St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-08-11

|oashs.nd 1the SOY rnment got nothing =:
Government pretends 70 forbid Land
officers dealing il warrants; but tits high.
Improbable tho dopart Hinks at such
transactions, aa the. Land II oaaiieels arc lex.
pectedsto control tho sctions il their sew.
eral districts, and to do this REQUIRES mon
I ey. B.
HATS speculationa herr, ,arc we'll known
Ito prominent administration Democrats
but he holds his place unrebuked. Latel,
there has been little demand for lis war
rants and as the Administration has .
desperate battle to 6ghtSnext fall and nc
money to buy votes the poor settlers are Z
be compelled to deal with them Or loose
their homes, when spectators will get The
warrants and the lands; and, furnish the
creatures Of the administration with money
to buy votes. &
| aCARurHERs has pretended to be oppo.
sed to these land sales; but we believe il
was only a pretense; and that whatever in.
huenco he has publicly used to that effect
he has privately counteracted.; .s
People here, haso,o that CARuTHERs
can make himself felt at Washington and
that his interference has more than once
made the worse appear the better side in
appeals tothe department. The power Of
Land Officers are almost dictatorial Their
authority IS arbitrary in the extreme, and
a mans right to his home on the public
lands depends entirely upon these officials,
Questions Of law and fact Of the greatest
Importance to the beligerants, such cues
tons os by common Law are always. argued
before a full bench Of judges and, q sworn
jury, are in thelnattcr Of pre- empting felt
entirely to the Register or Receiver at
the Land Office j.
The partnership Of these officers is SO
felt here, that we do not expect man
who wants to prcempt to vote an opposi-
ton ticket; and the policy Of throwing the
lands into market now is intended to
strengthen this influence. ....
The Administration has not concluded
to force the land sales just before an cleo
ton without counting On the irresistible
arguments it will furnish Land officers,
for insisting that pre-emptors in prospect
shall vote the regular ticker, aye and work
for it too, 70 ..sss /. I'LL
There are great many men who would each
agree to make q certain number Of votes
IN his precinct provided the Land officers
would lend him warrant, who would take
no special interest in election, if his home
were not under the hammer. It is by
bringing settlers into distress-by placing
them in the power of its creatures that
this Admininistratio hopes to control the
next election in Minnesota. 49,. ...~.... Ii.
It is singular that none Of the Republi-
can editors have seen the matter in this
light, for it certainly is the rationale of
The whole matter. . 49,, 800 S.*5'.
In this county last fall we knew men
who intended working for the Free Demo-
cratic ticket who peo,,t ~ -.
:aaiise money to pre-empt before their posi-
ion was publicly known
T'11c ura1r rho has a<town site IN
dispute; and in forty -nine cases out of fifty
We will show you man who will work for
he Land Office ticket. What will this in
luence be when the settlers on two mil
ions of acres are placed in the immediate
lower of BucHANAN's under strappers-
yhen these under strappcrs shall have au-
hority to turn them out of their homes if
hey are refractory. Can men, SO situated,
'e expected to sacrifice the improvements
hey have already made to sustain the gen
,ral principle Of free homes TOR free msen"'
Washington Telegraph dispatch:
a.. -. q. July 81, 1859:
The public lands advertised to be sold in
Minnesota, from the LIST Of Oct. to the l4th
# Oct, embrace the Government alternatcs
within the six miles limits of the Railroad
grants and the pine lands fthe northeast
portion Of that State, consisting Of one mil
ion and three quarters acres. .ss~ "A.
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Mob Law in Wright County:
Last Winter man named jackson Of