Indiana American, Volume 7, Number 34, Brookville, Franklin County, 21 August 1868 — Page 1

TER MO OF ADV ER TI GING,

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(third story.) r it . ; m::z cf;cv::cE?noiri C2.5D PER YEAR, ! A?AifO. u 93,03 '"' irot fiio 1 4tfVn No postage ea papera deliv ered Sthia this uoeaiy. THE NEW YORK PLATFORM. Tbt Ceycosr Denoeracj 1 tit PaMlo Spetch of Hon. Geo. V. . Julian, De llvered it Che.byvi., Indiana, on tha CthAu;ut. Fellow CiTiit.it: I begin what I have to eay to daj with lb remark that our party platforoae are very, instructive memorials of th paet. Tbl ia thati chief Yalwe. They Dark tho ebifting aod evervarying phaaea of American politic, aod often bear wit pete to tlx way ward acea or positive Infidelity of our publio men. Taie ia forcibly illustrated la tba Nation al Democratic platform recently adopted a tba city of New York. I tsjteji for i..:;4 that tht essential trutb u tc'ttici, the b.ttilira of tba platform un JrsiooJ it, tbt substaace, and wot tba ehaJow of Democracy, it here embodied. Kverf

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scribes to this Uteat aod eaot latborita. live crifeiaian of National political faith. And ja, if wa ata to try tbia d(cim-at tj tba anrijont icata of I)tr,ocratio attbodaij, ra abali find it a naw and. a wank Invention, whkh tbafaibara of Democrat woald dtaown. ThU will be found trut, wbetbar wa eonaldcr tba platform in ita nrgativa or in poaitira cbaraotcr, For tuatpla, lha Daoaocrailo prloclpla of tba right of eoeaioo, which haa tooK btaci a fundamental artlola of faith, ii unconditionally abandoned. It hat b-eea actiled for all tie to eottt by tba war," and ia neer to be renewed, raattat J;' but tow aa aueonaiitational war could dfatr tba eonatitutional ribt of tba biatca to ecede, and iwcep into oblivloa the alwatl AC goapel of tba rtaoltftiona of aha aeMbkd wiadan at New York falW 40 aioUia. Tba divioa 1 iaattlatiaa of lavorjr, whloh we earedly Kuardad alo I lha Cou.titution, it Ilk w i -a abandond foiever. Tba war, wbkh foar ara so waa branded aa a failure, haa mmM ii "for alt tine to come,' aal hand j 1 it down to a common grata with ita "iwia a-allo," tbe right uf a0ilonj bat t aubt rill that if both tha war atd " tbo pro--olainatloa ul'ainancipatlon wer uncontiiutioaal, tha loglo of para and "unter .rifled' Deiuocraoy ahouid hv deuiamld oompfsaatioa ftt tba alavea thu waatua ij act Irco. Vre trade waa another lira honoroJ ' jiritioijj'e f IutiKjrc. It ie not, bowaver, etn ruantionad In tb New Yuik plat'orm. aoria tba polio of protection .condemned. On tba atrary, (ba platortu ba a atroa aar or of Iba old vhi octriaa of a tarisf tor rewnuf, with inoideotal protection ta Auiirloaa' iuatiu ifttettiree, Ilraacratia awafa and foliiiciana have not baao aparmg of tUair deuunciatioaa of tba high lariS police of ba p t ait or etht jaara; but tiaM deiuneiatian, found no voice ia tba Now

v A urk CoMvonlioa. Hard muy wa inoterjrrat Uem3ratio "principNa, iVbo loci uol reuiauibor lha tuarthalia vf tba ; JJeiiKucratio bota ander Jackajo ed 1 lltjntou ia Jeif era 4 int tie ( k14 aad ailver, aadia oppeaiuaa la irradeeuiabU ' paper . Mima? And who wtjld bava . doubted that tha wen 'who dottaii4 -'(' KreeAbka aa uuQonututiaiiiaI duriu 11m '! wtr, wcild ataad bjf tha old lurd . uiouej &g after the war bad ended? Uut here, tcain, tba war haa not bear a 'failure ' I -Or all earthly bleaain;, greenbacka, and p ia marvcloua abundance, era now mml to , la coveted ia the judgment of Deuaocrata, avbile i:old and aiivtr abould ba retired from aight or uaa aa far aa Duaaibia. ,Kin lrad obeivationa apply to tba ancient pamocratio doina ot "a white ruan'a Uor srntnent"' No one otild hava auppoacd it poaaibte for tho Ueniucratio party to lire, without teaching constantly, aa a moat vital truth, lh iafeiioritv of tba tie gro, aai lha dialer of pllioal and aocial equality with him. Oat tba New York

platform uttera no word oa tbia , aubjeot, .although neroaa now actually rota and TO a y hold otScein all the Statea lately to rebellion. Tbia moat abameleaa and bibhanded recreancy to laviog Deitocratio tdeaa and traditiona baa aurpriaed tba whole country, and can only be accounted for !'by the war. or tba Toluolary action of tba Southern State, ia Cooetitutiooal Conveatioo aasenabled." , .If wa turn from' tha negative to tha po aitiva aide of tha New York platform, wa halt Had quite ai litt! relief for our Democratio friends. They demand tba '. toemdit restoration of all tba Statea to their right in the Unioo," bet fail to teil ua what (hev mesa br tbia demand, and why lha Democrate in both Housea of Coograaa oaitedly rota ajainil reatoriog tha rebel Sutaa to their rigbta, aava thoae ox aeceasion and alavery, which bava eon. feaaedly periahed by tba war. Tbey demand amneaty for all past political oflenMf, w&eo nobody baa been punished, or atanda tba leaat chance af- beiae- pan ished, for any each -offenaea. - They deraaqd tba abcluloa ror tha r reedmen a Bureau, which will expire by law on tbe Orit or next Jaaaary. aad wbiob law waa opposed br the Democrats of both Houaes. Tbey conderna tba doctrine of immutable allegiance, as to which no man 1 or party ia the country takes any is?ue with them, " T. ...... .L- I . . m . I ci . . . . im; Stull mi riKQioi ids oiaiea io regulate the uuegtion of eaffrire, which la expresaly admitted by the , liepoblicao party; white, the demand for a "reform of abases in the Administration," and "the expulaioa of corrupt men .frotn oßiee,,, will ba heartily atoooded by every '.lie - publicao to the Union, and if carried pat. woulaetonce relieve tbe-.oatioa from the infernal brood of Demoaratio thieves aad riHalna who are ' pray lag opoo Ita- life, irvift.Aaurvw jQuoson lcciuaira . oown 10 the aeaneat political icttlUona.aod pro atitates that bava fan od favor" labia igbt. THB LAND QÜESTtOJI. Bat I case from these teneral matter. s . v Tbey are exceediagly suggestive, and in. vite a more extended cntlciem, .bat.I

