Nebraska advertiser., 1860-10-04
CHARGE PROVEN!
Read the Testimony Of an Uniml-
peachabIe witness!

Settlers of Nebraska! You Who are nor
suffering under a heaUy burden Of debt,
from your Lands being forced into Mar
kst, read the EUidence, and Judge for
yOurselUes !
]. Sterling Morton, the candidate of
the Democratic party for Delegate 10
Congress, who now asks the support of
the souatters of Nebraska, in the spring
of 1853, signed a Petition asking Tie
President of the United States to bring on
the Land Safes in this Territory. And
when the sttlers demonstrated against
their lands being brought into market,
and asken Morton, then Secretary of tie
Territory, to sign a remonstrance asking
the President to postpone the Land Sales,
MORTON REFUSED TO SIGN THE
REMONSTRANCE, giving as . reason
that it would not look well for him to sign
a remonstrance after having signed a Pc
tition in favor of bringing OF the Land
Sales.
Here is the affidavit of RICHARD
JUSTICE, Esq, one of the Commission
ers of Otoe County, the home of ]. Ster-
ling Morton, proving incontrovertibly the
fact.
READ! READ! READ!!!
Nebraska City, ". T., Sept. %, 1860.
SsS56 0Guni 4~erritory, On the aath day of
Sept. AID. 1850, personally appeared before me, s.
Howard Calhoun, Notary Public in and for said County
and Territory, Richard Justice, who, being duly sworn,
makes oath and says that he is a citizen OF OtOe County,
Nebraska Territory, and is at this time one Of the Coun-
ty Commissioners for said County. That af1ant in the
spring Of 1858 was opposed to the bringing Of the Land
Sales on, and circulated a remOnstrance among the citi-
zens of OtOe County, to try and induce the President to
put OF the sales. Af1ant says that in the month OF
April A.. D. 1858, he presented the Renaissance to J.
Sterling Morton and requested him to sign it. He de-
clined to do so and gave as a reason for refusing, that he
had signed a petition to bring on the Sales, and said it
would not look we'll now for him to sign a RemOnstra-ce
against the Land Sales. Further depOnent saith not.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 28th day Of
Sept, 1860. S. II CALHOUN,
Notary Public.
Where Mr.. Justice is personally known
it is not necessary 10 say that he is a man
of unimpeachable integrity. He is con-
sidered by his neighbers as a man whose
v~eracity cannot be questioned. The fol-
lowing affidavit of some of the most re-
spectacle and truthful citizens of Nebras-
ka City, is sufficient evidence of his stand
ing:
rs 9tSS County on E.Ora.ha On the assn day Of
Sept, A. D. 1860, personally appeared before me, Fran-
els Bell, Probate Judge Judge in and for Otoe County,
N. T., Samuel E. Cracker, VIM. 81. Taylor, J. W. Pear
man, John H. Rector and +. W. Wood, who being duly
sworn, make oath and say that they are personally &C
Quainted with Richard Justice, who is at this time one
Of the County Commissioners for OtOe County, N. t.
and that they know the said Justice to be a farmer.-
Afiants further say that they have known the said JUS
tce for several years, and know him to be a man OF
moral worth and indispensable character for truth and
veracity and further atlantis saith not.
SAM. E. M~cCRACKEN,
WIN. Il. TAYLOR,
J. ". PEARMAN,
JOHN Il. RECTOR,
Subscribed and sworn to before me and in my presence,
this 29th day Of Sept, A ID. 1850.
FRANCIS BELL, Probate Judge.
Squatters Of Nebraska j. Sterling
Morton has denied, upon every stump in
the Territory that he petitioned the Pres
ident to bring on the Land Sales. Above
you have incontrovertable proof that he
did so, and hat he has falsiied the facts.
Morton has stated in his speeches that
the President was compelled by law to
bring on the sales. This is also untrue,
and is intended as an apology for the
wrong and injury done to you by the
Presidents in forcing your lands into mar
ket. Here is the law of Congress on the
subject. Read it, and Judge for your
selves:
That the President Of the United States be, and be Is
hereby authorized He SHALL THINK IT
PROPER, to direct so much of the public lands lying in
the Territory OF Orleans as shall have been surveyed In
conformity with the provisions Of the act to which this
act is a supplement, TO be offered for Sals."-IAct OF
Congress Of April 9Ist, 1906. Statutes at Large, vol. ?,
page s94.l
Again, the act of Congress Of the 22d
of July, 1854, in regard to Kansas and
Nebraska (See 10Th vol. Statutes at
Large, page SOO) provides as follows:
And the President is hereby authorized to cause the
surveyed lands to be exposed for sale from time TO time,
in the same manner, and upon the same terms and con-
ditiOns as the other public lands Of the United States.
What can be palmer? The bringing
of the public lands into market is dis
cretionary with the President. Yet Nor.
ton is travelling e the Territory, apollo
gising for the President by saying he was
compelled by law to bring the lands into
market at the time he did.
Squatters of Nebraska, remember that
]. Sterling Morton has treated you as if
you were ignorant of the laws of your
country, and has insuIted you by such
statements.
Again, the President in his inaugural
address, assured the public that his policy
would not be to force the public lands
into market, but to withhold them in order
to encourage the pioneer. But he has
basely betrayed that pledge, and you have
the evidence before you that j. STER-
LING MORTON WAS ONE WHO
URGED HIM TO DO so, and thu
brought distress and ruin upon the settlers
of Nebraska. Remember that Morton
still holds a commission from Buchanan,
and is a representative of the policy of
his administration.