Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-07-24
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DEMOCRACY AND DISTRIBUTION
The Chulestep Evening, News tie strei.
est of strict constructionists, a Democrat
of the State Rights School, has GONE obser
vations optbs Land Question, based upon
other ideas, and breathing other senti
ments, than the absurd ones which have
weighed down the columns of the.D .Damo-
cratic press in this State, during this can.
vass. After giving . brief history Of the
Land Policy, the News says:
The old Democracy refused TO divide
and distribute it among the States, and
now the new Democracy, on an opposite
and incongruous gectionsl tact urge its
istribntiohlamohg the new States tof the
'exelusiohlo of the oldS--violate the brineiple
of opposition to distribution, and deny tho
justice, Of, a fair diyisiopl, Millions OF
millions of acres have been of late Years
given away by Congress, not 5niy for in.
ternal improvements, but a wholesalcsdo.
nation to the new States ofsllin their lin
its, and those limits fixed at areas many
times as large as the usual size of the old
States With these lands, the new States
have paid debts, constructed railroads,
built colleges, schools, public buildings,
&C. while in the old, these have to be Oh.
tanned from the hard earnings and labors
of their people, .ss.t. ~ sasf -ass
All goes swimmingly-z-the North ,glo-
ries in the consequent extension Of free
soil, the fructifying fdlIness Of the tarifT,
and the endless appropriations her'locah,
ties have obtained from the Treasury,fer
every sortsof improyement1th West glo.
ries in its rapid progress, its. amased for
tunes, its endidccnstructions, its giant-
rising power vet where is the:tenancy in
.eommon---the inheritance of the, South,
and where itsfruition to her? Vast bodies
of the public domain we're ceded by her old
States for the common beneft-where has
been her proportional benefit in return2
Has the tariff been removed from her
shoulders, have Tire pubic lands been used
for herimprovemeut, has the treasury been
layished for her security and adornment,
and have her party, politicians been sup
ported, for her good and peace? Her IN
heritanoe has been sold, for mess of po-
liti6al pottage, and the stranger, and the
alien, and the abolitionist, treat the soil,
which hher.sovereignties once owned, and
which her generosities fail tomake sacred
from the violence .of-the fanatic, the wiles
of the demagogues and the eninity of the
imported radical Abolition and alien
suffrage now sways over it domination,
pointed to her destruction.
Is this allA-is the evil no niors than
a, deprivation of che South Of nearly salf
advantages from the public lands as pro-
perty2f, No, mol They arc, brought mas
political elements and Forces, in the form
of Territories and States, and with avisw
to eircumscribe her limits and power and
to destroy her Institutions. = US
~ The halls Of Congress are necessarily
lobbied for appropriations of lands, in tie
name of special interaal improvements,
but in reality for the benefit of specula-
tors and these barefaced attempts are
rendered successful by bribes in the form
Of shares or money. And these squander-
aings and practices are countenanoei HT
the very politicians, who seofn the claims
|ef Tennessee and South Carolina to ANY
share Of them, although sovereign owners
with others, of the property,
Would not South Carolina fnd great
relief in her debts, andaaid in efforts for
Improvement, from gran t and disposition
Of a part Of the unoccupied public domaing
The question both as to right and ads
vantage deserves her serious consideration.
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