Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-21
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saturday Morning. Teb'y II, 1871.
giiiseis Land sales.
The sales of lands in January by the Illinois Cen
tral Company amounted To Sis as. The LANDS sol'
at an average of Sl2 20 per acre for construction
Sl4 90 tor reeland, and $50 for interest lands
The aggregate sales since the lans were put In mar
ket have been sss.G57 acres for Sll,062,2oi 26-
leaving 706323 acres unsod. estimated TO be worth
$4,000, eeo=
"Who can read this statement tasks the Ma
,ional American) taken from the Baltimore Sun,
aleadng Democratic paper ~ and afterwards af-
fact SUNRISE that The North. Western States are
draining Virginia of her industrious and enter.
prising population Eieren millions and up.
aards, already realized by Illinois, and i'oenty
fire millions Of dollars worth of the lands granted
to her by Congress for internal improvements
vet TO come into market What right has Iii
nos. more than Virginia, 10 such lavish appro-
priaous from fund. which The pseudo Demo
cracy tell us is held by the General Government
in trust for the common benefit of all the States =
I'VE remember. that when an American mem
Der of the House Of Delegates. during the last
Session of the Legislature. offered resolution of
enquiry into the expediency of receiving Virgin.
las distributiyr share of the proceeds of the
sales Of the public londs,-Mr. Muscoe Il. II.
Garne,t declared that the proposition contem
plated departure from the policy that has
made Tirginia tchat she is - This reasoning
seemed to be entirely satisfactory to the Demo
cratic majority of the House. and the resolution
was tabled at once. II matters little 10 the po.
litical Sangrados, whose bleeding and warm water
system has well nigh ruined the Commonwealth,
1
trast to the remembrance Of iehai she 'cas 50 long
as she continues to be the paradise Of political
empyrics. who by means of loud professions of
"Denocracy.' manage 10 secure the honors AMI
emouments of the offices the people have 10 brs-
TOW. What does it matter. TINT her lands are
worn out and desertcd-ihat her stocks arr de
precisted-ihat her commerce i lnngui,hing,-
that her immense mineral resources nre un1eyel
oped- that the children of the poorer classes Of
her people are uneduoated- that her internal i'm
provemen,s are unfinished for wBut cf eppropr-
ations, whilst her property holders are already
taxed until they groan,-or that her influence in
the National Councils is diminished by every new
apporionment Of representation Her Legi,ln
fors have still the pluck TO pass resolutions
pledging her 10 "rcsist at every hazard and 10
the last. extreniiy,' any attempt 10 alter or re-
peal measure, which the very same Soons #
forwards discover TO be IAN adious aud uoeon.
stitutonel restriction" ll,f Governor can sill
threaten 10 arm her Militia, 10 dissolve the In
ion, should the people Of her sister States refuse
TO elect to the Presidency tie cnuddnl. of III
choice. Her silk glove gentry can -till reyel
in the sweets of ofiice-State aud Fcd,rel,s
"Of course. thirty Sersn millions If d l}ats, Il
judiciously expended, would relieve the elk n
of Virginia of The budcns Of oppressive teAA
ton, educate her poor children. enable ler Ia
complete her lines Of improvement, already com
menced, and 10 commence and oaris GA othefs
of great importance to hen interests. Hut the
Democratic Sangrados have declared against thr
remedy. because it is proposed and insisted ON
by Wing and American physicians, and the
quacks had rather The patient should die than
they be forced to acknosiedge their ignorance
and stupidity"