The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1846-06-13

WASHINGTON, May 20, 1916.
There is one important TACT that the people
all over the country ought to know, which in
that while the wings in Congress vote to i'd
crease the pay of voluntoers IRON 81 to $lOper'
month, and 10 give each who serves the war
one hundred and sixty acres Of public land, as
an inducement 10 them to 60 to the defence Of
Their country, the locofocos almost in a body,
vote against increasing their pay or giving them
the grant of land.
The other day, the House sent u the Senate
the 'war bill" as it is called, increasing the pay
to $40 per month. The Senate amended the
bill BY substituting SO for SIG, and when the
bill was returned to the House, every l~ocofoco
present but eight voted to agree to the Senate's
amendments They voted that 81 per month
was enough,ufter all, for the volunteers! They
were receiving eight dollarsper day themselves;
but what Of thatl They eerc members of Con-
gress--not mechanics and hard-laboring men!
To-day Mr.. Stewart Submitted a resolution d.
rscting the Committee on Military A fairs 70
report a bill increasing the pay of the volun-
teers to ten dollars per month aud giving them
one hundred and sixty acres each Of the public
lands, and moved a suspension Of the rules that
said resolutions might be considered. 1t be-
ing an important matter, the yeas and nays
were ordered-and how think yon the vote
stood? Why all the wings but four voted to
suspend the rules, while all the locofocos but
seventeen voted in the negative, The same
party still tacitly voting that seven dollars per
month would be sufficient for the poor and
brave fellows who volunteer to fight for and
protect their country! Who wish to see the
war with Mexico brcughtto a speedy and sue
%cessful termination, and are willing, nay anx-
ious, to put the compensation high enough 10
make it some inducement for good and sub
stantial men to volunteer! The WHIGs-who
wish to;protect the war, and are unwilling to
to allow the volunteers a grant of land or
more than So per month for fighting the battles
Of their country! The Loc90cOs, if their acts
may give the answer.
Whatwill, what ought their constituents say
to their Representatives on their return home?
Will they not in substance say: sab, you vo-
ted to raise volunteers to go into service, to UNI
dergo the fatigues of a campaign, to run the
risk Of sickness and to fight the battles of your
country-and yet you voted against giving us
a grant ofland at the end Of the war, or allow
ST. per month, when we now can earn a dollar
or q dollar and a half per day as mechanics and
laborers! You stay in Congress and get eight
dollars a day, and call on US to 60 and do the
fighting of the country for 81 per month-und
the honor and glory Of the thing! Honor and
glory! Can we support our wives and children
with the one orthe other! We are willing to
60 into the wal and do the fighting. We pro-
foss to be as patriotic as you are. But when
we are igting let us have the satisfaction of re-
lecting that our Government and its law-ma-
kers, thought enough Of our services to pay US
something for rendering them. lfyOu, gentle
fighting in their country's behalf, for The
honor and glory Of the service, why the
field is open and you can go yourselves
The interest of your country in Congress
would not suffer very materially, perhaps, BY
your absence from those halls"
i'll not the members who voted against CIV
ing the volunteers ten dollars per month, be
talked to III this way BY their constituents?
Htey 10 be.
/ rejoice that the wings in Congr SIS are ems
b~racing lhr readiest means Of speedily termina-
ting the war with Mexico, BY voting to pay the
volunteers something for their services. The
people will see who are .heirfriends, and who
arc their enemies-who are for humbugging
them, and who are for treating them fairly.
The Mexicans too, the cunning, b%oastful,
treacherous Mexicans, will learn their mistake
if they, who have been whipped for eight Or
nine years past by Texas, now think, because
we have a weak President, not liked By the