Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-04-06

grains of sand make the island. Congress ap-
propriates a few thousand dollars to tit out
ship to send to the frozen regions in search Of
Sir John Franklin. and no objection is made. In
short time another appropriation is made for
sending after Louis Kossuth, and if opposition is
expressed, humph! is the reply; if it was right
to spend money hunting Sir John, it certainly is
not wrong to send after Governor Louis. And
so we 60; one transgression Of the line of night
furnishes precedent for another, and these two
for another, until finally by mperceptible degrees,
we find that the national Legislature can furnish
a precedent for doing thousand things not one
of which can be sustained by the Constitution.
, One of the widest progressionists of the day
has actually introduced bill into Congress to
give every man in the Union home; another
has proposed to donate the public lands to the
State for the erection of the insane asylums;
and still another proposes to establish national
farm and workshop at Washington. The con-
scientious representative who has the honesty to
oppose those insdious aggressions, is rdiculed as
a crazy theorist, and jeered with the taunt of
fitting against windmills. And yet these things,
trhing though they appear are but different ex-
hibitions of precisely the same principle which
would plunder one-half of the country for the
emolument of the other and bankrupt the treas
ury with lavish expenditures for the purposes of
internal improvement. They are all the fruits of
federalism all indications of the Capitalization
of the government.
At this point, more than from all the seces-
sonists and nullifers in the in the country, is
publicanism in in danger. The doctrine OF State
sovereignty instead Of being an element Of dis
union and discord, is the only hope Of the Union
upon terms of equality and honor. A confede-
racy can only be maintained in its purity by
jealous watchfulness over the rights Of its men,
bers. No individual State, no particular section,
is interested in this doctrine If each recogni-
zes and each defends it, the Constitution and
the Union may-nay, must stand If it IS dis
carded, the Union may survive the Constitution
through few years, but sooner or later it must
share its destruction.-Columbus Ga. Sentinel.
LAND WARRANTs.-It has been we'll observed
that Congress having made Land Warrants as
signable, the act which was intended to be ex-
tensvely beneficial is likely to be defeated in its
design, at least to one class of benefciares, which
require in the greatest degree the benefits of its
operation. We allude to the widows of deceased
soldiers. The law requires, to sustain the claim
of widow, for bounty land, l. Proof Of mar
rage with the deceased soldier. q His death.
8. His service. But according to the construc-
ton of the statute by the Department ofthe In
terror, those points may be established satisfac-
torily, according to rational evidence, and the
widow fail to obtain her land. 1t not sufficient
that verbal testimony is offered to prove the mar
riage of the parties 1t is not deemed satisfac
tory that persons testify that they witnessed the
marriage of the parties-record evidence is re-
CURED, public or private. The parties applying
for bounty land must adduce a record of the
marriage in the family Bible. But not only this,
the party claiming must also prove that the en-
try was made at the time the marriage was ef-
fected.
1t has been said very properly, that in many
cases such record does not exist Of perfectly le-
gal marriages. The parties may be at distance
from the place where the marriage has been re-
corded in the Church or Parish Register, or the
Family Bible may have been lost The rejec-
ton of oral testimony would amount, in many
cases. to denial of the claim of the poor widow.
1t throws unnecessary and unreasonable discred-
it on the oaths Of parties whom it presupposes
would commit perjury to defraud the Govern
ment. If such principle Of evidence were es-
tablished as the rejection Of verbal proof how
many private claims that are granted by Con-
gress would receive attention? We hope that
the Department will modify this rule of inter
probation for an act of Congress which is intended
to be comprehensively beneficial.
1t has been we'll observed OF this subject that
while Congress is disposing of millions Of acres
of the public domain, in pursuit of the policy,
that every individual should possess a Home
stead-when gratuitous distribution Of land by
government for all corners and occupien, is the
order of the day-the poor widow, whose hus-
band has been, perhaps, killed or manned, in the
public SERVICE is hedged round with regulations,
attended with trouble and expense, which may
defeat her claim to miserable pttance of pub
lie land. Is there any thing like distributive
justice in land gratuites, without price or effort,
and modicum doled out, according to nicely
graduated terms of military service, and weigh
ed in nicely poised scales of proof-CAor. Eve.
News.
KEEP OUT OF DEBT-If there is any CALLING
slavery, it is being in debt. A man may be hon
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