Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-02-15

OF fact into which he has fallen. The Senator
n mistaken in supposng that these lands will In
lands proposed to be appropriated those to
private entry which already in the market. Hence 1t
does noncresse the competition and cannot lower the price
Of the public lands however much that effect may be produc
ed by the bounty land law of the last session.
Mr.. WALKER. Does the Senator attribute to me, or
would he presume against such unqualified amount OF
ignorance his language would seem to mpute know
well these lands subject 10 private entry but
they subject be purchased at fifty cents or fppenny
bit acrei No. The Government has price fixed on
them and below that they cannot into composition with
school lands university snds and lands for public works
complaining of this competition with the sale OF our
State lands you will make fair and put fair basis
But the Senator from Maryland is making compromise
with the Senator from Maine Mr.. HAMLIN. Oh no] or
other Senator'S bring these lands into competition with ours
leave the States whom they be granted to sell
them any price, and supplant entirely This is the OBJ
lection have to this BILL did not intimate at all that lands
at dollar and twenty five cents would be any more
in composition with when in the hands of the States than
when in the hands of the General Government But object
suffering States own lands in other States at less than
the price for which the Government Of the United States sells
those lands.
There classes Of Senator's it would to me,
who should against this bill in any FORM One class is
comprised Of those representing the States in which the pub
lie lands situated We have long been complaining We
have long felt the burden of the General Government be-
ing the owner # such an extensive amount OF lands within
limits But here is bill by the first and second sections
Of which proposed that there shall be another great land
proprietor within borders is the other States that
to be permitted to be the owners Of lands within our borders
Those States which have public lands within their limits
be permitted become land propreors within bor
des and thus the embarrassment Of which
heretofore complaned and those States will ehsr have
benefit to themselves which will result injury what
they suppose will be benefit but which will result
jury The benefit which they obtain, if is result to
injury must leave the privilege Of axaon and If
are left that privilege, what they suppose will be bene
tit to them will in my opinion result injury; and,
the bill designs the States will have become payers one
to the other and in all probability the lands would be ex-
haused by the taxation which the States within which they
lie will impose upon them
Another class of Senators who ought against this
bill is that class who feel disposition to do justice the
other States under proper consideration of State rights
There Senator here who feels that State ought be
sovereign within ITSELF except in far as has given up
these powers by the constitution, that consistently
to me, entertain the idea that another State may be
land proprietor within its borders
These general considerations applicable to the bill.
throw them in order that they may be taken up by other
Senator'S and with the sincere hope that Senators similarly
situated with myself will forward and express their
this matter with force than have been able do.
Mr.. PEARCE. trust never spresume" at all in the
Senate. know that mpute IGNORANCE" to any
Senator If thought any Senator ignorant presump
tuous know well what due the decorum Of the Se
nae and the courtesy which should mark the department
Of its members to each other to mpute any such thing
presumptuous enough to attribute presumption
b
may, without any mpropey and without the least offence
express his belief that gen,leman abors under msappre
henson. still think the Senator from Wisconsin is under
mssPprehension. These ands said before, those
which subject to private entry the ordinary prices The
amendment which adopted committee at the last ses
sion does not vary that The amendment of the Senator from
Mane as understand it, does vary all 1t is Just
precisely the reverse of what the Senator from Wisconsin has
supposed He has therefore presumed" that was ipno
rant of the amendment Of the Senator from Maine II was
but he who has made this great mistake and if there
has been any presumption, it is not chargeabe to
But am still more surprised at the observation Of the
Senator from Wisconsin that going do great nus
tcs States to whom large grants have been made for pur
poses Of education and internal Improvement by authorizing
these lands to be sold very low prices surprised
that such objection should come from that Senator of all
the members of this body because, if mistake not he has
brought forward calculated, above all Others
stroy the value Of the grants which Congress
the States He has introduced bill to give away the
lands every andless Has not the Senator by the
introduction of that BILL done forty thousandod to
stroy the value of those grants than this bill any other bill
Of the kind could possibly think But the Senator
is mistaken in point of fact The amendment before the
Senate does not propose to destroy the value Of these grants
to the new States BY bringing these lands into market at
rate below the minimum price, think this statement Of
facts answers what the Senator has said.
Mr.. DAWSON 1t to me that when ever any thing
is said in relation the public lands by which Justice is 10
be done to every section and every State of Union the
Senator from Wisconsin Mr WALKER) especially considers
himself the peculiar guardian Of the rights of ali the States
save the old States What is this proposition 1t is
founded philanthropy, and founded in the kndes feel
ngs of the human heart Here is class of people known
lunacs spread throughout the United States who have
not the power even of going and becoming settlers in any
new country They cannot gain the right of pre-emption
right of location of $40 Of land because they have
not the mind to do and when, for humane purposes
plan is proposed by which this unfortunate class
shall be provided with the comforts Of life and that
protection that shall them from from injury, the
Senator rises up and says this charitable intent upon your
part is calculated to dpecae the value Of the public lands
in the State represent That u.s. you diminish the price by
putting your lands into market The Senator from Maryland
M PEARcE has very justly responded to the Senator from
Wisconsin: Is it not for the interest Of the States
increase their population And will you increase the
population in proportion you diminish the price Of the pub
for many years And the honorable Senator from Wisconsin
himself has held nducement for those who are
foreign to country to and settle upon lands and
take them for nothng Yet the poor dependant unac who
cannot appreciate the advantages gain of these rights
Is forbidden BY this principle receive the benefit of
portion OF those rights which naturally belong the of
the people. Why, Mr. President when the subject is re-
fected upon will be that the only opposition
which grows up against this matter that peradventure the
old States OF this Union may receive proportion Of the pub
lie lands In order to relieve them from making annual appo
prstons to support and maintain this unfortunate class Of
human family. Where there be an objection to
What feeling can give origin to the thought in that light Is
not better thus to dispose of your public land for the benefit
Of our unfortunate people thus situated than invite foreign
s to come over and take it and leave this dependant class
to make the best way through the world that they We
cannot do more charitable act than that which proposed
by this BILL Thousands of appropriated in order to
diminish the prices which would carry your produce
to Market In order that increase your dividends