The immediate pressure of the war did not injuriously affect that distant region. On the contrary. it rather created there an era of prosperity. For many reasons this .was particularly exhibited in the matter of emigration. thousunds of people escaped the immediate horrors and per sonal obligations of the war by settling on the coast. this in turn occasioned a sudden taking up of public land there and a consequent demand for an unusual extension of the public surveys. But this demand encountered the necessity for absolute reduction and almost total cessation of appropriations for that purpose. acondition not essentially dissimilar from that which prevails at present. It is clearly no injury to the United States to have its public domain surveyed.
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