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the race, or ihe fight ? : Will it iba tihe second ?-. It will be that, or worse : and where' will the late flatterers the present revilers of Mr. Riddle the authors equal ly oihe Bank that is ruined, and of the one that is to be created where will they find better men to manage the next than they had to manage the last ? I lemember the time when the vocabulary of praise was exhausted on Mr. Bidiile when in thU chamber, and out of it, the cencer, heaped with incense, was constantly kept burning under his no9e when to hint reproach of lam was to make, if not the thousand chi valric swords leap from their scabbards at least to make a thousand tongues, and ten thousand pens, start up to defend him. I remember the time when a Senator on this lloor, and now on it, fr. Preston, de clared in his place that the bare annuncia tion of Mr. Btddle's name as Secretary of the 'I reasury would, raise the value of -the national property one hundred millions of dollars. " My. friend here on the right (pointing to Senator Woodbury) was then the Secretary of the Treasury, and a mere Substitution of the name of one for the oth er was to be worth one hundred millions of dollars to the country? What flattery could rise higher than that ? Yet this man, once so lauded once so followed, flatter ed and loved now lies condemned by all liis former friends. They cannot denounce sufficiently the man whom once they could not praise enough; and, after this, what confidence are we to have in their judg ments? What confidence arc we to place in their neiv bank, and its new managers, after seeing such mistakes about the former? Let it not be said that the Bank went to ruin since it became a State institution. The State charter made no difference in its character," or in its management; and Mr. Biddle declared it to be stronger and safer -without the United Slates for a partner than wiih them. The mortal wounds were ell given to it while it was a national insti tution; and the late report of the stockhol ders shows not one species of offence, the cotton speculations alone excepted, which ' was not shown by Mr. Clayton's report of 1832; and being shown was then defended by the whole power of those who are now cutting loose from the old Bank, and clam oring for a 2w one. Not an act now brought to light, save and except the cot ion operation, not even that for which Reu ben M, Whitney was crushed to death, and liis name constituted the syttonyme of per jury and infamy for having told it; not an act now brought to light which was not shown to exist ten years ago, and which was not then defended by the whole Feder al party; so that the pretension that this in stitution did well as a National Bank, and ill as a State one, is as unfounded in fact, as it is preposterous and absurd in idea. The Bunk was in the high road to ruin in the gulf of insolvency in the slough of crime and corruption when the patriot Jackson signed the veto, and ordered the removal of the deposites; and nothing but these two great acts saved the people from the loss of iIjc forty millions of dollars which have now falien upon the' stockhol ders and the note holder?, and from the shame of seeing their Government the slave and instrument of the Bank. Jackson sav ed the people from this loss, and their Go vernment from this degradation; and for tliis he is now pursued with the undying vengeance of those whose schemes of plun der and ambition were balked by him. Wise and prudent was the conduct of those who refused to recharter the second Bank of the United States. They profited by the error of their friends who refused to recharter the first one. These latter made no pretentions for the event did nothing to increase the constitutional cur rency and did not even act until the last moment. The renewed charter was only refused a few days before the expiration of the existing charter, and the rederal iio vernment fell back upon the State banks, which immediately sunk under its weight. The men of 1832 acted very differently. They decided the question of the renewal long before the expiration of the existing charter. 