Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1852-10-09
CHE pubIIc Lands.


There ia no question now agtated In V GIN
IA. of more deep and vital Importance 10 her'
tban that relating to the Public Lands. II she
were in The most prosperous condition. SO vast
!. her interest in the public domain, she o" CHI
not to be otherwise than sollcltous to secure ner
riphtrul share. Bot, in her present condition
Of heavy indebtedness and high taxation II De-
comes matter ofthe most overwhelming I'M
por,ance to Eer. By an Official statement
made out for he use Of tie last Congress II
oppears, that the total amount of the Public
Lands, remaining undisposed o., Is upwards
Of thirteen hundred and ninety-nlne millions
of acres-the value Of which, estimated at The
Government price, is $i,749,4o2,685. his
would give 10 Virginia as her portion the stu
pendous snm of $50 l60 S95. Such beng
the great interest she has In the Public Lands.
when properly appor;ioncd between the
States. i, it not MOI strous that she should now
be so largely in debt, and her people saddled
With such emo, nous taxesi IT she had asser
ted her rights heretofore, as she should have
done, this unfortunate and oppressive state
of things would not now exist. Every
other State in the Union has, 10 greater or less
extent, received some of the benefits of this
common property. Virginia alone, of all the
States, has failed to receive any thing coming
from this source. A very large sum, the pro-
ceeds of public land sales, Is now lying on de-
post in the Banks to her credit not one cent OF
which she vii touch, and nj the last session Of
Congress, bill was depending, whereby she
would have Obtained some three millions of
acres of land had 1t passed, which her Sena
tors and Representatives opposed and assis ed
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she, who so generously coded the greater part
of these very lands to the General Govern
mcnt--to be held by 1t, in trust, fol the benefit
of al the States-s to derive no benefit from
them The only reasonable and truthful an
s"er to this ls that pretended and spurious
Democracy Who have had the entire control Of
the State, have so wiIled it. They have adop-
ted parcel Of impraclicable dogmas and "a
Ion iuable distractions " hich forbid il. and to
these every other corsdera1i made to bend.
With sing liar Inconsistency, they profess to be
the prcuar advocates Of States rights, and, al
the Same timr refuse to Virginia, TINS, one of
her most undoubted They likewise profess
10 he the peculiar friends of the South. whilst,
hy THIS same policy of theirs. the South is being
wenk' ned aud such States as Illinois, Michigan.
md iowa are growing rich and powerful. For,
whist Virginia gets noth g. these States with
others are annually apPropri ting to themselves
millions. by demanding and receiving the
portion OF the Land fund. TO which she is i1sr-
ly emitted, Virginia will be enabled to dis
charge her liabiiht,s, relieve the people of the
present Oppressive rates OF iaxaton, complete
with ease, her great lines of unfinished improve
ments and, 10 40 every thing else necessary
for her prosperity, and advancement in wealth
and power.
BY refusing this fund. all Of those great and
desirable ends will he defeated, and sae AND
hel people will be left in their present depo.
rable condition. Locofoco distractions. a
heavy debit and high taxes " il be her portion
Are the people prepared. longer to submit to
Tins latter ALTERNATIVE Il II they are not it Is time
they wee besll1rns Themselves. The whole.
Iaater d rP"nds upon Wing ascendency IN the
state If the Locoocos prevail-.f tli,y CON
unne 10 rule, the whole Of this MAGNIFICENT
iund' so far as The people of the th. STATE are
concerned. will be forever lost Bca. Sentinel