to check emigration to the West, and
thus to diminish the value of the public lands and prevent the growth of
the Western States, Mr. H. proceeded thus:] "That portion of the Union
could participate in no part of the bill, except in its burdens, in
spite of the fallacious hopes that were cherished, in reference to
cotton bagging for Kentucky, and the woolen duty for Steubenville, Ohio.
He feared that to the entire region of the West, no 'cordial drops of
comfort' would come, even in the duty on foreign spirits. To a large
portion of our people, who are in the habit of solacing themselves with
Hollands, Antigua, and Cogniac, whisky would still have 'a most
villainous twang.' The cup, he feared, would be refused, though tendered
by the hand of patriotism as well as conviviality. No, the West has but
one interest, and that is, that its best customer, the South, should be
prosperous."

Mr. Rankin, of Mississippi, said: "With the West, it appears to me like
a rebellion of the members against the body. It is true, we export, but
the amount received from those exports is only apparently, largely in
our favor, inasmuch as we are the consumers of your produce, dependent
on you for our implements of husbandry, the means of sustaining life,
and almost every thing except our lands and negroes; all of which draws
much from the apparent profits and advantages. In proportion as you
diminish our exportations, you diminish our means of purchasing from
you, and destroy your own market. You will compel us to use those
advantages of soil and of climate which God and Nature have placed
within our reach, and to live, as to you, as you desire us to live as to
foreign nations--dependent on our own resources."

Mr. Garnett, of Virginia, said: "The Western States can not manufacture.
The want of capital (of which they, as well as the Southern States, have
been drained by the policy of government,) and other causes render it
impossible. The Southern States are destined to suffer more by this
policy than any other--the Western next; but it will not benefit the
aggregate population of any State. It is for the benefit of capitalists
only. If persisted in, it will drive the South to ruin and resistance."

Mr. Cuthbert, of Georgia, said: "He hoped the market for the cotton of
the South was not about to be contracted within a little miserable
sphere, (the home market,) instead of being spread throughout the world.
If they should drive the cotton-gro