Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-03-24

could be carried out, nothing would 30 Cont,
drain the old States, North Carolina nc,nas
tne'. wealth and population. But suppose f.. Of
ample. all the States. or even majority AZ S' e.
should enter the market with their w.r,,~. 'en
sell them for what they would bring In a. s%
place, gross injustice would be done to tbo afS
tor their warrants, with the food Of v.,s s0u'erS
market, would at once fall in value: and in >.
ond place, the States thus acting would recss. &c.
trifle for their warrants, while the pro,s Out
enure to spectators, who would buy them Two. would
quantities, monopolze the public domain ,a a''ss
1t out at high prices to emigrants and oths,a Zeal
ing homes. North Carolina, for examine rs., want
Sert'se her land warrants for sale. She a.
nrst Strike blow at all her soldiers and ,h.;. "@
lies who have land warrants; and second1v +, '''I
iering lands at cheap rates in distant S,s,.s VI
would sncite her population to zape h.. sas
up their abode in nep regions. She would @A
substance, it is true I have here at homa '@
children twenty millions of acres of land 49,. u!
paratvely unimproved. Ten millions Of i s0a
forests and much of the whole of it is good D.as
tive land. These lands can be bought At f-o,s aD'
to hve dollars per acre. want more mon 49,, wv
men, and laborers, and cattle, and the like.
population to work these lands and r. -, val"
what should be among my sisters: but ,h.s '
general government has given me some land,
know not where, and as want little ready ,n.1
more than any thing else will sell the warrants.
what they will fetch. Oh yesl oh yes! com.
and buy! am greatly distressed for l;,,,. Ivy
cash. The general government has beo, .,..
met has given me some land warrants 0 .n,
want to sell them. Who bids? Pale emsrant nj.
your horse and cart and wife and children
tive and brave young man, in whose limbs -.
whole fields of work-come up, come up and hid,
am glad you are gong, for can sell you Warrant.
Have you got the money? Remember want w.
ready cash. How many warrants will you have,
Where is the land, did you ask 4? Why bless mo
know not where it is am selling YOU s,ar,o,,.
When you find your lands just apply your warrant
and if it does not stick you must then applv to b
general government, which has the title. Jh,vs y,
title. The warrants are mine, and for the ready
cash they shall be yours. The government will
make you title Uhen vou find the land; and fiji,
by the way, was pleasant little trick to prevent
the land States from taxing our land, which tbes.
warrants call for. Come up, come up and buv,
Spectator, take the sohole lot! You can man,,.
these warrants SO as to coin money out of them, and
you shall have them cheap. One of my sons, So
journing at Paris, in a happy moment thoughtd
this. He returned-he writ letter " and made
some speeches-and hence the result. We are fl
have no more "expensive Territorial governments
no more grants to new States, no more alternate
sections, no more plundering and squandering on
small scale, but we are all to plumber and squands
now and we are to have no more trouble with The
lands, and nothing to hinder us in our ownwaH
march. Taxes are to be Observation-Disclosures built
by land warrants-and every man who fails to get
lieu thereof
Such is the language which North Carolina would
in substance utter to her children, if once fully
committed to Mr.. MUr.av,s iaud scheme: such tbs
folly, humiliation and shame which would oyert,Es
the State.
But we are told, the lands are being squandera
on the new States and on Railroads, and if we Do
not put in for our share, we shall never get any,
Let US see how this is: Up to 1863, as the report
of the Secretary of the Interior shows, only about
twelve millions of acres had been granted for eoucs.
tional purposes and about seventeen millions for
ternal improvements. About fifty millions of acres
of swamp lands had been granted but these lands
are in many instances comparatively worthless, re-
quiring large expenditures and time and patience to
render them valuable. Nothing is lost by this toths
general government, but the States may gain by it.
for they can drain these lands where they can be
drained, but the general government never will So
far as the school lands are concerned they have been
granted to all the new States on condition, first that
the new States will never interfere with the primary
disposal of the soil secondly, that no tax shall be
imposed on lands the property of the United States
and thirdly, that in no case shall nonresident OWL
ers be taxed higher than residents We have grant
ed twelve millions of acres of land, and have thereby
hundred millions Of acres. Was that bad bargaln'
We think not. Since 1853, some fifteen millions oil
acres it has been stated, have been granted for H.
ternal improvements; making in all about thrty'tE'
millions of acres for this purpose. These grams
have been made on the alternate section principle
that is, on each side and within six miles Of the line
of the proposed improvement, the company taking
one section and the government reserving the next
section and SO on through. 1t is not true that hs
Railroad companies are allowed to pick the beshnd
They must take it as it comes and the governmsDt
it is believed never fails to obtain for its ressr's'
sections as much as it would have got, at ordin'F!
rates. for all the lands together. Thus the count!
is improved and the government is at the same tln'
no loser by the arrangement We hear great da
about the grant of alternate sections in 1850 to h
Illinois Railroad. That grant was for 1885, S'
acres. 1t was voted for by Messrs. Mangum a'a
Badger of this State, and by Messrs. ClngmaD '''
Stanly, of the House; and it was voted against ''
Messrs Ashe, Caldwell, Outlaw, Sheppard, and ven
able. The bill was approved by President Fillmore
The vote was not party vote. But what Of
the company has made money by its lands t'u
granted is it reasonable to suppose that the govern
ment has lostp 1t is but just also to state thai
everv case where the oovernment has made graDu