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hereby granted, and may be selected within the limits 

 of forty miles north of the centre line of said railroad, 

 excepting, however, from this grant, all mineral lands, 

 and lands sold by the United States, or lands in which 

 a preemption or homestead claim may have attached at 

 the time the line of said railroad shall have been loca- 

 ted and established/ 



" What will the railroad docket of the Senate not 

 contain by the time the Southerners have Brought up 

 their side of the railroad jobs to the present proud 

 height of their Northern friends, and shall have added 

 to the Washington lobby, its own army of blood- 

 suckers, plausible gentlemen of unquestioned honor, 

 and thieves ? for it takes all these, and more, to make 

 a lobby. What a nice thing it will be for taxpayers ! 



"All this presents the railroad interest merely in 

 outline. Every bill deserves a separate letter to show 

 the means used to get it before the Senate, the persons 

 engaged in pressing it, and the parties to be Benefited 

 by it ; and in due time the principal ones at least will 

 get that chapter. 



" When the railroad jobs are disposed of, then the 

 deck is only cleared for action against jobs in general. 

 There are, aside from these, the Niagara Ship Canal 

 with a coupon of twelve millions attached ; the Com- 

 mercial Navigation Company, with half as much on its 

 coupon ; the bills and schemes for getting damages paid 

 to Southern men for property destroyed during the 

 war, in all hundreds of millions ; and then the lobby 

 upon the more modest sum of five millions due from 

 Southern railroads, and in which radical Republicans 

 from Tennessee are deeply interested. The Osage 

 Treaty is a nice plum ; and one new feature is, that 



