Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-06-05

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The address and resolutions were adopted.
The following letters received by the committee:
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measure, subscribe myself your friend and fellow citizen
Mr. GREELEY then came forward and spoke briefly and
introduced Mr. JOHNSON of the House Of Representatives
of the United States who made powerful appeal to the
people agate this subject until the bill passed by the
House of Representatives had received the of
the Senate. He followed by Mr.. BooTH Of the MI
cakee Free Democrat, Gen. WALBRIDGE, and THEODORE
E. ToaLINsoN, whose remarks received with the
most deafenng cheers Of applause. 1t one of the
most spirited meetings that has recently taken place
Intending to prove, by citations from the respec
table and powerful body of the Press of the Interior
as well as the Seaboard, that the passage by the
House OF Representatives of the Bill which is known
as the I" Homestead Bill has been surprise upon
all the thinking and reasonable classes of the coun
try, and is utterly condemned by almost all inteli
gent men Of. every class and occupation, (out Of
Congress and having, moreover, something more
to say ourselves upon this startling (and even
appalling) measure-we shall, instead of charging
upon the foregoing proceedings defer for the present
this intention, and avail ourselves of the striking
commentary of New York paper upon the whole
concern.-Nat MteU.1
FROM THE NEW YORK COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER FRIDAY.
"vOTE YOURSELF A FARM
There not few citizens who would rather have
farm given them than purchase one and they would
very naturally prefer that it should be we-stocked
farm, with homestead, barns, and fields ripe unto the
harvest We think exceedingly probable ALSO that the
ciass oisinens would feel additional qualification
if the donor Of the gift would add thereto yearly appro
priaton of money for the payment of laborers wages
feeding Of stock and other contingencies, which, by
inevitable anprogress law the certain concomtants
of agricultural pursuits and possessions Indeed, the
who wants farm gratis would be exceedingly likely
to want all other things the terms and it is
very probable that he would be with his lot
though easily acquired
The Of the joke is that among the most prominent
Of those who want farms uinou oorking for them
knot Of who have named themselves the Industrial
Congress but except in the matter of tongueabor do
not see that they entitled any such preemnence
above their fellows hundreds and thousands of whom
oiling severely while the Congress body is
ngsave the talking to leeward Of the tea
room in the City Hall The worthy industrals greatly
err, however, If they suppose that they ~" People Of
America, Of New York State, Of New York city
The People approve not Of their Agrarian and Utopan
schemes and, there the slightest danger that the
Senate could be guilty Of the folly perpetraed by the
House ofRepresentatves in the passage Of the homestead
BILL voice would forth from the masses that would
from them for the purpose Of gratutous distribution
For days widely circulated journal in this city
has been crowding steam in attempts to make this home
stead bill popular and to gather large crowd at the
meeting in the Park announced for last evening the OBJ
ect Of which declared to be the procuring Of free
homes for ALL"
Yet strange to say, the meeting not large that
the Park would not contain it and 1t small that
either the lobby of the City Hall Of its small
could, for the number too Insignificant to keep
another in the Park, and they prudenty adjourned
to the City Hail. out Of the public gaze 1t Is true that
the weather unavorabe, for II raned but the
who would out in the rain help get farm
would not be likely to expose themselves to the weather
in cultivating 1t when they had obtained It. That
clear glass SO that the thinness Of the attendance
was rebuke Of the folly Of the movement and heavy
blow and sad discouragemen Nor were the masses the
only who gave the preposterous scheme the cold
shoulder Honorable gentlemen at Washington who had
been invited to attend and speak, very prudenty and
somewhat coldly declined the honor.
We know not to whose pen the world is indebted for
this address but its opening paragraph is excrucatingy
funny. And the second not less So Listen:
The great question of the suitable disposal of the
lands belonging the citizens of these States is not only
in which involved the future security and perpetuty
Of our admirable system of government but in its Judi
cous adjustment is contained the percepble guaranty
for the development and happiness Of citizens Un
should be the distinctive attribute Of those who are fore
most in the councils Of the nation and whose option the
destiny Of this young empire stands brded for the race
Of achieving commensurate good or proportonate evil