, 1860-09-22
mr. 11amliu on Free Homes.
We do not often turn aside to expose paris.

IN fa'sehood. bat ths toll,wing is 100 gross:
Hox.s yea TIE IIo.E1r<s.-wh.n Blaek Republican
o=ies sry Should Il a. % BE- y sfs to es II an 70 nc %
tEeF a'tE ene :" .a'e for tie ,cs # vce-frr.i
SGT sss.; ns@9 aa IN :hf & 5 T. ass 5o 81 s
lt< sca'i"n NJ tony = H.5tt' Courier.
We beg every honest reader to compare
the abcre reckless assertion with the following
recorded facts:
The only thorough Homestead bill Of the 1ate
session was first repor.ed 10 the House by Mr.
Grow ofPenEsr lvania OF the 9Th Of March last.
and on the l5.h OF that month WAS passed
Yeas 115, mainly Republicans; Nays G5, mainly
S,u'he1n DemocFats-Hot eae Republican Nav.
The bill went to the Senate, Was referred, aud,
on tue 18th Of April, Andrew johnson OF Ten.
nesssc reported hslf-way measure as 8ubst;.
tute, charging twenty-five cents per acre for tile
lands. tiustead Of Ct cents or the cost of survey
and sale IN NJ. Grows billy, aud excluding
from lts be:efts all pre-emptor8 nov ho}diug
Public Lands. 3lr Wade Of course moved q
rts:orAtion Of the House bill, which was defeat
bal uamln. With M-strf. LurgZ.s, Kice, and
Toomos); Maya Sl-an Democrats. The Senate
then proceeded to pass the partial measure Of
Ar: Jonrson-}eas, ii; Nays, S-,lr, usmiin
1ottcg AsJ, with seven Democrats. His raasou
tor 50 dong IL tersely kia,ed in the Chicaco
Republican Platform, As ::ci.ows:
a ap p5stst ss Aea!oa to other.
Il p. Ye ps s hs .et,1s
nei,u'c which has 2.st.4Y assed the Hous: -
- Tne hearty advocates of Free Homes in the
Aouse concaEred with III. HAm.ia, and voted to
restore the original House bill. The Senste
terence between the two Houses tailed to acrpe
FINALLY, (June 1y:h) the Seoate's conferees
agreed to report the Senate bill as amendetw
a. Ar. Grow well said, ''not because it is What
.Te waat. but on ths principle that 'hali . loaf
Is better than no bread"
The compromise bill thus agreed On na,x.d
the Aouse-fess lis. {mainiy Kepub|icsns.1 ~
Nays 81, (sll Southern, and mostly uemocra.,,}
and The S=nate concurred-Yeas 50. Naxa.s =
lNessrs. Bragg and Pearce, Democrats. Isnr,,
oAl Aamlin To.iEg with u! tue Repablicsns
lin not only roted Tor the original, whole.soned
bill OF Ar: Grow, but for the bill that actuatlv
passed-tLs ontv one- lie declined to rote nj,
for The WEetched half.measure of Mr. John.on
which no slagle Republican approved, which
every Republican Foted 10 aupersede br II.
House bill, which the House lad ign aosly rf;ecs.
ed, and which no earnest Free Homestead msn
accepted but under tie direst necessity,
Wall: the Republicans, Mr. Hamllu included |
finally aeQuiesced in aud voted for the i hatf.
lost," which wss all they could get, aud il |
passed: .rhtn hakf<nt buchanan rttotd ~
we naa consented to take . a"ha1f loaf" be.
that away from us! So the bill csme
back vetotd to the Senate, and the question
vas now" shall this bill pass, notwithstanding
the Presidents obj bj-ct:ons!"-when it was lost:
yeas q, (lncl1daug hannibal uamlin, and !
every other Republican present j nays Is, (all
Southern, aad ull Democrats but MI. Critten-
den): So the bil!:was lost.
What must be the cause, What the party,
whose success requires the diffusion Of such
statenenta as that We hare quoted from the
Buffalo E"quiFsrf-M. I. tribune.