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T - V i. r ,fv.. 'V : 1 1 i I "If.' I' r , r, ... if It- - - ""v.:- RESIGNATION OK MK. 1 VIXlt. Mr. Sit 0 G. presented, a eominonica tiuo from the Hon. John TjWr, which was read a follows! Wsshinotok, Feb. 29, 1836. To the Sjxaktr and mtmber$ of the General Auembly of Virginia. Gr.KTtBir.K;r-Certain resolution of (tie General Assembly, instructing thir Senator in the Cimgres ot the United Sittet. ta introduce a iJ to ofe or iTesblutioh toej)un!ri iM juhaT of nrrvitiov Senate in the particular therein mentioneM.' and pointing out the nrerise manner in which" the act kntwn to me. Alter the most uenuer -e esamioa'ie wUWlul-amcapalI ' of bestowing upon them, and' with a incere deire t conlurm my conduct to the wishes or the Ucneml Aem bly"l find it .impossible to reconcile the performance ot the presrriWfd Jaskjjvith the obligations of the solemn oath which 1 have taken to support the Constitution of the United State.' With what promptitude I should com- pljr ith the instruction! of the Legis lature, if complianre was permitted me, may readily be inferred from my past course bl conduct and I beg .- - . . . ,. --- .. .! . rour imminence, penuemen, hiii i auvert to toe inoi prominent inciuems Slif far JifiA'iC iorite in the House ol jJelegatrs, to wmcn i hail been elected within a few days af ter t had attained the age of 2 1. The then Senators from Virginia, (Messrs. Giles and Brent J stood obnoxious to the charge of having disregarded the instructions of the Legislature, which had been adopted on the Inotioii of eentUman, then a distinguished inem- berrttjovr Barboufrrru werigati i-e-charteiini the Bank of the U. S. The first, while he voted against the Bank, denied the right of the Legis lature to-instruct him -the last disre gard rd the instruct ions al togrtberrsnd oteii t.tra oanic. t impelled or nootn e t roolieJha4 phwd"thr Lekla tare in it right to instruct its deputed organs, I introduced a resolution uis approving the course which had been ursueil ty-tuvnalurs My motive Haloing so,, tu single and. unmixed. J inat too young to seek profit by their overthrow, 1 he resolution thus tntro duced by me, pased into other hands, and was substituted by other resolves. which were finally adopted by the two Houses of Assembly by large and over, whelming majorities. At the age of twenty-five I took my seat in the House of Representatives ef the Unit d States. - The repeal of the compen sation uw soon came unuer oiscussion. I came in lo supply a vacancy, and brought with me the wishes of my con atituents in regard to that measure, I made them known, and-claimed the repeal of the law, as due to the well ascertained wishes of the people. This brought into discussion the obli- gation of instructions and I contend ed for the right," under the same res frictions and limitations as had been laid down in the resolutions before al luded to. I now re -affirm the opinion at all timet heretofore expressed by me, that instructions are mandatory, provided they do not require a viola tion of the Constitution or lhe com mis sion of an act of moral turpitude. -YJitiijicting under an oath, the pub lic agent, whetiierTrseflatojr a Ju ror, is bound b obligations of a TiTglTty-rmposed upon the. aggregatebody. er and more controlling character than can proceed from any esrthly source. The Constitution of the United States is the original and primary letter of in structions, supreme overall, and bind inupe alii Firrtb"agcnt-whn'tf ' -TT7worit tupportilt44v violate it know inglj and intentionally, would be an act of he grossesttmnioralitjand most unmitigated debasement. - Such is the condition in which, in my view ; tructions would, place me- It is known j ... to'you, gentlemen, that on my entenng the Senate, the only oath winch I took was an oath to support the Constitu tion of the United Ststesi to support it in all and each of its provisions to yield It neither to rorce, persuasion nor expediency. . No matter what the ob ject) should its attainment confer up ' on me the greatest personal advantage! - still to remain unseuueed not - to touch that forbidden fruit, I entered into a covenant with my Creator to break which, would, not fail to place in my bosom a Promethean'vulture, to tear and devour me. ' The obligation, then, to obey an instruction which call upon me t ombres k that covenant,' cannot ponsibly 'exist. ' I should be unworthy the codfidence of all honor able men, if I could be induced, under . any circumstance, to commit an act of deliberaU perjnry Instead of a eat In the Senate, I should richly de serve to be put in the pillory and to lose both my ear a an indelible mark of my basenets and such would be the sentence which the laws of Virginia-would pronounce ugainst me. Yuu have adnntted.the truth of this poi- ' tion in the alternatives