New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-21
yROM WASHINGTON.
Wednesday, Preeeedinss In the House-Bsun-
~ Lands 10 soidirrs-Land Reform, &c.

~ Lands 10 soldirrs-Land Reform, &c.
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- WASHINGTON Wednesday P. NJ. June1e
Wei, the Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation
Bin has found an ezodns from its Imprisonment in
~tbe Bsyly" At last. 1t will not be printed very
promptly, Asving gone into the hands Of the copy.
int When get hold Of it, if there is anything in
il worthy Of particular notice. will abstract il for
you.
81 To-day, as yesterday. has passed without touch
ing California. The House went into Committee
soon after coming together but took up Alabama
CoBBs bill providing for grants Of land to soldiers
OF the war sgainst the wronged aborignees, wage
. bv Mad AsTHosY WAYFE the war against ursH'
Britain in 1912, and the ProSisvery Fio1ld. a
in other words, ali the lighters VINO nave mo-
been provided for already. Inc OH was So".
cred bv ia friends imperfect, and hence MI AL
BxRTsos OF Indiana proposed an amenomen' III
elndins the fficers as vel the soldiers, ana al
teripg The details in other particulars McDoS-
AID Of the same State also took nand al auaeno'
ing. ,.I.,. a., ,-or ,.;u sso bv The
telerrspbic report, sprung uP. IL vas encouraging
"a well as curious, 70 bear such men as BlsSELL oil
Illinois and even Mr.. EwIsG of Tennessee, tax
as they Did. Their sentiments without the words
"spiled their blood" brave soldiers gallant
yolupteer, "defence Of our national honor, and
the ike patriotic" phrases, would, in the man,
have made up quite good national reform speeches
Bot they cannot see merit IN the man Inc ePsu'
lettes and the sword, the musket and the oayoneI,
are necessary TO fash the truth upon their mtnos!
They seen 70 think that a settler must have SHOWN
HI. ability and taste for "conqueriDg an Indian or
n Mexican" or O Britain at least, before being al
ID low ed to conquer the Wilderness
Now confess that am opposed to these land
grants on the grounds proposed IN this bill would
Siye the lands 70 all without regard 10 their cassl-
6cation. | would not exclude the soldier; should
be clad 70 see him turn his sword into plow share
ana his bay onet into sickle, bile using hls mus
ket to keep of the crows, and become cutystor
CT the arts OF peace would reloice to see hin
enlist under the spotess banner of Ceres instead OF
the bloody banner Of Mars, and have the slain Of
bis conquest be-nO. bleeding corses OF those VINO,
In The language Of Carlyle have done bim no harm,
busy as the Devil is-but Eheayes OF well hAed
grsn-the armies, indeed, whca be commands
F., wenfsttened herds cropping from plains NOT ma
nured by hun an gore, bat exhaastiess Ia theE Ia
tive fertility.
BE Beside do not Ike 10 encourage the bear sPHIt
. by sny such distinction Of persons But alas our
pnklc men but few of them, seem 70 comprehend
lat the question Of the proper disposition OF our
public domain does no. turn merely upon IpedHHcy
They have yet to learn that 10 the true sense, there
In no graft" about 1t after all The lands are the
g. peoples and they have been wronged by keeping
them from them, heretofore-tr0H their OsoR
IL is said that Mr.. WEBSTER intends to devote
n
his movement through the Senate-that IS, alter
the lions share Of the territories shall have
given to the oppressors of the poorest OF the land
less poor, by the aid Of his vote; and in the mean
. time, it is hoped that Mr. MOORE Of Pa. (who, by
the by sid some good things on this bill, and Mr.
JoBSses Of Tennessee, and Mr. CABLE OF Ohio
and al others having the same purpose in view
will unite the forces Of their sepsrste bills and
their movements, so as to give l. aud Reform fair
. chance-ifihat be possibility amid so much mere
"talk" about chattel slavery.
But should no bill at all pass, the discussions OF
the present session, in both branches Of the Ma.
tiolal Legislature, will not be lost The day will
q. vet come, when the truths of this Reform shall
have free course and be glor6ed. The progress
WILL perhaps, be slow, but it will be sure. The
first advancement will be to the slow grounds Of
ezpedieney, where, curiousy enough, Andrew
jackson stood as early as 1923, as his message of
that year shows, but where his disciples have not
"a yet dared to follow as psrty-the next to the
4 summit hight Of Right-tbe godgiven Right to
that "lfe" from the soil, in the Withholding of
which we have so long fasifed the spirit of tue
% Declaration Of Independence. This is a hope from
which / derive some consolation, as look for.
ward through the dim vista Of Time. SIGMA.