North Carolina Newspapers

NO. 32 .its' Xorlh Carolina Gazette, LAWRENCE & I .EM AY. J TKttMS. MCiintit, tUrea dollar per nariaia -oa j,lf m advaaae. Subtaribcrria MAer ar r. mi it I he llud t.oremai(gjr.rr loowj iaoiiyar,aaii peraon i ctrarai anneal this State, ! njr detira to besom ubMrikcrt, kill beiritlj riwiuired to pay Ih hoi a ! . .riki ..... ii.uij.i. :. ..i...... irTiiT, hot eaeeetlini; fil'leea line, tomiS!iyA'itl.'gC.IH ltH.J4 j rrt to the Kit row iua it Jb pori-paiJ. PUBLIC XANOS. Dr. Henderson's Circular. b'ar i nur fiTfv.i'aM'a .That innrim-l tiaa 'nri arrived when tour mono-lira irn - j r Q - turally recurring to those individu ,from whom a choice i to be made renreaent vour iutereaia in tha hptI I r , r . ' 7. . . . . wr nerai Afsemuiv. iiavinar nan. ov fur kindness, a teat in the last ses- ii, anil having taken some share in W4lter :TshtcVlaiii its ;arne8t.tic.it-"t,,W.hMitihe ITnitsd' tnTiohTT'deem Trmy duty, even atj States in Congress assembled, have fa late periiuLla.adUress ; you on a hject which, wilU auoper,or iater, be- ot viui iiuppmnce i tivesuwot ri Carolina, and to the Union at ;tj and, while entering upon a task iince pleasing as it is important, 1 beg ve to assure yu that a strong sense ot . - . increasing cnaracter oi tne suuject ne. has in.luceu me to retain any nai presentation of it until the late Invention Elections should have ed away when the public mind, eniazed from other interests, vUtWw. it details-and-didUriBine fvalue. J ; ,.t The movement of our Legislature i'mz the last session upon the ques- h of the Public Lands the subse- ent newspaper remarksthe late culars of the M embers '. of Lngress,, ttiig The a tie ntion of the "people to subject tlis earnest debates -upon Ikius resolutions presented to that lr, concerning the future disposition tfiese lands and withal the claims enily set on foot by the new States all the public domain within their necHve borders-the resistance to (a claims by some of the old States SmnliLxirjginalljf Iwlongedrsretn :iuelves suflicient evidence to you Lttlie subject is becominz one of lep mi-end We My of , l jour attenti in, in vrhich J i ... ep inn- endunngin-teTest- w-the American reopie, lo attention then to this ques- North Carolina has an Jtiuenne interest tnvol ved, ana to we you a clear onderstanuinz as to r rights, and the facts upon which iesfrignTi rTre7grb"une?niliiecomes' cetsarj to travel back into history. Iu the beginning of that long and xxly var, by which - we were sepa- itedfroin the British crown and be ne an independent people, the luadary lines of some of the old tiles were widely different, and 14 largethan they are at present. iiiia, besides her own soil, claimed that extent of country at present copied by the States 6f Kentucky, O b, Indiana, and IllinoU. "The limits North Carolina extended from the to'the M ississippi -ri ver, including present State of lennessee and Hirhts " of South Carolina and urna comprehended that tract of iintry since laid off into the States 1 . t : i !. i t. m:.i.:J i Alabama anu 3iississippi. hwh rsaotd States then there were vast diet of unsettled lands, and as the mjgle fur independence progressed, question naUralUJilsewllAt,. lul.l be done with these waste lands. pvided the war terminated success- W? Some of the States who had f j little or no vacant territory, con Med thatihe war-wai-Attmiminlthe. Jatejyrwh li t of sacri fice and so fTerinff to l I States was warred bv united means .1.1 . . v .'. . naieacn state lurnistieu us pro- rtion of men and money that life, wty, property, all 'M .k.eil upon issue, and that these Iap.aa, it, wen -the rowiKshOTid thereby-Jw pwaerea . common property .to .be f posed of ..it e.itim-veiL.d4w s mis it sii'est. These claims. idedlv iust in themselves, were re ctos certain eiteat bf those States o possessed the lands, on the score t tiler wrrp afrirtl- entitled ta all territory - within ? their"- chartered Dissensions and jealousies "ipon sprung op to such an extent ' the State of Maryland refused for lan-kL . f ' ui oi tune to come into me con to the Union, it was with an cxpli- reservation and understanding as "er land rights. To quiet the grow 5 iHscontent. h nnprl Conrress. ie jearJ?8Q while