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TBltBlS. ' mlf hereafter to ia iWiff".r.3i tiv.f vear. I. foriM Jf 41 TwoDoi rTt Uwrri . thA nme class shall icli.4 .J ; tae . sum of 5? - ito saunas thill continoe, - i L ' - as oiaer SBOBcii- VI - !. . . .k- iU Dlars m H cfv ! , 1 r3J nuaa will Nreceivea wr ie ,t iuconlioaed bat at the op- $&m& earges are paid tf. ! , to the JMiior raw w. po iw... i-insertion, am jw-c.iw tefflrlL. .iit ba inserted fur Jess i!lbe ynUnued until iorders Mmop tnemj where no direction iSH:. i..;.n - fV..i- ! rOOSS ! BOOKS I I Juf-Sutocriber has jtsst received in addition VS'liatmet stock of Books ibe follow. IK'- P UriM Stafefj Sf-iChorch Member Goid. &rj,,ters,0eoun i.ir CIilJ Ueugraidiy, Li. Present 2 vols. tloofMoers, n.;ili fialf J .11 sJvmeni to six Months Convent, .ilt Region Lwe'i Utiers to a Daughter, (y r Example fielhiliness, ljMri'toChilarpni lAtod Mil, . tell Chin , . f Jftfltfi1lrnrs rf Rel n.ih LMdure'a Memoirs, Intuit ud Tupery JtrtlKainilPrayrs ffcwm.od profit,'. IMi Serinnife Reading tolftTratelleM Ciaide U. S. CMtriaW, AUbaW Mississippi, . . Iijwon Cbrifttitniufluence, j Day Christian, EDf Piety.v ! tkcina ritfepr's Present, ' 1 I 1 )bs Dwa UoukJ I iT i ii ; MICHAEL BROWN. IprilSOth 1S3G tl '4L ; -. , i i s : MA!is fast iwiTed tt'.the .Salisbury lniios of Tracts and Bouks. ' ! yW.jliKOVVN Agnt. 3tfiriof a decree ofjt he Cuii rt of Eqntty Ruo County, at! April TVrra Iet36, f i udusm! to iu btid sa te a t the late d well UiniM biiinr.ciecM tin the 25ili day of HKtl.a tncVof Land htaining j r r?f ht the wiJnwg Dower, ailjuiniujr j the W J4ju Cunatzer sua others; and auotht-r :saA;GBES, i . nftjhf Laftdi uf Jui4pU ''Hafne'aod ! oth- - . ' "-ts a issvn uaviiu sail mr as- parohastj iiiy , n tlit day d ijaiij beliMiil io the heirs at !aw, f WSaJnedec'd; snd ate sold f.if the jpur- ii wf V S.SItLIMAN.c. Mic. lid-ree at Anrd 'IVrm-ISSftoT the Eqiy lr lUwan Cuoniy, will he b th Cerk and Jtastr l Li !: h a4tti da f -Maw nvxi. i 4LJ"d 'I'fw? i-Dijtchmans CreekL the children u! jViJliam and Sarah &4s:odsti tl iLtn Ge-.nji. Mnmftd sWw a credit l ;.l.. .wn nMrfli fi vlie othr-i. j re S4saad snffifti,i,f srcHrity for thf pur- lull MM I k T .... . - . - mo ie iiay i.r sale. Tula Iw b n? furtht-r iirder id the Ci-irtl il tv. i: . 1 . 1 M -1 ! A J . C ki-f't! II. 11 t l M.C. irr lass 44i r WlfT v nu,as ef pursuant u a decree -L -V" ytrsqiir.'" will au Itbe tract S5 ClAl Jni Hilick and others, 4 Ailndp behmg i the I rtei ftajrf Brown, decM and is 6ddfor tl i i .. " WIT II. tl . H, ... u.u. I VM I... . j I tiL n3 he purchaser I d approved seeoritv I rry h davlnf Sale i 1 P- iS SILLIMAN; cms j6i Ts ' c.verunr Star sava :i f Pit v n if ... it" r r?N u7.T. 1 tWition men in Connee- .:rrt :Pweriai vute, rallied .iinma ' -m a ; . a . . . tetaexaberibJs. Sottbythejfear orsix months will "r. DulUr per month for each sqoate I 140 ilmO'-FlLAND van AOEE SIX P"01 M Mcree of the Cwirt Emiity forsIluMraf Connty, at April Term7! We. a vierK ana Piaster wiH sell at ,Vockst ilia oo Tuesday the 24th day tf ay next a tract ill I adjoinitig the Unds f NVilIiam Casey an? Oth ers, roo crediof tweUs nvwthr. requinn bond with approvedj secnrity, fcir the parchasa money The laf)d is th property of John Casey Heirs, and is sold for iie parri8e tf partition.. ; v n II S. BlLLtlMAJX, Apri30tb: IPOETItY. A fAM ILY. I saw Content, the other day, 8 Sit by hr spinning wheel, And ?plentyin a wuoden tray Of wheat aod Indian meal. 1 lis I ! " . " ' ii : ; . Health, ats( at a table sat, Dining upoQ a ham: But appetit; demacded yet A cabbagt and a clam. Wealth sat entbroaed upon a green - Arid fragrant load of hay; And Happiness compelled a dog Behind the cart to play. 4: ! - Delight was chasing butterflies, WHh Laughter and with Joy ; 1 Affection gazed with ardent eyes '! Upon the sweet employ. Beauty was watering flowers Beside tlte cottage floor : And pleasure spoke about a tour To Mr. Staple's store. Justice bid good morrow, and Invited nie to tea; But Jolly bid roe stay away, Unless 1 came with glee. Patience sat in any easy chair. Unravelling a skein; Whtfe Mirth, with roguish eye, and air, Would tangle it again. 