Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-01-30
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Friday Morning. January 30, 1851.


we'll said for Democrat and gives reason t.
hope that the party of which that journal is al
organ may yet be aroused to a sense of the enor
nous wrong done the older States of the confed
eracy, by the policy of late years pursued will
reference to the public ands-and may lend it
powerfu influence to the correction of the sys
tenn and reparation of the mischief We quote
Within the past few months millions Of acres ofth
nubc lands have been granted 10 the North western
Sfaes-Ilinos has received million for the purpose
of constructing railroad through the centre OF tn
territory. Thus, while the old States are taxing ne
people TO make internal Improvements, Congress i
indirectly making mproy ements tor the new State
nv grants of theJpuhlie lands The reason assigned
for this policy is that the improvement OF the ne"
States brings the public lands more readily into mar
ket-sill il is unjust that the new STATES snouu DC
;nnroved AT the expense of the old. rms has con-
trihuted more than anything else to give ascendaney
20 tho North over the South, by increasing Northern
representaton in Congress and diminishing south.
ern. -, H.. ~ .lo
anr,on, mr. the South viii be.drren out OF the
rnon II IL is right To grant lands TO the new states,
his equally right grant them 10 the old states
LET iustice be done Virginia gave way an empire
which has been peoped by persons who are plotting
against the dearest interests OF the entire South She
asks no for this munihcien donation, but docs
ask that common justice be done.
Let the Gland question be taken ont of the politi-
cal arena-drive from Congress that horde Of swnd-
lers and SPECTATORS who infest the Capitol and dis
grace the legislation of the country and much will
be accomplished to repair the mischief already done
The present system is a good one perhaps the best
that be devised, dispose oil the proceeds Of the
sales of the public lands-hn it is within the knowl
edge Of all, that the rapaey of the States has
wrought great inequality and injustice by con rolling
legislation, and common justice demands either n
rigid adherence to the system, or its entire aban-
donment
There can be no doubt of the correctness Of
the indicators conclusion, that the cstal lished
and increasing ascendency Of the North over the
South is mainly due 10 the partial legislation OF
Congress, in offering bounies To settlers there
and in furnishing means for the construction of
internal improvements and rearing institutions
of learning and charity. The corolary is per.
fectly just " If it be right to grant lands to the
new States, it is equally right to grant them to
the old ones" The Nindoator might have COMO
further. If it was rrong to grant lands TO tho
new States, il would be right now TO grant them
to the old, since by that means only can equality
be restored. We do not think il necessary in
the present aspect of the subject 10 discuss the
original policy of distribution. The question
now is whether justice shall not be done TO those
states which, having common interest with the
others in this public domain, have not received
equal benefits with them whether their rip hts rs
coparceners shall not be respected an
account shall not be settled among the Sietes,
and the deficiency made up TO those that fall
short Looking nj it whether plain business
matter, or as a question of constitutional law in
volving the equal rights of the States, we do not
see how there can be two opinions regarding it,
We are entirely willing 10 see it taken, as the
Vindicator proposes, out of the party aroma
We are willing to concede thnt tho federal rep
resentaton of Virginia for the present belongs
to The Democracy and, for our own part, shall
acquicsce in seeing no Opposition candidates
br ought out for Congress But, this is
question upon which it is important thnt the
sense of the State shall be taken. and IA the
Democracy themselves are divided upon IT,, not
only in the Union Tut in Virginia, we have Il
right to insist that it shall be put IN issue in every
district, by having candidates before the people
who represent both sides of it. In such pur-
pose, may we not have the cooperation ct the
Vindieator and of the more liberal and cnl ght-
ened members of the Democratic party