lhe, Wacwas f i in DropTse. uiimI recommend to the States who held vacant lands, CcUO to th f3unffral fSovernitients SS a furtKi,H inrliim.nL ftmnAaA "ntual interest, it nassed the fol lng resolution:" lluoloed. That 'nappronriated lands that may be "'u or reiinnuUhixl to the United oy any particular State, pursu xratha i..: r r 1." mviUMCBUlUUn III VWI,Ica wjs mgnoseu or fur the tommon W othe United State:" 'iJinzthea Boon tha wisdom and in. fity of Confress, with public ipir r10 generoua self-denial which - ,n - L ciai oiaies ceueu meir vacant west-, ern Territory to the General Govern- 'ear has no parallel now-a-days sev- ment, commencing with the State of and Territories, is three hundred and New York in the year 1781 Virginia fort millions of acresj and beyond 1T8-1 Massachusetts 1785 Connecti-. the limits vet belonging to Govern cut 7H South Carolina 1787 ment, seven hundred and fifty millions North "Carolina 1T89: and Georeismalz.toeetWn 1802. lo'alt tliese various treaties of cession there appears to be bit one general sentiment: "To promote the, honor antl dignity of the United states, : aAd4Tsigtke4We thelanuage South-Car and one condition, namely: that alt the lands intended to be ceded by virtue of. these acts to the United States. shall be considered a common fund, fur the use and ' benefit of the . United States, ' North Carolina inclusive. according to their respective and usual proportion in the eeneral charse and expenditure ana mall be jat.n ... .. s .. . fultii tUmnnmrnA nf fnr ihtit mirnmf unit for no other use or purpose whatever a v r . 1 Ins is the language of JMorth. Caroli na', preceded by the fulloinratriot- resDecttullv. and--earnestly - recom mended to the: respective Staie ia the Union claiming: or owning vacant Western Territory, to make cessions of part of the same at a further means, the extinguish ment of the debts, as of establishing the armonv of the TJnitedStates arid The inhabitants of the said Western Ter ritory beine; also desirous that such cession snouiu oe maue in oruer to oo- tajn a more cpmplete, protection than they have heretofore received: Now this Stete-being-ever desirous-of doing ample justice to the public creditors, as well as the establishing the hannonj of the United States, and complying with the reasonable desires of her cit izens Be it enacted by the Geiie- Carolina," etc. and goes on empower ing the - Senators ami - ttepresentatwes of our State in Cugress, to cede her vacant lands beyond the mountains to the . General Government. thus it clearly appears tliat Congress was made, by virtue oi tnee several ueeus of cession, a Tritaiet over a vast pub lic interest,- and become sidemnlrlaalit t a m attf r nfirapfr.' bound to" noid and dispose ot the m in n other-way than - under the - condi tions expressed 1)v treaty with the States."" Any partial distribution- then ot these lands to the Western or any other States, without a proportionate share to all the States, out own inciud ed any waste or misapplication of this tund. or any attempt to divert it Irom the common use and benefit for which H was ceded, would -be a direct viola tion of the trust confided. The above mentioned' lands were acquired from the British Crown by the war ot the Kevolution. I lie Government, in the second place, hold a still greater extent of territory by the purchase of Louisiana from France, in 1 803, and of Florida from Spain in 1819. The principal and interest of the purchase money, near thirty millions of dollars, was paid out of the Treasury of the United States, in which also we had our common right and share. These . landjtheu..came -under the same provisions i as" a Trust fund for the mutual benebt of all the states, ana Congress has no more right to squan der orBacntlctnem, man xue. lanus granted to it by the States undei-.tr ea-. tv. All this pudiic uomain, in wnai- ever manner acquired, has at different Jtoesejided redemption of the - public debt, whicii was mainly enacted by tlieold Revolu tionary stru:2le, which gave u exis tence as an Independent Nation, and additional character. "... By tlie last report of the Secretary of the Treasury, the public debt would be paid off by January of the present yeari and the