The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-04-21

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m. Homestead bill was debated in tho
Senate on Thursday last, BY Psgh Of Unio,
and Wirfall Of Texas. Tbs former advo-
Gated The bumbug. worthless Senate bill.
Ths latter vas opposed 70 any kind OF
Homestead law. We quote q portion OF the
Iemaris Of this Southern Democratic leader:
he ooes step FOND ssmud sill" Hammond
Of South Carolina, in his contempt for poor
men. Read what the drunken Democrst'c
slave driver says! We copy from the New
York Heralds report:
Mr.. Wigfa!l, (Dem.) OF Texas, proceeded
AZ length. and said donations OF alternate
sections would prevent the sale o. the pnb-s
lie lands. The passage Of the bill would DC
the abandonment Of the revenue, ana also
an expense to the government. ana J.
would be better to give one hundred ana
sixty dollars out of the Treasury TO the
homeless, than to donate land and 60 to the
expense Of establishing land Offices TO sur
yey it. His railroad bill was for the prac-
teal purpose Of transmitting naval ana
military stores; the homestead bill was Tor
paupers. 1t was popular to talk OF the
poor. Poverty, he said, was crime. Inc
man who was poor had sinned, and there was
screw loose in his head somewhere. lie
would amend the title Of the i'll to read,
s.for the encouragement of crime, providing
for criminals and violating the Cons,itu-
ton" 1t was popular, be repeated, to talk
of the bone and sinew of the land, OF wool
hats, and brognns, but poverty was q crime.
lie would not pander to prejudice by such
talk. The bill provides for the rurlieus OF
London, the Five Points Of New York, and
criminals who violate the law when they go
on the lands. The bill provides for those
who could not provide for themselves. Cen
tlemen tried to be popular by the introduce
ton Of such bill. 1t was great mistake
of any man tie suppose that the people had
not sense. Laughter.l These lands would
be occupied by the outpour'ngs Of jail, &C.,
aud when they were represented in Congress
he would like to see the man who wore the
ermine. Great God! what sight it would
be!
Mr.. Wilkinson, (Rep.) Min, asked if
Texas did not give away lands to her OVID
citizens and foreigners?
Mr.. Wigfall asked if the Senator was not
once a Democrat
Mr.. Wilkinson said he never was.
Mr.. Wigfall replied that Texas could
please her own fancy. She had a right to
do what she pleased with her own property,
to give it to missionary society, to publish
Bible, or to gamble it off in hell. Laugh
ter. Texas was a free, sovereign State,
exercised rights which were not delegated
to this miserable one horse concern in
Washington. Renewed Laughter He
had understood Mr.. Wilkinson to say be
was Know Nothing.
s.Mr. Wilkinson replied be did not say so.
The Senator was little obtuse to day.
Langhter.]
Mr.. Wigfall continued at length. He
thought the patronage of the Government
in this respect ought to be given to the
States. The bill would exclude slavehold-
ers from the Territories, and provide for
paupers and fanatical population. 1t
would he a free soil country.
We have always understood that it was
announcement to be poor, but never before
knew that it was a crime. There are six
millions of niggerless whites in the Slave
States-most of whom are in such INDECENT
circumstances that the very slaves look
down upon them, and cnll them s'poor white
trash" To no class of white people on the
American continent would free homesteads
be 50 acceptable rs to these same six mill
ions of Southern white s.paupers and
" criminals," MS the bloated Texan slave-
holder calls hi countrvmen.