Year: 1860

labor has been applied to the land since it was


sold by the Government, nor is it more Valua-
| BILE to the seller. Has not the laborer a right


to complain of legislation that compels him to
endure greater tolls and hard>hpS, or contri-
butte portion of his earnings for the benefit
OF the capitalist But not upon the capitalist
or the speculator as it proper that the blame
should fall. Man must seek livelihood, and
do business under the laws of the country


and whatever rights he may acquire under
the laws, though they may be wrong, yet the
wel-beng of society requires that they be re-
Spected and faithfully observed If person
engage in business lagalized by the laws, and
uses no fraud or deception in its pursuit, and
evils result to the community, let them apply the
remedy to the proper source that is, to the
law-makug power. The laws and the law
makers are responsible for whatever evils nee
esSarily grow out of their enactments.


In order to secure the labor its earnings, so
far as is possible, by legislative action, aud to
strengthen the elements of national greatness
and power, why should not the legislation of
the country be so changed as to prevent for
the future he.eyiso land monopoly by setting
apart the vast and unoccupied territories of the
Union, and consecrating them forever in free
homes for free men ?


Mr.. MAYNARD May be allowed to
ask my friend from Pennsylvania a question


Mr.. GROW. Certainly. r


Mr.. MAYNARD 1t is this whether he
is in favor, or otherwise of allowing the old sol
dier or his assignee to locate his land warrant
on the public domain


Mr.. GROW. | always answer questions
that are pertinent to the point under discus
sion, not otherwise. | am not arguing any
question about land warrants, bu. about the
proper disposition to be made of the public
lands. / do not see the applicability Of the
gentlemans questioA f; and must therefore pass
it by as | do not wish to be diverted from my
argument


Mr.. MAYNARD The gentleman is mis-
taken about the object of my question.


Mr. GROW. | would provide in our land
policy for securing homesteads 20 actual set
tiers and whatever bounties the Government
should grant to the old soldiers, | would have
made in mouey aud not in land warrants, which
are bought in most cases by the speculster as
an easier and cheaper mode of acquiring the
public lands So they only only facilitate land
monopoly. The men who 60 forth at the call
of their cOnntry to uphold its standard and
viudicate its homer, are deserving, it is true of
a more substantial reward than tears to the
dead aud thanks to the living bat there aCe
soldiers of peace as well as Of war, and though
no waving plume bcckols them on to glory or
to death. their dying scene its oft a crimson
one They fall leading the van Of civilization
along untrodden paths, and are buried in the
dust of its advancing columns. No monument
mar%ls the scenc of deadly strife no stone
their resting place the winds sighng through
the branches of the forest alone sing their re-
quicm Yet they are the meriorious men of
the Republic The achievements OF your
pioneer army from the day they first drove
back the Indian tribes from the Atlautic sea-
board to the present hour, have been the ac-
hicvcments of science and civilization over the
elements, the wilderness, and the savage.


If rewards or boVnties are to be granted for
true heroism in the progress of the race, none
is more deserving than the pioneer who ex-
pelS the savage and the wild beast, and opens
in the wilderness a home for scieace and path
way for civilization.