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lv.Bfr(fgjg.K(a Mnis rlt 'rsrr ernmia. krirk "par. m a,n afro "will., ('wl'nwl: Mlak, PI ill, Itieact 'XII, , lo ton. noiMllt "wtkf i Mw MAIL NEW Cm':;- IE! irs!U- Flpri tnat, .1U r, in I iOO? Idol- grea rgm- ma. dint til IK 'Mil ira rf Wn id ft. rr !IM v Mii iifiat a- Nisi r Mill B.lt all deff k ll T tw f i. . DAVID OUTLAW,? Edilori. thus. J. tEMAiy; RALEIGH, IT. 0. THURSDAY, JUUZ3 23,1036 OL ZXVII. NO. 27 THOMAS J. E.EMAV, rHOPRIETOR AJfD rtBLISHER. French battered them to the ground in twenty -four hours. The truth is, that for an invading force on land we must at last rely upon "high minds and :.' TKKMS. .t tiintBTf . thrae .Lilian ntr antinm -one balf." .lnei. 8ubriKerti'rtel' SfaTirife hear tsT- ;Tfti"biSf 0'ff;''n,d'TlMt: ii i .atijiMM i .j. . t . anitoi c unn mir than one Tar, k permiMiitrnlnhowttht St tie, ho may ilctireto become .luuteribera, ill he IMeljr reirefl 10 )ij inc wnoic -- miint orthejrear'tttibtsrlpiionin advance. AnrsTliisTsl not neeedlnn fifteen linn, in,rl4 lliree timet for one ilollur, andtwen !. eeiiti tor each aoittnwinee. or SOUTH CAROLINA , Delivered in ttie llue of Mepreeentadrea. Mav 2:3. 1836. the tl-ue beii ifin Cum- mitVee of tlie whole on Hie Fouincalwn IMI. Mr. Pickens said it was not agreea bin fr him to tre-nass upon the atten tion of the committee, and lie trusted It novrr ruld be Induced to (IO 80 except from considerations' of duty, Mr. Chairman ':" This debate has ta ken a wide, range, ami doctrines have been advanced and sentiments avow fortifications. Besides, sir, the gen- lus of our institutions is at war with a standing army. But extend your visionary and wanton schemes offor- fifications, and they call for an in creased force to keep them in repair, i Stay l.wjtwete-aavtWJ-JieJw ! majority oi me omcers oi your pre- i tim enterprise droop and grow dull; you equal 2150,000.000, I am totally at a brethren, have made ho move in this t will see our spirits wither and die'; loss to 'perceive how he. comes to the recent war to let off the exuberance of utnjne claims for its oriirin h'oh genius will turn front lofty aspiration conclusion that our customs will then their spirit, but have kept back in that ion has , bee.. if -J.-tc h , - our people will lose their burning yield only 810,000,000. The system' silence which belongs to their servility, much reverence Zi T?" ? i ?f jeetingof paMoiismf ndroTnrarnir-ts biennial in ita--redtKtionr-ad"the-A independence we will tamely sink oniy amounting to ten per cent, u this unfortunate savage war, it ill be-lmulgated In en ingenious-.,- sals un- the whole Importations are 8150,000,- comes the officer you placed there toffrom Ohio against all corporation.!.,. ; Northeru. very boundaries of the States will be Jirely from what theyjiajre been here- had but recently cme fiesh from the and Middle sections of this. Union. tost ani lorgotten auunu tne ruin anu , toiore, me uu muie arucies muki equ.i ueius oi ins inumpn in. manauveruiz wnere in an nroDaointr it will son Le ' desolation thrown over a broken aud i SPEEC J'lGKaaLMMitai:m.vare-mt,-amrt Ii v to be trust- H.nit tf tl r.immilfaa tf Wava ttlil k!j.L. r . ; system. ot orraniza4Htn. and the areal ll oi last wciooer. sola lor J5 Means '"Tivrrj wiwigawrawewwiMwwiOT inanie1mtnr"Wi i....-:..-.1.- ..;-.:.ie K,., nvrrnm. If ihi. hP h pBVrt nf pendence of separate com.nutiiU-s.Trencn nf gSO.OOO.OCO. . i an amen In acing the same principles, but ile- whide debate as open upon the, pre sent occasion. However, before I proceed to reply to what has. been advanced by other -gentlemer l ppp'so tu .make a..feiv! observations on the general principles which shall govern my vote on the Itill immediately under the consideration of the committee. As to appropriations towards those fortifications calculated to give etfi ciefiry and protection to our navy. I perhaps would beinclinedJog' as far as most gentlemen. I am in favor of those tha are important for, ,tbesepu.r-. noses, and no other, so far as the At- ta n tic"coast is conrenmf. I toot up on it a. one of the most idle and vis ionarvschemes that has ever been conceived, to attempt a military line ot fortifications on wir Atlantic coast similar to those which European gov: eminent s have ' adopted. Our popu lation, comparatively speaking, is sparse, and we have a coast equal in etnt to the whole western coast of Europe. Under these circumstances, our resources would not justify an at tempt to encircle ourselves with a nytem;f fortifications on a plan simi tar to those which more populous and - far less extensi ve countries have adopt ed. MVide", we have no border pow ers against which, it mav be necessary to protect ourselves. We are remote from all other powers with an"no mense and increasing commerre.