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' . ': ! ji1- ' !' - i - ;' ".'! r , ,..- 'I i ' i , "1 .? i 1 1 ! f 5? i. I .1 A t - I. i I! 'St ir -3. i ' t . k. .i I: J '- - 4 U- 1; M -i - ' ,"l il .!. 1 111 " Li:!' RELIEF OF IltEL Was letting Sneccli ski Ian .-;'- 1 t ?-w in vain I the young; andhthe old dying wq- men- and children stretch out their hands to uf for bread, and: fintjl no rtdieft Will no: this great city, the vvorld's storehouse of 'ian rxhaustless supply, of all kinds of foowUwrne to its overflowing ware-nouses Shall! starving Ird- 'If Clay.-h very large meeting St held at Ncr Orleans .on Friday f ve Ja5r, lor the purpose of taking measures -i :..e ..r tn4Ar'inT Ireland, i; Gofer- r . . rr- .riot- ; S Pren-! cnsi4n m a manner worthy of its es were made by Ilenry CM), fc. b. If en j thc nob!e impulse Governor Johnson ana omers. r run. me i. w. - ' ketch of the speech of Mr. Clay i I It - ? -' ' ffiingmg no light j whatever,! tysd havsing about ' ' - ' r t.t '.to. urj:. as mur.n conqeciion Mfsn laio-!,!, f .ihc press as it has .witlj jho pricje ofjcpftpnlj jmiigniftcd. into: ft nffpat rttietiiin rif nnncfnle. hveriharhiwi big all uthersi in the magnitude 'of the! issues m Finally, thel meeting "gM nd of" hh grave IQUpSTION OF PUIYILEGE. ' Wo copy from the report of ; the Dultithoro -American !lho following" account ;of the debate si. in .reference to which, took place in the U. States Senate, on the resolutions of Mr. Yulec, ! ' i ' -I . ! the editors! of, the Union"": . i j f MR. CLAY'S SPEECH. ! f Mr. Clay having been invited by tinv iand oney thc nonte :imp i tion ot the generous hearts of its blessed inhabitants ( ; C() ,y Mr. V.. um PmnmnmlHil hV the Common clarinfr that 1 Saviour of Ireland .ancFp! us, io love one character so grave and momentous as to ren- printer and an editor. He was himself brought he 14 committee of arrang. mrnfs to attenu meeting, took a scat nrar the Goycrrior. l-An .irthuiastic. loud, and apparently i II for him was made! by the Audience, and slowly rising from his seat, I lie approached the foot, of thc platfo'm ;t nnd addressed the meeting nearly as ful- 4 lows: .;..-.! , i tjf jlr. Pnsi dcnl and Fellow- Citizen-- hesitated to accent the invitation hwhijch has brought me here ; being a mere fjo fjourner and not a member of this commu nity. I doubted the propriety of my prp fBenco hiid participation in the proceedings ot this meeting, aifd apprehended tfmt njy motive miirht' be misunderstood. But dn consulling my pillow, and considering thrt -the humanliy of the object of this assenj Idyjs bounded by no latitude nor locality, bnd, ought to be co-extensive with thp Uhole human family it seemed to m,e hat all considerations of lastidious del -rac" Rn(l etiquette should be waived an 1 ' merged in a generous and magnanimous effort to contribnte to the relief of the su fefings which have excited our feeling, jf !i should be misconceived or misrepre scntcd, the experience of a long life ha UitJghi me ttiat llie best response to mis i conception and misrepresentation is thf Airless and niithml discharge xd duty, in nil Jhe conditions ol life in which we may tito placed ; and the best answer to traduc tion and calumny, is conscious rectitude und the approbation of ones own heart. pv P'cxirftitt If we were to hear that larrc numbers of the inhabitants of Asia, or 'Africa, or Australia, or the remotest Dnrt of the clobe, were daily dying with hunger and famine- no matter what their color, what their religion, or vhat their civilization we should deeply lament -"i ' 1 1 ' ' i . '.ii ' !..: : . : i i . . . L. ' . incir conuiuon, anu ie n resisuoiy prompt e(Jif possilde, to mitigate their sufferings. IfUt ,it is not the distresses of any such, dis tant regions that have summoned uS to- ge-ther.on lliisoccasionj .The appalling unci heart-rending listresses of Ireland nnw Irishmen form the oliject of our pre se'tj't consultation. That Ireland, which h.18 been in all tho, vicissitudes ot our, na tibial existence, our'friend, and has ever expended to us her warmest sympathy llrose Irishmen, who; in every wyr in which wio; have been engaged, i on every battle field, from Quebec to Monterey, have stood! by us, shoulder to shoulder, and shared in all the perils and fortunes of the conflict. lhe imploring appeal comes to us from tuc Irish nation, wtitch is so identified withj oorown as to Ijq almost part and parcel! Odours, bone of our bone and flesh of ourj flesh.1 Nor is it any ordinary case of hu-i man