Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-05-22
From the Parkersburg News.

From the Parkersburg News. Is
Distribution----Some OF its Resnlts.I
s II seems 70 be entirely forgotten by
Mr.. Garlic aud his followerssin their adj
yocacy Of The new hobby Of dividing lands.
that any other State but Virginia would;
receive aSparticle Fofs this domain. 1t
should be misunderstanding, if Virginia
were to get. as MIR. Garlic asserts seven>
ty-fve millions of dollars for her share
the other State would receive at the same
time, one thousand two hundred and If
ty.seven millions; Of which New York
would have nearly two hundred millions,
p Pennsylvania nearly one hundred and IF:
~ millions. Ohio one hundred and
twenty five millions and the others in like
proportions. These three States would
receive nearly as much as the entire
South. &
Now the question arises. would Virgil
MIA be relatively any richer, than she is
now? The States we have mentioned
are already ahead of Virginia. Would
not their larger portions allow them to
gain on US in a proportionably greater de-
gree ? In the same way, the South
would not receive but about half as much
as the North. and hence the North would
be benefited just about twice what the
South would. And yet one of Mr.. Car
lilies favored arguments is that this d.
vision would enable Virginia to assume
her old place once more at the head of
the list. OF course it will be seen that
the more in value you divide the deeper
will be the shade thrown over Virginia
by her present superiors.
Again if this enormous amount Of
land is to be sold. there must of course
be purchasers for it. This ten hundred
and seventy eight millions of acres could
not be- disposed of except to an immense
number of persons. The South must OF
course sell TO Southerners. and the North
to Northerners. But the Northern States
would have the advantage of US, as they
could sell large amount to the horde Of
foreigners who yearly flock to our shores,
who. being for the most part unacquaint-
ed with negro slavery. would in conse-
quence be opposed 10 it, and hence would
buy land Of the North in preference to the
South. The South having but seven mil
lions OF whites, and five hundred and
nineteen million acres Of land. must there
fore sell an average of seventy three
acres to every white man. woman and
acres 20 every family. Virginia, having
no public lands within her limits. ,OouLd
he ve'y near, ifnot quite depopulaIed before
she would sell her share. Now be it re.
membered that Mr.. Garlic advocates land
division because ii aUould stop emigration
from Virginia ]; and yet it must be plain
to every one that children, and grown
persons. too, must either rain down from
the clouds, or be manufactured by the
million by some new invention and that
with pockets full OF money, or else Virgil
MIA must depopulate and destroy herself
10 build up her broken fortunes and keep
her citizens from emigraling.
And still again According to Mr.. Car
lille, there are now left ten hundred and
seventy eight millions of acres. all Of
which he talks of selling at dollar and a
quarter per acre. By the tables Of the
census report. it appears that there are
but one hundred and twelve millions Of
actes now settled and occupied in the
United States. Now suppose that money
enough could be had to buy ten times the
amount Of land now settled and occupied
in the United States and also that the
people would be willing to emigrate from
the old States and other countries and set
tie on it, and il should all be sold, would
it be possible for prices to continue at the
present rates even for the new lands
and would not the old and deserted lands
CT Virginia and the other States have their
value somewhat effected by this immense
sale of cheaper property? But yet. be it
remembered by all that Mr.. Garlic advo.
Gates his division bill because it would re-
lieve Virginia Of her taxes, and increase
| the price OF her lands. A very poor way
it would be, in our opinion. to increase
the price and value OF farm by offering
for sale leu better farms at just One-t tenth
of the price OF the former one.
These are but some of the effects which
would result from CArile's Land Division
Bill. In fact, view it as we may, and its
results can in no Instance be what its
friends claim for it, but whether we con-
slider it in the light Of conssitutionaIity. OF
right. Of profit, or in any other way, it is
and will ever more perceptibIy grow to be
a grievous wrong. and an exampled hum
bug.
THE APPRoAcHISG RAILROAD CELEBRA-
! rIoN.-There was in Washington yester-