1 hey revived the gold currency which had bepp. extinct lor thirty years. They increased tfie silver currency by re nealinfr the act of 1810 against the drco lalion of foreign silver. They branched the mints. In a word they raised the spe cie currency from twenty millions to near one hundred millions of dollars; and thus supplied the country with a constitutional currency to take the place of the U. S.ates Bank noies. The supply was adequate, being nearly ten times the average circula- ' tion of (he National Bank. Thai average circulation was but eleven millions of dol lars; the gold and silver was near one hun dred millions. The success of our mea sures was complete. The country wps happy and prosperous under it; but the ar chitects of mischief the political, gam- bling, and rotten part of the banks, headed by the Bank of the United States, and aid ed by a political party, set to work to make panic and distress, to make suspensions and revulsions, to destroy trade and busin ess, to degrade and poison the currency ; to harass the country until it would give them another National Bank; and to charge all the mischief they created upon the De mocratic Administration. This lias been their conduct; and having succeeded in the last f residential election, they now come forward to seize the spoils of victory in creating another National Bank, to devour " thesubstanee of the people, and to rule the Government of their country. Sir, the suspension of 1837, on the pan of the Bank of the United States and its confederate banks and politicians, was a conspiracy ' and a revolt against the Government. The present suspension is a constitution of the lame revolt by the same parties. Many good banks are overpowered by them, and forced into suspension;' hut with the Bank of the United States, it affiliated bank and its confederate politicians, it is a rovolt and a conspiracy against the Government. Sir, it is now nightfall. We are at the end of a long day when the sun is more than fourteen hours above the horizon, and when a suffocating heat oppresses and over powers the Senate. My friends have mo ved adjournments: they have been refused. I have been compelled to speak now, or never, and from this commencement we may see the conclusion. , Discussion is to be stifled; measures are to driven through; and a mutilated Congress, hastily assem bled, imperfectly formed, and representing the census of 1830, not of 1810, is to man" acle posterity with institutions which are as abhorrent to the Constitution as they are dangerous to ihe liberties, the morals, and the property of the people. A Nation al Bank is to be established, not even a simple and strong bank like that of Gener al Hamilton. . mil sumo (. pound, born of hell and chaos, more odi ous, dangerous, and terrible than any sim ple bank could be. Posterity is to be ma nacled, and delivered up in chains to this deformed monster; and by whom ? By a rump Congress, representing an expired census of the people, in the absence of members from States which, if they had their' members here, would still have but the one third part of their proper weight in the councils of the Union. The census of 1840 gives many States, and Missouri among the rest, three times their present relative weight; and no permanent measure ought to be discussed until this new rela tive weight should appear at Congress. Why take the census every ten years if an expiring representation at the end of the term may reach over, and bind the increas ed numbers by laws which claim immunity from repeal, and which are rushed through without debate ? Am I to submit to such work? No, never! I will war against the Bank you iliay establish, whether a simple or a compound monster; 1 will war against it by every means known to the Constitution and the laws. I will vote for the repeal of its charier, as General Harri son and others voted for the repeal of the late Bank charter in 1819. I will promote quo warrantors and sci.fas. against it. I will oppose its friends and support Us en emies, and work at its destruction in every legal and constitutional way. I will war upon it while I have breath; and if 1 incur political extinction in the contest, I shall consider my political life well sold sold for a high price when lost in such a cause. But enough for the prespnt. The ques tion now before us is the death of the Sub Treasury. The discussion of the substi tute is a fair inquiry in this question. We have a right to see what is to follow, and to compare it with what we have. But gentlemen withhold their schemes, -and u?p strike ill the dark. My present purpose is to vindicate the Independent Treasury system ip free it from a false character to show it to be what it is nothing but the revival of the two great acts of Septem ber the 1st and September the 2d, 1789, for the collection, safe keeping, and dis bursement of the public moneys, under which this Government went into opera tion; and under which it operated safely and successfully until General Hamilton overthrew it to substitute the BAN Iv and STATE system of Sir Robert Walpole. which has been the curse of England, and towards which we are now hurrying again with headlong steps and blindfold eyes. The question was at length obtained up on the bill, and it was passed by the folio w vote: YEAS