AND WHERE TO FIND ONE. 1:7 



be expected to suit all. To the strong and hardy, 

 such as are accustomed to rough work and humble 

 fare, it will probably be the easiest method. It 

 must be so to thousands, or they would not so read 

 ily embrace it. How such a farm may be put in 

 shape, and what it may be expected to produce, 

 will be indicated in a future chapter. 



Of this Homestead Law, Mr. Julian, of Indiana, 

 thus speaks in his eloquent argument on the bill to 

 extend its provisions to the soldiers : 



&quot;Its enactment was a long delayed bat magnificent 

 triumph of freedom and free labor over the slave- power. 

 While that power ruled the Government its success was im 

 possible. By recognizing the dignity of labor and the equal 

 rights of the million, it threatened the very life of the oli 

 garchy which had so long stood in its way. The slave 

 holders understood this perfectly ; and hence they resisted 

 it, reinforced by their Northern allies, with all the zeal and 

 desperation with which they resisted abolitionism itself! Its 

 final success is among the blessed compensations of the 

 bloody conflict in which we are plunged. This policy takes 

 for granted the notorious fact that our public lands have 

 practically ceased to be a source of revenue. It recognizes 

 the evils of land monopoly on the public domain, as well as 

 in the old States, and looks to its settlement and improve 

 ment as the true aim and highest good of the Republic. It 

 r.s, as iniquitous, the principle which would tax our 

 landless poor men a dollar and a quarter per acre for the 

 privilege of cultivating the earth ; for the privilege of mak 

 ing it a subject of taxation, a source of national revenue, 

 and a home for themselves and their little ones. It assumes, 

 to use the words of General Jackson, that 4 the wealth and 