public donain, whichad been . hitherto cdvered by this pledge j was released from -alHt incumbrances. As early as practicable-after Congress Ha obtained from the States the lands in question, and had subdued the, Indians into submis sion, that system of surveying and selling off was adopted, the advantages of which have been fully tested by time and .experience, 'and continues to the present day. All the lands ihmwn !nti market, are firt run off into townships of six miles square. These are again divided into sections of six hundred and forty acres each, and the subdivision continued as low . ',vi.niu r fiu-tv acrrst thereby affording an accommodation to all; classes of persons, : whether rich ..or poor.., sccordips "JP--.th?iF.jr?gPi??t!If. means of purchase. ; ; t " - Under a system "devised and main tained with suchcare and deliberation, the Western Territory has been peo pled with a rapidity beyond all exam ple, and a vast wilderness has, within the memory of man, been , converted into a number ol States, enjoying, in Common with ourselves, all the bless ings of civil and religious liberty. . I have said "that Conzress has in trust a vast public interest. The ex- presaion nas. us vaiue, luu-umit w calculated. - From all the statements founded' upon Official Reports made to Congress from time to time, it appear that the e ouantitv et vacant and un- appropriated lan.ls within the States ninety millions of acres. Of this immense territory, about one hundreuVitSd forty millions if acres have beeij arye,yd years in -open, but iAira - ene miiliont of acres had been iolJ up to the 30th of September, ; 1833, averaging for the year about seven hundred thousand acres through the entire term. At this rate of sale, with a hundred and ten millions in market, entire generations would rise and pass away, before the land which is now laid off would be disposed of, (or it would require 135 years. This billion and ninety millions of acres, at the lowest price for which the lands now sell, one dollar and a uumter pfcr acr-W4tti4 amount to" 4hemirt'"Mi mous sum ot one billion three hiiudted j and ixty inillious of dotlarsi-- Or as some complaint has bee tr made of present price; take " it at half, and you have thcJLAjhare iu an interest a . . a a a . ts ot six hundred and eisrhty millions ot.as uie line now exists, dollars an amount nearly six times as1 great as. all the bank ..."notes and specie in-euculauon Tn heniteir xaies7ta oreTiiTn-TrnTj-JinroiT or-acresf put together, estimated at one hundred grant the claim, and. all their interest and twentV million of money, and is is narrowed down, fopsotl within their nearly equal to the entire amount oi - j . . . . all the lands in North Carolina, as- sessed at fifty-two millions of dollars, .land system to gn oil, and they retain aBdrthe-3artaxerol8t5r-'7ntKclfJ Having endeavored to give, in as of acres in those onsurveyeil regions, concise a manner as a clear view of whicV sooner er later will Le founded the subject would permit, a history of into States, as the settlements ad the acquirement, title, guardianship, J vance and the wants of the com in unity and valuation of the public . domain, ,rejuire . t .. T Z and "tia i" final VedemDtion from its propositions have again been prc- plede as security" for tlie "payment of tne national ueoi, i rcmaui. iui iw. nr ,nv to warn you, fellow-citizens, ' that the eipensel of survey and sale. The de smooth and uniform method oXsnrvey-naiid for such a reduction must pro ing and selling off under the direction ceed from the idea that Government of Congress, if not properly guarded, 'asks too ' hizhr a price for the. public is likely to be disturbed by rival pre. , tensions irom an unexDecieu iiuuners iLeapeciaL wouder - that there should be any disposition to waste or throw away-such immense - rp&nurces. or to abolish a system' fraught with so many advantage8toJaJid..leaXmui18iS7wWnXlhey-l our summon Union; nevertheless, amounted to one million one hundred there exists in all governments, no and twenty-eight v thousand dollars, matter how well planned or managed, 'regularly increasing up to the last a moving budy of restless spirits, who 'yearJ834, wheu it ...amounted to five are too