misery, or a lew isolated 'cases of death by starvation, that we are called upon to consider, pamine is stalking a broad throughout Ireland ; whole, towns, . counties countless human beings, of ev4 VU bw uhu oi uoin sexes at tnis very moracni are starving, or in danger of star Vlng to death tor bread ! Of all thR formd of ! dissolution of human life, the panes anu agony oi mat. winch proceeds frorri r ' - lamine are most dreadlu . If another as ourselves; jftnd on this, toge i der it unfit loijmere papy action ajid I Ke retire : up to the profession, and even iiter leaving: it therkvith one higher obligationrbang all referring thprrj to a cofnmit.tee pi twejntv, tojbe ' for another, ho had ever since, frornjoclination, been. more or less connected wjth the press. 4o Senator upon the floor, no man in the cnun the law and prophets of our holyeligiom appointed by the chajrapdl to consist iofjan he ! v t;, thai of all the forms of human- I eqUil1 number jof b.th political parties, with In I stnictions to report to a MEE TIiVG OFTHE trv. was a better friend to the iibertr of lhe i.i i ..i'nl'iinf'. nonfi IS mnrp nrrfln. I SiniCllons I tablJ in the sifrht of God. than the prac- I PEOPLE, to be held at tho Capitol, on Satur- : press than himself but he would hold no man a he opinion dis- I I f ..-.1.1 : i ur ir?trijiu" ih:ai. UUKSUMillll" l(J lice of CHiiniy. -u-i ua uciuuiisirnie uur ! .1 . A 1 . si :t I i.. n,l nniiHwi- IT; that this is a question u which al lOVf.MUl Villi f. wi t,l flllllllll l llllil) ! . , 'If ' .11 1 Lfriir,,;, , .1 v i ( Unctions, growing out of ordinary measures of n lifipr.il. contribution to tho. relifrt ot 0 . : .T T J . . i ! . ? i n, u-i 1 , governmental policy, must ot neceasilvl be merff- Ilia Oilin o ..-. . ... orl va hi,.lr I it n rirrhf Hod .ml mt Fel I o w-C i t i ze ns N o brdi na ry pur pose has brought us together. This is no poli tical gathering, jf it had been you would not hltve seen me hcre--I have not come to majke a speech. When the heart is AiU ajid agitated by its own feeling emo tions, j the paralyzed tongue finds utter ance diflicult. It is not fervid eloquence, not gilded words, that Ireland needs but substantial food. Let us rise to the mag nitude! of the duty which is before us, and to lhe resolutions of Mr. Grejenhow but God :; fbrbid that we should be induced to entertain ' that opinion by such considerations las; those which were urged in debate by Mr.: Daniel, of Prince George ! It is because the question in- ; volved in the Vilmot jjroviso? is of iparamobnt importance, trahscendiilg all others lathe mag- ! nitudo of.lt s possible consequences, that; we kre j in favor of the vmted kcTioir of the feoutheruJ people upon it-and not because it is (of subor. dinale interest to that ireallyj trivial question, j which seemed to swell nto such monstrous pro. portion, as the ;indi;rnait eloquence of .Messrs. true friend of the press who would not unite with him iii repressing its licentiousness." Mr. V. then recapitulated numerous instan ces in which the iSenate and Ibtiso of Repre'. sentatives had been libelled hi the Union. Among ihem he noticed an article, in the Union of September, 1846, copied from lhe Richmond Enquirer and endorsed by the Union, which amounted to a charge that members jof Con gress had been bribed by Mr. Causten, the agent for a large number of the claimants, to vote for the passage of lhe French Spoliation Bill. j . -j In regard to the article in the Union of the 9th inst., signed " Vindicator" which had gitf. en rjse to the resolution now before the Senate, ho had heard its authorship attributed to rari. ous sources. Some believed that the author ! by a generous supply from the magnitude 01 our, means, evince (Fb- ' . Mayo, Daniel, McMulleh and Denoon pdurtray. was some disappointed aspirant for military life, .cordial if v of our sympathy and commiser- ; L 1 ! -V- ir v ,i .u..u. XL i.:n .. . V , ' 7 ed its enormity 1 ation.; ; M . j About 10 o'clock, the meeting, disemharrass- At the conclusicn of Mr. Clay's speech, i' ed by the reference of Mr. Green ho w!s resoli- J ions, took up the sutyect for tne consideration of which it had Ibeen convened, Mri Daniel, of P. G. submitted a preamble and resolution, setting forth in strong lan;uage, the danger to the "lilerty of the press," consequentaipon the withdrawal from the editors of lhe Union of the courtesy of occupying a privileged seat in the Senate Chamber though the inhere statement of thc case is. the most powerful refutation