- Outp'iysiral fMtsition, and all the cir cumstances with which- we are sur rounded, prorlaim a lhavy to he our only system of enlarged national ile fence. "Onf expenditures forfortifi caions 'ought to be jnade exclusively with a ' view to givo- protection and energy to our nvaj. With our exten sive coast, vu may mfike fortificatiotis for land defence, and have your sys- give your enemy I"c:nde'ndy upon the oceanv and t'iey willjand their orces at whateveCpointslthey may think proper. No commercial country, can rely for "defence upon any .thing but a weil -regu lattf d na vy n .... . Our true policy of defence is to in crease? and strengthen it by judiciou "p1hTi'liffiniftcitiun;:frajt.-.iMi.W, us to .protect our whole oast by a Jtrngeii.ftwa.tiMwer than any nation trout beaMfr to, concentrate . atmst us With this view, and looking to the natural division of our coast into four treat bays, avit were, the first from Pasamaquaddv to Cape Cod, the -second froni ("ape Cod to Cape Hat- teras, the third from Cape Hattera? Joi Cape FloVida, and the fourth o the SaVirie. I wouhl sat (hat ext -nsive navy yards with efficient fortifications, ' should b established at the moM. suitable points between these different capes, so that an ordinary naval force,! with " brave aid - enterprising men, j could easily defend the whole frontier, and at the same time protect our commerce. For instance, I would have such a navy yard with fortifica tions at or near boston the same at or near New York then at Norfolk and the mouth -of the Chesapeake the same at Charleston and then at Pensacoli, for the defenr ot thegulph and the commerce of the West. I - wonfj place these points on the best anl-trigest footing,, equal to any in Europe, nd make little or no expen ditures on any othetjpoints; " so far . as our Atlantic frontier is concerned. ' It is all idle and visionary ' to at- l tempt to place ur jroast 'in i perfect ' state of defence by statia fortifica tionsthis can.!., alone w done by those that move upon the face of the deep. There is scarcely any .fortifi- " cation but what can be passed under 'favorable tides and winds, and it is a military maxim that there is none but what can be taken. ' Look to - those .hat were erected at Antwerp, with so '.' much tltlt and labor, on the same SUn of fortress ' Monroe, and which Ionparttumelf pronounced impreg ,' Tble, and what was the reault?' The 4ia-pplialjleUtal what must be the operation orthincs ?0'"?" under the tremendous' schemes that Lhabi.tual, -exrlosion Jt.anj.ition,ol ..... lltA Wtntm ..rtk.y nnl. u...u t..vm are now m urocress to bi ins the in- ' iuui".' terior West to the sea coast by means I u,JCal benefits t " Government, and .f r-.il rrvwU? I u'mil.l r.ii,i. i.oio 1 P"f r over its action, must eni in a rail road running from our roast into that brave and fntfrnriKino- rnuntrv. for the purposes of defence, than all Pe.r H"?"1' tho-4rtincationt your oveiflowinir ed with the liberties of their country. But increase your military points and It is useiessand idteT"at 1hrapeHMlL ol the world, to talk about liberty, so TSt arrTfnlTflftrltTt Nir York, (Mr. Cambreleng) to sonal rights and individual protection. call for a corresponding increase of; Ihese stands secured, and are, to a men, and then place all under pmfli-; great extent, consecrated in the feel- gate and ambitious rulers, and there !i"gs and institutions of every civiliz is no patriot who will not tremble lor the consequences to his country. Mr. Chairman: There has been a great change in the Condition and re sources of our country within the last few years. JUnder ihe application of steam power to our coast and rivers, remote sections have been brought to- ginheJ' munity have been condensed. Our fed community on earth. In those great struggles which ended in the overthrow of feudal barbarism, the contest was for individual and person- ai noerty. nutiunce me combina tion of the Holy Alliance, together with all the improvements and schemes of modern society, every thins seems to tend towards an amal ffnm&t3! 