1 1 fir '1 : ' f ! ; j: - J ... ij , Benetolence? had built a tower Ot pudding, bread and meat. And liid Co npassion take it o'er Ta Want; across the street. Iff! But I, was gratified to see ' - Esy, and free, and fair. With innocence upon hid knee, Old Satisfaction -there ' U 1 : He took met by the hand, and led Mcfdown a vista gruen. Where Fun and Frolic antics played, To ancient oaks between. But Lest oft all it was to find, '!hat Lovse, the day before. The fopltn Dress had kicked hehind, Aiid lu&3d iiiui out of door. And riow kind reader, if you choose This family to know, A, Palmer's liere T!i introduce: frhhundred years ago LirS ON HIMSELF. i I BY TUOMAS W. KING, ESQ. ; . j : ,. 11b perhaps, as you will say, A very carious creatnre; For I am changing every diy, My name, my shape, and nature. Tom King I amand so am known, it provoking? But isn't W bene ver to jest - a m prone. They tell me I am o-Ktng! Thbiigh fa I am, as any bull, th aptitude l'r sinking; If 1 jy chance seem rather dull, Tliey swear that I am TAin King, In figure I jam short and squat, Yt if wplh ladies walking, ' 1 laugh and chatter, and 'all that They vow that I am Ta-King! V ' At riight they do admit my claim; Vhen Sol to rest is sinking; i Tbeycall rne by my proiier namei And really find me Wynne King! Jl beautiful reflection, At eannut arth isnaualabiding It cannot ba jbe thai thai oar life is cast up by the ucean uf eternity to float a inomerflupnp iu waves and into mithingneaa. Else Mfiv is ii thai the high arri glorious aapira lions wnicti leap iiks angi-isirom me wmnieoi our heitt are foraver wandenng abuat onsatis - um r- sii ui ii ilia, ma uuuw uu gnwi c.j is iwl. . :, ,u.. .k. M..k... .j .1 come over us with a beaut v tint is not ol ear in. and then pass off and leava o& to mass upon their laded liveliness ? Why is it that the stars who on oorhearU !? We are bom fur a higher desu ny than that if earth i thsre ia a realai where ma raiuuuw nci , r 7- . 7 r r- " be spread oaiWure os, like hwi i.10 WlTf :"!.2!.ef!l Twn!Lr35 which here ass before as like auy.il oar piessnee furaver. shadows will IK ' ! - ' gi . j r ' . 1 - ' I i - ; I hold their MffUval around the midnight throne, I ft will lalwavs redound to the credit bl 1 caed er rnditures of the1 nut.lie mnnev. ore nrncrresain? in every direction through n are s-t above the grasp of our faculties; forever Great Britain, that ahe interaosed aa mudiai I t,iih I h4 timnfit mnim. .kA nn.mtrr u i of unsoeakable imnort sion of all other persons. 16 1 mnrlihb n with thir nnaDnroichahla lalorv !- I u. .1. c . i .l,t j .. I . . - . . . . i ; .J I , r . ..JM.A;J. ,t,A JL I IU il. which is the fa i .""f And nnaiiv.wav ia it mat tuisnter lormsoi na-1 . l.. i j j ae . . ' i r i ; . , . - . . ,. , :...i i .im, r tiie lanas. are , il 1 Tm7 . ' -T " . . . . i - i i "ciwurnuco aaa tuo iuuea oiaies: i be lairiv Dresutvieo to nave soma other oo- ance to iorin varoon Mjici-rB - ' . . . r... a v i r; - j . , . , mi nrr nuuu Klllll l m mm rt n MPrvrwpn mm mnam . Km . amr nat.n ih. l mn mm i .unl Tr. nrfiiiii biik ib bu iu91.it i ciiiiucu. iFioint -v. 1 IIIO mmUknu if nr.njlllrfl tn nilf Via anil IhM I O . " -l'.