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strength of a country are its population, and that * the best 

 part of that population are the cultivators of the soil. This 

 bold and heroic statesman urged this policy thirty-two years 

 ago ; and had it then been adopted, coupled with adequate 

 guards against the greed of speculators, millions of landless 

 men, who have since gone down to their graves in the 

 weary conflict with poverty and hardship, would have been 

 cheered and blest with independent homes on the public 

 domain. Wealth incalculable, quarried from the mountains 

 and wrung from the forests and prairies of the West, would 

 have poured into the Federal coffers. The question of 

 slavery in our national territories would have found a peace 

 ful solution in the steady advance and sure empire of free 

 labor, whilst slavery, in its strongholds, girdled by free in 

 stitutions, might have been content to die a natural death, 

 instead of ending its godless career in an infernal leap at, the 

 nation s throat.&quot; 



In the following extract Mr. Julian foreshadows 

 the establishment of another vast land monopoly in 

 the South, or rather the substitution of Dew monop 

 olists in place of the slaveholders, unless the opera 

 tion of the Homestead Law is extended to the rebel 

 States : 



&quot; We shall certainly win ; and our triumph will inevitably 

 divest the title to a vast body of land in the rebel States, and 

 place it under our control. I think it entirely safe to con 

 clude that it will constitute more than half, and probably 

 three-fourths, of all the cultivated lands in the rebellious 

 districts. It will certainly, in any event, cover many mil 

 lions of acres. It will include all lands against which pro 

 ceedings in rem, shall be instituted, under the provisions of 

 the act to suppress insurrections, and to punish treason and 



