Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-08-10
DU b q Q UsE VISITOR

mating latitude forty north, possessing
everv variety of climate from y. Eng I
isnd "a Florida, most salubrious at
n,ospherc, ! soil fitted for every yarie-
~ Of product, and inviting northern
Is we'll as southern emigration, Texas
must, in any event, carry of z consid-
cradle portion Of our population from
every quarter Of the Union. She pos
sesses, within the aforementioned IL
mits, about two hundred and thirty
lnai iiiiso 81 acres, 6eingEat hcr more IMAM
four times tie extent 81 Virginia. Not
more than twenty millions Of acres
Of this vast domainare covered by val-I
id grants. With this mighty territory
and a sparse population, Texas, being
deeply solicitous to increase her physiss
cal strength, will do as every other
State, possessing the control Of its pub
lie domain, has done in all former PEE
RODS. She will throw open this vast
body of fresh and fertile lands to actn-
Al settlers, and TO them alone at prices
nearly nominal. What will be the ine-
yitable consequence? That the emigra-
ton from the old States, and from Eu-
rope, which now settles the public do
main in the new States, will, unless
we reduce the price Of our public lands
4 in favor of actual settlers, pass beyond
1 our limits, and establish themselves in
Texas. The poor man of the old States,
i who desires TO obtain farm for him
self and family, and has not the money
!. to pay our present prices, will nccessa-
rily 20 to Texas. Many, also, who
can pay the present prices of our pub
lie lands, will also SO to Texas, where
J. they can get cheaper and equally fer
title lands. Ii ne keep up the price OF
our lands, whilst Texas fixes her lands
!, at nominal value, the exhausting eff
i feet npon the wealth and population Of
i the whole Union can scarcely be calcu-
Hated. It will greatly depress the ma
4 vigating, commercial, and manufactu-
: |ring interests Of the north, and reduce
! the value of property throughout the
Union. When emigrants from the old
i States settle in the new States, there
] being aperfect system of free trade be-
& tween all the States, the prosperity Of
the new States reacts in favor Of the
old States, and Improvement in any
i one State advances the prosperity Of
the whole Union. Every new farm
4 settled in the west gives business to the
, merchant, the manufacturer, andfreigh-
( Ter, Of the old States, and adds to the
wealth and prosperity Of the whole u
!. MON. Bnt not so with emigration from
the old States to another republic. Our
J trade with such republic cannot be free.
! Other nations may furnish its supplies
4 sssa theirs ;s n~ti.:p, .ctus, :. 30 e~.rs-
Ipensate us for the exhaustion Of capital
and emigration.W We may greatly di.
minish these threatening evils by re-
i ducing to settlers the price Of our pub
lie lands. II we reduce our lands to
the standard fixed by Texas for her
lands, the loss of the nation by cmigra-
ton there WILDE comparatively small.
But, il we'kccp up the price Of our
lands, whilst Texas Axes her lands at q
! low rate, ne shall lose by emigration
atleasta million Of our population with
lin the next ten years. Can any sum
paid into the national treasury com
pcnsate this nation for the loss Of a mil
lion Of her people? II cannot, and we
should lose no time in endeavoring to
prevent these threatened calamities.