Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-03-05

tional Administration in Minnesota" in regard
to our public lands. This course" it indi.
Gates, is the frequent land sales which the
Democratic Administration advertises. The
argument of our contemporary is, that this
Democratic Policy removes 8" the feeling Of
dependence and "paupsrism which men Of
"no ualue," without "energy or spirit " it
thinks must certainly feel who would avail
themselves of the privilege Of acquiring a
homestead, Stree of COST" except five years
cultivation, under the provisions OF Home
stead Law
We respectfully differ from the organ OF
Lieutenant Gov. HoLcoMBE, about this " tee.-
ing of dependence" The Homestead Law
would rather Undue the actual settler with
more iadependenes! There are this day, tens
of thousands of men in Minnesota who are
bowed with dependence in consequence
of that very course " of the Democratic Ad-
ministration which the Saltwater Democrat
50 eulogises. But for the Land Sales prema-
turely brought upon this State by HENRY NJ.
RICE, when Delegate in Congress, and by w.
W. PHELPS and Lieutenant Gov. HoLCoMEE,
and their fellow Democratic Land officers, the
working farmers of Minnesota would not now
be groaning under "a feeling of dependency
to three and five per cent month specu!a-
tors; nor would we witness their being daily
sold out by foreclosures of mortgages or UNI
der the Sherih's hammer! Instead OF = this
feeling Of dependency being most successfully
removed" as the Democrat says, "by the
course pursued by the Administration in Min
nesota," it is the hard working Actual Settler
vino is being removed from the lands which
he has brought under cultivation. Had there
been Homestead Law for, these men, they
would now be indeoendsnt Of both mortgage
and Sheriff. But for the Democratic Policy,
they would still have unincumbered homes
for themselves and families.
It is with deep sorrow, also, that we per-
ceive that this same course Of the Admins
tration" which has already ruined so many
thousands in Minnesota, is being still pursued.
In the late Saltwater, now the Cambridge
Land District, the Administration has adj
vertised the lands of the Settlers for sale.
They are notified to pay up these hard times
Or their lands will be forfeited. But as it is
notorious that the most Of them cannot do so,
.hey must, we suppose, come under the an
athena OF the organ of the Lieutenant Gov
crnor as "g,nuofr," as men not Of sang cal
ue," as people without energy or spirit"
The Democratic Settlers around Columbus,
Anoka county, in the Cambridge Land District
must feel Coop under their denun-
cation On account of poverty, by the Slave
Breeding, Slavery Extension, Niger Import
ng New Style Democracy, whose National
Administration pursues the course" in Min
lesota of frequent Land Sales and enjoys the
negro slave feeling of hating Poor White
Len!
The next time, however, these settlers 60
o the polls under STARKEY's lead to vote the
African Democratic ticket, we hope they will
this fact, that the Republicans
ried to pass law through Congress to pro-
libit Land Sales until ten years after sur veys,
nd that they tried to pass Homestead Law
o gice the settler a home free Of cost-bu't that
he Democratic Party defeated both measures
md also sneered at and abused, through its
newspaper organs, and through Lieutenant
1ov. HoLcoNBE's newspaper organ in partcu-
ar, the hardy men who might presume to ask
II NEED The passage of such laws!
And after thus remembering, it is then fit
ing that they 60 right away and vote the
ackct which their enemies and insuters have
July Pot up for them to vote. 1t would be
Christian-liAe, 1t would be returning good
for evil