Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1860-11-01


nous. on, Of su-h characies as TO 3
renler IL coneluSively certain that that
party will continue 10 oppose ihos~
measures 20 the emf. From some of
the new State. where the general SEN
liment i, strongly against the mono
poly e the public domain hy capita
Hats anu nonresident speculators. the
Democratic Senators AMI Republican
were oblig''l to vote with the Repub'i'
can. upon these que-iioa~.
DuS the southern Democracy voted
ranks solid against all reform; and II
i the Southern wing of that party.
a. all the world knows. which controls
is policy. The opposition of the
slavcholjing istocrary 20 homesteads
and prescriptions Il an indubitable
fact. anil !, i. fixed fact, because it
!, foun,lel upon interests which are
Interchangeable. Homestead laws anil
presumption laws. securing quarter
sections of one hunifed nnd sixty
acres 10 ac,ual cultivators. woall
amount 10 Wilmot Proyiso, which
no ingenuity could cva.le. AMI which
no Supreme Cont could nuliiy. The
"lignchy nm lerstoal il well. aud
hence it is that their opposition will
I've implacable AMI eternal.
One Southern ID IN ,cra,ic Senator.
Mr. johnson of Tennes. aud a
lew Southern Democratic Representa-
ives. voted on these questions with
the Republicans. Int ihi> proves not
that there is any division of opinion
among the oligarchS. but that there
are portions of the South which the
oligarchs can not fully control The
great body of the white people of the
South arc non. Shareholders. AMI ar
Just as much interested in honeSleals
AMI pre-cmplion laws a. the people
nf the free States. In some districts
hesc questions have been canvaSsed
AN are understood. AMI the Reprcsen-
tafives of thes, districts are compelled
10 vote ON the silc of free labor. In
fact. there Is no better weapon with
which II publicanism can a,sail the
oligarchy in their own homes, than
this weapon OF pre-emptions and
hpnie,iea.l~. Ia lighting that battle.
rho oligarchs will lose the advantage
of the prcjn,lices of the poor whites
against tho negroes AMI the Abolition.
lists. Tho homestead question is a
white mans question.
Thu opposition of the olirarchs to
pre- emptionS AMI homestead being
fixed and imninva,lc. b cause a>ed
upon personal AMI political Interests
which cannot he change il results
that the friends of land reform. OF
whatever political opinions in other
re- pc ~. must unite 10 pnt lown this
oligarchy. an tn, Dem, 'ra'i. party
which is CONTROLLED by H. Whoever
supports a party, supports is mea>-
ure~, whichever his own in livi lual op
Inions about those MEASURES NAV br.
and the measures oi party are dls-
tatel Ivy the influence which FREEDOM
mates in it. That there ARE vast mum
/, hers OF persons who habi ually vote
what is called the Democratic ii krt
; who are in favor of preserving the
public domain for actual SETTLERS. /,
certainly true. Bat i: is not the less
true. that such persons help TO keep
in power national party. which. from
the essential nature of It's compo>iIi.n
ami tro:n the fixed purposes oi the
power which dpmna eS over il, must
forever ppose policy which seeks
10 cnt mp the public domain into small
reeholis.
IL is in vain, therefore. for the
Donslsscs AMI Br;gh,s OF lie West to
point to their own individual votes in
favor OF homstsads anil pre- empiion
II the men Of this stamp be admitted
10 De ever 50 sincere and ever So relia
bic in those respects. it Is sutfi lent
that they are inext!i.ably mix'l vi
AMI allel with power at the South
which /, implacaply "ptll~ t. pre-
cmptions AMI homc-tcadS. Land r.
fnrm is impossible until that powe" l.
put down; To put u down. the Dem
. orratic party. falsely so called. mus
| lac pun down. The logic which point'
Ia that conclusion j. irwin lille.
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