Meigs County Telegraph

We call the attention of our readers to the following, which we clip from the Indianapolis State Journal. It shows that Mr. Pierce has no more regard for the landless poor, than he has for the improvement of the Western rivers and harbors. We do not believe that the people of the West desire to be governed by the kind of policy the candidate of the Locofoce party has advocated all his life, and that they will signify their dissent most emphatically at the polls next November:—State Journal

Pierce and King against the Poor SETTLER.—We call public attention to the votes of Pierce and King, the Democratic candidates for President and Vice President of the United States, upon the following proposition for the benefit of the poor settler in the West, upon which the vote stood ayes 21 noes 23. [See Senate Journal, Jan. 14, 1839.] "And be it further enacted, that when any of the public lands of the United States have remained unsold for the space of fifteen years after the termination of the public sales, the same may be entered and purchased by actual settlers, on the following terms, to wit: If a settler is desirous to purchase for a residence eighty acres, he may enter and purchase the same at fifty cents per acre." No—Franklin Pierce, Wm. R. King! The votes of the Senators from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Michigan, and Tennessee, without regard to party, were given for this humane provision, which was defeated by the votes of Pierce and King and yet the poor man of the West is asked to vote for these men.