The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-01-20
FACTS FOR CONGREss---LET WISCONSIN HAVE
HER JUST DUE.


legislators to be led into paths of practical
injustice, and become virtual oppressors,
through persistent, systenaatic, naicrepre
sentations coming to them constantly from
every quarter, for q great length of time.
And we presume with good reason, that
this is just the secret Of the singular action
of the National Assembly, respecting the
renewal of the land grant for a railroad
from Lake St Croix to Lake Superior
We desire consequently to place the facts
of the case before the Nations Representa-
tives, and would respectfully call their at
tention to them, in the interests Of delayed
JUSTICE, and the reparation of wrongs
which Congress has uninJentonally infict
ed upon one of the most deserving states of
the National Union-the commonwealth
Of WISCONSIN.
The facts of the case then, which we OPP
pose to all misrepresentation, are these:
Fact lst The land grant asked for is not
q neoo one We ask but the legal renewal
Of one that by every principle Of equity,
and analogous legislation in the case of
other states. is the just property Of Wiscon-
sin, and one in which she has inalienable
and vested rights by roads already built,
settlements already made. and the fostering
of hopes in her pioneer citizens that have
already moulded the plans of half their
lives Members Of Congress will note that
whatever be the merits Of the outcry against
new land grants, arguments against them
cannot with justice require the State Of
Wisconsin to be made 10 suffer, by the re-
fusal Of Congress to confirm gift that was
acknowledged TO be right in the past. IF
iC was right then, as all confess, it must be
right now Remember the St. Croix grant
is not new one. 1t is an old and just gift.
It's continuance is Justly called for.
Fact md. The time named in the orig
inal grant, and the extension thereof was
under all the circumstances, too short to
accomplish the object aimed at, namely,
the building Of road from Madison by
way of Lake St. Croix to Superior and
Bayfe'd Must Wisconsin suffer because
she has been prevented b. the disturbed
state Of the finances and immigration inter
csts Of the comtry-bctween 1857 and
1865, eight full years-from completing 4
frontier railway of such length? The time
Of extension should, in justice, have been
eight years instead Of five, in order to make
then that the time Of extension Of the
grant should have been thee years longer.
We ask for that three years now.
Fact 3rd. The road along the line OF the
grant has been steadily pushed ahead as
fast as the growth of population, and the
commercial demands of the Northwest
would warrant. The first portion, extend
ing to Tomah, was completed some years
ago. The second, between Tomah and
Lake st. Croix, through a more sparsely
settled region, has been under construction
for several years by the West Wisconsin
r.. Il. Co, and is now completed. The
time has now come for the full completion
Of the route, as originally projected, by the
construction of the third and last portion
which lies between Lake St. Croix, and
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