Saturday, March 26, 2011

The passage of the Homestead bill . . .

. . . will no doubt be considered an unconstitutional and fanatical proceeding by the Vallandighammers, as it may operate to prevent the rebel slave-owners and breeders from turning the public domain into large plantations, and give it in small farms to white men.  Is it not an aggravated violation of Southern Rights?

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 1

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