866,000,000, ami this must yieM a'aml $trutugu say it little becomes come the popular doctrine oft'e day.. ; I . JnaAAAAAA.! t a" - . . a I W i . . a . W revenue oi bi.uuuuuu, insirau oi. him to cast a tneer over tnem as "voj.-I nat. sir: no legislation bind Bos- &liQ.OQfl.00Q., J?o,Airxg,.llk-our in-!vntrkrs." and not 'ffoorfrooi." Iteritvi! : PuaK this dortrln i its rWvl " itiiuia- i creasing and wide spreading ant valleys oi the Aiistsippi tueiexnaust tne surplus, vast schemes pi internal improvements developing the resources of the inte overcome. If this be the effect of rparate t easury can erect. For mihtary pur poses, heretofore; communities have been strong in proportion to the d n- seness of their population. But the recent triumphs f invention hi nt art vcr natu re see in i k el y to u e v e ;denc. Hence it is, that political deeply identified with political liberty. A people to be free must feel that they are so Compare these great principles with what now actually exists, and what has existed for the last twenty years. In that period of time this Government has collected g42O.COO,0O0 aiMl after new enerirv and resources, and mav wrowrasoiir oi um iimuiairau nit cMngeilie hdrftlJvhejnejdlmAl. defences in an extensive and widelvTpmpitated fur the payment of the populated country. Under these public debt, we then have left 8290, views. I shall t.ever vote for any for- 000,000. of which 8210,000.000 have tification-that annot be shown . tu be . heen disbursed in the Aljddle and necessarv W the strewgih and support, Northern sections, while only 880. of the navy.' I would desire to have but f'W points,, and place them on the most liberal and substantial basis. It wanton waste of the public money to attempt to embrace oo many interests, and cover too many points. But, sir, I will now look at the operation of this system in annth r point of view Y hde yiu have been expending, for the last twenty years, millions upon millions in certain sec- ions of this Union, other extensive sections have been to n.creal extent entirely neglected. When my cl-, league (Mr. Thompson t some weeks since, with so much ability, demon strated the unequal operaHon of your na'al appropriafion, he drew but a just picture of Ihis Government in all ts fiscal operations. As to-onr navy Lara disposed to make snnie allow ances for appropriations heretofore. from he fact that our tonnage has been owned in, and our large commer cial transactions have, in a great measre;4ak en place in. those sections. where the demand aiyl supplies lor a navy and its appendages were natural ly called for. But we have now reach ed a new era in our affairsfcwlien other sections and other interests. must be atie'roTe?r eminent has been profuse in its ex penditures for the- defence, -ol.tluie portions of your country whiclv ynu boast of being naturally the strongest, while-you have - neglected tl'osepnr-J 7 i r- , - :- l. t .1 A "1 lions wnicn you nave prociai mnr to- be the weakest. Is this the sound policy that "should direct the energies of a fostering Government to protect equally the exposed points of a unit ed people? nor industry and enterprise u orating the remotest quarters ot our land all, all, proclaim the increasing means of a great people with corre ponding wants ami demand, under this prospect of things, I should be in duced to think that in two years more our importations would reach 8170, 000,000, and lhat our customs would yield g 1 8,000,000. our exports in Jown seene, atid-whew da it ial t? What becomes of your' Public faith? 