- I ICVH" J1 t.iUMlllli UK ic.auii, I uiuuut w " - - j ; I w i I U lm?nVFaPrernl?tc, ''"iTlhoth ffovernmentsz but heforethe ionld ll Ki.iUm..Ul..ANjLJrM..kf M,.:.f- .hJ'r. alrudr a rail-road from Peters- uallr snpercededin i taken unm ns leaviov ine uiouaanQ aireains w . - v mvii miujuw r ui.i(,t mic vvwga j t - , i . i,. , ,,t, r., ii..l rKeaJfafr f'1 - . , ..L I rniwil Uff.fii EVfi UB,...,..c.jli..ii..H i e. . .i. . i.. J. L t i-.. i.. u r;. , th Rn,rnU f ee I nre-emption rights on rail a - w i iwiii aaaaa aaa aauaar aaaaaaa. aaa araaaaa atasm a u mmw mm, j -w a ibuw a wb w a wt aa u w wa a o m w aw w i w-a- - Fallow QMMi:j:r.:j'k 1 ' ThW - prospect of - a war with France, with which ;we hate beefrthr?aten ed for more than a year past, has at- length happily subsided. At the close of Uie last; session" of 5 congress,' apprehensions were entertained of an unfavorable issue to the controversy. In! the ctrcalar letter which,'! bad jbe honor to address to you at that lirne, I took occasion to say, that i 1 my o pinion there 4 was not an adequate causefor war,' and that by exercising sound discretion, 1 honed it michtibe avoided. In the course I', .i" ? . . I..H. ' 01 we ensuing aummer, intelligence W" received in this country that the French Chambers, or Legislative Assembly bad passed a law appropriating the money re quired to fulfil the treaty; but annex! condition that explanations should be given by thej Executive of; the United States, of certain expressions used in his message to Congress, of December, 8S4; and espe cially of tbepart in which he recommended that the government of the United' States should adopt 'reprisals,' as a suitable and proper measure of retributive justice against France! r It is difficult to perceive why this condition should be thought to interpose insuperable obstacles to a final and satisfac tory adjustment of all the points io contes tation between the t wo countries. . The ex planations required by the law of theFrenrn Chambeis bad been substantially given by bur. minister, M r, Livingston, when the message was first received at Parts ; &r it wa s now necessary lor me prsiuent oniy 10 say, that his intentions had been cot recti v ex pounded. A single conciliatory word of this kind, rendering the explanations of our minister kuore fotinal andcler, would have reoovedall difficulty .anurthe money would have been promptly paid. No scruples on the subject were entertained in 1330 Si, when our minister, Mr. Rives, gave to the French (iovernnieut all the explanations re quired of certain expressions contained 111 the President's message, of December, 1829. If it was right, at that time, to ex plain to Charles the Tenth, a Irgitrnalr, and, in many lespect.n almoin te mormrcb. it certai iify could not be urong, in 1835. to explain to the present ruler of Frame who came into power according lo tht? fnns f a written & in many rspeH'f a frew cons titution;who wa4 intre thn friend and sdvo cateofliberty than any f his predpresors.& who had 31een the first among them all. to j arknowletige th validity or our claims i rrnnra niiniMer in coin qm-nre of iiie tnessa.'ie of Di eeuilier f34. had been with- drawn from ihf Ututetl Stattt; and lr. Liv- mgton had returned From France, in pur- sum nee o directions given him, to leave tha country in ense the law lor the TuTfir- uient of the treaty should not be passed The aftWs of the two countries were thus brought to a most critical pnsiire, requir- tngimlv a ppark to light uptbe flame of war between them. ; It would be useleiw. perbs, lo trace the controversy through its subsequent stages to the met!hg of Congress, t the begin ning of the present Mission. Instead of an effort to avoid war, f here, appenrml to have propriat ions remain on hind, as unexpe.i for m one will buy laud if th price is re cxisted akli9)ositioii to provoke it. Ctrl iled baUnce? Either the Executive blfi ''ers duced at the rate of twenty-five