Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-03-22

herds and cultivated fields. Nor does
its real strength consist in fleets and
armies, but in in the bones and SIN
ews OF an Independent yeomanry and
the comfort of Its laboring classes. Its
real glory consists not in the splendid
palace, lofty spire. or towering DOME
but in the intelligence, comfort and
happiness of the fre.ide of its eiti-
zens.
"What constitutes a State7
Not high-raised battlement or la0oFed
mound.
Thick wall or moated gate;
Not cities proud, with spires and turrets
crowned
Not bays and broad armed ports,
Where, laughing at the storm, rich nayies
ride:
Not starred and spangled courts,
Where low -browed baseness waits per
fumes to pride.
No: men, high minded men.
Men, who their duties know,
But know their rights, and knowing, dare
maintain;
Prevent the long -aimed blow,
| And crush the tyrant while they rcnd the
chain;
These constitute a State"
The prosperity of States depends not
on the mass of wealth, but It's distri-
button. That country is greatest and
most glorious in which there is the
greatest number of happy firesides.-
And If YOU would make the fireside
happy, raise the fallen from their deg
radiation. elevate the servile from their
groveling pursuits to the rights and
dignity of men, you must first place
within their reach the means for sup
plying their pressing physical wants.
so that religion can exert its influence
on the soul, and soothe the weary pill
grim in his pathway to the tomb.
What Justice can their be in the
legislation of country by which the
earnings of its labor are abstracted for
any purpose without returning an
equivalent? But as question OF rev.
enue merely, it would be to the adj
vantage of the Government to grant
these lands in homesteadS 10 actual
cultivators. if thereby it was to induce
} the settlement of the wilderness. in
stead of selling them TO the speculator
without settlement. The revenue to
the Government from the lands, II
considered annual, is the interest on
J the purchase money; which would be
| on a quarter section, at one dollar and
: twenty-five cents per acre, the interest
on two hundred dollars, equal, at six
: per cent, to twelve dollars per year.
5 But as the revenue of the General
t Government with the exception oi
I the sales of the lands) is derived al
D most wholly from duties on imported
articles consumed in the country. the
1 amount collected depends on the quail
| ity consumed. On an average each
: individual consumes of imported arti-
e cles about S11 worth per year sec
: statement Of the Register Of the Treas
4 ury appcnded) J; and. calling seven the
average number of family. then each
family consumes annually SI5 wortl
: of imported articles. upon which a du'
: ty of not less than $50 was paid.
d So the Government would be the
s gamer Of IS per year on each quariel
section. by giving it away to settiel
n in preference to sciling..itwithout settle
:, ment. In addition, as you cheaper
's the necessaries or comforts of life. o
l. increase mems means To pay for them
l. You increase their consumption; an'
IA in the same proportion as YOU increas
RS the means to pay for imports. yon in
ir crease the consumption of home pro
e. ducts and manufactures: so that th
n. settlement Of the wilderness by thri
III wing population is as much the inter
est Of the old States as Of the new
SIS The amount now received by the Gov
C. ernment Of the settler for the LAND
Id would enable him to furnish himse
Id with the necessary stock and impl'
ments TO commence its cultivation.
ed For the purposes OF education, bullC
n ing rail-roads, opening all the avenu'
in of trade, and of subduing the wilde
ness, the best disposition to he mas
he Of these lands is to grant them in lin
n tied quantities TO the settler, and thl
b. secure him in his earnings, by whl'
{ a he would have the means TO surrouI
he himself with comfort and make his fir
IL side happy; to erect the school-hous
ar the church, and all the other ornamen
ci- of higher civilization. and rear b
= children educated and respected mel
10 bers OF society This policy will n
on only add to the revenues of the Gene
Try al Government and the taxable pro
,p- erty of the new States, but viii
snt crease the productive industry a
est commerce of the whole country, VII
ure strengthening all the elements Of l.
tional greatness.
Us The first step in the decline OF e
at ,;,as - thu neolect of their ayrienll