Messrs. Archer, Barrow, Bates, Bayard, Berrien, Choate, Clay of Ken lucky, Clayton, Dixon, Evans, Henderson, Huntington, Ker, Mangum, Merrick, Mil ler, Morehead, Phelps, Porter, Prentiss, Preston, Hives, Simmons, Smith of .Indi ana, Southard, Tallmadge, White, and Woodbridge 29, NAYS Messrs. Allen, Benton, Cal houn, Clay of Alabama, Fulton, King, Mc- Roberts; Nicholson, Pierce, Sevier, Smith of Connecticut, Sturgeon, Tappan Walker, Williams, Woodbury, W right anil Young 18. And then the Senate adjourned. From the Globe, of June 24, 1841. CON G R ESS lO N A L ANA LYSIS. SENATE. Mr. Buchanan's resolution, asking in formation in regard to the removals and appointments made by the new . Adminis tration, was taken up in the morning hour. Several attempts had been made before to get the resolution passed, and the call sent to the Departments, but obstacles were in terposed to an inquiry, always passed before, as matter of course. Mr. Mangum objected a few davs since, that what had been done as yet in the way of removals, was but a preface to the volume that was to follow, and that it would be well to wait until the voluminous list was compiled be fore the inauirv was pressed. If we un derstood Mr. Mangum rightly, he intimated that ihe Departments were too much busied at this time to answer the call. 1 hey are then, we suppose, so busy, in cutting off heads, that they cannot take time to make a list of them. This was pretty much the case during the French revolution. The tribunals were so much engaged in passing upon new cases of proscription, that the lists for execution were full of mistakes. There were many instances of persons or dered to be liberated, who had perished days before by the guillotine, in conse quenoe of wrong lists being sent to the prisons. And our new cabinet are, seems so intent on executing, tlrat their friends in the Senate are instructed that it is not convenient now to furnish lists of the executed for the information of Congress u.ud ihe country. ;'.. . Mr Buchanan urged his . motion this morning with earnestness. ' We shail by his remarks before our readers to-morrow. ' - Mr. MeRoberts followed up the discus sion, and exhibited the great importance which the subject had attained in the public consideration from the new principles broached in relation to it. He alluded to the remarkable inconsistency which distin guished the constitutional principles laid down by the men now in power, before the election, and those now practised upon by them, lie brought before the Senate the extraordinary edict put forth by Mr. Web ster, in which the exercise of the political rights guarantied by the Constitution was made a political crime, punishable by for feiture ol office; and in this way a political lest established by the bare order of a Secretary of State, which the legislation of - - I 1 . ..QI U i on the contrary had absolutely repudia ted. Mr. McRoberls exposed, with great force, the utter repugnance of this edict to the spirit and letter of the Constitution. He brought up the Alien and Sedition laws, and compared ihe principle in those despot ic acts of legislation with that now pro mulgated and enforced by the edict from the Stale Department. He showed that, the crimes declared in those odious laws al leged something of criminality to give the semblance of justice, to the punishment they inflicted; but the edict of the Secreta ry visited punishment upon the mere exer cise of the unquestionably legitimate rights appertaining to every citizen. He contrasted the mode of proceeding under the sedition law, where there was a judge and jury, an indictment, a hearing, a confronting of ihe accused with the accu sers and witnesses; and the mode of giving effect to the late edict, where ihere was no trial, but the work accomplished under the secret intelligence given by unseen inform ers to a party tribunal, and the death war rant of lite officer signed by the Secretary, was the first notice of his inculpation'. Mr. MeRoberts was proceeding with an elaborate investigation of this enormity when his speech was arrested by the arrival of the hour to take up the order of the day. This was the bill chartering a Fiscal Bank of the United States. Mr. Clay oc cupied more than an hour setting forth the beauties of the new National Bank. After he had concluded this supplement as he called it) to his report, Mr. Calhoun moved that it be laid over until to-morrow, that members might have time to consider the new bill, which had been laid upon the in ble but the day before, and the supplement al views just delivered in regard to it, by the chairman of the commitie. Mr. Clay peremptorily declined granline the accom modation of the few hours requested to ex amine the details of r.u all absorbing mea sure, or to