per cent, ctimstances. triiiil in themselvis. were seiz must Iwve been delinquent in the perform iveryyear, because by delaying the pur cd iiMn as il 10 aggravate the cnu f dis- 11 nee of their duly; they must Jiave been chnse from year lo year, he Will make, or, .igrremenf, and j io excite till greater irn lieyltgent in preciiiing the vrjoti. bnncb- which is the same thing, he will save, (no tation. The language f newspapers ami ht if public Sfrvice, or the money hereto- ney faster than be could do by any invest public meetings through the nmntrv. alsv fore ited for that purpose, must have been uient in land. ; After five years shall have had an evident teudency tl.rougli that wayi Hiori thnn sufficient. This conclusion can- elapsed, the sales in the mean timer having Ta involve the nation in war on a point of not te avoided or resisted. Bat again: If been obstructed in the manner pointed out, etiquette merely, wasiepugnant to the fee ht ainoint;of a particular kind of labor in the lands are to be ceded infull property to ings of humanity and the dictate of wis- m country j will require only a certain sum the new States; the President is directed to doui; but yet we w re placed in a initiation I from which it was difficult to advance or re- cede. Such was the state of things when the Presidenl delivered hii inal message to Congress, on the 8th dav of Decemberlast. Alter recapitulating at gieat length the vari our points 111 dispute, ho stated that nt taoi ship,; or one fortification would cost perhaps the enormous injustice of its several enact- probable yield the same or a greater a ion to menace or insult the as much as two ships, or t wo fortifications ,nents. But yet the advocates of the meas- mount (or many years to come. Neither Tin hi f nfn iinr Government of France in the Message of 184. -On reWiviriff this' assurances the .cj ...1 t,..l ordered the money to be paid. tn itr.U nn 1 i..r,..;n is imossille I think, nit to leel em.Hions of graiiiude to the Senate of the United tj. ..... c.i.t. j. :. i j i.;..k ...irA.i :i.,t ,k.i ill. aiTM linn tr'Hiin. ! tfrj voided io ih rnm.iUiio r.f rnriai.'l in 1834. it ia reasonable tn M noose! the Hous of Reoresentatives would have cort - .. d .kA.,M ktt nmAi in.to.ii r i ,u i l : peace. An approved writer on the Uw of , r . ... vi!L . .... .af vin-m.es .0 oc.y, anu rebellious violators or the laws ot ra - inm.m.hMtiii.M.i..: r.. e7rf mlndli-T Z.maiorto avoid all extravagance, t.Mmm :.k k u ..i. i .i .ki, . ' ..u L.i. citll .k. ..i i L.il 1 ..d .e i. I uuuwcsMin auu u wo iiaa . uiunnea ine i .. " . l "' kM. i.wv. . Wll O- I preached py the Civilized world io terms I like those above recited. - 1 who tne explanations io the Message dehv I ered lo Congress ia pecember. But why, i ""v"" wu ma wmiea ouies C 10 ar? ! We were friends and al- our tttoIaUonart.. struggle. Bt the aid she aflbrded us, we were able to tnt cmph ia many instances, whea withoat thai VattdtlkQk8.haD. 18,s,2. ; aiacsfeitsad dnssr weald baT3 tttesdedi once rrutdo tbe-joost astontshins erorts . to esiablishi a free fvernaenL for herself. Ucr political institutions are now oore lib eral; tbeyi approacli csxrer teethe) models of republicanism, than are to be foond any jfpere lof the world, except in the United States. j Tho : poltticaV as- well as the com inercia) interest,of the tarb coo nines would, eirefbre! imperiously demand ttiat they should preserve the relations of peace, and at any rate, never go to war Torso paltry an object ss five millions of dollars. The men uvj wuvu uviainea, win nH oeiong 10 me government; of the United States, and eon-: seqtientlyj lo all the people of the jcbtintryi but: to a few: merchants, residing in the large cities of Uie sea board. It will qot go into