bv ab-pry other Stato in the Lnion, would aps, railing the funds Trom the Na itonal ' propriate I heir respective shares in (bis Treasury, will become all-pow e, ful, ami j fund (o much heller purposes than wa

.n. the General Government too weak b""1"- Anil, sir, I have no tears oi us

to carry t.n its necessary operations. ; corr upline the Statfs. It is when money

rnifio ,f collected in large masses, w nere it can-

ol tebiuary last. s30 C78.070 0I. This! vor of the disirM ution. sum cannot he touched or lessened by any Mr. Chaiiman, I have sai.l thnt I reof the expenditures of the present year: grettcd this measure of distribution was on the contrary, it must continue to in- connected w ilh t he n , me of a d.st inguishcrease There is a large ilem that must ed statesman. Not, Sir, (hat ! would be he added to this sum He meant the ', willing to pluck a sing le lau rel 1 1 oni , he slock Ilia, be I, eld in tho I'nitnd Si itot !,... ..t' ilni i n i . v ii ! ii :i I I have had the

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nimit, uiiu unu; ami n uie price o, dial honor, Irotn my mini n , i og.. 5o..,. , - . - . . . , , , . f jto, k does not deprecate, it will sell lor! and through evil report, to be his pohdea. it d-s, horn grn lernen chnmog to n T --I, h h '-"f"f

speculator, instead of our own Govern i seven millions five hundred thousand doh; friend and admirer I now chum it as .. : .''l0' " iJlU.tuat.on of the surplus revenue, in reer-

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lilctll , WHlV.ll "'Mini : iiiu. iu - t - ..- , I . si plefVom the country. But. he said, he ! Is( of lat Fcbi uarv, $M. 1 75.379 9 I cor shall have passed away: when the r,,y ears r atlu-r gratingly. hut this h a would ask the poor people in and out of i This surplus must continue to inc. ease ; name and fame ol that indu m ual shall be-j day ot new things, and I suppose we must the new States to examine their most fa j hut that It may not place the sum loo high come matter of history, and be claimed j brace up. our nerves to stand Ihe shock ol vorite view of the subject, that is, to give j I will place the custms at the same, in as the common property of ihe nation ; any thing, however strange or unexpectit to the new States. Would that operate ' round numbers . i 9,00') 000; public land, w hen men shall wonder ut the delusions ed . I thought that il (here was any one to their interest? Could they expect to $ 1 5,000.000. He would add live mill-1 which had seized on Ins cnteminranes, 1 principle w hich stood out above r,M other. , .1,. t.n,l. I',n.n ih. Ql.n. ri,.crnm0nl. S mna inn i e I rom 1 1, e mo i a so o f lbs salna mv rhiln'rrn Will claim it a 8 Oil honor I O US I lie pll t o, rn on W lili II Ihe rildl.epub

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e was more be able to say ot me, iMy parein coolly ; t'n" J - "

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ence to (he General Government. We

have no proper objects (o which we can apply it, and therefore we must expect that it will naturally be ued for improper and corrupt purposes The condition of the S'ates is wholly different. The great oljecls of internal improvement and education, whieh cou.e within 1 1 1 3 peculiar

province of Slate legislation, will furr.ieli

upnn cheaper terms than thev could from t ol the public land., and then

this Government lie said his lite on it j than that sum o, an increase upon die Lrcasled die roi return p ,,., u.ii,iu, , . . , ,lrrwde and hiffhl v benefic ial uts for the

that the State Governments would ra.se ; sales ot I 8., over those ol UM. which and always d..l himjus ice. 1, Xo hi -r Vower of the General Gov Upp'ication of'the proceed, of the public the price of the public land, were they e.ake, s5JU.UU0.000. making j?.,. OMO .000 -I have lookerl into he various elemen- and 1 g row er h h nt , Oo P ( I caded to them. The difference in the for the .ece.pts ofl33C. 'I'hts sum mint tary writers on the Constitution, and I lind : ernment, b .( , ow, f or . . e a re ex 0KiJIf. rrn-iire the lositerin oars- of

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two Gnernmenis ,s this: that Ihe SUte be aO.le.l to that in the treasury on the tliey all concur in gn in? m ,,,, ... , , ,i,- ,,, 1 the Slate outho, tdr.. there is no possibla

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anger inai uie mini win cuii.ipi mriii.