TT 'J -V.I ; ... f ' I ' K V0L..7, NO. 31. I - dismiss the tu to"-day for. the purpose of noticing, wiib aome degree of particular! ty aad emphasis, a still more remarkable a tid novel feature of thie vary remarkable and novel platform. It ii $t lollowa: MThat tba public landa should be distributed as widely as poaaible among tba people, and should be dispoaed of eitbeir uuder tbe pre empilou or homestead laws, oi sold la reasonable quautitios, and to oona but aotufl occupants, at tba minimum price establiabed by tba Governcuaot. Where grauta of tbe publio landa euay be deeu ed uecessary for the eooour ageuuaotof important publio improveuients, tba proceeds of the sale ot euou lands, and not Iba laoua tbemaelves, should be so applied." Ibi ja ' llent Uepublicaa oootrir . . "!'.:! c.iaoii'tt viü pol.;j 1 Lave i .illy cuutended lor the jxjlicy of reaerviojt tba publio landa for actual settlement and tillage. Fur twenty odd years I hive publioly adioca tad the bomaatead principle, and tba Ha publican party now itauui ready to advance eveu bayood this, by providing that tba turtbr aala of lha publio lauds abail ceaae, except as provided lor lu the prw-nptioo and bouioalead laws. A bill, awtfeod ting Ibis provUiou, baa been rea . a a a hotkd Irow. li.e House tomiumee on i'ublio Lands, aud ia now pjfudiujt, while Ua riucipte baa already boeti sauciloiied ty the House la tbe Iwrtu of a resolution adopted In AJarch laat, wbtvb iurlber providod Uiat fall proposed grauls of land it aid ia tba eouatruotlun of railroads, or i'wr ü.t pvcial oljeuta, should be carefully atcruiiuiied eud rigidly subordinated ta iixt paramount urpua ol suvuriug liuauae Iwr tbe IsudlcM poor, I lie iculeaicblsud tillage of the publio dotualm, itd Ii MXtHMjuent luctrae ef . lha lioual wealth." lu pursuance of tbia latur rovilo a bill ' baa paaaed the Ilouao trgulating all future land grants lor railroad's purpurne, and dudariug that tins aluntaia aulUna granted shell, ba sold actual settlors ouly, In quaiilitiva tol giatr than one hundred and sixty acta, aad lor a price not xoooding two dollars aud fiHy touts per ane, ihua sea curing the' aetllruieiil of lie country, nil buildiu lite rouda with tho pru cecJ f Iba sale of aUub laud', and not il4 laada thuialva." Una bill, as 1 undarataad, paaed Ilia Sauate juat beloia the late at'J'iMf mittut, Tlie laJical and saving returwa in our laud policy, which 4jnatieia aa o)iial pait of tCe Kopubli 4ii gnap!, nd are the rijm fruit il ltpabliiMM Mtiiiaucy, aia stolsu and appropriated bodily by the Copperhead liiMi'rry in their Naliouat Couveutioii. Uy lt the bis! plank in their platloriu ia wbtdlued IVwms Iheir political oppoueuta by arawisad tJkMviii):; aud with a kua vrry ftt(nciy wucliatMnai, . an HupudaMo wbivh trianiplia over all sdjeotivea, and an au Uciiy abolutely trausuaudenUl, they sk tbe Jiouet lussaes of tho people lor ittit supporil ' rut dehsjcuatic a t; coau GentUiucn, in the Hallt of tlirse uilv facte, 1 trust 1 shall be pardoned if 1 uu cover the political nekedueaa of lhe?a socallad iJowocrattt, and plt thaw a littla while ' with ibo excellent timber whioli they bava sought to ptoure Irotu us ty theft. It may do llicoi good, and also .serve ae a warning to others against tha waa of faUs preteusra. Since actions speak louder than words, let me examine tha Democratic record on the land question. I believe it ia Waldo Ktuerson vbe says that the strength of a anteuoe dapamia upon tlm man who ' Stands' behind it. If mere professions word make the tuen suiuta uiiltuuiuiu woald loag sinea have been ushered ia. 1 do not deny the possibility of a death-bed rcpoutance, or an instantantoua conversion. W haa the cup of a miserable veereant haa been made lull to overflowing; a sudden spam of remorse may reveal to him hie true character and open the way for a new life. Having no evidence whatever that any each tusrey haa visited Iba Democratic couarieoce, wa are compelled to judge the party to-day by its fruits.1 What are these fruits? TUX LAUD 01 ANT SYSTEM. I being with what is called our land grant policy, which, in brief, ie tbia: For the purpose of aiding the construction of a propoaed railroad' or caaal, Congress graata tba alternate odd-numbered aeo tioos along the line of the work, within a margin of six, ten or twenty, miles on aiihar side of it; and if any of. the lands within this belt ahall have been disposed of by aala or otherwise,: the deficiency shall be made up within a certain specified distance beyond it. The lands thus granted ara taken charge of by tbe com pany which uodertakea