Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1848-04-27


glad of it, and hope that the will result
something for the benefit Of landless
population who lettering in our cities and large
towns, willing to work, but unable to find employ
ment, and often hungry for want Of money to buy
bread. We have long cuntended for the sale of tie
public lands in small quantities. to actual settlers on
ly and have said that for their benefit the rich specu
lators of The cities should not be permitted monOpo
lie land at governmental prices and force the poor
and industrious settler to pay an enormous advance.
We now go farther, and say that, the nation would
do better by giving these lands actual settlers than
by leaving numerous bodies Of men idle, and large
tracts of land uncuivated.
Let us consider the case in practical lights.
million of of wilderness belong the nation in
Iowa. OF course it produces no food for ''man or
horse" and no revenue to the treasury In the
of ten years, it may be sold actual Settlers and be
placed under cultivation afording, during the ten
years, aggregate Of produce equal TO three crops
from the whole. Divided into quarter sections it will
contain $3.50 farms, for $3.50 families of four persons
or 2o,OOO sous and the aggregate of occupation du
ring the ten years, will be three years of occupation
by $4,000 souls. Hence the amount of capital furn-
shed to the nation, is that produced by the labor of
$3.50 families during three years. and the amount Of
revenue furnished to the treasury, the duties upon i'm
ported merchandise consumed in three years, by
10000 SOULS Instead of this, let us suppose the
whole million bought at once by company of four
or five spectators, and the whole settlement equal to
one years occupation by $4,000 souls. Which is
the best for the nation and the treasury In the first
case, the nation gains, at the end of ten years, the
price of the land, three entire crops and duties
three years of consumption by $4,000 souls. In the
second case, 1t gains the price of the land only one
entire CROP and duties on one year of consumption,
the ability of the settlers being diminished
by the advance the land demanded by the specua-
tors. Between these two caseses the nation has
advantage in selling TO the actual settlers, and not to
the spectators.
We will now suppose another case. The govern
ment gives away the land actual settlers and thus
Immediately obtains $3.50 such settlers, with their
families. At the end of ten years, they will have
produced nine full crops, and have consumed merchan
disc subject TO duty during ten years, their consump-
ton augmented by their ability to consume, furnished
by their production. Then they will be transferred
from precarous employment and its occasional privu
tions, to constant, productive employment and its
comforts. Some of them will be saved from intern
perance, the refuge Of poverty and despair and per-
haps from crime, produced by the dire alterna
tive of crime or starvation and the community will
not only the expense of supporting the paupers
and furnishing the criminals, but will receive large
addition to Its capital in the produce of the land.
Which then is best The sale TO spectators, the
sale to actual settlers purchasing, the giving
away to actual settlers!
We will suppose another case. By selling to actu-
al settlers, the government sells FIVE millions of acres
at the end of ten years. By giving away to actual
settlers it places FIVE millions of acres under the axe
and the plough in year. In the first case, many
who would Immediately become actual settlers under
the donation, do not become till the end of five,
six, seven, eight, nine years, and in the mean time,
produce little and suffer much. In the second case
many who are are Immediately transformed into pro-
ductve cultvators would have wasted years in idle
ness in pyvation, or in ill-psid labor for money to
buy the land, or would have died of want, or been
driven to crime for bread Our cities and large towns
contain thousands who would gladly go upon the land
if they had means to buy 1t, and who amid the COM
petition Of cities and large towns, will never accu.
mulate such means In the mean time, the land af
fords nothing their labor affords little the common
stock, and that stock is taxed to support them. A
good farm for nothing would poor man from
the almhouse; and the community gets productive
farm instead of wilderness andra profitable labor
er instead Of expensive pauper.-Pa. Ledger.
OF We of the West should approve of the meas
ure above indicated, only because of its genera
utility but also of its probable local benefit to our
selves. The our population increases the less
shall feel the burdens of taxation for the ordinary
support of government, and for the payment of inter
est State Indebtedness. Enlightened selfshnes
therefore should induce every Western man to favo
the generous policy of the freedom Of the public lands
Boris ON TAYLoRIsM.-We copy below an extrac
from the famous circular of the famous John NJ
Bolts. 1t is an interesting document; we regre, tina
we cannot give it full to readers. 1t is a mos
admirable lament over the fallen condition Of whig
gerry.
THAT there is a design on the part of many (cer
tainly not alp of Gen. Taylor's supporters, and pro
minent supporters, too, to break up the whg part
and its organization, is too apparent to escape detec
ton:
1--WE know that among his supporters to b
| found members of tie wing party, who ever hay
shared the confidence of the wings, and not les
entitled to do SO now than heretofore but we exer
else more than common and undeniable right
when say think they have been deceived ant
are in error. Their opinions entitled, perhaps, t
more weight than own, and, therefore, we hav
chosen TO give General Taylors opinions politica
subjects IN his own language, that the people, tn
masses of the party, may Judge for themselves. Be
eving, as we do, we should be traitors to the part
not to tell what we think or to postpone it until
might be too late. We believe the wing party O
Virginia has been swallowed up by the conservative
party, las is best known those familiar with tn
secret history of the convention,) and insist tina
it must be dlsgorged or the whig party in Virginia
lost forever. Is the old wing party to be sustained
broken up! Look at the speech of the Hon. William
Cost Johnson, one of Gen. Taylors warmest friends
at the New York Taylor meeting. He said al my
self whig, and believe General Taylor is
wing also, BUT NOT A WING UPON THE OIL
PLATFORM OF WHIGISM; though | have tough
for those principles till had every button whippe
off; and | have become wise enough to drop them
When first started | went for every question upo
the old platform of whigism" After speaking of al
the old issues, he says: 1--WE must get rid of thes
by taking men, fresh men, who have not the odum
all these questions upon them, who can can bold
come out from them and declare that these question
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