The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-14

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Delivered at the great Ratification Meeting,
at independence Square, PHILADELPHIA Nay
&c, 1860.
(CoNCLUDED)
Another proposition which the Republican
party is in favor of is free homes for free
men upon the public lands of the country.
T" That's it. Hurrah."1 1t is part of the
creed that the public lands of the country
should be kept for the abodes of the free
men who will go and settle upon them.
T"Thats the idea."l We have voted at the
present session in favor of a bill giving to
every poor man, or every man who will go
out and cultivate it for five years, clear
title to one hundred and sixty acres of
land, [" Good" and applause, and the only
reason that such law has not already been
passed is by reason of the opposition of this
so-called Democracy. Now is not that
proposition in favor of the people and OPP
posed to monopolies ? Tell me now, if you
can, any one of you laboring men here,
why it is that the public lands in the State
in which live and in Iowa and Minnesota,
in Kansas and Nebraska, should be brought
into the market and sold to some capitalists
living here upon Chestnut street, or upon
Fifth avenue in the city of New York, and
he should buy them and hold them for FIVE
or ten years or perhaps only for one year,
and when you go out there to settle down
with your little family, make you pay five
or ten dollars an acre. Who is bene fitted
by that?
A VOICE. The Democracy.
Mr.. TRUMBULL. Yes, but are the people
benefited While it enables some capital
its to live in Fifth Avenue, in large house
with a brown stone front, and to ride
through the city in carriage, with liveried
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hands and sweating hrows of honest poor
men, who purchase lands in the West, and
nobody is benefited but the capitalist We
are for putting stop to any system O. Gov
eminent which enables the rich man to
grind the poor man, and that is Republican
ism. [" Good egg"]
Another thing the Republican party is in
favor offs the collecting of the revenue in
such way as will promote the industrial
interests of the country. 1t is in favor of
Pacific railroad that shall open thor.
oughfare across the continent. Yes, in ia
vor ola Pacific railroad by which the Pacif-
ic States shall be connected by bands of
iron, taken from your own mountains and
rolled in your own furnaces, with the States
on this side of the continent. 4" That's i"
That's American labor" "Thats Ameri-
can industry
Now, have you any objection to any of
these principles Have you any objection
to that principle of the creed which will
make the Western valleys and the fertile
plains which stretch across the continent re-
sound with the songs of freemen, rather
than be covered over with the black pail of
negro slavery. We would have free States
stretching across the continent like your
own Pennsylvania. Would not you 2
["Yes."] If you were to go there to live
and labor as mechanic or farmer, would
you not rather go there to live and labor
beside white men than by negro slaves q?
|" That's so, eyes" and applause.1 That
is no eneroachment upon the people of the
South.
Now, fellow-c citizens, having briefly stated
these principles of the Republican party,
will call your attention for moment to the
men who have been put forward to carry
them into practice.
1 happen to know, fellow-citizens, the
gentleman who has been nominated for the
Presidency. " Hurrah for Lincoln"1 I
have known him for more than twenty
years intimately, have practiced law with
him, have been with him on many occasions
at public meetings, such as | address here
tonight, and | tell you that purer, and
truer, and hOnester man does not live than
Abe Lincoln. r. Good" and applause I
Perhaps you would like to know something
OF the private character of this man at
home? Yes" $50 on."l He was a
poor boy. he had to make his own way in
the world and acquired an education by his
own exertions. He first learnt surveying,
afterwards studied and practiced law. He