ueitoerate upon tne sugges tion which he had just thrown out in con nection with it. Mr. Buchanan than ap pealed to him, and reminded him of the courtesy and indulgence which had always been extended to him and his friends, when in the minority, when similar grave sub tects were under discussion, li'iesiions, we know, had been frequently postponed, not for hours nor days, but from week to we"ek, to accommodate Mr. Clay and his associates in their course in regard to the measures of the then Administration. Mr Clay bluntly and peremptorily refused his consent to a moment s delav. Mr. uuc hanan appealed to the other Federal Sena tors, and said he was confident they would not insist upon so unusual a course. Mr. King of Al barna said that during his long experience of the practice of the Senate, he had never seen any thing like the course which was now taken. A long, complicated bill, proposing a measure of the greatest importance, was laid upon the tables of the Senators but the day before. and they were to be driven into the discus sion of it, without having an opportunity to examine its scope, much less its details. Mr. King appealed to tho liberal among those to whom he was opposed, to set their face against such procedure. Mr. Clay persisted, and when the vote wa3 about to be taken by a count, expecting that the feeling of his political friends would not support him, he resolved lo put the party screws to them by a call of the yeas and nays. Such was ihe repugnance of the most decided advocate ot a bank to the harshness of the proceeding, on which he so passionately insisted, that he could only obtain tho vote of 12 to sustiir. him. Tho Fiscal Bink bill was then laid over, and a warm and interesting debate followed on the provision for General Harrison's family, of tweniy-fire thousand dollars. The discussion was one which drew out very enlarged and comprehensive views touching the tendency of the measure and the principles involved in it. We will give it in full hereafter. The bill passed lo a third reading. THE HOUSE. The House met at 10 o'clock agreeable to adjournment. Alter prayers, and ihe reading of the journal, the House proceeded to business. The resolution offered yesterday by Mr. Randolph of New Jersey was ordered lo be printed. An act making appropriations for the present session of Congress was reported by the Committee on Enrolled Bills, and dulv signed by the Speaker. Petitions were then called for, beginning with Iowa. When Massachusetts was called, Mr. Adams, as usual, disburdened his ponderous pocket of sundry petiiious, praying for ihe abolishment of slavery in the States nd I erruones. A petition pray ing for interference, in foreign slavery was referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Mr. 'Fillmore,' from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill authoriz ing a loan o! 4:12,000,000: read twice and referred lo the Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Cushing commenced a speech tipon coast surveys, in support of his resolution offered yesterday, and laid over, under the rules.. He said Mr. Hassle.- was charged with endeavoring to make himself so im portant to the United States by his myste rious instruments and tnari;ti!ations, as to rendpr his discharge from duty impossible. That he concealed and protracted his work. and that he was paid a per diem pay in stead of a salary. If it cost $10,000,000 to survey a base line of two hundred miles, how much, said Mr. C. will it cost to sur vey the Atlantic seaboard ? Mr. Holmes of South Carolina defended Mr. II ussier, and accused Mr. dishing of was .Uoatinjf vn MrittxriL his resolution of inquiry. He asked if this was generous if it was just. Mr. Everett of Vermont followed; but it was doubtful whether he was speaking to those in the basement story or to those in the Hall. He was understood, however. to defend trigonometry and Mr. Hassler. Mr. Wise moved to lay the resolution on the table. Mr. Cushing called the yeas and nays; and thev were ordered. . The call for the yeas and nays was now withdrawn, and the resolution was adopted- Mr. W. C. Johnson, from the Commit tee on Public Lands, reported, by unani mous consent, a bill to distribute the neil proceeds of the public lands, and to gram pre-emption rights. .