Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-03-27
Acres.
1,450, ECO, 600
Gross amount of public lands
Actual useful domain.
424,O4I.5 500
1,O25,958,500

II Actual useful DOMAIN, 424,U4l, 5JC
i This leaves of domain eultivateabe four hundred
and twenty-four millions acres, and when partitionet
into States it will run the aggregate up to sixty or sew
! enty 1fthe free farm or land reform policy prevails
and we believe it will in ten or fifteen years emigra
ton willswell annually to amount equal to the re-
! quirements of population for State. This viii
orce the necessity of admitting State during the
session of each Congress, and the Objectionable
feature in this is that it will introduce new pohtca
power into the confederacy in open antagonsm with
slavery and wholly inmcal either its existence
extension. There can be corresponding beneft to
the South for the that foreign will not locate
near slave labor in fact inclination and interest will
turn it to the West. But leave the subject with
the reader simply appendng the remarks f another
upon the same subject
''What then, will be the effect? That the four
teen hundred millions of unsold public lands shall
be lost to those States which have contributed
most to their acquisition-that all these conse-
quences which Mr.. Seward has pointed out, shall
result to the bentit of the North and the North
west. 1t is very plain that the Free Soil States
will obtain numbers and wealth, by the superior
attractions of gratuitous homes in fertile country.
This is political power, the exponent of which is
the appropriate representation in the National Leg
lines of direct communication between the North
ern ports at which they arrive and the free soil
States, which offer such great and increasing in
ducements. foreign Immigration alone adds to
tie Free Sol power more than three members of
Congress annually, exclusive of the representation
of the new States in the Senate. The immigrants
also add to the wealth of the States in which they
settle, probably ten millions Of dollars annually
These are some of the consequences of free farms
III Mt
eTn cities. This is the policy of Mr.. Seward and
of the powerful party to which lie belongs. There
is no appeal in his arguments to finaticism. 1t
is direct address to the interests of the whole
Northern and Northwestern people He says to
the new States of the Northwest invite the strong
arms OF the foreign and citizen laborer to subdue
your wilderness and promote your power. Can
we be surprised If such an appeal, maintained with
the force of ability and the fire of genius, should be
But will the Southern States con-
sent to such plan of partial application of their
share OF this national property Will they stand
quietly. and see this transfer to interests which
they affirm are alien or inimical? Will they in Il
great struggle to maintain themselves upon the ba
SIS OF political power, consent to a system which
they so much need themselves? We trust not
We hope that the members of the next Congress
rom the old States will demand the ESTABLISHING mt
Of some equal system Mr.. Seward agrees with
Mr. Benton and the Secretary Of the Treasury, in !
saying that the Federal income from the public
lands will cease for sixteen years. He SAYS that
an income which ceases for sixteen or even eiaht
years. has stopped forever, and adduces the actual
and probable appropriations of public lands to
prove that the sale will never again afford reye-
aue. Let US, then, demand partition of the
lands, that we may apply their proceeds to the de-
'elopement of those elements of political power
which Mr.. Seward has ably demonstrated will
'esut from the REIMBURSEMENT of the public lands
o the new States, and their donation to actual
settlers"
In our nextwe isay something about population,
ind exhibit the progress of the races white and black
md show the tendency ofNorthern policy