Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-05-12

the Old World TO the New, for the next half centu-
ry, is likely TO be very greatly increased But ~e
are quite willing it should increase and take the
ground that so far as it affects prosperity at ALL
pr 8 ,erity will he in proportion TO its increase
Pubc land as such is OF little value to the nation;
very little, indeed as compared with territory Of
equal extent, filled with an industrious and enter
prising population
The state of Ohio, for example contains some
thing less than 2S millions Of acres I his, in the
shape of public land in the course of twenty years,
might sell for IS millions of dollars: i. e making
no dedactions for appropriations ef school lands,
lands granted for public Improvements, and for 9TH
er purposes But the same number Of acres, occu-
pied by two millofs Of Industrious freemen, exhl-
bits in the yearly amount Of the products of its in
dustrY, four or five times as much as il all
worth, or as any eqpal territory is worth in the
shape OF public lands. In other words, one state
flied with an industrious poppaon is worth,
yearly. the purchase money OF FIVE new states in
the form of unoccupied pubic land. The state OF
New York IL the bands of its intelligent and hardy
3eoui1ur y i "ol'H "oe Juan al TUG WIZ Janus VI
both Americas would be, to any government, in
the shape of unoccuped Fudiic lands Wealth in
the hands OF a frugal. 1nterprizing people is many
times more rolube thar an equal amount OF wealth
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possessing ''s' ""'0 ''i' people "'7 "0'V - '0'H
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nan OF one e''" PCT cent o. '"e SANE WIG" 'nc9
see III 10 Pa'e yearly ID me "'SpoS'' Oh '"e' Puo"c
o'ncers' Ii wealth " our ooJec'' Il revenue DC our
o0e'" co''"e''ia' OF Po'''caI Importance among
INC i''1"''S "a 'Ho ei'I'Ae" "ol'u Oe ou' opJe''
""S"e"'i"S our 'es "''" 'i"'ls ou' 'o'"
''" "' ''o'''o 0e '"i oJe'' " any '"'7 "oi'"! %
cur ''s" anu s'oi'o"9 ''''''s u 'ne N'0s'
community OF moaerh i'iR1s oe cur oDj2e'' we
S'o'i0 employ se'aIeuS'E' al proper means '~'
occupying as specify as we can Tie ""oF o. ""I
""Rle"se PUBIC domain WIN nee l'''Slo" rep
"'d''oH' ne vast 'e'iIlS "h'cH we nave 'Sf''''"
ioTaihS room 10 INe ana prosper ana improve 20
SOME TWO OF IhfeS hliidtea 'u'iiiohs Oh I'c~"e''
'h'o'9" successive generations We '"'" .'''.
y wen" OF l'iI green e'I'h ln' '''S ''leI ~ -
so''' "e want '"'''' ''S''' '"''' '"e pa.
e-''"ns"'I'S q &c" >o"""e'''S - 'N'.t 10
''ic'"' can "'"P'5 !V0'" '"''" J''1 N''.' '.''
we might add cNPta''on bounty even. q Iiher''
o"u'''S' Ia'"eI 'l'n 10 " o''s "l'ho't '"e" &c"
WEN ia -'tf'-H' ara MOI acres, oaes' OF ooaFS
tonslHt@ Inc Wealth. '!@ sources OF Wealth the ak
'o'"P'e"F"o''S e'e'l'"' q o"' p0o'' "a" ""'toA'I
prosperity we oI'y ''oA out l'F '"e men, me
'o"uS cues ana s'a3',Ni" IooA cut lot 'heh!SeN eS
we give acres o. So", nhocc"p'eu so'' a30 get IN
return men, reasoning, planning taooHous men.
Men to take our almost eoundless Wilderness west
and southwest, and tam 1t pto Fertility and beauty
We give 1t away to have lis value increased twenty
old ana sun the territory WIN an us improve
mehtS It's immensely augmented Vaiue' ana us oc-