50 HISTORY OF THE GRANGE MOVEMENT; OR, 



Delaware Indian reserve lands in 1861, and then in 

 1862, by a rider on the Pacific Railroad law, granted 

 sixteen thousand dollars per mile in United States 

 bonds, and every alternate section of land within cer- 

 tain limits, on each side of the road, and the privilege 

 of a second mortgage. This is cutting it pretty fat. 

 But it further appears that a clique of seceders from 

 the old company illegally formed a new company, and, 

 having by force of arms taken possession of the road, 

 are pocketing the spoils which legally belong to the old 

 company. All this, too, with the consent of the Presi- 

 dent, the Secretary of the Treasury, and Congress. 

 Are they all birds of a feather, that they thus flock to- 

 gether ? 



" From another source we learn that some half dozen 

 other Pacific branch or main stem railroads, Northern 

 and Southern, are on the anvil, involving lands and 

 bonds by tens and twenties and hundreds of millions ; 

 that of all these schemes fully three-fourths come from 

 the Republicans in both Houses ; that Senator Pomeroy, 

 of Kansas, has seven of these jobs on the docket ; Sena- 

 tor Ramsey, of Minnesota, four, Senator Conness, of 

 California, five, and Senator Harlan, of Iowa, four. 

 Senator Pomeroy, however, distances all competitors in 

 the number and extent of his jobs ; for, as it appears, 

 they include a line from Kansas to Mexico, three bills 

 for roads from Fort Scott to Santa Fe, in Texas, a 

 South Carolina line through the Sea Island cotton sec- 

 tion, two or three lines from the Mississippi River 

 through to Texas, and ' a little private Atchison Pacific, 

 one of the nicest and fattest speculations ever worked 

 through.' 



" Is not this a magnificent budget, and is not the 



