The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-19

usi as your minimum valuations in your tariff laws,
70 ms; That the emigrants 10 the far west fol-
low IN stream those that first srriye in a new
country settle down and purchase the better lands
nose mat come after, go stl farther refusing even
20 examine the rejected land They have now
crossed the Allegheny mountains; they have crossed
Ihe mississippi rser and TO get a new home on
iresh aud uneulled lands they are vending their
way across the Rocky mountains, and locating
upon the Pacific Ocean. This stream you cannot
arrest, IL will go on. Will you attempt 10 dam il
up and thus spread out our people prematurely
over the whole continent Will you dnve the poor
nan, with small means, beyond the country where
NC nhus the church erected--the school-house open
the roads made and the health lried--beeause you
Slsh % wiring from his hard earnings the largest
Poss.o'e amount that his necessities may compel
hlm TO give for your landSl | ask nv friend from
North Carolina, MIR. BARKnsGEH,l whom now
nave Ia my eye, does he far forget his own
people, that when they leave the good old North
ota'e and ~end their way westward, he would ex-
tori rom The sweat Of their face any hard terms for
lMr. B. said, No son of North Carolina asked for
this reduction
Mr.. I. said; ], a son Of North Carolina, who
would glory in her advancement and prosperity,
consider that having and felt the exact position
OF sueh emsrants, do say that justice demands the
MIR. yMroS, of Ohio, said il was for the specuIa-
tor, not for the seuler.l
Mr.. L. again resumed Go before a crowd Of
these people in any OF the new States and PROFOUND
the question 10 those who are familiar with the
~orSinS OF your land system, in whose behalf
would reduction IN the price Of public lands ope-
rate, and am confident the unanimous and prompt
instructive reply would be- in the settler, and that
Il would even there be opposed by the spectators.
The representative Of the capitalists who own large
Haets OF unsettled country, may with propriety OPP
pose this reduction, because il eancipales the poor
man from his dependence on them. And one OF the
arguments relied upon in this debate by the gentle
man from Vermont Mr.. CoLLAaER,1 In opposition
TO this measure, 10, that It will have a tendency TO
reduce and Keep down the price Of lands. To this
effect will not object, because, as you cheaper
lands you increase the number OF free-holds 10 the
conntryi and as you increase the number Of free
holds, you elevate the masses. How is Il that our
common people are so far superior TO the common
people Of any other country II is in furnishing them
cheap homes, where they learn their rights, and
know the value OF their liberties; where they prac-
tee virtue and Independence in thought and action;
where they may have their homes humble though
they be, IN which they know how to show hospital
ity and dispense kindness. This is dwelling sys-
ten, indeed, but system which levels upwards, by
eeyaung the poor and dependent to all the blessings
and dignity Of freemen-a dwelling system dear to
every patriot, and especially be desired by every
true.heared democrat.
One word more, and, as discover that my hour
10 nearly run, will close Our people will settle on
N'o 'oHur ahu " - ihpossioc, inueed u 10 ifnpoll-
tie, 10 endeayor TO prevent IT, but being unable, or
un'oiing IT they were able, to purchase these lands
at the prices at which they held they erect tenn
Porary dwellings, and content themselves with small
and inferior Improvements, to avoid offering any
temptation To the Spectator to buy their homes from
over them. Thus your policy keeps up rowing,
unsteady population in all the new States who
never feel settled, and who are ever ready to strike
their tents aad begin the world anew. This policy
produces dissatisfaction and obstructs the advance
ment ofsociety; and it appears TO me most unreal
sonable and unwise longer to perpetuateit.