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Fortune, a mosfpromtious gular fortune, has placed at the dishb- fal'of ibis Government a fundj an enor- 4Th7U3 fund, independent of taxation, to and sin and in' possession but a ' few years ago of a Vast surplusj repudiating all authority of peace, all pow ;ic commerce, and to advance the arts erto extend domes to conquer the vast distances of its ter ritory by quickening communication and intercourse is it quite-fair, after shuming oil these sovereign powers upon the States, and seducing them into their exertion by promises of aid and countenance, to brand as profli- think of that, sir ! to.be applied gra- gate and prodigal the generous efforts dually and upon a principle of strict they have made to' improve the face federal equ'alitv I to the extinction of of their country to bririsr themselves which weliave shown' the Staites, have something very like to strict title. Eight hundred millions of acrejs of land, at one dollar and one quarter per acre, one 'thousand millions of dollars-- plate debts, to thp extentionJof State nearer to each other, to increase the improveraenti, to the support of State objects "-of the industry and enlarge credit! Oth! who can say, sir, that and extend the markets for the pro- ,lhis measure is hostile to the rights of ductions of their people ? No, sir V the Statesf as: separate communities ? the internal improvement debt of the : And this fund,- too, conferring jten ttraf ? tates; fijlds n0 type n thd wanton: its own value upon the individuals from expenditure of the profligate. Theirs SilV8n rather trie wise :; and far-sighted , perennialvanu unfathomable fountains - , i - of revenue to the Government which of hLe husbandman, vyho sows distributes it ! Who shall sy that it a11 ,h,s seed btoad-cast upon his field, is injurious to the interests of the Peo- and even stints himself for the present pic as a nation, or to their National rather than his lands should lie idle, Treasury ? This picture is pot over1 awaiting; with philosophic I patience drawn not in tho least. It is the ; the rich and sure reward of the coming advantage, the peculiar advantage, of harvest. 11 ! ; 'i peopling and bringing new j and .fe i f Butj sir, the gentleman from Vir- tile Jand into cultivation. "Raise mo- ciniafMr. Wise1) found much1 to blame ney in apy otner way, or trom other-source, and it is taxation. Sell " ' il .! 1 - 1. P '1 ' I'll : any 4, 1111115 ciae, .iuc nrpuucj 01 nu any in the details as well as tht principle Sell of the i bill. J He' considers I the ten per cent, on the nett profits of the lands situated within their territorial ceo vou rob those from wli m u , o v lutucinuc c.' ' . i 1 sa rorn .wnom you states enumeratedi in the first section.1 enve it. ' But land, vacant, unset . 1, r"u"clol'V. l"c , .a rWuV J. , I.--"-;- Till UCI LKIll. U.I1 lllfcJ Lie LI . - l 1 n 11 I. r i - t mat art or labor, below its va ne i.L . t .t . and you are either robbed by fthe ven w ' w A i d uerive it. ' liut Janu, vacan tied, unpeopled, fertile, uncultivated Janu. is the creation and th God. ;"Whcri yoa sell it fat i tenth of its value, you have j 1 1 1 r 1 r 1 ?i w 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 iiiihii 1 11 1 i-n iiihtm the onen bribe to ; those states.1 . lha principle enriched which governs t this provision seems yourselves' to that extenf from the clear and unexceptionable. ; In the . r i il 1 . 1 T I c. l i 1 1 ... u: u u: mumnccncc 01 licavcn : anui xie wno hih uiauc, uic iaiw uuuu which 11113 purchases has , made one thousand per per centum is given is within the ter ccnt upon his Investment. You enlarg ritorial limits and 'jurisdiction of the the natiqnalxapital a thousand fold by States to which it is-eiven. and is. hv the very aet of: tilling the Rational the existing law, exempt for five years Treasury; and, at the same time, and from taxation. In the second place, by the same operation, extend mcalcu- thofn ,n ennmortP(l nr fnnnVl in lablc the sources of future revenue, increase in population in a ratio of !Bu "V1 Vghi?U 8,3 'Th - 1 about ten percentum faster thanUhe and philosophically ttuc,. Mnu the indi4 Vi 0. . J f - fT . .1 0 u . vidual is enriched, 'American popola' older States of the Union. .So that -fion increased, the national! capital the provision. of this sechon is neces- cnlarged, . and the National Treasury ""fy tp compensate the State for the filled by this progress of 'emigration loss of revenue occasioned by the ex- and settlement, still the monby thus empiton 01 me pupuc lanas irom iax profitablv t invested is withdrawn from ation for. five years) after the settle the productive industry),6f thq States nnjent, and to preserve the ! general fromwhence it was; taken and the I principle of the bill, by apportioning power ui iiibi. ministry is lur n e nine, tne aistriouiion, as nearly as possioie, and to that extent, diminished. How; to the increasing ratio population, beautiful the operation of. this bill, jThe section which fixes the maxi- wnicn restores anu renovates tneioun- m im r whW ih fl tleman from Virginia, Mr.