It proposes to give portions of the public domain to the original Thirteen, together with Vermont, Maine, Tennessee, and Kentucky, for purposes of education and internal improvement, at the rate of one acre to each inhabitant according to the recent census.
Sumner describes a proposal to allocate public land for education and improvement, highlighting its ambitious scope.
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