Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-12-18

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make that fact evident TO the understandings Of the
people But the people believe no such thing-it is
the politicians alone &ho opposed to an equita
bic division Of the public lands because they wish
to reserve those lands - . corruption fund, for
their personal and political purposes. We repeat
what we have often said, that in the course of few
years. unless Virginia and the other Southern States
at once step IN and demand their share OF The public
lands, not acre Of them viii be len-thc whole of
them will have been appropriated to the Northern
and North Western States This is n fact which
every days experience TO demonstrate, and we
invoke to 1t the calm and dispassionate consideration
Of the tax-paying citizens Of Virginia.
The Petersburg Inteligencer, in an article on the
proceedings OF the Savannah Convention, has the
following in reference to this subject which we sub
join:
1--WE approve Of much that the Savannah Convention
proposed to be done. Upon points cordial
gardcd by them which think was emineuty entitled to
their consideration, vitality connected is with the well
farc and prosperity OF the South We mean the public
lands alias the National Domain. IL seems Astonishing
to US that an interest vast that which the South
in this matter should have been wholly prctcmtted in
body specially convened deliberate aud decide upon the
There folly in the persistent refusal OF ths Southern
Stotes TO claim take what their rghtu annual due
fomhc Land Bureau the Government-,o claim or tako
their ghul proportion Of the domain whilst they
soc IL squandered 70 the oi millions upon millions OF
the free Sales.--future is say FOLLY in this
refusal which scarcely less than insanity The miserable
old madish or second childhood winnings about tie res
buttons oil Us and es which like the sounds
Of cracked bells than arguments oil a rational appro
pirate stamp have had enoig Of They never save
the South from the effects Of the oversha wing
and political superiority which the North has attained over
her, chiefly by Of her sothlulncss We want
money to enable to get along with works are neccs
sary Tor defence and security We entitled legally
and honestly to an equal proportion OF the Public Lands
and We are the veest smPletons urge claims
and insist upon their enforcement Our these
lands I've speak now OF Pign.a) would not only relieve
US form the burthen Of Taxation under which are coan
ing but would give ample for percctng system
OF Internal improvements which would 10 more to elevate
us in the commercial and political spheres than ten mil
lions Of paper resolutions and rcteraions of es aud ee
doctrines VIII the people Of Virginia be etcrnaly deaf
to the voice OF duty which appeals in trumpet tones to
their representatives in Congress their right TO
an equal share OF the public lands before they ali given
away 10 the free States beyond the power Of recovery
IL nigh time to this wrcched habit looking on
with folded upon the grabbers punderers who
are busy engaged in chousing annually out OF millions
oil rich acres which are property aud dexterousy
curing the sole ownership We canddly think that this
subject was fully worthy Of the attention Of the Swan
nah Convention as the African Slave Trade or Direct
Taxation"