Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1852-04-30

rVE'Dt sE Arsi5 q 1852
Joint resolution from the House. providing the esab
shment at Salem Of the Of government OF Oregon Ter
ritury, wac taken up and passed.
Tho deficiency bill was then resumed.
Mr. Seward addressed the Senate for two hours In sup
port of the amendment giving additional AID 10 Inc CohS
line g ,,o.,,na
$4,000 trip.
Alter executive session the ssn %T ndNvEnsd
Mr. Florence of Pennsylvania yesterday Just previous 10
the rising of the House. presented petition numercusy
signed and which, he said, was several hundred yards In
length, in favor of the homestead BILL
The House resolved itself into committee OF tho whole,
and took up the homestead bill.
Air. Stephens Of Georgia took the oo and alter abiding
policy which had been recently pursued by which
hundred millions Of of land had been given away e1
dressed himself being opposed the passage OF the bill
before the committee until some general system OF dsposng
of the public domain shall haye been adopted In every
free and representative country no sad there must exist
He did not rise TO defend any party faction but to lay
down fundamental principles, without wnieh no gov
be sustained Parties ne con'enoeo must DC
organized with reference to the predominant questions OF the
day. and the great political question at present IN this con
try be considered TO be the law for the reclamation OF ug
tive slaves The majority of the people he believed 10 DO in
favor the performance Of all constitutional obligations
and no platform could stand unless based upon the
constitution would any administration be sustained I'M
less il were actuated by ouch principles
He state that il, which he did not admit, the
North would stand up for the constitution he should
how The conicderacy rent assunde he
expressed himself opposed National Conventions and TO
surrenceng Irresponsible body Inc power 10 PRESCRIBE
principles, which The country s TO act The people, he
continued would not vote for any man who should not be
10 favor OF the fugitive slave law. He then read extracts
from the Union and Tribune from which he dssented
and four other papers, show that the Wings in
favor of the compromise body, than the Democrats
He deemed tho opposition TO the institutions of the South
a against the Lord OF Creations the colored being
inferior white intellectually and mentally; and who he
said is an entirely different being He was proceeding 10
show the decrease in the number OF free blacks when
pared with slaves when his time elapsed and the floor
taken by
Mr. Smith of Alabama who spoke in favor OF the BILL
He cuntEoyerted the arguments that had been addCced
against its passage, c0nended Tint il
that man had hundred and sixty acres of land he could
find capitalists enough who would make advances that
would enable him 10 reach it. lie eu"gsed agriculture
pursuit Of the utmost Importance any country and quoted
sriety Of statistics show that in England five hundred
years ago, weeks labor would procure Turner e
the comforts of life than that of month will present He
considered the owning Of land being calculated pro-
early marriages. and thus increase populations; while
under the provisions of the bill each would be certain of
home He referred to the squad poverty that prevails in
the great cities of the Union which The bill would have
tendency relieves went into history OF David, who from
being youthful shepherd 10 &c King Of Israel cu
etaoy of his views and his conviction that tho
Mr. Hendricks of Indiana followed and defended The
s,uonelty Vi The bill before the committee and epied 10
that had been urged against that proposition He
reviewed the that had been pursued by which the
public lands successfully cedei 10 the General Govern
for the benefit OF all the States and for the
discharge Of the public debt which, having been discharged
he said they ought longer be held for the purpose of
speculation. He went show the amount that had
derived by the General Government from the sale Of
lands-beng upwards of hundred and twenty nine mil
lions of dollars upon which net profit OF sixty millions
had been made exclusive of the States and Territories
These lands he said, had cost the government only
twenty and enc ha sold them the set
tiers for dollar and quarter per profit which,
in prva e would be considered usurious and us
He then went to show the quantity Of land which bad
been surrendered TO Indiana amounting TO between two and
three millions acres while The settlers tina, Suite had
purchased upwards OF fifteen mions and concluded by al
ludng the necessity which exists for providing, In the
proposed in the BILL for The foreign population thai
is annually ocking sores and il in order
said he would propose recommit the bill, with nsiruc
lions TO the committee public lands report another
for the disposal of the public lands what they the
vernmcnt.
The chairman ruled the motion be out of order and the
committee rose
Mr.. Venabe Of N. c. proposed suspend the rules
enable him 10 make motion that the House take recess
ill half past O'clock, enable gentlemen who
disposed 10 make speeches the BILL which object
cd TO, and the House adjourned