The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1859-08-11

They propose to increase the rate Of
postage on letters and newspapers, from
forty to sixty per cent, to be paid as we
have seen, principally by the people OF
the free States, to enhance mail facilities
in the slave States. Here is the record
Of the yeas and nays in the United States
Senote on this proposition
YEAS.-Messrs. Benjamin, Bright. Brown,
| Chestnut, Clay, Clingman, Crittenden, Davis,
Fitch, Fitzpatrick, Green, Gwin, Hammond,
Houston, Hunter, Iverson, johnson, Of Arkan-
sas, johnson Of Tennessee. Jones, Lane, Mason,
Pearce, Polk, Reid, Sebastian, Slidcll, Toombs,
Ward, and Yulee. 90. ~
NAYS-Messrs. Allen, Bayard, Bigler, Brod-
erick, Chandler, Clark, CollaDer. Dixon. Doo-
little, Douglas, Durkee, Fessenden, Foot, Foster,
Hale, Hamlin, Harlan, King, Pugh, Rice, Sew
ard, Shields, Simmons, Stuart, Tumbull, Wade,
Wilson, and Wright. 28.-[ Cong. Globe, part
2, I'd Session 35th Congress, pagel499.
Every affirmative vote was cast by a
Democratic Senator, including that of
my former colleague in the Senate from
Iowa. Every Republican voted in the
negative.
They oppose the restriction of the sale
of the public lands to actual settlers. and
thus place the pioneer on the frontier at
the mercy of /" land sharks, who amass
fortunes out Of the hard earnings of the
patient sons of toll. They. oppose the
Homestead bill, which proposes to give
land to the landless, for settlement and
cultivation, as freely as they receive the
air, the rain, and the sunshine, as the AL
mighty designed when he created these
broad prairies and these fertile valleys.
Here is the record of the vote in the
United States Senate on this benefcent
measure.
YEAS-Messrs. Bell, Broderick, Cameron,
Chandler, Clark, Dixon, Doolittle, Douglas. Fes-
sender, Foot, Foster, Gwin, Hale, Hamln, Har
Rice, Seward, Shields, Simmons, Stuart, Trum-
bull. Wade, and Wilson--27 lo3cI aa31 ia
NAYS--Messrs. Allen, Bates. Bayard, Big
Ter, Bright, Brown, Chestnut, Clay, Clingman,
Davis, Fitch, Fitzpatrick, Green, Hammond,
Houston, Hunter, Iverson, Johnson Of Arkansas
Mallory, Mason, Pearce, Polk, Reid, Sebastian,
Sidell, Thompson Of New Jersey, Toombs.
Ward, Wright and Yulee-3O. io 5s-ta.
Every Republican voted for the mea-
sure every negative vote was cast by a
Democrat. Ia
They propose the occupancy of sew
eral Of the more feeble Mexican States
and portions of Central America by the
armies Of the United States, at an addi-
tional cost of several millions per annum,
with view to their acquisition, and con.
version into slave territory; and the di-
rect purchase of Cuba, at a cost of at
least one hundred and twenty millions,
to increase the number of the slave
States. This is great Southern meas
ure, carefully matured and deliberately
adopted. ltis intended by this means.
to SO strengthen and fortify their system
of slave labor as to place it beyond the
power of the freemen Of the North to
ever acquire the control of the govern
ment. The initiatory step was taken at
the last session of Congress. in a propo-
sition to place $50, 600, 900 in the hands
ofithe President to be used in facilitat-
ing the acquisition of this Island, to be
followed by an appropriation of from
$l20, 600. 900 to $500. 600. 600. as the
purchase price; to be afterward collec-
lected principally of the Northern peo-
pie as the cost of their political subju-
CATION. This monstrous proposition re-
ceiyed the support of every Northern
Democrat in the Senate. On a test uues-
ton. "to lay on the table," the vote
stood faHHsl ef,s .gs 4st. ,sa
YEAS-Messrs. Broderick, Cameron. Chan.
dler, Clark, Doolittle. Fessenden, Foot, Foster,
Hale, Hamlin, Harlan, Kennedy, King, Sew.
ard, Simmons, Trumbull, Wade and Wilson
I8. til a@9Id oi4e- - '9f9Ite8 =" 3H9aGff
lNAYS--Messrs. Allen, Bayard, BENJAMIN.
Bigler, Brown, Chestnut, Clay, Clingman, Dong
las, Fitch, Fitzpatrick, Green, Gwin, Hunter,
lyerson, johnson, of Arkansas, johnson, of Ten
nessee, Lane, Mallory, Mason, Polk, Pugh,
Reid, Rice, Sebastian, Shields, SlideI, Smith.
Toonbs and Ward--30. (Cong, Globe, part 2,
I'd Session 35th Congress, page 1862
| OF course other reasons are advanced
for the acquisition. 1t might be dan
gerous to proclaim their purpose to be to
neutralize the voice of Republican Iowa
In the United States Senate with a cou-
pie Of Creole Senators from Eastern Gu
ba--of Wisconsin, with couple from
Western Cuba-of New York with a
SouPac W iAohS tolS uoul kSouOIa. lL Is
thought better to employ coating of
sugar, to render the pill little more pal
atable. m sio.i.
The first reason advanced flor North
ern consumption } is. +" The expansion Of
the Republic to make room for our accu-
mulating millions of people, ,s.lss
2, It's alleged advantages commercially
as mart for our agricultural products.
8. Its necessity for our natural defence
4. Its utility in the suppression of the
slave trade. 5Agaiso-Fle abNn
That these reasons are spurious, scarce-
ly admits of an argument. If real, the
proposition would be more plausible. e.-|
For no one objects to the expansion of
our possessions by honorable means when
required by the growth Of population !
nor the admission Of foreign State
when requested by the voluntary act ofI
a people in a condition to enjoy civil lib
erty. But no one can pretend that this
is true Of the people Of Sonora. Chihua-
hua, Cuba, or any of the Central Amer
lean States. The Central American Con-