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dy, and would be under a continual temp ; vhicli will hill due timing the present yeai on Congress "to dispose oi ami "nio ,...- ' ' ' , , , ,H Appropriated under (he wise legislation

latino to i use the price of these lands to makes, in round numbers, , .000 00O. need bil rules am! leg.nadmis re-pec.ing . ... endanger in" Ihe of the People's immediate representatives enlarge their revenue resources. It is not , He said out of this sum were to be deduc- the territory and other property belonging cannot n, "r ,1 jt w,l! in'use new life and vigor into the so with the federal Government; her j ted the present expenditures of the Gov.; to the Tinted States," a coti'ttnct,,.,, .ysle.rn. y s lS'" ..''..',.,..,,.' .1 1 iness of the whole country, and H. use-

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Sir, this

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overtiming Ms banks. This Government estimated by the Seer clary at js JJ . 1 ,'3,- unrestrained to the puiposes i..r w,n.:ti ''' '. ''"'-" j j

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literally ihe guardian of the poor people, ; ami extraordinary. ;an article sepnrale from, and wholly inbr koepin-j down the price of land; but! Mr. McC. sul he thought this was a dependent of, that coiilerimtf the tax 04 let thsse lands once pass into the hands of! large sum for tin economical Government power, and cannot be circuu.sci il.ed by 11? speculators, or in the hands of the Slates, I to spend in me year. Tln sum. drop- iiuiitati uis. Prom the very com-iinnce-aud tho caso will be different; they will be i ping fractions taken from v;77.t.'UO.O00, rnent of the government, we have been turned over from a kind parent "into the I leaves a balance in I he Trea-111 y on the in the conttant habit ol legisl .it in;; on this hands of Hgvptian tasktnaskers. The 1 1st day of January, 1 037, o! (illy lour . const ruction, and .the constitutionality ol poor people would sou find that those j million's, which will he a surplus fund .--W.li legislation, so lar as I am intonped. doctors h.sd mistaken their disease; that ; Gentlemen who are opposed to distn'uu has ever remained unquestioned. W e their impassioned appeals addressed to i do 1, have resorted to a cunning device: have made grants of the public finds to this I'.niy in behalf of the poor were noth-j they have made an estimate of all the Slates, lo corporations, and to men i luals. ioc but empty declamation. The sy s- bills th il have passed, and will pass, this l.tr almost all conceivable purposes fur

tern, if adopted, was to buildup a rich j seission, for the ordinary support of Gov- purpos

arutc.c, (. k y rule the democracy ol the

Slates. He said he hoped die democracy ol these Stales w -uid examine this subj-ct careiulh , and lhat they would find it at their inltrxst to let these lands icmain in the iia uis ! '.he I'eoeral Govemuitnt. and that they will dun. ui I their ju-t share of the ejici vf ihe public lauds, and apply the tcjja lo works vf iuteru! improve

to which no one wouii nave

eiii nent. a id for national defence, and , though t of a ppi opr lating (he general charged it to the surplus revenue toat revenue. We have appropriated over whs in the Trea-urv on the 1 st of Ft -h ; eight m ill ion-ol :k i es for common schools, luary last, instead ot" charging against fhejmore than two millions for internal iisu, plus that which would lall due on the provemcots, about live hundred thousand 1st ol J.,nurv. ir,.v7.ai.d van.idoelv telllicres lor colleges ami academies, rioetv

ns that we have nothing to dislr tiui'ie. thousand acirs for religious and ch uila-

II aaid bi- diil not IipIlio m ibo w.illit.il- hie institutions; and in the acts ol adrnis-

ity of the pscple to (hat extent " Thejlsioo idto the Lnion of each of the stveu

Mr. Chairman, r,n cdjoctmn tin hcen raised against the bill on your (able, be cau-e il proposes lo give (he new States some ten per cent, on ihe amount of the ?;ifs of the lands within their respective limits, for the purposes of Internal I m - t .1' . I. 1 jli.lritnl.

provement, ueioie me n.r o . ... . lion is made: and, for this reason, it 1-

raiil (hat the (iisdil ution is unequal ami nnju-t to the old Slate. Sir, this o' jtc-

don is not only an.were.i oy in .n. ;... .. . . . ... ... 1 1. 1

practice ol (lie o vernmeni , inu. . have before sidled, to make, as a means of enhancing (he va'uo and increasing (he sales ol (ho residue of the lands, grants of lands for such purposes; but by the it,.) I'nn n,l!i:ior.n! ti n i;er cent rrrav

'l'..,..Afl. Im n 1 .rti I v tolf nnrl in.imr in tJ

llll'irrf UU HV,l'...J .... v.... n .-.i. by every man ,n the I'rnon. "dr. Chairman. I have laid (his measure of the di-Irdjiiliou of (he proceeds of tho public lauds was a measure of the People. It has received (he long recor iled approbation of the mos! eminent and valued men of 'ill political parlies: it cans not be resisted by nny argument whirl, addresses ilself to the good sense and sound reason of men: and the powerful evidences of its healthful character are within the easy comprehension of the most common understand ing Do you

suppose the great body of the People, especially those in the interior of the country, will be satisfied to have the surplus mony in the Treasury fwolifhly squandered on the seaboard; or that they will

main in Ihe ctisto

.;;d,.. med necessary t. place the n w be rn'-nt t.. have it remain in Ihe etisto 'a.esonanac.u.l equably with the nbl.;dy nl somethnly or forty banuing CO. po,rthe reason that tne former have i rations, for the purpose ofrnah!,n? diseased much more rapidly ... population,! lidi slcrkhol lets ., grow ... rtrhr . ly

jmce the last census,

'tb 11I the Utler; ol!o.ini,g it cut tu those liood-iucen of