The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-01-03

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n O. 49, q - - -: ksss sosIesd
via - 1Spoe q i1l1sst ~ I.ersalea IN
psoysment "a f1vsiolnsnt & HloEidA slncs
IL lncon1s3 81 n1sef51 BI0xkhm's adminls.
natiou, and enq1lre Ne cause Of this bunyant
psospeEiV. Il spps1ls 70 b q nrm cas md
q uneommon solidity. Ils DOS trus fhss Gov
esnor BIoxham5s enterprise cut The Gosdian
knot nud pa dnuhs and bssiiation n . discoantf
Woald thls 10 pulse have been generated With
ons the nls of thls landf In other words. b Il
mere creature born kom the union q certain
lDpalpable causes. other han the acss Of the
Govsrnor, sid which TIE 66scs Of circumstance
sprung upoa - In spite Of he GovernOsi At
tnchs upoa The present administration have elic
lied this train Of thought and / propose % pur-
sue Il % limlisd extent
Every result has ils canss OF combination Of
causes. Money and people. the verT foundation
Of sueces, come among n now In greater guam
titles and numbers than ever before, and the
question arises, does the head Of the State adj
ministaiion conduce 70 this pleasing effect Il
d due 70 Governor Bloxham and 10 the people
that this matter be investigated, and II the lau-
rels belong 70 The Governor let them be %
awarded, and II to others let the award Be &C
cordingiy. shall not attempt 70 60 infinitely
into the question presented, bat win essay
skeleton view Of the situation, giving reasons
WHY think Governor Bloxham the entire bead
and front, not OF this offending. but Of this
great blessing.
4. L. h.
advance, but certain laggard movements accom-
panied this advance. Evidently something was
wanting. People in this age will mol coDgregaie
and settle In large bodies without convenient
transportation Transportation win not offer
itself without great assistance. Large bodies Of
land In hands OF private parties or corporations
can and will better subserve the public good
than II in the hands Of sovereignty. The Stale
had those Disston lands for years They were
largely encountered by circumstances over
which the people Of this day had no control.
This incumbrance bore heavy interest. The
State had long offered them for sale with the in
ducement of two cents per acre 10 The agent ei-
feciing SALE When Governor BIoxham was
elected the debt had assumed wonderful proper
| tons The lands were lying idle, unsettled, and
| NO taxes paid TO the State therefrom. They
were very unproduciive Ia every sense Of the
word. The creditors. too, threatened to lake them
| into the hands of The U. 8. Court, and deprive
the board of their rights on a question OF sale.
Governor Bloxham saw the intrinsic strength Of
| these lands, and determined to utilize IT, and al
once with firm and steady hand, guided by
mind of rare and brilliant powers of statesman
ship, commenced to husband the resources of
| the State in such manner that the people Of
| this day and time would reap largely Of these
latent benefits, and 90 directing his course as to
| perpetuate these benefits and cause them to ex-
pand and enlarge with future years he sold
| Ihe land TO the DisstOn Company without fee to
agent, and at the highest price that could have
been honorably obtained at that time. thereby
discharging an incubus Of Indebtedness, and
DnnkuE 90. :. hand sold into the tax paying
| list. Disston q 20. are selling ouI a;a.rent
parties in small and large quantities. These, in
their turn, are selling again, and people are CON-
ing thick and fast making bona Jdds settlers-
These make transportation necessary, and this
| very sale will give 10 the State railroads that
never would have been known without it
| The benefits which will arise first and last
from this sale or purchase can hardly be esti-
mated. Its ramiHcations permeaie and give
color to every new enterprise of known and ad-
miited wsrih. Parties may say IL was Q cheat
and fraud, but this will not bear inspection.
The good flowing from 1t is paramount to any
supposed trivial advantage which might have
remained by q non-sale. These trivial advan-
tages are far overreached by the natural run of
events which will glide from this epoch In Flor
ida's history. Railroads are being built with
greater rapidly than ever before, and soon the
State win be interlaced with them, aud all the
lands settled upon, improved and paying revenue
to the State. All this necessitates great accu-
mutation Of personal property which is only an
other benefit one degree removed from the points
In sight believe il 10 be true that the Disston
sale was the primary and moving cause to all
these extraordinary suspicious prospects which
surround as. 1t was the real unwilling of the
future The people everywhere seem to feel il
and know 1t and are availing themselves Of il BY
taking the tide " at its food
But some are grieved because taxes are high,
and Violently censure the Governor for it Il is
not Governor Bloxham's fault that taxes are
high. Il is due to the failure of the Legislature
Of 1879 to assess sufficient amount to meet the |
actual necessities Of government. 1t is rather |
his misfortune to have been placed In Office at q |
time when high taxes were unavoidable, but It |
Is fortunate for the people that he was 30 placed
in ONCE. he will bring them out safely. A |
debt d on Us and must be met. Governor Blox |
ham is not 10 blame; just wait until bis four
years are out and see the bright era which awaits
ma Give him chance TO produce his crop, and |
in the meantime let the dissatisfied possess their
souls 10 patience and wait for the harvest A
man cannot be correctly judged until he has
completed his job The workman has the de-
sign In his mind and he will execute it according
TO his liking. II. when he Is through, his con
stituency see that be has put his talents to bad
uses and dwarfed the States interest, he win re-
ceiye his reward; and IT, on the other hand, they
find that great good has been brou. ht Firth by
his efforts and that the fruition is the ripe, fal
ears the stalks. then he viii, likewise. receive
bis reward. ss-ss $50
II b moral truth that mlsmanagemeni and
evil doing have their retribulon, and that obedi-
cnce to law, uprightness and intelligent action
have their requital. Each is debt that Is owed
and the obligation 70 recompcnse Is as great as
The duty to punish. In high and responsible po-
siiions iatsntioa IL nothing Is the sole ar
bitter. That ID the price of the peoples allegi-