The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-03-31
Acres undisposed Of.


New Mexico Territory 49, $500 90
Nofthwes, W
Indian Territory. ll97ss44ooo
Total. ,ioO6 692 3o5. .4s
From this table it may readily be TO what States
the largest number Of acres OF the public land have been
donated and for what purposes will not 60 into the
figures in detail All desire to show in this connexion
is the extent OF the public domain, and that out OF the
fourteen hundred millions OF unsold and unappro
praied, hundred and sixty millions might be well
donated TO actual settlers
If it is the trne interest Of government 10 people her
Wild landso develop the slrenh OF her soil by tage
and agricuue--by combining the strength Of man with
that of the sothen this plan must meet favorable
consideration Il is general in its provsons il is equal
in its operations resulting reward TO honest
dustry and healthy influence to government Asricul
ture in every age of the world has been regarded the
highest well the most useful AMI independent occu
patton OF man. Since the days when the poughman
called from his unfinished furrow to head the armies
of great warlike people, and 10 be their statesman
and leader up to time and day. calling has afford
ed 10 mankind in great degree that object which his
lead him 10 seek, the cultivation OF the soil, the
natural occupation OF healihiul and pleasant In its
operations, profitable in its results, and Independent in
It's character calculated 10 nerve the arm 70 deeds OF
vaor and Of worth, while operates powerfully on the
faculties OF the human mind and expands and gives tone
to all the nober feelings ef our nature II has tend
ency to calm and sooihe rough and troubled pas.
sons, and to mould them into virtue instead oil vice
Indeed, the farmer who is regular in his habs"early
to bed and early riseand like Socrates, temperate in
morning breeze. conscious of its own rectude and full
OF Joy Sir these constitute the heart OF the refub
lic-they its feblood In those times when war
was principle IN the politics Of nailons-when IN The
liant victories achieved-we are told plain farmer
commanded the troops themselves cnyaors OF The soil
And whea we read oil The splendid details oi the Trojan
unreheclingy, we associate with the lille OF prince
all The pageantry Of modern poentaes" that were dsn'
guished by similar titles But in this history tells us
we wrong for there was probably not leader oil all
tlaC h, kat tba nf
in the farming operations with his own hands. Cncn-
naius was summoned from the plough, standing in the
furrow, to be dictator OF mighty empire, while the
Seminar ambassadors found Gurus Dentatns cooking
his own repasl OF vegetables in earhen vessel In
those days, when agriculture iourished among the an
clients, to excel in the cultivation ot particular vegela
bic considered great honor. Then some OF the
noblest families oil that age derived their paronynlc
name we are told, from vegetables in the cultivation Of
which their parents excelled, as the example OF the
Fab-Pisones and Lentulii. We are told that when
they praised good man, they called him agrcuurs
and good husbandman and he was thought to be very
greatly honored who thus praised. How different
now How changed is the occupation IN the es-
tmaiion of the progressive age To-day the uller
II the SOIL TO be honored and called great, must
be galvanized by wearing the titled honors oi Of
fee, wheiied on the grindsione OF reform. The
plan before rs proposes TO encourage this art which
dates FAR back perhaps with the birth OF man. and has
progressed step By step slowly but steadily through all
the various commissions and ycissitudes of the world,
meeting no retrogrsd revolution in s course i lis still
the of mans existence, and from its original nature
remain so. II has been encouraged in every
age Of the world Ia the infant state OF once mighty
empire her ruler In parioning the lands assigned to no
one than he could I'LL, which was eonsldeted two
acres. Bat are told by Pliny that after the Kings
expelled, allotted TO each citizen
This was the size Of the farm Of GURUS Reguus and
CGennaus, and these small parcels they dwelt and
cultivated then with heif ovn hands They were honored
men Of Their Tine and agriculture was Their eh'ei oceg
culture - the base oi all trade commerce u king, but
aErenliafs the A. the cultivation Of the
sol and the encouragement Of agriculture are OF more Inn
porlahce 10 the great interest ol nation and people
than any other all means legitimate, and in
the natural o things should be given towards the
ianhcaneso o. - extension aol perfection. 10 do this
lual settlers The unlimited qaanilty OF our public domain
will enable 20 beslOw upon that unfortunate class OF
our population Who need assistance boon which would
forever iassn the ieel,ng Of gratode 10 government
srongsr than any other Imaginable tie OF Inhnenee could
possibly do.
Il "a great msasus--a plan that provides for all
gai u need not he said that all not now needing its
poyisiobss lof lhs wheel Of fortune ever turns, and
with Il turns the fortunes oi men-ioday in The sun
shias-io.mouos ~ the shade, Wy this scheme you
take from poverty thousands whose indlgent ciTcum.
render them wholly unable and incompetent to
perform the datss Of good citizens They cannot extend
70 their children even the beaeh,s Of common school
education, and thus pfspare them iof the ordinary duties
oi le This class ol chseas are worth bat liile to
State 10 Feyenae point Of view they pay tares To
give then homes 10 the West would be 10 better their
wrrched condition, and 20 Afford indirect revenue 10
the government while could no, depopulae or detracl
materially om the old SAie. Il was remarked a few
days sgo BY The honorable gentleman from kentucky,
fMr BRrcsfsntDcE 'that he had not made up his mind
how he sboaA vote, bot he hardly thought he would
vote iof bill that would dspopulae his own State"
Suppose there million IN the thirty Slaies
thai would pohahy avail themselves OF The homestead
All OF than AZ once. bot gradually and, one woul EN-
gsie his place would he hlled, and on through
out 40 that We think !, cannot be objected to on that
ground The emixrali0n. scattered II must necessa.
nly he al over the Naiea would almoa be mpefcephle