the Treasury of the nation,1 bnt jinto the Picket oftndividiiats,witrioutconfeinng any benefit '00 the aggregate mass of the comtnu nity. Iltnay also be worthy bfremtik, that our! board of commissioners who were lift decide upon the amount ind validity of each claim, did not bring their labors to a close till this spring; that the money could not have been! paid over to the individuals en titled to receive it,l even if the French gov eijnment had appropriated it without delay. Irj every view of l he case, then, a war was to be dppircated as iinwise,iinnecessary.and incnelient;ahd I am rejoiced to k no w,that wb have cscaiied from it, with all its cuu- conitan.i norrors ; Peace being thus restored, and there be ing not the least prospect of collision with ariy other 'civilized power on earth, it would seem to be the duty of the United Stales, lb examine te' our internal condition, and see what measure ought to be adopted for the good of the several states. The sur pbi in Ihe Treasury amounts to .about tluriyjfive!millions of dollars, a considers-, ble portion of which has been derived from the sale of public lands. jThe states j h ive a right to :demand this part of the surplus, as Clearly j as an individual citizen j would have to demand any property: to which his title was indisputable. A sufficient balance woiild be left in the Treasury for all the pur Nise cif national defence,' after dividing a mbng ! the! states what properly belongs to them. But.instead ol pursuing this course, dictated both by justice and sound policy, many of those who are concerned in the adminMration of the general government, I seftti di.x,osed,tliiis far, to resist every mm sure which has a tendency to divide th surplns among the states. The excuse sta. that all the money must be appropriated to the building of ships, fortifications, &. This id utterly repugnapt to every principle as , well as to the uniform practice 101 the government since its foundation, to the present lime. If all the money were to iw apprnprmted, it could not ber usefully or profitably' expended. In proof of this, it is only necessary to state, that of the usual jand ordinary approprintious heretofore tuad, there are eight millions unexpended in lh- Treasury, jllow then would it be possible to ahsriithe extraordinary sums now can led foi, if eight millions of the former ap- f money to employ it, the pi ice of thm Mattor will be enhanced in a Mtio with the increase of money. In this way the govern hnent won Id derive very little, it any advan- rtage wb teVef, from increased applopria- tioris No more vork would he done, but a iiounie oricwvouiu oe uaiu iot 11; one I wirtild lavpdone.bforc the increase of mo- r'ney jo thfihiarket- 'Prom raift to 1836. we have emended about fourteen inillitms of dollars 00 iorltfi I rat mml &. I f or the increase & reoaiis of tiiel upwards of twenty-two millions. The wtrole military establishment has co.t, in iU(h;md !imiij uf i imn.iiAii m i I th.rtr-thr inillniiw. and the whole naval ..... , r establishment has cost nearlv sixtv seven I millions. At tlus rate I sin willing to pro- tctied in future dibursemei,ts; but I cannot iirwin nhai minri ole.it ia that aonrootia- I iien of the nubiio inouev so much Greater -rltlifi h.,n tiorinfnr:iMn naiie .hMit.l now beSdemanded by any one who looks, with a I : . . i i. i i r single eye to me gooi 01 tne nation. iu --t- i..:.a h ii. wniil.t Ik-?-- rtHtJainH rn..rnl ir. . m.vern. 1: .: ! c " 7. ?Z. .1 1 on?m, w have anv ihiirs to do with legislation: k.thpr ibe treasurv be full or em of v. nlr.r. -n. i raft uonhi anon lail f t.i an Aninr, UonraA u.udd srwi )' I .- -,i,.i iKir..-,ni i suij m'ij, ....t - LSI with it mmnr ino nrouensities. wou d re- . 1 . i . "rrrv ""T i ' : , .- . . 