Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-07-17

The Charleston Evening News. the straitest CT
strict constr csiopsts Democratof the State Rig Is
School, has some observations on the Land Ques-
ton, based upon other ideas, aud breathing other
continents the absurd ones which have weighed
down the columns of the Democratic press 10 this
State, during this canvass. After giving brief
history of the Lind Policy. the News says:
The old Democracy refused to divide and dstri-
butte it among the States, and now new Dmoc-
racY, on an opposite and ircongruous sectional
tact urge its distribution among the new States to
| the exclusion of the od-vioate the principle of
opposition to Distribution and deny the justice OF
| a fir division Millions on millions OF acres have
i been Of late years given away by Congress, not
only for internal improvements, but wholesale
donation to the new States of all IN their limits
and those limits fixed areas many times a. Large
/ as the usual size Of the old States. With these
lands the new States have paid debts, constructed
railroads, built cell ges, schools. public buildings,
| &c while in the 81 !, these have TO be obtained
from the lard earnings and labors of their people.
! All goes swmmingly-the North gloIi 10 the
cons Quent extension OF freesoil, the frurufying
;ulness of the tsrif and in the endless appropria
lions her localities hsV- obtained from the Treasury
| for every sort of improvement-the West glories
! in its rapid progr 50, its anna sed fortunes, its
~plendid constructions its giant-IiSng po"er Yet
| whore Is the tenancy IN common-the Inheritance
| of the South and where its truition to herr asst
| bodies of the public domain were ceded by he T
old States for the common beneht-where has
been her proportionate ben fit in returnP Has the
| tariff bee removed from her shoulders, have the
! public Iids been use for her Improvement, has
the treasury been laVishrd for her security and
adjournment, and have her party politicians been I'M
| gu 1orned for her good and peace? Her Inherit
aree has been sold for mess OF political pottage,
and the stranger, and the alien, and the abolition
| let tread the soil, which her soveregnties once
owned, aud which her generosities failed TO make
sacred from the violence of the fanatic, the vii 5 oil
| the dtmagogue, aud the enmity of the imported
| radical. Abolition and alien suffrage now sways
| over it denomination, pointed TO her destruc'
| ZION.
Is this all-is the evil no than depriva
lion OF the South Of nearly al advantages from the
public lands as propertyP No, mol They are
brought in political Elements and forces, in tht
form of Territories aud States, and with view To
circumscribe her limits and power, and to destroy
her institutions.
Tue halls of Congress are incessantly loboied io'
appropriations of lands, in the maine of special 10
terna improvements, but in reality for the beheh
of spectators; and these bareit ced attempts art
rendered success ful by brides in the form OF share
countenanced by the very politicians, who seorI
the claims of tennessee and South Carolina TO au.
share OF them, although sovereign owners, will
Others, OF the property
Would not South Carolina find great relief IN he
debs, and aid ia her efforts for imprOv, ment, iron
grant and disposition of part OF the uuoccnplet
puohc domain? The question both as to right an
advantage deserves her serious consideration.