. . . giving every man who will settle upon, and cultivate it, a free farm from the public lands, which passed the Senate by a vote of 33 to 7, had previously passed the House, and now only awaits the signature of the President to become a law.
It is a beneficent measure, and will do much to hasten the settlement and development of the free territories of the West. Every poor man can now, if he chooses to avail himself of the Government’s free gift, become the possessor of a farm.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 1
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