Letter to Littleton Waller Tazewell 1826 June 26.

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Letter to Littleton Waller Tazewell 1826 June 26.

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Tucker, St. Charles, Mo., writes concerning Tazewell's resolution in the U.S. Senate for cession of public lands to the states. He proposes limiting patronage of federal government to prevent graft, cites financial and banking corruption by the Johnson family of Kentucky and Missouri, Governor Benjamin Howard's bankruptcy, General Thomas A. Smith's treatment by James Monroe and the Senate, Governor Frederick Bates' Indian agency appointment, the power of Monroe in making land claims, and misuses of alleged Spanish grants. He criticizes Thomas Hart Benton's proposal for graduating the price of land, suggests that the federal government provide money for the relief of debt incurred by Missouri due to fall in land prices, and proposes reserving from sales, land for schools, mines, and salt springs, and appropriating money from sales to schools and improvement of navigable rivers, roads and canals. He mentions Edmund Burke and Richard Mentor Johnson.

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