The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-06-09
PAY OF VOLUNTEERS.


We last week noticed the vote in Con-
gress on a resolution offered by Mr..
STEWART to increase the pay OF Volun-
teers called into ther service Of the Uni
ted States; and in order to show in "black
and white'' who ARE and who ARE NOT
the friends Of the Volunteers, and TO pre-
vent misrepresentation on the subject
hereafter, we now publish the yeas and
nays on the resolution, remarking only,
that Mr.. Tibbatts of KY, also Wing
member, had on the previous day offered
similar resolution, which met with a
similar fate,
YEAS.-Messrs. Abbot, John Q. Ad-
ans, Ashmun, Barringcr, Bell, Blanch-
ard, Cowlin, Milton, Brown, William G,
Brown, John H. Campbell, Carroll, Cath
cart, John G. Chapman, Reuben Chap
man, Chase, Cooke, Collamer, Crozier,
Cullom, Darragh, Garrett Davis, Dixon,
EdsaIl, John H. Ewing, Foot, Gentry,
Giles, Graham, Grider, Grinnell, Harper,
sHlliard, Elias B. Holmes, John w.
Houston, Samuel ID. Hubbard, Washing
ton Hunt, Joseph r. Ingersoll, George
w. Jones, Daniel p. King, Thomas But
Ter King, Lewis, McClay, McClelland,
McHenry, McIlvaine. Barkley, Martin,
Miller, Morse, Parrish, Payne, Relfe, Ju-
lius Rockwell, John A. Rockwell, Root,
Runk, Schenck, Seaman, Truman Smith,
Albert Smith, Robert Smith, Stephens,
Stewart, Thibodeaux, Thomasson, Ben
iamin Thompson, Tibbatts, Trumbo,
Wentworth and White-70.
NAYS.-Messrs. Stephen Adams, At
kinson, Bedlnger, Benton, Biggs, James
A. Black, Boyd, Brinkerhooff,, Brocken-
brough, Brodhead,.. Burt, Clarke, Collin,
Cranston, Cunningham, Daniel, Dargan
Jefferson Davis, De Mott, Dobbin, Dock
cry, Dromgoole, Ellsworth, Erdman,
Ficklin; Fries, Carver, Grover, Hamlin,
Isaac E. Holmes, George S. Houston,
Hungerford, James B. Hunt, Hunter,
Charles j. Ingersoll, Jenkins, James Ii.
Johnson, Joseph Johnson, Preston King,
Lawrence, Leake, Levin, Joseph j. Nc
Dowell, James Mcdowell, McGaughey,
Mckay, Marsh, Morris, Moulton, Nor
ris, Owen, Phelphs; Price, Reid, Rhett,
Ritter Roberts, Sawyer, Seddon, Alex
ander d. Sims, Leonard III. Sims, Simp-
son, Stanton, Starkweather, Sykes, Jas.
Thompson, Jacob Thompson, Tredway
Vance. Vinton, Williams, Wood, Wo ood-
ward. Woodwork and Yanccy.-75.
The "Moruing Chronicle. NEUTRAL
paper, makes the following appropriate
remarks in reference to the vote OH the
resolutions of Mr.. Tibbatts and Mr.
Stewart.
Any one would naturally suppose that
resolution of this kind would have pass
ed by acclamation. But no. Those ve-
ry men who voted $4,000 for the trans
portation of officere' baggage, and who
pay the aristocrats of the army from three
hundred to three thousand and four thou
sand dollars year-many of the Off
GERS actually receive over thousand dol
lars year in extra rations-voted the
resolution out of order.
The next day Mr.. Stewart offered a
resolution TO the same effect as that pre-
sented by Mr.. Tibbatts. 1t met with the
same fate. Now, the poor volunteer,
who leaves family dependent upon him
for support and marches to the seat of
war to fight the battles of his country,
finds his country's gratitude measured by
Just SEVEN DOLLARS A MONTH. Out up
on such meanness!
One favorite argument with the o2po-
nents Of increased pay is, that the citizen
soldier should fight for patriotism. III
there is any force in this it amounts TO the |
following proposition: Patriotism in the
army is in reverse ratio to the pay, I'd EST,
the smaller the pay, the greater the patri-
otism. Hence the corollary: The pri-
Yates have the greatest amount of pa tri- |
otism, the inferior officers none at ALL
The absurdity of such reasoning is evi-
dent to the most stupid.
The truth is that the opposition to the |
increased pay of privates arises from
hatred of the laboring classes. These
men about the time of election always
profess the greatest love for this class of
their fellow citizens, and when elected
they take care not to make good their fair
promises. Let the people put mark up |
on all such hypocritical demagogues, and
reward them according to their deeds.
TEXAS Beyond THE NUEcEs.-West |
oil the Nueces the people are all Spaniards.
The country is uninhabitable, excepting
the Rio Grande, and that contains pret-
tY dense nnnnlatinn The soil ON The |