Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-11-17
MIR. Summers i'm Bedford.

o'clock. A full meeting is desired. BY
order Of the President.
MIR. Sum mers i'm Bedford.
The Bedford Sentinel Of the 14lh., gives
long and interesting sketch Of the speech
made by Mr.. Summers in Liberty, Thurs
day, the 9th inst. We are sorry tina, we
have not space for the whole of it, After
referring in appropriate terms, to the peace
full revolution, that our form Of govern
men had undergone, and the changes il
its Executive Department, which account
ed Tor his appearance before them. he ad
verted to the charge preferred against him
by his political opponents of being Fed
'ralist, because he had held, that Bank o.
the United States, a protective Tariff, q
wise system of Internal Improvements
and a distribution of the proceeds of the
Public Lands. among the States, were con
stitutional. and in the past experience OF
the country, at times, expedient and pro-
per. The charter for the frs. Bank of
the U. s., had been signed by Washington;
that of the second by Hamilton. 1t was a
measure OF the Republican party, and had
been defended and Supported by the lead
ers of that party. If belief in its consti-
nationality made him Fedcralst, he was
r"mpanv with Washington, Jeffer-
son, Hamilton, Madison ~. = VI T.,
was not now however measure in issue
before the country.
The Tariff had almost ceased to be a
party measure. The expediency of incl
dental protection was admitted by Demo
Gratis, as. well as Wings. The first law
upon our statute books was one-m faror
ofa Tariff for rereaue and projections
signed and approved by George Washing
ton. Sucha measure had, at various times
received the sanction Of nearly all the
founders of our system of government
No one had given i, more cordial sup
port, than his honorable competitor Col
johnson. If his own views upon that
question made him Federalist, it made
all so. in whose company he was found
The power of the General Government
to aid in judicious system of internal inn
provemen,s had been conceded by Jack
son-Calhoun and other leaders of the
Democratic party-Col. Johnson lad been
a decided advocate, in 1925, of the Gov
ernment's exercising that power to connect
the eastern and Western waters by the
way of the Potomac and Monongahela."
In regard to the distribution of the pro-
cecds OF the Public Lands, he did not con-
siderlt dcbateable. 1t was not question
IN issue, and neither party could make it So
The proceeds were all needed to help to
pay the enormous debt cntailed upon the
country by the Mexican war, and it was
useless to talk about distributing them a.
mong the States. Under other circum.
stances. he would not hesitate to support
Il just and proper division. He did not
see why Virginia. hch had given to the
Federal Government millions upon mil
lions Of acres Of land, should not, when
there was a surplus in the Treasury, take
her share Of the money arising therefrom,
for the purpose of making canals and rail-
roads, and educating her poor children.
But these were not questions involved
in the present canvass, or with which the
Office of Governor had any connection -
1t was better to discuss matters coming
within the reach Of the gubernatorial func-
tons and powers.
Virginia, from beingthe first. is now the
fourth State in the Union. Ohio, which
she care TO the Federal Government, is
ahead of her. How are we to regain our
lost powerl Not by talking about the re-
solutions of '9S and '99-not by fishing up.
on the eve Of elections, stereotyped set Of
underlined resolutions, suited to any and
every latitude, and susceptible of any re-
quired Interpretation; but by talking about
ANuitouuSs ouu >'dudiSs duu L dCtOTlcS, anu
Agriculture, and Education-no, not hy
talking about them, but by establishing
them.
He was friend of a just and fair sys-
tenn of Internal Improvement. Virginia
was far behind some Of her lcss-favored
sister States in this respect She has a
Territory ofover $4,000 square miles. On
the East. she is washed by the Chesapeake
Bay-the American Mediterranean ON the
West, by the noble Ohio, which, though
but yesterday sailed by the bark canoe q
the rowing savage, was now plowcd by a
thousand steamboats,. and literally cover
ed with commerce. She has the soil-the
climate-thc mineral-the water power
the population. What had she done to
develope all thesel Almost nothing. We
have been satisfied, said Mr.. Summers,
with Boosting of them. II is time to cease
Boosting. and improve these unrivalled
sources of wealth.
He pointed to Massachusetts, who, with
an inhospitable climate and sterile soil,
was converting the granite of her noun
saius. and the ice of her Lakes. into vcal,h