Land Speculation Quotes
His expedition to Kentucky was illegal as it was against British law to expand to the West. Soon, hundreds of thousands of Americans would follow Boone and his men.
Weaver thought that the huge Federal land holdings should only be used to give land to homeless people. With land, they could build shelter, plant food, and raise cattle. In modern times it is much more difficult to help the homeless for few people could survive on a parcel of land even if given.
Many of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 had invested in land that had formerly belonged to the Iroquois Indians who had sided with the British in the Revolution and been driven up to Canada. They had paid very little and wanted to sell it at large profits. However, there was little gold and silver left in the colonies after the war and there was great reluctance in the rest of the world to lend gold and silver backed money to a new country that did not have a rule of law and courts to collect debts. For example, Madison and Monroe had formed a partnership and bought former Iroquois land near Rome, New York. There was idealism to be sure but there was also self-interest functioning in the secret Constitutional Convention.
Use included renting it. What he opposed was simply holding land when whites were driving Indians off their lands because all the unused land outside of the reservation was owned by someone and the asking price was very high. Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