of lhe ludicrous assumption) which it condemns in unnualified terms. As soon as they were one Joud and unanimous shout of approval was raised. in which officers and audience participated. who thought the bill defeated and his hone crushed, and wished to make himself accepta ble to the Administration to secure some other favor. Mr. W. entertained no such be. lief. He believed, firmly and trulv believed. Froia tL Rflfigh Register of February I G, 1S47. ' ; -I LI'rTER FROM THE EDITOR. ;' : S I. J I -j Washixctox, Feb. 12,1810. '.; I arrired here on Tuesday night, at 0 oVlock, and soon foufid that my visit was most oppor tunely timed, lhe present week, being the ab- l he Hotels are fiieulty, that sin- accommodated. On tho evening of my arrival, a great meeting n ai hel4 n the Odd Fellow' Saloon, for the re. lief of Ireland! The Vice-President. Mr. Dal. las; presided, land a series of Resolutions, and 11!'. t-..-j" ji 1 t an AUdress, weie tuumiuea ana aaopiea, ex pressive pf lhp sympathy of this country for the starving '"poor j of Ireland. . The meeting was addressed by several gentlemen, whose names I did not learn, and most eloquently by Messrs. TVe&sterjahd Crittenden. There were proha. bly 1,000 persons present, and the greatest em thusiasm? prevailed. Mr. Crittenden 1 is a most brilliant Speaker, and well deserves all the eu logiuras that have been passed upon him. 1 On -Wednesday morning, I found myself borne forward by arj irresistible thing to tho Senate Chamber, which is now the great theatre of at. traction-j-that body, having uuder consideration, a. Hill giving(three millions of dollars to the President, to negotiate a Peace (as it is said,) with Mexico. On being introduced to the Se nate Chamber, I found Mr. Badger, on the floor, engaged jn one of those incidental discussions, which sol frequently spring up, and which arc calculated), better than any regular debate, to develop and brog oat his extraordinary powers as a Speaker, j Before I ascertained who was speakingjl saw from the fixed attention of Se nators, that some one, 44 lorn listening Senates to command' was on the floor. I was, of course, greatly gratified to recognize a familiar voice and a fanjiliar form. The cause of his rising was this 'i Mr Yulce of Florida, (a Democrat. ic Senator,) had moved a Resolution to expel Fronj the Richmond Whig of the 18th instant. NDIGNANION MEETING. In the Enquirer of Tuesday morning, a no. scarcely yet, is it one lighting gloriously, for his country, be. is ctieereU, in his expiring moments, by thf pntriotic nature of hissacrifice. He knowk tnat his surviving relations and friend k i'hilo lamenting his loss, will be gratified mul honored by his devotion to his country. 1 oets, painters, sculptors, historians- will tice apparen, inviting the ." Deinocralic citi zens of Richmond, Members of the Legislature, ami sojourners, to meet op that evening, in the Hall of lhe House of Delegates. Thp otyeet of the meeting was not stated- but it was gen- erally supposed that it was called for the pur- j pose of jcondemning and denouncing the action j of the Senate of the United Sjtat.cs, in relation to the insulting libel upon that: body, whicji re. eentfy appeared in the columns of the Wash in'Mon Union a libel so utterly indefensible in itscharcler that NOT ONE fven of the pen- aiors wlo vitlcd against the resolution depriv- , ing the ditors of that piper of lhe courtesy of a seat wlithin. the Senate Chamber, dared to sanction; or approve; it, but wbich they all con demn, either by unqualified denunciation or a mild censure 01 11s autnor,or oy a silence less expressive and emphatic. And not strange, that gentlemen who affect so much" reverence for the freedom of the press, : have not a word to say ot its wanton licentious ness, tlfe most efficient agentof its subversion, if it eveij shall be subverted ?s lis it -not surpris ing that they have no word of censure for the liold attempt to lash honorable; Senators into a craven Surrender even of constitutional opin ion: at. the behest of the Executive ? But 1 t us return to the proceedings of this meeting of which we were ani interested spec tator. I . As soion as it had been organized, by calling John Rijitherford, of this city, to the Chair, and appointing Mr. William R. Drinkard, of Peters burg, Secretary, Mr. Washington Greenhow rose, anid after announcing that information had been received, that the notorious Wiltnot provi- so, s insulting, and so wantonly aggressive up ' on the tights and safety