Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1838-02-03

tor from Massachusetts would necessarily involve an
expense that would be runous He considered that all
tie parties well projected the law The
register OF The lcca land office first decided the claim,
and if the parties dissatisfied, they applied 10 the
Commissioner of The General land 0ice, who had the
opinion Of the Attorney General 10 aid him in making
up his decision. Now he would ask if the parties were
not well protected by ,hs mode Of decision, they
rPsorted 10 the circuit district COURTS appeal TO
the Supreme Court he looked spon involving ex.
pense too great 10 he borne in Of the cases, He
recoleced noned TO him by the late Senator
Kane-a case involving tAe raae Of single slave
cost by being carried UP to the Supreme Court upwards
Of FIVE hundred dyays.
MIR Critienden, after remarks at considerable
length, in which he commented the fra DDS alleged 10
have been practised under the presumption laws sub
mtted amendment define accurately the set
Element and cultivation necessary 10 acquire right to
presumption. Mr. C.s amendment wos, 10 ftrfke out
that part of the bill relating settleEefS and cultiva
tion and 10 insert, in lieu thereof, the following "by
actual residence thereon. before the ls Gay oil De-
cemGcr, lc and the cultivation Of al least IN
corn. and continued residence aud cultivation 10 this
time.
Mr.. Walker had no objection 10 defining
rately the habilatIon and cUv,on Urt Ire hoped the
gentleman would not conlne Ire cultivation 10 corn,
that would exclude great many merorious cura,ors
who did not grow that article
Mr. Cri,,rnden said lie had named particularly
because the bill protesting TO provide for the poor man.
who cultivated the sii for The support Of his family
this kind of grain would embrace the cultivation Of all
persons Of that class The very 5rst thing poor
naturally did, If lie nlendeda bona itie settlement was,
after building his cabin 10 plant for The support Of
his family. This seemed consistent with the natural
course Of conduc. Of bona ide setter in
trv in the first laws passed 81 the Legislature Of
Virginia for the benefit of that class of persons the pre-
viors planting and cultivation of corn was made an in.
disprnsabe rrqu!sition TO obtain t- to the land.
MIR. Walker conlendrd that /, would be invitious 10
require that all the Staes Of the Union the cultiva
ton suited 10 Virginia should be the indispensable pre-.
requisite to the acquiring right 10 preenp,Ion lie
Lt,np thr llrtuan would
Of t!- Amendment Let hun GO (Sad Mr.. W. 10 The
banks Of the Mississippi, and he will find hundreds OF
srers sho plant COTTON the very ETst year, and buy
all their from the constituents o.! the gentleman
In Louisiana Arkansas ard Mississippi, the settler will
plant his and thirty VI cotton and not
Que gram oi corr; and why: Because In some years
bore such prices that IL was considered most ucra-
tive crow nothing else He submitted To the gentle
man from Kentucky whether il would not be most tor
the interest of his Lease the matter Of
cultivation the s-tt!er himself, and let him, if he
finds il to his interest, buy his
Mr. Clay Of Alabama suggested 10 the Senator from
Kentucky, who he doubt had oH!y in view .he de-
fning strictly actual settlement and cultivation,
To- nudity his Amendment by striking out " ras
nr the Of the cultivation be determined By the
land Office. As the Senator from, Mississippi had re-
marked it would be extremely hard to cnnfne the cult
many cultivators bought all they used
though he (Mr c. regardedt VERY ,njndcous way
of .armng and that DOUBT resulted very much 10
the advantage Of the constituents Of the gentleman from
Kentucky. there were times when every bushe Of
corn carried down the Mississippi waelh from dol
lar 20 dollar and sixty five cents per bushel.
Ar Crltenden then modified his anendinent By add
ing ''wheat and cation.
