The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1859-09-30

] hN NNiN NAnY NuW utNlNu Nuia NlNUHN uNa
Grafton. tLeughter.l When you come
TO niggera for Tho nirgefless, all Other
questions sink into insignicancc."
Mr.. n0ohttle's motion % set aside Che
Cuba bill for the purpose Of taking up the
homestead bin, was lost, By tho following
votcs
YEAs--Hiessrs. Brodcrick, Cameron,
CLARK, Chandler, Collamer, Dooliifls, Fes-
seaden, Foot, Foster, Hale, Hamlia, Har-
Ian, Johnson Of Tcnnosece, Kinq Ssp-
ard, Simmons, Trumbuu, Wadc and wa
s0a-19.
/ NAys--MessFs. Allen. Beriunin, Bay.
ard, Bigler, Brown, Chosuut, Clay, Cling.
man, Douglas, Fitch, Fitzpatrick, Green,
Gwin, Hunter, Ivcrson, Johnson Of Ar
kansas, Lane, Mallory, Mason, Polk, Pugh,
Reid, Rice, Sebastian, Shields, Sldell.
Toombs, Ward and Wright-29.
| This was the last attempt made 10 get
up tho homestead bill In the Senate. II
I had 1rst been ovcrslauahcd by the appro-
| priation bills, and now the Cuba bill, and
no expectation remained OF reaching L
during the few remaing days Of the aes-
sion, The Republicans, who had On
doavored 10 get Il mp In all forms and on
! all occasions without success, felt Il 60 be
thoir duty 10 abandon a manifcstly hopo-
less struggle.
From this review .of the votes In tho
Senate and House, IL will be seen that
the two great national parties, the one
representing the rights and interests Of
FREQ labor, and the other representing the
| pretension Of negro slavery, have come
20 well defined issue upon this great
matter Of the disposition Of the public do
main.
In the House, we see the Republicans
voting with unanimity for a proposition
10 secure TO pre-emptors all the public
lands for the term Of ten years after their
survey forbidding, during that time,
their disposition either at public sale
or by private entry, and giving to the pre-
hcmptor a payday which would save MIN
from usury, by giving him time to provide
means out Of his crops whcrewith TO buy
his freehold. Afterwards, we find these
same Republicans in the House voting
with the same unanimity for a homestead
bill. II 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 objects,
which was to prcsere the public domain
for the actual settler and small cnltivator.
and being willing TO waive differences Of
opinion ns 20 detail, 20 long as the main
object should be ut all events secured
In the Senate, we witness the same
unaninmity'on the Republican side In fa@
vor Of the homestead bill, aud should have
, witnessed Il upon the proposition to pro-
hibit sales Of lands for ten years after
their survey, Il a vote upon that PROPOSE
ton could have been reached.
i On the side Of the Democratic party,
/, we witness an opposition TO both these
= measures notindeed absolutely unanimous
= but Of such a character as 10 render Il
/, conclusivoly certain that that party will
), oontiue to oppose those measures 70 the
end. From some Of the new states, where
., the general sentiment is strongly against
D. tho monopoly Of the public domain by
I, capitalists and nonresident spectators
N the Democratic Senators and Represen'
e, tatves wore Obliged 20 vote with the Re
4. publcans upon these questions.
g. But tho Southern Democracy voted
10 ranks solid against all reform; and Il il
Il the Southern wing OF that party, as oil
q the world knows, which controls its poll
d oy. Tho opposition Of tho slHvoholdinR
a nristocracy 10 homcsteads and pre-emp-
. tions IL an indubitable fact, and Il is a iix-
ed fact, because il Is founded upon inter
+ osts which are unohangeable, Home
o stead laws and pre-emption laws, secur-
a ing quarter sections Of one hundred and
!, sixty acres 20 actual cultivators, would
: amount 10 a Wilmot Proyiso, which no
I ingenuity could evade, and which no Su-
Z preme Court could nulify. The oligarchy
. understood u well, and hence Il is that
{ their opposition will be implncable and
eternal.
: One Southern Democratic Senator, Mr..
. Johnson of Tennessee, and a few South
: ern Democratic Representatives, voted
{ on these questions with the Republicans,
: but this proves, not that there is any di-
z vision Of opinion among the oligarchs, but
: that there are portions Of the South which
D the oligarchs cannot fully control. The
!, great body oftho white people ofthe South
: are enon-slAyeholders, and are Just as much
interested in homesteAds and pre-emption
Q laws as the people Of the free States. In
: some districts, these questions have been
D oanvassed and are understood, and tho
a Representatives Of these districts are
; compelled to vote on the side Of free La
hhAf III AhAAf AiANAN 70 AH NhANNA NNNNaA
i with which Republcnnism can assailtho
: olignrchy in their own homes, than this
weapon Of prescriptions and homesteada.
. In fighting that battle, the oligarcha will
Q lose the advantage of the prejudicea Of
d the poor whites against tho negroes and
the Aboltionists. The homestead ques-
! tion Is a white mans question:
o The opposition Of tho oligarchs to pre-
j. emptlons and homesteads being fixed and
(. immovable, because based upon personal
3 and political interests which cannot be
o changed, il results that the friends Of land
I reform, Of whatever political opinion in
o other respects, must unite 70 put down
!. this oligurchy and the Democratic party by
= which Is controlled by il. Whoever sup
e ports a party, supports It's measures, what
+ ever his own individual opinions about
those measures may be, und the moasurof
Of party are dictated BY the ;nhuenc
which predominates in Il. That there arc
I, vast numbers Of persons who habitually
y vote what is called the Democratic, who
! are in favor Of preserving tbs public do
main for actual settlers, is certainly true.
But il is not the less true, that such per-
! sons help TO keep in power a nat-9ual
party, which, from the essential nature
= Of is composition, and from the fixed pur-
y r. II l..