Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-08-11

WIN tue schemes OF tue party III tue
Heretofore it h rs been most perseverngy inss-
ted on by them. that their views of governmental
policy controlled the party in all sectionszihai
the democratic strength was in the South,and as
u consequence the power to declare its principles
and control its action here The action OF
a majority Of the Democratic Senators. upon
questions Of internal improvement, in direct dis
regard of the recent declaration Of principle
at Cincinnatr-and in defiance of the ex-
postulations, the entreaties, and the denun.
Citations Of the Southern press, has exhibit.
el the uudeniable and notifying fact thai the
sceptre has departed from the South. The De
mecratic party no longer permit the s'ral'-laced
theories of State rights Democracy 10 ,rammel
their action. The Virginia school has ceased 10
give law; South Carolina is snubbed and laughed
at; aud the Resolutions Of -'9S g are obsolete
and defunct. In n debate that occurred the other
day in the Senate, Mr. Clay, Democratic mem
Der from Alabama, confessed in aud der
pair that III ,sds utterly Idle 10 oppose any Of
fke bills presented. He declared that the sena
toria Committee, ma or;y Of whom are demo
Gratis, had reported in favor of epsry bH 'et,rrtd
to them during this Copgrtss" and TINT these
bills Numbered more tLan My" ofthe action
of this committee, at the last session, he says:
1t is true, they reported against some bills which
were referred but it will be found that they after
ward reported general bill incorporating every In
dividual appropt ttion which had been proposed ia
any bin referred to them They reported against in
dividnal ILLS, not because they dsapproyed of the
particular appropriation bu, because they were in
favor of general system, and they did not wish to
give any preference to particular localities
it perfectly manifest that there IS no latitude by
which their opinion Of the powcrs Of he Government
III czpedeney Of these morks, is To he measured
They 90 for all think it should at least serve to ad-
monish US whittier are tending, when we find that
erery bin which has been referred TO tins committee
for the improvement Of harbor, during two
successive Congresses has been recommended for the
adoption OF the Senate.
Ne'hsve, heretofore given the " PROTEST. of
the Richmond Enquirer, and the stern repri.
mands of other leading Southern Democratic or.
gans, against this course of action by the Demo
cratic Senate. They have availed and will avail
nothing. The power is against the state rights
division Of the party. On the question of setting
aside the vetoes Of the President nineteen Demo
cratic Senators voted for it to tpeipe who voted
to sustain the President and the Virginia School
1t is idle to tnlk longer about the unity of tho
party about the controlling influence Of the
Southern leadcrs-about the virtue Of the Gin
cinnai platform, or the beauties of strict con
struction. These have become mere Chin, rms,
shadows, ghosis-thc substance is with the purity
in the West. North west and North and they
eold Ia thorough contempt the fine drawn theo
rics by which they have heretofore been held
back freul the Treasury. They have but one
II In. j., to - Ia, Iva
and thea constituents the lsrges, possible share
OF government appropriations. In the speech Of
Mr.. Clay, to which have referred, the follow
ing extraordinary statement IS made:
"Now sir want 10 call the attention Of the Senate
and the country TO what would a. be- yr3Aa ia
eie very partial distributor - the revenues OF the
county, for internal Improvements dnd that I'M
der these bills II is proposed To appropriate TO The
Northeastern States S9I4 ,0s4 which is upwards of
thirty per cent of the entire aggregate othc bills
which have been reported TO the Senate. find that
the five Senators OF the Committee ou Commerce who
disagree with me as 10 the eApedeney and oonstitu-
tionality of these measures, have reported bills for
the benefit Of Their particular locdihes amounting in
the aggregate to sos 900, which Is upwards of Ii /
~ per Of the entire proposed to be nppro-
priated Thus il appears that @ew peculiar iocah,,
the chef benchcaries Of ne boss",S Of the Goron
Their States to realise more than fifty per
cent of the entire sum which we arenow called upon
80 appropriate
Musing upon these thngs,the Charleston Mer-
curry, one of tho most distinguished organs OF
Southern Democratic sentiment aud principle,
breaks forth into the following wall over the de
struotion of the party:
The Democratic leaders in Congress seem to b,
smitten with that madness which IL said TO he tn,
forerunner of destruction In the face of its o-Gsscrt
ed principles the OF its President The wdrHig
its friends and The peris Of The coming cdRpdSS the par
ty still persists in passing bill after bill for lntena
Improvements. The telegraph informs u.s. that tn
Senate has already passed sixteen bills for this sin
gle purpose. Without any report upon the facts, am
in some cases, without estimates of cost. the Com
mi;tee in the Senate cp.a. osed chiefly q Democrats
recommended the appropriations which have pussc
that body Hhe docs this conduct on The part q
the Democratic party in Congress mean Do us lead
ers intend 10 disgust The fehois county BIZ The Hn5ShN
betrayal Of pracipi the eager scramble fer spols
Are they so ignorant Of the positions of their party
threatened as ii is with formidable opposition eve
ry side that they has recklessy rdne under foot Ast
pledges freshly made al Cincinnati? No party can lon
survive its principles. Plumber if il be bond of co
hesion, is also and mote inevitably fatal poison.
1t destroys public confidence in party, perverts it
counses into the wranglngs Of avarice, degrades it
spirit and makes it the short-lived contemplate in
strument of personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. IoWdrds ht
fate is the Democratic party tending At time whei
it should bear its faith most loty and assert in tn
teeth of its enemies, the principles of its fathers,
when should aspire to stand out in the sea of roub
les" a shining and steady light to cheer the hopes
guide the steps Of true in every sectional sucl
time, find its leaders rtraliag each other IN the be
trayai Of principle, and striking down all who hold ~
the ancient standards 1t IL no. enough, that its con
stantly repeated pledges of Free Trade stand unre
deemed while the South suffers by the exactions of a
odiQus Tariff. Not enough, that its compromises wit
abolition have turned out farce AID dsiusioa. No
enough, that popular sovereignty and the NcJrask