- Read twice, referred to the Committee of the Whole House, and ordered to be printed. A plan for a Fiscal Agent was received from ihe Treasury Department, and refer red to the Select Committee on ihe Cur rency. . Mr. Wimhrop of Massachusetts offered a resolution instructing the Committee on the Library to procure important foreign State papers, and have them bound and pla ced in the Library. Mr. Wimhrop defended his resolution. Mr. Cave Johnson wished lo have the resolution referred to the Committee on the Library. Mr. Koosevelt ot New i ork called up his resolution on the subject of a bankrupt Uw to include incorporations; and, upon this resolution, he made some very just re marks in relation to the credit system. He went at Urge into the system of exchanges He considered that all parlies required the measure he recommended to be adopted. Mr. Roosevelt was extremely clear in bis argument, nnd modest in bis manner. His speech will be given at length hereaf ter, and will be read with interest. Mr. Barnard of New York, who cannot bear lo have a rival on the floor, now en deavored to ridicule his colleague. He said he had a mania against corporations accused him of offering his resolution for the purpose of making a speech upon it and thanked him for having done so, for he presumed he could not go back without having made one speech against corpora tions. Mr. Roosevelt replied in a strain of caus tic irony that burned to the bone. He re torted upon Mr. B. with great politeness, and showed conclusively that the faulty find the most fault. He said if the gen tleman saw himself as others beheld him. he would not make such eternal, speeches upon every, question, and, aboveall, he would not print them afier ihey were made. He hinted that Mr. Barnard had oflVred a resolution lo appoint a select committee upon the currency, for the express purpose of being appointed chairman of that com mittee, and thas be enabled to ushei into existence, wiih all us unborn glory, his celebrated Bank bill. Mr. Davis of New York now commen ced a speech, and was proreeding to exhort the majority to be polite to the minority, and dtbate questions fully and fairly, when he was called to order. Afte.- several in effectual attempts to conclude in order, he sat down, but not until after Mr. Ward of New York had requested that his colleague might be permitted to proceed, as the House had no business before it, and might as well do thai as any thing else. Mr. Barnard now explained, and made a lauie defence for his uncalled for attack upon Mr. Roosevelt. When he had fin ished Mr. B. renewed his motion to lay the resolution upon the table. Another gag, said Mr. Roosevelt. Read ! read ! cried many voice?. The resolution was then read ; the mo tion to lay it upon the table was withdrawn, and ihc resolution was adopted without a count. Mr. Floyd's resolution respecting Mr. Webster's interference in the McLeod case, now came up. Mr. Floyd explained his resolution in full, and showed that the Secretary of Slatb and the Governor of Canada seemed to undersiand each other very well in this case. His remarks will be given in the regular proceedings. Mr. Ingersoll moved to amend ihe reso lution by inserting the words, "and the Attorney General of the United Slates;" which Mr. Floyd accepted. Mr. I. then made one of the most pat riotic speeches that have been made in Congress for years, and proved conclusive ly that the present Secreiary of Siate had succumbed to Great Britain in his letter to Mr. Fox. enclosing the instructions to the Attorney General, Mr. I. compared Washington's views after the French Revolution, with Mr. low. "Jlt'also cpmparrd ajswerito'Greai Britain,' Webster's views Mr. Monroe's wiih Mr. Webspr's ailsver, and showed that we had degeurated inspirit, and.. had suffered our stars o becorre dim before the growl of a Lion As. Wlen Mr. Ingersoll had finished; Mr 'Alton made a speech. He approved of oth what Mr. Forsyth and Mr. Webster ad done, and discovered at last that Mr.W. was an out and out Slate Rights mJn. Mr. Alford's speech was a little stumjy.but it went off without much labor. Ill is easily satisfied if Mr. Webster's patriiism pleases him, and if he is so pleasedj let him enjoy himself it will soon be solitary enjoyment Mr. Cushing went into a long de fence of ihe beauty and the purity of Mr. Webster's stvle. t When a man leaves the subject for the style the kernel for the shell there must be something rotten-in Denmark something worm-eaten some where. Mr. C. spoke until about 3 o'clock. and gave way, when the House, on motion ualtfAftoii adjourned Friday, June 25, 1841. After the presentation of petitions this morning, Mr. .iWcKooeri resumeu anu con cluded his argument on Mr. Buchanan resolution calling for ihe list of removals. Mr. Calhoun asked permission ol the Senate to say a word in regard lo a collat eral topic introduced yesterday. When the bill to charter a National Bank was ta ken up, Mr. Clay had said substantially that the Bank party was stronger in the Union lhan the Whig parly; that a great many Democrats were openly for it, and many more were in their hearts for it, who did not proclaim it. Mr. Calhoun replied, that in the