impatient for the" slow and millions' of dollars-"and to the in natural oneration of laws, founded 'crease of population in the new States, ina wisdom "wrdelyditfereir' Trolinnipare'd la '""whir 1atei"f lacelnri the nasty impulses mm. uncicaicu uiu. -motives which govern such natures.) From tables accurately" made out, Ourown country is not exempt froin U appears that tlib pophlatiori In the th aVneral rule, and . accordinirly we seven new States, embracing the" nub- have" seen within the last few years various plans and projects set on 1001 concerning the public lands; and the pretension most new and singular, ti, nn Ufnt calculated to defeat the intentions of the pld States, who ced- ed to Conzress these lands under trust, for the purposes above men- tioned, is the sweeping demand of some of the new States for all the territory withinz-heirr resnpctive boiHlew the entire exclusion of the General Government, and to the exclusion of all the people of the United States those whor live in the new Statesonly . .. . ...-... excepted. Fellow-'citiiens, this claim cannot be admitted. We have not forgotten till h in common, which up to our times had never been disputed, nor even considered - debateable, ve4 have not forgotten a ; nguf," sealed by the.-MooiL-.nf-1'theI- Revolution,-- and founded iu solemn deeds ol cession before the whole body of American people; and upon jtreaties with foreign Powers for -land, "the price of which wa paid from the- Natronai-Treaory. ,V. have not . forgotten tliat Army after armv. -levWd.amonjtlm-ld States , was sent to defend the infant hents from : the -roercITess scalp' lifetd" the Indiansr anlwhen seftlein inz-kni defeated, as they sometimes TWere, the bones of our countrymen were left to bleach in the wilderness of- the West. We have not forgotten that the old States, with a majority in Con gress,.have, with the kindness of an indulgent parent to a child, granted th f hmr western brethren", every six teenth section of land ainountingto I eiglit miljjions of acres,, for puhlic schools more than , two millions lor internal improvements-half a million to i their colleges ninety thousand acres to benevolent snd ' charitable institutions and twentjne thousand for seats of government ahd' per'mitt ed them to select these ( lands out of the best; and sell them at .their leisure, and we have not forgotten, that over and above all these. Congress allows, five per cent, upon all moneys paid in for public lands, to open their riversmake roads, build bridges and otherwise improve ; the country at large. Not content with these dona tion, equal in amoopt to ene-foarth of all the lands ever sold by the Gor ern ment, they now come forward and demand the whole! Can there be any surprise as to the cause why we are so far outstripped in the racef improve ment by the new States, with their fertile soils, penetrated every where bv steamboat rivers, and assisted so liberally by the General Government? But suppose that Congress should take upon itself the power of ceding thTilandrmft be as unequal in its operation upon States who -received, as it would violate the ritrhts of the old States, who Adtratfern with 'which the a j populatioiij C V Ju n J re 1 1 aud foif ty-wousamt 7 person gjyf nnrd """a? -qu'ue by the cession thirtv-eight mil; lions of acres of .land f and" Ohio; with a population of more than nine hun dred thousand persons, would -only receive five, millions and half pf acres, the quantity of land yet unsold with in their respective limits. And if you divide out to individ uals in these States, a person in Ohio wouM receive only, six acres ' to his share, when the Sate has paid seven teen millions of dollars to the Govern ment for her lands, while an inhabi-i 11W liumlreu an hundred and seventy-two acres, when the State had paid not quite tour rr. A fain ' a cession to the States would be in- iurious to theinselvesj ,1 t ,t all the States, hate a com- inun iuterest in that territory which has ?'noL teen - surveyed, -imiouutiiig .,.. . 1. 