Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1852-09-28

| they bring with them to this country what
ever articles they may stand in need of here, ant
spend but little whilst here, and carry out of this
country whatever money they make, and thi!
serves to produce dissatisfaction. Again, the in.
habitauts of China are known to be so numerous
that it is apprehended by many that if there is nc
check put to this species of emigration our state
will be overrun, and its most precious minerals
extracted and carried off, without corresponding
equivalent and this consideration adds to the dis
content. And, on the other hand, it is thought
by some, that if any exclusive restrictions are
placed upon the emigration referred to, it may
serve to disturb the amicable relations existing
between our government and that of the Celestial
Empire. So that this question is. of very grave
character, and it is difficult to tell what may be
its final result.
And we have now another very important ques-
tion here, and one that is vitality interesting to
the people of California. / mean the Gland
Question" As you are doubtless aware, on the
Sd of March, 1851, our general government ap-
pointed commission to settle private land claims
in California, in compliance with the stipulatons
of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The three
commissioners who accepted the appointment,
viz; Hail. Thornton, and Wilson, have now been
in session at San Francisco for some few months.
and there have been already upward oil 200 Span
sh grants for land presented to the Board, and
some of them embracing more than thirty square
leagues, and constituting in all perhaps the great
er portion of the arabic lands of the state, and
the most eligible sites for cities, villages, etc.
According to the act appointing this commission,
an appeal can be taken by either party from the
decision Of the commissioners to the District, and
from that to the Supreme Court of the United
States. Should these Mexican grants be generally
confirmed, a few people would have thereby a
monopoly of the best lands of the state, and this
is very much deprecated by the masses, and hence
two parties have sprung up here onths question.
One party is called the Spectators and the other
the Squatters. Public meetings have been held
at different times and in various portions of the
state, but more particularly in this city, at which
meetings the SquatterS, or Settlers, as they term
themselves, have called the attention of the gov
eminent and the people to this subject, and de-
manded that the rights of the people should not
be overlooked, and asserted that greater portion
of those grants that are set up here as genuine
Mexican grants for land are spurious, and that a
great portion of them which are "inchoate' are
of such a character that they never should be
confirmed by our government; and that the soil
belongs of right to the government of the United
States, and that the emigrant from the states has
rieht to settla nnan any of tha nnooaupied lands
Of the government, and ask the government to
protect him, and to extend to him the benefit Of
a home, by granting to him portion of the soil
which, as they believe and assert, belongs right
fully to the citizens of the United States, who
may desire to settle upon the same.
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