the work, and be come at once a complete monopoly. No time ia fixed within which the lands ahall be sold by the company, which may avail itself of other resources, and bold them for twenty or forty ysitre for a rise in firice. ' Congress made a large grant of ends to the Illinois Central lUilrosd eighteen yeara ago, and a considerable portion of tbera remains uneold to-day. Sales, however, oocaaiooably occur at from thirty' to forty dollars per aore,' there being bo price fixed beyond which the com pany ahall not go. ' The theory of tbia polioy is ;tbat the Government will be fully compensated for the -odd-numbered aeetions granted, by the enbanood price of Ibe eve or numbered sections which ara re served; but this does not cure tbe vicious principle to which-1 refer. The lends granted are tili ruinous .monopoly in the hands of the Company. , Detides, the principle .of alternate aectiona has frequently jbceo disregarded by.Congress. In aeveral inatanoea tbe evert numbered seo tioos have been granted, after , the oddnumbered ones, had been exhausted. I believe the firtt grant of lands ever made by Congress, Q alternate aeetions. for any work of internal improvement, waa in 1827, to aid in tbe construction of tho Wabash & Erie Canal. Two additional grants were subsequently made for. this work, ihe

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I 1 1 laat of wbieh waa for eight hundred thousand acre, which could be located in a body, and selected within thirty or forty miles from ihe line of the canal. Similar ahusea of our land grant policy have been sanctioned by Congress. In aid of sundry ship csosls; but the policy itself, iode pendent of these abuses, is indefensible and iniquitous. . It blocks up tbe way of oar piooeera, who would subdue our distant borders, and open the pathway for organised civil communities. It hindere tbe increase of national wealth, by pre venting the cultivation and. improvement of vast districts of fertile land, which should be left free to the landless poor, ander Ihe pre-emption and homeatead lawa. It Is a wicked compact ttr?5 tl : 0. -n t !t f il'-l, ini Ur,.l , . te ctl tr, ext-autod at the tiaTton's expense, and to the cruel wrong of our hardy pioneers, who ara driven to the outskirts of civilization, and Com polled to encounter all the increased expense and danger of securing hon.ee fur Iheir families, while surrendering inch Ideal advantagea In tha way of achoola, churches, roads, and other improvements, si might otherwise bo much sooner en joyed. Nearly two hundred mllllona of acres of the publio domiin hive thua been granted by Congress In aid of railroads and other improvements under this anfoitunita Und policy, ind ill evil iU prove aa intnjersbly grelvoua in their character as they will be enduring in time. Gentlemen, who Inaugurated ihiiayiUm of Rational plunder, tbia monstrous eon piracy sgalnst Ihe productive wealth of the country. Ibis remorseless crusade asalnst tha rifthta of ttlers? It wsa (ho Pemoerallo parly. 'Pemoeralln leaders hatched it into being.. Other parties, in later veers, have been more or lee In volved In it, but haa a Democratio geneale and ancestry. Buch men aa Case, Tln ton, and Douglas, championed It, and e! thmiflh Its beginning dales Inek many years, It waa only fully Installed Ihrounh the fncrjritlr leadership of the latter. In Metirlttff lha truernlflpent errant t.f lands In aid of the llllnoU Central Railroad This lannelied It, and rnred Its triumph as a leading feature of Domrvcratle polley, I heir, however, that I may nnt be tnlnndentpftd. In arraigning this avstam. I do not mean to deny that It haa dne mtifh 1 develon our pnrwlry. notwIlhV standing tho evils to which I , hare referred. Nor do I question the duy f Ihn (Invernment to aid Important works of Internal Improvement, rr tha polley of dolntr thU bv erants of land. On another oeesalon T hsvo quoted tha authoritative words of John Stuart Mill lint "good roada em equivalent lo good tools," that 'it la of no conequence whether the eononty of labor tales plaeo (ln , extract Ins the produce from tho soil' or in conveying It to the place where it la to he conaumed," and tint !'rallwava und pinals are virtually a diminution of the cot of prodnetion. of all thlnira sent to market by them.": No one will deny that Iben enterprise! have done a trreat servlee to tha conntrv, and that tha Government, by all reasonable means, should aid Ihem. T.M Coofrrea provide that the landa erran-, ted In all such rt'cs shall he sold to not rial Millers only. In limited qaantitUs. and fr a price which shall insure their rnr thise. This will settle and dveloo tha country, trolncc hand In hand with the pre emption and homestead laws, and at the aamo time moat certainly and pndily eomple'e the Improvement. This ia the Republican doctrine, already adopted In tha ler"U'!n of tha Fortieth Concrres, and which the Seymour Dewocraov, have s'olen and attempted to appropriste as their particular thunder. OUR SWAMP LAND LKatSLATtorv, I p.e"to the euVjcct of swamp land. Tha first arrant by Congress of "swamp and overflowed land" was made In the vear 1819 to the State of Louisiana. This was followed Ihe next year hy a general law. granting such lands to all lha States In which (hey wer,e situated. The lands