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Trout to Sarah Josepha Hale"},{"label":"Date","value":["1854-01-07","January 7, 1854"]},{"label":"Subject","value":"Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879"},{"label":"Medium","value":"Manuscripts"},{"label":"Language","value":"eng"},{"label":"Type","value":"text"},{"label":"Is Part Of","value":"Sarah Josepha Hale Collection, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia"},{"label":"Identifier","value":"46-M-093"},{"label":"Rights","value":"http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html"},{"label":"Text","value":"House Repr Washington\r\nJanuary 7, 1854\r\n\r\nMadam\r\n\r\nI recd your note this morning enclosing\r\nthe memorial on the subject of education\r\nIt will give me great pleasure to aid\r\nin the passage of such a bill as indicated\r\nby the memorialists\r\nI need hardly say to you that I am\r\nopposed to the giving of our public lands\r\nto build rail roads [railroads] and thus establish, out\r\nof the public domain, a set of corporations\r\nand monopolies, which in all countries\r\nare, to say the least of them, dangerous.\r\nBut I am willing and anxious at all\r\ntimes to vote for grants of land to the subject\r\nof education, and more specifically that kind\r\nproposed in your memorial, as also to those\r\nwho have periled their lives in defence [defense] of our\r\nCounty [Country] either by land or sea.\r\nI am also in favour of giving to every person\r\nthe head of a family, a farm of 160 acres\r\non condition of settlement and occupancy.\r\n\r\nGrants of this kind, are in my opinion, much \r\nbetter calculated to advance the interests\r\nand morals of our country, than squandering\r\nwealth upon rail road [railroad] companies.\r\nYours very respectfully\r\nM.C. 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