Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-26
Land Grants.


The Detroit Triune cot1ies out strong.
y IN favor Of appropriations of public
lands TO aid in the construction of rail.
roads, and ventures the assertion thai
there is no difference of opinion, as re.
CARDS this subject, in the West-that i,
they all favor such appropriations, OF
rather appropriations of the ptiblil
domain. IF the Tribune includes Wis.
consin in "the Vest; it certainly is
very ignorant of the prevailing senti.
ment here for the people of this State
are almost universally opposed to the
policy of making donations Of public
lands to corporations for any purpose
whatever, and we believe the same is
true of the press Throughout the State
Wisconsin has already ex perienced
some Of the evils resulting from the ap.
preparations Of huge portions of her soil
to companies, and prays to be delivered
from having to suffer a repetition of
these evils, which are SD ruinous to her
general pros perity, and detrimental 10
the rapid increase of wealth and popu-
lation. Mol appropriate the public
lands Of Wisconsin,, in limited quanti-
ties, to The landless, who wish to till
the soil--to those who have no spot on
Gods green earth that they can call
their home, and we will ask no aid from
the Government in the construction of
our railroads, or in the prosecution of
other public improvements !; and we
will guaranty, If this be done, that Wis
eonsin will construct railroads and inn
prove her rivers as fast as the wants OF
the people demand them. Then, too,
her public improvements will not all be
In the hands Of the few, nor will her
soil be monopolized by knavish politi-
clans and greedy spectators, the end
of whose existence is to get rich, and
who care not how or at whose expense
they obtain it.-[ Mil. Free Dem.
The LONDON TINES ON THE AFRICAN
IzATIoH OF CUBA.-The London fines
devotes a column to the recent discov-
cry, by political paper at Washington.
that Great Britain is engaged in a
scheme with Spain to Africanize Cuba.
The Times seems TO think that plausi-
bility has its proprieties, if not its du-
ties-that when the whole American
nation is reused to rage, it should be
for something credible, possible, or al
least conceivable. Great Britain has a
regard for money, and before she will
eXpend twenty millions of pound ster-
ling upon any scheme, it must be more
feasible project than inundating Cuba
with African apprentices, on the condi-
lion that slavery shall cease on that is
land at the end Of fifteen years. The
PROJECT, in the opinion Of the Times,
would be just the plan to perpetuate
slavery aud the very thing desired BY
American capitalists interested in Cuba
The apprentices once landed and mer-
ged in the slave population Of Cuba
who is to be able ten years hence tc
distinguish the man whose lease of hi.
letters and stripes is on the point of ex-
piring, from the fortunate possessor OF
an inalienable freehold? The following
is the conclusion of its remarks:
"Thongh we have not the happiness
and honor of being Americans, yet as a
nation, we know the value Of money
and can measure the practicaoility
Of schemes. We don't attempt to cross
the Atlantic in punch bowl, much less
is it likely that we should ever trust ne.
gro apprentices TO Cuban planters, eman-
cipation to Spanish honor. If not as
good or as wise as we might be, we YET
know what we are about, which coult
hardly be said of us if we had ever en-.
tertained for one moment such projec
as that which has thrown the President
the Cabinet, the press and and the peo
pie of the United States into frenzy
Of virtuous indignation"