Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-04-03
DEmocRAcY INIrs puRIrY.

giving to every free white citizen, or who
had declared his intention to become
such, one hundred and sixty acres Of
land in the ''illimitable West" on con-
dition of five years occupancy. This,
the most benefcent measure ever pro-
posed by the Government, received the
entire Republican vote Of the House,
and would have received the votes of all
Northern Democrats, but for their party
alliance, and consequent subserviency to
the Slave Power of the South. As it
was, enough of them supported the bill
to give it decided majority.
But, to permit free laborers thus to
settle the vacantlands of the Government,
would almost inevitably preclude the
possibility of foisting upon them the
curse of slavery. Hence, the measure
could not fail to meet the bitterest op-
position from the oligarehy, and their
Northern sycophants. And when the
bill came up in the Senate, all disguises
were thrown off, and the leaders of De-
mocracy and ''slavery," exhibited
themselves in their true colors. Hale,
and Wade, and other Senators, advoca-
ted the passage of the bill with great
ability, and were answered in true over
seer style by the Democratic leaders,
We quote from the report in the Ohio
Statesman, the central organ of the party
in Ohio:
"Mr. johnson, of Arkansas, opposed
Mr.. Wade's motion, and referred to Mr..
Hale's remarks as insincere and dema-
goguish. He wanted TO hold on to the
canaiNe of New England by the cry of
free homes for freemen, fearful that un-
der the pressure of starvation they would
desert him and his party"
With what charming courtesy this
Democratic driver of negroes speaks of
the free laborer of the North as the
acANA1LLE Of New England" who, if
they cannot have Stree homes, will, Sun
der the pressure of starvation, desert the
Republican party. The gentleman did
not tell US where they would go to. Per-
haps he thinks they will go over to the
slaveholding Democracy! And, judging
from the irredeemable servility of many
of his own partizans, he, perhaps, had
some grounds for the contempt with
which he speaks of Northern men. But
little reflection would have. taught him
that the mass of the people are quite
different from the remnant of the gentle
mans followers. The report proceeds:
Mr.. WigtaN regarded the matter as
party question, involving as it did the
power of the, Federal Government. If
this Government was established to pro-
vide for the halt, blind, lame, deaf, &C.,
if it could give land to the landless, why
not niggers to the niggerless. He then
went into an examination of the power
of the Federal Government and con-
tended that, as the trustee of sovereign
States, it had no right to vote away their
land. In the course of his remarks, he
said 1t is nonsense to talk of q State COM
mitting treason The thing scas impossi-
bic. He oped allegiance to the State q
TeDas, sclich conjointly aoith other States
exercised the same portion of the sovereign
poaoer. Whenever she declared the Fed,
eral Government no longer her agent, then
1t soould be has duty to return to his State
and If he should be captured fighting u'e.
der the Lone Star, under the lao Of nations
he could not be treated as a traitor.
Mr.. johnson, of Tenn, remarked thai
there were precedents for the policy pro
posed in the bill.
Mr.. Wigfall was sorry to hear any
Democrat refer to precedents. If they
are accepted, banks, tariffs, internal i'm
provements, &C., could be justified
he then denounced the policy Of Neu
ENGLAND, which, by federal Legislation
had got rich and kept the other sec
tions poor He thought nothing bette
could occur than dissolution Of the Union
Ne,o England ,oould then beg the South 4
come back; her spindles aoould then ceds
to turn, and her ships rot at the aoharres
her sailors and operatives tan7'ed out t
starve, aooud burr, and steal.
He also drew picture of mob o
deceived and infuriated people bearin;
on poles the heads Of Seward and Hale
If these men only knew the South wa
in earnest, they would keepquiet. The.
were not the men to coin their hearts
blood into drachms. He denied tina
these we're threats. The mere day o
farces has gone by. He would speak hi
mind freely and say that he believed n
Black Republican euer could be a,sagura
ted President Northern men talked Q
subduing the South, but he believed tina
Southern army would winter in Bosto
before Northern one could reach Texas
I He would like to know how they wer
going to take the South. Let them loo
around the chamber and they would Sc
ON the Republican side but one man VIII
ever saw the flashing Of gun, while h
particularized numbers on the Demo
cratic side who had rendered signal mi
itary service. The military chest wa
the first matter of consideration in wa
g and where would the North get th
money to fill it? The South could sen
4 out her cotton, tobacco, &C., in the bo
s toms, which would carry them the cheal
$ est. Where would the Senator fro
q Rhode Island Mr.. Simmons] get tt
money for his calico? They might tai
of blockading the Southern ports, b.
their officers and men would want none.
and where could they get it?
Cotton was King, and without it Quee
: Victoria's Crown was not safe. I'll