Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-09-15
SOLDIERS AND LAND.

Ihe Republican party has time
and again stigmatined III party
as being enemies to soldiers of
the North-that every Democrat
was a Rebel, mot excepting the
Irish Brigades, that we're always
lslurd as ignorant Democratic
Irish" before the war, but whol
afterward were noted for their
bravery and love of couutry)-as
Rebel Sympathizers-as KuKlux
Klans-Aiders and Abettors of
the Cause of the South, and have
even went so far as to poison the
minds of returned soldiers to such
AN extent al to cause the mob
bling of Democratic newspapers,
&C., but now that a Democratic
Representative soldier thro'
out the war in an Ohio regiment
has brought up a Bill to re-
munerate those services where
they existed for zone year or
more in the war to put down the
rebellion by giving each soldier
"a home-to settle on or not, rs
he pieases; but a Radical Con-
gress upset this benevolent act of
kindness to the soldiers wei are
by placing therein, a clause COM
spelling the soldier to settle on
: said land and improve 1t. No
provision is mentioned how the
one arm, or one leg soldiers are
Ito be beAefitted by this land
ELECTROMAGNETIC of Con-
gress, but they must go and set
tie on the land to become its
We would as leave take
q up with the old Homestead Law
ofRered to citizens, and settle any.
?. where, as to have the benefits o
II a law that seems to us but little
d. or no better. The following i
10 from the "Soldiers' Friend" o
a, Aug. 9th, published at Chicago
i BOUNTY LAND.
We are asked every day whether Con
lgress passed a law giving 100 acres Q
a land to every soldier. We reply tina
Congress did net vote m bounty Ian
to soldiers. Hon. VIM. Muugen. of Ohio
ga tried to have such q law passed and pre-
scented to Congress the following bill:
& A bill to grant one hundred and sIxt
>dacres of land to each soldier who serve
one year or more in the Union Arm,
during the rebellion
Be Il enacted by the Senate and HoH,
L. of Representatives. of tie United Stat,
Of AmerieG, IN Congress Assembled,
T. That there be granted to each soldier
mr. sailor, and marine, who served one yea
or more in the war to put down the r
Ut bellion and who was honorably dischars
cel ed, l60 acres of land, said land shall
E selected by the soldier or his agent ii
IA shall NOT be compelled to reside on {
is improve said land, nor shall he be ALLOW
!. led to sell or ALLEVIATE said land for fy
~ years after the same shall be selected.
further enac ed that the widow of an
o ldier, sailor, or marine, who shall nc
W have married again be entitled to th
Ic- same benefit and subject to the same n
N striction her husband, ii alive, would b.
" Now let us sea who is responsible fC
he the defeat ofthis bill. It was referred
- the Committee ON Public Lands, and tbs
~ committee failed to report the bill to Il
en- House, and IN that s0oy killed IL. tt
a. names of the committee who lid this, a
as follows:
es Hon. GEO. W. JULIAN, Indian
an Hon. John II. Ketckum, New York; Ho
Washington Townsend, Penn! Hon. Tho
Fitch, Nevada; Hon. John B. Hawle
tic i'll; Hon. John J.. Winans. Ohio; Ho
lWM- SMYTH, Iowa; Hon. Eugene W
son, Mimi; Hon. Jas. R Mccormick, N
of It was the duty of Mr.. Julian, of Inc
ana, to report this bill to the House, al
lie, it wa the duty of the other members
see that be did it. Soldiers of the Ian
you have their names, remember them.
OF the two Bills the fd1lowin
was chosen and is now a law
:; dble-bodied men who served Il
to specified time: