The true Democrat., 1854-06-06

to the Indians already caU for the passage ss this bill.
 There is no question about this. Then. b.. is the Presidents veto, alleged to involve m. ny of the same questions which are involvaJa the homestead bill. Those gentlemen wba wish to discuss the several matters, and otba'' of equally great importance, may just as wall cry out against the extraordinary delay osI declaim against the adroitness used in defeaf11 their wishes in matters that they consider 15 equal or much greater importance. All tb' talk about the peculiar claims on the part ns the homestead bill to prompt, and, if DeaS' be, a prolonged consideration in preference to everything else is mere stuff and is the veros, stuff so far as 1t goes to the establishment o any supremacy for the homestead bill to tba right of immediate consideration over every And all other measures before this body.
 There are not only the measures have elm merated now depending before this body; tbe,. is also the measure which the Senator fror California has himself in charge; and, by tba way, never was before aware that that oor tleman was an advocate, so very strenuous and impatient, for the homestead bill
 Mr. Gwin. I introduced it at very es,l,, day of the session.
 0 lt.th be, to him. I have no objection. Now. sir ir regard to the homestead bill, was for it myseIf sincerely. l supported it, and have supported 1t for several years; but in the present phase of things, am not prepared to go on with it at all, or to say that 1 will support it. Because If 1t was forced upon me to-day, should vota against it. Why? Because just at this time 1t is tinctured, to degree, from its iraevitobst tects, and under the peculiar circumstances so strongly with abolitionism, that I cannot. for one, bring myself, as representative on tbh floor from the South, for one moment to think of permitting 1t to pass this body, and become a law. Why? Very succinctly to state it. there Is evidence palpable each day that this bill k being pressed through with unusual anxetv and as if for life and death The bill has been six or eight years in Congress, and large part of this anxiety is unquestionably new born.
 Here are the facts as I find them. The %. vernment is extinquishing titles to lands that lie west of Missouri and Iowa. When the rights of the Indians are eXtinguished and they are removed, all that country becomes open to settlement, and the people will remove into it with or without an organized government. Yet it is fact that the Missouri restriction exists there at this time, and that our southern people cannot go there for that reason, even if they desired to do so. If you pass the homestead bill ln the face of these facts you bid a prem- um to all the balance of the world to fill up and settle that country, only excluding my con- stltuency. If then you reject or delay the pas- sage of the territorial bills for two or three years, you settle the question involved in those territorial bills practically, and by law which has higher force than the enactment of the Wilmot proviso itself
 In regard to what shall construe to be ad- roitness and fairness, must say, that to delay the territorial bills for some years, but at the same time and in hot haste, to enact the home. stead law, would exhibit extraordinary adrot- ness, and prove a most detestable specimen of fairness.
 do not consider, or believe, that any man who is from the South can conscientously come forward and support that measure; at least, until the Kansas and Nebraska bills shall have been passed and the whole country shall have become open to settlement by the whole people of the United States. Am I right, or am l wrong? You are wrong, may say the man who wishes to exclude every souther- ner; but you are right, think would say every candid man, if you shall ever wish to go to those territories on equal terms under the laws of your country This is a very adroit way by which we may be excluded from these territo. ries Not that all, or many of the old advo- cates of the homestead bill have in view such a result as this-by no means; but there are many of its present advocates that rejoice in the bill for this very feature; and if those ad- vocates shall secure it's passage now and can successfully resist the territorial bills, even by adriotness and unfairness, which 1t is openly proclaimed will and shall be used, so as to de- feat, or at any rate to delay, the same for two or three years, and they will, practically and efectually, and they feel and know it, have ef- fected their great and most highly cherished ob- ject. It is absurd and I think it even ptiful to ask any member of this Congress who repre- sents southern constituency to do thing like this. do not think 1t even conveys a conside- ration as passing respect for his intelligence or his honesty to his own people, to attempt to ar- que him to step like this
 Now, sir, if gentlemen wish to give their votes on the homestead bill so anxiously, and that purely with desire to give homes to the homeless, and not with wish to use the mea- sure as a political engine, let them bear with this thing with little patience, and allow us to know what is to be the course of events affect ing our rights in collateral matters. And 1 ask, that gentleman will not get up, and assume at once that it adroitness (by which I ever under stand that there is something of concealment) that is going to do this thing; or get up and as- sume that the bill has rights of precedence in this body which no other bill can have in con- parison with it. have presented think, but fair view of the matter, view which certain ly will not be classed among the movements ad- roit. The bill has no right here better or grea- ter than any other bill whatever; and shall simply cast my vote in reference to it, and to colletral matters, in accordance with my judg- ment oi my duty to own people.
 Mir. Gwln. The argument of the Senator ram Arkansas in contrasting the homestead with the Nebraska bill seems to me to be adrot and use the term with perfect respect to him. l want 1t understood in advance, that I intend to press the homestead bill in every parliamentary manner that l can, from this time forward l intend to press it in every parliamentary man. ner, with perfect respect to every member of this body; and with the determination, so far as l am concerned, to put it through. Now, SIT, the Senator has made an appeal to the whole southern States against this measure, because ha 1ALo NJ n.l>o II l. ,>aeeod