Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1849-06-18
f. j. ALFRED, EDITOR.
STAUN ON
Monday Morning, June fs.
CTedI. OF the Commonwealth.

This subject seems to have caused little or no
enquiry among the peope--approprmtlon after
appropriations embracing i'll their estimate, mill
ions Of dollars, is made by the Legislature, and
no one asks, How is the money to be raised =
We direct the attention of the reader to an able
article on tiais subject, to be found on the first
page of to days paper We hope all will read
it. If they are not frightened at the enormous
load of debt that is being accumulated, they will
at least inquire, How is this money to be paid !?
Tares-TAxEs-TA NES--are hateful, further
than the just burden of government requires their
payment, and to which no good citizen will OBJ
ject--but when the payer is called upon year
after year, his taxes never diminishing, but ever
Increasing, it will cause him to pause and en-
quife For what is all this money expended, and
how atn benefited We are the friend of a
judcious system Of Improvement-lut we are
opposed to sq,tanderng the public revenues on
every petty interest. The writer to whom we
have referred shews conclusvely, that by the
admission of Alexandra into the Commonwealth,
the State has been no gamer III its revenues, and
here all important question arises, How did A.
IGAdlIlllld gel IIitD EG HOUSE VI 1tlt}3dt VI
a full and satisfactory answer we refer again to
the article on our first page. We say the a1ms-
sion into the House Of Delegates, Of the member
from Alexandria, was a violation Of the State
Constitution, and shade Of doubt may well be
thrown over every act passed and every appro-
priation made by the Legislature, by the aid Of
the vote of the member from Alexandria, as to
their legality. The Constitution says the House
of Delegates shall be composed Of 1874 members;
it has 1885, How did the i35tl member get
there? The convenient argument Of a aeasus O.
missusn never did, in our opinion, meet the case.
This same argument oil a ''cases sonassus" ad .
dresses itselfto the understanding with greater
weight when applied to either of the divisions OF
the State, represented as they now are, IN the Fl.
of Delegates, by fixed number, if we suppose
the population of either might be swept away by
some tataity-the territory, however, would still
be entitled to rs Delegates if in the Eastern, and
Sc if in the Western parts of the State. Where
would these Delegates come from This, to our
mind, is Ecasus omissus3 which ought to be
remedied--tor, if the argument applies IN the
case of adding a populated territory to the State
for W hich the Constitution has made no provis-
ion, and thereby increasing the number of Dele
gates, it applies with equal, if not greater force,
to a territory which might become depopulated
But Alexandra is in Virginia and appropriations
enough cannot be made to satisfy her rapacious
NAV. 1t would havebeen better if she had been
permitted to remain in the District than to come
here to bankrupt the Commonwealth. There. is
no need to mince phrases-the State wall be bro't
to bankruptcy if these prodigal expenditures are
continued Alexandra is not the State. Let the
the State Senate take care that she does not carry
off another million and o'quartcr of dollars or the
Alexandra and Valley Railroad. Another batch
OF appropriations like that of last winter, and
Virginia is doomed to insolvency, or her citizens
to be burdened With taxes they cannot beat
Let the people look in time. Let them enquire
how Alexandria got into the House of Delegates
Let them enquire into the legality OF the acts OF
the Legislature since Alexandria had a seat in
that body, and see if all is right.