Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-01-19


procrastnnte or surrender Now in the views OF
| Mr. Wise In the abstract. on these SUBJECTS
we doubt no, there is warm aud general acquires
cence They certainly commend themselves 10 u.s.
The people feel-they have long felt q attempted
/ to remedy, the defects of our present system oil !
common schools. They appreciate, too,the high |
Importance to agriculture, to commerce and man
ufactnres, and 10 every other interest IN the
state. Of opening every hand. 10y judcious APP |
/ pcation of appropriations, artificial channels OF
/ speedy communication between producers ana
eonsumers-but the question now is quo modo |
! Whence the means What the plan! What |
the magnificent scheme in the present cSgcI-
cies, by which Virginia is 10 be So suddenly ere
deemed. regcnerated. and dieenihHlied'H Taxa
ton Taxation! says Mr. Wse-and if you
groan, why.I will just tell you,by way of conso-
atory admontion. ''grohn. sinner, groan'! And
taxation 10 what amount Mr.. Wise says no
thing of thai. One railway TO the Ohio would
cost not less than 1 l5,0nO,oJO perhaps s2JO10''
900. \ fund for the successful establishment "i
his grand scheme of education would require
perhaps much larger sum. Would MIR WISE
Illus more than double taxation on the people III
the present crisis of affairs
Mr. Wise should deolaitn less these sub
ieets and come down for a moment and tell the
peope,not what results he wishes-all agree wth
him i'll these--bnt his modus 0peraHdi. That's
the point of enquiry. The grandeHt schemes of
expenditure to be entered into, by and with
the advice aud consent of MIR. Wise, and that,
too, Immediately, if not sooner. But the credit
of the state, which has never yet been i'm
peached, he assures us and adjures us to believe,
will be altogether safe in his keeping. Taxation
is his remedy -Taxaton is the great shield with
which he promises to defend, as Il wohluna yir-
tue, the credit of the state from the assaults
Which he rouid make upon IT,
We repeat, Mr. Wise should be more oy-
plicit--more practical in his views, and tell us
more particularly the hour all these things are to
be accomplished. There is Intelligence enough
among our people, much as Mr. Wise thinks they
need instruction, to appreciate the advantage, of
a general educational system,and the completion.
also, of our great lines of improvements There is
wealth aud patriotism enough among them too 10
protect the credit of the state, if her liabilities
were, nrces sarily, treble what they now are
Mr.. Vie in effect proposes to make them; and
| he will find in addition imagine that they
possess too much prudence, aud too much fore.
! sight and penetration To be iuttrrcd, however
! persuasively, and for whatever purpose it may
be, into the belief tha' measures, requiring the
cautious operations of wears, may he accomp-
lished in day or an hour Ivy an orutorical Of
fusion, CT by any other spa~modlc effort, whcth-
CT Of the power of taxation, or of democracy
u.Redged and moderniyed.
We regret that the length to which this article
has already prevents our touching upon
mnny other points alluded to by Mr.. Wise
hose which are passed over now we may tax"
I'm to refer TO hereafter We would wish
particularly to give hi, scathing remarks con
corning the present condition of Virginia. during
which it seemed 10 Us that We wcr' listening
again TO the Henry A. Wise of 81, when he
poured fourth the hot and s,rhug Walls Of hi,
wrath upon the devoted head Of Democracy & up
on democratic Encouragement and m0irerSdiioa.
His skrching wildly true and to the HE.
Yet is ii not strange that he should desire to per
petuate upon Virginia the dynasty Of Locofoism
the very incubus, in fact, which has long fcttrr-
ed and bound her energies, and vampire
sucked her life-blood unto exhaustion!
The questions of federal politics were very
slightly touched upon by Mr. Wise NJ
reference was made to Bank or Sub Treasury,
free trade lauded and the mismanagcmcnt
of the public lands, and the partial lcgislu.
ton by which they have been given away
for purposes Of 'corruption' were denounced
in terms numerically savage, when it is re
collected that whatever misuanagemcnt and
corruption may have been practiscd is the result
of the legislation of "undeiiled" Democracy
Twenty-Five million acres. he said were DIS
posed ofast year. only seven million Of which were
sold-the rest having gone, we understood him
to say, to buy the consciences of our federal leg
slators On the policy of the future DISPOSE
ton of the public lands, Mr. Wise, as viii be
seen by his Petersburg speech is directly at war
with his party in Nirgnia,as represented by Nj.
Hunter and the Enquirer. He tavors having the
lands sold aud the proceeds put in the treasury.
10 assist perpetualIy in doing away with "a pre-
tence'' for the hideous bugbear of projections
On the Nebraska Kansas bill Mr.. Wise wa.
sagey mum, as he has before told Us that his oa-
superable." This being the case, of course, it
was useless to expend his valuable breath in dis
cussing it. We should be particularly pleased
to know, however, if he occupies the same plat
form with M Bolts on this subject! Tho En-
quirer too, would suggest, would be highly
delighted to know at least, if it is not
The conclusion of Mr.. Wiscs speech was ap-
proprated to hearty philippe on subjects of
which we kaow nothing, but with which hc pro
fessed to be very infinitely acquainted. We OBJ
served many omnous winks and signs of secret
ehuckling around during the said philippc'
all of which, we again protest, was a mystery