Every field of production throughout the country is brought into communication with the markets of consumption. Our public domain is rapidly being absorbed and passing beyond the reach of the pioneer settler. and our population is rapidly increasing. The public domain in the West has thus far been a land of refuge for the teeming tide of foreign immigration that has pressed upon our shores so steadily for many years and still continues in increasing volume. as well as for the surplus population of our own overcrowded States and cities on the Eastern seaboard. The time is not far distant when a homestead in the great West will not only cease to be free to the poor settler. but. sir. when it will no longer be possible at a price that he can pay. For one I wish to postpone that day as far as may be possible. for. sir. when it comes. as come it will. we shall then witness in this now prosperous and happy country the commencement of that accursed systemn of tenantry which makes the poor laboring classes bond to the wealthy landowner. a bondage more galling. more relentless. and more hopeless than the chattel slavery from which the negro has just been emancipated in this country.
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