The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-05-05

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va. bodies of land, in OF which the United
8 nt,s oM ned all the land, the value # which
was greatly enhanced by individual aud State
enterprise. And The Land Office records attest
this inct, that the government sold it, land just
in prrporton MS the citizens reclaime the coun |
try from inuudation.
Mr. President, sp Ike yesterday of some of
the difficulties wbichl though. would attend
the ex"cu'inn of the amendment at the senator
from Kentucky if il sh ud be- adopted. trust
shall be pardoned Tor again abiding to that
branch of the question now before u.s. do il
becansc feel that isis one of transccndant inn
p"rtance 70 the well being of the noble young
State which IN part represent. Sir. declare
t. yon, and TO my consti uents, that believe, II
that amendment becomes tina law of the land
that the old States will pass laws fixing the MN
mum price at the highest rates at winch their
lands can he sold. Agents will be sent to attend
tlse sales, TO bid high against the farmers, emf
grants, and the men who desire 10 cultivate
the soil. Prices will be run up to ten
fifteen, twenty dollars an acre, depending up
on the proximity of those llnds to our towns,
to our rivers, aud our great tn 'roughtarrs The
preservation of the timber will become an OBJ
ject of the highest considerat on TO these distant
owners Of the soil of Iowa and hosts of spies,
and ntorners, and witnesses, will be sent into
the new States TO wnylay the settlers, and to
dog our people ronnd their farms for the pur-
p'se OF detecting aud pr scouting the man who
cuts tree, or lifts stone, or breaks the soil of
those absent landlords.
While the land is held by the United States
| and the proceeds 90 int the common treasury
there is not that deep interest felt 10 make it
WELD the last cent that it can possibly be made
to yield, that there would be if it should chan e
owners. Under the operation of this amend
| IL. 10 ND, f,,h ,A iviJ dad mt y r,,lo
of appointment which will give nearly all OF
them to the large old States Of the present
douceur of Ia, 100000 Of acres. From the mo-
! ment that these lands become State property
every means will be res prIed to to make them
produce the largest possible amount Of money
for the States to which they belong. Once lei
companies Of individuals, or corporations, or
societies get hold of the lands, and you will see
that the means TO which have referred will be
resorted to. The people of the West and
! Southwest may then bid an everlasting farewell
to anything like liberal and just policy IN re-
gard to the public lands. Each OF our d,stan,
and lordly proprietuss will tax its ingenuity t.,
devices schemes by which the litt-blood Of our
people will be extracted to pay for the lands
within our Dor ers-divdng the lands off into
smaller tracts, siding by alternate twenty or
forty acre tracts, and whiting for Us 70 enhance
1.-THE value Of these reserved lands afli xnf a
minimum of ten fifteen dollars, and only re-
duc!ng it when, after years of trial, they have
been unable TO get the price demanded And
who, Mr.. President, are foremost in pressing
this measure upon VS. Kentucky and T-nnes.
see-Staies which never have given foot OF
land to the general government; but one of
them, (TennesseeD after struggling many,
many long years before Congress, actually got
the United States to grant her, tor nominal
! price, all the lands within her Limits, amounting
to :, 1852 0G0 acres. Sir, | can tolerate much
that Virginia may say when she speaks; be-
cause she, in that spirit OF justice, IN. gnaninil y
and patriotism, which has ever marked the
course of that mother of States and statesmen
voluntarily surrendered, as offering to the
peace and harmony of the country, an empire
Fin the West, in the Valley OF the Mississip
lpi.
!; have not had the pleasure of perasng the
last speech of the honorable senator from Ken
lucky. Bat he u.s. d 10 it some very severe ex-
pressions as applied to the new States. in reply
to the rrmasks ot he senator from Massachu-
sets, fMr. Sunner.l In one portion Of his
speech he remarked that i, was unkInd in us
that we were UNIV Hing that the old States
should hold lands within our borders and he
thoug hit that there was but little difference b.
i!ween such proprietorship on the part OF the
old States and that which the United States
have. There is, at least, this important differ
encr We are part and parcel of the govern
msnt of the U,sied States we have vote
and voice in its action; we have some repre-
sen,a,ives here, while we have none at Frank =.
fort, at Albany, or at Harrisburg There is no
one there 10 make known our views, wishes, or
feelings, in regard to the settlement aud sale OF
those va It tracts of land which these States
arc TO acquire in the centre of our Terr,Lo-
~.
/ Another fact, that cannot have escaped the
atten ion OF this Senate, is this: The Commit
tee on Public Lands consented, with one VOICE,
that FIVE or ten years longer should be- allowed
to the State OF kenlucy to sell small body OF
land VIII CHI was gran ed to her many years since
in the then Territory of Arkansas for the insane.
FROM lee poor success S ling this small tract
OF land presume not many OF the fourteen
millisns of acres now proposed to be dealt out
to these barge States will be located in Arkan
sas nor, from the character OF the Louisiana
| lands will much nf It be taken in that Stlte.-
| l believe the provisions OF this amendment
would fall with crushing force aud severity upon
| iha at whence come The very syni6ca
| ton Of the word Iowa" is none such Her
lands are fair and beautiful, and the agents of
| the Governors Of the old states, if authority is
given them, will pounce down upon us with
merciiess severity. 81 also of Wisconsin. The
"a .ds IN Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri, will
not be taken. Arkansas Is one OF the States
now before you asking f r appropriations FOR
her railroads She has been a State since 1886
but is in the rear of the other States OF the
Union in pointof population.
Mr. Borland. | simply desire to correct an
impression which the senator's remarks, nD-
noticed by me, might make On the public mind,
which might be somewhat injurious 10 my State,
though of course not SO intended by him He
used the expression that Arkansas in the
rear of the other States "a pain. OF papulalinn--
wish merely to say hat within the last ten
years the State of Arkansas has increased more
in proportion to her population than any State
in the Union, except the State of Iowa, which
the senator represents, and the State of Wis
consn. Whine the average increasr of popula
ton in the "ther States Of the Unio.. has OF
think, quite reached forty per cent, the SLATE
of Arkansas has increased considerably more
than hundred per oent.
TO BE CONTINUED.