claimed under this legislation have crown to Immense proportions, their charao'er aa swamp lands havinsr been adjudicated In the interest of the States, and generally in accordance with surveys made Immediately after the season of their overflow. The total amount of selections already mada Is about sixty millions of acres, and not far from forty-five million, have actually been patented a very large portion of which is dry land, and among the very bet the nation owned. The management of theie lan1, whether In the Western or Southern States, hss been roost unfortunate and ruinous. This ia especially true ot Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Florida, these four States slone bavin secured by false pretenses nesrly twenty eight' millions of acres. Instead of extending our well understood land policy over these regions, and reclaiming them by individual enterprise and actual settlement, Congress wss prevailed upon to hand-them over to the tender mercies of these States,' on the ground, now well known to bave been fabricated, that the lands were of little or ao value, and on the ' assurance, equally false, that the Statea would reclaim them, whioh it waa alleged the geoeral Government could not afford to do. After these landa beoame the property of the States, they were aold in great bodies to speculators, the price, as I am advised, ranging from twenty to eighty cents per acre, and purchasers being such men as Jacob ThompaoQ of Mississippi, Robert W. Johnion.'of Arkansas; Toombs, of Georgia and other Democratio thievea and rebela, who doabjless hold the lands in their grasp to-day. Aooordiog to official tables furnished by the general land offloo, there ara now in tha five land Statea- of the South moro than fifty-two millions of sores of unimproved land held' by monoplists, while more than two-thirds of the people are landless; and if you exclude the (owns and eitiea ef those 8tates, more than nine tenths of tloir popojation are without

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homes . of their own. These are very melancholy facts', and they are the fruit of Democratic , policy. . Democratio tactics, cunningly employed by Southern membera, carried our awamp land lawa through a Democratio Congress, while the frightful ( msl-admioistratioo of these lands which followed waa concocted and consummated by Democratic States;. DmocRATic rotter n.LfcrrRATXD. Such ia the Dtmooratio r;cord. Demo crate have been consistec 'y and steadfahtly on ibe side of ronnf ,icj of the soil. They have bren unflir ingly, in the wrong. They have scout '.every attempt to check or mitigate ths . ''to which I - ,, err . the la-nd of t: ... (J .;rcr: ::.t t Co' the r"sok at.J tle'cf tl.jr lal..iir ; , I oßor a single illustration. Jiarly ia the Congress which met In December, 1863, I had the honor to report a bill providing that all lands which should be sold for nonpayment of Federal tsxes in the Insur roctlonarv districts, or under ihe Internal Revenue law, or under proceedings in ret under the act toauppress Insurrection and to punish treason and robelliol, should be bid off to tha Government, certified over to tho Secretsry of the Interior, and thonceforwsrd become a part of the publio unappropriated domain. It further provided that theno lands should be mrvoyed and parceled out Into small homesteads amo ig the soldiers and aeamen of the army and navy as a tribute to their valor, at a lit chastisement of the rebel chiefs, and especially aa the basis of democratio eqaali ty In these regions. Had the measure prevailed, coupled with the policy of con fixation, It would hive wrested from the rebel leaders from one-hslf to three-fourths of tha cultlvsted landa of ihe South, without disturbing the rights, of property of ma great toiy of their peopi, who wore never allowed byahe Southern Democracy to own lan J. The great esfstra of Thomp. son. Davis, Toombs, Wlgfall and other rebels would have been dNmembered, and a real democracy would hivohcen instill, ed upon their ruins, Insuring liberty, order and law, where the great lsndhold log rebels are now trampling the' home less poor under their feet, seriously threst enlng to plunge the nstlnn again Into the horrors of civil war. The bill passed Ihe House by a strong msjorlty, evsry afUrma live vote being Republican, and every negative vote. CI In all. being Democratio. It Is true, that this bill Involved other questlona besides that of the monopoly of Southern lands, and Ihe vote referred to proves the Domoinfilo party to have been four years ago what it la to.day, the ally and friend of rebels; hut It proves, slso, tho utter hvpoerlsy of the pretense now set up In the New York plstform of Dem oerstlo friendship for the landless poor. TUB HOMESTEAD röltcr. T come now to the homestead polioy. This will ever stsnd forth aa one of the great landmarka of nur political htatory. Aa I have often said, it haa done more to meke the American name .honored and loved among the Christian nations of the earth than any single aet of legislation slnco the dsya of Waahlngton. It ia at once an endnrln; monument of legislative wisdom and beneficence, and a crown of unfading honor to the Republican pajrt j which finally secured Its triumph. Rut what is the Demoerstlo record on this issue? The