The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-04-17
.CONfEDERATES CAN
ENTER PUBLIC LAND
Mr.. Grady Has Only One
Mistake in His Book.
AUTHORITY NOT GOOD
an Iowa Leader Corrects Mistake in
Public Speech.
MISTAKE LiKENED DRAYMAk'S OPINION
The Official Distance Between Dolores Mission
and the Plaza Based on the Word CT
a Drayman.

the National House OF represent
tives on Wednesday of last week by
CONGRESSMAN Lacey. OF Iowa, Which
>yir ,1rove interesting reading TO tn:
pecnle of the South. and particularly
to North C~arolinians. II will be le-
m"cr,1ered that EN-Congrcssmar era
DIV. Of this State. has written a book,
entitled -1be Case Of the SOLtr
Against the North" Mr.. Lacey sain
intile course Of q speech Wednesday.
according to the Congressional IL,
cord as follows:
Mr.. Knox. / yield to the gentle
man from Iowa five minutes.
Mr.. Lacey. ] rose to call attention
to Il matter connected with the pupllr
'an.i laws. I~aughter.) | know yol
all expected that when | rose.
Il received a letter the other dag
from nv Old friend. Mr.. Grady, from
North Carolina. saying | was in erro.
in my statement that when we III,
ed General Wheeler's disabilities w
r,-mo"ed the last Of the political dis
alb mites of the old Confederates. IL
stated that a Confederate soldier could
no: AXE public lands as a homestead
tOIay. IT was 4 remarkable STATE
mont and | wrote to him.tO find out
where he GOT ii. and he said he wrote
20 4 Populist Congressman and asked
him what the law was, INC he based
his assertion the statement Of the
Pop Hist Congressman.
Mr.. Norton, Of Ohio. Name him.
Mr. Lacey. Mr.. Fowler OF Norm
Carolina. formerly a member OF this
iiolse. That reminded me on tho
measurement between h Plaza ana
the Dolores Mission in San Francisco.
PRESIDENT Lincoln says the surveyors
measured it with a ''go-it-ometer"
The engineers measured it with a CON
~tiisance which had to be wound up
and when they got to the Plaza from
tire Doles Mission they found that
he machine had not been running. -
tlleJ ASKED a dTayman how far it wa.
anc they put his statement in the
field notes, and it Is Il matter of his
tCIN today that the official distance
between the Dolores Mission and the
Plaza in San Francisco is based Who'll
ly on the word of a drayman. My
friend exercised much the same care
when he inquired OF u North Carolina
Popnlist what the homestead law was.
Mr. Clayton Of Alabama. An eN-
Congressman. and a fusionist AT that.
Mr.. Lacey. Not stopping at that,
my friend has put it into a book, and
the book is being sent north. east,
south and west. 1t is called The
Case OF the South against the North.'
In that book it is seriously stated that
tlat rroviso which was enacted III
tic homestead law in 1862. when the
@r2r was going on, is still in exist
2, &c.
Mr.. Neville. ! should like to ask
IL" gentleman if it is not true that
thar Populist was from the South,
whore they have Republican sympa-
1h:es?
Mir. Lacey. Why. they do not have
any great Republican synpathies in
the South.
".,Il. Neville 4 mean that the Popu-
lists there have.
"Mr. Lacey. Tins proviso which
prevented Confederate soldiers from
l"hin9 homesteads under the act Of
ny 5. 1872. lie says. has never been
stricken from the law. | want simp-
~ TO put into the Record the fact.
tbs II may 10Y officially. that thai
law was repealed less than eight
months after the war closed. VII,
i}int II connection. with my remarks
section > OF the act OF June y. 1856
~ which i exception preventing
C~ohtcGrrates from. taking a,r.steai,
vas ]: pealed.
SG"e hat time many good old Com
ted.rates then. who are good Union
mcn today, have taken their homes in
me West and in the South. and many
Of our best and most loyal citizen to-
day are men who wore the gray. but
who are living upon homes that they
cn1ained under the homestead law of
lsG-. modified as it was by the act
OF -AfE N1An fi,,J TIA
a'-e author Of that book has publish
tl t fCadcaSt over the South. | think
i proper TO print in the Record the
mcdlfIcatlon of the law. to show that
tins act does Justice to the COnfed-
ria.eS, and 1t was done but 81 very
Few r'onths after the surrender Of
Lee. On the 22nd of June. 1866. The
rChjbition against the taking Of
holnesteads by the Co~nfederates WAS
@%ntlrcly eliminated from the record
My friend from North CarOlina =
genial and pleasant gentleman. With
whom | have served in this Congress
ant n past, has pade this mistake.
no doubt nnadvertfNly, misled as he
Is .Ju>t 10 him. as we'll as to Conorec.
that it should be corrected.
Il give now the following extract
ftcm The South against the North hv
Gltdy:
but even all these grants. topeth-
"r WItt others equally violative Of the
constitution and the pledge made 10
the States and to the original GRAN
lo:s or purchasers. were hlo
II comparison with those provided for
IL ne act Of May 20. 1862. That do
mated a homestead free of cost ex-
cept a Tee amounting to about II cent
per acre, 10 any citizen who is tha
l'id OF a family or who has arrived
at the age OF p years. and to any
i""',ghef who has filed a declaration
80 become. a citizen. provided that
lie Groves his loyalty That j. 10