Book/Printed Material The homestead bill.
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Image 1 of The homestead bill. THE HOMESTEAD BILL SPEECH HON M S WILKINSON OF MINNESOTA In the Senate of the United States on the 3d of April 1860 the homestead proposition was called up and was discussed…
- Contributor: Wilkinson, Morton S. (Morton Smith)
- Date: 1860-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Image 2 of The homestead bill. 2 provisions and restrictions which will seriously end to destroy its efficiency and usefulness be fore the country Some of its restrictions are illiberal when liberality should be the most distinguishing feature…
- Contributor: Wilkinson, Morton S. (Morton Smith)
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 3 of The homestead bill. the benefits it holds ont This bill offers unts of land to every settler It looks to no distinction Has therefore a wealthy man in one of the old States a right…
- Contributor: Wilkinson, Morton S. (Morton Smith)
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 4 of The homestead bill. priety of abolishing one evil for the mere pur pose of substituting another I certainly regard it as very unwiseabd I might say unjust to exclude all unmarried men from the benefits…
- Contributor: Wilkinson, Morton S. (Morton Smith)
- Date: 1860-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Image 5 of The homestead bill. of the preemption act or graduation act or the special law lor Kansas and Nebraska which permit settlement under the preeruption law upon unsurveyed lands so that these young men may go…
- Contributor: Wilkinson, Morton S. (Morton Smith)
- Date: 1860-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page
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Image 6 of The homestead bill. the land laws were concerned with the native born citizen This system was dictated not only by an exalted sense of national liberality but also by a wise desire on the part…
- Contributor: Wilkinson, Morton S. (Morton Smith)
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 7 of The homestead bill. tion of the King of Persia made through his ambassador and dated London July 8 1823 Mirza Mahomed Saul Ambassador to Eng land in the name and by the authority of Ab…
- Contributor: Wilkinson, Morton S. (Morton Smith)
- Date: 1860-01-01
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Image 8 of The homestead bill. the act at a distance from each other and consequently add much to the embarrassments of new settlements on the frontier I do not approve of any system of Government specu lation…
- Contributor: Wilkinson, Morton S. (Morton Smith)
- Date: 1860-01-01
- Resource: - 1 page