Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-05-15

Congress has voted a million aud half acres of public
lands Tor niIroid p,r.sa- And 80 session ,lr
session, the domain of the Union being pIve,,
away to build mp the irceoi States aud Democracy - r
from having power To prevent IT, actually contributes TO il
through the votes of many OF it, Western and Northern,
members. All the Democracy have power to do, and
really does, ia this particular is prevent the savchod
ing states being put equality with the abolition
states 10y receiving the shares OF public lands or their
proceeds TO which they justly entitled If Democrat.
would talk less about state rights and do more tn enable
the states To take care OF their rights should hear
much less o Northern aggression, and Southern wrongs.
For many Years after the adoption OF the federal coustit
ton the Southern States held majority in Congress and
rIerted controlling influence in the federal government
The census tables show that the increase in native popu
ton since that time has been greater in the slayehoinr
than the nOn-slayehOing They would have main
tanned aud increased their ascendency in the Union but
tor the democratic policy that has encouraged the influx
Oi an oceantde Of antislavery sentiment from Europr
that has merely been left free follow it, prcdispo,
ton to settle in the free aud territories but has been
encouraged TO do by bbes o public lands and immc-
date Investment there with the franchises aud privilege.
OF citizenship. Yet the party whom these things are
justly chageabc, that have the hardhood 10 de-
end themselves against them claim he the party that
take Of the rights aud interests of the Southern
States !-Lynehbarg Tir.
. We invite the attention of the taxpayers of the
State to the reasoning of the foregoing article The
pubic Landslide common domain of all the States
are squandered by millions of acres at a time
upon the North-W Western Free soil States while Door
old Virginia having equal right to them. aud
grooming under weight of taxation, she never felt
before, is turned out upon the commons and gets
nothing-and all to crafty the scruples of the Demo.
cratic party. II Virginia had received hundredtb
part of her share in the public ands-and she would
have received il if Wing counses had been followed
she would not now be thirty millions of dollars in
debt and her people subject to douJe taxes to enable
her to meet her engagements On the contrary, all
her projected railroads and canals would have been
completed long ago, her citizens would hardly have
known what taxes meant and a degree of general
prosperity would be at this time prevailing equal to
that of any State in the Union Nearly all the in.
ierna improvements in the North Western States
are the result of donations to them Of the public
lands And why, in this distribution of what i,
common to all the States should not Virginia and the
other old States in or their share Is it const
stutonal to grant lands to Iowa by the wholesale and
yet unconstitutional to give few acres To virg
MIA
But let the reader, when he comes TO pay douJIe
tares the coming summer reflect and ponder upon
this Democratic policy, which lavishes the public
lands upon the Free soil States Of the North and thu
builds them up aud aIgments their political power,
while at the time, 1t utterly ignores the rights
and interests Of Virginia and the South, in thi
will be gone-the Northern States wi approximate
them all and Virginia, though equally entitled, will
be left withouta rood IT, as is now contended by A
portion Of the Virginia Democracy taxes are nr
evidence Of thrift, prosperity, aud good government
we submit that Virginia is fast getting to be tn,
most thrifty prosperous, and the best governed Stat,
in the world. Let the taxes be doubled again next
year, and according to Democratic leas the old
Dominion will be almost a perfect Eden
English Parties.
The CONCLUSION Of the foreign war brings upon Lord
Pamerston's hands war at home. The Opposition IL
Parliament preparing to EJECT his ordshp, and take
unto themselves the honors aud enouments Of place
Lord Derby the Conservative Leader called hi. follower
together on the 21th and the day Lord Palmer
siou invited h 70 him his residence We are no
advised to which csmp the Peelics and the Cobdcnite
rallied. These two factions bold the bin ce Of power
and if they unite with Derby the days OF e ministry arr
numbered.
The Conservative began tho attack on the evening o
the 18th, by resolution Of censure for the fall Of Kars
W.. Whteside, lawyer OF eminence opened the die
cussion IN speech Of hours which hls ~ mortal col
umns Of the Tunes. Such broadside 80 cruel sud in
, human, enough to excite public sympathy The de-
bate adjourned riI next evening
Prom the Tunes -til siding With the ministry We ma,
iner That the Opposition have yet organized thei
2 forces 10 insure success.
Capt Rowe, OF the schooner Laura FROM Norfolk wa