views of Gen. Jackson on the land question were in the highest degree credit able to his sagacity and patriotism; but he seems to have been utterly powerless to impress them upon the general mind of his party. The terrible evils of land speculation reached tbelr high tide under the Democratio administrations of Jsckson and Van Rnren. ' Thn-c most conversant with the subject have estimated that in the 1833 alone, shout eight millions of acres of the puMio" lands passed into the hands of speculators. Of course, the money thus invested wss withdrswn from praiseworthy enterprises, and the ordinary uses of commerce, and sunk In the forests of the West, which were allowed to yield no return. This system of legalized liodlftrdism.es I observed Isst winter in the House of Representatives, this nraoti cal inan?urstion among ua of the fundalism of the Old World, is the very elirasx of legislative madness. It cheats the poor settler, and by dooming vast tracts of fertile lands to barrenness, becomes 5 a fatal hinderance of agricultural wealth, .and to commerce and . manufactures which draw their life from Ihe soil. Instead of flourishing towns and villages smsll homesteads, and an independent yeomanry, with the attendant blessings of churches and free schools,, it consigns the fertile plains of the West to the tender mercies of the monopolist, whose greed alone ia his law. Instead of opeoing nor vacant lands to the atreams of emigration which would pour in from the old States, and thus augment our exports snd imports through increased production, it leaves the country a wilderness, or inhabited only by a miserably tenantry under the control of absentee landlords. ..Instead of the pioneer into the fatherly keeping of the Government, and stimulating spirit of adventure by the offer of a free home in the wilderness, it treats him as a virtual outcast, by driving him beyond the possessions cf the speculator, for whose interest he is compelled to toil. I need not dwelt on this subject hfore an intelligent Wstrn andi-nce, and X have Tally portrayed the direTuI eQVtcts of land ipcolation on other occasions; and I refer to them now for the purposs of reminding lha aaantry, and especially our fellow ciiisani of democratic descent, that these evils have found their eongenial home and national, shelter in the Democra'ie urgenisstion. Many long yeara ago would the country have bean aaved from fheir ravages, if the Democratio party bad wi'led it ' - i But I return now to tbe homestead polioy. I was ia the Congress of 1849, when the first homestead bill waa Introduced, and 1 feel quite sure that l ean count on the ends of ray fingen the Dem borate of both Houses who favored the measure. It was almost universally de

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nounced by the party aa a acheone of "Demagogien." of "Agrariaoisin," of "Free Soilism," and not even "Abolition - lam" 1 f 1 r w Mn.. V !.. T m T ... V .1 M .1 lam' itself waa more bitterly loathed and execrated. This waa logically inevitable.' The alave power owned the Democratio r tarty, body and soul, but the slave power Uelf could not live without the aristoora. fid toothold of large landed estates. ' A policy; therefore,, whioh reoogoiced the honorableneaa of toil, and the common and equal righta of the milliona on tbe lands of the Government, must of necessi ty be fatal to alavery, if sanctioned. The step once tsken could never be retrsced. This the lesders perfectly understood, and tha rank and file faithfully followed them. Repeated cflorta to carry tha homestead polioy were renewed during the Adminia trationa of Fierce and Duchanan, but In every instance, as lha Congressional reoord will ehow, they were defeated by Democra tio opposition. A homestead bill did finally prevail ia both Houses toward the close of the Thirty sixth Congress, a auf ficient number of the better clasa of Democrats joining the llepubltcana to accomplish the purpose, but the act wit vetoed by one James Duchanan, whose chosen bedfellows ware sucU men aa Davis, Floyd and Thompioti, and who gloried In wil lowing In Ihe mire of Demooritio depravity, while bending his cowardly back un der the lath of his Bouthirn drivers, just as often as tbey saw It to eomoiaod him. At last, under a ReputUonn adtomis(ration, the homestead law of 18G2 waa enacted; and the only honqr that can be accorded to the Democratio parly Is, thst Ita opposition, which was shown on the final vote fn both llottseir, had gradually grown smsllor and smaller, aa Ihe euprem aoy of alavery In Ihe Halted Statea continued to be threatened. Such Is the ugly and damaging record which history must write down against lha party, whose lead, eri at New York have added to their nth er sins that of tbe moat transparent dem sgoaiam Id dealing with tbe qoustlen of our publib laude. , , TUR eouTittnr MowrrraAD itu Hut the Democratio record on the home stead question does not end here. ' At Ihe close of the rebellion, there remained, in Ihe Ststesof Alabama, Mississippi, Louis lana, Arksnsss and 1-1 rida, ebont fortysix millions of acres of surveyed, unsold publio lands. Just as soon as the land of flees in these States could be got In running order, the whole of these landa would be lisble to be bought up In Isrge bodies by rebel speculators