1719

Cleveland Morning Leader, 11 February 1864 (ed; 8 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1719 - L. Feb. 11; ed: 2/1 - Thurlow Weed, editor of the Albany EVENING
JOURNAL, being fearful of irritating the people of the South in coming
years, has made a proposition to abolish the homestead law and pledge
public lands for payment of interest on our national debt which he
calculates it will be $4,000,000,000 at the close of the war.
"The plan of wise statesmanship is to make our Union all free soil,
to offer our public domain in free homesteads to the farmers of Europe
and of America." (8)

Index terms:

Albany EVENING JOURNAL, The; Europe; *Public Lands; South; Union; Weed, Thurlow