The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-01-21
HE UNION WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY MORNING. JAN o. 1852.

my secuon OF the country knew young man VINO was
employed 10 20 out and locate these warrants He made
contract OF this description You give much for
my trouble in visiting the States where the public lands
are 70 be found and locating your warrants and making
very handsome profit upon them, and will pay you 80
much Tor your whole claim, provided you VIII convey
to me when your patent is issued. That Is the way the
bargain IS made. Now, the sum which the contractor
agrees TO pay the old soldier when he makes his convey
ance upon the PATENT after deducng the expenses, which
are exorbilant for locating their warrants is not
hall what he will gel when you make the land warrants
Mr. WALKER The senator has given the case of a
young in the State OF Kentucky, who has contracted
upon certain terms to, locate The land warrant Of The
soldier and then 10 give him certain sum Tor his patent
after il shall have issued. Now that all very inde
mite do not know what he is to GET does the
ator himself appear TO know
Neither has he specified at what rate he has his land
under this proposition Now, will tell the senator that
if he makes these land warrants assgnable without any
cash criterion for their value was The case with the
Mexican land warrants. they will go down TO price
nearly nominal know OF agencies established not 10
buy these warrants but for the location OF them for the
holders and owners of the warrants There is one es
abshed in the State where live. where they will To-
cate warrant OF 100 acres for $40, one OF 50 acres for
and that too, upon as good land as can be found
And if the land is worth 81 rs per in the hands OF
the general government is at least worth that IN the
hands Of the proprietor and in that way he will get the
full value of his warrant But il you make these war
rants assgnable the price will be reduced until, in my
opinion, one OF 100 acres will not be worth more than
$50, il so much. The Mexican land warrant would
u
could get 500 treasury certificates in lieu OF at the
time the warrant issued. There is, then, no critic
rion for the depreciation, Of these warrants II the
soldier could not dispose OF these warrants 10 another,
but would apply to an agent who would honestly dis
charge the duty Of locating his warrant, he would get
the full value OF it, and we would hear OF this
camor that this grauy has failed in its object as the
old soldier gets no benefit from II.
know OF an instance where two warrants were Of
sed og sale IN this city i9 h.n r. slu1
OF year after they thus located the land was sold
for "a per acre, amounting TO $3.50, that much being
obtained for what was offered year before $2lO That
is instance that know Of personally, and yet the ar
gument is made here that these warrants not useful or
valuable to the holders at this time, and senators believe
il to be true that benefit result 10 the holders OF
these warrants as they now are. But i Is all allacy
II is argument put into the mouths OF senator's by an
influence brought to bear upon them BY those who con-
troll the newspaper influence OF the country to benefit
spectators, and the opinion reechoed here by SEN
alors who really do moi intend oreect the influence and
opinions OF men engaged in speculation But It is new
eTtheess The argument is unsound-haS no fOunda-
ton II is false in pon of fact that these warrants
of no benefit to the holders, il they will only take the
proper 10 the benefit they may derive from
them will venture to say that II any person holding
one of these will have them located for HIMSELF
the land will be worth double the price to him that he
will be able 10 get for the land warrants if they ale made
assignable
Then the operation of my propostion-the opposition
make to the assignment OF land warrants-is friendly to
the holders L is not because am inimical 70 their in
erests that take this position, but because believe If
they made assgnabe they will not be able to derive
much benefit from them they now. But il may
a y s ba % Be
10 dispose OF as he thinks proper know there is force
in this argument There is something in our nature
TO giving man item OF property and then deny
ing him the right 10 dispose Of it in his own way But
you ought to have thought Of that argument before you
ought 10 have thought OF when you made the grant it.
self you ought TO have asked yourself then whether you
not besowng that which you would not be thanked
for-browing away that which would not be benefit to
the persons to whom you proposed to give tins gratuy
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however turns out according to this outside argument
have referred to- that the soldier did not want the land
thus given to him, and il is taken for granted that the
only way in which you make il benefit him is TO
make the land warrants assignabe But 1t is not so. Ii
they will take into consideration their true interest," they
will acquire much land they get for their
rants and il will prove TO be OF intrinsic value TO hem
while the assgnaby of the warrant will most probably
tend 10 their disadvantage.
Mr.. DAWSON. | was surprised at the observation
which fell from the senator from Wisconsin, Mr..
WALKER that he expected TO hear that argument from
me, he had heard il several times before. Now,
recolec when this question stpesened ITSELF Ii first
originated with that senator. He erected small plat
FORM and threw himself on the top OF it, that nobody
could fail TO pay attention TO him Since that time has
been understood that this mode and OF disposng
of the public lands form sort OF platform for that
tor-for some purpose other cannot tell what; and
because the senator finds the same argument urged
against him every time, there is nothing strange in IT,
There is nothing new upon this point 10 come from him
or anybody else Now, il was unkind and ungener-
as 10 reiort upon him. might say, how often have
Senate, but in other places Now have nothing TO say
against that il is only the principle that am opposed to-
and the manner in which the senator TO himself
control the action OF this body, and 10 express his
views somewhat Indignantly against the views OF other
persons
Now, he says that these public lands ought 10 60 to-
whom! To the people. To what peoplel agree with
him that they ought TO go TO the people OF the United
Stateshat they should be the property OF the country
upon certain terms. But whenever TO make do
nations of them should be, according TO the bill oil my
friend from Kentucky, [Mr UsDERwooD,l 10 the old
soldier And when proposition is made favor people
who not within the limits OF the United States,
who paid dollar of here, who shoulder
ed gun in defence Of this countyto place them upon
the footing of the citizens and the soldiers Of country
it does look little strange And yet because draw the
contrast between the who has served this country in
every capacity and the who has not served II al ALL
IL is called strange argument
Now, | say TO the senator from Wisconsin Mr.. !
WlLKER that his of policy is just OF the charac
ter this whole country TO be settled with foreign
ers. His plan is TO give grauiiy TO any man who will
the public lands. And at whose expense is this 10 be
donei Who paid for the ex,inguishmen of the title of
the aborgines this land The whole people OF the
United States by OF taxation. And who gave
the power OF taxing the who fought for the country
and sustained our government And yet they to be
disregarded, and get these advantages upon better
terms than those who fought against them. Now re.
found on truth, justice principle, and patriotism isnot
any scheme TO gain public applause, or throw my
self upon any elevated PLATFORM by which can gain the
applause OF any portion OF the community. My legisa
lion based upon the principles Of equality and Justice
justice to every section Of the country And yet because
avow my opposition to this disposition OF the public
lands that my constituents have aided in paying for, be-
tIxo sLapa