The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-04-03


old States and that which the United States have There
is, at least this important difference; We are part and
parcel OF the government OF the United Slaes We have
vote and voice in ills action we have some represent
at Harrisburg There is no there to make known
our views wishes feelings in regard to the settlement
and sale OF those OF land which these States
are 10 acquire in the centre OF our territory.
Another fact that cannot have escaped the attention
OF this Senate is this The COMMITTEES on Public Lands
consented. with voice. that five ten years longer
should be allowed 10 the State OF Kentucky TO sell small
body OF land which anied 10 her many years since
in the then Territory oil Arkansas for the insane From
her poor in selling this small tract OF land pre-
not many OF the fourteen millions OF now
proposed TO be dealt out 10 these large States will be To-
Gated in Arkansas nor from the character OF the Lou
isiana lands, will much OF il be taken in that State.
believe the provisions OF this amendment would fall with
crushing force and severity upon the State whence
come. The very sgnihcation OF the word "lowa" is
none sueh Her lands are fair and beautiful and the
agents OF the governors OF the old States il authority Is
given them, will pounce down upon with mercless
severity. So also of Wisconsin The lands in Arkan-
sas, Louisiana, and Missouri. will not be taken, Ar
kansas is one OF the States before you asking for
appropriations for her railroads She has been State
since 1886, but is in the Of the other States Of the
Union IN point OF population.
MIR BORLAND / simply desire to correct an impress
sion which the senator's remarks pnnoced by might
make on the public mind, which might be somewhat in
furious to my Sate though OF not intended by
him. He used the expression that Arkansas in the
rear OF the other States in point oil population. wish
merely TO say that within the last ten years the State OF
aton than any State in the Union except the State of
Iowa, which the senator represents and the State of Wis
consn While the average increase OF population IN the
other States OF the Union has not think, quite reached
forty per cent The Stale OF Arkansas has increased
siterably more than hundred per cent
Mr.; DODGE. am rejoiced to hear it, have known
that State long and WELL and wish II the greatest possible
prosperity referred 10 il because OF the fact which
had noticed that during the time when this Union was
supposed TO be convused on account OF sectional difficult
ties, her talented and chivarous representative in The
other branch OF Congress- IN address TO his consttu
ents the subject Of those difficulties cited, Of
the why that State should in certain contingent
cies look favorably upon disruption OF The Union, the
long and cruel neglect and iberal policy Of the federal
government towards il and its inhabitants in relation to
the public domain. 1t will be borne in mind that the
American government the only that has ever spec
uated OH OF its citizens by selling them the soil OF
their country. The English French, and Spanish gov
ernmens, which preceded ours on this continent made
grants and donations to their people without stint price,
and OF double, treble and quadruple the quantity which
this government has granted even IN Oregon Many OF
the lead mines in Missouri TO which have alluded and
which once agated large portion OF The Old World and
were the exciting of the operations Of the celebrated
John Law, were granted TO individuals The govern
ments which preceded us in the management oil these
lands granted miles to their citizens, whilst citizens,
settling and working by their side, have had TO pay two
and a quarter for agricultural land.
Mr. President, what could you get now for the rches,
lands that the may shine upon Nebraska in Utah,
have the ownership II you to expose them for
sale Tomorrow, could you get six and quarter cents
an You could not get cent nor can you ever
SELL at any price, until the people OF the country have
couaiered Indian hoslines braved the elements and
every oaer species OF hardship and difficulty and have
overcome them, settled the country and made to bloom
and blossom as the rose Then II is you follow them
with your land officers and take their last dollar in pay
ment of those lands which their labor and enterprise
alone have enabled you TO sell.
The senator from Kentucky twice-three times-reler-
red TO the grant OF an additional section which was
made TO the citizens OF the Territory of Oregon for edu
calionai purposes He deeply amens this, as he
N nj nprh In .ats
liant and distant Territory, and calls attention TO the fact
that he had asked the yeas and nays that grant, and
reasons doubtess satisfactory TO himself had voted against
IL SIR men are differently organized and what is sweet
and pleasant TO some is bitter and dsageeabe TO others
OF all the votes which has been my destiny TO cast
none afforded sincere and heartfelt pleasure
than the vote which give in behalf OF the children OF Ore
gon-hose poor little children who followed their fathers
and mothers in the exodus which took place in ls43,
under the strong inducements held out by Dr. Inns bill
which passed this Senate, and which, am sorry TO think,
have not been realized by the Oregon pioneers. The
provisions OF the bill TO which refer proposed 10 grant
10 The emgrant, his wife and children, twice the guam
ty OF land which has been given TO them by law |
have regarded Inns bill as pe5gng the faith OF
this government to the early settlers OF Oregon, male
and female Tor the quantity OF land which it proposed 10
give and shall, whenever an opportunity is offered,
most willingly vote TO redeem that pledge II you have
an Oregon TeIory-if you have planted your star of
empire on the Pachc--to whom do you il To those
people who with their wives and children crossed your
desert plains, scaled the Stony mountains and took posses
sion OF the valley Of the Columbia and the iron bound coast
in advance OF it, these pioneers have encountered the
fierce Camanche and other barbaous tribes OF savage
who have eat OF their flesh and drank OF their
blood and who have carried their children into cap
itivity still they have pressed and the known fact
that they would not recede forced settlement, OF the
long vexed question OF boundary the northwest be-
tween the United States and Great Britain.
Sir, the appeal OF the senator from Kentucky, that, al
though we are now young State, we will soon be old
enough to have public lands and will then be deeply
interested in his partition policy, is lost me- trust
II will be on my successors for all time 10 want
the people OF Oregon and the distant Territories 10 profit
by that domain which God and their own enterprise and
valor have given them
Mr.. President, trust that the from Kentucky
has the magnanmi'y 10 excuse me, II have referred 10
him in terms OF apparent harshness severity beg
that he will bear in mind that trained debaier
and speak under some excitement, but with purpose
TO wound his feelings; for in all the relations Of life
there is not in this body In the country whom
more highly respect there is not one IN whose patriot
SIN and devotion to his country have higher conf
dence; for however dramatically opposite and far apart
as the poles we are on every question oil politics
public policy, trust that honestly 40 But the
senator in OF his several speeches decared-looking
me in the face-ha, this government was uniformly kind
TO the people OF the new States; never sued. never
harassed, never annoyed our people and that we
allowed, in addition to our oheI privileges, to go the
public lands and the timber them. know, when
the senator said that, he did not 10 wound my feelings
but he spoke without that knowledge OF the subject
which possess. and which have been determined to
say. What is the facti There are now in Alabama
three suits in Mississippi two SUITS embracing per.
sons in Louisiana two suits in Ohio thirty eight SUITS
for the public lands in Illinois four