Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1837-01-04
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WEDNESDAY. JAN. a, 1887.
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.

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III tae present number we lay before or readers
the message, in ertenso, of the President of the
Onlrsd States 10 both houses ofcongress. a docu-
ment OF such high Importance, as communication
HON Our chiefmagistsate to the national legislature
is confessed to be by the whole civilized world,
must be permitted to take priority Of other matters
and we yield our columns, almost without reserve,
10 the final al. nual message of President Jackson.
Our perceive length
compcls us to delay the publication of thsir COM
municatioyfs until next week.
From this most able state paper we have time
and rom only for III. following extrac, concerning
the public lands, subject deeply ints testing TO the
psople of the tSsi.oy. Other parts Of tho message
will be no,ieed hereafter.
sMuoh good, In my jud ,ymsnt, woaf b. produ.
ced by prohibiting sales of pablo lands, except TO
actual settlers, at reasonable re,ductoa OF price,
aid TO limi. the Quantity sold 10 thsnf.. Although
tits believed the general goye.Mmsnt n>yef ought
10 receive any thing but TIA constitutions. cu:ran
icy i, payment 10: the public lands, that poiat waad
be of lass impo If ths lands sold im.-
mediate se,.lsmen, and cultivation Indeed, tbs e
is sca.csiy mischief arising Of present land
system, including the accommodating surplus OF rev.
eiHe, which wo-lI not be remedied at once by
resric Oh land sales 10 actual sst.l...; and it
promises other advantages 10 the coaas.y in gamer
al, and 10 tho new states in artcular, which cam
no, failto receive this mos, profound considera,e,
Of congress"
1t will be also gratifying 10 the industrious occu-
pants of the pablic lands to sa;n, that tho Pres-
dent elect has manifested disposition to guard
their interests In o:dsr to show how widely M.
Van Bureaus course and feelings differ from thos,
of his opponents respecting thu national domain,
and how i:uly his is the friend OF that numerous
cas- of citizens, the actual settlers, publish
extract of his let!.rto Mr.. Sherrod Williams Ia.
king liberal and comprehensive view Of this great
question:, Mr.. Van Buren, seems to regard the pub,
lie lands as vast inheritance belonging exclusive
ly to tn. American people, as sufficiently extsn.
sive to furnish every citizen with home, and he
would accordingly dispose of them in this manne
best calculated 10 attain that end. While ca the
other hand, Judge White, Mr.. Clay, Solitude Ew.
ing, and other worthless OF the came arstociatie
stamp, would transfer these lands, Or tie proceeds
to this old states as well the new, under the pro
visions of Clay's laad bil TO monopolis,s by the
ssrrst SPECTATORS bill, and other means equally
odious. In either case ths tims would coon arrive
when the citizen of the west could not procure a
small farm Oh a few ac-es of land al less than Is,
20, o. 80 dollars per acre. So extravagant is the
spirit which NOW PREVAILS from extremity of the
conlsdsracy 10 the other for internal improvements
that some ofths states must, latar, bs n-
volsed ia pecuniary difficulties, as was the case
with the keystone state but few years since.
such coalition would BIS considered as justiiyng
al augmentation Of the price of public land, and
10 t'is the stats slaturss would resort.
iiom tins 10 tina, they respectively needs mo-
ney. Tho stat. funds would DO increased at the
| expense Of the cultivate: Of tho soil. We shall
now, however, be freed from all appschensions OH
this point, by the wisc and generous course which
the nsw president, acting up to his ayowsd and
recorded opinions, will unquestionably take. The
following is ths extract re(srrsd to-:
" The people Of the United States have n greater
interest III All early settlement and substantial i'm
p.ovement OF the public lands than in the amount
| OF revenue which may ba derived from them. 10
| accomplish this object, tho accumulation of large
tracts in fsw hands sholld be and
liberal facilities afforded tho acquist OF small!
portions by our citizens wherever residing, who
are in good faith desir0us of possessing them, as
homes Tor themselves and families"
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