Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-02-21
The Public Lands and The Spring Cam
naign,

I Having exhausted the Catholics and For
eigners, and overwhelmed the Wing party
in utter defeat, Sam, still reluctant to let GO
upon the spoils, enters the lists for The Spring
campaign on bran-new pony. The Pub
lie Lands must now be distributed All
other issues are sunk, and nothing is to be
heard in the Spring elections for Congress
and the State Legislature, but appeals to
the ''pocket nerve''-taxes and land dstri-
button. Sam can entertain but one idea at
time With that he is captivated, and
naturally enough thinks the rest of the
world like himself. But the people know
his tricks too well to be deceived any longer
by his elap-trap. They do not believe with
the Richmond Wing, that Virginia is still
going down HILL with melancholy velocity,
each succeeding year" They believe, ON
the contrary, that without Sam, and ia spite
of him, the gallant State has just emerged
from the most important contest that has
ever occurred since the Revolution, covered
all over with glory--the pride of her sister
States, and second to none of them, that
she has redeemed herself and the whole
South from condition of ignoble vassalage
under which they had labored for years, and
to which know-uothingism and Black Re-
publicanism had conspred to bind them for
eycr,-that she and the South are now in a
position to vindicate that immense superior
ty over the North, which nature and the
wisdom of their institutions have given them,
and to assert and maintain the guarantees
Of the Federal compact. Virginia has no
desire to become an almoner of the Federal
Government, nor can she be enticed by the
false cry Of oppressive taxation. or the hope
of the spois to foster or to countcnance a
policy by which the high tariffs that have
eaten up her substance, and made her trib-
utary to the North, shall be perpetuated.-
The hribe won't take--nor can the proud
old State be courted and won by any party
who comes to her, with false charges Of hen
destitution, her poverty, and insigniteance,
or proposes to bride her from her principles
with the hope of Federal plumber. Her
motto is, and has been, and will ever be,
ga tariff for the support of the Federal Go
yornment, and not one cent more" Let the
duties be 50 reduced as that the sales Of the
Public Lands will be necessary, in addition
to Them to defray the expenses of that Co
vornment then the Southern States will
have the benefit Of what belongs to them,
without having it first to pass through the
Golfers of the Federal Treasury, and the rem
nant divided between them and the North,
after the bulk of it shall have been used up
in the fattening of thousand Office holders.
If the editors of the Wing desire to COM
mend themselves and their party to the peo-
pie of Virginia, let them sustain the admi-
rable tariff bill Of the minority now before
Congress. let them claim it as sacred
Constitutional right, that the people shall
bay no more taxes than are necessary for an
economical administration of the Govern
ment, and resist, to the last extremity, the
absurd and tyrannical doctrine that the
Northern manufacturer shall have the priv
lege, for his own benefit, of creating a pie
thora in the Treasury, for the purpose OF
having it not refunded to those who eontri-
buted, but chiefly divided among those for
whose benefit it had been originally ex-
torted