The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1854-01-11

since been procured. b ysyer. aud the roof
will be put on early in the spring.
1t is expected: that the rooms intepded
for the Supreme CTurt. the Library, and
the various State Offices, will be finished
and ready to be occupied early in the ensu-
ing fall. and that the whole buildipg will be
completed IN time for the next session Of
the General Assembly.
twill be large and beautila .ediEce-
eompOrIihg well with the pagn.tHde and
increasing wealth of the State.
But little attention has been paid for sops
time past to the Militia System Of this State,
and 10 some places, it has been Suffered to
so eptigely down. No returns, il is beliey-
ed, ,kRye been made for several years, and
the State thereby failed 10 receive heryjust
proportion of the public arms. Many of the
divisions. brigades, and regiments are with
opt officers, and there is some doubt as to
the InanBer in which they should be 0!lo-
sen.
Vhe constitution requires that all white
male citizens between the ages Of eighteen
and forty-fve years, shall be enrolled in the
12ilitia. of the State and that provision shall
'be made by law for the protection aud safe
keeping of the public arms.
Il has been found necessarvin all goverU-
ments' to keep up some .kiud of a military
force. In ours, the reliance is chiefly upon
a citizen sol1iery.
There may be occasions when the civil
authorities are iabe to perform their ap-
Propriate duties, and when the Governor is
expressly required "to call forth the militia
to execute the laws of the State, to suppress
insHrrection apd repel INVASION"
Fhe public arms, as will be seen from the
Quarter Master Generals report, are in
most unsafe condition.
These circumstances, it appears to me,
render it impera I'VE on the General Assem-.
bly, to provide for more efficient organza-
tion of the militia of the State.
The reduction of the price Of our canal
lands has Increased the npmber Of acres up
on the grapd duplicate, and contributed
largely u the settlement of one of the mos
promising regions .of the State.
The erea Of the whole State contains 25,-
696, $50 acres, of which there will be .
brought on the grand duplicate for the en-
suing year, "a 81 | f55 acres, leaying bal
ance Of 765, sos acres, the greater part qf
which still belong to the General GoverA-
ment
The United States continues to demand
the former prices qf from y 25 to 70 so
per acre, while the State sells her lands in
the same vicinity 1T greatly reduced rates.
This necessarily ret'GGs the settle me ofthesc
lands, and proves very serious inconyeni-
ence to the people iR t at section Of the
State.
The General Government should at once
surrender the remainder pf its kntIs 10 the
State, SO that they may go into the hands
rf actual settlers, OF graduated prices, and |
De brought, with all the other Lands of ths ;
State, on the grand duplicate.
This would be n@ more than Just. The J
whole quantity Of land at first held by the
General Government IN THIS SAFE, rs ap I
BEARS from the actual surveys, Was l6,770- :
}34 acres. The proceeds already realized
,y the national treasury amount to nearly I
S21 ,000. 900, which is an average of more a
hau 81 25 per acre for the entire quaint l.
y. f
deem the present an appropriate and ,
tVorabie time to press this matter upon the =
consideration of the General Government, I
ince the early settlement of the public do
laipis She avowed policy Of the paesent Ad-
nistration e
Our federaf relnions-' 9th at hGme and u
been conducted. dusiue the :
asst year, with sis4ql ability and success.
The PRINCIPLES ana policy annou ced in
rt inaugural address and message of the :,
hief' Magistrate of the Hnion, reflect the '
'ntiR -n4a and opinions qE the people, and [
ford ample prof that the hoHor and high a
nerests Of dgr country will ae fully and
I4aaiptained.
4 WILLIAM MED4I4s
Columbus, Jan 2, 1854.
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