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land proposed to be relinquished was proba- ply inferior, and, on that account, could net De sold. But the gentleman from Illinois, lMr Duncan,) had placed that matter bcycnd doubt, Gas MrC. conceived by the evidence .h one CT the engineers, whose statement had been read, showing, satisfactorily, that the iahu was ct as good quality, generalls, as per maps any other Ike quantity of land in the State, The mpleton of the canal, would, unqnestionably enhance the value of the land proposed to be relineuished, as well as the publ C domain in that State, generally, and thus answer to the government most ample

 indemnity. The tnly inccn,cnences that could rse to the United States, u!d be the pAs ble delay of receiving the money fer winch the land fir which the scrip woud be pad might sell, for a f. m, nths, or perhaps

 nger. The scripwas not, in any event, to be redeemed With money, butiand, and only acre tor acre. Not more than fifty thousand dol lars of scr could, under the provisions of the bill, be issued at once; and the investiture of that sum, in conformity with the conditions of the grant, must be shewn to the satisfaction # the Secretary of the Treasury, before any Hthrr could issue. Indeed, every interest of the general government, contemplated in ma king the grant, is carefully guarded and pre- served. The work intended is admitted, MT (. believed, on all hands, to be enc cfnaticnal importance, as it proposed a connection be- tween Lake Michigan and the other naviga- ble rivers of the Mississippi. The benefits likely to result from it, if completed, wculd be almost ncalculal)lc, net oniy to IlInals, but to the whi le western country Shall we not then aid, when we do mt sacrifice sin gle dollar of money, or foot of the public dCmaine It.