The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-09-13
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LANDS FOR THE LANDLESS.
The Republican Party the
Friend of the Poor Man.
The Democratic Party opposed to a
Homestead Law.

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The following recapitulation of the
action of the Democratic and Republi-
can parties in Congress, on the subject
of Homestead Law, has been carefully
compiled from the official reports of the
Congressional Globe:
The action of the representatives of
these parties during the two last ses.
sions of Congress, furnishes an unerr-
ing test of the policy of these parties
on this subject, aud demonstrates be-
yond cavil, that whilst the so.called
Democratic party is false to its name,
and favors land monopoly and specula-
tion, and is hostile to the settler, the
Republican is true to its name and his
tory, and opposes such monopoly and
speculation, and cherishes the rights
and interests of the settler.
January 20, 1859, the House of Rep
resentatives, in which there was large
Democratic majority, with Speaker Orr
of s. G. in the Chair, had under con-
sideration a bill relating to pre-emp-
ton, when Mr. Blair, of Missouri, Of
fered as a substitute the homestead bill
The Speaker promptly ruled it out of
order, and the House sustained him
Mr.. Grow, of Pennsylvania, (Repub.) }
then moved to amend by adding the
| following as an additional section:
"Be 1t further enacted, That from and
after the passage of this act, no public
land shall be exposed to sale by procla-
nation of the President, unless the same
shall have been surveyed, and the re-
turn of such survey duly filed in the
Land Office, for ten years or more be-
fore such sale"
The effect of this amendment would
be to give the actual settlers of the pub
lie lands ten years start of the specula-
tors; that is, the lands would be open to
pre-cmption for ten gears, before they
could be bought by spectators, thus
giving the poor and industrious settler
ample time to clear his farm and pay for
it from the proceeds of the soil. This
was just what the South and the De-
mocracy did not want, as the sequel will
show.
Mr.. Crows amendment was adopted
by yeas SO, nays 81-eUery Republican
Uoting for Il, while of the votes from, the
SlaUe States all bit nine tcere IN the Mega
the, and as we shall presently see, there
was only one of that number who was
really in favor of it, that one being Mr..
Blair of Missouri.
Mr.. Grows amendment being incor-
porated into the bill, the next question
was upon the passage of the bill, which
was defeated by the following vote, (Re-
pubicans in italics, Democrats in Ro-
man, Americans in SMALL CAPs):
YEAS, 81.
Maine Foster, Morse, WdShburn, Wood, 4
New Hampshire Cragin, Pike, Tap
pan, B
Vermont--MorriU, Royce, Walton, 3
Observation-Disclosures, Burlingdnae,
ChGfee, Comins, Ddris, Da,oes, Gooch,
Hall, Knapp, Thdyer, 10
Rhode Island--Brdyton, Durfee, 2
Connecticut Cark, Dean, 2
New York-Andre,os, Bennett, Bur-
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