Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-09-08
The Homestead Rill-its Friends.

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WAsHIseroN, Aug, !, 1852.
Eatgnp HlNcHMAS:- Yoar Journal o!
be 4fh isst has just come to hand: and IN
which end paragraph that does. sucb
yross injustice 10 the frisnds Of the sHoaae-
Stead HI which passed the Heuse on the
i2th Of May last, that Am inpened by a
aense Of duty to point ont the error into
which you have fallen. This being dose, L
know your senss Of justice and character
for eensiatency will require correction, on
yopr part.
Mark mel I care NOT hew much you de-
nouncs pref ssrd Democrats who proved
;recreant, and went for Mr.. Clay 70 old and
once exploded hand bill, vnuped up anew
BY Mr.. Bennett, but ask you. not to do
Injustice to fhe land Reiormers hsre--espe-
eisily at this particular juucture when all is
anxiety Cor tho fate Of the Homestead in
the Senate. Those who have labosed here
with unseasing. uniiring and unwaverirg
devotion % the cause OF this great reform =
who have borne every kind Of contumely
for the sake Of ., great measure. Do
saeh, no injustice they have suffered too
anuch here 70 be misrepresented by their
friends elsewhere. Blu, TO the point
.s Bennett Infamous land bill which you
properly denounce, and which gives to
speculators and land monopolists, the rich,
over sixty n,lions Of acres Of the peoples
lands; and in relation to the passage shereof
through the House, you say that
sThe Democrats are therefore blamabls
Tor The passage Of this act.e
Now, the very rererse Of this statement
u tbs fact. This measure originated with
Henry Clay 10 1881. and was vetoed by
Gen. Jackson in 1882, perhaps, and was
rxhunssd BY the Scott Wing party imme-
d;ately after the glorious triumph Of the
homestead Bill in the House; and was in
sroduced by Mr.. Bennett, a leading Scott
Whig-yoted sor by every Scott man in
House, except Messrs. Brenton, White and
Yates all told This is not all. 1t scas
sa.roduced to de fsat tie Homestead Bal
ss the Seaasel
The vote analyzed and corrected, as civ.
sn in sThs Signal" sums up thus;--
VoTED ron BENNE1ss Bill
Scott Whigs-67.
Democrats
Freesolers 2--96. Total.
5 THosE VoTlNe AGAINST BEsaErr's RtLL
Scatt Whigs-3.
Democrats 80,
Freesoilers l.-s7
Soon after the vote was given, / madt
ont hastily, an analysed vote and sent you
In which few errors, snsnadf.rial as TO re-
suit, perhaps, occurred. To correct these
or rather TO enable you to see them, ! sem
ysu q copy OF s1he Signal" leading
vampaign paper, issued here under the di
Tecsion Of The Scott executive Committe'
embracing all the wisdom, cunning and de
cpption, here, Of the party and for party pur
poses ten thousand copies Of which wer,
fided for Mr.. Dockery alone for the South
ern distribution. The sigma, you see Of
have seen, gives the vote on Bennetts Bill
by States. BY parties, and BY names. fer. al
against it. This is done by Mr.. D., ane
slher Wings to electioneer against the
Democrats 10 the Sonth, whare the Bennett
:. Bill is supposed TO be popular, on lib.
ground thai they, The Democrats opposed
the Bennett Bill and for Gen. Scott. Be,
cause it asa Whtg MEASURE, and may en-
able the Slave States to transfer their iater.
sst to Shareholders and thereby extend the
.area ofstasery" While Southern Wings
are doing this; you turn upon those .the
frisnds u the Homestead who resisted the
Beanstt swindle, and charge them with do
ing what Southern Wigs, truth ulfy, claim
as having been done by the Wings. There
arp three errors, however, in the party
af6nities OF the Signal To correct them
read Babcock, Of N. T., and PLACE him il
the other column. Remove Faulkner
from bis position among the Scott Wings
DO, and il il correct.
Look again, as corrected, aud you viii
3 zee Jour charge Of blame is wrong, unles,
you can make three greater than SIXTY
ssrsn aud taoenfy,sscen greater thar
sighfy-thrse; and then you have the taoe
Freespilers for the Bennett slavery extension
bill to one against it.
Benefits Bill was the last resort Of the
land inonopolists to defeat the Homestead
in the Senate, in which, however, there are
Vet hopes Of success; but who, there, are
Democrats, and wh9 are there Scott Wings
with few exceptions, no one pretends here
10 know. Many may depend on Scott's
understanding Of the dirisions Of place and
spoiIs.
Those who voted iof the Homestead Eli
from other inducements than desile il
should pass, and then turn round under
cover and vote for Benefits Bill 10 defeat
z the Homestead, should be held up to exc
eration-slet the whip Of scorpion tail.
lashsthe ras. ais naked through the world T.
-be they Wings or Democrats; but to in.
volye those Of our friends who were actua.
ted by purer motives, in denunciation, sim
q ply because they are Democrats, is not only
grossly unjust to them; bot prejudiced te
the success Of the Homestead bill yet pend
igg 10 the Senate.
1 repeat with the entire responsibility
and assumption Of ability to sustain it
that, the Bennett Bill is a Wing measure
eoncoctsd By Wings, and passed BY thf
Scott Wing party; aided by few rene
gades from the Democratic party; with it.
bearings too, to defeat the Homestead Bill
And upon those identical grounds are