The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1860-08-31
Mr.. LipcoIa and the Mexican Wa,
Bounties.
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mr. Ltbcoin ana the meHtcnn Wa
COLUMBUS, Indiana, !
August, 1s60.}
Editors Cincinnati Gazette: See
ling in one Of your late issues re
! ference to the stale fs'sehoods per
petually repeated by bis ex. Rever
ence William M. Daily, that Mr.
Lincoln, when in Congress, voted
against BE- unity lands for our soldiers
| in the war with Mexico, ask you
Lto puhlish an extract from the Con
0rssional Globe Of the frat sessioI
OF the tbirtieth Congress. page $50
showing exactly what Mr.. Lincoln
did do in reference to that enbjecf
Tho proposition was made by Mr.
Lincoln when the House was con-
sidering a bill reported by Mr..
French, from the Committee on the
Judiciary, TO amend the Bounty
Land law Of 1S47. II 10 as follows:
Mr.. Lincoln said II there was q
general desire on the part Of the
House to pass the bill now, he
should be glad to have it done-con-
curing, as he did generally, with
the gentleman from Arkansas, Mr.
Johnson) that the postponemcni
might joopardize the safety OF the
proposition. II, however, a re-
ference was to be made, he wished
to make a very few remarks 10 re
lation to the several Subjects desired
by gentlemen 20 be embraced In
amendments to the ninth section oi
tho act Of the last session OF Congress.
The frot amnri.---. dUoitcu Uy
members Of this House, had for its
only object to give bonnty lands to
such persons as had served for a
time as privates, but had never been
discharged as such, because pro-
NOTED to office. That subject, and
No other, was embraced in this bill.
There were some others who desired
while they were legislating on this
subject, that they should also give
bounty land to the volunteers Of the
war OF 1912. His friend from Mary
land said there were no such men
lie (Mr. Lincoln) did not say there
we're many, hut he was very conf
dent there were some. His friend
from Kentucky. near him, (Mr.
Gaines.) told him fie himself was
one.
There was still another proposition
touching this matter; that was, that
persons entitled to bounty land
should by law be entitled to locate
these lands 10 parcels, and not DO re-
quired to locate them in one body
as was led by the existing
law. -
Now, he had carefully drawn uE
a bill embracing these three separate
propositions, which he Intended &c
propose as a substitute for all these
bills in the House, or in Committee
of the Whole on the state OF the
Union, at some suitable time. II
there was a disposition on the part ot
the House to act at once on this
separate proposition, no repeated
that with tho gentleman from Ar
kansas. he should prefer it. lest they
should lose all. But II there was
to be a reference, he desired to in.
troduce his bill embracing the three
propositions, thus enabling the CON
mit,ee and the House to act at the
same time, whether tsvorabty OF
unfavorably. upon all. He inquired
whether an amendment was now il
order?
The Speaker replied in the mega
tive.
Thus not only is this shallow
bareiaced ialsehood exploded, bur
its circulation has developed the
fact, which otherwise probably nc
one would ever have troubled them,
selves to hunt up. tina, Mr.. Lincoln
was ever watchiul OF the interests %
the soldiers who fought our battles
in Mexico, notwithstanding he be
lieved in common with Clay AM
many others Of great eninence a
that time and since. and indeed will
a maj rity of tho House Of which h'
was member, that the war was "un
necessarily and unconstitutionally
begun by the President and tina
he had an equal regard for the in
terests Of those whom no one vii
deny to have been equally deserving
the volunteers OF 1912.