Mr.. ki'g intended 10 have voted for the amendment
of the Senator from Kentucky without going further
The general Of corn included whrrt and all other
small grain as much as did Indian corn and he
perfectly satisfied with this designation of The degree OF
cultivation required He knew of no iEstnnce himself
where ponr made settlement! that he did not
plant Indian the first year. Mir 4. believed that
Dten
individuals obtaining their pre- emptons "!thon, suil
cient cultivation, and that they ought IN The present
cue IL define tie degree Of requisite cu2aon 50 clear
~ az to admit OF no doubt. His object was, in good
faith to give to men vino settled lie pebble domain
their homes, an! their Little Improvements. TO enable
them Ia supper, their families, and further than that he
was wiling to 90 lie was not wl!iiag by any loose
indefinite phTaseoogy to enable eranns 10 90 through
the country and take Up the best lands under pre- emp
ton Tor purpose of selling 10 others al proht lis
object was besei! the honest, industrious settler and
cuvaor only, and he wished II 10 Se soc.ra1y express
ed IN the bill
Mr. Walker said il MI IN, be true that corn raised
in Alabama but he hoped they would not Oh That ac-
count seek to deprive settlers in oler States from ra's-
ing such crops they conceived E.nst Advantageous
Il. was well that, high up the streams IN that
State where gentlemen lived, they wee obliged to raise
corn because they could not purchase 1t from The sur
rounding county But he had Known repeated Instan'
Co.'S in Mississippi where settlers had planted cotton The
first wear and purchased their Etcaase the course
pursued in Alabama varied froGi that Of Mississippi,
would it be right compel her settlers to adopt 1t: II
the endmen; prevailed. it "orid e7cade so large
portion ct settlers IN his STATE Is woGie cotoPei "'a "
vote against the bill
Mr. Clay of Kentucky observed, that he now learned
with regret, that many parts OF Mississippi ;hey did
not raise Now he would advise them TO DO 1t at
nncc for of all the blessings which Providence had con-
f.rred upon man. he looked upon this as the greatest
But the great Of his friend and colleague in limit
ing the cultivation 10 was the facility OF It's culture,
and the abundance OF It's yield, in the new and fertile
Il = t,a NAL
for poor man 10 begin wi,. THIS reminded him Of a
glowing account given by old friend OF his OF OF
The great grain counties Of Kentucky HIS Trend des'
crbed the land producing twenty barrels OF corn 10
the acre, m planting and cultivation together 1t plant
cd only without poughIng he said would produce len;
but lift neither planted nns Puughed II would yi-da
very tolerabe crop of FIVE barrels to the This,
however was no fiction for ne had seen with his own
eyes as good crop Of corn growing in hello where
there had neither Panting nor P|oaghlng as was
10 be found in grea, number of the corn-ids on both
sides of the Potomac. te maal explain, Nls &. said,
how this happened or ineur the imPu,aon OF bayng
told what was incredible The was growing IN an
enclosed field where cattle had been fed and sprung up
from the grain wasted By them afeedng Win respect
TO the mode Of cultivation. TO b. provided Tor N tae BILL
he did not approve of limiting ii To e"rn BE thought
the cultivation ough, 10 nclats small grain, as we'll as
cotton and sugar cane.
Mr., LYON suggested the addition Of potatoes.
len, veretabe and very much relied on in Michigan
MIR Benton said he opposed TO the amendments
PROPOSED BY the Senator f-0u kentucky. .Mr Crtten-
den and should notice them before he sat down lis
frs object was Teel the mputa,ioD OF tEaud which
had been so indus,ously avssed on Western settlers
tir denied out and ort. the Iisce OF :hi3 SpGatfon
- 40 duIed ont and ont the truth OF these STALE "a.
brica,ions generally invented by s2ec,ai1s and worn
lhreadbarr forty years ago. TIE story OF the eainP
seed-ot corn in spring o water for The sPt'aS OF The
year-of johnny Black ans Billy Black, thsaning ne
1roes-with all The res; Of such stories with which the
Senate had been entertained ctmer occasions were
all inventions To prejudice tie settlers os the rev coon-
tries lie knew those s"lt!ers we'll RE went among
them in Tennessee forty years ago and had bren
among them all over the West, from that time to the
nresent. He knew Them well. There YES nol, upon
The face of the esth better population They were the