White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-01-06

for one railroad, and there can be NJ
earthly doubt bat what Congress, eitheI
in the ordinance of admission, or at ar
early day thereafter, will make the usna
grant to aid in cogstructing that road.
But, while we remain under Territorial
control, Is Il at all likely that we can OBJ.
tain a, grant for that road. or for any 9th,
er? True, grants were made once to q
Territory as she was Just merging into a
State sovereignty, but thenaanner in which
they were obtained. the misspplication Of
the grants, themselves. as well as the no.
tOriouS corruption resulting from them,
will hardly weigh with Congress as a
plausiJiereason why that precedent should
be followed, and so soon. Organize our
selves 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 grants will be made. Our
railroads will be constructed. Our future
secured. Were there no other, should
not this reason, Of itself, irresistibly in.
cline us for the proposed organization
The new land States have all received
two per centum of the gross proceeds of
the sales of the public land within their
respective boundaries. and the State OF
Kansas will be entitled, by the law of the
last session, to fire per ceRtune of these pro-
ceeds. Comparatively but small part
of these lands will have been disposed of, at
the organization of the State Government.
The revenue which wall result to the new
State, and to us, in our proportion, 10 be
distributed in ,rorks of internal improve
ment. from this source alone viii be i'm
mense and perpetual, Will it not be
much more than an equivalent for the
grudging and stinted pittan,e doled out
annually and grudgingly to the Terrific
ries
A few figures will make this statement
obvious. The amount of public land al
ready surveyed and approved prior to the
year 1857 in Kansas, 9 .252. 900 acres.add
the surveys of the present year, 1880
900 a res. and we have total of about
$4,000 900 of acres. all of which is now
or will be in market in short time. The
amount already sold there will not exceed
1000, 900 Of acres. Leaving 10000 900
yet to be disposed of. In Nebraska Ter
ritory the amount surveyed prior to this
year is 5,674.000. about 100000 Of
which was South of the Platte. The
surveys this year, South of the Platte will
swell that amount TO 8, 500, 600, not more
than 100000 acres Of which mas been
sold, leaving 100000 of acres to be.
added to Kansas, if annexed. making the
whole amount of public land within the
new State. veto be sold, and already sur
veyed, ready for sale, Is, 1000, 900 Of acres,
which at the minimum price will bring
over SIC, 100000. We assume that in
four years it will all be disposed Of, and
that the State Of Kansas receiving FIVE per
cent. of the gross proceeds, will receive
from that sale, eight Hundred thousand
dollars, or two hundred thousand dollars
per annum, our proportion of it being
more than the entire yearly stipend 10 the
Territory Of Nebraska. And when we
reflect that comparatively, but small
part of the new State will be embraced
within this calculation, for but small
part of it is-surveyed, we can realize how
immense will be the returns 10 the State,
from this source alone.
The new State will also receive nearly
fifty thousand acres for State Universe
ty, to diffnse the arts and sciences among
the people. The act also grants six thou
sand four hundred acres for the purpose
of erecting a State Capital, which, il the
South Platte territory be included, will
probably be located on the Big Blue, or
some Of its tributaries. Besides these
grants, already secured. the State will
have right to expect the usual FIVE hun
hundred thousand acres. for a general
school fund, in addition to the two Sec
tions in each township as set apart in our
Organic Act.
By the provisions of the law of the
last session, known as the Conference
Bill. four millions Of acres of the public
land, was gIlowed the State of Kansas,
with their then boundaries, and we can
reasonably expect, that the addition of the
South Platte to that State, would entitle
her by the same ratio, to another million
of acres, which will be held and and dis
tributed for the general purposes of i'm
Hon long, may tce ask, must
zee IRE remain as a Territory before 'ce can
count on such donation, or any part Of
Il, from The General Governmentf
Two sections of land in each township
are reserved for school purposes By the Or
ganic Act; but they cannot be made
available, under territorial organization.
The title is in allegiance and can only be
disposed of under State Government.
Hence, these grants. so important to the
veal of the community, cannot be con
verted into the means Of education. despite
territorial efforts to do so, until the power
to ALLEVIATE is secured.
In country like ours. depending for
its very stability upon the general d;fa-
sion of intelligence and education among
the masses, this reason why we should
seek the earliest opportunity of forming
a State Government. and thus more efec-
tualIy secure the means Of education
among us, must strike every mind with
no small force:
Wealth and capital are timid. Other
things being equal they naturally seek the
security and stability Of constitutional
government, in preference to the uncer-
tsinties and fluctuations of territorial
one. II cannot be denied that the loose