The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-03-30

the act. All thess variations from the II us.
bill are bad, and greatly impair the value oil
the measure. The discrimination between
the man who wants TO prepare for the com.
fort and support Of ! family which he hopes
TO have, or to support his parents, or simply
bis own self in honest independence, and
the man who is already married and with a
family Of his own about him, 10 unrsasona-
BILE, and rather trifing. 1t Ia also unreAson-
able and impolitc to compel man who has
come here from foreign country to make
his home with us, to wait five years before
he can share in the benefits OF the measure.
IL is no less our policy than it is his interest
to make the measure instantly available to
him, for the more inducements there are
offered to this class to settle down immedi-
ately to the cultivation of the earth, instead
Of leading precarious life about the cities
and wandering from public work to public
work, engaged on temporary jobs, the better
for us and for them. The best thing that
can be done with them, for the public pros
perity and the public morals, is to get them
settled down, as soon and as numerously as
possible, into quiet and Industrious hus-
bandmen. Any policy which hinders the do
ing of that, is q mistake. And it is none
the less improper to restrict the occupancy
OF land under the Law OF alternate sections.
The Spectator will take the other sections,
in preference to any on the public domain,
for the occupancy Of adjoining seosions will
raise the price Of them on bis hands rapidly.
The labor of contiguous settles will improve
the value of the land to which he does
nothing, only to keep it from being cultiva-
ted. That is not to be complained Of, but
the mere possessor OF labor capital ought to
be permitted to enjoy the benefits arising
from the industry Of his associate toilsrs as
we'll as the possessor Of cash-capisal. Why
not, in fairness Let the moneyed man buy,
where he will but let the man who seeks to
occupy and improve, take where he will,
also. II either is to be prohibited, In the
name of sense and the public prosperity, do
not let the man who seeks to make use OF tho
soil be the one.
Ii is plain, as no body can help seeing who
does not refuse to see, that the only opposi-
ton to this measure is made by the Pro-
Slavery Democracy; the only qualifying en-
barrassments that are sought to be put upon il
in case it does pass, are sought to be put upon
ii by them even the little--the cery little
Democratic support it has, is given in the
shape Of this Senate bill, so weakened and
limited in it's application as in great degree
to defeat its object. The settler, the foreign
emigrant, every tradesman and mechanic
who is interested in the occupancy and actual
improvement of the public lands, and what
social or material interest, at the West es-
pecially, is not desirous OF that p-should re-
member that the only impeachment to the full
and satisfactory effect of this measure il
thrown in its way by those who are interest
ed 10 the antagonistic system OF negro SER
vile labor that they are ferooiously intent on
extending, through the fundamentally OF
the Democratic party, which they manage,
oil over this continent to put it everywhere
in competition with free labor, to degrade
1t and reduce it's profits. Will such things
be overlooked and forgotten b. 3
A Non-TnteTcaurse Wan Converted.
The Chattanooga, Ga, Advertiser, gives
the following remarkable conversion OF IN
anti Yankee Georgian:
s'Not thousand miles from here, there
lives a gentleman Of the real thunder and
lightning, red flag school Of political belief
q lam up Southerner, and death upon the
Yankees. He was q widower, and had
daughter attending school, and on ascertain
ing that the teacher was one Of the down east
girls, took his daughter from school, re-
solved to have nothing to do with the down
easter-wasn't going TO have his girl taught
by any such person. Shortly after be took
his daughter from school, be happened to be
travelling on the same train with the Yank GO
school marin, 10 introduced, 10 rather pleased,
becomes interested, is got aud 10 q goner.--
The Yankee school teacher 10 now Mrs. 49,.
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