of the; South, had leen engrafted by the House of Representatives, on the Three Million Bill, by a vrtte of 115 to 105, presented a series of admirably drawn resolu tions, strongly denunciatory of that measure, which he urged the meeting (the first ..that had assembled since the information had been re- .i- i ' ceivedj to adopt. He remarked that, not hav oraiive ot it. Mr. W. then went into the question " what is democracy ?" and said at this time of day, read, Mr. Harvie, of Amelia, proposed their re. under this Administration, democracy was no that it was a pdrt and parcel of a pre-concer- the Editoi of the - Union" and his Reporter, ted attack of the Administration itself upon the J from the $enate, for a libel on the Senate, and distinguished Senator from South Carolina. ' unfair Reports pf its proceedings. Some Se. Every thing which had occurred proved this, j nator objected to its reception, whereupon the The assault; of the Senator from Tennessee Vice-President said, the Resolution must lie (Mr. Turney) yesterday was strougly corrob-4 over for a day. Mr. Badger took an appeal j from this pecision of the Chair, on the ground j that it wafr a question of privilege, and did not iviuc -vymuiii mo orumary ruie, requiring iveso lutions to lie over, unless entertained by unani mous conienf. Ho exposed, in an argument1, as profound as his eloquence was fervid, tho consequences of maintaining such a decision, and showed, by various forcible illustrations, that tho decision of the Chair was wholly, un tenable. We saw that conviction had fastened upon the minds of the Senate, but just as the vote was about to be taken, the hour for the special order, and Mr. Cass took the floor, upon the 83,000,000 hill. This gentleman has been so long in public life, that fe expected to be edified at least, by his Speech if not convinced. But we must say, and we do it with a just appreciation of what is due to truth, that we did not hear during lhe j late Session of our State Legislature, a regular Speech, which did not exceed it in positive a- bility. When during the heat of a political Contest, some tluec years since, a wag asserted j that lhe character of Mr. Cass could only be j appropriately designated by dropping the initial 't C from his name, we thought that truth had been j sacrificed .to a bon mot. We will not now say i that the assertion is true ; but we will say, that we never heard -a more disconnected, erratic, ' contradictory Speech in our life. But one word of Representatives and fbr what?; Was it i too deeply upon both parties, and there was ,. jn the English language, will convey our idea ference to a coiiimittee of five--remarking that it was probalile ; a committee might put them in a shape which would ienab! him to vote for lhtm, which, in their present form, he could not do. This remark was greeted: with a; shout of derision, and a seeming attempt to prevent his being heard; but Mr. Hjarvie; t once Hold the meeting that he was notjto bo silenced by such means and he proceeded iii an able and lucid manner, to demonstrate that the freedom of the press was i:i no manner j involved in the action of the Senate, h might indeed, be a question whether the otTf'nce was jof so grave a! charac ter as to call for this exercise, of its power but the power itself was bndpufned, and might, on suitable occasions, bp rightfully exercised. The attempt to identify it with the Sedition law was absurd and ridiculous. No law had been thing more than the "loaves and fishes" yesj the loaves and fishes from a Lieutenant Gen eral to a Second Lieutenant General. Mr. W. said he supposed that for what he was now saying, he would be Sread out by the Democratic party of office holders! Well, let them read him out. lie did not want to re main in such company. But like his honora ble friend from Massachusetts, he would have to say, " where shall I go ?" Ho could only say to his honorable friends behind him, (the Whigs,) that he cotdd not go with them. Mr. W. warned thc democracy of the Union against the dangers which beset them. If they could only see the corruption which had been brought about by this administration could only see how they were made use of by those who were seeking only plunder plunder of the arc to I-- "i ! to-morrov.; 1! Mr. Corwi:: t ' pulation f r t.! lips fur eU annunci.it .1 i ual for an i ... : tence rivrit l : leries, ai;;e-c! tire.Iy'crowiV.! afraid to br dropping fr;:i known ibro -! tcin, the un;: have been tv t: to-day. It ircl v. triumph cf e! ; all the elftr.cr.' inrrctire, dicp ; patriotism, ici:. ment, Ik! J ten and such- r!, q command; b it t . divinity within t ele, had woi hr .1 1 Tom Coriciii,. -pensate ui f.