-Wise 1 power of locating and directing the but from my( associate in this argu- improvement of their jowa territory, meat, ;th)e genUeman from;N6rthCar- furnishing-Simple meani, and deriving olina, JIr. Rayner. I cannot as- national strength, resource, and safe cribe the want of prpjgressv or at least ty, trom their expenditure. Whence, tne very slow advance or popuiauon iir. onairman, springs mis jealousy, and xesources in the Carolinas and of the Federal Governmeot, and Virginia' to the settlement and growth whither does it tend ? One would of the Western country. When was imagine that it was created but to be emigration ever Known 10 uiuumvu 1 tcaicu auu naiuucu. :rk 11 is ireaieu as population ! at home, all 'things else something naturally and necessarily oeing ngnt mere r via emigration 10 iiusuie aim oangerous 1 10 me, Diaies America; diminish the population of and the People. Th? powers with Great Britain ? Has the population which it is armed are considered but of New England diminished under as so many Instruments of destruction. the settlement and most yonderful It is represented as a great j central advance of Ohio, Illinois, .and Indi- mass, charged with poison and death, ana?; Has New York or Pirihsylva- attracting every thing; within its nia declined under the growth of the sphere, and polluting lor destroying West ?, So far from it, the settlement every thing which it attracts. It is of the Western lands and the creation represented as something foreign and of, the I Western communities have inimical, whose constant and Inecessa- beettithe srreat source of the rapid ad- ry policy it is to bow the sovereign Ivance and iwonderlul improvement of crests of these States at the footstool tne otates irom wnencc tney nave 01 us power oy xorce, or 10 conquer principally drawn their people. . The and debase them into stipendiaries and power of increase in the human spe- vassals by bribes and corruption. Sir, cies is unlimited, save, by the, means while I listened to the impassioned oi suosisience ; tne amount pi wnicn lnvecuveoi me genueman irom yir depends upon, the amount and charac- gmia,; 1 telt my. mind inflaming against ter qf the industry employed, and this mortal and monstrous .foe,1 medi- the remuneration it receives- Popu tatmg such foul designs against; publi lation arid labor move! a :i The growth of the new States has ;But the question recurred what i furnished the demand for the products this Government, and who are we of the commerce and manufactures of Is Kentucky to be bought and sold, the old, and the cultivation of r the that she may be corrupted and enslav fertile lands of the West hasaBbrded ed ? . ' AVr New York - Pfthnavlrnnin. abmda4imeans of exchange and pay- Virginia all all to be brought unt ment States which have.neither torn- der the hammer and struck, off hon- merce nor manufactures, and! whose or, independence, freedom all at a agriculture is carried on by those who stroke ? And who the auctioneer ? have It tain whencehese streams were drawn chill el c m n rl rlnr? nrr fVio BTiefonna r? cnftbling'them to flow on, and pn, and 4kL u ' a of 4tl -jrai' m:n:m.1M r , .. k..,, Al V . , i tne laws at tne present minimum ot on, without exhaustion, (till thd whole, .tf1i!,oS L:..,lL;i .ui i ; ,l ,t- ( Wt i j r il C W- gruuu I usui y uu ui mc iicak uu iun ui ( ..-.' m J . . . . I nnH nrnnriot w nt Ihi. rrn iricmn eaam sources remoining frcsfi, and lull and .vr "Y'"VJf .V .rva7", vigorous asi before! And it restores, to be-equaHy manifest with the poliT in a form: at once the. most just, the cy and justice of the preceding. The most beaificeht, the most useful. It great; .national object is to promote as destined to wheel, around iL Rut how a State rights oa&n, one whose jealousies are all in the other direc tion, who dreads from the contripetal .cuucuuy, ipe aosorption ot ine smal ler bodies and tho consolidation of the system how such an pne can see aught in this bill to threaten the pow. er anu lnaepenuence ot the Slates, passes ..my, 1 under tarvdiog . ,For jny farr, i see no aanger on either band, see power, independence and ample revenues lor tne stales ; but, as they swell, the nation which the compose cannot j dwindle.! . The resources of ik. -NT--; ii nt-J-.zL ' i uic a nuuai treasury expana in ex aci pruponioa to me expansion oi tno population, the wealth, the commerce, and consumption of the States. In deed, sir, as a mere measure of nation al finance, as a far-sishted mean of deepening the sources, the! exclusive and peculiar sources, ; into which the states