Metadata
Title
Representative M. C. Trout to Sarah Josepha Hale
Date
1854-01-07
January 7, 1854
Subject
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879
Medium
Manuscripts
Language
eng
Type
text
Collection
Sarah Josepha Hale Collection, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Identifier
46-M-093
Rights
http://www.philaathenaeum.org/rights.html
Text
House Repr Washington
January 7, 1854
Madam
I recd your note this morning enclosing
the memorial on the subject of education
It will give me great pleasure to aid
in the passage of such a bill as indicated
by the memorialists
I need hardly say to you that I am
opposed to the giving of our public lands
to build rail roads [railroads] and thus establish, out
of the public domain, a set of corporations
and monopolies, which in all countries
are, to say the least of them, dangerous.
But I am willing and anxious at all
times to vote for grants of land to the subject
of education, and more specifically that kind
proposed in your memorial, as also to those
who have periled their lives in defence [defense] of our
County [Country] either by land or sea.
I am also in favour of giving to every person
the head of a family, a farm of 160 acres
on condition of settlement and occupancy.
Grants of this kind, are in my opinion, much
better calculated to advance the interests
and morals of our country, than squandering
wealth upon rail road [railroad] companies.
Yours very respectfully
M.C. Trout
Sarah J. Hale
Ed of Ladys book;
Philadelphia
January 7, 1854
Madam
I recd your note this morning enclosing
the memorial on the subject of education
It will give me great pleasure to aid
in the passage of such a bill as indicated
by the memorialists
I need hardly say to you that I am
opposed to the giving of our public lands
to build rail roads [railroads] and thus establish, out
of the public domain, a set of corporations
and monopolies, which in all countries
are, to say the least of them, dangerous.
But I am willing and anxious at all
times to vote for grants of land to the subject
of education, and more specifically that kind
proposed in your memorial, as also to those
who have periled their lives in defence [defense] of our
County [Country] either by land or sea.
I am also in favour of giving to every person
the head of a family, a farm of 160 acres
on condition of settlement and occupancy.
Grants of this kind, are in my opinion, much
better calculated to advance the interests
and morals of our country, than squandering
wealth upon rail road [railroad] companies.
Yours very respectfully
M.C. Trout
Sarah J. Hale
Ed of Ladys book;
Philadelphia