Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-05-31
ApMchburG 2'tr0intaM.
saturday MORNING.. May 81. 1876.
FOR PRESIDENT.
WILLARD FILLMORE.
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
ANDREW j. DONEISON
OF TENNESSEE.
The Democratic Policy Of Internal
improvements by the Federal Gov
crmment.

eminent.
There 10 clause ia the Democratic National
platform of 1852 which declares that Congress
has no power to commence and carry on gen
eral system Of internal improvements. In strict
conformity 10 this language, Congress may, at its
pleasure, commence and carry any number Of
separate and particular improvements 1t may
commence and carry system of improve
ments, only taking care 10 make the system par
tial and no, general: II may commence gener-
al system. but cannot carry it on And 1t may
carry on general system that has been slready
commenced,
Such language as that was never used by ae-
eident or mistake. II was cunnngy devised
for purpose, and no doubt. il has cheated ma
nv a simple man cut Of his vote. Such language,
In the mouths Of men who pretending To- an
nounoe principles and doctrines, for the edifea-
ton and comfort Of the people, would be very ri
deulous If it were not very criminal Since the
adoption of that gibbersh,as an article in the De
mooratio creed. we have before practical
proofs of its use by the Democrats now in pow
er. Congress passed bill, the main object Of
which was to improve the mighty Mississippi and
the great Lakes of the interior President Pierce
vetoed the bill, and his party sustained him
And yet, at the same session. Congress and the
President ooncurred in passing acts 10 improve
the two little rivulets of Savanna aud Cape Fear!
The first was grand expanded, national, and
locked very like "a general system and so. it
was rejected. The others were local. sectional.
partial. and quite small enough to be grasped by
any pigmy politician; and so. the little things
were patronized by the party, and nursed into
comfortable existence.
The Baltimore American.n article on Con
stiutioual Construction" and The recent Vetoes.
very oppositey refers to the fact that in the
week In which the President turned his back on
the Mississippi river he gave gracious assent
to bill granting TO the State of Iowa alone over
four million acres of landio aid in the oonstrne-
ton of four different railroads, about forty miles
apart running from the Mississippi to the Mis-
sour river, thus crossing the whole State four
times from east to west and averaging nearly
three hundred miles eaohin longih;" and con
oludes, that although he may be able to reconcile
il TO bis party principles. that il is constitutions
al 10 give lands for railroads, but uneonsttution-
al 10 grant money for rivers and harbors and
eminent to improve one State by aiding to CON
struct four railroads through its limits, but be.
yond those same powers 20 improve aud render
nav gable Finland sea-" whose waters ira.
verso nine States; and, however consistent he
may make such principles with party orthodoxy,
forbidding the one because il is forbinden in his
schedule Of partisan doctrines. and permitting
the other because !, is not expressly denounced
there, even though it be essentially IA part of |
scheme of internal Improvements, yet he cannot
convince an intelligent people that there is eth
er common sense or ordinary justice in makinga
distinction where no difference exists, and law
ishing the landed property of the government
upon every enterprise that asks it, willis, it's mo-
ney is boarded and withheld with penurious hand
from internal improvements pressing in their i'm.
portance and national in their object