The Southern Homestead law had dedicated to actual settlement millions of acres of the public domain in the land States of the South, while the Homestead Act of 1862 was splendidly vindicating the wisdom of its policy.
Julian praises the Southern Homestead law and the Homestead Act for promoting settlement in the South.
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