The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-07-08

| ry expeOlehcy, Dut III the broad and cOmprehen-
sive spirit of seventy-six. [Great and long con-
tinued cheering.l
| After Mr. Everett had resumed his seat, at the
suggestion of the Mayor nine cheers were given
by the audience in honor of the eloquent speaker
Parties in Alabama.
| Something has been said in ridicule of the at
tempt in Alabama to run two sets of candidates.
and especially for the gubernatorial Offices to
winch we offer no objection. A correct represent
alton OF the state of the case, however, may
be interesting.
II. W. Walker has been nominated for Gov
ernor by u Wing State Convention; and he ac-
cepts the nomination, in what terms many per-
sons of all parties will be gratiied to learn He
says:
SIT has been serious public calamity that here
tofore our State elections have been controlled by
questions which have no legitimate connexion
with our domestic policy, but which, if they in
volve any thing of substance or moment at all, do
SO only in their application to national politics.
Such questions, however important in this latter
aspect, are purely abstract so far they concern
our local legislative policy and the administration
of our State affairs. Whether the pending guber-
material election shall be decided upon the worn
out and irrelevant issues of national politics. with
which the State government has nothing to do,
PRESSING practical Importance which the exigen-
cies of our condition force upon attention. and
with which the State government is compelled to
DEAL it is for the people in their wisdom to deter
mine - @
| The declaration here made, ifMr. Walker shall
be elected, will totally deprive the Wing party
Of all grounds of boastng over the event. and
therefore, occupying laudable position, his an
tagonism to the regularly nominated and avowcd
candidate of party may well be regarded with
other sentiments than those of derision
Mr. Walker proceeds:
alabama is Just emerging from those unfor-
tunate financial difficulties which have so long
repressed the energies and checked the enterprise
of her people; and the time has evidently arrived
when every consideration of interest and of pa
triotism calls upon us to adopt new system of
policy The duty of developing the great but as
yet unemployed resources of the State is one
which ought not to remain any longer upper
formed. 1t has already been inexcusably defer
red. Teemng with the elements of wealth and
prosperity, admirably adapted by nature for all
1 the purposes of agriculture, commerce, and manu-
features, thus far the State has not made sngle
systematic effort for the promotion of these great
interests, but has left their advancement alto
gether to the inadequate means and consequently
Intellectual attempts of private enterprise The
consequence is, that in the race of population,
wealth, and power, in the great work of elevating
and perfectng our civilization, we have been left
far behind by other States less richly endowed
with natural advantages, but whose counsels have
been more swayed by the enlightened energy and
progressive spirit of the age. There is but one
mode of recovering our lost position and main
tanning our proper rank in this great Confede-
racy, whose unprecedented growth in population,
wealth, power, intelligence, and all the arts and
appliances of civilization, is the distinguishing
feature of the century, and that is by vigorous,
sion ftnv rEf
which have been everywhere the fruitful source
of unnumbered blessings and benefits to individu-
| ais and to States. ="
| He proceeds to argue the necessity existing for
railroads throughout the State, and to demon
strate her ability to render adequate aid to nj
sure their construction.
lie also makes some very Just and forcible re-
marks on the subject of education, and adds:
| "Ihere is no excuse why the State of Alabama
should further postpone the long-neglected duty
Of establishing system Of common schools ade-
quate to the necessities of the people-one which
will carry the inappreciablc blessings of education
into every log cabin and matched cottage within
our limits, and to all the coming generations
which are to succeed us upon this stage of action
No sacrifice is too great for this benefcent and
truly noble purpose All halfway measures
should be discarded, and a broad and liberal sys-
tenn adopted by the creation of M independent
and sufficient common-school revenue. The wants
of our people can be supplied by nothing less than
this, and believe that their wishes keep even
pace with their wants in this respect
When the States of this Republic, Democratic
and Wing, learn to be guided by such counsels as
are here presented to the people of Alabama,
brighter and more prosperous days will have
dawned upon them. We well remember the times
in which national politics had nothing to do with
other elections than those of national officers and
we look with earnest desire TO the period in the
not very distant future when the people of the
country shall again be thus far liberated from the
iron rule of party bondage.
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