810,000,000 lor the war in which we I Let it be known that those treaties will be involved with Mexico on our J which bind you in your intercourse southwestern borders." I with the nations of the earth, are to ba Mr. Chairman; To say the least of disregarded and defied by the tchim. it, this declaration, coming front onejthe infereit, or the ambition of the who bears such a relation to this House ascendant party of to dav, .and we and country as the gentleman does J must then necessarily be excluded front was as imprudent as any thtng could 1 civilized society ISo legislation bind well be. Every thing relating to the posterity! l-i. What bore us in c'ory and affairs of Texas involves questions of I in triumph through thve warof our revo- the deepest and most delicate interest, I lution, but that legislation ' which and it does not become us at present I bound posterity to redeem the debt in-" lt ot last t)ctober, sold Yuf 7S,VWrn(mnm bMbta&&t.vuMM4 LutU not be supposed thai we com-" plain of the unequal disbursements, merely for the lUllars- ahd rents in volved. No; it is because the opera tion T dilepTyoiTnecteil wiTlnhe gfear principles of liberty. Aa a people under one Government, we present a different state of things from any other people. We are one for certain great purposes, and separate for others, As far as the pecuniary and fiscal tranasclions of Government are con cerned, it is not to be disguised that we have sectonat interests differently affected. As far as the States are concerned, we have in each peculiar sentiments, habits, and feelings. -To preserve : these is the very essence of our separate independence and exis tence. Nu people can be free and independent whu are -habitually -and systematically excluded from the fa vors snd benefits of the XJoverninent that acts upon them. Let it become fixed, ss a settled policy, that the West and the South are only to feel this Government in its exactions, while other sections are to feel it in its disbursements let it be known that we are to be converted into Roman irovinces, from which you are to col eet treasure and Veal ik to be distri buted amongst those who may be styl ed " Roman citizens' and then, sir, if snch a system is to last if this state of thinga-is lo-ie continedyou will soon see -wider tt, -oue industry and C0O.00O have been disbursed in all the other sections. Let not gentlemen suppose that the West and the South are factious, when they oppose this system of disburse ments. No! they see involved in V the highest interests and even the liberties of their country. I come now to what has been ad vanced by theTs InTTie'pf i'greRSct this debateT- The Chairman " Tf the "Ways and Means" observed that the revenue system which this Gov ernment had adopted for the last twenty years, was the most unjust and oppressive that was ever adopted by any civilized Government. In this, sir, I agree with him. He also said that the commencement of this system was the tariB" of 1816, To a considerable extent, I agree with him here too. But when he came to as sert that the 'compromise bill" wni- he consummation ot that t stem, 1 confess I could not exactly understand him. There are principles in this bill which uy no means receive my appro oaiVoVi. ' The" gentleman joka.tltle . evils complained of - from the surplus in the treasury, and intimated that if it had not been for the compromise," a svstein would have been adopted whtchwoulillav'ewltced'heye venue now down to the wants of the Government. AI1 .Jhi.3l!.ojin.ded;.veTj well from the gentleman in one part of his remarks. But when he came to another part, where he was attempt- wg b"dKar the" ' Ufrdv4UlB4twy utticr just nisiriuuiiun oi mis surplus amongst the States, T confess I was astonished to see (lie gentleman labor so hard to prove that there was and would be' no turplui. -Ie1enferVd7into long . calculation to show that there would be no more than the wants of the Government would require. At one moment, he denounced the"rompromise'l-aa pro ducing the evils of the surplus, to snow how' much, better others could have done for the country; and then when be desired to retain what aB in the treasury from a distribution, he at tempts to prove that the same " com promise" has produced no surplus beyond ; what the Government will actually want. I leave the gentleman to reconcile this palpable absurdity and contradiction in his argument, if argument it ran be called. IJut, sir, this contradiction was not more aston ishing to me than the reasoning by which he jumped at his conclusions. He "spoke. loudly on the "ebbs and floods", of importations and ex porta -tions; and from something connected with these ebbs and floods" which he knew of, he asserted that two years hence our, importations .-would not exceed 840,000,000, and upon this our imposts would yield 810,000,000 of revenue. (Here Mr, Cambreleng ex plained, and said that he meant the dutiable articles would not exceed that amount, but admitted lhat the im portations would amount to 8150,000, 000. J Mr," Pickens resumed, and said he-did7iot-a itmlerstand the gentleman bcforeButif the genfJe mao admits that our jmportations will -4 ----l-'i-LrN' "' : "' the article which, in the plenitude of. r jrjisrim-jr-yti -prooucsii-.-iver nroiiuceii inree veara njru, viiicn raised less than ten hundred thousand bags, and sold it for less than nine cents, ami you declared that produc tion had tlwu outrun , demand. Last year we raised above 500,000 bags more, and sold U, notwithstanding your over-production, for sixteen cents. N4an can foretelLthe developments of this country under a wise system free trade. No man can foresee the immense increase of importations and exportations of a free and unrestrained peoptrvwittrthe freshness tif-ihe-vir- gin wilderness before them. 'I he gentleman cannot make " the suypl trr vscnisktyJigB nfZH en iTall' the teasonable expenditures that have been officially asked for be made, we will have, on the first of January next, t lyast 846.000,000 f urplus in the treasuryi supposing t he pu blic J yield 81',000.000; and many put them as high as 625,000,000. - Good faith and prudence demand that this should lie deposited, not in the corporations of the States, but in the treasury of the separate States themselves, in propor tion to their federal representation, they being responsible for its repay ment. This wuld -give us the faith and credit of the States instead of the banks." But of this and of the gentle man's argument on the "land bill," 1 will say more on another occasion. The gentleman, in his calculations to reduce the surplus, has placed 87.000,000 tube appropriated for In dian treaties, and in this I suppose he is correct. He also put down 85.CO0 000 for the Florida war. Mr. Chair man: I will not say that this is too much, but I will say that it is four times as much as it ought to have been. 1 will here take occasion also to say, that this is one of the most diegiaceful wars that has ever ocrured disgrace ful in its origion, and of no credit to those who have had the termination of tho first campaign. .1 am rather in- aucea to tetteve that the gentleman from Virgina (Mr. Wise, lias given us the true causes of this war. It is not improbable that it was engendered by tffTqtjitiTOS'authoTity gfven,'1lgent1' and others, who, under the vile pretext ofjiem sing others before the 'emTgraflottofilif' lawless savages could take place, at tempted in some instances to seize even the children of their chiefs tor bondage and sale, and then committed imposi tion aud outrage, until suffering nature could bear, it no longer, r 1 forbear to say more at present, lor I may be mis informed, and I trust for humanity, and for the honor of our Gove rrfmeut. that 1 may be. But I .will say, that whatever may or may not have been the treatment of the Indians, I believe that 4oany: of- those whahaveolun; teered to defend your border have been, to say the least, treated with coldness and peglectrI donot stand here to complain for them. What they have suffered and borne, they have borne without a murmur, for the honor ajid character of their State. " But rep resenting, as I do, perhaps as many of these spirited men as any other gentle man, I take occasion to say that they volunteered their sevices, not as the gentleman from.