The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-31
The Homestead Rill.

Our readers have already been advised of
the passage of the Homestead Bill by The
House,-wbich righteous act of the Re-
publican party was passed by the same body
Is year ago. but killed by the Democratic
Senate.-whereby ANY person who is the
head of family, or who has arrived at the
age of twenty-one years. and is citizen of
the United States, or who shall have fled
his intention TO become such, may obtain
a home for himself and family, upon the
public domain. We, expect to see this
measure meet with the same fate it did a.
year ago or else to see it so amended
nautiL0ted, rather-as to render it compare
lively worthless. The Democrats, holding
the balance of power in the U. 8. Senate.
although processing great love for the "dear
people," cannot think of such. thing as
giving away few acres of wild land to a
poor rnan-no. they prefer his being ground
down to the earth, supported as a pauper,
or in any way SO as 10 prevent him from be-
coming an independent MAN. Il certainly
looks as though the Democratic party de-
sired-if they have not already adopted
them--that ignorance and poverty should be-
come prominent articles in their political
creed, as well as Slavery. 1t is certain that
the former are indispensably necessary for
the existence and perpetuity of the latter.
How men possessing reasoning faculties,
and with the facilities now in existence for
acquiring knowledge of men and meas
ures. can subscribe tothe teachings and sus
tain a party whose every act tends to OPP
preston, is more than we can divine
Democrats here in Kansas who glory in ex
pressing themselves ''dyed in the WOOL.
are anxiously watching the progress of this
just measure. and hoping for its passage /;
yet if again strangIed in the Senate. we sup
pose we should hear these same Democrats
offering all the excuses for their masters
that their imaginations can aconjure up.
We are induced to think, though, that
it's passage with an amendment excluding
| all but native born citizens from the benefits
of the law. will have the effect to arouse
our adopted citizens who have hitherto act
ed with the so-called Democratic part:, TO
sense of their individuality, and strike
terror into the heart Of any Presidential as
pirant, and cool the heated passions of a
Charleston Convention. .-. 80. ID
To the father of this, the modest meas
ure of any age-Hon. GALUsHA A. Grow
the people of the West owe debt Of graf
I
itude which can scarcely be repaid, though
we hope it may be in some measure in the
future. For the last Eve years this cham
piop and friend of the poor man has la
bored for the passage of a Homestead Bill ;
and though for as many years his hopes in
this respect have been blasted, yet he has
ftoiled on, with like result--or at best to
find that it only accompiishes half or less
than he had hoped. and labcred for. ..t
The Republicans in Congress are now.
as they; have ever been since the existence
of the party, as one in favor of the passage
of this bill, so benefcent TO the poor man !;
and they have and will continue to receive.
from every friend of human freedom. the
plaudit. ''well done,' good and faithful SER
wants. - s'
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