1 J - F"T ; " " main in full force. ' Those who advocate the doctrine: of in - 1 the Igrowihg S importance of: this question, hive never failed to call your altentiba to it 1 py every means in my power. 1 nave iokj Ubuthatlin mv ooinioo. the new sutes de- kned!iiltimaei; to get 5 tWssion of all I the iublie lands, and thus to deprive the I old IcUtes of thetr interest m this imciense 1 faiid cf iuUoaal wealth. The right of VOI,a .nynQaCTQJg nftnJ old Sutes to a siiam rMU.-j r.: . t: - rr- t Toe proceedi of tba'exlesrJ r-M.I f,. '. last year; amounted to T bcle than fifteen oilhons of dollars; and iClhl E&sthis year ahoold go 00 as they Uvd camoenced,the revenue from tbatsoorce wiH be between twenty and thirty millions. I If the bill now U..f '- ..mm--. i yciuio viuugrcss snmtiq passtiiortb Caroli na will receive, on the let day of lIay.more than a million of dollars. Next year, if the sales should onU&oe as above stated, .ahe would receive upwards of i million more, and so on through all future time; till the whole national domain, exceeding in quae ttty a thousand bilboes of acres, ahall hvc been sold, and the money fuallyjdtst nbu ted: provided there should be no war, or b ther calamity, to divert or suspend the op erations or the law. j J r I Now it is monstrous injustice, it is an in suiting and flagiuoas iniiiry To! the old States, tossy tbaf they mut surrender their claims to this property, or the proceeds a rising from it; for the benefit of the new States exclusively. Is there a human being in the old States so lost to every dictate of reason and common sense, so regardless of wuat is due to himself and Jus fellow citi zens, so incapable of discovering the true interest of bis country, as to tolerate for a moment the demands of the new States? I should hope not. j -These demands are two tinjustj and ex trayagant,theconsumatipn of t hern would be too unrighteous, not to excite alarm iint he old States,il they should be at once fully developed & properly uudeistood. Unnccthey have been frequently made to assnmethe shape of bills, which speak one thing while they do another; which deceive and mislead by degrees, so as not to awaken apprehension for rouse oppo sition. Of this character is the hill now before Congress, which proposes 'I'd gradu al the price of j the public lands; to make provision for actual set'lers and to ced the refuse lands to the stales in xohich they lie ? 'lite title of a bill is alwavs under stood to declare its object, but in this case we are not told a word about reducing the price of lands, nor . about j ceding those which are valuable to the new States. It apeak 3 only of graduating the price, and cvdingl refuse lands, or in other wordsuch as are of little or no value. Lt us then look at the bill itself, and seo what it con- tain 9. The bill provides tftei the 41 h of July that, in fie years riextj all the lands now in market shall be ceded tit ftjll prop erty to the States in which they may lie; that in the mean time the price shall be re duced every succesive year at the! rate of t eat v -five cents per acre; Uhal uie lima INrinciple of reduction shall be applied to all the lands heieafter to lie brought into itarkei; that actual settlers on the land shall have a pre-emptive right to purchase it, at whatever reduction the price shall hive at tained at the time the j may fwish to make the purchase, &c. This bill, if ill should pass, will completely subvert the whole I. nd system of the United States . 