Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-23

FSenaior from Virginia had his appropriation
bills. 1t =as Important then, that they
should BE settled at ohce there was danger
= that sbey weaa ee lost, sad the Government
< wO&A stop in consegueFee and the appeal
vas madc te geRtleinen TO gIze this bin the
: go-hy for the tirse being, at all eeeias- aud
: the al,pe;I was successful. The srproIria-
: item gsiEs lie very easy naa behind this Niger
operation. JLaseh5er When you come to
niggers Tor the niggcrless. all other questions
sink into insigEiscaRce-"
Mr.. DooIittIe's notion 10 set aside the CTr5a
bill for the purpose of taking Up the home
stead bill, was lost, by the following Tete:
YEAs-Messrs. Broderick, Cameron, Clark.
Chandler, C~oAdmer, Dootithe, Fessenden, Foot,
Foster, Hale, Hamtia, Harlan, johnson of Ten
nessce, King, Secnwd, Summons, TrumbuU,
Wade, and HIkon-I9.
NAYs-Messrs. Allen, Benjamin, Bayard,
Bigler, Brown, Chestnut, Clay. Clingrnan, Doug
las, Efch, Fitzpatrick, Green, Gwin, HUHter,
I~verson, johnson Of Arkansas. Lane, Mallory,
Mason, Polk. Pugh, Reid, Rice, Sebastin,
Shields, Slidell, Toopobs, Ward, and Wright
This was the last Attempt made TO get mp
the homestead bill in the Senate. 1t had first
been oversIaughed by the appropriation bills,
and nos by the Cuba bill, and no expectation
reuaaiAed of reaching it during tie few remain
ing days of the session. Tn Republicans
who had otsscavoi ed to get it up in all forms
and on all occasions without success, felt it to
be their duty, to abandon q maniiestay hopeless
struggle.
From tks Ees7cx Of TIE Vetes IN tae Senate
and House, it will be seen that the TIVE great
national parties, the ere representing tllerights'
and interests Of free labor, and the oSho' rep
r~cseEting the pretentioas and Interests d~fHegTe
slavery, haxe cosze to a well defined issue upon
this great matter of the disposition of the pub
lie domain.
In the House, we see tie Republicans voting
with unaniInity for a proposition to secEre to
p~re-emptors all the pubIic lands for the term
of ten years after their survey, ~forbidding, dur
ing that time, tlieT disposition either at public
sale or by private entrs, and gixiRg to the pre-
eInptor II pa y-lay which Heslld SAKE bin from
usury, by giving linn time to provide means
out Of his crops where's ih tie buy his freehold.
Aftcr~srds, We fad these same Republicans in
the House voting with the same uRanirtity for
a homestead bill 1t is probable, and indeed
is known, that some Republicans preferred one
measure to the other, but theY voted for both,
being agreed in the main object, which was to
preserve the public domain for the actual set
tier ard small cultipatoF, and being willing to
Waive differences, of opinion as to detail, so
lohg as the main object should be at all eveNts
| scared.
La the Senate, we witness the same mani
nifty on the Republican side in favor Of the
homestead bill, and should have witnessed it
upon the proposition to prohibit sales of lands
for ten years after their stnve, ifa vote pssea
| that proposition could have been reached.
On the side of the Democratic party, we
witness an opposition to both these qacaseres,
not indeed Absolutely unaGmous. hat of such
a character as to render it eopclESpFeiy certain
that that party will continue to oppose those
measures to the end. From some Of the new
States, where the general sentiment is strongly
against the monopoly of the public domain by
capitalists and nonresident SPECTATORS, the
Democratic Senators and Representatives were
obliged to vote with the Republicans upon
these questions.
But the Southern Democracy voted ranks
solid against all reform and it is the Southern
wing of that p;Wtx- as all the world KNOWS,
which controls its policy. The opposition OF
the slave-holdiNg aristocracy to nomesteads
and pre-emptions is an indubTtahie fact, and it
is a fixed fact, because it IS founded upon in
terests which are interchangeable. Homestead
laws and pre-emption laws, securing quarter
sections of Que hundred and sixty acres to ac-
tual c9ltivators, Would amount to a Wilmot
Proriso, which 70 ingenuity could evade, and
which no Supreme Court could nullify. The
oligarchy understood it well, and hence it is that
their opposition will be implacable and eter-
nal.
One southern Democratic Senator, Mr.. John
son of Tennessee, and a few Southern Demo-
cratic Representatives, voted on these questions
with the Republicans, but this proves, not that
there is any division of opinion among the oil
garchs, but that there are portions OF the South
which the oligarGiIs cannot fully control. The
great body of the white people of the South
arc Ion-slaveholderS, and are just as much in
terested in hOmesteads and presumption laws as
the people of the free States. In SOME districts,
| these questions have been canvassed and are
understood, and the Representatives of these
districts are compelled to vote on the side OF
free labor. In fact, there is no better weapon
with which Republicanism can assail the oil
garchy in their own homes, than this weapon
OF prS-elnDllOlS tlllI nOnltSl6tb1S- HI IShtInS
that battle, the oligarchs will lose the advan-
tage of the prejudices of the poor whites against
the negroes and the AbOlitlonists. The home
stead question is a white mans question.
The opposition of The oligarchs to pre-emp-
tons and homesteads being fixed and immova-
Bile, because based upon personal and political
interests which cannot be changed, it results
that the friends of land reform, of whatever po-
litical opinions in other respects, must unite to
put down this oligarchy, and the Democratic
party which is controlled by it. Whoever sup
ports a party, supports its measures, whatever
his own individual opinions about those meas
urcs may be, and the measures of a party are
dictated by the influence which predominates
in it. That there are vast numbers of persons
who habitually vote what is called the Demo-
cratic ticket, who are in favor of preserving the
public domain for actual settlers, is true. But
it is not the less true, that such persons help
to keep in power a national party, which, from
the essential nature of its composition, and
from the fixed purposes of the power which
dominates over it, must forever oppose a policy
which seeks to cut up the public domain into
small frecholds.
1t is iii vain, therefore, for the Douglases and
Brights of the West to point to their own indi-
xidual votes in favor of homesteads and pre-
emptions. If the men of this stamp be admit
ted to be ever SO sincere and ever SO reliable in
those respects, it is sufficient that they are in
eXtricably mixed up and allied with a power at
the South which is ilnplacably hostile to pre-
emptioiS ana hohleSletuS. I&tflu reform Is In
possible until that power is put down; to put
it down, the Democratic party, falsely SO call
ed, must be put down. The logic which points
to that conclusion is inVincible.
BAD WHIsKY.--A man named VIM. Will
Hams, recently died very suddenly in Evens-
burgh, p, having in his possession at the time
a bottle partly filed with whisky. The whis-
ky was taken in charge, and sent do a chem
list for analysis, and here is a report of the re-
suit
" No strychnine was found in said LIQUOR,