Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-02-14

trust for another, and that the same is intended
for the purpose of cultivation; and that have
not entered under the act OF 9TH April, 1882, or
under the act of I'd March, 1888, at this or any
other land office of the United States, any land
in Quarter-quarter sections in my own name, OF
in the name Of any other person. $50 help me
God?"
Surely one would have thought the country
might have spared the humble seeker OF home
tor himself or child this last embarrassment and
humiliation. From him who had the means and
desire to purchase ten thousand acres with which
TO speculate upon the necessities of his FELLOW
CETIzFNs, no cath was required; but he who pos
sessed but so dollars and who, from seeking to
expend it for land, gave the best evidence of an
intention to make it home. and from it obtain an
independent living must SCeGr, notwithstanding
that such was his design.
1t has been your practice for quarter OF GEN.
fury to appropriate land by millions of acres, in
alternate sections, TO construct channels and av-
enues of commerce. and 10 make the laboring and
producing settler pay for it at the increased price
which you demanded of him for the alternates
not appropriated.
But, sir, as if all this were not enough to fos-
ter speculation and embarrass productive indus
try, you have for the last four years been run
the ends of land monopoly. You have issued
millions upon millions in amount OF assignable
Mexican bountyland warrants, operating not for
the benefit Of the soldier but Of capital as pa
per medium with which to monopoIize on spec
uaton the fairGst portion Of the peoples heritage
AS If this were still not enough, last session you
authorized the Issue in warrants of unknown
millions more; and because you did not make
these negotiable, mad fury RACES among the
horde of ight-besetting hound tongued agents
and spectators throughout the land and mem
bers, as if casting look to the future are str-
wing at this session 20 cut loose this last and on
ly security to the soldiers boon, that it, too may
be coaXed or torn from the hand of war-worn
need. But above and beyond all, as the very
browning thought Of wrong and folly-as if de-
termlned to plunge the country into Russian labor
oondage-some are now entertaining, with seri-
GUS complacency, the hdeous project Of giving
for a few cents per acre, OVER ONE HUNDRED
MILLIONS OF ACRES TO ONE MAN, to "enable" him
to make railroad "a territory equal in extent
to the States of New York Pennsylvania, Vir-
ginia, and Delaware!
Sir, Il read Alright the signs of the times, the
working masses Of the people have resolved tina,
you shall change your policy and practice-thst
you shall partly turn your cares from the exclu-
sive thralI Of luxurious incident. They are dis
contented and unhappy. Aside from present
care and want, and that sense of dependence and
subsection with which your class determinations
have depressed them, they feel and know-thev
cannot close their eyes TO the fact-that the pol
icy you are now pursuing porteEds q gloomier
day in the future for them or their Children
Already, where most crowded, the more favored
are but able to obta in through the week what at
its close will procure tho meanest comforts for
their families. II sickness oyertake them, or
misfortune come, or il fer a few days work can
not be had, real destitution and suffering, or in
solvable debts are the result. If they would go
West, TO the public landslide asylum of refuge
and diStross--and have tho present means to
make the journey, they have no more; or. if
they Rave little more, knowing the expense
and time of putting in even g sua!l farm, they
know that little will be exhausted; they despair
Of ability 10 buy the land when it shall come into
market. They know that when their first stock
is gone it will require all their earnings to support
an increasing family that for some years they
can lay up nothing to save their lnb6r aud i'm
provements from the b.ood-lurcd grasp of the
Spectator. They consequently remain where
they are, tOng on to uncertain destiny, with
no consolation from tho past, few comforts or en-
enloyments for the present. and less but more
gloomy hopes for the future. They see that ma
chinery is fast pushing them from tho stage of
human labor-that already their bread, to some
extent, depends upon the price Of machine pro-
ducts, and that price upon the amount Of tribute
or tariff they themselves are forced to pay to keep
it up. As a substitute, they are offered no re-
source in the fifteen hundred millions Of the Pub
lie Land, but are compelled to meet the certain,
dread alternative of starvation, or comfortless
dependence Sir, disguise it as you NAV, there
10 9TH loft lDla l. FL
right TO freely dig subsistence independence. and
comfort from the earth. Do this, and their we'll
founded fears will be removed Cease Your fa-
yoritism in the blessings and bountes Of Gov
eminent, and they will lose tho sense of sub
iect-inieriory with which your unjust discrimin-
atoms have bowed them down.
But, sir, you will never do these things will
ingly; yet you will do them. The working num-
ber-thauks to God and the form OF our Govern
ment-hod the means 10 compel you. They
hold the ballots through which you now hold
power. The means which exalted you can hum
bic you and these means they have determined
TO employ. They have already begun and the
results aro ! II )Wn, il the means of their accom-
piishmcnt are not. If you would know what
mean refer you to the elections of last Fall, held
in Newly rk, New Jersey, and Delaware. If
you did not know it before, you are now told that
NGtI0ndt reform DeH1pcrdCV ttccicd The Rl3JOrf-
ties elected in those States! | will tell YOU an
other truth, little a. il is known--that HoRLTIo
SEYMOUR might nor b. Goycrnor Of the Empire
STATE II he had no. remained mere negation up
on The subject Of human rights and necessi.IeS.-
The working multitude have been long enough
depressed by false and oppressive practices, fol-
lowing sweet and honeyed professions-they
can be deceived no longer They form no party
OF their own, but in combination practice what
they preach. They have resolved to save their
race from slavery, and their country from worse
than monarchy. To these ends they have turn
ed their attention in earnGs; 10 the absolute rights
and positive wants of mankind. They have de-
termined that you shall do the same, or surren-
der 70 those who will. Il is for YOU to choose
yonr alternative for, as sure as the Lord liveth
you cannot much longer persecute, as you have
d'ac, he mass Of Americas workmen for the
"Ln,es wants Of Injury.
Arrest or THE WALL-sr DrrArITrR.-M
Ray TompkinS, stock and exchange broker do
ing business ST - Wa,l-st( the person referred
TO in yesterdays TribHns as having suddenly
disappeared from the street. was Yesterday ar
rested at his residence, 9 Lamarline-place be-
tween Eighth and Ninth avs. in Twenty-ninth-
ST, BY officer Swift. of the Nineteenth Ward
gTyl J. ! II