Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-05-05

Gated within the limits of their native State-op-
pressive taxation would not drive the citizens Of
the Atlantic States to the far w est-local improve
ments would introduce wealth. industry, and enter
Prise into each OF the States where the energies OF
their people are now dormant--migralion 70 e
new States would be srrested--a stronger attacl :
nent TO the oe lily of ene's birth would be Great
ed-and thousands of those who would otherwise
Il themselves for + derai pap and pluader would
d fend the doc rine Of . s ate Rights, " aud thus
aid 10 arrestlng the onward march of our republic
to national consolidation
Instead of increasing the power of the Federal
Government, this distribution of the land fund
would tend directly and effectually to weaken its
influence the ambitious, speculating and reek-
less spirits who throng the very halls OF Congress,
and are ready 10 sell both their souls aud their
stituents for few townships of landl Take from
the Federal Government its means of coIrupting
the Representatives Of the people, and place those
means in the power and disposition of the Stat,
and we shall hear no more of the frauds, corrup
tons and iniquties growing out OF railroad grants
TO the States. g
distribution Is emphatically STATE rights
measure-a measure which will vastly increase the
power of the several Stafes--a measure which " II
rebder the several States independent of the Fed
ersl Government as to the means of internal i'm
movements measure which will rend' sppliea-
tons to Congress for aid to local improvements
wholly unnecessary-a measure which, at the veIy
moment of its Inauguration, W II take from the Fec
eral Government, thoss eery means by which ind-
vidusss corporations, and States have been biiher
20 corrupted and purchasedl So anxious were Nc
Calhoun, General Jackson and other distinguish
statesmen in times psst to depriv, the Federal Gov
ernnent of this vast corruption fund.- they were
even willing to surrender all the public llnds TO
those States spectivey in which they lie, as le,-
ser evil thar their spoication by Congress 10 the
purpose of increasing Federal influence
IF the present sham Democracy OF the South
were serious and earnest in their professions of de-
votion 10 the rightsDfthe Statts they would prompt
ly unite in a movement Wbich will forever sepaI-
ate the Federal Government from this immr nse
corruption fund.-" which now consists of near
eleven hundred millions of acres of land worth at
its present estimate, more than thirteen hundred
millions of dollars, and which, iu the not distant
further, may swell up to the value OF hreeor four
thousand millions a fttnd Sufficient to bay up a
cjity Of euery Congress for the merit one hundred
years, if The character of some OF the members OF
the last Congress any index the character of its
successors.
1--WE warn the people of the several States, who
are devoted to the rights of the States, and Who
dread national consolidation not 10 lend willing
ear to those Congressional aspirants who, with pro-
LESSONS OF devotion to state rights" upon their
lips protest againsta division of the common fund.-
the States TO whom it properly belongs
They may lie honest in their opposition a mes--
ure which woulI obviously aud undeniably dinin-
ash the power of the Federal Government and
which would aid strength to the States that as
possible, bus il may be tive would not even SITUATE
III that observation has taught them, that there is
easier WY to make riches, than by fighting
against pOwerl