and monopolists. The men who hss secured so croel a monopoly of swsmp Isnds, and whose greed end ra pacity remained as untuned by iheir defeat as Iheir hstrcd of the negroes and their contempt for the poorwhitea, would, of eonrse, spsre no opportunity In the wsy of their further sggrandiseroent. One of tbe first duties of the 39th Congress therefore wss to desl with the prsotioal question thus presented, and a bill wss accordingly reported from the House Com mitice on Public Lands extending the Homestead law over these regions In eighty-acre allotments, and forbidding, absolutely, all further Bales. The effect of this would bo to dedicate to actual occupancy and tillage tha whole of these milliona of acres, in the Interest of the landless poor, black aad white, and in. tbe interest of the nation itself, through tbe iocrease of ita productive wealth. Dividing the aggregate of these lands by 80 will give 575.000 homesteads to that many heads of familice; and allowing each head of a family to represent, on an average, five persona, these landa would give homea and shelter to 2.875.000 people, who must else be Ihe mere supplicsnts for such favors ss a relentless lsnded aristocracy may aee fit to bestow.' If we suppose one half of these landa unfit for cultivation, there would still remain enough to aupply near. ly a million and a half of tha homeless poor in these States; and I think I am safe, therefore, in saying that of all the measures thst have been proposed in any quarter -looking to, the regeneration of these blasted regions, this may fairly bo regarded as one of ibe 'most beneficent and far reaching. It would lay the foun dations of a true democracy, and . a gen uine civiliiation, where the curses of chat tel . slavery on. the one hand, and wages slsverv on the other, hsve so long weilded their baleful power through the mono poly of the soil. -"It,woutd furni-h ,a Messed outlet through which the helpless poor could escape from the threatened suffocation and death, aod at tha same time point the way to other measures of relief, still more prophetic of a new heaven and a new earth in these latitudes, founded on. Ihe ruins of the past. The bill passed" the House, Ind in a modified form went through the Senate; and greatly to the general amazement it was signed by Andrew Johnson, who just at that time seems to hsve been "clothed and in his right mind," or, at least not quite so drunk as he had been on other occasions. Under this law, the poor of tbe South, whether white or black, are selecting their home steads, building tbeir cabins, putting up their fences, and thus shwly but surely hewing out their way to independence; while becoming the natural allien of the publio good. They have already reclaimed and aettled many thousands of acres, and their progress will be more and more rapid as tbe rebel element of the South shsll be subdued. The policy of the Isw has been, and doubtless will continue to be, obstructed; but it will be carried out; and just so far and ao fast as tbia aball be done, it will undermine the great landed aristocrscy which brought on the war, aod is now tbe only obstacle .to lasting peace. Gentlemen, what is the Democratio record oo this most righteous and perfectly unobjectionable, meaaure, proposing to savo forty six milliona, of acres , of land from ihe clutches of, rebel monopolists, and set then) apart in small, homesteads for productive wealth, aud aa .homes for the poor? . ...:, .. , . In tbo lIooe of Representatives, on the 7lh of 'February, 1866, Mr. Tahir, a

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Democrat from New York, moved so to i amend the bill aa to allow Ita benefits to 1 pardoned rebels, in common with loya I . n J I .a.i.....i!an . it. 1 f . M . men, and m contravention or tne uome stead law or Job.:, a tie yeas and naya were ordered on this motion, and result ed: yess, 37. all Democrats aava aix. and nays, 104, alt RrpulUcant. The next day, on tbe passsge of tbe bill, tbe yess and nsys were again order ed, and the Democrats having signally .. aaa aa . w railed to nave rebels included In III pro posed benefits, tne vote stood yeas, 112, all Republicans, and naya 24. all Demo crsts but two. What a beautiful aod blessed record for the party which resolvss in its Seymour plstform, "that tbe publio a a ti aaa'aa.sa.a aaa ianus snouid oe distributed, as wiueiy as possible, among the people, and ahouid be dispried of either under the pre-emption or homestead laws, or sold in reasonable quantities, and to cone but actual oeoopanta." If our Democratio leadere have not completely outlived all sense of hime, 1 hope I may be able to rekindle It by holding up this De moot a tio vote en the Southern Homeatead law as a comtoeo tiry on their New York resolution. LAND OnANTS TO BOUTUKRN RAILROADS. Genflemen, let me now follow the Dem ocratlc record one step further, for I da elre to expose the utter hollownesa and mockery of the National Democratio plat form respecting Ihe land policy of the United Sufes, I deem thli at once a pub lie duty and a paVlle service, and should reprnsch myself Were I to shrink from Its performance to the extent or my ability. In the year 1838, Congress granted to the Statea of Alabama, Mipaisslppl, Louii lana and Florida, land amounting in