New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-24
SALE OF PUBLIC LANDS.
MEMORIAL
TO TIE PRESIDENT AND PEOPLE OF The
UNITED STATES.

TO THE PRESIDENT AND PEOPLE OF THE
UNITED STATES.
FELLow.C CITIZENS: The proclamation of the Pres
ident of the United States recently issusd declaring an
extensive land sale in Minnesota and other States and
Territories TO take place in October and November Of
the present year. has induced to present few facts
fer your consideration.
Mos. OF the people who lgn this statement together
with majority Of those living in this part ofths West
are settled or lands belonging to the United States
We came to this part of the country with the hope
that by a 70 years of labor, economy prudence, and
derivation, we could pay for enough lad TO make
homes for ourselves aud our families. In this we
have been disappointed. Many Of us have raised
enough produce aud sock, which, If they could have
been sold or could now be sold at fair prices woud
eLabs us to pay for our aods but we have no marks
at home and no railroads TO carry II abroad. IL we
wish 10 exchange our produces for necessary articles,
We must carry IL from five TO fifteen miles to ind
store and when there, we must give tsn bushels OF
wheat TO bus pair of boots, aud four bushels OF corn
to buy yard Of coarse wooden cloth.
Onr sst iron, glass end nearly all of manufac-
tured articles coue from distant places, and while
have TO pay doub price for these eau get but one
quarter of tee ordinary value OF or grain. We como
10 this part Of the country generally without means,
and you gentle men, upon a moments redsctlon can
apr eciae condition, when We take possession OF
there au6s. We have no houses no roads no bridgee
10 fences, no bsros no seed, no market. suppose
after getting cur families Into hattsnaotsbls houses,
RAISE more thSn enough the first year TO supply our
bare neeessite5 our 4 i'll is twenty miles distant AMI
our nearest store ten. Ga account OF tue scActy OF
teams we often have to carry our grain and other
produce part of ths way to mill and market on
our backs and TO bf back our dour salt, nails an1
cloths, in the way. Tea, sugar, mossses spises
and he like, we 90 without for years, or uso them
only edicine, or on special occasions:
We wear coJD-sack psnt,loons, ani old moccasns
and boot legs for foot coverings. We use lisa her
hibOea ard Unod-n lafcheg. and plSs enough barely
to 90 oar indoor work.
We are not preventing 10 YOU the cluss OF the In
doleut OF q prof gate-we have worked late, and We
have worked early, aud have usei "a much frugalty
and prrdence as any ola;s of psople in the Uaion
Siil ire notable 20 pay for our lands. Inere are
twenty thousand PEG here in Minnesota settled on
Government laDds, who cannot pay FOR their CLAIMS
without eispOsng of all else shat they possess, aud
there are len thousand Of them who cannot pay LOT
their claims ssy conditions. We have bailt hou'es,
we have cleared land, and cultivated the SON we
have built fences, and dug wells ana MADE otuges
end roads ID in some school housas, ont nser
The 10Th day OF this present month lOe'ooerl any
body who mas two bundled Lars or iand wHfraos'
can boy provements and our CLAIMS Of inc Wv
eInp ent, end torn us out Of Doors
We do not ask 10 have property TAKEN rom our
fellow cit zers and given 10 us for nothing, but we
srbmit 20 you brethren, whether we have not done
something Of permanent bsEent TO ,hs country, aud
souetbirg to eute as 10 the land we occupy There
are double.s come seekers after land, who would not
ditnrb tie settler nor buy the land from under him
Int he POWER to do is theirs. and fear the worst
We are COZ ident the facts OF the will cause You
10 decide that about to suffer Injustice aud 90
deciding as confident you will, we ask You 10
do shat lies ID your power to relieve us from this state
Of uncertainty ana the actual forfeiture Of our claims
MOsFs GOODRICH PETER PUTNAM
DANIEL b. TOMPKIES, BENJAMIN WAKERIrTn
GEORGE COMBS n HIBBFRD -''
CHARLES BRYANT, WARREN WALKER
GEORGE w ZEE, JANIS UIRRARS''
HIRAM LOCKE, DONALD McRFN1Ir
PAUL KENNEDY, VIM A STONE
Bsanoa, Mnns,ota, Oct. 1850
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