The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-08-09

circumstances uhach surround ", and
amid the perils rhieh noW inviro~ W.
The Homestead Bill..Douglas and Hauv
lin.
From the Davenport Gasette.l
The same papers which have been
charging Senator Hamlin, Republican
candidate for Vice President, with being
opposed to the Homestead Bill, because
he voted against the Senate Bill a. .
substitute for the House Bill, Is va
think every Republican should have
done, claim Douglas as a Homestead
man. The Douglas Democratic State
Convention recently held in Iowa, was
guilty of the farce of passing a resolution
in favor Of the Homestead measure-a
farce IN the Democracy. because for tho
INST ten year. they have been passing
such resolutions, and have all the tims
had the powcr to pass such measure,
but refused to do it. Now the fact 10,
Douglas has repeatedly lodged vote on
this very Homestead question, and Al
times, once at least, when his vote would
have probably passed such a bill. A
cotemporary makes up his record from
the Congressional Globe, by which it sp.
pears
On the 17th of february, 1850, App.
Congressional Globe, part 2, page 1914,
Mr. Wade moved to postpone prior or
dcrs, and take up the House Homestead
Bill. On this motion Mr.. Hamlin voted
.y"a, Donglas dodged.
On the 10Th of February, 1859, (pogs
ll43) on a motion to take up the Home.
stead Bill, Hamlin voted yea and Doug.
ias dodyed.
Again, on the 25th Of February, (page
1862 Mr. Doolittle moved to postpone
the bill for the acquisition Of Cubs, and
take up the Homestead Bill, and upon
this motion Nj. Hamlin voted yea,
Douglas voted nay, preferring "niggers
for the niggerless' to Glands for tho
landless"
Upon this motion Mr.. Wade spoke II
follows: 81 am very glad that this ques.
ton has at length come up. I am glad,
too, that it has antagonized with this
Niger question. Laughter. We arc
'shiverng in the wind are We sir, over
your Cuba question? You may have oe-
casion to shiver over that question before
you are through with it. Now, sir, I
have been trying here for nearly month
to get straightforward vote uron this
great measure of lands for the laudless.
l glory in that measure. is the great.
est that has ever come before the Amer.
lean Senate, and it has come so there 10
no dodging it. The question uiW Be,
SHALL WE GIVE NIGGERs TO THE Nfa.
GERLEss, OR LAND TO THE LAND
LESS. TApplausc in the galleries. ]
GA tha Sd of April, 1860, on motion
to postpone the Senate Homestead Bill
with a view Of taking up that of the
House, lIamlin voted yea and Douglas
dodyea.
On the 9th Of April, on motion to
postpone the Homestead Bill for the In.
dian Appropriation Bill, Mr.. HamliE
voted nay and Douglas lodged
On the 10Th of May, on motion to
substitute the House Bill for that of the
Senate, Hamlin voted yea. 1t was in
connection with this action that Mr..
Hamlin defined his position in favor Of
House, and against the Senate Bill, as
follows:
II am very much in the same situa.
ton with the Senator from Massachus-
cts, with this distinction am against
the bill, and am going to leave record
consistent with my judgment. I think
the bill is wrong. do not think there
would be much harm in worshipping it,
for do not think it bears any similitude
to anything above the earth or beneath the
skies that you can call a homestead law.
The men who have taken it under their
peculiar care, are the enemies of the
homestead principle, and they propose to
pass it. | am perfectly willing they
should Go so; but they tell US, and tell Us
very frankly that it IS not homestead
bill. l will not vote tor it. l voted to
substitute the House bill for this bill;
but those who have control Of the matter
have put it in position which I think
is unjust There are things in that bill
for which | cannot vote. There are
things that ought to 90 into it to make
it jnstiiable, to enable me to give it my
vote. For these reasons | shall vote
against it,
And he did vote against it, while those
Republicans who voted for it did so IN.
der protest Douglas dodged
On the 29th of May, on motion to
disagree with the House, Hamlin voted
nay and Douylus dodycd.
on the final vote--that Of passing the
hin n-ar tho praSidant's yato-tb. fol
lowing was the vote:
Ycas-Messrs Anthony, Brown, Chan
dler, Clarke, Doolittle, Durkee, Fessen-
den, Fitch, Foote, Foster, Gwin, Hale,
Xumli.1., Harlan, King, Lane, Latham,
Nicholson, Polk, Pugh, Rice, Simmons,
Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade,
Wilkinson, Wilson'S.
Nays-Messrs. Bragg, Chestnut, Crit
tenden, Davis, Fitzpatrick, Green, Hemp
hill, Hunter, Iverson, Johnson, (Tenn.O
johnson, (Arkansas,) Mallory, Mason,
Pearce, Powell, Sebastian. Wigfall, Yu.
lee-lS.
Douy'as 1odgea.
Judging from these votes, Douglas has
felt in relation to the Homestead Bill
much as he does on the slavery question
he don't care whether it is voted up or
down, while Mr.. Hamlin has been firm
and persistent friend of the measure,
from the first to the last. We are aware
that Douglas has always claimed to be
friend to the Homestead measure, and
that extracts from his speeches are going
the rounds of his press, to prove his