Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-06-05
GM1SGELlAN
Remarks of Hon A. P Hayne, of S. c.,
on the Homestead Bill.


on the Homestead Bill.
In the Senate, Saturday, May 22, 1853,
the bill to grant any person who is the bead
of a family, and citizen of the Uuited
States, homestead of one hundred and
sixty acres of hand out of the public domain
upon condition Of occupancy and cultpa-
ton ofthc same.
Mr. llayne said : Mr. President, it is
not my intention to detain tho,Seuate; but
l-desirc to state fact or two. If it were
desirable that the Government of the Uni
ted States should give lands free of cost tn
the people, tho period for it would have
been immediately aftor the Revolutionary
War. ut that time | should have voted
Tor such measure; but now, sir, cannot
do otherwise than suStain the amendment
of my honorable friend from North Carroll
na. | entirely concur with him. say,
decidedly, that the whole system of giving
away the public land in my day has been
unjust in every respect. There has been
no equality; there has been no good sense;
there has been no fairness in the system
The truth is, sir, in this country, that n
man who cannot sustain himself is Il drono,
ne 10 not wululY -Prvvovoiuurin u uu1ruJrJ
whore oSerynan goos ahead who has any
strength OF will, or any frmncss, .or any
character. Measures like this, that give
your lands away, will destroy enterprise in
that class to which you give them. twill
make them drones in the human hive.
Why, sir, look at the effect of the system
you have pursued. Some time ago YOU
passed law giving bounty lands to the
officers and soldiers who had, in any
e tl,n. -, Il. ~. -. j Z
engaged. Why did You not pass similar
law for the officers and scamcn of the Navy?
What is the difference between them Are
not the sailors as much entitled to it?-
Look ut their conduct in the wurof 1872.
Sir, England would this day give $780,
OO0,0O0 If the Gucrrierc had conquered
the Constitution and if the Guerriere,had
conquered the Constitution, / believe all
our victories would have been lost; the ta-
bics would have bcenturncd, and we should
have exactly occupied the position England
did-beatcn, beaten, beaten everywhere.
object IN toto to the system of dona.
tions to the officers OF the Army and not to
the Navy. lIowdid you dispose of that,
land to the .ArWg2 There was no grada.
tiou in it; butjust the reverse A'drum-
mcrof'the regular Army or volunteer corps
was put upon.a footing with Major GcncTal
Scott--onc hundred and sixty. acres for
each. Lguard Senators not to act upom
principles of that kind. Rro public do.
main is valuable. You arc now suffering
Tor want OF money; or, rather, you are in
imaginary suffering, for our credit is as
high as it ever was, and it is as easy toLoot
money now as if Our tariff gave us an .ex-
cess; aud we ought to do whatever should
be done without any regard to. the present.
crisiss | shall vote for the amendment of
my friend from North Carolina. II. r..
Dr. w. I. HAMILTON. Prom the fol-
lowing extract it will 5bc seen that the Rev.
W.T.. Hamilton, who fell so sadly few
years ago has been restored to membership
in the Presbyterian Church by the Prcsby-
terans of South Alabama:
Gan application was received from Or.
w. T. Hamilton, formerly of.Mobile, pray
ing that the sentence Of suspension from
the membership of'the church resting ON
kim might,be removed ThisDosition, to-
gether with the certifcatcs'of eight ON minc,.
ministers and layinen, personally acquainted
With Dr. H., and now living in his neigh
borhood, clearly showed to all thejmemhers
OF Presbytery that no good reason exists
why the sentence of suspension should not
at once be removed from the applicant. -
Phe documents were read With the greatest
interest and every heart was filed With g9t-
itude to God for the innistakeabIc, eyi.
depce they Afforded of the prudeecs, Of
DIR. III. The whole matter was referred to
theJudicial COMMITTEES, whoat asubsequent
session. brought in report. recommending
the removal of tho sentence of .suspension
from DIR. H., and directing him to seek adj.
mission to the communion Of thc church,
where he might fudit most convenient
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