South, the 6tate of the case was directly the reverse of this. Thai many of the part' in favor of the Adminisiratiou were opposed to the Bank, and ihe States Rights Democratic parly were almost tint versally against it. ..Mr. Mangum contro verted this statement for Nonh Carolina, and slated the Whig pany were almost without exception for the Bank, and that at least half the Democrats united with them in opinion on the Bank question. Mr. Calhoun, on the authority of a form er Governor of North Carolina; and a Sen ator from the State, who had very general recent information in regard to the state of opinion in North Carolina, said the Senator Mr. Mangum was mistaken in supposing that the Bank xvas stronger than the rede ral party, by the addition of one half of the Democratic parly. On the contrary, Mr. Calhoun's information warranted him in saying that there were more of the Federal party in North Carolina against the Bank than there were Democrats for it. These statements made by Mr. Calhoun were con troverted by both the Senators from North Carolina. Mr. Calhoun, recurring to the conversa tion of yesterday, said that he had received , information strongly corroborating Ins opin ions expressed yesterday, as to the state of public opinion in North Carolina about the Bank. He referred to the fact that the question had been directly made m ine Congressional District in which the two Se nators resided; and he understood that the Representative elected, put the issue upon that of Bank or no Bank. He received a large majority of votes. Mr. Calhoun also referred to the fact that Governor Dudley, who wa3 elevated to the office by a very large majority of Whig votes, and might be considered as the popular Representative of ihe party in North Carolina, had repro bated in the strongest terms, in his message to the Legislature at the meeting of 1840, the establishment of a National Bank. Mr. Calhoun had the passage read from the message. We think it hardly probable that Governor Dudley would have gone out of his way in a Slate message to touch Fede ral politics, and to attack a National Bank, if lie had not been well aware that , this course would be acceptable to his political friends in North Carolina, and calculated lo advance their objects, by conciliating strength in ihe State, lo aid their general effort to clutch the power of the Federal Government. Messrs. Mangum and Gra ham, however, still insisted on their state ment of yesterday. We should rejoice if the question of Bank or no Bank were a ain left to the decision of the people. When such a revolution in the Government is proposed, al.who would wish that the popular will should guide it, ought to refer the new constitution of things to the decis ion of the polls or the Slates, as was the case when the Convention submitted the plan of Government under which we live, to the judgment and adoption of the coun try. The bi'l giving Mrs. Harrison twenty five thousand dollars, was further debated to-day on the third reading. Brief speech es were made by several Senators on both sides of the chamber. The discussion was an exceedingly able and pregnant one. We think it will be of vast importance in the progress of the Government, when the dangerous precedent now nut, shall be ur ged to open the way to ihe assimilation of our pension system to that which now pre vails in Great Britain. Under this impres sion, we shall endeavor to get ihe reported speeches revised, and made as perfect as possible. The bill passed with bixteen or seventeen negatives. I here were several absentees. Immediaiely after the passage of this bill, and ihe adoption of ihe resolution of the House for another funeral procession with President Harrison s remains to the limits of ihe . District, Mr. Clay's Bank of the United States charter began its actual progress by the first real reudinz of it by the Secretary. It a mark th:s circumstance, for there seems to be something of fuaeral and i!l. boding augury attending every step of 'the- ' new dynasty, ami ioresiiauowiiiS u io ic i - U their principal men and measures. "8 have poiuted to a multitude of instances be fore, but a fact which is now only" ascer tained carries back the mind to the period of their occurrence, to .add another to the list of omen. The steamship which bore Ihe name of the President, in honor of tho a u.i.t.ii ne MnVistrate which bore the first despatches and . Inaugural Address of the President which bore the celebra ted clergyman who first, after the inaugura tion, in the discharge of his official duties, called down the blessings 'of Heaven on the new Administration, has been swallowed up in the great deep, and it may'be, that, on the very day that President Harrison breathed his last, ihe President