Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-09-17
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THE HOMESTEAD BILL.

IS follows
"Ihat any person who is the head Of :
twenty .ons years and is 8 citizen q 81 tlie
United States OF who shall have filed his
intention to become such, as required by the
naturalization laws of the United States,
shall from and after the passage of this act,
be entitled to enter free o: cost, one quarter
section OF vacant aud unappropriated public
land which may, at the time the APPLICATION
y made, be subject 70 private entry, At 125
per acre. Or 4 quantity equal thereto, to 81
located in body, in conformity with the
legal subdivisions Of the public lands, and
alter the same shall have been serveyet&.""I :.
Cur readers will recollect that this! law
was copied from i Rspu5licanl t,aes, and tn.
Republicans can not and do not deny it!.on
The operations Of this law are confined
to such Oh lands :, IS are subject "to p,ioats a.
try" at the minimum government price 3
E$l,25 per acre. Il does not apply to any Q
the lands in this State, for nearly all ,hav'
never been subject to private entry, havinl
never been offered At public sale. It doe.
not apply to but.s little land in the Older
States, because such lands are ALLEN into tn
class Of lands known as "the graauata
lands" 80 " go I y ~ - '''tS: 1f5's
| The bill is consequently wholly inopera
tive in this State, and nearly 50 elsewhere
If the law had passed it would have directed
the migrants attention; to other States
and proved il its practical operations pos
tive injury to our State, by turning emf
|gration from our borders. Messrs. Phelps
and Cayapaugh, in their speeches, deprecated
the character Of the bill, and as Mr.. Grow
well knows, and will doubtless admit, at
tempted to get it amended, but the bill wa
|put under the Operations of the opreviou,
question, and all amendments arbitrarily Gu
Off 1t was recognizing right and benefi
ciai principle, and they sustained it. 1&
Again, the Homestead Bill is stolen plum
der. The Grow Bill, s. called, is the bill .
the Hon, John Kelly, Of New York, as tru
a Democrat ss, ever breathed. Mr.. Grow
need not, and probably does not, take mucl
credit in themattera He was shown to be
and will prot ably admit, that he knows moth
ing Of our land system, and with the yer,
best intentions might form billthat woult
vitality destroy the prosperity Of the West
Your interests at the national capitol SHOULD
be ip the hands Of such men IS Mr., Ora
ham, who know your interests, % and hav.
practical Information upon the, great: sub
jects that affect your well being. .tl:o.e1 5log
Since the above was id type, our atten
ton was called to 4 stupid article in the las
REPUBLICAN, on the subject, which is illus
trative Of the unfair and dishonest course .
the opposition. The Republican claims thai
Mr.. Crows amendment Qor which amend
ment we give all due credit) that the land.
should not be: sold until. ten years after the
public surveys, &C.: was . part and parcel
of the Homestead Bill. This is not 50. II
was an amendment made to bill in rela,
ton to preemptors, introduced by Mr.. Cobb
Of Alabama, and no one ever desired it at
tached TO the Homestead Bill. It was in
consistent With t.: The statement Of the
Republican Is merely q falsehood, and if it
is content to utter such false statements, it
ought to lose all its credit for truth or can.
dor among all honorable Or. truth flowing
citizens. 1t is driven to this poor shift, af-
ter the exposure Of the hollow hypocrisy
and ignorance manifested on Crows much
laudad Homestead Bill.''1 o 59.oaly~ ..