The Oxford intelligencer., 1860-07-11
from the Mis-
A Righteous Veto.

iquitous measure known as the Homestead
Bill through the intrepidity and frmness o.
the Executive.
The effect of this, and kindred measures
is to throw open the public lands, without
money and without price, to the hordes who,
under operations Of the Emigrant Aid Sys-
TEN, are sent from the Northern States to
populate them under free-soil auspices. In
the race Of emigration thus encouraged by
federal legislation, the South having no re-
dundant population and not devoting her en-
ergies to the propagation of single idea, is
greaty.at Disadvantage with her sleepless
adversary. Consequently, she can enjoy UNI
der the Homestead system, comparatively
none of the benefits of the public domain TO
the purchase OF which she contributes more
than her just proportion of blood and treas
ure.
That such schemes should find favor with
a Black Republican House of Representa-
tiyes, cannot be cause Of wonder. The
sole aim Of the infamous community of
lnaves, sectionaists and fanatics who COM
pose that body, is to destroy the equilibrium
of the sections and supplant the institutions
of the South by preventing their expansion
and gi9dling them with destructive elements.
But we cannot understand how it is that a
body like the Senate, having an effective and
what is considered, reliable Democratic
majority, should have permitted the meas
ure, even though in a modified form, to pass
the ordeal of its intelligence, conservatism,
and patriotism.
The following is brief statement, fur
nished to our hand by an exchange, Of the
reasons assigned by the President for veto
ing this BILL The first alone-its unconsti-
tutionality-would have been amply suliici-
ent to have justified his course:
His first is a constitutional objection TO
the power Of Congress to give away the pub
lie lands, TO States or individuals. The
second objects to its unequal operation
among settlers, giving the same advantages
first settled the country when wilderness.
The third complains of the injustice TO the
eld soldiers who have received land warrants
for services, the value of which is deprecated
by this legislation. The fourth objects to
the partial operation ofthe act, in comforting
benefits on the agricultural class alone, out of
the common property of the Union. The
fifth rcproves it as unjust to the old States,
who are deprived of their fair interest in the
proceeds of land sales as part fthe resources
Of the treasury. The sixth rcprovcs the
chances for huge speculations which the bill
creates.
"The seventh notes an incongruity in the
bill, by which citizens must be heads of
families, to entiilc them to the benefit of
the BILL while there is no such restriction on
foreigners. The President finds fault, too,
with the discrimination in the favor of per-
sons who now have presumption rights, who
are INDUCED with a reduction of price to
81 l-2 cents per acre, and two years credit
thereon which no future pre-emptance is to
have. The ninth objects to the effect on the
public revenue, which the Secretary of the S
Interior estimates viii be reduced thereby,
rom the estimated income of $4,0OO,OOO
next year to 81, 900, 900, loss of S3,O00,000
IN a seanty revenue. Tenthly, and lastly, he
lrgues that the bill ovcrthrows and abolishcs
he present land system, which has worked !
10 long admirable success, aud universal !
"The message was debated in the Senate {
It some length-Mr. johnson, of Arkansas,
n favor OF the veto; Mr.. Johnson, of Tennes- n
zee, against it. Mr.. Harlan, of Iowa, consid- {
red the objections in detail dispuiing them J
ne by one The vote was finally taken, :
With the following result: !,
YEAs-Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Chandler,
lark, Doolittlc Durkec, Fesenden, Fitch,
'oot Foster, Gwin, Hale, Hamlin, lIarlin, !
King, Lane, Latham, Nicholson, Polk, Pugh, d
lice, Simmons, Sumner, Ten Eych, Trum- n
gll, Wade, Wilkinson and Wilson-23.
NAYs-Alessrs. Bragg, Chestnut, Critten- {
en-, Davis, Fitzpatrick, Green, Hemphill, c
Iunter Iverson, Johnson of Arkansas, John R
on of Tennessee, Mallory, Mason, Pearce,
lowell, Sebastian, Wigfall and Yulce-ls. s
Messrs. Douglas and Clay, Slidell and G
Bingham, and Tombs and Collamer, were n
announced as having paired Off \
Mr.. Johnson of Tennessee, who had at j
rst voted in the affirmative, changed his vote n
nj as soon as the result was announced y
loved reconsideration of the vote just Ia =
en-. !,
The true vote, therefore, was 80 avs to 20
ays-not being two-thirds, the bill was lost.
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arch establishes the fact that acids promote the =.
,paration ofthe bile from the blood, which is then
lsSed from fhe Svetern thus nreventing feverS VI