1 In the Hist place, it will effectually stop the sales; I clost all the land offices, and thus to put an end fintlly to the whole business. Such is the sweet morsel which' the old Stales are asked to swallow,1 for the benefit of the new ! I have been somewhat par- licular in describing it, that you mlghi see more distinctly and appreciate more fully ure, Airgetting the constitution of the coun- try. unmindful of the corapafcu and treaties i.p old States, from whom the land was required by gratuitous cession, re- anlleas of the claims of eauitv and good faith, aeem to preserve as if they rere en- gaged in a meritorious work. They al- ia.ra. ,iioi ii.o oYPciitive is in 1 favort of their Iipitia. Rut before this argument can be l . - J allowed to have weight with a virtuous, independent people, who have knowledge to! perceive and intelligence to pursue their own interest.' it must be proved that scheme iuelf is right : that It is essentially I inctnnH nrooer. Until this Shall nave Oeen done, the opinion of no individual whetl- I i i i. i.n ti h(, Ttavkrtm erne ue ingu or ot u .nthoritv. The objection to the land hill, in the Veto Message f ol was i ' .l aivetwelve-ahd-a-half iai ..,..r.v- - - ,i.0 I oer cent, lo the new States.? It seems then ihat we have two opinions ih directconflict A 1 with eaeh other. If it was wrong, I . f it . '!... .ImIa. 1RM3. tn jrive OnS-ClZnin yitiiic new iaif U nrondsed to te donel at t iat time. I . . n fa-nn tr i . . - . . . M r . r.r- i it is cerUiniv ciZiii t w . surrender tne wnoie w u I . IQQd - At this time, when rail-roads and canals l uere i one ououiug um tm? ivn" i i r.. .i.- :n..nnkA to the citv of Raleigh. Now if we could rettliC iiiiiiiuii u.iit I w tm j . - ofi a m n Mow. . ... . another million probably in Uiecurse of next year, we should have funds sufficient to construct a rail-road leading from . .1 i. . i. .. ,L f tu Qiaia ia eigu wrougu me renins oi h " liie mouauins. The work could oe tompaw v Jin a few ytsrs, md then our farners, ta- leave Wilkesborongh or Statesville and ia uventy-ionr or thirty-six hoors triTel, a 1 b a i-eiersDnrgn, iCicMnond, Vf xsnwg ton, or Baltimore, according as the v ahosid find the best market io one or the other cf those places. - The advantages oftranspcr -Utiorr like this arelnrrolable; and the eld -Sutes ought to be fired with indignation at the attempts made br he new Sutes ta take awajrau the land, Wl deprive them o the v means necessary to construct such works. The new States are prolific e nongh in schemes for their own improve' f menu At this momenta ball is before Con gress authorixing the controcaoof a rail- i road three or four hundred miles thro orb, . the public lands in the State i of Hlwojit and granting to the company every -aW ternate section of land, at the minimnm! price, along the whole distance. The pow4 erful and effective aid is thus given to an most every, project in the new Slates, while the claims of the old Sutes, foan -ded in right and justice, are denied. Sim ilar projects for improving the rest of the new Sutes and the Territories, have been submitte J, and considered!, I believe, with more or less favour in every instance. If the new Sutes expected to act in good faith, they would not oppose the land bill, because the price would be just the same t to them, whether the proceeds are divided ' among all the States, or remain in the ; Treasury. Their opposition to the measl ure proves that they expecU at no disUnt day, to get the w,Ho!eofthe land. Did they, for example, object to the bill of 1833, which proposed to give them twelve and a half per cent more than to the old Sutes, because it was too little or too much for them to receive ? Why, certainly, because they thought It too little; and the hope of , gelling more must have been the sole cause of their opposition to the j bill. The .old Sutes, by opposing it also: on that ground, acted precisely as the new Sutes would have wished them to do, and contributed to give effect to their design! of -finally get ting possssion