The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-10-05

settled eighty years ago Almost three generations AR
passed and now. At The end Of this time. every
before The tribunal Of The United States % prove the iile
isss ~soS Fraud s against @ asa
know WIEN vent % he he State y Missoas that Ii.
people q the country were saying ,hat they wei,
often begged to accept lands, and would moi. know
perfectly we'll that man with whom am well acquain
50 sad IN ny hearing that travelling in the United
States resident OF Virginia had induced him TO ask the
government to give him league square OF land He sen
back his friend, incedulous that he would take upon
himself the burden of taking care OF league Of ground
lie went back asked tor tho land and got it, He spoke
Of y IN triumph the land was 10 Missouri Sir, saw
that man iaint-i saw him reel-l caught him before be
fell % the groundon having presentation made to him
caught him, but did mol his life II was the com
menceinent ot an apopexy under which he died re-
Of %ss om oss ase pee y
them upon this foorno Of them in the other wing
of the CApolno one here but agents OF theirs, their
from among US, and have back to attend 10 them
What do you suppose will be the papauon OF the heart
OF tbs people OF that country when they know that Con-
applied 70 louisiana have recent letters from the people
oi bat country, who know nething about the feeling
Of despair ot hes-of desolalono codnsss s death
whcn wall enier the heart Of the people, believing
thai the government OF the Uned States gong
ragn all Their ies and put Them 10 lawsuits order 10
prove them. All people hate lawsuits unle-s il is those
who live BY lawsusj but we know that the population
whoa We acquired from Spain and France-we know
!hat The French population-hae lawsuits that the Span
ish population hate lawsuits They consider everything
10 jeopardy land may well consider everything in jeop
ardy-whenever il goes into law. What must be the
feelings Of The people here al this ne when they know
that the Congress oil the United States occupied with
the subject Of passing the whole Of their titles in
before he Judicial tribunals and according 10 principles
heretofore acted upon in BY virtue Of
which lands claimed Louisiana for six and forty years
yet unsettled Our courts-l do not know whether il
Is the case with our legislation or notbut know that
our courts are still occupied and believe that an act
pied ourselves or ory-sx years with the ascerainmen
Of the titles What becomes of cultivation during all
time, while mans home is held up law. subject 10 the
decision OF couss What becomes Of the strength and
nerve which ought TO b. exeed in Improving his place
His has no strength In IT, for he does not know for
whom he Is laborng What becomes OF tine courage OF
his heart It dies away he does not know whether he
shall have a home. The country, remains without inn
pTovement-remains without ameliOration the people
sick, their property sinks from under them. They sell
after while and, under the supposOn that foreigners
cannot fare well Americans, they sell to
American, or go shares with an American in order to
something These the feelings; and while the
senators OF California have felt themselves compelled to
bring these bills for the purpose of going through this
process OF commissoners-hs process OF the district
court and final appeal 10 the Supreme Court OF the
United States-yet they have endeavored 10 throw in
principles which will mature and soften the working oil
4! and save as many as possible IRON being harassed
The bill has put IN all the aneliofahons which have
been admitted in the progress oi forty years The bill
has everything which Congress has heretofore granted IN
the course Of that time also saves the decisions Of
the Supreme Court OF the United Slaes and makes them
applicable to the United States; aAd not until the
claims of Louisiana and Missouri got into the Supreme
Court that they got declared that their titles and their
claims should be ired by The law oil naonsby the trea
ties under which they held, and by the laws OF the
county from which they derived. II not until
alter twenty hye years that they began TO make progress
IN getting inese cases npon thai principle The two sen
aors from California have then endeavored, in the bills
which they have presented to soften the workings OF the
system which tue United States have adopted abhor
the system. proes, against governing the titles of
whole community. protest against any law waich as.
sumes the title OF entire people-a foreign people
conquered or purchased, care not whch--whlch as.
sumes all TO be Invalid, and holds them be so, until
they shall prove them to be good in courts protest
against and shall fight against If, and shalt endeavor to
every amslluraion which the senator's IRON Cali
foa have put into their bill and besides saving every
amelioraon which the senators from California have put
into their BILL shall endeavor TO put some others into
which will still further soften the most odious features OF
the sys,emsuch has existence al this lime IN
OF conqueror taking nation by iorce OF arms
The hrst amendment which The senator from Ohio
Mr. EwIsoI makes is TO fix the settled places al which
the commissioners 10 meet Sir, the senator's IRON
California commenced with commissioners. They com.
,be,o 10 b. appointed by The United Saies-ibe peop.
there having hand at all IN their selection LIE OIL
then goes TO provide that these commissioners shall
90 through the country through the very heart OF The
country, from place place, so make pleasant
possible the people OF The country IN appearing be.
fore them to prove aud justify their titles places
there Tne senator from Ohio proposes 10 strike out all
that and leave 10 The President o the United States to
fix TIE time. Sir, why not hx II ourselves Is II not
legislative provision aud we not leylslatorsf Why
fix il ourselves, when the convenience OF the couns
requires that it shall be fixed, and nxed by law thai
those who 10 be arraigned may be preparing them
selves To go 10 the place at the appointed time
There great discussion upon all this business of
devolvng details upon The President OF the United States
Our siaplebook Is CANNED with PROVISIONS directing
the President v the United States 10 do such thing and
leaving to Inn the oneous details, In the hrst place,
the President OF the United States was never created er
the purpose OF settling details The trainers OF our con-
stuon made him Tor that purpose, but ior great
national purposesfor The superintendent OF the general
operation oi great system and not Tor arranging de-
tails; and il we put these details upon him, we do
in the name OF the statute book alone We deceive our
selves He does not do 1t, and cannot do H. know
was under the Spanish Crown IN the time OF the Duke
DAllermD and G Bias. Leaving out the bb ry, II "
exactly the petition u pre- sened 10 the KING
the king refers IL 10 ID Alermo DAllermo rofes u TO the
secreary the secretary refers Gil Bias; Gil Bias TO
Scipo Scpo decides according 10 the lee he GETS and
gives Gil Bias. who approves II according TO the lee
be GETS and puts into the hands of the secretary the
secretary approves il according to the lee he gets, and
gives TO DAllermo who approves IL according to the
out a decree Of the king The proposition s the same
in our couatry, leaving out the bribery. We refer
thing 10 the Presidents he refers Il 10 the Secretary the
head Of the department That Secretary has great deal
to do, aud be gives il 10 the first clerk The hfst clerk
has great many other things o do, and he gives to
an under secretary, and sometimes over secretary
Tie gives il to another clerk, and he perhaps TO another
hal clerk settles il then travels ihrough the l,ne
and is the President OF the United Saes and y
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