- Massachusetts (Mr. Adams ; sneering! y says because it was to them a "fat business," but to defend your exposed frontier, after this Gov ernment, from neglect and injustice, . had involved us in a cruel and merci less war of plunder and murder. These yery men- who have so honora bly sustained your stars and " your stripes, werefrom amongst those whom your Government Press here, and its pensioned bands, have denounced for the last two years as traitors to their country. And what has been (he fact? While they had gone forth to encnun ter hardship and exposure in vindica tion of your honor and your power, oc, who some years' since; were so eager to exhibit tbeirnanVtm by ..i..i..' .. : - - . : xuiiiDUKnug jna,cmi warm rirr' uslai lied, a'lM, us" was-( vv hareyerTnarfrerrhcw of those governments that are in their oatuctt-Ji nlinutfctla JLh old th a t, u nd er our ronirtttutionr hwh-waaiew.aru. to defend, with its limited trust powers conferred on us for the interest .snd benefit of this people,. we have no right la jntju ..a., war.: except Prety Jor irij'urjenrc. i nere are ceiain great moral obligations wh ch .should ever I bind governments as well as individu als, and which, particularly under our peculiar institutions, should never be forgotten on arty occasion, no matter how templing. A war with Mexico for conquest would lead to a coiiflit with KuiMpan pwwers the-eod-ef -whiclv U would not be easy to foretells I have asji)ucu-4ase most gentlemen, lur I had tlie compan ion of my boyhood the frielidToT my maturer years brave, chivalrous, and daring to th highest degree,' inhuman ly.buJchircd in the fall of the Alamo. But I shall never suffer the reelings "sV siniiy in' pa "tfi lli'T"fs"' tTTtirV'orn p t me, under impulse, to do any thing cal culated to involve others in conse quences the most serious, unless under a case ot clear justification. v But, sir, whatever may have been the calculations of gentlemen, the re cent glorious and triumphant victory gained io the arms of Texas has entire ty flrsfel led them. Idepfeeated de bate tieretoiore, because I Icaretl thai it might lead to consequences calculated to embarrass the negotiating power of this uovernment. I frankly avow that it is an object near and dear to my heart, to acquire Texas for this Union Sir, I desire this, not as has been said to exlend the rb6undiTi1esrratiivery; but for the purpose 'of extending1 the boundaries of liberty. Who is there so cold and. heartless that" he would desire to limit the confines of this great and growing KepuDiicf , it even all the nations of Christendom were anxious to adopt our constitution, and cover themselves under its principles, is there a man here whose heart woulilnnt beat and whose eve would not kindle with joy at the anticipation of such an event. And whu is there sonopruw and contracted that would not extend our union and protection to those who are our neighbors wh spenk-tHir language- iuciiuucu wiui us, as iney are,. in in terest and in feeling who went from uui in-viiv,miu iiuiii uui hi mi o II" are our own brethren and relatives!1 Who is there amongst us that would turtt.his!an4;U prise of a brave and daring people? Ves, sir! they are ours by position ours by all the'sympathies of our nature ours by all the hondsvf interest ours by all the .ties that can bind man to his fellow man." : 1 desire their union'. :not because it would strengthen the slave holding States I scorn to place it up on any such, narrow grounds but be cause I desire to nurture with our lost ering: care a nleemiif forlhe free. just now quickening into life because I desire that our banner may Hoatalott, and that the whole race of civilized man shall sleep in peace uuder its broad and benignant folds. Mr. Chairman M come now to ei- amine some of the abstract doctrines which fell from the gentleman from New York, fMr. CambrelengJ and which I beard with profound astonish ment., The gentleman, after speaking of the triumphs of the democracy, pro- ciaimeu inai no nopea . tne nine was soon coming when the people would I I , ... . . . . t . ' a declare, in language, not to be mis taken, "that no legislation should,, bind posterity." Sir, it tins sentiment had been uttered only by the colleague of tne gentleman on my extreme rignt, fMr. Moore ,) it would have excited in me no attention, for I took that gen tleman's wild declamation to be belter suited for the "loco foco" party in the streets of NeW York than for the halls of legislation. , But coming as it did from the Chairman of the "Ways and Means, who from Jiiiyears and ex perience maybe supposed not to speak without reflection, iU ia .aijloctrine which deserves the most serious atten. sources of this nation for the great pur poses of self-preservation? '"Is