1. .......,...,. i own umiw.;. v.w WUV.. CT ""V it be, for te to suiur tne present ""sen te.u7rio-tlfeul)titiri)ring--do-wn- lands, and thereby retards the gwtb uuu uoouiuiiou ui me wvbiv-ih mum ry - To-dtuu lc deem the land fair and cessai-y to turn lie lands, has increased at the rate 6f 8j per cent, i.i uie ien running jenra, between 1820 and 1850, while in the seventeen other States, containing no Dublic domain, the increase haj on- ly baen at the rate of 25 per cent in 'the. same tune. States lining up so fast with people need not the addition al stimulus of 4 reduction in the price of the public lands. Mot ot you are lands have , very mUch increased of late. Hven at the present Government prices, large tracts are bid off, by companies Jand judividuals and ' sold 'again ' to 4 .-Ti'r.".iri.T,'i'i'.'.if;;".'.K einigranis ai auvautcu p ii.cn, hhchuj very large fortunes are' suddenly re alized. If the spirit of speculation Lb, a subject i,f -xauipUint-.a.t.pceCui.; by tiiose wuo are uesiruus oi cnaiiging their residence, ' what would it be ti the price walsuddehjy ty-taye cents per acre. ' rue-moneyed mctt irr the Wcst"ad-rlsewhere;-ras-aisted - by the Land officers nd sur veyors, would instantly form them selves into companies with' immense capital, and take up not mere sections ortownaWpsr Wt; they -would -trover entire dlstrtetrrh'inelt'-warrjiflitr; and hold them up until the oof -mi grants uld "tliem 'at . any price thaTsury might dictate". ; '. ' '- .':' ?'- ' Finally, a third temptation has been thrown to the western appetite to whet its desires. It contemplates a cession of the lands to the States at a reasona ble price, v I have endeavored to caU culate the price of the nublii property (In the former part of tliii address) at Suppose the States agree to beeome nail uie preaiui i iv.es. debtors to the General Government fur the amount stipulated in a bargain. By the rule laid down, the single State of Illinois, with one hundred and utty seven thousand sou !,' and thirty-one millions of acres of jiublic land, .would j become a neotor to tne union in uie enormous sum of nearly twenty; roil lions of money! In case then, with this difference ef money between the parties, the States refused, or was un able to pay, how could the Govern ment proceed to colleit the money? Go to war, as we had liked to have done with France.' and march' an'A- merican army against a Free State of brothers, because me was unaaie 10 pay turn of money? Delinquency on the part of the Stat would be inevita ble. and. if goaded ' toy th Oaneral Government' Tot. payment, 'of by any1 e whether the nubP""6'81-'"1'4'" ' "r present prices of public Z, TnV it.te" of i i T Union l, lTb.l W,U!2 ,rom. Vma -19 P1"- Squifable, it is only ne- il - thn nrciiiint nt tin I ....,!, u.r-. incurred bv them in lunfmrt Oil cuniueiu inu impressive speecn Willi. - i -- attempt to put the federal laws in force, she would at once erpunze the bargain and debt together, by taking up arms and shooting away in proclt tal nuL'ification, assisted by every4State who owed the Government a few tn'iU It would b,e far easier for the wes tern people, with a temper not pro verbial for smoothness, to cancel the cious metals, si the lands in stake j would furn'uh a liberal abundance of Itich tfeuih-ddirig-ioin; To obviate any dangers proceeding; from this fause," in early tune to detend an interest so lemnly euarantlcd to xsortn uarouna by the treaty with the' General Con. gress in l?89-rdeeply impressed that the present land system, devised with such skill, and managed with such statesmanship,' should not be touched with nasty or unholy hands that u su'rping spirits are busily hatching de signs, in the lace of ligiil and justice, lo enrich themselves and the Western States' at the ei neiise of the older por tion ' of the C on fed e ra cy tha 1 1 Ke lies t method of resistance and redri ss co:i- shstaln," i;;d.ue and oiist,Hu i umal ..trx piVssIott o,f tlie . public will by r the voice'of its TLVcislatiirV, claiming in this instance, undor the i-onditiniis of the treaty, a joint division and inter est Hi the revenue. '.'.'arising Iiinn the sales f the-public- lanijs..nn I linger. coveTiedbyelurunfrtliraTrTifc rdy-wwanted in 'the generar expen ses ot the uovernment: rroiounuiy penetrated, L say. then, with the ne cessity! of- suchak ac tioiir ai-once, 1 brought forivard to the notice of the V-r-i Tt ---...