are lorbadden to dip, and from whence they as Governments cannot drink, I should vote for the measure. Imagine the vast wilderness tamed in to cultivation, eight hundred millions of acres of fertile land teeming with people, studded with I cities, and in tersected and connected by .'high ways ? and canals ; compute the consumption if you can i ; imagine jthe revenue to be derived from it ; concede, what is manifest, that, as the revenue increas es, the burdens onjeommerce will di-' minish j and tell Ve-pno, Isir, you will not tell me-i-lhat the effect of V this bill Is I to weaken the national powers br to oppress the Peopled' But, sir, i the provision for resum ing this fund in time of war is a bribe e neither j a property in the! soil Who ; the purchaser ? Theiri own to peace. Surely, jsir no.one desires nor interest in ats production u ..they Uepresenlativesifreely ; chosen and I to convert this into amilitary repub- . find themselves sinking into poverty entirely responsible ? ! Nay, sir, they lie, to infuse into the! States or the and weakness, mustlookfor the cause are doubly represented! in this Gov- People aimirsrfor wars of ambition a . elsewhere than in the, prosperity of ernment, so bent upon their destruc- and of conquest The meaning of the commun!itiesidinrently sHuatedJ---- tion. j; fVe come fresh from the! hands objection must be, that the pecuniary But this' is dangereus ground, and I of the People themselves, soohito re- consideration in the bill the distrl quit it, j ' f t ;:il;.1;VHVli-!l- turn and account for our conduct. butive,share of the States being limit- b inal y, the gentleman trom Vir- Those in the other end of the Capi- ed to the time of peace will emascu- ginia (Mr. Wise) conceives; this bill tol represent the States as sovereigns, late the spirit of the States, will tempt to convert the public! lands iato a fund Strange violation of all natural order, them to; bear with wrongs and indig of universal corruption!: States,; old that we should plot the ruin ofj those nities, to shrink from just and neces- anu iioy uui-pui-ttiiyus auu uuivmu-j wnqge ureatn is our. uie, .wnoe mue- sary wars, wars oi laeience Will, in als, rich! and Door--Governnients and People all bid fori and bqtteht; ;In the power to resume the furjd in case of ' war, hy fieri the necessities 1 of thi Treasury and the,mterrup- pUrj commerce may render it Nationa tion of essentia tects a bribe to peace. The .national honor is endangered ; the States of to the public defence!, he de was gone from the "State entirely and forever. It is taken by the . (encral Government, as Iliavo 4hown, without tax or bpnrssion. il islcivcn l)ack in! masses to the ..State treasuries; to be expended, nat Unprodu'ctivel3r, but in! Tthe ' creation of new instruments and vehicles, of - commerce land production ; the People receiving again the money,! the State receiving an equal value in. works which are to be (the permanent aourccs'of revenue , to (he publlic, by! conferring permanent and enriching tne peo-i , capital by cmigrationr and replenishing the Stato treasuries. wrtliout! taxation. ! Mr. Chairman," the gentlemen from Vircinia, (Mr. Wise) lias told is that jtlie effect of jthis bill upon the. Stales i will be'siniil.jr to an eflprt to reform a ! spendthrift by filling life pockets with money. Sir, is it jtisV to the Stales, iv it quite consistent in; those who claim tO'bd the champions ojf their rights, thcic sovereignly,! and the cuar.hans of tneir honor, thus to tt.cir. ciuractcr i anu t ici fast as -possible the settlement, real and bona fide, of the public domain, and so tc-keep down the- price as .to place comfortable i farms within ; the reach oi the poorer class oi emigrants; facilities urlon the industry, of pic. at oncq. prevent the tlrain of stigmatize ne- Urtder the distribution law, the cessities of some of the older States, or the jealousy oflthose whp'imagirje mat emigration arams tneir popuia- ion, ana ascrioe meir own decline,; or at least inertness and stagnation, to me rise oi tne western states, mignt induce them to raise the price of lands i . .. . so as to-cnecK the advance of .that population which he General Gov-; ernrceni is most lnterestea in exiena- ;v ' The one would kill the goose- that lays. the golden czz to' tret at the treasure the, other would stop the national growth, in the vain hope of increasing there by; their own particu--lar ! importance. . Against either, re sult, or either motive, the provision is aimed, and wisely aimed ;as it seems to me. fi ; --J.-!- i .' . hereJ Mr.