Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-03-27

the Baltimore convention let him beware that he do
not catch sort of fish he never bargained for Ca
e cooly. deliberately deceived once that was
fault -ifh he deceves again, that will be our fault
The Public Lands.
The disposal of the Public Domain by Congress
becoming question of vast practical Importance
the Union and in opinion of vital interest to til
Slave States 1t has yet, attracted but little after
ton among the people, and the politicians even Will
they may have kept themselves thoroughly post up
to the progress the subject making, they have pu,
sued policy but little calculated to throw LIGHT uno
their future course This is wrong as we shall show
and while we are unable in ordinary editorial t
demonstrate it conclusvey shall endeayor to pre-
sent some views and facts, proving that asprants 70
place and power seek the accomplishment of their ow
designs without either the will or capacity to grappl
with and contend for that which, ifneglected will re
suit to the detrment of the people, Most of our poll
hclans are surface men-they are thrown I'd by ex
cltement to position and the moment that the occaso,
which elevated them ceases to exist thew sink TO dea
level, and are seen more. There are men. howev
er: in public life. who rise above the excitement an
the prejudice of party and who sway public opinion h
their mental power Such men give tone and con
sstency to party But he alone is the true Statesman
who shakes from his limbs the restraints classes an,
sects imposes and battles for truth and Justice befor
the world Alas, how few there are of this Roma,
courage! The humbugs of the hour displace them
and 1t is within the range of probabilities, that unde
the rushing flood of constitutional unionism the her
tage OF the South will be swept from her, and her in
stltuuons passed into the hands of free-sosm Rut
we must check pen, and turn to the subject beG,r
us.
The abolition party has given birth to MANY proiect
and 1T is strange to say, that many of these projects
have had their defenders and advocates at tho So,I
Among the projects that of Land Reform stands nre-
mlnen, and it is true, will show, that none Of
them strike directly at the institution Of tho
South, than this. 1t appeals to the cupidty of
kind and to that class of population dependant upor
the whm and caprice of others, either for employment,
or home it addresses itself with peculiar force :,
is trifing thing for man to be possessed in fo
simple of an hundred and sixty acres of land and ii
is natural to presume that his thanks with his uos in
all cases. would belong to and given for the party which
gave the land. This project is not limited it stretch
es its broad hands to all the world and blazons it,
blessings before the eye of Jew and Gentle 1t is a
fact worthy of noe that the project designed not to
discriminate between the native and foreign born and
the man who has been reared in any state in Eurone
is entitled, the moment he places his foot upon our
shores,to claim the benefits arising under it-he can
settle upon any Incorporated land present his claim
and become the owner of hundred and sixty acres
OF SOIL This is bounty proposed by the free sellers
to induce foreign emigration and it is easy to sup
pose that when such price is offered to the landless
the homeless and the foreign pauper that associations
Will be formed in Europe and the tide of emigration
soon doubled and THRILLED. 1t is said that about two
thirds OF the present emigration is Catholic in feeling
and belief and it is fair to presume that the crafty and
calculating Jesuistical policy which characterize the
priests othe Roman See, will find in this project food
for thought and inducements to labor Under the pea
of aiding the poor to obtain homes the Catholic priest
will aid emigration and of course the Evangelzng of
America. This is one Of the BLESSINGS proposed and il
requires no great effort to show, that in country in
which the ballot-box is the channel through which
public opinion is announced and directed that Catho
clsm would, In half century, shape the course and
irect the ends of government and not only this but
would distribute the patronage and the public reven-
les 1t does not end here. Three fourhs of the en-
grant population deadly hostile to the institution of
slavery ; and when we to examine the influence
hat the ballot-box is exercising over it. and the
continual and growing strength of this power in the
Union, one is appalled, by the contemplation. Who
nat can reason can avoid the conclusion! It is in
vtabe and they who fold their hands and crv peace
re trators-rators to the Union and the institution
midst which we live.
we propose to present statement now of the a.
OF the public domain and leave the reader to base
us own estimate upon the figures given.
The existing gross aggregate of the public land
: se' uown at fourteen hundred and fifty millions
fl nDn 4
Using only rough numbers, these lands are dis
rlbuted among the States and Territories as fol- $
ows: -
In Ohio, 745ooo
1muiana' 1851, 900 j
Illinois - oco 80