thia- vngn.P,mM,j'MBMg,ana!tJwn those who are to come after us? Go' back at once and tear up your Dec-' laration of Independence itself scat ter into a thousand peices the parch-' niehl 0f j0U jpCon it Hntinna ml- substt -tute, in 'the plate thereof, the shouts of a mob proclaiming their triumphs of to-day, or the power of a lawless tnulti- . tude waviiig "'over "a blood stained land" the sceptureofanarrhy to morrow. No ! legislation bind posterity!! Where Is faith? Where is honor? .Where is pub- Uc Jaw iuWiiere Ja nublic xruu ali t v ? STrrthis iwailoctrine Btwirrwifheace poHcyrmd tioiifnr.""lt- twrakwrfownr all that is venerable, virtuous, and t on secfalediii the insfirotions of tlTHtM' tioti itself. If this be the doctrine that' the gentleman, and the party with which 4 he is identified, intend practically to eii force Tti tliis cWnfry7rWnelt'hitiin thafr hen'1i'riHeffifiVrlTnr1iwdred thousand plumes ..WillwaveoTer a f hundred tlionsand' lances, couched to vindicate ail those sacred right which r have been acquired under the tlishted' faith of this Government. i But, sir, the gentleman -dropped" another remark that struck me with ' peculiar force. He asserted that the ' tiinVwonldljMwn cone eminent should sell the publio-fands to-?: none but emigrants who were actual settlers. Where is the right under-' the Constitution by which this Gov-! eminent would attempMo exclude any f class of free citizrna from put chases of the public domain? Where is the right tyAvhich you shall claim to tlis--tribute it amongst a particular cIusk? If it be tiitended by this- to feed lha appetite and miiiisier to the desires of -that class who may 'have no peculiar? ties or interests: to bind them to the 1 place of their nativity if it b Intend- ' ed to catch that 4 lass who move ; through the land from one end to thai' other, having no home, and feeling for no country, then it is vile ngrarianisnv Has it come to thia-rtbat a man is to be- cxcludcil from the benefits and priviJ! leges muter this uoveriimehTiicf jStrte" bv icdustrv. ecomimv. nr vntoi nkn.hu - should he- s ftr4u rate ..aa, i Oc.m c cu mu l.at prPperly,.or becauce he mayJiian-?" pen to be associated -wiih others who hare?wArTitrzenswhOTrietr"andf intercsfi. may bind lliem to reside 'W one btate. to be excluded from hold. !P-"'jill?9ilfl.; " If ihis system Vr scHitiE ystem of selling: alone to a certain class, be intended by the gen-; . . tlcman as an equal division of the pub- lie domain", ...then he should remember J . that when the lloman people canre to- . receive their distribution fi-oin ti e po- ; - lie granaries, f hey becsnVe prostituted ? arid debased. ,: When their conquering " Generals came loaded with the spoils' - " of devastated provinces, and were en- abled to4eaUoutbreatLandll)ouiitiea to this class or that class, then, thi ough; bribery f and corruption, they bcught meir way to power over the prostrate- , -liberties of their country, , j h , But the', gentleman made another, -declarationi which I confess filled nm heart with the most gloomy forebord-r. - , ings for the fnture. After speaking of' the bloated state of -things in the coun-j try at present, he concluded by tie daring that "the whole nation was now one common gambling bouse!"; Con- sidering the position he occupies in (hia House, and the relation he bears to the dominant parly that now rules tii'ta, confederacy considering that,from his residence, he must bel; intimately acquainted with the secret springs speculation and commerce I confess 1 beard thin solemn declaration., with no ordinary emotions. , This nation one common gambling house! And who made it so? . Let those who hold, the reins of Government answer, thia . awful question. Mr. Chairmanjjiex " -to the omnipotence and omnipresence of that superintending Providence that ; . , moves upon xthe affairs of tlx worldr tlieres-ao- powexjlljat- exjprcisps s4 great an influence over the feelti,2;.t v the sentiments, and the very natures :. i minat.0it.to. be waged on. tbcic own tion of this country, ' 1 am aware that "',:.-vi TV- - ' ' -i
The North-Carolina Star (Raleigh, N.C.)
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June 23, 1836, edition 1
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