Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-09-26
Sfan that Lying.

sentiments of patriot and great man.
stop that Lying.
How this wicked world is given to lying.
and how the Terre Haute Journal is i'm
proving in that very common Democratic
accomplishment. a confirmed Douglas
Democrat seems to delight in misrepresen-
tation. He lies con anoTe, and sticks TO a
falsehood with azeal worthy better cause. /
No difference how often you show him his
error, he refuses to be convinced, and con-
tinues to declare that true, which in his
heart he knows is false.
10 the Journal of Friday we find the fol
lowing:
"Who voted, while in Congress. against
granting l60 acres Of government lands for
homesteads to the United States soldiers
who had fought the battles of their country
in 1912, and in the Mexican war, and OH
the frontiers against the barbarous, merci-
less aud blood thirsty savages Librarian
Lincoln ia
| 1t is difficult to say whether Mr.. Cookery
knew the above to be false or not, but it is
positively certain, that every Intelligent
and honest man in the whole country
knows il to be.
Lincoln did not vote against the boun ty
land bill, partly because he was an advo-
cate of such measure. and partly, indeed
mainly, because he toas not ia Congress
,chen IL ,oas passed. 1t was passed on the
llth of February, l647, and Mr. Lincoln
did not take his seat in Congress till the
December following. A proposition to
amend that law was made while he was in
Congress-. and he supported IL. Here is
what he said on the subject, as recorded on
page $50 of vol. Is Of the Congressional
Globe
eff there was general desire on the part
Of the House to pass the bill now be should
be glad To have It done-coocurring as he
! did generally with the gentleman from Ar
l kansas, [Mr Johnsonl that the postpone
r ment might leopard the safety of the prop
o-ition. III, however, a reference W as to be
, made, he wished 10 make few remarks in
: relation to the several subjects desired by
gentlemen to be embraced in amendments
? to the niuth section of the act Of the last
session of Congress- The first amendment
3 desired by members of this House had for
its only object to give bounty lands TO such
persons as had served for time as prl-
4 Yates, but had never been discharged as
D such, because promoted TO office. That
subject aud no other was embraced in this
, bill There were some others who desired,
r while they were legislating ON this sub
iect, that they should also give bounty
lands TO the volunteers of the war of 1912
!. HIS friend from Maryland Mr.. Evans said
. there were no such men. He (Mr IL did
/, not say there were many but be was very
| cou fideut there were some. His friend
;. from Kentucky [Mr. Gainesl told him be
!, himself was one.
There still another proposition
4 touching this matter; that was. that per
. sons entitled TO bounty land should by law
!. be entitled to locate these lands IN parcels
aud not be required TO locate them In one
body, as was provided by the existing
; law.
Now, he had carefully drawn up a bill
IS embracing these separate propositions
which he intended to propose as a substl.
:, tutc for all these bills in the House, or iu
u Committee of the whole on the state Of tn,
II Union, at some suitable time. Ii there was
II a disposition on the part OF the House tC
IS act at once on this separate proposition, he
" repeated that, win the gentleman iIou
e Arkansas, he should prefer IL, lest they
70 lose all. But il there was to be reference
> he desired 10 introduce his till embracing
8 the three propositions-tbus enabling tn,
~ Committee and the House To act at the
>. same time, whether faverably or unfavora
a bly,, upon all"
"a So Mr.. Lincoln not only did not Oppose
IL the bounty land law, but he proposed al
Is extension of il 10 soldiers of 1872 gen
erous measure which Congress wss peti
\ toned for hundreds Of times afterwards
~ and only granted long after Lincoln hs,
ID retired to private life and proposed to al
= low the holders of warrants to enter Ian,
under them in separate lots, instead o
M compelling them to take it all in one body
st thus forcing them often to take one worth
he less. swampy tract with eue good one. ant
= rendering half the warrant utterly value
10 less. This is Mr.. Lincolu's record on tn
ne bounty land question"