Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-07-12


Such was the character snot N
lands of which the Genera, cSsn the condifo,
the title; and this renquishms y reno.
New York cooly and deliberateIs, tne genfensnp
states as gratnitous, for which .Ilnarges to h.E
= ofk IS entitled to proportionoton State Of Se
worth dollar and a quarter ner amount OfN.Ve
nese lands were of no value IT.
eminent dld not do all that it ought u to General
regard % tnems 4 did not do what " nave dons
PIopr,sior, n 2 similar case, NAV be aa indiv
ase ene can oeny the right Of the GOompel
lands by ceding them. The Gem ena.a.1O drain S
acknowledging its obligation to remo.a Govern
but, true to its policy of not eYtanS the nuiN
scope and action by mterposinp b v Its geNs.f
sexpenditnre of money, as an ;nd;u taxation, Or NJ
compelled to do, or the appropris,;ou a might u
the reclamation of these lands relinon;.T u Money
with. the obligation. The condition to the A
nuisance Is stipulated in the act. Thu ienore
granted on the condition that the ny. NC lands w.
reclaimed land were to be applied r. p,.1eeeds ofS
the nuisance. The General Goyernnooalee remOraI
noless. An individual proprietorof nn;an could
able inits character and injurious to tho
est,would have been compelled to do ms ssners h
eral Government agreed to cede the lonS IheGe
slderaton for the removal of the nuss,,u IN Co..
tied the grant down to the condition tboe, ill.,
ceeds OF the land sold be devoted to their rasl e
What, then, did the General Goyernms ,anatap
What did the United States give bv thu nuef ghsI
the act granting the swamp lands to tb.P sage
which they lie What is there in the o Nats
be charged up to those States, and mad acton to
for plundering the General Government Ofi pfesse
tons of the public land, by way of offset 70 Pa
States of the Union?" laeOdR
Mr. Disney concludes his 9th of Anra ..,
follows: '''OS
presents startling fact. All the or0u.
by the General Government to the land Sta .S mad
Union, California excluded, amount r. i S" Oit
millions of acres The area of the public ' So. unit
those land States is three hundred and eiobt
ionsof acres, which have been in the noss, Que n
the General Government for sixty vears 'ss $50
whole amount given away during that tim,o %uu at
ing bargains with the States for forbc.r.n'o n'u&
taxation including donations as nducemer.n.s IRON
chasers of the public lands, such as have Jss"
including grants to improve the public domain
including gifts and grants of every sort b.a sla
amounted to thirty millions of acres dn Ia' Vl
whole period; or rather, eight per cent is Il t @l
it has cost the. General Government dur;n ~ VA I
ministration of sixty years for all its gifts and %
to improve the value of the domain to nurrSs'.%
and to the land States of the Union. ask ppna
to ponder upon this fact, when they talk sbout ~
reckless prodigality with which these grants h'v'
been made, and made for ever conceivable Dnrno.
that, during sixty years administration of the mS.
domain, it has only cost the General Goyenmpn.
inclding its grants of every sort, eight Der cent !
the aggregate-in the whole, and covering evo,1
grant that has been made. Let gentlemen Dond,,
upon this. shall illustrate it hereafter" fN'