the aggregate to nearly five milliona of acres, to aid them In building sundry railroads, and gave them ten yeara within whloh to comply with the conditloni of the grant. These fllslff, not long afterward, crested corporations for the purpose of secsptlng lha grsnta snd performing the work as to( iiversl of the rosda, but little, In fset; was dona, prior to the breaking out of tha rebellion.' This event, of course, put a slop to all farther movements, but It did not excuse these corporations, for every one of Ihem, on the Initiation of civil war, promptly espoused the rebel cause, and contributed all their resources to the work of dismembering the Union. They sre therefore not only Inexcusable, but In common with the Hufes which crested ihem, are criminally recreant to their ob ligations, for they not only failed to perform their engagements, or oven to attempt it, but algnalixed their bad faith by treason. The expira'lon of these granta by limitation caused Ihe forfeiture of these landa to Ihe United States but without an act of Congres declaring the forfeiture. they most remain tied up In tbe banda of rebel corporations, and could not be made available for settlement by loysl men These Isnda are among the most fertile and deslrsble In the entire South. The New Orleans Opelousssand Great West erri Railroad Company alone holds to day, as a frightful monopoly, nearly a million of aerea, on which .the landless poor of Louisisna are sfihing for tbe privilege of securing homesteads. In other sections lha lsnda are, perhaps, still more valuable having been selected along tha lines of mere roada on paper, where no attempt haa been made to build them, and no pur pose to do so ever entertained. Kvery one csn comprehend the mischief of these lend grsnts, unaccompanied by any per formance of their condWInne, and aggravated by the treason both of the States and people intended to .be benefited by them. They pot only converted five millions of acres of choiee lands Into a wick ed monopoly, but hindered eettlemrnts on the corresponding even numbered Motions to sn equal amount., and, , to arme 'extent, on the landa.adjaccnt to the belt composing the old and even sections. That these monopolies should ba broken up, Independent of tho question of tbeir treasonable character, is most obviens. That multitudes of the landless por-r of these States are hungering and thirsting for the opportunity of acquiring hemes upon them, is perfectly well known. 'I bat the Southern homestead law should at once be extended, snd applied to them. In the Interest cf that class of people, is morally self-evident. That fire millions of acres would give homesteads of eighty acres each to aixty'two thousand five bun dred heads of families and support a pop ulaiton of threohundred and twelve thousand five hundred, is as true as arithmetic In the clear light of these facta, what was tbe duty of Congress? No loyal man will hesitate for an answer. It waa to wrest these landa from rebel monopolists, and extend over them the Homestead law of June 21, 18C0. I will feet under great obligations to any mst who will give me a single valid icison why this should not be done.- No such rein nn has been given, or an be given, ciiner in Congress or out of it. So believing, I introduced a bill of the cbsr ter indicated at the July aeaalon of Con gress. now over a year ago. It waa de bated at some length during the paat win ter, and finally passed the Hcuse, tbe Senate not having found time to consider it prior to tha lato adjournment. '' . Gentlemen, do you need that I ahouid tell you bow . the Democracy of the House recorded their votes? The reoord ia not now before me, but my distinct recolleotion is that while the raeasnre received the general support of the Republican aide of the House, it encountered the hostile voto of every Democrat who waa present. ' True, to the traitora of the South during the war, true to the vanquished rebels eince its close, and true to the. in fornal spirit of monopoly .end plunder, thia last act of gricelesa recreaney to justice and decency evinces a consistency and conrae-4' whioh find , no counterpart save in their insenaibilty to tbe elaima. of humanity and patriotism. , ; ii i TUR RKPÜBMRA! RRC0R1X Gentlemen, in this condenaed record of

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0aeafta7,(te lists,) see lasartUa ......ft Oaasqaars, ttlnartloi. ...... 1 e .aa so aar, Ibra trtto si ..... I All sikearjaeat raatrtieas, I YIaRLY. Oae eettraa, eaeageaM tartar!...- tl IC Tkraa-Mariars ef a eolafta M Sa 0s-balf ef a sols ma ...... .. SS ee Oat-aoarter er a (liBt,,,. X Ii Oae-elfktk ef a eoltaa e - aa ae tatses is er Traailtatedvertleesseata steal la el? eases 1 paUforla advaaee. TJalaae a aartlealar tits a Is spatllai wkee kaai. ad la. aSvattUamant III k. .-tell.VJ a-iU darea aal aad ehsrged aaoardiagty. - the action of our political opponsots on Ibe land question, you will observe that I have only referred, incidentally, to tie record of our own party. That is a s ab ject upon which I lave no tiase ta eater to day, lot which naturally suggests a far more pleasant teak than tbe one I bave been yerfurmiog. Let tne say, bowever, in the interests of frsakaese aad fair dealing, that 1 do pot bold tie Itepublican party wholly blameless in ita action upon the same question. Republicans joined bsnds with Democrats in the pssssge of ibe Agricultural Collide act of loG'J, the provisions of which au thorltiog Ihe issue of land scrip are exceedingly tultchievoua and cannot be de fended. 