Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-05-04
Some Of the Democratic journals are de-

Some of the Democratic journals are de-
handing that the resolution of the House OF
Representatives, appointing the "Covode In
yestigating Committee" should be erpanged
from the Journal the House. "Expunge,"
saws one of them, must be watch word
If an issue is to be made, let it be put in
the "platform" The Boston Courier which
has expressed its opinion fully against the
resolution, and denounced it as improper
and unjust vet does not hesitate, also, to
express the opinion that any erpuaging at
tempt will be met and resisted by every one
who desires to see the provisions of the
Constitution observed, and the authority of
Congress respected. AS the Courier OBJ
serves, 'sthe journal of the United States
Senate, we are sorry to know, furnishes a
precedent for this proposed unlawful multi
lation Of the public records. But q hun
dred such presidents can give no authority
for the act, because they can neither resclnd
nor explain away the express terms OF the
constitution by which the act of mutlatlon
be expunged, another part or the whole can
be. Should it become common for alterna-
| ting dominant parties to feed their revenge
by this ignuminious method OF stigmatislng
and repeating each others acts, it may hap
pen that an occasion will arise for some new
party to wipe out the whole record, and be-
gin new experiment of popular liberty"
The Washington correspondent of the New
Orleans Bulletin, gives another exposition OF
how Uncle Sam is swindled, in these mod
ern days, and of how the land goes! He
says
''Let me give you an instance how land
frauds can be and are practised. Congress
gave quarter section (l60 acres) to each
soldier or volunteer who actually served in
the war of 1912, the proof of service being
his name on the pay roll of the army Or the
| volunteer corps actually in service. A bill
was subsequently introduced and passed,
authorizing verbal testimony of service as
it was assured that there were few, very
few, hard cases, where parties had served,
but whose names could not be found on the
rolls. Eight thousand men, regulars and
when Sir George Provost and the British
army were repulsed in September, 1874, all
the real survivors of which, whose names
were on the rolls. of course, received their
100 acres each, but under the law authorz-
ing oral testimony, the Land Office has &C
tually issued twenty-seven thousand land
warrants to the survivors, every man and
mothers son of whom has proved III the
most satisfactory manner that he was at this
battle, Twenty-seven thousand survivors
of eight thousand men after an interval of
more than forty years! The fact has been
stated to me personally by the present Sec
rotary of the Interior.
The declaration of Forney, through the
Philadelphia Press, that he will support no
nominee Of the Charleston Convention, ex-
cept Douglas, probably speaks the determi-
nation of large portion Of Douglass friends
at the North and West. If they cannot get
Douglas, it is more than probable, that they
will vote for the Black Republican candi-
date.
The Washington Constitution exults over
the recent municipal election in Philadel-
phia, and calls it a Democratic triumph J"
The opposition majority is not as large as it
was last year-and much smaller than it was
few years ago. Henry, the mayor, who is
reelected, is said to be an Abolitionist, and,
therefore, we wish he could have been
Quite not almost, defeated.
The Washington Constitution says ''that
it seems that the same republican handlttl
who stood at the door of the Thirty-lourth
Congress levying black-mail upon all appli-
cants for legislation, have transferred them
selves to the doors of the republican legiSla-
ture of New York, and during the past SEES
sion have exacted contributions from all who
approached the chambers of that body"
The "Seceders" from the Charleston Con-
vention, incorporated into their Platform a
Pacific Railroad plank-which, according
to orthodox belief, in the Democratic party in
Virginia, at least, is almost as bad rs ''pro-
tective tariff" or national bank" How
ever, it makes no difference.
International cricket matches-interna-
ton chess matches-nternationa billiard
matches, to say nothing of international
prize fights, are the humbugs of the day
They all go to give chances principally to
gamblers and rowdies.
Charles County, Maryland, Court, COM
mences it's spring term at Port Tobacco, on
Monday next, the 9TH instant-his honor
Judge Grain, presiding. The Craufurd case
will come up on the second Tuesday of the
Court, being the 18th instant.
We have received Il copy of the Valley
Tan, of the Goth Of February, published at
Great Salt Lake City, Utah--and certainly,
from the cclor Of the paper on which it is
printcd-it appears to be rightly named
The Charleston Mercury contends that
under the recent decision of the State Courts
in South Carolina, with regard to the slave
trade, the "Act of 1920 is pretty much a
dead letter"
In consequence of the illness of Judge
Brockenbrough, the May term of the U. 5.