- Chairman, I bed hman tvisdom have rb)m the .power bf in-1 philosophy may yet indoctririate man- uiutu uwtiwbt iu ifcfcuiauiu iuau a la 11. i ici uai iw ui u i cuicu u auu k. iiul i iuc i kiiiu. i M. . L - M. - . J 1 ; A - T I. - which promotes every interest, and I re venue necessary rains "down blessings u pori every class k" along with the pow long to: its exerlion power, v i can under- vrhi'chj rjscoriciksjealousiVapicf hbstil- stand why such an one, stretching his itles qtif fvitli'ano.tber,.;!! and" blinds :a vision forward to that period when a whole;I?ebple by (lie strong cords of sum ! approximating to the national and cut ; off the And leave to differ not only from the gen bonuses; in abundance. Blest' bnjje- jand invested in perpetuity with the planting interest from their best- cus- ;ryi which enriches the - new states j vast revenues m tuture to be derived tomers, their roost profitable markets, wunoujimpoverisningineoia ;wnicniirom mis vast ana most proutable ex- war would iall with aggravated hard strengthens State revenue -without in-lpenditure, shall , swell IntoTpopUlous, ships upon the- agriculture.; of the creasing: State taxation whieH1 liftsjopulent, and potent nations the! Peo- Souths ) Shall we inhibit the growth 111c puui luiu'ujjuieuue.wiiuoui plun dering the rich ; which renders the local Governments strong and inde pendent, -without affecting ;tHe power or the resources of the National,; wlv.ch removes all cause of jealousy or uneasiness between them,by?leav- States in the- uninterrupted ing the pie looking up to. them as the source lot cotton? Shall we break up all in- uu mibukvi 1 lawuiiici uii tjuiii 1 uuaii v 11 luii nia iui ci 21.11 iuijauuiuiiuii merce have been. derived Li cin un- lor its object bhallf we sounder the derstand that such an one mizht ar prehehd thatunqer these circumstan ces, the more distant orb, ther .central sun, would grow dim, and lose its just proportions to the planets which were chain! which binds the civjlized na tions of the world into one great .com mercial republic ? - Shall we undo all that art, science, reason , arid religion have 'achieved to change the direction pendence and safety is bur glory, ra word, make slaves arid cowards of wnimer cioes inis jealousy itenar us s aii.-j;in rinis sense, this; odious Are the States only safe in alienation sense, is the bill considered as a bribe from ? an f enmity to fctheir common to peace. Mr. Chairman9 I have head ? ; Are we most to dread the na- shown, J think, that the necessary ef tional authority, when exerted most feet and avowed object of this bill is . beneficently upon State interest? Sir, to increase the strength enlarge, the 1 what can this mean, and to what does resources, establish the credit, arid re it tend, save dismemberment ? 1 Why lieve the finances of the States; at the this Union are tempted to bear ? with continue at Government whose only same time that it multiplies the means. nauonui vvroiiga aim luuigniues , to mower is ior miscniei ; wnicn, to oei ann; insirumenis oi military opera pbstrate! their rights and their inde innocent, must be inert : and which, tions. and extends Ithe sources of na- Lpendence at the footstool of European I where most it seems to favor and to tional revenue. It;is a new philoso- monarens ; iesi, in case oi war, iney piess, .means ine more lnsiauousiy, ipny wnicn leacnes mat, in proportion Ihould lose their annual share in the but the, more surelvJto corrupt and las vou enlarge the obiects for which. distribution, of the proceeds of the to destroy ? lean understand .whv a men are most ant to fieht . and im- , public lands.'-It seems, : then, sir, consolidatibnist, if there j be i such a prove the force with which7they. are ' mat me; great oojecuon to me diu is toe to reason and 10 uoerty, or an ear- to be oetendeu, you j destroy tne cour the universal ibenefit it confers. Ev- ly federalist, feeling an overwrought age which makes that force efficient cry class of; persons, -natural and po- jealousy: of the State sovereignties, Peace, sirj is emphatically the policy litical, fend their advantage in it; and dreading the uniform tendency of of this country ; peace is Ithe , true Could, a prouder, commendation be confederated republics to dismember- policy of the world ; a policy into upu; anjr ; liicaauici vuuiu juiuni, auu sepdraiioa, snouiu iesu uu-1 wnicn reiigiou ana iuc mosi cniargeu "Oh 1 monarch, did ye taste the peace ye mar, 'The hoarse doll dram might deep, and 'man b bappyyet," -flvK ? . ; . r .: . . -; In one sense, industry and com merce are bribes to I peace. 1 The pe- acommon j interesio iheir commpr debt ot- Jimgiand shall have been ex- Iculif industry ofthe south tsemphaU, country ? It was agreit and a iustfpended by ; State authority, arid to peace. - War. which compliment which the gentleman paid State Governments, surrounded with would JtiterninL if i nnt detrnv. our i to the bill, it xloes, indeed, contain (corporations ot their own creation. I foreign 'commerce. 1 I i - i ir I-1. '4 ! t J 4 ! 1 4- - i m 1 M 1
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