Randolph County journal., 1864-04-01

10y ~S"i VI hOl'S W HiiiiiOliS bSNOn
the sea, and 1t is now the fond chill
of the millions of our own peoDl
who march under the old flag Of Oh
fathers. Should it stand for te
years TO come, its blessings ~iil on,
strip the most san@uine anticipation
of its friends. Its overthrow. | hav
said. is threatened; and this Is don
] by indirection, as well as hv opcl
assault. Since the date OF its pass
age, Congress has granted ncarl'
seven millions of acres for the ben
eft OF agricultural colleges, anC
about twenty millions to all il
the construction Of railroads. Their,
are now pending before Congress.
bills making other grants for rail
roads amounting to nearly sevent,
millions of acres. We have a pro
ject before us which grants nearl,
seven millions Of acres for the cdu
cation Of the children Of soldiers
another, granting two hundred thou
sand acres in the State Of Michigan
for the establishment Of female col
leges, which Of course would be eX.
tended TO the other States; antLan.
other, granting ten millions of acres
for the establishment of Normal
schools for young ladies. Every
day witnesses the birth OF new pro.
icets. 10y which oar public lands may
be lrittcrcd away. and the hcneiicent
policy Of the homestead law mutiiat-
cd md destroyed. And simultane-
ously with the development OF this
backward movement, and rs If to aid
il. spectators arc lowering over the
pubic domain, picking and culling
large tra.ts of the hest lands, and
thus cheating the government out OF
their productive wealth, and the poor
man OFT rf Tic lone which else
might IL Lis NJ the frd Of tic war.
Whilst the homestead policy is thus
invaded " gradual ~ piosctcs and
indirect attack. lis overthrow Is
boldly demanded rs n financial ne
cessiiy.
a veteran public journalist, and
one Of the foremost party leaders OF
our time, proposes to 90 back from
the Christian dispensaiion ef free
homes and actual settlement to the
jewish derAncss of land spectators
and pubic p.nnder. He wants mon
ey 10 pay oar immense national debt,
and seeks to obtain it by lcvying ON
the lands which the nation has al.
ready dedicated hy law to occupancy
aad cultivation rs the sure means of
rcycnuc. What We want and the
Government needs, is immigration
This 10 demonstrated by the report
of lion. Sainuc, B Eueglcs 10 the
international Congress which met at
Berlin in last September. lie takes
the eight food producing States Of
Ohio. Indiaga. Illinois. Michigan,
Wisconsin,, Minnesota. Iowa, and
Missouri, and shows that, between
Inc years 1870 and 1850. their po,,u-
iaiion Increased 3.55i,G95 Of whom
Il Very large proportion were imrai-
grants from the old States and from
Europe. lie shows that this nnnx
OF population increased the quantity
of improved land in these States.
within the same period. -, ll6.0ji
acres; that the cereal pio luc;s Of
these States increased 24s.2l0.02S
bushes; that their swiye increased
2,JG3...4; thej. cattle 3.S3i,09S.-
He fuI Ithcr shows that. within the
same period. the assessed value or
real and personal estate OF these
States WAS augmented g., 1000
U00. These. "a a great extent, are
the direct results of immigration
and III the light of these facts in
tercst and duty of the Government
are palpablc. By all honorable and
reasonable means il should tempt
Europe TO send her people to orr
shores. From 1880 To lsGv the inn
migration averaged, annually, 30.
162. giving total of 5,0G2,4 IL
Within the next ten years, should
the homestead policy continue, the
number of immigrants will probably
far transcend all precedent, while in
crcasing multitudcs f.om oar older
States viii join in the grand process
sion towards the West.
Ii Thurlow Weed wishes to use
the public domain in paying our na-
tional debt, here is the process. 1t
Is simply to give heed TO the divine
injunction to "multiply and rcplcn-
ish the earth 1t is To give homes
10 the millions who need them. and
at the same time coin their labor IN
10 national wealth, by marrying it to
the virgin soil which woos the cult
yator. 1t is to compel the earth To
yield up her fruits, so THAI commerce
may transmute them into silver and
gold. Thus only can we solve the
problem of our finances, so far as the
l.allic ,aads are concerned. The
project OF paying debt Of three
millions Of dollars. or even
tue interest on it. by the sale OF these
lands, is sublimely ridiculous, vh3st
the proposition to repeal the home
stead law is a proposition TO enconr
ace speculation. to pluEdcr the Gov
srnment, To betray the just rights OF
millions bv violating the plightcd
,,th Of the nation. 10 hinder the
march of civil;zafion. and 10 weaken +