New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-07-16
,tsr ths Rr,t ys,r At b. mercy Of vhOeyer chOo.ss

after the nrst year at the mercy OF whoever chooses
10 lump bis claim and enter the land. The Land
Ofhcers have no legal discretiOD--h the specie IS
rendered for any lands no. already purchased and
for which an unexpired claim Of Presumption "a
no. on record they must take the money and issue
the requisite papers. At this moment, lands rcoiy
worth Five Millions Of Dollars might be taken out
from under their holders and improvers for One NIL
lion and nobody could prevent IT, The only cneok
upon this is that afforded by the unanimous and de-
cided Public Opinion Of the non specializing settlers
which il is notorious they will enforce by the strong
arm n need be- He who enters tract on when
another has settled and made improvements, l1n-
less the settler happens 70 be one whom the commu
nifty greatly desires 10 be nd of buys it with the
certainty that be or bis can peaceably ENJOY
il and that bis life will hardly be safe upon it. Al
that is charged against the Anti Renters oil tnree
or four Counties Of our State is substantially para
leled throughout the West and In TACT over tne
whole Public Domain. There are legal r1gn's WHICH
no man can enforce but at the certain peru OF DIS
property aud peace and probably OF his HE Also
Twenty wears railing and denunciation have not
bettered this hair and forty years more II tred
will prove Just as effectusl The simple, sole oo-
vious remedy for this deplorable and most PERM
cious oppugnsncy between Legal Right and frac'
tical Right will be found in Withdrawing the fuD
lie Lands forever from the vortex Of Speculation
and allowing them 70 be acquired only by actual
set,ls,s and in limited quantities. How long must
this most desirable contamination be waited for
The ni.chiefs already entsiled on the Industry
and Business Of this Country by Land Speculation
are incalcusble Only those who have seen much,
reflected much have any foil idea Of them. Wherev-
er upon natural hsrbor, bay, head OF nayi-
cation, or a waterfall village begins or promises
10 spring up, there the Spectator or his agent Is
early on hand and pounces on all the unoccupied
land within a circuit Of mile or two THIS he
holds back for price treble TO sixtyiold that be
paid for IT, perfectly sure that he must get by
waiting long enoueh-thst the only question Is one
Of time Meantime his tract is blight and can
Ger. giving employment TO no labor, contributing
notbipg 10 the erection of School houses or Church
90 or the encouragement of Mechanics or Artisans
am ins1rng the continuance OF wretcbed' stumPy'
miry Roads all around the rising village tor 1t Is
almost impossible to make good roads through the
primitive forest. II is a perpetual facility and
temptation to trespssses in the taking oil oil TIM
Der. which often serves as a school for Their and
crime generally Generally the Spectator makes
something though not always for taxes and IN
terest during a series Of years may devour all his
profits but in any case the injury inflicted on the
community is very great Both Sheboygan and
Sheboygan Falls appear TO be cursed with such
belt of reserved land, but the former suffers more
palpably. The road westward is hedged IN Tor
some two miles with fallen and decaying timber
comminged with bushes, briars and some trees
presenting most shiitless and sorry spectacle.
hope it will not long be perpetuated.
- have left myself little room 10 speak OF MIL
wAuKEE, but this can hardly be regretted. She
speaks for herself and is already too well known
10 need description. | hardly know another place
which combines so happily the advantages OF a
Harbor on the great line Of travel and Transports
ton between the West and the East, with rich
and rapidly growing back country and an extensive
Water power in her very midst brought hther
from a dam a mile above at a moderate expense
A magnificent new FIGURING Mill is Just going into
operation here embodying all the latest improve
ments and its machinery was all cast at the ex
Manufactures are working in here Pail Factory
which | visited has habit of turning out pals as
though they were but blocks or button -moulds-
Few who read young that they cannot re-
member the time when the site of Milwaukee was
a wilderness, not yet surveyed TO be sold at ten
shiings per acre and now 1t may boast its long
and busy streets, its blocks oil spacious and crowd
ed stores its dozen churches its two daily newsps.
pers its sixty lawyers ah me and its ten or twelve
thousand inhabitants Ten years hence it will prob
ably have fifty thousand should no unforeseen in
nuence interfere with its growth and prosperity
- | hear with great pleasure that the German
Immigrants who compose so large portion of the
inhabitants OF Wisconsin, are universally esteemed
most valuable citizens-industrious temperate hon
est. frugal intelligent and public-spirited. There
are of course exceptions, as there would be among
any other people, but the Germans as body have
won noble character here, which they will doubt
less maintain and extend. Probably they are not
less than Fifty Thousand, in number in this Terri.
tory, and scarcely a steamboat heads Southwark
from Macknac without adding 10 their number
Who does not feel that the true manifest destiny
OF our Country is 10 he achieved, not by extending
her dominion by the sword over distracted and hos
tile nations but by profiering and aiiordng an asy-
lum and resting place to the victims OF Oppres'
sion the devotees of Freedom, from every country
and cline. until all the Races of Men, drawn by
ties of consanguinity and sympathy to study our
history and watch progress shall be led to dis
solve peacefully aud irresistby the bonds which
now fetter them, and mould their institutions into
4
ours Won; d not one such Transformation excel in
real glory the eclst OF reveling as conquerors in
ever so many halls like those OF the Montezumasl
n. g.
Nav HAMPSHIRE. Boston atlas OF yester
day gives full returns from the lid District Of this
State. They give JAMES w iLsoS majority oi440.
The following is the vote of the canvass in March
last, and at the present time
Juk Marci.
Wnson... 5q39 6753
MoultOn. ........49 1879 1921
Preston.... ..... SIS 1910
Scattering b-5IqQ ll-92c