- iesisiature tne loiiowinz resolutions: Tteaolved, A the opiuioa of tin (Jeoeral AuiemUly, ' that any act by which tlie Con- great ul 1KB uniteil Males iuil irie in publio land lo tire State in which they are litualed, or any act by lUll llm mii'ti- mnra "price r WTucti - Vheia- lanri aro- now old shall be reduced, would ieriouiljr alleci liie prosperity uf die old Siaiei, and do irrekt injiuiice to llioe Slate by wUnin'lhty v. ..r.r..- ... j i .1 . i were uriiiiany ccucn ivmv vtviiiciii-iacy. i lteolted further, A tlie opinion i f Uia. Generkl Aaiemlib, tlut the puliiio dclil Im been eiliii;nihed, and tlie otiject for which the e'ewion of the reaprcdve purtiwivn ol lie nnSlie domuttr bylhe Sisiei WhieTi oriijlniilly held lliein, huvin lima been acronipiiahed. jiJl.fr .United. . Stati or at leaki JrOHorii.oM. i their federal popnlalion. , ... Itesolved, That the Oovernor be, and lie is hereby, reipiealed lo iraramit two copies of llieae Kaaoluli ns lo Ilia Senator ai.d UrprcseifUtite from ilii Stale iu the Cult. Ere or the United Sutea. Tr- r - r n These Resolutions, untainted by a sinsle party expfessiort, sd plaini laid iu the right which the State of North Carolina has ina share of the public domain, did not pass in the House of Commons without the utmost resis tance." By a reference to the Journal you will find, that every impediment whicKthc ingMiuity. of man could de vise, or sophistry "invent, was used to clog their passage through the House, or fritter awav their force.4 1 The -broad hunner of n&rtv was botitly unfurled fortheir (instant destruction the sig - hals were -exchanged -and the rallying points proclaimed j-yW 4httf didpo after a two days-struggle, precisely-in the shane in which they were iiresent ed to the House by a vote of H i to 32. ' In the graver body, the senate, therjmMioJrwtt-':''t of "S3" to-24;" Tliere -t remain until quickened into notice again by a new exertionin another Legislature, llav- Uia.liadthekiJvml.aadUAUiAdaio before the Legislature, the pardon aud i the mercvis submitted to th people, up- nn wliositmhiiuldersthejnwd oihn etl .... . .- -. - M . of alllegislatnm must luuily rht.Tiuii awarettiitlOine tluii1TttitlVseniulyVr our State ha jiu competent juiiadk - tion in the matter; that to , Congress. a- . lone belooz the entiea i subject.T Such , an idea must at once be set-aside, by, tbe refleetionWtJmgtT8W thtf Velft actbf Stales wi'Ceae-tnc "territory, an mincuj;irari- cairiyu uui uiiu leiu'tieu iu uiw- the" existence ?: of rtlie ptnver in Uw jcrgamzalioii of the rcapective branches StaTesrcarrying lll?nt Ut niuauig suiting ireaie wnu ,uu uiy uuiiiUviiiAci lur iiic ocuuic .i them, accepting all, tlie terins'lcoudi a proper index to the wealth and mo tions, and reservations madd bf thti . pei t yf1if tlie State, aud 100 should be States; and Ifthisbe not satisfactory,' U is only necessary to turn lb ih 2d clause of the Sd section of tlie 4tli ;ar tide in the Constitution of the tinted States, where the matter is set at reet ill behalf of the States." Tlie pier to make a treaty implies always power tu,detiuile basis, the, paturc of which he defend, and if North , Caro.iiia does not take it upon herself to defend her own treaty and her raose, who. will J and now is the time. If she wait until the Western States get uia will be' in ' vain There: is, beside, sotnethiuv more than mere pecuniary considerations iu this subject; all tlie sins of the times just past betpuak the necessity of a closemnioii an I among all the ties which bind us together, the Imbue domain, next to . the . natural ove of eountrr, holds the highest consideration. 