New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-28
AGBICULTtRsL COLLEGE, BILL
NGT0ED.

| President BucbaDsn has vetoed the bill granting
| Public Lands 10 all the States in aid Of semnares
for instruction 10 Agriculture, iech,nics and the
| Useful Arts. He USES some ialr words IN e1cuslns
tp, Veto but they have nothing to do with ais rea-
sous for perpe tfatp git. The SIMPLE truth is that
be j. tool o. the Slave Po<er, its creature its in
strumeDt, and the Sl.vs Power is radically h,stls
TO educated labor, holding that the mind aud the
muscc euplc yedin prcduclise industry Oushte'erto
be- distinct and sepsrats. An Industrial College in
a Save State would be a. great solec.m as a
bl,cksmi'h's shop in powder-1Ou.e. Hea:e,
Jotn Sidtl, chef engineer of the Cu5s-s'eAliog
project, declared year ago that tots bill should DO
vetoed if it passed, aud his puppet in the White
! House has Obeyed his mandate. Any one might
bsve sppreheDded this by SIMPLY scanning the Sec
tora aspects Of the vote in Congress- on the passage
! Of the bill which are as folloEs:
The bll passed the House, April 22d last BY lOi
! Yeas to 100 Nays, die ded thus
FREE SrATEs-yc1s..o1; Noys....37.
| SLAVE STATES Yeas....l3; Nays....o3.
Tire Senate coneurred on the 7Gh last b. % Yeas
to 30 Nays, DIVIDED sectonaly IS follows:
FREE SrATEs-Ye as..,.2l: Noy'.... 4.
| SLAVE STATis- Yeas. 4 Ndys-...1S.
] This simple exhibition slfiices. Any wel-in-
| formed poit ci,n knows tina. a bill supported by
! three .fourtbs of the Members of Congress from
tie Free States aud opposed By st Il larger pro
portion Of those from the Slave States would be
vetoed by President elected and pledged as Mr..
| Buchanan WAS Tee Slave Power, wbeDeve. it
| fals to command, through the potency Of patron
age, majority in Congress, holds the Veto as its
last IT sOrt so that no legislation favorable to the
interests Of Free Labor, unless it be compelled
BY the exigences of the Government Itself, is to be
| hoped for while the President is virtually chosen
by National Convention of Democratic Office
boilers and place hunters in alliance with the
Slavery Propaganda. Lands for the landless"
must stand back, while "niggers for the niger
less" take the lead, ard National ehort, or appro
priations in behalf Of the Education Of Labor will
be secuted so long as Cuba-stsaling projects based
on the assumption that tropical regions can Only be
cultivated by ignorant, degraded slaves, shsl be
commended from the White House, and their
opponents branded IS towards by the President Of
the Republic.
We have said that the objections to Mr..
Morrill's bill paraded by Mr. Buchanan, were not
bis real grounds Of hostility thereto. lie tells u.
for Instance, that the passage Of this bill would
nearly deprive the Treasury Of revenue from Public
Lands during the ensuing year, because the States
would (or mighty enter the market with their
Land Scrip and undeIsel the Government. Now,
the President must know that the holders of
Military Bounty Warrants have been constantly in
the market for nearly ten years past selling Land
Scrip at almost every place where purchaser
could be found, twenty or thirty per cent below
the Government price Of lands; and yet money
has flowed iao the Treasury fromland-sales yearly.
II Mr.. Bucbanan's premises BIO sound, there can
be no revenue from Lands next year whether this
bill pass or fail; foS Land Warrants are stl
abundant and more are being ground olt. We do
not believe the receipts of Money during the next
fical year for lands viii approach Five Millions,
though this bill be killed.
But sg,tn. the President ought to know that
the States would be in no such hurry to dispose Of
their Lands. We believe most if not all Of them
would hold on for higher price than the Govern
uent minimum-@ould locate their lands judi
ciously sell portions Of tAem-ssy alternate quar-
ter-sectons--to settlers and hold the balance for
better prices, as school-sections are now MALAY
held-thst each State would mainly cooDizs her
own lands, thus giving fresh, peculiar impulse to
We.teIn settlement and growth. AT all events,
they would not make haste to get lid of them Ike
q sailor with his ptizemoney, bat would nOurish
and try 10 MAKE tie most Of them; so that no.
quarter Of them would probably be alenated during
TIE residue Ct Mr.. Bucbsnsns term.
AL the lard appropriated BY this bin doe, not
amount TO one sixth Of tbs quantity which Congress
has donated within the last ter years 10 aid Of Bail
road. ard as bounties for Military Service; yet the
President talks if this email grant in aid Of the
National Industry would unhinge and deTsugs
everything. In one breath, be insists that il would
glut tie market ard reduce the price OF lands 80
that tie Government could not sell any sor ten
shipgs per acre; in the next he fears that i. may
help spectators and mOnOpolis.s at tie expense II
tie actual settler. Bat how can those who have
nonopoized Public Lands and are holding them
for high prices be helped By putting Six Millions Of
acres of fre.h lands into tie market in eompet.
ton with then and how can the actual settler DO
damaged this bill il TO make lands so cheap that
the Government can sell no more even az ten sill
lDgs per acre Reasons never destroy each othsr;
prete1ts often DO.
Mr.. Buchanan argues that TIE lands are nos held
to be given away; tina: Agriculture would prob
Sbly Lot be benefited BY the proposed grant; and
that TIRE States ought not to b. benefcries Of the
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