Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-07-03
THE HOMESTEAD BILL VETOED.

Another outrage has been perpetrated
upon the free aboring men of the United
States, at the dictation of the "slave
power 1t will be remembered that
the House Of Representatives IN Con-
gress, passed, by large majority, a
homestead bill, which secured to every
citizen a right to 160 acres of the vacant
lands Of the Territories, on condition Of
five years occupancy and Improvement
This was bitterly opposed by the slave
holders, as is every other measure calcu-
lated to benefit free white laborers. The
Senate, where the Democratic party has
large majority, and which is ruled by the
South, refused to concur in the House
Bill, but got up sham one of their own,
by which they hoped to deceive the
working men of the nation, while play
ing effectually into the hands of the
shareholders. The House refused to ac-
cept this deceptive measure, and after
the appointment Of several committees
Of conference, a compromise was agreed
upon, which, although less beneficial to
free labor than the original House Bill,
the Republicans accepted as the best
they could get. Even this halfway
measure would have been a blessing to
hundreds of thousands of honest poor
men in all sections of the country, and it
was hailed with acclamations ofjoy.
But scarcely had the congratulations
of its friends been spread over the country
before their hopes were blasted by a
veto from the President! Buchanan, the
chief Of the Democratic party, in obe-
dience to the demands of the miserable
faction of Southern disunionists, has
crushed out the rising hopes and open
ing prospects of thirty millions of free
men, that a quarter Of million Of ne
gro drivers may have better chance to
stock the contenent with slaves!
Is it possible that free born citizens
of Ohio can be so infatuated as to sus-
tain a party, which, in all its action, is
but the plant tool of class interest
which would yoke them to their slaves,
and drive them like brutes to the sham
bles? 1t does not seem credible, that
men living in State where freedom of
thought is permitted, can beso hopelessly
stupid as to bow their necks in willing
subjection to be the self-abased slaves Of
petty despotism, which shouts, "De-
mocracy" as chorus to the clanking of
chains
We do not believe there are ten Dem
ocrats in Meigs County who will not
admit that they have been cheated, de-
ceived, and basely betrayed by the lead
ers they have chosen, from the least, up
to the President. We ask them, in all
charity, to reflect, before they trust
again the leaders of the same party
Surely the honest working men of the
party in this county can have neither
the wish nor the intention to strike
down the interests Of their own Glass;.
But you admit that those interests have
been sacrificed by those in whom you
trusted. You were assured that such
would be the case, but you could not be-
lieve it. You now admit that every
promise Of your leaders has been broken,
and every prediction Of the Republicans
fulfilled But you are asked to trust
these leaders again, and that, too, when
they themselves are broken into frag-
ments, and denouncing each other as
traitors, disunionists, and enemies of
the country. What have you to hope,
or expect from the further support of
this party, or any Of its broken frag