Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1837-03-02

which, in anticipation, l.proaounccti t.o4
so. ample, .tiiat'RE 0t6scffl .lfimscH might
envy she ppp6ftanity which;it ufldtded:Ai
lSuch ii has provetr.toi be. =.
The. Administrator has pYeGtcd .by .ilHGS.
PATRONAGE nnd tho 1pre5Idiee which ir
.has excited. against te, Bdak' us the means
.aE.snstaining tbe,6ssyesi III. t1dwsr. i. Ii IS
unnepGssaEy,to repeat HE. remarks, in illus.
.tration OF this; .'fhe truth. OF the stateir,rs
is.kirowp TO all. the Senators, whe have
.tafly Witnessed the party topics Which have.
zGeen. drawn from this ~fruitless soatce.: /
.tien remarked. thar, if ruuipoar were 10 he
Erusted, II was not only in a .poiitical 6oiut.
sof Sic,v that those IN power had pro61ed,by
the f.: vast means put. Iii the hands of llu
Executive by The experimelt-tAey had
iproiitcd. III a pecuniary,. as Weil as iG "A :po-,
Mica!l point Of Hiew. II has been Ircutsnt-
ly stated, and mot cphtradicted, tkat many,
10 high places, are a%lhonS'the spectators in
public lauas; aud THAT even an indixiauit
with. tic. President himself. olfc
cf his nephews, was: an extensive advcn-
,iurer in .1ifis MISREPRESENTATION I.dTd not
name him, but | now feel myself called
saPenao do So. mean Nj: MtLembye
3 Observation-Disclosures these j;o1,rs, i next
.nlidertopk tdtSffaw that this .billswot,ll con-
ksntna y characterization i.fa establish
-lnent. had Viyel to the Administ4s46Sr. IL:
proof Qf:thc fol mcr.. avilled myself Of HE
dec1qra1ion of The Charninn ofthg Commit.
tee oil. Public Lands; who had Stared that.
Interpretations had already. purchased: and
held ii vast amount of public land, MOI less,
AS ! ninlcrstdod him, than. twenty-five .or.
thirty millions .Qt: acres, and that IL ihis. bill.
did. fiot pass; 1he scenes of the last two
years would he. repeated in his :and the
COOLING. year, t;tlcA undertook 10 .l1w,
'frem:thc sliO owing ai:1hG Cbnirtuiplr t!lnvIl;
that these .speculations would. PROVE: ruin
Gus without the aid OF this bili;. lie had
siated:tiiat the annual demand 'f4: pih.Hc.
lands resulting from oarincfeassd popiI.:
lioh, eould. not exceed 5,UUQ, 001 :of acres:
Now, assuming that the. quantiiy on hand
H. thirty .~HilHIsas,of acres, there would he
SIS years s,Hply:in the: hands-0r: iic. sPtcm-
lators, even. IT rIcland offices of the .Enited.
States he closed; ::did that ifthe hill:aid not.
ass,.sccardinsS1 his shQwlIg. it ,vo,Iitf1Ake
double 'or1rehl6 the time 10 dispose of tie
lands WHICH, III that case, will be III. the
hands of.the spectators. All must-see the
certain. rum, i'll that event, OF. t~ho<e:wilo
have horrowgt rnsney.tospcculatG in land:
partic3'iarly, il. t!hesalcs of public lamd should
te:1ree and tspctrtD every one, asst now.is,
Ia, partlase' TO the extent of lis ucaas.: L.
next showe.t tha,.tie:' contest was. 'Ectxccn;
the Government, as a:dcal8r in ,pt6fic lands,
and the speculittors that They he Il M.n;ir>
ket at least 1n. equal quantity III .+aAte, t1
that which thc Observation-Disclosures offered
fof:saln; and. that every restriction imposed
hpom The sales Of GQycrnilent lnlid. mustu1t
necessity increase tic u~dvant.ge OF its rival.
aleaiers.' . -. =: 49,.
l.ihen showed that very .onlcronS and or.
prcssirc. Restrictive" - ~.'l;nIs rhnr:tc.:
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