went down in the bosom of the deep. The same month .pn:iinlv ended the career of both. We have marked these various singular coinci dences tntrelv as facts, but we do not yield to the superstitious feeling to which they aive birth. We cannot. However, rtiram this Mnrle Frt l I7 the day on which the resolution passed, order ing ihe disinterment of Gen. Harrison re mains tne uay on wnicn tne nrti oiu pas sed that ever granted a civil pension on the British system, tnday the day on which ihe new funeral solemnities were or dered, is also the day on which "a charter for a fifty million National Bank was first read to the American senate. THE HOUSE. The House met at 10, agreeable to ad journment. ; Alier prayers, and the reading f the journal, petitions were ctilled lor from Stales and Territories. Mr. Adams, from the select committee appointed to con sider the subject of the removnl of the re mains of Gen. Harrison, reported the fol lowing resolutions: . -. , . liesolced. That on Saturday next the remains of Win. Henry Harrison, late Pre sident of ihe United S ates, be removed. under the superintendence of a 'committee of boih Houses of Congrese, from ihe Con gressional Burial Ground, and accompanied by such committee, and the delegation from Ohio, to the line of the District of Colum bia. liesolced, That when the two Houses adjourn, they adjourn to Monday next. A memorial from sundry inhabitants of Fauquier coumy, praying for ihe renewal of the charters of certain bai ks in the city of Alexandria was presented and referred lo the Committee on the District of Colum bia. Reports from committees, standing and select, were called in order, but no oue au swered. ' Mr. Cushing of Massacbnsells then com menced his argument ii defence of Daniel Webster, and having slept upon it had of course dreamed of something new to say in his favor, and said it very well indeed. A little monotonous to be sure, but still in a manner scholastic and Cambridgical. Af ter defending Mr. Crittenden and endeav oring to prove that the bieast of the Secre tary of State was the only pure place where patriotism and dignity delighted to dwell. he closed with an eulogy upon American liberty and constitutional right. The read ing of the resolution was now called for. It was read accordingly. Mr. Wise then arose in support of Daniel Webster and John Tyler. He said you could not attack one without attacking the other." - Mr. Wise thought ihe resolution ill limed and calculated to embarrass the Executive in his diplomatic intercourse with England. He would not go behind Daniel Hebster acts or John Tyler's acts. He said Mr. Webster had acted wiih dignity in the mat- n-r. He had peremptorily refused to obey the peremptory demand of England, and had then told her that justice could not be airesieo. 4"vir weoster reltised to violate Slate rights, and send McLeod to West minster Hall. W hen Mr. Fox made a bow to the President, and said England burnt ihe Caroline, England killed her crew- Mr. Webster, in spirit, said "England did it ah, now I understand you McLeod then did not do it we take you at your word; we will not make war as a Govern ment, longer upon McLeod; we will hold England responsible." Our courts must decide in the cause of McLeod. He had confidence in Mr. Webster's American head and American heart; and if he would act in every case as he did in the McLeod case, he would find no fault; Mr. Tillinghast now wished to make a speech; but, as the morning hour had past, Mr. W. C. Johnson called for the nnfin ished business on the docket. He moved that the House resolve itself into Commit tee of the Whole on ihe state of the Union. The motion of Mr. Johnson prevailed, and the House resolved itself into Com mittee of the Whole, Mr. Lawrence of Pennsylvania in the chair. Mr. Johnson moved ihal the Committee take up the House bill No. 4. providing for ihe distribution of the revenue of public lands, and to grant pre-emptions. . The bill having been read through by section. Mr. Johnson commenced a speech full of fact and figures. He did not go for the as-, Mimp'ion of Siate debts but was ' for. the bill. Mr. Johnson endeavored t show that ihe deed of cession of ihe pi'ili lands was passed wiih a view to the distribution of the land revenue among the States of the Union. ; : ,v;t; The Senate now returned the bill maUn a donation for the relief of ihe widow of the late President of the United Siates with an amendment, viz: to charge the widow witn what had been paid the representa tives of the President since his dath." On motion of Mr. Adams, the amend ment was read and concurred in. V -'. Mr. Johnson continued at gr?3t length but his voice failing him, - ' '
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