Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-06-10
From ,he New York Evening PeH.

TAG SauArrRas.-We sse pretty frequently 10
the party prints, expressions Of seem concerning
the squstters of the western country, and attempts
70 scou, the notionsof passi ,g general pre-eFaP
tioa law for their benehi we knoE wen "ha'
class of persons are designated ty this tile, foI we
have sssn them amid the broad prafies. whsrs they
rsise their harrests, and beside the noble woods
whore thsy hunt their game, and we have shared
the hospitality of their cabins. They are oui old
fdeads and neignbo.sl men who have emigratef
f,om the Atiaa;ic state; n,en who are perhaps
little more adventurous and restless, but quite q.
moral and intel!igen., rs those they hare left be-
hind; mar, we take into the estimate the inhab-
itaos Of the larger towns, moral and inteiii-
gent. We hare known an,ong these squaaers some
or the best and paress men il has ever been for
toas 10 be acquainted with. No man WHO has
once visited the West: scruples if his convenience
should lead him, 10 81 at himself upon the uaoccu-
pied territory belonging 10 Goyenmen;, the sale of
which is not yet permitted. Here he builds his log
cabin, ia the edge Of groTe splits the tall tees
into rails fencesia porsicn Of tbs wide aad rich
prairie, turns up the virgin soil. which yields a
hundred fold for the seeds which ne casts upon il,
and pastures his he'd upon the vast, uasaclos.d
howsry champaign before his dwelling. One emf
grant arrives afler another. and IN this way nsig-
borhoods are formed, communities of honest, kias,
and seligio1s psople. with their schools and LACE:
If worship, before single inch is offered for sale
This is a universal and well understood custom O
the Wea-1ot custom of ves;efiaY, 81; as a cea-
tary's growth; a cusiups which dates back 10 the
time when the 6sst hunter raised his cabin on .hs
itch natural meadows OF keaiucky. 1t is custom
which the Government itself has tolerated we MAJ
Use sill stronger iem-t il custom which II,
govesamen; hasIecognized and sanctioned, 81 ijass
Ing rom time to time pre-empiioa Tvs, giTing ,hs
settler the first RICH, 10 purchase te soil ne has oc
eupsed.
And these Laws are consistent with natural eau:.
". The cabin oftne settler is the work OF mis- owr
hasds; and be has made the prairie valsa5le b,
surrounding il with fences, aad breaking sp tht
green swafd. The as;ghboinoods formed by soaa,
tiers give value TO the unclaimed lands aroaat
them, which they would not otherwise have. The
s2ecuiatnr and the new conner both reap the bens.
1T Of settlement already formed, insis ad Of pur.
chasing these lands in the midst of wilderness
II IS jas: :ha; ;;ey who founded The colonies from
which the lands derive their subsequeniyaus snooIo
be compensated in some way or other for the hard.
saips and inconyeniences they have undergone.
II local and temporary presumption laws are just
in priaeipI, then is also general pre- -smp;ion law
What j. right in one case is right in all.
We have all general interest in this matter
We know not who may die in the course of the
year, and we knox not who may remove TO the
west. Msa will 60 from Broadway and the Bow.
cry, from Psarl-s,rset and ChathaTa-s.:eei, from
the villages and farms along the SQUAD and the
Hudson, who perhaps now little thinking OF
such an adventure. They will find the best of the
lands which have been bought into make, alrea-
dy in the hands of spectators, and they will be
compelled TO seek for desirable situations in those
tracts which have not get been offered for sale We
ourselves are now penning an article for the Even
ing Post, but in Two years from this time, we ma,
Do winsing wood pigeon on the banks OF tie 10
va OF the Charlton, where lands were never We
conveyed BY the fonnality Of signing, sealing, AM
tho only title which the settler has TO Show, is tn,
marks scored with his axe OIL the trees of the forest
and the stakes ne has Get in the tall grass of the
prairie.
TEcHsIcALITIEs.--Notion long since worthy limb
OF the woods stepped into flour probate courts,
and, after waiting some lime for an opportunity
10 speak, thus addressed The court in the free use
OF law tschnicaiities, as he supposed: May {
please your hoaor, my father died sdetested., eay
ing six awful childrsn:' have cons to the eo,,r
Of 'eprobates' TO get letters of Condemnation, o,
his sdefects'