Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1840-02-29
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
THE PU UBLIC l. "A n DIS.

Ill Il u ID LIZ LA ~ I'D.
We think there is an argument in the following
l,icIe from the National Intelgencer that appeals
directly to the common sense as II does to the
;ecset of every Pennsylxassfan
The people of the state can here see what they
have absolutely lost by fhe Unjust policy OF the
national administration. Dauphln county, accord
ing to the census of 1890, has host one hundred ard
zine thousand dadFS, that was hers IN justice, as
being one ofthe counties of Pennsylvania. Berks
has ioss upwaxds of two hladred tAegsaad deilars:
Philadelphia upwards of four handred thouSuna
dollars and other counties in proportion. ;Ne do
not saw that the land bill of Mr. Clay would hare
thrown these immense sums Directly INTO the
county treasures !: but if the state had received
them, the necessity of taIdiiqn to that amount
would have been AVOIDED, so that the, loss,
if not direct has been INDIRECT, and anrounts to
positive loss.
Now. in all soberness, We ask any man, we care
not Of what party if this Tlght if tits usta These
publn lands are as much the prererty OF the peo-
plesof Pennsylvania of any other state IN. the
Unions she furnished brave troops to defend them
in the revolutionary and late wars; and for the
purchase of those of them that were obtained IN
that way, she furnished her regular quota. Yet
the Van Bitten Bariy Sb Congress H0,c propose %
eire4ardg lie 9ust pabiic doR1aan of one taoagld
10 the Sdtes.t sUioh they he what
right has Congress thus to rob the states without
their consent None at at all. Every state inthe
UnlOn-and especially every OlQ Sldle-LldS "a vs.
ed right in the public domain of which she cannot
be 'depfived against her VIII except by paPable
outrage on i,isti6e and her1ghts and IN the name
oftle people Of f-Pennsylvana,l weproteSt against
the nassaCe ofthe bin that is TO take from her and
sqnander her property, We know that the mea-
sure is~a favorte. one with President an Buren,
because he wishes by it to purchase the votes OF
the states which viii receive the boohf but we
warn the representatives from Pennsylvania IN
Congress to- 6errdrei how they ACT on .his question
If tlet have the ardihood 10 betray the interests
oftheir constituents, they will IND the people a
wake 10 the question, which is not merely propo-
stion OF abstract right but one OF direct pecunlary
interest. T
We shall recur TO this subject again, and request
our readers to preserve the following remarks and
table, as a useful matter of reference
From the National ln,eIGgsncer.
TO THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Yeu all know, or ought to know, that among the
the blessings conferred upon you by the late aa-
ninistraiion of the General Government I'm the
footsteps of which the present administration Is
fof6Ning) was the arbitrary rejection, by the Pre-
sident of bill which had passed both Houses OF
Congress by large majorljes, for making dlstrl-
button among the several states of the proceeds Of
the sales OF the Public Lands, which are equally
the property OF all The states composing the Union.
In this measure the legislature Of your state has
the principle of the measure or the benefits which
il holds out are considered it is in which your
interest is now greater than ever, as well from the
attempt which is now making IN Congress to Sire
alcay those lands, as now from the situation in
which your state finds itself regard to It's inter
nal improvement debt. :
Your attention is now earnestly invited to the
following facts. showing what would have been the
effect of Mr. Clay's Land Bill, if the President had
not. instead of returninf it with his objections '
10 Congress, ,by whom il would have been passed moi
his objections put 1t into his pock-
ct. and thus prevented il from becoming law. I
Bv Report from the Treasury Department, IN r
pursuance of call from Congress al the last ses-
sion it appears that if Mr.. Clays bill had become
a law, it would have placed atthe disposal OF the
state of PENNSYLVANIA within the SIX years ending
Ist October, 1888, the gross sum of five millions
seven hundred and fity-four thousand SIX hundred
and ninety-seyen dollars, or, on an average, the
sum Of nine hundred and fifty-nine thousand one /,
hundred and sixteen dollars per year; sum which
would have paid the interest at FIVE per cent? OF
more than nineteen millions of your public debt.
To bring the matter more directly home to you,
individually we have prepared the following state
ment, showing that, if the gross sum for the SIX
wears had been paid into your state Treasury, II
would have profted each county in the state tta- S
king the census for 1890, for guide) TO the a. r
mount annexed to the name Of each county IN the :
following table, and each county in the state has
lost that amount by the failure OF the bill to become
a law.
TABLE showing the amount which each county 1
of the state Of Pennsylvania would have recelV- 7
ed from 1882, from which period Mr.. Clay s Land
Bill was to have taken effect, up to l637-six
Allegheny S2Is,l5O Armstrong $75,6oO t
Somerset G6,l50 Luzerne 7ll7y 300 !,
Mexican 6.ISO Indiana 81 ,Q00t