Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1854-10-02


, Deficiency, 81 f56. 43s
The approximations jus. about twice a:
meeh as Ire sales And $685., 900 appro-
pria.ed TO Florida and Louisiana fol ex i.
penses Of public lands at single. session I
This all the States must pay. But the
lands are all for these States. md SO Of
all the land States. The expenses 60 to
the had States alaHe. The expenseaesns
from all the States. .rhe lands are Tor
the new States erciusipclg, and his Is ,as-
lice
Bnt this is not all for we mus. add &c
this statement the sam Of ten millions %
dollars, recently paid to Mexico in accord.
ance with the terms Of the Gadsden
Treaty, for the late eession Of public land
10 the United States. Indeed we have no
| doubt that whilst the public lands yielded
us less than $40, GOO, 900, they have cost
us $500, 100000. And all Of this was
paid by the States. and much the larger
portion Of it b. the old States before the
new States were populated by whites to
Hunter should seek TO deprive the States
which haze paid 50 much for the public
lands, Of everything like participation in
the profits Of those lands' For even this
convincing array of figures does nothing
like Justice TO the old States. nor adequate
ly represents onetenth of the injustice
which Hunters bill will ihtlict upon them
Int 1t becomes a law.
No account is here taken of the cession
OF millions of ceres Of land by the old
States, the deeds of cession for which
Hunters bill grossly yilates.
Who will say that the new States have
suffered for Justice in these stupendous
transactions, as the lands themselves have
suffered for rain in the recent droughfs.-
On the contrary, they have been deluged
with liberai;y. When they have asked
bread, have we given them stone -
When they have asked fish, have we Civ
en- them serpent? NaY, hew MANY
have been the baskets full Of loaves and
fishes which they have had from the
amazing generosity of STATE, Of whose in
stItutiens sene of them are now he most
venomous and perseyering ASSISTANTS -
Vel their cry is STILL Ike tie DAUGHTERS of
the horse-leeeh, Give! Give and 1Ir
| Hunter echoes Give,
! bad feats're Of this whole policy Of
Mr.. Hunter is, ,hat il is il-timed Many
of The large grants that have been made
by Congress Of late years have been Of
alternate sections 10 railroads, as a means
OF angmenting the price Of rescf.ed See
tons. The railroads are nov either com
plesed, in progress, or projected, aiid the
aceretion Of value contemplated 81 the
grafuitous grants has taken place This
new bill purposes TO cut of the Federal
Government ffom the benefit of these en-
HANGED prices. The email sales Of late
years have heen owing in great part to
the large gralaitles which have been
made ,sith . Rlew to high prices resulting
The government has got largely in debt
by the process; and Just as the time ar
riyes sor realizing the benefit of her own
policy. it is proposed to turn the rshole
benefit over to the new States III the name
of justice, or something else Of the sort;
certainly not in the name of common
sense. go "a
Another cause Of the e.nall sales Of late
years by the General Government has been
its large and Just bounlies to Soldiers
These are we'll nigh all issued and located,
and the lands adjacent to these located
have been increased in vals,e tkereby.---
The government is en- .he eye of realizing
profit from her lbegal;ty,. end this very
time is seisee By Mr.. Hunter to turn the
profit over 10 new States and spectators
in the name Of ang thing else but common
sense and the Constitution.
There are those who express great de-
sire to get md Of the public LANDS. What,
get rid OF one thousand five hundred mil
lions Of acres of public lands, worth, at fiji
| ~ cents en- acre, seven hundred and fifty
millions of dollars l. ratrinony like
that---a patrimony such as Heaven never
before vouchsaied TO { nation of people, to
which the land OF Cal.aan WAS in compal-
ison but as peer man iafm to an empire
IA thing 10 be giHen away for song, by
a prodigal aEd proiligate generation p.
Do We no, owe duty TO posterity in this
mattet--someI duty TO Heaven by whom
we have been entrusted with the steward
ship C This sasi domain Does the farm
sr gi9e away for song the land he is una
bic 10 reduce TO cultivation, or does he
reserve ii for bis children Do even the
spectators, ~he new intest the new States
IN such vast numbers as to ffighten their
Representatives into these exhorbitant d.
manas, against which Mr.. Hunter oppeses
so easy vittne do these spectators. ~he n
they get hold of lands at neminal pliers
sell them at the same, IN Justice "a th,.
new states, or to the poor nan, or 70 ann,
body else or thing In the aap'.e Of com.
mon sense and common prude..ce, has M.
Virginia, al least, had enoU.h Of the mol.
icy Of getting rid =! publ lands and sur.
rendering them Up TO a',olitionists and NO.
gro-stealers
Finally. if it l.e good policy, as SONS
contend, to get I'D Of the pu,,lc lan n si Is
rsht 20 get ~. of our Democratic a,; !
pies al the same time; II the West are
determined to have HE Lands and have
the m'gat to take. them, If this maguiG.
GEM 'Eheiitar.ce and Incompatible patn-
u 1r.y IS TO pass from us--is it meet fer
virginia to give them ap without s,rug-
gle, co come forward with voluntary sur
Finder, and throw her principles IA into
the bargain For one, we want Virginia