Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-03-04
Apncauir0 Gtrglnian.
w ednesday Morning. March 4, 1851.



The La.a Qse.sisu.
Il Is a fasorite trick OF partisan quaekerY, when 81
enormous and Acknowledged system Of pnblie pecn
lation is going on. to urge honest people 10 tske
hand in the fraud the only means OF ses arng men
rights. Half the eoaviets that have filed the penn
teniiarics of the world and all Of the robbers that
hare infested the highways OF civilization, haVe
een religionslv Impressed With sense Of wrong IN
ficted upon themselves By society atfiaaung taeif
own want Of worldly goods and others abundance 10
difference oflaek aad undertaking 10 secure their
doe sharr Of the general propo! by joining the Rob-
IN Hoops of their dsy and generaiion-fTusung 10
The rfincfp'o Of honor among thieves and embark
ing upon the summary policy Of wholesale fr1aa IS
shcri eat rsthwsy 10 kpsssf rights and, If arci-
aehiAily caught o. their common enemy the Aasesf,
and haag Imprisoned pilloried, considering them
seires the victims OF " bad q iuek.
This snue sc, Of ideas were embodied in the phi
losoehy ofJaek CAde. who By some adverse turn Of
the wheel Of fortune. by the Influence u some SIN
ister STAR 10 The horoscope Of his birth. born
heggar and TaEaboad instead o. heir apparent 70 the
crown Of the Realm The only difference between the
practice Of these Rotin Hood ighsayman aud Jack
ade Jewellers on one hand and that OF the ngraT1aus
who weuld institute Wholesale system q Legal rob-
berry upon the honest for the benefit Of tue thrfiegs
and Of the land distribuiiouists Wbo would Rave
the honest States te become thieves along with tie
dishonest in order 70 get the benehi 81 the rogaes.
rule Of egN1f asrltaftons this that Rohiu Hood and
Jack Cade spiced their proceedings piih deeds Of per-
sona daring blood and romarcc. while the agraEaHs
and as8 dsfubsoaisis contemplate nothing but sys-
TEN of low vulgar, nnmiiigated tAieYns Richmond
EIGminey.
From the extracts we have made from several
of the leading Democratic presses of the staieop.
posing the proposition to do justice to such Of the
States as have been pretermitted, or only partial
ly provided for. in the appropriations that have
been made of public lands. the reader will not
have failed 10 observe that argument unless
are TO except an article or two in the Repub
lican of this city, is attempted, bat in its stead
denunciation and ridicule employed. 1t is a
sorry cause that cannot be sustained by logic.
reason and truth--while the noblest Of all
may be pelted with words and stoned with
epi,hets. II the position of the Democratic lead
of Virginia could be otherwise sustained,
feel assured that the Examiner able as it is
bold, would not content itself with this guerilla
sort of fighting. 1t hkens the policy of distribn-
ton TO the highway practices of Robin Hood and
Jack Cade. We can fancy how the estiu,able
editor chuekled over the absurd oonoeit. OF
course he knew that if Robin Hood and Jack
Cade had been engaged only in attempts to get
possession Of what belonged 10 them, 10 prevent
it being taken by others, they would have been
very sensible, spirited and thrifty fellows. Or,
being robbers. as they were, SEEING upon all the
unguarded property that fell in their way il
those who had suffered by their deprednions
had united together and gone oeains, them to re-
cover their plundered effects, none sooner ihau
the Examiner would have applauded the manli-
ness of the effort; repealed the ridio-
ulous idea TINT it was "ihieving." If there bo
u l. II =,
they are those States that, not content with the
shares Of the public lands or their proceeds 10
which they were entitled under the conditions
which the federal government holds tho land,
have taken and are yet continuing 10 take the
shares that belong 10 the other states. II the
tates thus robbed band themselves together to
recover the stolen booty, TO protect their proper
t y from further spolia,ion, and to RESTRAIN The
lawless ucursions of the frceboccrs. they no
m ore themselves become robbers. than the sler-
Ifs, and conslabes. aud soldiers who sought TO
capture Robin Hood aud Jack Cadc were robbers.
The cardinal fact that the public lnud- Jtlong 20
the states in certain proportions fixed by the deeds
of cesson,and that they are held by thefedcral gov
eminent in trust merey,-a trust that can only bc
pr operly executed by maintaining the proportion
of ownership by the States, and the correspond
ing proportion Of benefit resulting from such
ownership, is blinked by all the democratic wri-
tiers and speakers who stand in opposition 10 the
measures of indemnity for the past and security
for the future proposed in behalf Of the old States
II they would permit themselves to recognize
this corner stone fact they would cease TO talk
about thieving and robbery. The Virginia deed
of cesson provides and requires that the States,
new and old, including herself, shall share in the
use and benefits Of the lands donated, in proper
ton 10 their shares in the charge and expenditure
OF the federal government. Let US apply this
Iowa, with four representatives in Congress has
had about five millions Of dollars worth of these
lands. This entities Virginia. with her repre-
sentation, to some eighteen or twenty millions Of
dollars worth. Suppose Virginia were to claim
and receive this amount whom would she be rob
bing! Not Iowa for Iowa has proportionnte
share not tho other States for they are entitled
TO raieable shares: not the federal government,
for i, is lis duty, under tho deed whose trusts it
has undertaken to execute, to see that the States
share rateably: not herself, because that would
be an impossibiliiy Whom. then, or what,
would she rob- viii the Examiner tell u.s.
Naur-on VI a. and hi. Jury
capital story is told in tho following extract
from the letter Of the Washington correspondent
OF the Buffalo Commercial, at the expense of an
NJ. {. from Oneida county. New York,apropos of
the corruption bills passed ofla,e years by Con.
gress:
A case was tried at Grand Rapids. Michigan
few years ago. A man who had previously borne