-r l, our trip. sWe mount of w!) any other Sj He is, en ; Ii never malccs carried higl; lory. it; TI1E CAR 1 ! v., al i FRIDAY CV i:.n passed or proposed, abridging the freedoni of public offices, they votjld view it with aston- the press and the editors of live Union are as free and untrammelled ndw as they were before they were deprived of thje privilege heTetofire extended to thorn. Mr. II. referred, viih great emphasis and effect, to tfie factj, that at It he last session of Congress, th reporters of the New York Tribune had been expelled bv the House ishment and alarm. They would come, here, and tumble the President, Heads of Depart ments, Senate, and House Whigs and Demo crats heels over head into the Potomac, and serve them right too. He did not believe that the elevation of thq Whigs to power would cure tho evil. Corruption had laid its fanirs fir an imputation of treason against a majority no remedy for the evil, but the creation of a lf its members? No; but simply because, in third party, a pure, old fashioned Democratic one of his letters, he hajl held, up one of them j party, who would discard plunder in all its to ridicule, by stating that it was his habit, at a : shapes. certain hour ot the day5, to retire behind the I Mr. Mason, of Va., said he should vote a- Speaker's chair to feast on S dies ages II Who, ! gainst the expulsion of thc editors' because it then, complained that the sacred 'rights 'of of the honorable Senator, and that word is HumwugJ He is emphatically firo bushels of wind, compressed itito a bushel bag. His chief theme of ; declamation, was the glory and great. ness of America, and the only reason which he adduced why she is so great, was that she is so 1 i 1 . 1 1 u . :.i t 1 1 ! I . tri . : ' t m - press nad oeen invaded f Wno proclamied that a blow had been aimed at its freedom? In the ; entrenched upon the liberty of the Press, and ; proud. While she retained her pride, he said, tied : interferred with the constitutional power which she was invulnerable. As the honorable Se. tional po said that "Congress should pass no law a like manner, when Robertson:: the editor of the i bridii'mff the freedom of the press." This res Washington Times, had; charged certain Sena tors, pending the discussion of the. Oregon ques tion, with a crime akin to that which has been recently imputed, to them by th article in the Washington Union ofsijrren(eririglhemselves to foreign influence, and of '"fighting the battles ing been behind the scenes, and the notice !f! I 't:. 'If I 1 .II.J 1 ! . .1 wn1cn3.11 was caueu uavmji neen stieiu on uie subject, he did not know certainly for what pur pose this meeting had been convened but, ; whatever might have been that purpose, the j subject introduced by himself, touching as it : does the most vital interests of the South, was ' 1 rf infinite! v rrrn t r r inn Tn!l nr! nnrt imnnrlnnn.! i ,..,1 1 o . , . i :;r"v-v r. . ...,.?.......- ....v. . jvyiu msoeeus 01 vaior anu perpetuate , The consideration of these resolutions was blSenown. If he dies by thc sudden ex- opposed by several gentlemen all of whom ex - blosition of the boilers of a steamboat, 4r pressed their concurrence in the sentiments ! 'y a storm at sea, death is quiet and easy, ; they Jo forcibly embodied among them Messrs. aild soon performs its mission. A few 1 Wallace, of Fauquier, Robert G. Scott, Philip lrcing shrieks are uttered, ho sinks b- ! Myf und S. D. Denoon, oft His city, Mr. Mc ;ieath the surface, and all is still and si- Mullen, of Scott, and Mr. Daniel, of Prince ilent, But a death bv istarvntinn inmrl : Cicofge first, on the ground of their irrelevan- ;ho lingering, and excruciating VrnL 1 W ; land econdly,4ccause it was not a party A. . w. - . -.. .l 1. 4. I 1.1 topic, anu ougtti noi 10 ne ensiuereu mereiore ina;mere party meeting. Their consideration and jadoption were eloquently lurged by the mo-. ver,!jand by Messrs. Caskie and Gib's, of this city! Anderson, of Pi ince ; Edward, Tazewell Taylor, of Norfolk, and others. Mr. Goodson moved to lay them upon the table; which,! ! after a long and spicy debate, in which the line j of i'lvision between the different 44 stripes," to ' use. an expressive term. was ; broadly marked, was negatived by a vole of 5G to G'2, amidst scenes ot extraordinary disorder and confusion JltftV In In,. V.a .. .. 