Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-18


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2Oth Of June, 1871, there remained unsold
and unapproprialed Of the public lands, be-
longing 10 the STATES in common 4 ,376, $780,
1872 81 acres. This divided among the en-
tire population Of the United States would
give TO each person 344 acres. The share
Of Tennessee If divided according
to population, would be in round numbers
$4,000, 600 acres. This at $1.00 per acre,
would amount to S54,000,000. The in
terest on this sum at 8 per cent would be
annually $2,040,00O, and at 10 per cent
s3. 100000. But if the lands were only
worth so cents, we would have SIT ,O00, 900,
which would yield S1,020,000 per year.
Should they be worth only rs cents per
acre, the amount would be $4,000
The interest on which at per cent is
$4,000 per year. Add to this latter sum
the annual interest on $l,500,000 secured
by the constitution, SOC, 600, and add tax on
polls say 100000, and we have 500, 900
This is low estimate. Now why can We
not get our share of the public lands? Let
us declare at once by an act OF our General
Assembly that the public school money
from all sources shall be applied to the edu-
cation of ali children within certain ages,
| without regard to race, but under different
teachers, and in different schoolheuses,
add then memorable Congress aud believe
we can succeed in what have suggested.
CAPITAL AND LABOR.
The Bureau of Immigration has not been
organized long enough TO demonstrate Its
utility. Aud yet it has not been idle. 1t
needs small appropriations from the State
to defray the expenses of completing and
| printing statistical information OF our eli
mae, soil, unimprovcd lands, mineral re-
sources, railroads and other facilities for
locomotion, and as channels OF commerce.
With this aid from the State it is believed
the Agricultural Bureau established under
an act of the last General Assembly, will 6e
Instrumental In accomplishing very much
towards inviting capital and Labor into Ten
nessee. We have an area of 20,03O 900
acres OF uDimproved lands in Tennessee.
This vast area is yielding nothing to the
owners. Very much of it is assessed for
taxes at barely nominal value. lfimproved,
it is impossible TO estimate how much 1t
would add to The aggregate of wealth, and
hos greatly it would lessen the burdens Of
taxation upon our present population. On
the Cumberland plateau, in Tennessee,
theie is a coal bed that will make 81 miles
wide, 10J miles long and 8 feet thick.
Within few miles of these beds, there
Is a continuous vein of iron ore
that will average feet in thick
ness, and $50 miles long. Then develop
| the iron and coal interests. Erect machin-
cry enough to convert all of our cstton into
cloth, our spare timber into the thousand
and one articles Of utility in civilized life,
our iron into rails, locomotives, cara, car
| riages, plains, cutlery, etc, our wool into
coarse and fine clothes, and then Tennes-
see will become what she ought to be the
| first State in the great sisterhOoj. Tennes-
see is 5000 square miles larger than Ohio,
and only 1000 square miles smalle. than
Pennsylvania. But before We can ever To-
vite capital and labor into our borders with
success We must devise and execute tinan-
cial system by which our past due debt
shall be funded, aud resume the payment
| Of interest.
HORACE GREELEY.
am hearty supporter of Mr.. Greeley;
aud take him not as the first, second or
third choice of evils, but as man well
worthy of my suffrage. And, furthermore,
| | feel deeply, that he deserves the votes of
all the American people. BE Is man who
has large heart, is magnanimous, and has
been a lifelong friend of the South, al
though there are men base and ungrateful
enough to charge that be is not. Horacs
| Greeley is, in my judgment,l an honest
man. | have great faith in his integrity,
| and would saat the more unthinking, who
maliciously assail him, would see and uni
! tate his navy noble qualities. l believe
| that under his administration the country
would be freed from the corruption, which
| has established reign OF terror In Wash
| iDgton, and the evils which accidental
| President Grant has put upon Us would De
rectihed, and the people once stand up like
| men, with the assurance Of national sover-
eighty. CApplsuse.l Leaving Horace
Greeley, Gov. Browe then turned bis at
| tention 10
THE GRANT ADMINISTRATION.
He said: The Grant Administration has
been most signally characterized by fraud,
prohigacy and corruption. It's extravagan-
cies in the use of public money and in the
alienation Of the public funds to monopol-
| izing corporations, and for the exclusive
| benefit Of the Northern and Weste States
shock our sense of honesty and almost defy
our credeDce. BE then took up the admin
| istration of several of bis predecessors, said
| that Martin Van Buren, bad been hurled
| from power by our overwhelming majority
because of the alleged recklessness and
waste of the public money; spoke OF the
average expenditures Of Mr.. Folks
administration, and came down
to the administration OF Mr..
! Lincoln, and showed the small expendi-
ture in q time of war compared with
Grants expenditures in time of peace. He
| showed that the expenditures Of the Exc
| cutive Deparj ment Of the Government IN
| 1850, under Mr.. Buchanan were $685.
| SO4 90. In 1882, under Mr.. Lincoln, they
were SI,958, 1000. Aud yet under Grants
UNPARALLELED extravaganza they were in
| 1869, S6,O98, $500; in 1870, they were
| S9,297,053 90; in 1871, So, 4l2 1880. Why
| this enormous increase, and what is the
emergency? Let his supporters tell the
| toiling millions who contribute of their
hard earned substance to meet the enorm-
GUS exactions Of the 1.-THE gatherer why it
required SO 4I2,4l8 in 1871, to support the
| Executive Department of q government
which cost less than 100000 in 1850,
| and less than $4,000. 900 in 1851, and less
than s., 100000 in 1882, and S2,5OO, 900 in
| 1853, when the President was commander
'n-chief of nearly one half million Of men9
| Why have the expenses of that depart
ment increased iVe-fold in ten years? The
| friends of the Administration will not, be-
cause they cannot, answer the question with
credit to their party. Gov. Brown then re-
| ferred to the cost of the Indian Depart
ment under Grants administration, as
compared with preceding administrations.
| Grant has expended $7,426, 997. 40 to sus-
tain tho Indians, while Mr.. Lincoln only
expended s., 1855, 481.17. Had the number
| of Indians remained the same as In 1851,
Grant would have expended about Sl4, OOO,-
| 900, to sustain this Bureau, as nearly as
much as the entire expenses Of the Gov
eminent in the year $780, After deVoting
SONS time to the above named subject, the
| Governor said he would refer briefly to
THE ENFoRCEMENT,AC Oh KU- KLUX
BftE
The history of legislation furnishes no
parallel to the arbitrary assumption or
bower and the high handed violation of the
organic law, either in the passage of the
enforcement act by the Congress OF the
| United States, or the execution oft By the
| President of the United States. No state
! of facts can justify it. No emergency can
| palliste the outrage. 1t saps the very foun-
| dstion of our institutions-it defes the
plainest provisions of the Constitution. BY
! the 4th section the writ Of habeas corpus is
placed at the mercy of the President. He
| 1ovry fr