Weekly Clarksville chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 185?-1857, 1857-07-03

large patronage to the school. A lover
of his profession he will labor to make it
what it should be, one Of the first schools
in the State.
B6g~ In the course of his argument on
distribution, last Saturday, Gen. Zolli-
Golfer presented the following facts, which
we commend to the especial attention of
the reader as proving conclsively, the con-
stitutionality of the measure, and the
hypocracy of the democratic party, in as
serting the contrary, whilst its practice is
in the teeth Of its professions:
At the last Congress 4,500,0 900 acres of
land were given to Minnesota, to build
seven different roads and branch roads, of
an aggregate Tenth of 1,150 milesl s.
000,000 acres to Alabama, to build eleven
roads and branches, of an aggregate length
Of more than l 300 miles 100000 acres
to. Michigan, to build FIVE roads and
branches of more than $40 miles; 1885,
600 to Mississippi, to build three roads of
about 275 miles; 2,300,000 to Wisconsin,
to build three roads of 620 miles; $780,
600 to Florida, to build four roads, of
about 400 miles; 100000 to Louisiana,
to build three roads of about 480 miles,
(besides about 100000 acres, to build a
road from Mobile to N. Orleans); and
about / 100000 acres to Iowa, to build
five roads and branches, of about 1900
miles.
1t was early foreseen that vast extent
of vacant lands, ungranted to individuals,
would be wrested from the British Crown;
and the question as to how they should
be disposed OF, was long q great obstacle,
and, indeed, "the only obstacle" to the
union of all the States under the proposed
Confederacy-(See declaration of Con-
gress, Sept. Z, 1780)-The States within
whose limits these lands lay, had set up
exclusive claim to them, under their char
tiers from the English King; while the
other States contended, that when "wrested
: from the dethroned authority by the equal
exertions Of all, they should "result, in
right and equity, to the benefit of all, "
See Madison papers, p 1110 In 1879,
with the vacant lands by the States claim
ing them, would "be attended with great
mischiefs;" and recommended soon after,
that be coded to the United States Mary
land ''made it prerequisite Ito entering
into the confederation that vacant lands
TO be) acquired from the British Crown,
should be a common fund "-(See same
reference.) One the 10th of October
1880, Congress resolved "that the unap-
propriated lands that may be coded or re-
linquished to the United States, pursuant
to the recommendation of Congress of the
9th day of September last, shall be disposed
Of for the common benefit Of The United
States" (Soe Hickeys compilation, p
421) Then, and not till then Maryland
agreed to come into the confederacy; and
simultaneously March l, 17S1) New
York coded her lands to the United States
Virginia, Massachusetts, Connections, the
Carolinas and Georgia, subsequently, fol
lowing the example. Virginia, North
Carolina and Georgia, expressly ceded
their lands, Gas n common fund for the
use and benefit of" all the States and the
} other States employed language, which
was in substance .tantamount to this
Accordingly on the Goth May, 1875, when
dbpub man blC ObdNSS udu MAUI thOld OSo'
sions, Congress passed an ordnance. Sec
Bioren and Duanes edition of the Laws
, of the United States, Oh. 80, p. 500, fol
distributing pro rata, among all The States
"the territory ceded by individudL States 4
the United States;' in which ordinance il
was enacted, that, after alloting portion
of the lands to the payment of the con
tinental army and other specific purposes
the board of treasury was directed, from
time to time, to cause the remainder 81
be dra,cn for, IN The name Of The hirteer
States according 10 their quotas an The las
preceding reqWisitioR IN all The States"
: President Jackson in his message t.
Congress, Of Dec. A. 1888, after citing som,
of these facts, affirmed that it plainly fol
lowed:
THAT one of the fundamental principles
on which the Confederation of the United
States was originally based, was that the
waste lands of the West, within their limits
should be the common property of tho
United States" and "that those lands
wore ceded to the United States, by tn,
States which claimed them, and the cessioni
= were accepted, on the cypress condition tina
they should be disposed of for the common
bencfi of tho States, according 10 their re
spcctiyc proportions in tho general charge