Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-01-10

comparison of the speeches Of Edmund Burke.
who msurned fifty years since the decline Of
chivalry. and designated the people swinlsh
multitude. with the addresses of the great men OF
to day, who recognize progress and appeal TO the
intelligence Of the mass. viii show the spread of
republican institutions. Already have the Sow
ereign and the House Of Peers become curious
anomalies in Englund and the time is rapidly ap.
pronching whom they can no longer exist.
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The Republican insists that we shall answer
its queries as to Mr.. Fimore's opinion of the
abstract question of slayery-and whether he Is
in favor OF Kansas being FREQ or slave State
We have not the number before us. but we be
licve these its interrogatorics., We answer
to the first. TINT Mr.. Fillmore was reported by
the now spapers Ia have said ina public address,
in the State of Georgia, during his tour through
the South in 1854, that what he had soen Of tho
happy condition Of the slaves had obliterated his
early prejuJioes against slavery. In reply 10
the second, We have to say that, by his signature
of the compromise measures of $50 he gave his
sanction to the principle that n State should
come into tho Union with or without slavery. us
the people inhabitng il might elect. We there
al nor political objection TO Kansas coming into
the Union rs a slave State. We do not feel war
ranted in saying that he would prefer it, but we
feel sure that as President he would oppose not
the slightest impediment TO it.
We could easily have answered the Republ-
cans queries when they first asked-but
we did not think it necessary to complicate the
issue which the Republican had made with ref
erenoe to Messrs. Douglas, Shields and others,
by bringing in gentleman to whom allusion
was made in the article in the V'rgnan to which
the Republican excepted. We have had rather
too much to do with political discussions 10 let
nn adversary lead us off in that way.
Besides il was never urged by Mr.. Fillmore's
supporters TINT he ayored tho extension of slav-
cry. Ills friends never made that 'the ulti-
matum Of the South" rs the Enquirer has re-
Gently done. All that was ever pretended in his
behalf was that he would extend to tho South
and her citizens their constitutional rights
This, we have no doubt, hc would have done.
The Louisville journal says the statistics of
taxable property in the United States recently
compiled in the Treasury Department, furnish
some interesting items Of intelligence in regard
to tho average wealth Of the people of the differ
ent States The average value of taxable proper
~ in Indiana and Illinois is S26i to each inhab-
tant; in Michigan it is only S229, in Maine it is
500; in N. Y. 3i0O in Ohio 1888; in Conneo,i-
cut it is about $500; in Massachusetts, 1926; in
Georgia, 1884, in Alabama, 1891; in Louisiana,
( ~; in Maryland about S3l0; in Virginia, $3.50
in kentucky, S35) In those estimates the whole
population is counted, including the slaves in tho
Southern States. If the calculation had been
made only in reference to the white inhabitants
in the slaveholdng States it would give to them
nearly double thu average wealth of individual.
in the froesoil States In none Of tho Southern
Statos is the average so small rs in some of the
trcosoil States.
Tho Editor of the Providence journal has seen
one Of tho new cents just struck off at the Mint.
He describes II Us "a little larger than the dime
Tho color might be mistaken Cor gold On one
side isa flying engle, with the inscription, Uni
ted States, Of America, 1856, arouno the circle,
on tho other Is 'One cent. within wroaih It is
altogether the haudsomest coin Of SO low n de.
nomination that he has ever seen.
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