0 . in- 1 . J o Miuvm-w victim leels iJIesti dwindling, bis soiwb c oi m i' s s Mifrienda falling i.mm.i vm.. ...1 l. j?' . '"exnires 10 tirr;ti r . . uenoiu tne ...!! . ... I mot tier with hazjrafd wretched Irish and streaming ves bor r.. .u'Li jf ji children clinging to hef tattered garments ! i' i ' IW Cozing piteously in her face -beii 1 )- lor food I Andseeihrtibstrnoto,! i.k.iI 1 ijinnd father, . With pallid cheeks, standing H IiV: lirtrrnr nn.l .l....i I . i ! . AP ii, v ,4,MJ ur.-sjMur iiepictcu in his i rninilpntinnu in.i I .1 rt J . li''L . 1 11 . . . n 1 1. . .L-iuini w nil tne retlectibn r sna" not pretend to 2ivc a sketch from me- . vm..iuiu iiu succor or re let to ,n' r- v 01 the leadimr points ot this inter- j : .! . - . .1. ...... I . 1 C7. 1 ine uenrf st niiipfM C sii im.. 1 .... . esiim riunwcinn ... . r..: r. H ' tho .fan ... - r I . . ... vwjtrv.i.- wi ujs neari. anont tn , -vs u'. uut we k be snatched forever from him bv tb, ,Lt 'cing the emphatic declaration of the mem. ft . . ------ T BVy llliyOL , : j cruet ot al deth f Tl.lc ; "r.. L '-er Irom P "lure; but. if Ve Tn in n ' i:. , Ui ! Pant accounts which reach us from that theja-1 trc of misery and Vretchedness. iiomJof : daily occurence. Indeed, no irnagiimtibn canconceive-notongue express-ho pin- Cll namt thft hnrrnN f tl .1 . . ---w wvVllvTd 11IITI1 II II 1 If H Mil 1 111 O ff A c t II .! -j . lire tticro iii f..Tl,;i.;.i -V" cotuess that we V' 1 ; " ' creuueriy astounded by the annunciation of j " Ireland, in respectto food, is difiren lv a !ent,inent and w ere disposed to at- wtuatfd from all the countries ofthri world , !" " Vh wa. f malurB r'fl?ct" d sAiahas her abundanllv cum,! Jlf ? r t the suddt:n '"itetnent nf debate, and pre lAlrieii hnr rtrit..., . J , U IL r,(le 1 sumed that he would himself vol ker h c, J of S " ve ' 'C1;; ' a1"-' 1 "' . Mx, p. M of he Z. Ti a .toubl! ?,;,Ae- V ' f&M .umis com. olutiou was an amendment of the Constitution. Mr. M. said he was among those included in the denunciations of the paper, for he had voted not to recede so as to give the President pow er to make appointments in the recess of thc senate. ; IV' of the enemy of their country pn the Legisla- j i his vote was defended, and after that Mr. j r - live floor he was promptly arraigned, tried and Mason returned to the subject of expulsion. expelled, by the ;uxaI5Iols Tote of that body.He admitted that his Inend, the editor ot the Who, then, comjdaiiJed that the freedom of the j Union, had committed a fault, but it was a fault press had been attacked V Ir.jllarvie's re- growing out a want of discretion in regard to murks wereunatiswerc4 becalusle they)were un- the admission of the article. He regarded the answerable. As soon fis heisUt down, the Se- resolution as having a close resemblance to the nator from Scotti demanded tjie! previous qucs- I alien and sedition law as abridging the free tion, which was promptly ordered and the mo- j dom ol the pres. He could not vote for it. tion to refer having been first rejected, the pre- i Mr. J. M. Clayton continued the debate in a amble and resolution were adopted some. fif- ' pointed speech in answer to Mr. Mason. He teen or twenty voices, afwelVas we could judge ; was sorry that the first time the Senator from by the sound, voting against .them ! ! Virginia had raised his voice in this body, it And so ended lhe evening a entertainment. should have been in defence ot Executive pow We presume) that " indignation . meetings " j er. How could the Senator come to the con will be held throughout the country, arid es- elusion that the withdrawal of an editor from pecially in Virginia, where Mr. Ritchie has the floor of the body was an abridgement ot the many warm personal friends even among his ! freedom of speech? It was more so than the political opponents, and is personally respected removal of a man from a gentleman's parlor and esteemed.! ) Viewing lhe question through , who had been guilty of an insult to the gentle a medium colored by these feelings of regard, ) man or his family. their sympathies will bj; naturally excited in his j Mr. Pearce, of Md-, made a pointed and el behalf, Hut that ihey pan succeed in impress- oquent speech in reply to -Mr. Mason. He iti(T tmnn A .ihA mondrmu said that the Senate were enactinz no alien that any attempt has been made to infringe his rights or to trammel the freedom of discussion, is too preposterous for bejief.i Congress has passedno law abridging tho freedom of the press nor