Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-10-22

ty on this subject, and If the executive power
OF this nation is to be placed in the trembling
hands of drunkard, our skirts shall be clear -
THE NEW YORK EVENING POST AND
1.-THE FREE DEMOCRACY.o
We noticed lately labored editorial in the
New York Erening Post, in which two Sc
rious charges were made against the Repre-.
sentative in Congress of " those who eject TO
be distinguished by the title Of the Free Demo-
cracy." The first was, that they had voted
for and zealousy advocated the appropriation,
amounting TO some two millions of dollars, for
the supper, of ocean steamers; the second that
they had voted for and zealously advocated the
several bills introduced at the late session of
Congress for the donation of millions of acres
OF the public lands to railroad companies, States,
and local institutions. The Post, not satisfied
with impcaching the Free Democratic members
equally with the members of the old parties,
goes so far as to hold them chiefly responsible
for these most profigate and lawless schemes
OF public extravaganza" 1t arrai9ns Messrs
Hale and Sumner, of the Senate, as principal
offenders in that body, and adds, that "in the
lower House, the same spectacle was present
ed" To make the alleged profigacy of Free
Democracy still more palrable, it calculates it
by dollars and cents We have not the means
at hand, itsays, " of fixing the amount very ac-
curatey, but we are confident that we do not
over-sate the value of the land which the
" Free Democracy" voted to give away during
the last session of Congress, at 10000, 900
territory enough in superficial area to be the
seat of an independent empire.
II the statements of the Post be true, if It's
representation be fair and impartial the &" Free
il 49,.
old parties.
We take issue with the Post, and pronounce
It's statements incorrect, and its representation
partial and unfair.
We have agreed with that able journal, in its
opposition to the policy of ex;ravagant appropri-
atoms for ocean steamers, and dpprecate the in
reference of Government with private enter
prise. We have also condemned uniformly the
depreciation on the public domain by "donations
OF public lands TO railroad cOmpar les, States.
and local institutions" We protested against
the passage of the Bounty-land bill, against the
bill making bounty-land warrants assignabe,
log-rolling schemes for securing the most yalu-
atle portions of the public domain for the use
of corporations, against the monster Land bill
which proposed to ccde untold acres to the sew
eral States.
The deep interest we took in all these ques-
tons, and our decided views respecting them, led
us to observe carefully the course of Parties
in Congress in relation to them; and if on this
point we take issue with the Post it is because
our own observation and an examination of the
record COnstrain us to do So
First, as it respects the extravagant appropri-
alton for tho. support of Collins line of steam
erS. The Free Democratic members of Con
grcss had nothing to do with reporting it, nor
die they undertake the responsibility of carry
ing it through either branch of Congress- The
subject was never resolved into a Party Quest
ion.
In the Senate, Mr.. Hale made short speech
in favor of it, placing his support of it wholly
upon the ground that the establishment of
ocean steamers would pave the way for the abo-
,ition Of the present navy, which costs the Unoin
some nine or ten millions annually. Whatever
we may think of his policy, the reason for it is
a very Democratic one.
Mr. Sumner took no active part in favor of
the appropriation-he was doubtful of its pro-
priety during the whole debate upon it. and at
last recorded his vote Oh the affirmative, we are
bound to believe, with some hesitation.
Mr.. Chase opposed it, actively, in all its stag
es, and at last voted against it.
Mr.. Wade, his colleague from Ohio, who
could not have been elected but by Free Demo
cratic votes, also recorded his name against it.
Here, then, are four Senators, representing
the Free Democracy, or holding their places
through Free Democratic yOtes-not one Of
them taking any active part in the passage of
the appropriation one sustaining it out of hos
tiliy to the existing navy, an enormous drain up
on the country, one voting for it reluctantly,
and two voting against it.
How was it in regard to the other parties
Some of the Wings opposed it, and voted in the
negativc-a larger number sustained it.
The Democrats, like the Free Democrats,
were abont equally divided.
On a motion made by Mr. Jones, MAY 7lh.
1852, to reduce the compensation to $25, 900 a
trip, we find that Messrs. Bradbury, Bright
Cass, Douglass, Gwin, Hamlin, Houston, James,
Norris, Rusk, Shields, and Stockton, voted in
the negative; and on the final passage Of the
bill, May 2Sih, the following Democrats record
ell their names in affirmative: Bright, Cass
Hatnlin, Houston, James, Jones of Iowa, Nor
ris, Rusk Shields Soule, Stocton and Toucey!
or one-half (lacking one) of the Democratic
members prescnt-and Of these, three at least
were distinguished Presidential candidates OF
the Democracy, another is the most eloquent ad-
yocae of Gen. Pierce, another represents in
part the State which has given the Democracy
its Presidential candidate, and several, from time
to time, have been stamped as orthodox in all De-
mocrauc beliefs and practices by the Post
Some Of these eminent Democrats, too, were
not satisfied with voting for the appropriation,
but warmly advocated it. And yet the Free
Democratic members of the Senate are singled
out for special condemnation by the Post, as if
they had been chiefly responsible for this exac-
ton on public treasury, when for this cxacrion
on The public treasury, when, as the record
shows, the Wig and Democratic Senators were
the principal culprits.
How was il in the House Here, again the
Post holds up the Free Democratic members to
special reprobaton. VIII not the reader be sur
prsed to learn that not a single one of these
members had word to say for the appropra
tion-that not one Of them took any active part
in carrying it throngh-that the majority of
them were opposed to it-that Mann and Per
kins were the only Free Democrats who voted
for ii; while Durkee, Townshend, and J. W.
Howe, voted against it, as Giddings and Allen
would have done had they been present? The
Post says that " all the Free Soil members of the
Wing Party Gin the House, voted 10 the lead of
Messrs. Seward and Hale To the record
again. Alison, Brenton, Hunter, and Thaddeus
Stevensavoted nay-Campbel Of Ohloand Fow-
Ter, holding the same relations as these gentle
men, yea. The record does not sustain the
Of, tho POST