Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-10-08

:. public. while u deffauds them. enrehes
,. iiee.heldefs. aud The shavers md speculate
J.. who are In league with them. they will belle,
n and rightly. that y was intended ~ elfa
Is that very object. No plans could be devils
u better suited 10 that end. Not Two mont
Q ago, hundreds Of people were In the woods
. q most unpleasant time-drenehed with 20
Il slant rains, and wadiAg through mud ane
j. deep, looking at the public lands, and selet
!. ing homes for themselves apd their familie
i They made their selections, repaired to q
f land offices. and found them closed. The
+ poor, Industrious, and honest people lost the
, time and pains. But not so with the otfit
5 holders and s2ecula.ors.-Theyw we'll kne
: that the offices were to be closed, and Ia
5 according y made large entries Of lands. whc
I they sold ut handsome advances TO the di
appointed land hunters, who were unwiIIin
: to return home without some land. Thu
the labor of the poor and honest was made I
profit the idle and rich. Again-aitcr tn
office holders and their friends had secure
large tracts Of land, Treasury circular wa
issued, requiring payments for land 10 b
made in gold and silver, with some trifin
exceptions. Here again was no opportunit
to see this circular until they were on thei
way to the public lands, with their BAN
notes, and who would find j: extremely incon
vcnient to send their notes to distant bank
and procure the specie. But rs if this op
Dortucity were not sufficient, the land offic,
at Lima in this State, and we suppose tht
rest, Though tina: we do not know,) have de
termined not to receive any bank notes of /;
less denomination than ten dollars. even in
the excepted cases in which notes are rece;v
able. This we learned from a gentleman
who has just returned from the ground, and
who added that great numbers had taken with
them excellent notes of less denomination
which they were obliged to pass off to the
officers and their colleagues at discount for
paper, which they would received for lands.
He thinks fortune could be made by estab-
fishing 4 brokers' Office along sidse Of the land
office, if some new regulation should not de-
feat it.-Now, all these things the people of
every ncighborhood in the West know to be
true; and the only difficulty in their minds is.
to know who will make true and thorough
reform in the matter. For their satisfaction
on this point. ft.t rIis:i them EXTRACT ON
a speech made by Judge Burnet Of this State.
who is too we'll known as an old pioneer and
Judge. TO need an endorsement of his state
ments:-
ssBut, Sir, this is not all: he had seen the
injustice of the monopoly introduced into the
and system of the United States; by which
he poorer class Of citizens were effectualiy
excluded from lis benefits. The public lands
were sold in tracts SO large that none but the
wealthy could purchase. The poor man was
compelled to bly, seco2d-handed. and conse-
lucntly, at an advanced price; he was at the
mercy of the SPECTATOR.
s'Harrison had witnessed the oppressive
operation Of that principle. and resolved to
correct the evil. He brought the subject be-
ore Congress, exposed the injustice and in
guilty Of the plan, and obtained the passage
4 a law directing the lands to be su5divided
nd sold in small tracts. This alteration in
he system placed the poor man on a footing
With the man Of wealth, and put it in the pow
r Of the entire West to become freeholders
nd independent farmers. If that had been
he last set of his Iife-if he had then been
altered to lis futhcrs-his fame would have
name would have been loved
nd cherished--and his country, at least the
Western country. would have erected a stat 7
G to his memory; but he survives; and hum
reds of thousands who are now enjoying the
uits of that benificent measure, planned and
arried through by him, know not by whose
,ency they obtained it. The records Of ,
ongress show, and many witnesses still can {
stify. that it was HARnrscS. He secured /
e UOOU, dLlus Ill JUSTICE W ii'iiIe tue puUiiC
ould be advised of the fact-every man in &
e nation ought to know it"
We shall in due time publish this speech at
rye. as part of the immense mass Of testimo-
in favor of the civil and military qualifca- q
ms and services Of Harrison.-IT0r Club. a
Il
BALTIMORE, September %. b
RECEPTION OF GEN. HARRIsoN.-Neyer was Il
conquering general returning from the field n
triumph and glory. received with greater
thusiasn1, than was manifested Yesterday
the arrival Of Gen. William Henry Harri in
a within the limits of our city. The early n,
TT Of the day was unfavorable and many Of
rsons We're prevented from joining in the
,cession by apprehension Of rain. As it tn
S, however. the cortege was one of the most re
endid ever witnessed in Baltimore.---lla
e General. attended by DIR. Alexander, as
n. Medtart, and Mr.. Boorh, slept at Vans w
e on Wednesday night, and at two o clock, pa