St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-03-03

VI W.T. NpuHtly y NUN tHc SulcS VI tlIC
public lands If the present tariff is
not sufficient to meet the expenditures
of the Government, | say, increase it
i'll a statcsmanlikc manner to meet !
the cxigenccs which may arise. Tax
your importations of foreign goods, if
necessary; but do not tax the man
whose strong arms have cut down
your forests, cultivated your fields,
and added the great States of the
west TO this Confcderacy. Do not
tax him in raising the revenues of the
Governments By whom are new
States founded ? Is it by the gentle
men who roll in their splendid car
riagcs down this Pennsylvania ave-
nuc of ours Are new States and
Territories formed by your gentlemen
in New York who dwell in brown
stomc-front palaces in Fifth Avenue
Are new States added to this Confcd-
eracy by gentlemen who deal in cot
ton in the public marts in New Or
leans ! | believe, sir, that States and
Empires, whose foundations are laid
broad, deep and lasting, arc planted
by the man who takes his wife and
little ones with him, and Identifies
himself with the interests and pro-
grcss Of his new home. He has given
them TO postclity and the country as
hostages of his sincerity They are
founded by the men who come out of
your southern, northern, and your
eastern States, seeking new homes,
erecting new affairs not to strange
gods, but to the same God-worship-
ping at the same shrine, speaking the
same language, feeling the same sen.
timents that you and | do but they
so out to plant new States and new
Misunderstanding wider fields for
the exercise of their industry, energy
and enterprise. Mr. Chairman, have
had some experience i'll this prc-cmp-
ton system. AS my colleague has
well said, there may be perjury and
look upon the present system otprc-
emption of the public lands as offering
a premium for perjury. | have my
self seen ten, fifteen, or twenty men
enter one of the public land Offices Of
the United States, knowing that they
were committing perjury; and yet
no officer, however honest, upright or
conscientious, would be permitted to
90 behind their oath or Withhold from
them their entries of the public lands
This class Of individuals are O1rncd by
the outside nonresident speculator-
a curse to any State and Territory Ill
the Union.
And now, sir, in reference to the
vote on this bill to-day, with an over
whclming majority of this side of the
House voting against this bill. | say
it frankly, say it in sorrow, that it
was to the Republican side Of the
House to whom we were compelled to
look for support of this just and hon
est measure. Gentlemen from the
South, gentlemen who have broad
acres and wide plantations, aided here
to-day, by their votes, more to make
: Republican States in the North than
, bv anvvote which has been cast with
= in the last two years. These gentle
/ men ask us to como here and support
l the South yet they, to man almost
| vote against the free, independent la
a Dor of the North and West.
J., l. sir, have inherited my Democracy
i have been attached to the Democrats
{ party from my boyhood ; have bcliev
;, ed in the great truths, as enunciatc'
l. by the fathers Of the faith,' am
> have cherished them rcligiously, know
I ing that, by their faithful application
c to every department Of the Cover
ment, this nation has grown up fror
d struggling colonies to prosperous
. powerful, and sovereign States. Bu
Is sir, when | see southern gcntlcmc
. come up, as did to-day, and refus,
> by their votes, to aid my constituent
y refuse to place the actual tiIler of I'll
ie soil, the honest, Industrious lahore
u beyond the grasp and ayarice of Il
III spcculator, tell you, sir, falter al
ie | hesitate.
le Mr.. Vallandigham. How many
ne the Democratic party, from the Nor
II and Northwest, voted with the ge
IS, tleman and his colleague for the c
io grossment Of the bill ?
n, Mr. Cavanaugh. Indeed | cam
a tell. 1t was so unanimous upon til
es side of the House against the bi
&C. against my colleague and myse
ne that we might feel compelled to
M y for support to my friend from Illino
ne Mr. Kellogg, and to gentlemen up
the other side
on Mr.. Nallandigham. Then the De
hg ocratc members from the North a
m' Southwest also voted generally W
We. the Democratic members from t
'e. South But it is not at all questi
my between the South and the other S
est tons Of the Union.
'ay Mr.. Cavanaugh. To the gcntlen
nS on the Republican side of the Hou
zen who voted with my colleague and Il
=, self, l accord cheerfully the praise.
the trust that as they have commen,
lie they will continue to pursue, the |
yer, of policy that will result in giving {
nch homes to honest and Industrious
nat tiers.
'ast Mr.. Kellogg. l would like to ;
lio'' the gentleman a question. 1t sec
hlts to me that the Northern DcmOcr
Tor are little anxious to get right on
G a subject. | would like to ask
are friend from Minnesota whether
om knows of any Republican who yo
iteo against it?
this Mr.. Cavanaugh. | do not. |
lor pose that there are none. | will
rant here, that in all my votes in
ana House, in the past as well as the
that ture, no matter from what side of
lahd House the question may come,
meets with the approval of my
rt Of science, | shall cast them, thoug
II of do so against the overwhelming
iol- jority of my own party.
c iis- Mr.. Nallandigham. This is the
here of every honest Representative.
nblic Mr.. Cayanaush. was not sent