Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1843-04-13
ADDRESS
Of the Central Committee.

Richmond on the Cd of March last, in
discharge OF the duty assigned them. call
upon all democrats of tie sold Tenth
Legion' TO rally at the polls ON
Thursday Ggae 97GEa oG April,
--out old enemy is in the field; that en-.
envy who fought us in 1900, under the
name of federalst; who at later day
fought Us under the name Of national re-
publican; and who at a still later day
fought us under the name Of 'whig.'
In 1910 the democrats OF Shenandoah
pronounced their Judgment upon wings
and whigery; majority Of l1l6 votes,
in an aggregate vote of ] $50. atteSts the
zeal CT the coDltv in favor of the republ-
can cause. What has occurred s;uce
1870 to induce a change in our ranks p
Nothing! nothing haiever. We now
have the whig policy fully developed and
find it worse by Tar than we apprchended
in 1910. We charged tie Wing party
then with the purpose Of chartering
Bank CT the United States. :Fh;s was
then denied by the wing orators. The
lapse O! time has verified the truth Of the
charge and the falsity Of the denial
The question as to the constitutionality.
Of this project We Ieaa upon the areu-.
ment of Mr.. Jefferson. He considered
it unwarranted by. the constitutions
There are other objections to such an
ins titution.. We are warned bv experi.
ence against the danger and corruption
connected with it. We have seen that
y. S. Bank. by means Of its money, can
make itself felt in the halls of congress.
Loans to members Of congress always
subject them 10 suspicion, aud no doubt
often influence their course. Mercenary
editors of newspapers are bought up and
become the strenuous advocates of their
purchaser. In the memorable panic of
1884, the bank leaving the line of its
legitimate business. boldly entered the
field of politics, and sought 20 extort a
new charter from congress. By rapid
curtaiis, for the purpose of creating dis.
tress, it caused its victims to cry out in
the agony Of suffering, and then, through
its advocates IN congress. proposed re-
rewaI OF its charter as a remedy for the
distress thus wickedly produced.
The whlg scheme Of distributing the
proceeds Of the public lands, is now urg.
ed upon US. They seek to buy our votes
by glTlngus our own money raised for
different purpose. Gut of a bankrupt
treasury they are Offering US the pititul
sum of three cents head. Where did
the wing congress fad the authority or
even decent pretext for this d!stribu.
ton? The constitution does not justify
such use OF the public money. The acts
ceding portions Of the public lands are in
vain appealed to for justification. The
letter and spirit of those acts afford no
warrant for the proiect. Moreover We
~ large portion Of the land money is
produced by the sale Of lands not embar-
ced by the the acts Of ces5on, but &C
CURED by purchase and paid for out of
the treasury oil the union. The details
OF the bill are as unjust as its constitu-
tionality is indefensible. One portion
ofthe union gets ten per centum more than
another portion; and in addition to this,
that favored portion gets 500, goo acres to
each state more than the other states,
subject, however, to some deduction for
lands previously bestowed on them.
The tariff of duties has been adjusted
by a wing congress. upon such princi-
pies that it will not raise revenue enough
to defray the expenses of the govern
ment. 1.-THE present tariff be continued.
and the land money be Withdrawn from
the treasury. the next and unavoidable
step is direct tax. The federal tax ga
therer will explain to US the practical ope-
ration of whig policy in this particular.
The Bankrupt Law is another whig
measure; it exhibits whigery in darker
colors than the most distrustfuI demo-
crat had ever painted it. The interior
ence with contracts between man and
man, str!E us at once as refinement up
or injustice. If enc should merely deny
the existence of a JUST debt, it would
disgust every honest man; but this wing
measure, the Bankrupt Law. destroys
debts at once. The honest, but unfor-
tupate debtor, who fails without fault. is
eatitled to the sympathy Of all. a Bank
rupt Law looking TO the future, and for
the relief Of such men, whilst it would
not meet our appreciation, yet might not
be Condemned with severity. Such.
however, was not tBe law passed by the
whig congress. They must be supposed
to have known the meaning of the law
when they enacted it. The ~sickening
and revolving operation Of this measure,
we have all witnessed, and we are called
upon to express our condemnation of it
in voice Of thunder.
We all know the fine promises made
BY the wings in 1910. We were to
have gcoi times and high prices for pro-
duce; we now have the performance of
those promises; we owe it to ourselves
at the election to express our opinions of |
these attempts to deceive US.
We are no longer permitted to enjoy |
The repose afforded by the large demo-
cratic majority as our district heretofore
stood. Augusta, Rocsbrldse and Har-
iy, always federal, and never Welding,
Ire put into district with Pendleton,
Rock in vham ami Shenandoah Shall ,va