Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-04-04


Virginia. Share Of the Public Lands.
We call the attention of our readers to a
powerful and conclusive argument published
on the first page Of to-days paper, on this
subject, from the editorial columns of the
Richmond Examiner. The writer dissccts
with masters hand this e'gfeat issue of
the day." He Tops off this last limb on
which the falling Sam had hung, and leaves
him no choice but to tumble headlong to TIE
ground The land scheme now stands out
in its naked deformity, as another plot Is
which the South is to be made newer of
wood and drawer of water for the North
by which the poor are to be made poorer
and the rich richer
The Constitution only authorizes Congress
TO raise money enough to support the Cen
eral Government. The public lands, by
their sales, constitute fand just as proper
for the payment of the expenses Of the Gov
eminent as the duties on imports--nor can
any more authority be found in the Consti
tuition TO distribute the former among the
States than the latter. The two funds
should be applied together to the support of
the Government, and whenever the two to-
gether prove more than sufficient. for that
purpose, it becomes the duty Of Congress
under the Constitution, to reduce the tariff
n tar H. Oh nrI
this way the people would never be required
to pay more Of their money to the Govern
ment than the Constitution requires them to
pay. But the Northern manufacturers are
not satisfied with this They pretend that
tariff of from forty 10 sixty millions per
annum Oh foreign imports does not afford
sufficient protection to them, and that Con-
gress shall impose duties on the salt the
iron, sugar, molasses, coffee, and the cloth
ing, &C. imported from abroad and which
every man mast Le3. not for the support Of
Government alone, as authorized by the
Constitution, but to be given back to the
States, which the Constitution doos not au=
ihorize. Nor is the North satisfied with the
protection to their manufactures which this
imposition affords After this surplus rcve-
nuo is raised off Of the South which pays
nearly the whole Of it, and after the Forth
has received the great benefit Of that proteo-
ton, they contend for sharing the surplus
with the South and that, not By an equal
diyison--but according 10 federal numbers
that is, they require that fire Of oru Ia
borers shall only receive in the distribution,
as much as three of their laborers receive
In this scheme of iniquity and oppression,
our Northern masters are aided Ivy their
Southern allies. 1t is bald and barpiaced
plot, by which Sam and his friends are mad
enough to believe the people of the South
ern States can be bought with one foa,4h
part of their own money, and cheated into
a surrender Of the other three oafihs. But
the fatal error of that party has always been,
that in the conceited, selfsuAiciency of their
leaders, the people have never received
bttult iVi olie-li"li tiiS S'pN S|ltae WY p'c-
sess. The people know full we'll that duty
laid on their sugar, coffee, molasses, salt,
and all the other articles 81 theirs eonsump-
tim, raises the price of those articles. not
only by the amount Of the duty, but by the
amount also of profit on that duty This
the consumer pays out What does he get
back, if Sans system of distribution is a
dopted Why the mere fraction of that
same duty which viii be left, after the COM
missions and salaries and sioalago OF tie
public officers, and the Interest Of the mo-
ney while it lays idle in the treasury. and
the losses by accident. are taken off and
after the lions share Of he ba.ahea shall
have been given to their Northern friends
They will know THAT it is far better to keep
their own money in their oR'n pockets, aud
manage il in their own way, than to submit
10 heavy taxation in order tina. the General
Government may have Bic privilege Of pay
ing back to them pittul fraction of what
had been unjustly extorted. And this is
Sans great question Of the day. lie had
better GO back to his old platform and lei
Americans rule America.