Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1858-12-30

Territory, is this small section between

Territory, is this small section between
the rivers alluded tos Can It be -expec-
ted that any State, framed from the pres
entlimits of Nebraska Territory, will eY-
er be admitted into the Union, without
| population equalito the Congressional ba-
-sis1iof representation in the House of
Representatives 3 The very next census,
l-s0en to be taken, will hardly make that
basis less than one hundred and twenty
/ five thousand. When Nebraska Terrific
ry shall have that population, can we fat
ter ourselves that the larger part of it
will reside on this small neck of Terri
tory south of the Platte river! And if
not, how would we be better off, a dozen
years hence, if then ready to form State
Government, with pestiferous Platte river
creating adverse interests, and at the
mercy of the interests created on the 9TH
er side of that bridgeless stream? @
But why should there necessarily be,
under State organization, conflict of
interests between this section and that
section of a common State Confedera-
cy? If each section has Its own local in
terests, each section will have that inter-
terest represented. How will the ad-
Yancement of one section, or the protec-
tion of its interests retard or injure the
other? Will lot any land grants made
to the new State, for educational, rail
roads, or other purposes, be held in trust
as common fund, for the benefit of all
parts of the State VIII not the bless.
ings of State Legislation, descend like the
dews of heaven on all alike!
We find ouselves at a loss to conceive
of any necessary conflict in these interests
unless it may be in the construction of
railroads, and it will hardly be expected,
that the people of the State will be called
upon to pay State tax to construct rail-
roads, or any other great work of inter-
nal improvement, that will benefit one
section only, at the expense and to the
detriment of another. In State, hav-
ing river boundary of nearly three
hundred miles, is it to supposed, that we
would be content with single railroad
VIII not each section of the State have
Its own road, and each derive the same
Federal and State aid |?
As for our section-or the Territory
between the Platte and the Nemaha riv.
ers, the General Assembly of the Terri.
tory, at its last session, unanimously adop-
ted memorial, designating the route fol
one Railroad, and there can be no earth.
ly doubt but what Congress, either in the
ordinance of admission, or at an early
day therefore, will make the usual grant
to aid in constructing that road.
But while we remain a Territory is
it at all likely that we can obtain a grant
for that road or any other? True, grants
were made once to Territory as she was
Just merging into State sovereignty, but
the manner In which they were obtained
the misappication of the grants them
selves, as well as the notorious corruption
resulting from them, will hardly weigh
with Congress as a plausible reason why
that precedent should be followed, and Sc
soon. Organize ourselves as State and
we have right to expect such grants
and at once. The new land States have
all received them, and Kansas will form
no exception to the general rule. They
will follow, as of course. The grant;
will be made Our railroads will be con.
struCted. Our future secured. Were
there no other, should not this reason, oi
itself, irresistibly incline US for the pro
posed organization
The new land States have all received
two per centum of the gross proceeds o.
the sales of the public land within theil
,o.,,oo,;,-o bo,p5 5or;oe on5 IL C,o.o ~
Kansas will be entitled by the law of the
last session to five per centum of these
proceeds. Comparatively but a small
part of these lands will have been dis
posed of, at the organization of the State
/ government. The revenue which vii
! ! result to the new State, and to US, in ou
i proportion, to be distribute in works o
internal improvement, from this sourc,
alone will be immense and perpetual
S Will it not be much more than an equiva
), lent for the grudging and stinted pittanc
e doled out annually and grudginglyto to tn
n Territories
:. A few figures will make this statemen
;, obvious. The amount of public land al
d ready surveyed and approved prior 10 tn
y year 1857 in Kansas is 1852. 900 acres
n add the surveys of the present year. 2,
: 100000 acres and we have total c
ot about II, 100000 acres, all of which no.
n or will be IN the market in short time
n The amount already sold there will M
l. exceed two millions acres. Leaving 10
Is 100000 yet to be disposed of. In Nebra:
al ka Territory the amount surveyed priC
D to this year is 5,674, 900 acres, about 2
n SOC, 900 of which was South of the Platte
2 The surveys south Of the Platte, tn
l. year, will swell the amount to $500
ID 600, not more than SOC, 900 acres has bee
er sold, leaving 5000, ,060 acres to be adde
to Kansas, if annexed, making the who
+ amount of public land within the ne
o. State, vet 10 be sold, and already survey
~ ed, ready for sale, Is, 900, 900 acreswhiC
Id at the minimum price will bring SIG
st 100000. We assume that in four yea
le it will be disposed of, and that the Sta
he of Kansas receiving five per cent Of Il
IN gross proceeds, will receive from tn
D. sale, eight hundred thousand dollar
ny or tTo hundred thousand dollars per a
he mum, our proportion of it being more thi
E. the entire yearly stipend of the terrt
IS, ry of Nebraska. And when we reht
Irt that comparatively, but a small part