Speech of Hon. John L. Dawson, of Penn'a : On the Homestead Bill, Delivered in the House of Representatives, Feb. 14, 1854
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In close connexion with the topic of benefiting the land States, I wiU merely refer to the policy w^hich has been illustrated with such ability and success during ths last two sessions of Congress in approval of railroad grants — the manifest tendency of such grants to fulfil the object of the whole land policj'- of the government — namely, the settlement of the public domain, and its erection into States ; and I can assert, with confidence, that not an argument was urged in behalf of those mea...sures which does not apply with triple force to the bill under consideration. Reasons scarcely less forcible than an}^ we have presented, in favor of this change proposed in our land policy, may be derived from a con- sideration of some features of the present system. Among these, it has been shrewdly questioned whether the benefits of the policy of pre- emptions, under existing laws, are not more for the speculator than the settler ; in other words, to favor the capitalist at the expense of the imm.
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