will it qver do sd, while tho history of the condemnation that was so Justly visited iipon the authors of the famous?' Sedition Law, is even dimly remembered. To compare this case with and sedition law, and inflicting no punishment. They neither proposed to take from his person al liberty nor money by fine. All that the Senate proposed was to remove from the pres ence of the body the hated person of a man who had libeled the body. Mr. Yu'ee continued the debate in part re- ply to his colleague and in defence of the ex- she was invulnerable nator was constantly quoting, or rather mis quoting Scripture, 'wonder this passage, in con nection with his subject, did not occur to him " Pride goeth before destruction, and a havghty spirit before a fall." On Thursday morning, we reached the Se nate Chamber at an early hour, being premon ished that' Mr. Gortrin, of Ohio, had the floor, on the special order, viz: the Three Million bill. The Senate meets at 12 o'clock, but at 11. every avenue to the Chamber was crowded with Ladies and Gentlemen. As the hands of the clock indicated the arrival of the hour of meeting at -that -very precise point of time the Chaplain took the ice President's place, and commenced his Prayer, there not being i more than 30 Senators present, of whom about i 2G were Whigs. The Journal having been read, the first ques. ; tion was, that adjourned from yesterday, on Mr. ! Badger's appeal from the decision of the Vice ' President, declaring that Mr. Yulec's Resolu tion should lie over. The Vice President (who is almost an exact likeness of Mr. Jefferson, as represented in the pictures of the day,) arose, ' adjusted his spectacles and in the blandest tones possible, said, that with the permission of , the Senate, he would state his reasons for the ; decision which he had made. He then went ; into an elaborate disquisition on Parliamentary law, arid we must do him the justice to say, that he spoke exceedingly well, and we greatly fear ed that the decision of the Chair would be sus tained because we, have long been conversant with Legislative bodies, and know how difficult it is to reverse the decision of a Presiding Ofii- $ome think it an act of discourtesy to vote CTWe are au !. TER, as a cinjl J.-!: . Tisioo, North Cz 1. resigned. ' J OCT V C 1'C ) ! . naLnn articlr 1. na Regiment." i i ' the same fpifit scrupulous niui, ; Carolina Stabdat and Legislature, propriatioa aVul our Regimeiit : not.our purpose r even in its gnet .1 jects. A single r Clay's views "as t , the war, claims It asserts thai Mr. j j brought on by " I J What kind of v. ; that Mr. Claras ; on by. Mcxiep ? ' j aimed atl It; is i". make a witness c f Whigs in this: m v': sident Polfc. !Xc :'. unjust to tbatMi : . ny that Mr. qiay: ' tence Which by a: of such a con.vJr:: : and we should li'.! us the time, pla; that Mr. ClaVl i sentence fell rc.n Tlie C6nlr$i(i twecn Mr. a.:.. Commercial hi: 1 ceivcstheconVpit ten tion ofthellal bad indication f hr Commercial, Nvc : t mies prai.se u?, x- our conduct, fiu I liccs.--F or ocr c but litllejatti iiti :: litical gentlcfnc a to read the pap : ed this rnatter, :.i Mr. Lor ing. THE AMKK: cer. against Lady'i a?d Cc;:11 i We have tec ry handsoma Mf. published atj 101, delpbin, by jlc.1 : vis, Te'rms 81 . The primary ob; check he alar: rince ticorge, fMr. Daniel.l that, im- as lhe rrreat subiet to wliieli M r. Careen. h(fwN resolutions referrt-d mbdu he a subject Mvolvmg the .safely as well as the rights of" the ' Sf'u'b yet the principle involved in Thf anion j of lhe Senate towards the Editors of the Union ; Vas, in his opinion, of equal if not greater mam. i iiiiuue ana that, however shows an incapacitv for discrim- ' pulsion ination between things! wholly dissimilar, which Mr.' Butler of S. C. was disposed to compro. would be discreditable to a child seven years mise the qtiestion by referring the ofience and old, and would justly subject. him to a switching the oflender to a committee. He did not know from his tutor. The attempt to confound them hut the editor was an officer of this body, and is one of the ''arts of able Editors." who hooes. if he was. by the crv of persecution, to earn a matvr's body. He inst any decision of the Chair, because it j evJ of !lntempt ! . ms to impugn the character of the Presiding! . !f i.,!,. ;. i . i tins ik ucliui i i iceri Uut, as soon as the ice rresiuent reward, without the slightest hazard of incurr ing the martyr's dooml. he h?ld him to be amenable to the would inquire as to the lacis ana give the offender an opportunity to apologise. , Mr. Hannegan was not ready to adopt the . resolution, though he held in contempt and in- ; ! dignatton the author of the libel upon tho Sen ate. - Mr. Bright replied to Mr. Westcott. Mr. Calhoun made a startling speech in fa- ,of Indian Corn,hal prcat u..a. Iueror which we arrVrW J1, graieiui enou-h tn :r.,i ZJ. lr,,ra y U,R nemler from Prince Geerge ! I ne one, he said, was a mere mipstw.n of nni- j pertythe oiher was a question afTecling our lul lrovii!.nr mi merct-fr""-. ".'nifni Ana what, be asked, s uLir- t staple! food! of! 