1ly appropriating tlie nroceeds of the public lands amons the States, " afne w and. powerful bond of affection and interest is created a mong th:in - like- that udvchr ! binds brother to brother while the. General Government, -regarded ia the light of a kind parent, will extend its care and distribute' its blessings all around. And for North Carolina, "the land of our sires and the home of our affec tions," dejected and dispirited as she may be, with gloom before and sorrow behind shall -no brave blow" be struck " to resist her downward tendency? Shall we still pursue that shortsighted policy which1 has peopled the West , wiuutc rK citizens, and do nothing for her better . interest by closer concert na a, wider enterpriser want, Denumoing wani . of funds for Internal improvement,' has ever hun over jour ancient State like a smothering night-maret yet when it may hereafter be nentioned that we are too poor to engage in the race ot improvement with our sister States, let it be remembered that we have iu the public domain an interest which, when properly t distributed by law, . j woutd annually throw into our treasa 1 ry three hundred thousand dollars. '1 hi& suin judiciously - laid -oof on works t general jntst-lwolAwa , , ., .T. - cause Hie void North" to raise op her . drooping head iu htniles Opon her fine cunuu;-a:id soil, teeming witb growing .'i; -towns, feriibi fjw ms, and a thrifty t con;" " "J tented eople. : t ; ' ' " It now remains for you, fellow citi zens, t.i determine the meritsofthe sub- jei t. Its muver i before you as a can didate far the Senate, and whatever ' totiirpnijr'm he never "caii . be bound to you in any j - other li ht than that of a sincere friend ' -and well-wisher. ' f ' . 1 - - - i tipvm?i)env ' , SI'ATC CO.WJSWTJOW. ,.PMT&.;i;:2 : . . Thumlat, June 18. . The Convention having resolved t--; Self iiitii a "cuminittee of the Whole, wi lher4icle-wportedorthB-regula- tion of tbtr Representation in the 8e- nute and House of Commons, . - Mr. Sl'QUEEN rose and, said, he should leel himself but poorly qualified ' at any time to requite the Convention -for nny degree" of" patience "whuK- it', might think proper In bestow upon wUic.liiLliad.Jieen just edified and i - tertaiued by the gentleman from wra veil Judge Gaston had Well nigh ' caused liiiu to despair, of acquiring . just portion nf its indulgence on the pisent-occasion.r'T7Tf-7-5"'-c--T----- But as the subject now under eon sidcra filing said "M'v SI TQrTi ' onifw hit lr involves consequences which 1 believe to bo intimately associated . with the future prosperity "of the State and with the iutei ests of those, of whose feeling and wi lies ( am the humble organ on this lluor, I will permit no temporary disadvantage to stifle the, utterance w ' my ni t sent convictions. ; ;-nhl' hThe Heportt of the committee Jibs recommended 30) as the number, of t members whit h shall compose the fu- f ture Sinale of , the State, and ZQ as j the number which shall constitute th j future House of Coramons. ITlre num-' Ibar - reeoowteBded by the eommittee for t he senate, which is the highest , we ' could have adopted, agreeably to tha charter-under which we are now act- - ingr nppt-nrtnl mi tlie intioductioii of Uu-,lu;)iui Ij to be- almost universally - acci pinhU to tint Convention, and was acciKdinly jicrededlo with, but littio" posed til af ike nut 120 the number deaijt? lait d lur the llnuse of Commons, nn-l tw tnsert jtcLlt Hppeared lo liiiti .' . S ...." j.a a terv '-rintmiyiMyfetniii..iieigiiesi iium be fol- Jowed - b '4h-higHest number fm- the H.iuse id ,t!omin.i;is; as a correlative term for, if . the reprt entati. n in ,llisj - Senate bo' fimuded on, properly, obiI"- respectUc basis should be . chosen for the House of Commons, in-. jsiead of 120, ihn, we are Hot present- . (cd with a clear vllectioii of the fedcr ,' tf ,al population of the State, : intho ' , House, of Cotnmons; but .with R iiuiii- . - ber ol uVembers reposing on some i- y iVIIIU piWfc VVMt If Vllllll t,ll7.1 could in a... .. t . 1 ....,MnM..t.n.l . U has been uusmed, said Mr.M'Q. iby an enwiieiit citizen oi this country lll- W.A. i : r...?!:.- in.. . . . ir. . i ejsiery uu u yvcaaioif iiwr to that on which; we have been tsum lutidauieiital systems, the strictest re ference should bn made to the ancient usages' and ;tabitide4 ;uf aieiipluy to the end tiiat their fee(iiigf m''t put be suddenly diverted from tlie. f unmet iti which-iheyjhjivtf Lecesl""j aci;s- tomea to How, amt the aiaoiuty ot tne Government, endaiieivd f by .the 'loss of i their affections -.-, For ) a Govern ment, to be durable, must be so con true ted as to interest the: majority of the-people ia its continuance and pre ieiatioa. If it hould.not,.it ,will ' sooder or later become the victim of those popular commotions, which havo -Vi: