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mtr i - -„r........... — ....................—1 —.................| u.' l in™- -1^1 « JI --L-I-BV .1 li ■ «lr -annTr' ' JMCurre*pandcacf of tiie laUy KtBpifflt.j*» letter from Thomas Jefferson *titftierUuid.:|| 9 BltOOKVILLE, I®N£LIN Co. |1RB MfffSf Editor*:—I made an effort Uf write fac* y°° ft fetter, some eight week* since. But the filt;! job fell through on account of bodily infirmity. Sad ^ * wa* taken fak k on tny way up Uie Ohio ri ver, evr. now ubcul ten weeks. and have been Under the#r w.*athei ever since. In fact I am now Hat onIR J m) Wtefej and am Indebted to tlie hand of a *•* I frrcndfy lawyer for penning this communication. For recovery I have large hopes andBj : 'j 7I4 I I fflrnot advised whether you, at the present day, claim to he IiOnd Reformer*, or not.But presi ning that you will do* me the favor._t Ve. | of letting thifl fetter appear in the JfoHpm,I have inchided herein, point* for the oongid-m*i' eration of the Land Reformers of Cincinnati.S^* The entire code of Laws of the United States, for the management of tlie Public Lands, has Jbeen rendered nugatory, by Land Speculatorss 1V#* and Sqi^tters; and every law of Congress, nra, whleli has been enacted under the pretense of 22* sustaining the interest of the actual setler, has i;| been made to work as a law, for the benefit of Land Speculator*. •jj/jlMM»jij| The people of the Umpn, have a right, and [*!i | ought to demand, of the Congress about to goJftJJj into session, tliat provision be made for the *©m-; execution of the existing Land Law's of the n9 , United States; or that they bo repealed and iRm others enacted in their stead.On tin1 subject of Free Grants of land, from the Public Domain, to actual sellers, for eulti-mtii851,mi|re#t(lin^g j vation, it is my project, that the grant shallm npaft.£»untilconsist of one hundred and sixty acres of i prairie-land; and that the timbered landsshall be surveyed into five-acre lots, and soldto actual sctlers only, at three dollars per acre.Jl 2 Had cither of the bills w hich have hercto-ty.I**er.RE-until1861,fore been before Congress, been passad to law's, they would have afforded no relief to those who seek the soil for cultivation; but would have been turned like all proceeding enact-ones menu of the kind, to give aid and comfort toone, ' 0'tion ! the Limd Speculators and Land Monopolies.—hfltajL j • UP r • , *n(V , I trust that an appropriate Bill will go beforeJjjj j the present Congress, and I liopo for its pas-•bta sage to a law. But to make this hope good,tTsr.there Is w'ork to be done; and for which work there are no hands, except those of the Land?l£ * Reformers of Cincinnati.The first opponents to a measure of Land Reform in the present Congress, will be the advocates of wRill for the assignment of the Land Warrants issued under the Act of 1350.—mg*,viat*tajtes suf thisH byever Incholds,tbsIm __Veu-! A great majority of these wnmnts, called for only forty and sixty acres; and therefore can be made of little account for Land Speculators, unless legally assignable so that they may be located in bulk* rMany of the Western members of Congress are decidedly in Wrested in the Land Warrants, and tSey will be backed up by scores of speculators from the East. If the measure for the alignment of these Land Warrants is carried, they will be made use of for the sequestrationmln.inaryse.J)REx;tionofrnichmostlicer-12L—arehioa!erse,hicalt.e»eriorosU.andcom-f thewithof the most valuable portions of the National Domain, and to effect a double robbery—to seize the income of the public treasury and to take from the laborers upon the land, the result of their toil..Another set of opponents to any measure of Land Reform, will be found with those who are applicants for grants of public land to aid them in the construction of Railroads, Canals, and other pretended public improvements.— These will be in great strength before the present Congress* The State of Iow a is asking for only about sixty thousand sections of of public land, as aid in the construction of eight hundred miles of Railroad. That State has hereto • fore received large cessions from the public Domain, in aid of her Internal improvements,none of w'hich have been completed; while the#*/ ®lands have all been squandered. Missouri will claim at least one hundred thousand sections in aid of several projected Railroads, some of which have no other object, than to found a claim for a grant of the public lands. 1 Another set of opponents will be found with those who are interested in what is now ter,et.ULDmeatf To*er idSix-St.►lSCOTV-vder,• can% filmthe Swamp Lands. Under what is termed the Swamp Land Law, millions of acres, including some of the finest soils of this broad Continent, and which have not been overflowed since the groat Deluge, and have been taken by the Western States and passed to the hands of Land Speculators for mere nominal prices.Add to these the long list of those who liaVo monopolized lands for sale, and the fact that the newspapers of the West, are all owned and controlled by Land Speculators; and Land Reformers may perceive the force of opposition with which they must contend, and overcome,if successful. 1 My head gives out.i;' ' Yours •ffclyylt; Th. jKFXKItSOff SUTUXRLAND.Kaualiiv of Man and Woman.22■ J88 42S.30 ]31 .82 i1 r2 . 3 4 4.6 J6 '7 .89 .10 11 .12 i13 .14 16 1 16 . 17 4 18.19 .20 . 21 22.23 (241234 6 61 J2 13 r4 r516 .7 18 . 9. 10 11. n1314 15'123456 7
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Cincinnati Daily Nonpareil
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Tue, Dec 02, 1851
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