The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1862-05-31
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I'm he A9nkfeal herett
While ~e are discussing sud hesilAtls.
about our policy for securing population
on the one baud sending agents to solicit nes
Inhabitants. aud on the other. through pretty
leAl0usies preferences. aud fears, not unfss.
quensly placing secret obstacles ia the way
OF settlement ~ strangers-while re ARE
ole DAY declaring that 40 land shall be sold
except 70 bona TIDE settlers. and the next
selling vast blocks 20 an E7glish Land Com.
pany Who EVERYBODY knows never mean TO
settle. bat TO make a profit by peidling out
What Ne have sold IN block. and Who can
Afford 10 pay Il 900 10 E member Parlia
meat fer bullying the government till thsy
make the grant on terms more profitable
than Vas II first intended. the American
Congress has adopted the most comprehen
sive policy for tbs encouragement Of imm
grafton which has perhaps ever been devised
/ By the Homestead act. which recently be
I came law, every man who will settle apon
them NAV have lC0 acres Of land for Il TIA.
/ ing. aud without any conditions 10 drive him
+ back into the remoter corner. or the inferior
/ tracts OF the pubic domain Partial offers
/ of such gifts have often been made before.
/ bat We doubt whether any endowment on 80
magnificent a scale has ever been conferred
en- the money less sons OF labor. not OF one
country. but OF the civilized world
We lately mentioned the passage through
| the House Of Representatives. OF the iew
which forever prohibits tie introduction 81
slavery upon any Territory now In the pos
session Ct the L nite9 States, or which may al
any future time come into their possession -
We described this as the chief point in tie
avowed programme Of the Republican party
which by the election OF Lincoln, and the
j 80. 4. a. H.. IL.
The Government last spring But the Home
stead law Is the complement OF the proh,bi.
ton of slavery IN the territories, ct rather.
perhaps, one IS the complement OF the other.
The great scheme of policv would be manned
il either Of them had failed of adoption On
the other hani even the gilt OF land would
have becA q poor attraction ~ freeman who
are - cultivate their farms with their own
hands, Il by the side OF them there should
exist an institution which makes all labor lie.
grading. and the occupation OF an inferior
caste And on the other hand, the most OF.
fective way 10 shut out slavery is 10 people
the new lands. where il might otherwise seek
to extend itself, with men whose position
places them in natural antagonism to the
plantation system
The attention II the world Is naturally
turned - the exciting scenes which are being
enacted, and afe expected - be enacted, bl
the hosts OF armed men now confronting each
other. But the war Is in its nature tcmpora
~, and perhaps the few engagements which
are called decisive battles Of the world would
DE reduced in numbers II We could eliminate
those which were mere symptoms OF the Ill.
rection Of moral and physical forces. rathei
than tho impulses which produce that direc
ton. The civil transactions Of the las, iep
months az Washington will mako their i'm
preston upon ages 10 come, when the bat
ties on the Potomac and Tennessee viii bs
! regarded as mere accidents in history. The,
lay the foundation of States larger by sever
aliimes than al Europe, and they mark Of
tho dwelling places ana the home OF a hug
population VI free ysomen, who In tho mex
half century will probably exceed Ia mum
bcIs all the people who now live on tn
Northern Continent OF America, or this sid
OF the Mexican boundery