The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1866-09-01
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few capitalists would be likely TO make the
necessity Of the settler their opportunity.
He therefore reeommended, In bis message
20 Congress, ii1sts WHAT your petitioners
would ask Of this Congress, to declare that
no person, individual or corporate should
- eefsbetween the settisrapdthe Goysxnr ent
On the -bubliS dbn.s in. Tbs Tpsitidp was
- taken when the1subject ef' ciass legislation
was presented in its most unobjectionAble
form. Had the Monssna land grant become
law, and precedent for future legislations
your committee cannot see any rights that
fhe psop4e could have In these lands, other
than through the suferance of q few political
adventures or capitalists that may meet Ut
every session OF our Congress. Your conn
mittee would respectfulyrepresent that cities
on the Wtstern slope OF this continent, and
8 others more centrally located, have sprung
up, as il BY magic, sclipsing IN material
wealth aad prosperity many >of our most
favored cities after . growth OF half cen
fury. This prosperity we offer ss demon
strative proof of the change asked for by
- the petisi6a.s The lalhrer in5thkS On Sc was
master of the situation he had only to labor
and T. thrive. The British land system had
not been sufficiently perfected by our Go
vernments TO take in this distant region, from
him a portion, Of his hard-eafhed toll.
Whereysr tho hand Of nature had planted
her treasures ne was free TO make his l0dgr
3. rment; to supply civilized life with any and
all its wants. 1t is this principle that we
wish to see applied to all our agricultural
" Iahds.i IA = OF1N LA aaA1Ie
Your committee would here assert, as we
have before intifne ted, thai this system is
not Of American, but rather of British origin.
The lands were in that country at an early
day safely placed In the kahds OfSA few M
dviduals, and they and their descen-
dahts have always composed the Govern
ment' Of that country that after coo years,
true to their instincts, the stand monOpo-
- 1iesa seat to our shores their Alabamas TO
prey aDoE our commerce and destroy our
institutions. The power created bY this
system has all this while been steadily pur-
suing its relentless course, opposing any
measurts that may haye for its objects TIE
slnehora1pnx cftbs cbnditiop Of the people.
Your committee would respectfully submit
that in M other formldoes wealth become
soobjectionable to the moral, social and ma
terial interests Of thelcopntry. Thelands
in ne Colonies previous to the revolution
were considered as belonging to the Grown
the Bgitish rulers weFs careful not TO adopt
general system, but made special grants
e. <to court favorites, or those having friends
at court, much the same as is now praeticed
at every session Of our Congress. This
power, then, it would seem, was 1t con-
templated by this Government, that we ought
to treat it as an interioper, foreign to our in
terests and monarcchial in its pretensions.
All Tue i@sgusss Oh tle poet
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;. 'ns lIasons .uuucea aDuse, your CON,
,hn .e r. ~ou,u ,.oss IscoanI'enu
to visit and confer with the President. be re-
quested to call BIS attention to the subject,
With . view to his Co cooperation in securing
some appropriate measures of reform.
With references tn the cubl;c debt. we ram
MT zee ahvv objections 70 aonly -m,ch The
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T ~, ., = THE RIGHT HOUR REPORT. nv s-'
. " Mr. Armstrong moved that the v.tA of
. vesterdav. adjoining the report Of the com.
mittss On The eight hour e system, Re, be re-,
considered which was adopted. So -
"A motion WaE then made by Mr. Snauld--