Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1841-01-16
PER MANENr PROSPECTIVE
PREEMPTION LAW.

| senate was last IN session, uFs Denlon
rose to ask leave to bring in bill for the
establishment Of permanent prospective
presumption law in favor Of settlers of pub.
lie lands, and prefaced his motion for the
leave he was about to ask, with seme re.
marks upon the character Of the bill he
proposed to introduce, the appropriateness
Of the present time for bringing il forward,
the general utility Of the pre- emption sys-
TEN, and The public expectation 10 see II
permanently established.
He said that the pre.emplion laws here
tofor. passed were temporary in their dura-
lion, and retrospective in their operation;
they we're only made to include settlers up
tothe limited day, aud to remalf IN force.
for limited period. The latest act Of his
kind was passed on the 30Ih day of June
last, and only included the settlers to that
day. The subsequent settlers received no
benefit from that act. They we're now
without protection from law; and il was
unjust and unequal to make any disiinc.
ton between the settlers before and since
that day. All we're equally entitled to
legislative protection, so would be all flu
ture settlers, and instead Of extending this
protection from time to time by temporary
and limited laws, il was just and proper TO
provide for all cases ut once the future as
well as the existing cases, by establishing
permanent prospective pre-emptlon svs-
TEN, to operate regularly and uniformly in
all times TO come.
This said Mr.. B. has always been the
object Of the friends Of The pre-emption
laws; they always looked TO a permanent
system; md considered the temporary acts
which were past Us merely stepping stones
and entering wedges TO the main Object.
This has constantly BEEN expressed, and
sometimes attempted; and the suspicious
moment for successful effort, so long desir-
ed, seems now TO have arrived. All parties
are now in favor ofthe policy which leads
to the permanent pre.empive system; the
summer Of 1910, and the Presidential can
vass which has just terminated, has pro-
duced, or developed, unanimiry Of sen,i.
ment on this desirable point. The actual
President (Mr. Van Buren) has long been
in favor Of this policy, and has so expressed
himself in repeated messages 10 Congress.
The President elect (Gen. Harrison) is
represented TO be favorable to it also, and
, has had the benefit of that representation
in The late Presidential canvass; the de-
mocracy are the known advocates of pre-
emptions, and fought them up, in many
hard contested actions, 10 victory and pop
ularty. The iederalists, long their enemy,
have now seen the error Of their ways, and
have become the foremost supporters of the
policy they had opposed. The poor man,
and his synonyme, the log-cahin, have be.
come the absorbing objects, and the burn
ing themes Of their love and eloquence.
They celebrate them in all forms, and
wear the sign Of the cabin in every article
ofth ir dress and furniture. Now the cabin
poor man, and the presumption 90 together;
and he that loves one, must love the other.
The triple affections 90 together; and in
these affections the Federalists of 1910
have shown themselves TO be most deeply
immersed. The gentlemen Of this party
have betaken themselves to the love Of log.
cabins, and all their paraphernalia, with
the fury and incontinence Of sudden and
romantic affection. They build them with
their own hands and dedicate them-they
sing, dance and speak in them.-tley at.
tend them day and night, they decorate
them with appropriate trapping, with
gourds coon skins, buck horns, beaver
traps, and whatever else denotes the real
cabin Of the poor man, and the pre.emp-
tloner--They devote themselves 10 these
rude edlices with zeal unknown 10 the
degeneracy Of modern times. Like Pig
malion, they become madly enamoured Of
the work Of their own hands, and deliver
up their lives to the enjoyment Of its con.
temptation.
Mr.. b. said it would be nexcus,ble in
the friends Of The presumption system no,
10 take advantage of this favorable CON
junction Of parties and circumstances. 10
press the interests Of The real inhabitants Of
the log cabins the frontier men of the new
States and Terrilories-whose enterprise
lays open the wilderness, whose COURAGE
protects the infant settlements, and whose
labor reflects value upon the national do
main. This the man whose toll demands
our protection. He builds a cabin, no, in
the city, but in the woods: not with music
and feasting, and crowded help, but solitary
and alone, and with privation Of every thing
which, could give Joy to the task. lie nro
ceeds upon hope!--upon the hope that the
rude tenement which he builds may be his
own! That the secluded spot which he
has selected may become his! That no
hearIless speculator may come 10 rob him
OF BOTH IN word he homes ,hat ~ n.a