1 find, however, that of tbe twenty five men in ibe House of Rtnra. sentatlvea who recorded their votea against it, twenty were Republlcaaa. Repobli cam at will ai Democrats are likewise Id volved In tle frightful land tnooopolicacreated of late yeara by our most execra ble system of lodian treaties, which 1 have bad occasion to denounce la very expreaiive words In the House of llepre santatives. But lha worst of these trest les, which have generally been concocted teeret by a few select in levee, bste been most empbatically condemed, to gether with the system itself, by the low er branch or our Hrpubltran Congress; and In tbe Senate, I bullets tba only op position tuoy hava encountered baa coma root the Republican side of the cham ber, while Ibe leading champion of tba ale Usage treaty, by far lue most atroeioua of them all, wss Seoitor Dooliitle, of Wiseousln, who Is bow reeognlsed aa one of tbe ablest leiden of tbt Deroocrst. ie parly. Republicans are willing ta tare their own reoord, in searching out that of their foe; but if tbey were not, it would furnish no valid excuse for tbe deceitful and self-righteous pretensions of lha Dem ocratlc Itadtri wUioh 1 bave ibdtivorid to expose. RXCAmi'LATION. A M 1 an A eras In jai aa aal aa al aa as It 1 1 -a f awls jau to recall the language of this famous resolution, and the empty aod impudent strut with which it was fulminated in the ate National Convention, let me reoapit ulate the chief polata of Interest in tbia most dishonoring and soandaloua Demo. oratio reoord on tbe land question. I ask you to rtiuember, that the Democratic f ar t y Inaugurated the policy of landgrants o aid of canala and railroads, unguarded y any conditions looking to ihe molti. plication of bomesteada or the settlement aod productive wrslth of tbe sgil, thus cresting monstrous and rspsclous monopolies of the publio lauds, consigning (treat atretohea of territory In eolitude, and powerfully hindering the Industrial progresa and development of Ihe country. Re member that the weap land sysicm, torn of Domoci'ätio (oll, nirulc, lud pluudcr aod fruitful of evil everywhere, baa ten earfully ruinous m the toulh. It eat LI c new lite into tbe already alurmlog power of land monopoly; trampling dowu the Ights of the poor, and consolidating that teat aristocratic power, wboae madness . at last ripened Into the rebellion. Re member, that during th wir, when a mag ni fluent opportunity waa offored for breakDC up the gigsntlc power of landlordism in the Statea of the 8outh, and of laying the foundationa of republican liberty on the enduring granite of justice and tba qua! riuute ul man: the PemocraUe party purned it, and with alacrity, rushed into he embrace of the bloated eristocrsts; - whose creed baa aver been that "capital ahouid own labor." llemember, that tba Democratio party, over dominated by tba great Irnded power of the South iu the form of African alavery, baa been tba consistent and inflexible lue of the homestead policy, and has tbua branded itself as infidel to the rights or labor, falae to iti professed creed of equal rigbta for all men, and true only to its long cherished fellowship with aristocracy and privilege. temember, that two rears agd, when the proposition waa made in Coogrcas to res cue forty-six millions of acres of publio aoda in tbe bouth from tbe control of traitors, snd to carve them up into small homesteads for the loyal poor, thus mak ing an entering wedge to other measures promising tba cpmplete regeneration of society in that region, every Democrat iu tbe House of Kepreeentativea recorded his vote against it. Kemeoiber, finally, that only a few months fince. when tbe still mora palpably righteous preposition , waa mada to extend tbe homestead law over five million of acres of land, in tha rich valleys of the South and already ut der the control of rebel railroad companies, every Democrat in the House, true tothe evil gslua of bis. i-arty, voted in the merest ot Inese oompantea, tbua taoex log ihe fond hopea of thousands of the toiling poor, who looked to these lands aa a glad refuge in tbe weary conflict with hunger and want. - Thia, toy friends, i the Democratio record on tha land qa.eetion, iu brief words. Thia ia the biaiorical picture which 1 bold, "as assuror, upto nature,'.' and in tha light f which i impale the Democratio leaders oo the very plank they have plagiarized from the lie publicans. And thus, ia a word, bave I nailed to the pillory tbe hypocritical pre tenae of Democratio orthodoxy on tha land policy of the Government, and Deut oeratio sympathy for tho iandleu and laboring poor. The Preeidency. Seymour and ? Blair and nullification. "I propose to move-iiroedateTy upon your works. V. S. Grant. Hendricks says that Blair is generous. With ahirta? or lewous and wbieky? Dil lo Symoar!4I have troop enough to take eara of tha noV, and yoa too. A friend suggests that .the name of the Democratic candidate be spelled "Honlion C Moore." After NoTember neat ' hie friend will all epll it "Uj-ratU-Uo . Sir'huj'.re!".