In this manner was the path opened for the pioneer squatter or pastoralist with his flocks and herds to settle on and portion out the land, and turn the wilderness to profit and occupation.
Cultivation follows, whilst families reside where the pioneer squatter strove with nature in a long struggle many years before.
The grazing selector is a coming power in the land; a grade between the old squatterand the small selector.
Such hospitality is from the heart, and when the squatter came in, his welcome was not less genuine than that of his family.
The squatter is rough, true, and hospitable; my friends here polished, true, and generous.
We took wood at several places; at one I was told that Wild Turkeys were abundant and Squirrels also, but as the squatter observed, "Game is very scarce, especially Bears.
One of these contained the general kitchen and sleeping room for the station hands, the other was the residence of the squatter and his overseer.
It has been said that a kangaroo will eat as much as two sheep; whether this be true or not, these animals must be kept down, or they will keep the squatter down.
Craig is saving money, and I believe will be a squatter himself one of these days.
From Squire toSquatter may sound to some like a come-down in life; but really Broadbent did not think so.
One event had taken place which, in Bob's eyes, eclipsed all the others--a little babysquatter saw the light of day.
But when he left his bedroom on the morning of Winslow's arrival, he had considerably more of the English Squire than the Australian Squatter about his tout ensemble.
If the honest squatter put this question once in the course of the evening, he put it twenty times.
From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New By Gordon Stables Published by John F.
It was not exactly popular sovereignty,--squatter sovereignty.
Adroit plan to draw him out on squatter sovereignty.
Then opened the roar of loose declamation in favor of "squatter sovereignty" and "sacred right of self-government.
But when Mr. Douglas changed ground again, and popular sovereignty became squatter sovereignty, he had reason to boast himself the most efficient, although the wiliest and coolest, antislavery agitator on the continent.
The Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, The Kansas-Nebraska Bill and Squatter Sovereignty 112 VIII.
It was not exactly Popular Sovereignty, but Squatter Sovereignty.
We recollect at an early period in the history of this struggle there was another name for the same thing--Squatter Sovereignty.
In another quarter--Toco--a notoriously lawless squatter had expressed his intention of shooting the Government official.
Vane of my other companion--who was the one acquainted with the squatter we were on the way to visit.
The sun was more than half an hour above the horizon; and as I ought to have had the sheep out upon the grass by sunrise, I was afraid the squatter would blame me for neglecting my duty.
That night, however, altogether unknown to me, he set fire to the sheds-- causing the squatter a loss of about three thousand pounds worth of property.
Became a Squatter in Port Fairy district, Victoria, at seventeen.
Oh, who shall cheek the squatter now When he comes round us snarling?
Douglas and declared for squatter sovereignty and the compromise of 1850.
They were the fullest embodiment of the theory of "Squatter Sovereignty.
A hundred pages could easily be devoted to this interesting phase of our political history, but the details already given will suffice to indicate the nature, scope, and purpose of the Squatter Constitutions of Iowa.
The Squatter Constitutions stand for the beginnings of local political institutions in Iowa.
It is a typical Squatter Constitution of the Territorial period.
The Constitution of the Johnson County Association is perhaps the most elaborate Squatter Constitution in the annals of early Iowa.
The Squatter Constitutions of Iowa, since they were a distinctive product of frontier life, are understood and their significance appreciated only when interpreted through the conditions of Western life and character.
They were the fundamental laws of the pioneers, or, better still, they were Squatter Constitutions.
It was Rutli, swaying from side to side, but steadily carrying with outstretched arms two of the squatter party, his hands tightly grasping their collars.
The description, especially, of the squatter family and the life led by it, is one of Cooper's most powerfully drawn pictures.
Shortly after my settling in Majorca, having heard that one of my fellow-passengers by the 'Yorkshire' was staying with a squatter about fourteen miles off, I determined to pay him a visit.
My own opinion is, that the squatter ought to be allowed to purchase the land he occupies by private contract from government; or that an allowance should be made him, equivalent to his improvements.
But the greatest hardship sustained by the squatter is the Special Survey system, according to which, anyone desirous to become a purchaser to the extent of twenty thousand acres may choose his land where he pleases.
As well as might be judged by the present conditions, the squatter had lived up to the contract.
Then opened the roar of loose declamation in favor of 'squatter sovereignty,' and 'sacred right of self-government.
When that is so, how much is left of this vast matter of Squatter Sovereignty I should like to know?
We recollect that in an early period in the history of this struggle, there was another name for the same thing--Squatter Sovereignty.
The log hut of the squatter P, commanding a beautiful prospect up and down the lake, stood upon a bold slope fronting the water; all the rest was unbroken forest.
The ruffian squatter P, from Clear Lake, drove from the barn a fine young bull we were rearing, and for several weeks all trace of the animal was lost.
His plan of squatter sovereignty had not got the Southerners Kansas, or any other slave State, to balance California and Minnesota and Oregon.
That was the barest form of the doctrine which its opponents in derision named "squatter sovereignty.
Not a question had Denis to answer as the horse ambled under him and the squatter strode alongside.
Denis next heard of him as a pioneer squatter in the Riverina country, and a partner of his former master, the kindly Kitto; and when they did meet in after life the younger man happened to be the richer of the two.
Denis would touch nothing till she whom he had lost was found again; so the squatter thrust him down into the sand, and between them they forced him to make a meal.
And deeply agitated, the squatter thrust his lantern among the outer branches of the thicket.
The First Born The struggling squatter is to be found in Australia as well as the "struggling farmer".
The Australian squatter is not always the mighty wool king that English and American authors and other uninformed people apparently imagine him to be.
