Daily American organ., 1856-08-30

Ject 10 private entry and the title to the land SO
located under said warrants, shall be perfected 10
the owners or holders thereof, in the same man
ner as under other land warrants issued by the
United States"
The justice Of that measure is so palpable
that we shall not discuss its merits. It's inn
PoTtance is a point to which we desire TO call
the attention of the country, and for this pur-
pose we will select the case Of the State Of Vir-
ginia, which the author Of the measure in part
represents.
Virginia Is engaged in perfecting an exten-
siye system of railroads, traversing her whole
expanse, and which, cohen completed, will add
tens of millions of dollars to the general and
aggregate wealth of that tate-develope her
exhaustless resources of coal, iron, &C., &C., =
facilitate the intercourse of her citizens, s,-pace
her products within reach of Atlantic ports,
and raise her to point of prosperity, equalled
only by the Empire State of the North.
To carry on these works, her citizens have
been taxed in the last year to an extent hith-
erto unknown to them-their taxes having,
as we learn, been doubled by the late General
Assembly, her finances are not in the best
condition, her State bonds are selling at a
discount of six or seven per cent. below par,
and though no man doubts either the solvency
Of the State, or the punctuality with which
she will meet her engagements, it is manifest
that her people viii, in the language attributed
to Governor Wise, be made to "groan, groan,
GRoAN," under the pressure of that taxation
necessary to maintain her credit by meeting
her liabilitiesl
The bill above copied, had it become law,
would give to Virginia nearly four millions
Of acres Of the public domain, worth at the
minimum price, .J7Ue millions Of dollars, all
which Virginia could have realized within the
next twelve or eighteen months, and saved the
State from those GRoANs to which taxation will
now subject her people
And by s0hat vote, and through Whose votes,
was this fair, just and equal proposition of Mr.
Carlile defeatedH We here copy from the
record as follows:
"Mr. Carle. now call up my motion to sus
pend the rules to enable me to introduce bill to
equalize the grants of land to the several States
"The Speaker Upon that motion the yeas and
nays have been ordered
"The question was taken; and il was decided in
the negatve-yeas IS, nays SO, as follows:
YEAS-Messrs. Ball. Henry Bennett, Benson,
Bishop Bowie, Burlington, Jas. HI. Campbell Carlile
Chaffee, Bayard Clarke, Ezra Clark, Clawson, Cox,
Cullen, Damrell, Timothy Davis, Dickson, Dodd, Dur
fee, Edie, Edwards, Evans, Flagler Foster Henry NJ
Fuller, Galloway, Gilbert, Granger, Robert B. Hail.
ton Valentine B. Horton, Hughston, Kelsey, King,
Knight Knowton, Kunke Matteson, McCarty, Kill
liam Miller, Morgan Morrill,, Murray Parker Pearce
Peton, Pennington, Pike, Pringle .Puryear, Rcaud,
R. Smith, Sneed, stranahan, Tappan, Thorington,
Thurston, Todd, Trafton, Trippe, Underwood, Vail,
Wakeman Elihu B. ,Washburne, Israel Washburn
Watkins, Williams, Wood, Woodruff, and Zollicof-
fer-7S.
,NAYS-Messrs. aiken, Albright, Allison, Barbour,
BarcIay II. S. Bennett, Bliss, Bocock, Boycc Brad
shaw, Branch, Brenton, Brooks Burnett, Lewis D.
Campbell, Caruthers, Cdskie, Cliagmaf, H. Cotb W.
r. " G9oo, cqlfax, oomins 6;raisgs, cumback, Da
Emrie, Faaf1kner, Florence, 2 j. d. Fuller, Gddings
Goode, Greeaacood, Grow, Harlan, Hckn,aa Hollo-
way, Houston, Howard, George ". Jones' j. CLANCY
% a a.6s 6 ,a 1aqeg knoJ os5oh LhetsF g,ssa hfa1 e z
Mcqueen, Smith Miller, Ai1son, Mott, Nichols, Nor.
ton, IHcadecai Olige, Orr, Perry, Petit, Porter
Po'ceA, Quitman, Richardson, Rnlhn, Rust San
didge, Sapp, Sacage Scott, Seward, Sherman, Short
lor Walk, Wade, Walbridge Waldron, Cadscalader
c. Hashburne, Watson, Welch HeAs, U-Aeeler
Wmslo,c, Woodwork, Daniel B. W,ight, and John
T. Wright-96.
$50 the rules were not suspended.
"Pending the call of the roll,
"Mr. Dowdel stated that his colleague, Mr. Har-
ris, was i'll, and had paired off with Mr.. Ritchie
until Monday morning"
We have placed the names of the Demo-
cratic members who voted against the propo-
sition in italics. Those members of Congress
from Virginia who voted against the PROPOSE
ton were Messrs. BococK, CAsKE, EDMUND
SON, FAULKNER, GooDE, McMuLL1N, MhLsoN,
LETcHER, and Powell Those members from
Virginia who voted in favor of the proposition
were Messrs. CARLrLE and SMITH Mr.. KID
WELL, though present few minutes before the
vote was TAKEN did not vote on the question.
If the entire delegation from Virginia had
voted FOR the proposition, it would have been
adopted, and scarcely doubt can be enter
tanned that this measure would then have been
passed into laso during the present Congress
But it was introduced by an AMERICAN :"
and, though no man can stand up in Congress
and make plausible argument against the
measure, it was found easy to smother it in
its inception!
What say the citizens of the old thirteen
States to the defeat of this propositionP When
tens Of millions of acres ofthe public lands are
voted away to the neW States, will not the
"oH thirteen" claim their proportion? What
say the Democrats of the old States of the
South to its defeat When the "squatter
sovereign" leaders of the Northwest the Casses
and Douglsses abandon the Cincinnati plat
form, and go for poils and pIunder will they