Nebraska advertiser., 1860-10-04
Which Party is the Friend Of q
Homestead.

"PooR HAHL1N.-The sPress' has been founder
ing through q half dozen columns lately to show
that HAmlin is sound on the Homestead question.
The fact is Hamlin has always been opposed to any
sort of 5 Homestead bill up TO q recent date the
fact is, and the Press docs not deny it, that the
following vote stands recorded in the records of the
United States Senate OF the Homestead bill
NATs-Messrs: Bragg, C~lingman, Han'iin, Hunter
Pearce, Powell, TOmbs.
4 man is known by the company he keeps. It
is a further fact, and the tPress,' dare not deny it,
that Hannibal Hamlin, candidate fer Vice President
on the Republican ticket. did on the 10th day of Ju-
Iy 1854 in the Senate of the United States, made
use of the following little speech against the Home
stead measure:
"From an examination Of this measure find my
self unable to support it in any Of the aspects in
which it has been presented to the Sena 5e. l see no
sound policy Of economy upon which such a meas
ure can be based. think there is none at least there
is none which carries convic ton to my mind. 1 am
willing to vote on this question without another
word of debate from any quarter. am willing to
VOTE AGAINST THIS BILL as it now stands"
The above We clip from the Nebraska
City News. We do not propose to In
terfere in the controversy between the
News and Press. But we dislike to see
such outrageous garbling and misrepre-
sentation. The fact is, the vote given
above, and the language imputed to MI.
Hamlin, were given and uttered when
he was a Democrat in good Standing
Senator from the then Democratic state
of Maine, and when opposition to the
Homestead, as it is now, was a principle
in the Democratic party. Every man
whose name is recorded in the above
vote with Mr.. Hamilin are Democratic
Senators, and the NeCs knows it; or is
more ignorant of the politics of the coun-
try than We supposed him to be. Let
any man look over the Congressional
Globe of last Session of Congress, and
he will see who were the friends of the
Homestead. In eUery instance eUery vote
against the Homestead was given by dem
ocrats and Know-N othings, and but few
of either ever voting for it. Even An
drew Johnson, of Tennessee, a man we
greatly admire, and have always looked
upon as a devoted friend to the Home
stead measure, voted against the passage
of the Homestead Bill over Buchanan's
veto. On the 18th of February 1850,
Csee Congressional Globe, page 1914 a
Homestead bill was before the Senate
largely DedaOeratic-we find the Home
stead Bill set aside to give place to the
Cuba bill, on a tie vote-Mr. BREcK1N-
RIDGE giving the casting vote-and thus
the bill defeated for that session. Every
Senator who voted to defeat that Bill
was a Democrat. By examining the
votes in the House at the last session of
Congress it will be found that in every
instance every vote, then given against
the measure was given by Democrats
and not a single instance in which a Re-
publican recorded his vote in opposition.
A Homestead is not a Democratic meas
ure. The passage Of such a law favors
Free States. Hence the opposition of
the Democratic party as a party. There
are some noble exceptions as Individuals;
but precious few of them in good stand
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