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 country, may get their produce to market The Cor of Nature has given us fellow citizens the best ca nal on earth, the Alabama river; and yet we are to be taxed that other portions of the country may enjoy the same advantages in travelling and trans portaton. There is more justice in it than there would be in taxing us to clear tl.eir land and build their houses.

 But, fellow-citizens, unjust and odious as this road and canal-making power must always be when exercised by Congress- its very injustice and inc. quality is all that has sustained it. IT, for instance every State was to receive from Congress as much, and no more, of the puc money as it is fairly enti. tied to- according to it's contributions to the treasury alter paying the necessary expenses of the govern. ment, there would be no reason with any State, for continuing the system. If Ohio, for example, under an equal distribution entitled to fifty thousand dollars according to what she had paid. and recev. ed precsely that amount, she would at once say she cared nothing for the system-because she received nothing but her own money, subject to all the ex. penses of collection; and that to receive thi,. she was compelled to beg like spaniel before Congress that in future, she preferred that the money should be left in the pockets of the peope-and the State Legislature, by taxation, when necessary could col iect it with less expense, and apply to the purposes or internal improvement But mark the difference If Ohio, while she is entitled to fifty thousand dol lars according to her contributions, is able. bv he, numerical strength in Congress to procure five hnn dred thousand dollars, and thereby to plunder the weaker sections of the Union, she becomes clamor. ous for the system and would denounce any one who should oppose if. The very fondness of certain States for this system, consists in un expectation tbo they will get out of the treasury, more money than they put in or in other words they want roads and eanaIs-ars not willing to make them within them