Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-04-29
The Pablis s.nads.

This absorbing question will bear repetition
for Notwithstanding the Efforts Of tho Dcm"cra
tic ?arty of Virginia to suppress ar' ignore H.
the aope have anxiously cast their eyes 10.
wards il IA the only meas i-r &c e( IN gal-
ling taxation. ana the onlv means whereby our
now languishng system 81 Internal improvements
can be rejuven4ted aud pressed To- orup'otion.
The prediction of Mr.. Clay ~ coultu,d ~ his
speech. delivered upon the occasion ~ rrporting
his celebrated Land Bill, ful' guatt"l 90 "a cen
fury ago, is now realized. Il. ny nitor w" ball
cease" said he. ito be egitated b, thc tutl ages
after our manufactures shall have rrquirrd
stability and perfection which wall cuuho them
successfully 10 cope with thu manufactures of
any other country, the public lands vli rcmNIn
subject of deep aud eniutin, interest Ia
whatever view We contemplate them, there is 10
question of such vast Importance llrUce it is
that the people of Virginia want light op'u th,-
subject, They would understood *. It is TIM,
other States that have been bruu. lat lnto the
oenfedrlaey from beneath her fostering wing;
carved out of territory which her houudoss aud
unparalleled munifoence provided can cover
their domain from one extremity Ia the other
rear colleges and establish schools; can pro
ject the noblest charities and send forth the
heallhful current of an unobrtructed and pros
Porous trade, with tho most perfect immunity
from that eating canker which is destroying the
very life of our people, and driving vast
numbers of our citizens from our terrtory,-e
orbitant and onerous taxation.
1t will not DO to tell them under such circu'u-
stances, tina, they must be true to the resolutions
of '9s aud go that they must bS passive,
maintain mastery inactivity, wh,l-, they are be.
ing p,andered and their property coni,cated 10
the use fof their more willy and INSCRIPTIONS
neighbors. 1t may not suffice 10 tell tr,m :hat
Nre'nia coded in peIpetuiiy this property to
the General Government, and has therefore no
further claim upon II. for this IS not the truth.
Neither will any fine spun, hair splitting analysis
of the Constitutional difference between d retro
oessioEx the lands that are left after satisfying
the conditions of the trust for which they were
originally ceded, and deposte which is mover
to be called for-of the projects of the land,
satisfy those, who, in the light Of reason and
common sense, take practical Wow of the sub.
jet.
We intend, so far as we are capable Of doing
it. TO sift this matter to the botto,u aud in two
or three articles to show the historic facts bear
ing upon the case, and tho authorities (some Of
them Democra'ic,) by which Il scheme of distr-
button is sustained. We intend to indulge in no
odcaptandam appeals. but after presenting the
phin truth as derived from the most reliable
sourees,wi leave the reader To judSr whether a
lair logical argument in favor Of distribution can
b. aeduoed from the premises laid down. 10 com
prehend fully this question, in its present po-
sition. ii Is necessary 10 revert TO The crcum-
stances attending the deeds OF oessiou from the
Sla,e 10 the Congress of the Confederation. 1t
Is we'll known that at the close Of our Revolt
tionary struggle, the States were heavily bur
dened with the debt that had accrued ther,from
and which many of them had not the ability to
pay. neither it possible for the Congress Of
the Confederation to afford relief seven nf the
States had charter rights To imnen-e tracts of
land-in which, Virginia held the lnrge-t share
whilst the remaining six had none, Ia the pro
gress OF time, discomfort began to ar,v. those
States holding no territorial prupriiy--cnn.
planning TINT they he'd borne an equal share IN
the dnngers and sacrifices incident to the com
mon defence. whilst they were dehdrred all in
ierest IN the charter lands that he'd been wrested
from the mother country In this respect il 5
readily apparent, that the relative conditions of
the states were not equal-seven of them having
property which could no longer ne regarded a-
he'd under their original charter but by virtue
Of u successful revolution to which all had con
fiihpfed, but which those having proprietary
right in them could alone control aud d-po SO of
They were thus provided to great extent with
the means of paying their share of the debt
Will. the others had no resource lief, them hut
,axaion. Congress say The difficulty that
fInenting. and to arrest the progress
of d:seonient recommended in $780, u cesson
by the States of all the territory. for the
common use and benefit. The language .!
the resolution THAT the unappropriatrd laDd
that may be coded or relinquished to the United
States, by any particular State. pursuant to the
recommendation of Congress of the 9Th of Sep
tember last, shall be disposed offur the common
beneii; of the United States,' that J.. Of the con
FEDERATED States Individually, AMI collectively,
the present Constitution not then ha !ing been a