of all the land. After this mannei it was that the bid Sutes have been accessaries in the wrong done to themselves have been insuumeatal ia working their own injury But this twelve-and-a-half per cen. to the new Sutes is not without some reasoa to support it. They have a greater increase of population than the old States, and ac cording to the rule laid down in the deeds of cession, this advance of twelve-and-a-half per cent, to the new States was thought by many to be strictly just and right, be cause it was proportionate to the greater increase in the number of their inhabitants. Whether it waaao-or not, one thing is evi- ' dent, that "half a loaf is. better than no bread." I should therefore contend, that it was much wiser policy in the old Sutes, much more to their interest, to take seven eights of the proceeds of trie lands, than to encounter the risk, nay, absolute certaidty, of losing the whole ; provided we do not agree to that distribution, j A million of dollars .this year, a million next year, and a million perhaps for every year afterwards through a long suceession bf ages, would enable Norlh Carolina to accomplish eve ry thing she could desire in the way of rail-roads and canals, or the establishment of fiee schools. Even the half, or a third, or a fourth, in this view of the case, would be better than nothing at alii In this opin ion fellow citizens, I am persuaded you will fully concur. 1 . The new sutes further allege that the? lands which they ask us to grant them, is. refuse land," and of little or no value. Now it is very strange indeed, they should want the land, if it is worth nothing.- The fact of their wanting it proves that they think it valuable. ! contend that it is im- mensely so, for it yielded last year, more (Ran fifteen millions of dollars, and will is it refuse land," iothe sense in which they use that term. Before any thing can be called 44 refuse it must be wanted, it must be seen, examined ana rejected, as unworthy of being Uxen. In this sense there js scarcely a foot onandroughou, our vast extended domain,; which ean be called refuse. The reason it has not been taken and i , gp : .. veyed and offered to sell more ofiW. than ean be purchased or occupiedby the num ber ol inhabiUnls in tne country, it ap- ber of inhabitants in the country. It pears from a report made to congress, in 1834, that there are upwards of thirty-five millions of acres in the state of Illinois, of which someUiing more an two mjllions nnlv nan been sold at that time. In Mis-- t " - . soun, there were upwards of thirty-nine minions oi acres, oi wnicu po iwo minions had beer. sold. It is then an abuse of Ian ,t,.t n k- i ,i i,i.h kid guage, to say that all the land which bad not been sold in these twoi.utes, .mount in ing to aooui seventy to about seventy millions of acres, I .a Ai mmI l m .Aim was iciuor auu ui uw imc Much intiirv has been done to the pub t. .. . t e i . . l .a i .. . ; - . . fc lands. DV tne operation oi wn atv w ieu pre-emption iawa. "ec gi i I . " . V .. rrtt - , lo actual settlers a pnorrigni F" the lanus at tne iowi jsuv, wu uence ine pub i rest mode of dis cs loped, or effect every insUnce, where lam J Lands, worth five. ten. nuecu or twruiyi uoiiars an acre. : r . i . , ' , L m are inu. vruui. acu p,wu ap- anil I Dropnaicu vj m.nt.tm ft vus UUIIU I :i.l r .alM... m ll.a I twenty five cenu per acre. The govern ment, or which is the same, thing all the! rest of the people of the United Sutes, aro the greatly injured by disposing of thrlaod in , . , ..-. a-trt t. , , m . - -r SUU : i ' 31 I if
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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May 21, 1836, edition 1
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