The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-07-27

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4<xss In Kansas and Rebrasna 4
- FOR the FREQ soN Emigrating soci-
<~s-The Tables Turned.
The administration is evidently boggled and
befogged in its strict constructions Of the CON-
situation. After the veto Of the charitable bin
for distributing ten millions of acres of the
public lands to the different States, to aid in
the support Of their lunatc asylums, nobody
supposed that the same lawyer could approve
bill granting free farm to Tom, Dick, and
Harry, and everybody else honest man, vaga-
bond or loafer, who may choose to squat on the
public domain, and cultivate vegetables, or
stcal horses for four or five years. But snchs
bill has been approved, and o most important
bill too. 1t is The act lately passed, provi-
| ding for surveys, and granting homesteads to
actual settlers in the territories Of New Mexico,
Kansas, and Nebraska" the second section Of
which is as follows -
Section 2. And be it further enacted That to every
white male citizen Of the United States every white
male above S tine age IF one years who has de-
residug n said territory prior to the first day Of Janu
ary eighteen hundred and afty three and who may be
still residing there, there shall be- and hereby denoted
one quarter section, hundred and ski Of
land. And to every white male citizen of the United
States every white male above the age of twenty
who has declared his intention become citizen
and who shall have removed shall remove to set
tie n said territory between the first dsy Of January,
eighteen hundred fifty three and day of Js
naary eighteen hundred and fftyeight, there shall in
bred and sixty acres condition of actual settlement
and cultivation for not less Tran four years Provided
astoa settlement and improvement Of the donee and
shall be selected by legal Subdivisions within three
months after the survey Of the land where the settle
ment was made before the survey and where the set
tement made after the survey, then within three
months after the settlement has been made and all per-
sons failing to designate the boundaries of their claims
within that time shall forfeit all right to the
| This is now law Of the land. Actual white
settlers, citizens, or those who shall have de-
clared their intention to become citizens, will
secure fee simple possession of one hundred
and sixty acres Of land after residence upon
the tract and the cultivation of the same for
period Of four years. That is to say, the gov
eminent will make present to the actual set
tier of farm of one hundred and sixty acres
among the rich lands Of Kansas and Nebraska,
Ito say nothing Of New Mexico), provided he
will consent to cultivate the said farm four
years, free OF rent.
The signing Of this act was doubtless intend
bill; and, in truth, it is quite godsend to the
Northern free soil emigrating societies All
they have now to do is to ship their emigrants
to Kansas and Nebraska There is the Law
there is the land. Every squatter by consent
ing to cultivate for four years, free of charge,
farm out there, Of one hundred and sixty
acres, secures as clear title to it as if he had
paid thousand dollars an acre for it. Could
anything be devised better calculated to con-
cilate the anti-slavery societies to the passage
Of the Kansas-Nebraska bill than this simple
act granting free farms to actual settlers in
those territories?
The South have been q little too fast in their
Civilizations at the repeal Of the Missouri COM
promise. 1t was trick, deusion, and
snare. The free farm bill is equivalent to the
restoration of the Missouri restriction. The
practical effect of this new territorial bill
will most probably be to I'LL up, in less
than year, all the available lands of
Kansas and Nebraska with actual settlers.
establishing an overwhelming preponderance in
both territories against the institution of slave
ry. And all this is due to the free soil par-
tiaiities of the administration for while all
parties have been given to understand that the
President would veto the general Homestead
bill, as originally passed by the House, he has
cheerfully approved the free farm principle for
the especial benefit of free sellers in Kansas
and Nebraska.
The Saratoga State Convention of the holy
anti-slavery alliance, to be held on the 10th Of
August, will, in this affair, have nice rich nut
to crack-a cocoanut full of milk Nor can
they be much at a loss to account for the milk
in the cocoanut. The Kansas and Nebraska
free farm bill is peaee-offering from the adj
mnstration to all the anti-slavery societies of
the North. 1t is intended to quiet them, and to !
propitiate the otherwise rreconclable free soil
ers of the Van Buren, Buffalo democracy. And |
we think il ought to make Mr.. Benjamin +. |
Butler feel easier,and the Epening Post and the !
.fIbany .7flas satisfied of the wisdom of the |
"odious Nebraska bill" With perfect consist |
ency, the whole of the Buffalo free soil party |
may now join John Cochrane and his confden- |
tial clique of Tammany office holders in " hold |
ing the President in their arms He has
completely turned the tables upon the South
for while they get the empty husk Of the Mis-
souri, repeal, the Kansas and Nebraska free
farm bill gives the kernel to the Northern free
soil cmigrating societies. and settles the cues
ton.
We repeat it, the question is settled by this
bill. Hencciorward, the agitation of the restor-
alton Of the Missouri line is all CANNON and
nonsense. There is no earthly necessity for it, I
THE Missouri restriction is substantially restored
in another form. Yet it is little singular that
of the vote upon this bill in either house we know
nothing. and we ,louht mot that lie ev;atoooa