Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-05-04

,au limitation, there could be such difficulty as
MI brunson had suggested. National Reformers
as such, were not connected with Owenism nol
| FourIerlsm, nor any social system We wished r.
establish the rights Of all to the land and then a true
practical social reform would follow as exneriance
shaiI develop new wants and suggest new remedies
Whei men had their free Homes. if thew wished t
i've IN Isolation as now they would DO So and each
one might manifest his superior powers of mind +,
| making one acre under good tlage, produce as
ihuch as hve acres under worse. But it copd no,
De supposed 'hat as men advanced in moral culture
~ oeneFoiehce and unity, they would wish
10 dWel III the present antagonistc and sel6sb eta.
Least OF all could teacher of cbr;st;a;, ~
men could not love each other in physical and i,
uuslflai relations as in spiritual and re6o;ons 7,
men, talter all had homes sh oud choose Ia , -.
the emigrants to California now saw let Ms form in
tha;.ta at'ohs' then many might throw
"eli nohes ana farms together; and the iron mas
W anu us "oihiigHlah would have the same in
terest and destructive armies would not he ,,oodad
but peaceful and constructive armies ,,,o,I5 ~ -
10 do good and build up the world tn 81
| would become an Eden. | compared Thar cond
t'oh oil society with the present warning discard and
"dtlg' seil-seekIng condition of miscalled Christ,
ahlty' aud enrcaed the aid of all lovers or b,,n,s,
NY and OF Christ, to bring it forward and 70 Laa
the good day when the earth should belono 70 rT7a
ana each one possess his own home. and pons 10
modest or make him afraid
Mr.. Brunson said that AT least h. Ill -, g,
me to the social reformers oC tho F., -. 80 e
uotnam' whence originated all dangerous and nov,
tangled schemes That man never could bA oood
enough 10 IVe IN closer society with his G.Ilov
man. without invading the rrhts of others r. bo
mad the power All leaders of industrial societies
were tyrants, and the members of the sociatia,
saves saves iou had only look to the Rappites, the
- "e,'es' 'ne fourlerites, the Shakers, TO know
that National Raforrn 49,"
h,S nan hour he consumed in good natured renarls
ABOUT me personally with pleasant sarc.s,ns sn:t- II
to raise u langh i'S' Su''Su
~ was now about ten o'clock, and Therefore 7
made only few remarks saving thar 7 ,,,.,tad
vote on my resolutions about GreesoiI Land r.
form iree-soll) Land limitation, and Homestead ex.
eI'Pion' when had handed to Judge Dunn, the
10 q the audience that did not ex-
Pcct majority of votes at so early n time oC tho
Ie'prh any more than Columbus Gaelo. Harvey
iu'toii' mad reason 10 expect maioritics in their
laEoF' when their systems We're first pronosed :
But wished to know how the minority for the
resolutions would stand, and | therefore requested
a vote.
a teller was appointed who announced the aves
and nays. The teller afterwards informed me
that there were not more than one hundred and ten
persons in the House, for the audience, in conse-
qucnce OF the weather was not crowded as on
Thursday.
On the resolution that the public lands should be
surveyed into farms and lots for the free use of
lahdlcss actual settlers, the vote stood AYES 80,
Noes 81; and on the suppostion that there were
IUu persons present, the non-voters were 46
Oh Land llmltatIon the vote was ayes 10, noes
36,-the number not voting 80.
On Homestead Exemption, irrespective of Pc
cunlary valuation, the ayes 49, noes 80, non-voers
81.
In conversation forwards with persons on the
subject, was informed that good impression
had been created for cur measures, and understood
that the vote On Land limitation was affected by
the want OF Sufficient knowledge as to the manner
III which we designed to establish it. For OH the
dcta IS | had not touched in my debate, as time
won uot permit.
Thus you that at the Lancaster Court, in
Grant county, the head quarters of conservatism in
southwest Wisconsin, IN meeting composed in
large proportion of land agents, land spectators,
mc,chantS, and members of the bar, the noes
against land reform were not many more than the
ayes; and we may presume that the non-voters were
more inclined for us than against us For unless
their minds had been to some extent iavorabiy i'm
pressed, they would have been apt to 90 against
measures so much misrepresented.
Judge Dunn, Mod rator manifested that dig
n;ty and hnpartiality, which, while on the bench
so eminently gained for him The respect and conf
dencc Of the public. Nothing occurred whatever,
10 interrupt in the least the order and harmony of
the debate. Your friend,
Ii. II. VAN AMRINGE.