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only excepted. Mr. Grow s amendment thus became 

 part of the bill ; but when the vote on the bill itself 

 came to be taken, 91 Republicans voted for it, while 

 the whole body of slaveholders, with their Xorthern 

 allies, 95 in number, went against it. Only two 

 members from the Slave States voted for the bill, 

 Mr. Blair, of Missouri, and Mr. &quot;Winter Davis of 

 Maryland, who represented the free-labor interests 

 of Baltimore. 



In February, the Homestead Bill was voted on in 

 the House, and was passed by 120 to 76, only three 

 Southern members voting for it. The bill was killed 

 in the Senate by smothering it, all but five of the 

 Southern Senators going against it. It was then 

 abandoned for the session. In both Houses of Con 

 gress the Republicans had gone solid for it, while 

 the slaveholders and their allies had so unanimously 

 opposed it as to insure its defeat. 



In I860, another Homestead Bill was introduced 

 into the House by the Republicans, and was passed 

 by 115, all from the Free States but one, to 65 against 

 it, all from the Slave States but one, and he a 

 Pennsylvania!!. When this bill went into the 

 Senate, it was superseded by a substitute, which the 

 House subsequently accepted, with slight amend 

 ments, the Republicans as usual voting for free 

 homes, and the slaveholders and their allies opposing 

 them. This took place in June. But Buchanan, 

 then President, and the feeble and truculent tool of 

 the slaveholders, vetoed the beneficent enactment, 

 and once more it fell to the ground. 



But undismayed by these reverses, the friends of 



