American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1855-07-14
The Administration Turned Spectator.
THE Cabinet, President, and Congress
"Gotng IN"
oil the cleveland Express.
ON,rn MACON Innn 10 1Snr

fight; and the administration of Pierce
had its battle of Greytown and did fight.
But 1t was reserved for the present gov.
eminent, having made our foreign pol
icy manifest by bombardment of ten.
antless shanties, to establish new fea-
ture OF domestic policy, in the sugges-
ton, adopted and carrying out of mon.
ster scheme of city lot speculation for
the benefit of administration officials.
tools, and hangers on.
Knowing that the wand of power,
which they had welded only for evil,
was soon to be wrested from their grasp
10y an indignant people, Messls. Pierce,
Forney " Co., determined To go out uf
office richer if not better men than when
they went in. .....
The unexampled and magic like
growth of St. Paul in population and
prosperity suggested tho means, and
men were sent to Fond du Lac, Lake
Superior to make presumption claims; a
company composed Of thirteen men,
bers OF Congress, ono member of tho
Cabinet, one Presidents private secreta-
ny, one editor of tho Washington Union,
one president, one president banker and
saI o''''oeis' having been organl-
Pre-emplions were made for six thous-
ana acres OF land at Fond du Lac, and
thanks to administration influence. pat
ents were almost Immediately obtained
although thousands of other pre- emp.
lions made lono he fnr, n, % ,,o, ,,,,,,,.,,l
l ~ '''"' 'o"s oe'o'e ute yet uhattehd-
Wv .o'
Among the precious fraternity, cor
Po'a'ors OF this superior city enterprise,
are "r. higgs' or Corcoran and Riggs,
bankers washington; MIR. Robert j.
walker head and front of the moon
shine racine hallway; Senator Breck-
ehr'dge' OF kentucky, the successor Of
man removed from the Governorship
OF minnesota Tor simple performance
or CONSCIENTIOUS duty; Mr.. Richardson,
'ne Pliaht tooi or the administration in
the House, and one of the prominent ad-
Socates OF the Kansas Nebraska intamy;
senator Bright, II. X. Nelson son of
Judge Nelson; ID. A. Robinson editor
or me 81. Paul's Democrat; Mr. Stimson
o. hamilton, Canada West, and MIR. Geo.
Ne't!eton, OF Ash,abula, Ohio.
Sidney Webster, Forney, of Infamous
letter notoriety, and others, have recent.
ly visited the location. and in JuIv Pres.
ident Pierce and an hundred camp fol.
lowers are coming TO give sanction IN
this gigantic swindle.
Al,eadv has q moor;Gcort rro,.,
which is plated twelve tbons,pd fo,a
TWENTY-FIVE feet front nv one bnmJr.I =,
DEPTH A poner too IA ;o.uoG ~
spread broadcast olorify;,o m. nam.
ci,y. and in ;ts b,s;nes: co,u,,,.
note business advertisement, of rn m
who halls from. "No. 273 Tbird s,rea,I l
The truth is this: The citv boasts ..
bout fortv houses and several shan,;aa
six families and an hundred soecplo,ors
For twenty-five miles from the Lake ,hn
land is not worth one cent for agr;cnJ.
tural or mineral purposes. and tho town
relies for success on " upon The nrodnc,
of good lands in Minnesota. twenty. five
miles distant.
The only thing which can make S,-
perior even "stonn;no pJ,csn % IL,
completion of a railroad from s. PanI
to the mouth of St. Louis ,;ver ,hns
turning the tide ofemioraIion from raEn
Micbioan and Cbicoof 20 TaI.o c..
rior and Fond din Toc Thn up,
of the presen, imbec;,s adm;,';s, Uo
the cho,ter of tho Pn;n, p la,"
las and Lake Snnor;or M;,;,anu Do's
from tho Mon,h nF ,ha y p r"au
to Sunrise r;ver a., f.,,J du'
ton If The fnnI dona,sJ ha a' H., po..
to tho Minnesn,o Tarr;,aru' Wv ""'lo'
ed to the construc,ion ~ ai,h wa" p1oue
IF ,bis rooJ - 49, g.. w" Nc. 'i''.eS
and The road il nrooress;na f e. 'soon?,n'
HAVING Lser con,nio,oJ =, 10" ''''os
the en,;ro road - 'u nron,;so1 Io" o.'u' a"u
m tho 1E,h 90 Nonpon "i'''o0' 'o"P'ot'on
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