Illinois has $6.000.000. if I recollect aright. Every one of these States has received of the bounty of the Government in the form of land millions. and millions and millions of acres more than she is entitled to if every particle of this bounty land and scrip land had been located according to her own will. and can they claim that the policy which carried the soldier into their territory is a policy which deprives them of all advantages of early settlement and of the better form of populatiou? The State would prefer the policy to be pursued which would locate the soldier within its limits rather than any other emigrant -whatever. and that is what has been done wherever these warrants have been actually located. To be sure. in some instances speculators got hold of them. but I am talking about the general drift of the policy. The effect has been to put the soldier within the limits of the States which come now and ask for this 5 per cent.
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