Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-05-23
From tic Blee Ridge Republican
Eaeypediency Of Distribution,


We will admit, however, for the moment
that the scheme Distribution is eonst,e-
tional, although there is not line III that
sacred instrument which authorizes it. We
will admit, also fer the sake 5f IL SCI .slence
Of the admission, that tie thing IS practica-
BE, although there has been no attempt to
show it. lct IS suppose, now, that the
public lands have all been pareelled out,
and that tie proceeds therefrom have. re-
lieved The States Of debt, completed all their
railroads, educated all their poor children.
and iaaugurated general feeuniary mil
lennlum. During these piping times Of peace
and plenty, new and gigantic schemes ofin-
ternal Improvement are projected, TniYer-
sites are endowed, splendid public buildings
are erected, ard We feat literally, upon "a
sea of gold. But there is al end % it, ~
there is to all good things Presently the
land fund becomes exhausted, and the coll
lapse which follows SO large degree of
plethora finds the States as deeply IN debt
as ever, fikc it was after the Two Million
deposit of 1880 with no public domain to
fall bael; upon. What is to be done? Call,
If course. on the Federal Government to
come to the rescue, because if it has right
/ to give away the public lands it has an equal
/ right to give awav any other species Of the
pullic property. Sell the Armories, and
when that fund IS exhausted set she vessels
Of war, and when that gives out self .ho
! Capitol and the Presidents Hoase, and
other public buildings, and divide the pro-
ceeds among the States. After this triple
operation, on the part Of the Genl Govern
ment, of selling itself out of property, out
of credit, and out Of house and home #hat
is then to he done The iedesal Govern
ment, in its charity to The States, has be-
come bankrupt, ard tha States. under the
clloroformic influence of Federal bounty,
have lost their energy, their self-relianec,
and their self-respect. What then, we M
PEAT, is to be done? Nothing that We, can
surmise, unless the brain Of tie Enow
Nothing Minerva shall be able to send forth
another immortal conception. But we Of
the present generation, nor our children,
nor cur children's children, will be troubled
i withany Of these alternatives, because, julg-
iug the future By the past, il would require
several hundred wears a tllsDnSe of tho
npblie lan5s # tbay were J;y;doa ont W.
hays ar~ncd the noint s;mn,v to show "a
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