'a comparison with ,h0se riirhts ? So ""r""i poor Ir.l,.H.t : .uJ . Circumseriheil ia il. Jr. uL. and vh.M. t fi ll.- W14 ""1 P"l", - . "Z I. T IT genueman I tn. (Yd. ;V:M' filing want and H m- T. IV. - - '. " nmong thr The Additional Military Fo,rcc.l is stated that the Wnr Department, under the Ten Regiment kct. will except seven I companies from New York and three from yor of atru hberty of lhe press as distinguish New Jersey, making one regiment for j ed Vomits bcentiousness. I these two Stales, ffrdm Rh6tellland,one 1 1, navTtheln XTlt Idt ... I, i 1 i ! . ! tlie yeas and nays were then taken, anu me eoj- company ; Maine, three ; ISewamphire, j tor0f lhe Unicm-exielled from thc floor of the two ; Connecticut, two ; and ermont, two; Senate chamber, yeas 27 nays 21. or one regiment from A ewLhgland. From I t Maryland, ) tour cjom'pifni'esl j' peleiware. : one. hio seems Officer; was seated, Mr. Badger rose and said that no one could suppose for a moment, that his course had been dictated by a want of proper respect for the President of that body. He disagreed with hitn with great diffidence, but believing that the; appeal moved by himself, involved a great fundamental principle, he should persist in pressing a decision upon it. He then went into a review of the Vice President's argument, and so fiddled and. demolished it, that at the , c lose of Ihis Speech, the question was loudly , called for. and beinsr taken resulted in a rexer. sal of the Vice President's decision by a vote of 23 to 20, and this in a Loco Foco Senate ! : But this is only one instance, out of many, which could be adduced, to show the commanding in i fluence exercised by our distinguished Senator, j But, while I ihus speak of Mr. Badger, let it ! not be supposed that our elder Senator, Mr. f MangumU less active or efficient. A distin guished Senator said to me to-day "you are a verv modest people in rSorth Carolina. So vate tne cb&rac . i tur ; o improvt- rect arid refine are pleased wit and w-ould b " Amaranth' ; t to invite suh ( f to sutscribfj for at our office a: ! f rW W W a m Vv 1 I 1 1 V r T table jacquiiitu :s 1 Jfence, the pri vat ion; ol r0d; aWtis t If ' Deal to the RVinn bi- f A ' .7. "W-V?' T i J 1 v . hearts.: the . . . : . " "v mj wurn a coin ; ...-,iiuc. muu pq rpirinienL win nro- paratiyely nalirv conlruvers- tiL- iK.. ur...ihahlv hi il4;P-.l 1 L I t' n Senate and the Editors of Ihe llninnr iU.ltuckv. v1 a ,cc " i V7U It is said that Pennsylvania and O- A letter recieved in INew Urleans dated s,ate in Union has its intellectual and moral character moj-c strongly represented in this Cbamberbarj youi good old Stale. Manguv was alway a host, aud now Badger has lakco us All captive-; Pray, sir, have you any mor of the same iort left V - ...:it M . . .. t . . . LiTlf 1 " '. i creat ouestiobi. s.i tC- r i" i eacn lurnisti a regiment : 1 and M sloon o war Jonn Adams. , ou vera vruz, iwhich is involved not nnWXL s 'bat North Carolina. Smith Carol! nk I nnrl i Jannklrv l'O mpntinns that a bardUp. SUD- vital rtghf (f the people ofj ihej Soiitb,but the f Virginia, conjointly, .will, furnish 'one. 1 posed to be from N Orleans ; ran the block integriiy of the Constitution, and the Union of Three comrianlea kvijl be accepted from 1 ade a few! davs j defore, with a reported the Slates! So hrrnrVJi it .l . ! Tllmhie nl. rr,J.i.t ' : '.-' L 1 ' " i l r 1- e T iaaaa Cargo OI - LOU ions Ol .ijuvuki, nuu iu,uuu stand or arms, j un tne xouowing day &e bilged in ii violent storm. Is tallied of,!;tt ' of RepreseiUatr Ppropriatit:g f brass mortas to construction. ed bv Genera! brilliant nf.'ur the memory ( .' t 1 i . nonoreti. 4 ' But the hour for lhe tnecial order has arrived. - and the muia question, whether Ritchie $ Co. Jackson ii y. 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Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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