The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-11-19

"a lsvA is esetins 10 b largs STATE. =.
population vs moan. IL area she .vss alwayst
lafgs. having oser $4,000 square nilss q rsshs
- varied eel Ia the books he ASssss ~
- down at sO,sl4 aquaEe miles. This y
mistake Tie ssue area = over Afty-six tho7s-,
and sQsars hilsas J1e1ss. Califesnia, Misssud
and 0e1sgia ass lasese thaa 1osa. nishisaR
ahsss a. large, New York, Ohio, Illinets aad
Peaosylyspia smallss.
A. the recent election. abept 1lO.0no votes
we're polled in shsa ssats. According . The re-
cent census ear popslaaioa vas . fraction lesas
shan IN hundred asd Afty shoasaad. In iss0
eur pepoiation wiil probably be ovss esosoool-
ahosld the ratio Of representation be fxed q
loo 900. yith rspret sntatire ler every fraction
over S0.Q00, Isva will have seven reprssenta>
tives 10 ~ nsEs congress, and east nine electo-
ri votes in 1864. asatasa q
s. IN 1850, Iowa had population Of los. .si4.--
The increase. in ten years. will amount to a6eut
$50 per cent should she continue 70 increass
in proportion during the next decade. her psp-
alasioa will 10 in 1910 svsr $500. .00O. which
Vas about the popuiasion Of Pennsylvanis in
1850. 8aE e2s sA44 s9 tst# ssfs ~
Had the general goverpmens pursued the
policy Of selling only 70 actual settlers. or dona
ting the public lands in small tracts - homes
steads, to men who would occupy aud cultivate
them, Iowa -weald 70 day contain million
and . half Of people, and in 1870 three milliooa
aelsase Bot unfortunately the policy Of our
0evernmeat has been adverse - poor men,
Legislatiou has always been for the bene6t Of
Capitalists and spseulators, and 70 the great de-
triment and disadvantage Of men Who wished 70
become actual settlers. Emigration goes BY 10
70 Nehraaks. Kansas, sad Minnesota, because all
the desirable lands in Iowa are in second hands.
and held ~ two Or three hundred per cent sd>
vsnce on Government price. orat least have
been, and will Be again just a. soon a. they sre
10 demand. Hss4. y.
Why should the genssaI govensment take
one hundred dollass out Of the pocket Of every
man who buys an eighty acre lot, for the benefit
Of non resident aud resident spectators and
land sharks. and thereby retArd the settlement
and Stunt the growth Of the new Statesf Give
Us . Homestead Law. aa
| n The Republican party has q mtssion to
perform, j. O., to restrict Slavery to the States
where is legally exists. and pneventlts extension
over any more free coil. This it will most GER
tainly do. ID spite Of the Southern propagaud-
lists and Northern doughfaces, and that, too,
without the least danger to the Union. Time
vii! come. and that speedily. when free whita
laboring men will have some status iu this
| Goverumens, and their wants be thought wor'
thy TO engage the attention Of Congress-wher
Congrees ehall be wiling to collect suficien
revenue upon imports TO pay current expen
ses, even though it should afford An incidents
psotection TO the industry of the country.
Republicanism win not always be 30 verl
black 10 the estimation Of Democrats, and th
everlasting "nigger" viii not always be every
where in Church aud State, in politics and re-
lgion. When the Democratic party is ann'hi
lated, 40 it will be in 1850, and Northern dema
gogues effeetually killed out. We may hope TO
good time in which agitation shall cease. be
cause slavery is content with it's constitutions
rights nd ceases to war in Kansas or long aite
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