Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1841-05-19
From the New York Evening Post.
THE SOuATTERS.

We see pretty frequently IN our party ptllps
exnressions of scorn concernngthe squatters
of the western country, and attempts to scout
the notion of passing general pre- emptloh
| law for their benefit. We know well what class
| ofpersons are designated by this title, Tor we
| have seen them amid the broad pralres, wheie
they raise their harvests, and beside the noOie
/ woods where they hunt their game ana We
have shared the hospitality OF their caoiIs.-
They are our old friends and neIghoors, men
who have emgrated from the Atanuc otdtes'
men who ale perhaps little more adventurous
and restless, but quite as moral ana iiteAl gel1
as those they have left behind nay Il we lahe
o into estimate the inhabitants oil the iaiSei
: towns, more moral and nteligent. " nav :
. known among these sqnatteFs some Oh me nesl
nl.o's = with. no man who has once
:, ,s;ted he West, scruples, if his convenience
: aLa1,l5 lead him. to seat himself upon the unoc
= o,',,;ed territory belonging to Governnenhtii
ID of which is not yet permitted. here !, u
~ b,,ds his log cabin, in the edge OF grove sP'
!" trees into rails, fences IN portion OF ID
~ ,,,;de and rich prairie, turns up the " 30
- ''.l;oh u;elds hundred fold for the SEEDS whC
oasie mon it.and pastures his herd upon u
&c vast. unenclosed fowery champaign before =
or d',,ollng. One emigrant arrives alter anot
- ~ and In this way neighborhoods are loFllt
- ar,s,,,,pities of honest, kind and generous y
10 %, 10 ,sith their schools and places OF WoIsn
10 bbofore sinqle inch is offered for SALE ~
a. &c universal and well understood custom Oh
~ XVect-not custom of yesterday. put o. d =
t,r,,,o Growth a custom which dates Ddoh
my 10 time when the first hunter raised MS co
a., ~, ~ o rich natural meadows OF hentucky:
tn0 custom which the Government ltseh
ue = we NAV use still stronger tern
aH AZ = :. custom winch the Government mas
a aeua oo@nised and sanctioned, by passing rom
eGro - anne pre-emption laws, giving the Sc
n,,s t5e FIRST right to purchase the soA ne Ia
, few cupled. ,.onant with ma
eyes al;4,. The CABIN of the settler Is tIle
lulen, ~ Us o,yn hands; and he has made inc ?
emu .inab1e by surrounding It WITH I'LL, lehees
: y - hroaI.ino uD the green sward. Inc he'g
eo'- taaJs formed by squatters give a Vaiue
,,I,oOccI t, lands around them,whleh lley
e very nt o,borwise have. The SPECTATOR an
CURES. ,,oS conner both reap the beneit o. .
nd eX- nant already formed, instead OF pure
yes as those lands in the midst OF wilderness
nervous inst that they who founded the colon.e.
eiaited' which the lands derive then suusee
over sbonld be compensated IL some way " =
ne en- for tte hardships and inconvenience LIE
! S ttsoo undergone. ou,,+;on L
ID three IF local and temporary pre-enpllon !.
were met n principle, them IS also geneI
:, their J e-ont;on law. What is right ID onecase
= t t,lU in all. ;nterest. IN III
walked for We know not whornay dle IN u slie !,
ing galy If the present year and we know S, noe
ear nee a % nv 10 the west Men will golron
y great NV and the Bowery, from peafl s1l
our land f Cq street, from the villages az
lgg-dress, el l, fine Sound and the hudson, Wng
me brac- . are now lutte thinking of such an az
nat 1t was sIbav viii fad tbs best OF the Janus WI
married. hem a brought into market already m !.
as tucks' II sneculalors, and they VIII pc con, p,
hard 9eek for desirable situations N - sns
hes, man se 5;c have not yet been offered Tor
'akes her ourselves are now penning an a s
road con- Evening Post, but in two years lloln
land IN ,ge NAV be wingng wood pigeon On !.
r class of W. ft ,d iowa or the harton, where IA
king than never YER vet conveyed by the oTmalsy
smarkably and and sealing. and the only ute wa.e
lays they sIer has to Show, IS the marks scor S
lveveteen ave ave on the trees Of the toresl' anu a
at turnout be- has set in the tall grass Of tne pra
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