New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-04
FROM VAShnGT0N.
THE HOMESTEAD BULL.
From As Occasions, Corrrspo- d-u.-
WASHSGros, Feb. l. lSI9.


No doubt. ere this THE TRIBUNE has published
and criticised the vote in the House 10 day on the
| Home stead bill. fe y facts and suggestions may
not BE- yaiueless, though they be rsPettion'
A bill ike that which hs, just passed, was intro
duced by NJ. Grow in the last Congress, but was
not defnitiveiy acted upon. The present bill was
introduced by hm early last Session, aud referred
to the Committee on Agriculture. Owing 10 the
| time absorbed by Lecomptou, nothing was done IN
regard TO IT, Mr. kelsey, from the Committee on
! Agriculture. low reported the bill back to the
| House, and i was referred to the Committee OF
| the Whole. To-day the vote by which II was SO
referred was reconsdered. This brought il directly
before the House. Grow and It's active friends de-
! cided that they would put it upon IFS passage. On
bis demanding the previous question on It's tairu
reading, tumult arose, and variety OF EFFORTS
were made 70 coax, aud wheedle and drive Grow
! to yield the floor so a. 10 get IN amendments aud
| datory motions. But he kept steady hand upon
the tiler determined that the measure should ride
out the storm in safety if possible Before
! the demand for the previous question was Sc
| conded, Hughes (who is always on the wing in
foul weather., moved 10 lay the bill on the table.
| The Yeas and Nays silenced his croaking, by the
significant vote Off TO ll3. IL now beng evident
! that q large majority of the House was favorable
to the measure the attempt to swamp il by lmprac-
newed. Keitt. and Maynard of Tennessee, trying
their skill at this line of attack. But, Grow held
| on firmly: the demand for the previous question
was seconded; the main question ordered, and tue
| bill read third time. Grow now demanded the
| previous question on its final passage. Ire II was
seconded. Humphrey Marshall underworld to over
whelm il with questions of order. But, the Speaker
| ruled against him-"a sufficient number up, and
there is second the Yeas have it, aud the
"man question is ordered; " and now, 4" Shall the
! " bill pass Barksdae demanded the Yeas snd
| Nays: and this benign measure, laden with bless
iDgs TO the industrious poor, safely, trIumphanty
passed the ordeal: Yeas 100 Nays &c. The victory
was made sure by the stereotyped formula OF NOV
! Ing IN reconsider, and lay on the table. Nothing
remanfd but the adoption of the title of the bill,
on which Grow called the previous question.
Wright, of Georgia (the shareholders died hard y,
proposed to illibuster about the title. 1t was too
| late The title under the operation of the previous
question was adopted, and the COED days work
was done
This ytaIy Democratic measure received the
votes of 80 Republicans, Anti-LecomptOn Demo
| Gratis and 30 LecomptOn Democrats. 1t encoun-
tered the Nays Of / Republican (thank heaven,
only one y. . Anti.Lecompton Democrats, 90 Le-
| compton Democrats, and l3 South Americans.
The single Republican who voted against 1t was
! Matthias H. Nichols OF Ohio. The two hostile
| Anti ecompton Democrats Were Samuel :. Mar
shall and Aaron Shaw, both of Illinois. Neither of
these three gentlemen is returned to the next
House. The sixty Lecompton Democrats are com
posed Of ffty-sx shareholders and four doughtaces,
| TO wit English. Hughes and Nlblack OF Indiana,
| and Ieidy of Pennsylvania. The shareholders
voted against it because they depise free labor and
the doughfaces because they love to serve slave
| holders The South Americans voted against the
| bill because it allowed aliens, who had only de-
clsred their intention 10 become citizens, TO particl
pate in its benefits.
The State of New.Iork voted thus
Fs, the B-And1ew, Barr, Burroughs G CoehraHs John
Coehrane Cornnz Dodd fenop, Goodwin Granger. Hs.sn
Hatch Hoard Kelley Msclay Mae'On, Morssn None Muir.
raw o in Palmer Parker Polite, Russell Spinner g. Taylor
and Wsrd-ls Republicans. sn-LecomPion Democrat and
! Lscomptoues-rnakirs.' ~ -, g..
Juiion W Sherman Daniel T. sckies and John Thompsoa-o
The "sectoI al phase of the vote is as follows;
20, IRE Member. from Slave State, 81 Members from
SsG",s ne B.Q-Deubers from Slave States 60; Members
The sectional and political features of this vote,
| speak yOlumns. Let us look back little ways. In
Ir52, Homestead bill passed the House. The
affirmative votes came in about equal proportions,
| from the Free and Slave States. This bill was
not acted upon in the Senate. In 1854, the House
again passed n Homestead BILL The votes in
It's favor came from both sides of Mason and Dixons
| line: but the Northern prepondersnce was con-
sideraby greater than two years before. This bill
| was rejected BY the Senate. Since then I'VE years
| have passed And five such years The Missouri
| Compromise repeal, the Kansas conspiraces, the
! sublime vote of the Free States in 1856, and the
| LecOmptOn struggle, have clearly defined the con-
/ hict between Free Labor and Slave Labor.
! Here, then, is measure enlnently democratic
IA measure specially and almost exclusively bene-
! fetal to that class of men of which the Democratic
| party clsms to be largely composed-the laboring
| poOr-aLd yet, that section of the Union whence
| the party draws IFS chief strength, which went
almost in solid body for Buchanan, and on which
it relies for future success, votes in unbroken coll
umn against it. And, why! Because, the South.
ern " Democracy" so called, 10 hostile to the hard
hand and sweating brows of Free Labor. 1t sneer5
at free laborers, free lands, free schools, free
speech, free presses and free men. II Is an aris-
tOcracy, and despises the poor mans quarter
| section" II is an Oligarchy, and points derlslvey
| at the " homestead" the humble cabin Of the
! backw Oodsmsn. And yet, eighteen months hence,
the sixty Democrats" who to-day Kissed their
| cOntemptuous nays at a measure for the relief OF
the industrious poor will, with their alders and
| abettOIs, North and South. coax and cozen these
same poor 10 bestOw their votes upon the regular
| Democratic" candidate for the Presidency. Well,
| h. will get some of them; for fools and dupes are
about as plenty as Togues and hypocrltes. But,
retribution is coming. Ere long the South will
need 10 cry
| "WIip. for.b- backs
| CLAUS fcf tie Letis,
! Hoois for the Los,Iih Of DemocrsfJ
| Before !, segTos