Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-10-05
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P1LEIcH. WEDNESDAY, OCT. :, 1853.
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u. Trorked himself into delightful state Of
o1ns,sion on the subject Of the public lands He
80 that the late Baltimore and State Conventions
- +bo Democratic party were in favor of retaining
A. rrhl;c lands as common fund for the support
of the general government; and in the next breath
/. ,d,ocates a division of these lands among the
states and says that in doing he is not aware that
h. 10 violating any principle of the Democratic
creed"! He goes on to say
HE must be wilfully blind, who cannot see, that
e ,ra do not demand and receive share OF the
uhlc lands they will be donated to or surrendered
nm to the new States in which they lie Already are
t5ev claimed with a boldness and pertinacity which
is sure that when they get the power as they
coon will have they will appropriate them to them
selves in despite of the older States"
Mr. Palmer here assumes two things-first, that
the new States will soon have the power to appro-
prate to themselves the public lands, and secondly,
that bills of this unjust character will receive the
approval of the President. Both these assumptions
we regard as totally unfounded A new State is adj
mtted it is true every four or five years; but then
it must be borne in mind that these States have
but few votes in Congress- and that States regarded
ten wears ago as new are now old States Iennes-
see Kentucky Ohio, Indiana Illinois, Alabama, ana
Mississippi are now nearly as fully Identified IN In
tercs and feeling with the old with the new Statcs
and their votes upon any proposition to plumber the
old States for the benefit of the new would at least
he divided in both the House and Senate. Again,
the great States of New York, Pennsylvania, and
Virginia can nearly oncthird of the entire vote
in the House of Representatives and with their
voice in opposition to propositions of this Sort added
to the united voices of the other old States, the new
States would be powerless to work injustice in this
regard even if their people were disposed to do So
Resides we have idea that bills deprving the old
States of their just rights in the public domain will
receive the sanction of the President At any rate,
we shall not do the President the nusticeto
that "the PLUMBER" as it is termed, has begun and
that he is not disposed to arrest it. Sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof" II will be time enough
to claim "our share" when it becomes certain that
the lands to be parceled out among the States,
and when it is thereby admitted by the act of par
ceiling out that the general government has t&aLed
in one Of the great purposes Of its creatiou-that of
holding, managing, and regulating the property of
the States committed to its charge.
Mr. Palmer is also in fog, he was at Frogs
borough in 1914, in relation to the Opposite act of
1885, He says:
"When many years ago, with other Democrats
we advocated the right of North Carolina to share OF
the public lands there being then large surplus OF
revenue in the public Treasury and they were being
appropriated to the States by millions of acres,
were denounced by some who assumed to be the
only simon pure democrats, as anti democratic We
find at the very next session of Congress, not only
the proceeds of the Public Lands but the whole
plus revenue was given to or divided among the
States. Gen. jackson then President, approved it.
and all was right Our assumed dictators will say
it loan. It did profess to be So but it was in
tended and received gift and appropriated by the
States such, and North Carolina well as the
other old States would refuse to return it.
IS
gift sloan, % but deposite with the States
according to federal population to be returned the
general government should ever call for it. 1t was
not gift, " because the creators-the States
could not receive presents benefactions from their
creature, the general government; and it not
"loan," because the people of the States who had
paid this surplus in by way of taritaxes, could not
be said to borrow their own money 1t was simply
deposte, restoring to the people of the States by
their command expressed through their representa-
tives in Congress- of surplus in their own treasury
Gen. Jackson it is well known, refused to sign bill
to divide the proceeds of the public lands; and he
would not sign the deposite act until in his iudg-
ment it freed from all Constitutional objections.
Mr. Palmer says he advocated, at that day, "the
right of North Carolina to share of the public
lands" If so he did not act with Gen jackson and
his leading friends, for they were opposed to dvid-
ing among the States either the lands or their pro-
ceeds; and surely Mr. Palmer does not mean to say
that ne was in favor of Mr. Clays celebrated distri-
button schemes
But Mr. Palmer, after having admitted that he has
arrayed himself against the Baltimore and State plat
forms on this subject, comes forward and speaks of
us for having gently and respectfully reminded him
Oh this fact as the aristocratic dctatoria and de-
nouncing Editor of the Standard. ;" We allude to
this sweeping denunciation only for the purpose of
expressing the hope that we shall survive it. But
ash to add to alarm at the manner in which the
lnVlnclble orator of Frogsborough has opened his
batteries upon us-and for other reason than that
we have faithfully stood by the principles of our party
-rctessor Henson launches has thunders at our rs-
'ocrauc" head-Professor Henson, the coruscations
Z" whose genius have recently illumned the regions
Vi the Dan, and thrown the rush-ght of their glory
over the murky meanderings of Country Line Creek
very WE'LL We shall endeayor to survive that also;
Out we give timely notice that we cannot go with I
MI Palmer in all his schemes any more than we can
agree with him in his land notions as to the pro-
P''ety Oh his denouncing plain man as himself |
20 dictatorial and 80 aristocratic. ," Mr. Palmer,
true, talks now and then like Democrat of the
"'S' water; but, if we are not much mistaken, he |
ee"erally contrives to rote4with the Wings He has
St, up OF late, most distressing cry for Mr. Ven
S"e out If rumor is not entirely at fault, he voted
-'i MI: Aerr when he opposed that gentleman while
We e1ercd all our feeble abilities in behalf of the