The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-09-29

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| The same body was recently in session at Gin
| cinnati, and maintained the same position on
| the Chinese question they assumed last year.
| 1t matters not whether the Asiatics come in
! the shape of imported coolies, or as voluntary
emigTants, the effect Of Chinese population
| upon wages, and upon the political and the re-
| ligious institutions Of the United States would
| be the same.
! England manufacturers, are more TegardiuI Of
! land and money than they are of God and their
country. They covet all there is.
! The celebrated George Whitefeld, one Of the
! founders of the Methodist Church, advised Gen.
| Oglethorpe and the Georgian5 to import African
slaves into that colony as laborers, in order that
| they might be converted to christianity. The
same argument Will, no doubt, be used BY the
| present plttdnthrOptas Of New England in favor
| oflmporting the "heathen" from China TO work
! in the shoe factories and cotton mills, in order
/ that they may be converted TO the christian re-
! ligion, in as much as the Chinese murder the
missionaries OF the gospel who are sent among
| them.
From what source can the vast Railroad cor
poratOns at the west find asufficient labor force
| to build five or six thousand miles of Railroad
| through the wilderness except China? They
will inundate the country, unless the immigra-
grafton shall be prohibited by law. 1t is useless
! TO speculate upon the effect Of a Chinese popula-
tion upon our institutions, civil and religious.
| What Is il that has already brought 1900 Chi
nese into California? II is the same principle
ofcupidity that imported slaves from Africa
cheap labor which, being interpreted, means
!
| not worthy OF his hire" that he shall SOW and
| another reap: he plant and another eat.
Cheap labor means the Establishment OF prvi-
! legged orders amongus. What the country wants
| is, independent, self-sustaining freemen where
every family shall be educated in science and in
the principles of free government; men who in
the future as in the past, Will fly at the call OF
their country, to protect and defend her tnstitu-
tions as matters of personal concern.
| HOW TIE PUBLIC LANDS HAVE BEEN DISPOSED
OF BY CONGRESS. TIE HoNEsTEADs FOR AC-
TUAL SETTLERS AND THE BOUNTY FOR SOL
| DIERs DEFEATED BY RAILROAD SUBSIDIES.
The school of political ethics in which l re-
| celved my first lessons, taught me That the earth
belonged, primarily, to God Almighty, and TO
such OF his childrena as would OBEY ms command
| ment to subdue and cultivate ii. For the heaY-
i EN- of heavens is the Lords but the earth hath
he given TO the children of men,"
/ The philosophers, and statesmen of Europe and
| America, from Locke TO Thomas jefferson, and
s. P. Chase, all agreed that the land in It's wild
state belonged to him, and to him only, who
would subdue and cultivate, and make corn and
barley come forth from its bosom, instead o.
Early in life I was thoroughly imbued witt
this Free Soil gospel, and for years proclaimed i
through the press. Such of its greater apostles
as Andrew johnson of Tennessee, Salmon p
Chase, l.. A. Hine, and the noble band associa
ted with them, uttered loudly, and spread wide
ly its doctrines, until II became the resolution o
town and county meetings and State conven
tions. Then Congress framed our doctrine into
law in what is known as the Homestead bill.
l. That as man was doomed to a state OF labor
the use of the natural clements, the earth, the
water, the air, and the light were his; that they
belonged as much to one as TO another; that pos
session of the soil and labor upon il was the on
ly true foundation of title.
q That the Congress of the United States being
the Trustee, in perpetuity of the unoccupieC
lands it was their duty to cause them to be sur
veyed and mapped, and limited portions grant
ed to actual settlers only, as each successive gen
Grafton should require, that in no case shoulC
| sold
individuals, or by corporations.
From history we had learned that the mOnar
chies and despotsms of Europe rested upon 6
The great fact is bazoned upon every page o
our history that it was the independent iaTmer7
and workfngmen of the colonies that gave sue
cess to Washingtons army and created this Re
public out of revolution,
Tho proportion of independent farmers, me
|, chanics, and wOIkingmen, in any country, u
the idle and nOn-producing classes, is the pro
portion of the sound TO the unhealthy parts, anC
a safe guide to measure the prosperity of an!
, Ffom the economists we had learned that pop
ulation is in proportion to plenty, plenty in pro
portion to tillage, and that iIlage is IN proper
lion to the number of owners OF the soil, and ina
upon these conditions depend the moral, ant
the Intellectual growth of people, which consti
tutes the very life and soul of nations.
With these views the right of the Homestead
became in me faith, q principle, and touch
stone by which TO try the merits OF men In au
thority. -, u. -.
when Congress adopted their doctrines, and pass
ed the Homestead bill in July 1862.
They were, however, soon brought to shame
and TO grief =
The next thing done after the passage of thc
Homestead bill was to set off to the three Pacih'
Railroad Companies land enough TO make tnfe'
States the size Of Ohio, and to issue the bonds o
fhe limited States to three companies at the rate
of $4,000 mile sufficient to build and equip thel
roads-making in all the sum OF sOO,o6O,3zO 81
shown by the report Of the Secretary Of th'
Here was suddenly brought into existence the
wealthiest and most powerful corporation OF
earth with greater territorial domlnlons thai
some of the European monarchies.
1t was a new feature in our government 10
Congress to create Railroad corporations. They
have no more warrant in the constitution, Z
create railroad corporation than they have Il
The success of this scheme wassuch as to make
way for new enterprises of the same nature Ih'
lobby was organized and put in its appearance
at the capital to make new demands upon Con
gress for land and bonds. The people tool
The newspaper press and the people in thei
urinary assemblies and public conventions ut
Tered their protest to Congress against giving tn
The 18th of March, 1869, the state of Ohio pu
upon record the following instructions to he
Senators on this great question.
"Resolved on the General Assembly ofthe State Q
Ohio, That land monopoly is one OF the grea
evils of our country, and against the spirit of ou
institutions and especially 1t is impolite TO pac
! large tracts Of the public domain under the con
troll of railroad or other corporations, because
J First. 1t destroys in effect the benefits OF Tn
, homestead law, driving those who would ava
themselves of its benetlcent provisions ava
from the lines of travel into the wilderness.
Second. 1t gives undue power to such eorpor'
tions, enabling them to oppFess the labortng an
! producing classes of our people, and to preveI
or retard the settlement and cultivation Of OF
, public lands.
: Third. If the recent policy of Congress is M
= | changed the public lands (which are the prope
ty of the people, will nearly all be under the col
n troll of mammoth corporations, which are alfe'
e dy too formidable, and may become q source
n danger to a free people.
i Resolved, That the grants OF public lon9s
a corporations ought TO be discontinued, anu u
y whole of such lands ought to be held as a sacft
trust to secure homesteads for actual settlers, an
y for no other purpose; and that our Senators an
\ Representatives in Congress be requested 10 o.