presented in your second resolution. Between those alternatives I cannot nesnaie ioc noose. It ia not for every difference of opin ion between the representative and and eooififutnt. that the constituent would necessarily require the resigna- tioo of the representative. ..In the - eoursa of a some-wbat long political ifc, it must bve orrurrrd that my o.ii.ionll been ai but from the opiiir ions - ol inose t f epresemeu oui in presenting to me the alternative of ic- signation in this instance, you give me le'tw diutioclle. iBfrmid that tHe "c- compusnmcni oi your oojeci is renam ed as ol such primary importance mat my resignation is uesircu, n vuihjih auc cannot be yielded. I am bound to consider you, as ia this, fairly rep resenting the sentiments of our com mon constituent, the People of Vir- ninia, to whom alone you are nmrnamc iTvou have mistaken their wishes. My position ?!i!L!f..!i!!j5S$t.; is of a character to preslude Vf fiom going-fnto-abstractionfe" IVt lArsi tate, on the contrary, to declare that, if vou had, as the accredited organs of iiUfeupUdiremm a request to vacate niy tea l in uie ocnaic, juur i c- !uet would liave. JiadwUhm.-thi: urreof law not a day or an hour could I desire to remain in the Seriate beyond that hour wherein ;.! came to be informed that it was the settled wish of the people of Virginia that I should retire from their service. That people-have honored me with the high est offices within their gift. If the talents which I hate brought into their service be humble, I shall havr at least brought fidelity to their interests; No where ele la e 1 .looked for re ward, but to their approbal on, I have 'and 'might doubtlessly, by a course ol subserviency and sycophancy, fia$fob-7 laineiTwITat Ts"TiTIeTov wViie:preTer-' imenf.But whatculn.have coHipen- sa'ed for the baseness of my prosti tution, ami the belraval of lhe confi dence reposed ia- me by a generous people? The Executive files furnish no record "of my i iiiv as n applicant for any of the crumbs wh'.ch have fil leu from tlie Executive table. I re peat, that I have looked exclusively to the people of Virginia andjwh-n they have extended tom tweiity'odd years when I am indebt ed to them for whatsoever of credit and standing I possess in the world, I cannot and will not permit invsclf to remain iif the Senate for a niuwent bv- Lyoiut:verimr""TnSr thiir accredited organs shall instruct me that my ser vices are no longer arcrptabh. II gratitude for the past did not. my own conscibus weakness would control my eoursei- -W hat -wool d it -profit the 4 country r mvself for me -to remain in .1.1 n i menenate ajrainsi ineirwisiiesr or re taining my plare in opposition to their hxeil. declared and settled will. 1 should aid no cause advance no gn at pu pose be powerless for good, and provoke only to harm reposing on my feeble strength, I should vainly flatter myself that I could w ith my sin gle arm sustain the Constitution, and keen back what I miht consider the tide of error, when- in very truth I shnu'd but excite the popular preju dices more strongly, and imminently endanger the .Constitution my very efforts to sustain it- . In resigning then, gentlemen, into your hands, my place in the Senate of the United States, to which I was rail ed by your predecessors, I trust I shall be indulged in a brief exposition of the reasons which have led me to the con clusion, thattn obey your instruction wnuld be to violate the Constitution of the United States. I shall do so bold ly and fearlessly, but with all bream ing respect, and with all the brevity in my power, l'he . Senate is ordered by the Constitution to keen a lournalof its proceedings, and to publinh it from lime to tune. This iniunction is thus snlem- and. on each individual Senator. Whatever shall be done, shall be faijh fully recorded by the Secretary, and shall be faithfully .kept not "for an hour, and then to'be defaced not for year, and then tobfrexponged but41r ever, as a perpetual wuness, a milium hisfiiiryTy "whiclilh rcTnitucTrtheino lives, the act'nnsof men, shall be judg ed, not by thosv of the present day 9r(XfeaCt''rougJi,jll ,'e,L4tw wihe cutofll smonjs Clvinf e,wlvif h required the . biography of each Em peror to be written before the close 'of his life, and placed- before him, so as ta give him foreknowledge of what the world would think of him after his"! death". ; It was designed to restnuu bis evil passions to curb the exercise of despotic sway. . it ailttresseu itself to hi ambitioh71iiuSictferw1inTnl longing for an immortality in the grati tude and admiration of succeding age. But this provision in our Constitution is still wiser. Each Senator writes dailyhia -?owo biography. He is re quired to. record his own acts, and takes: an oath to keep that record and to publish it from time to time. i The applause or censure of his fellow-men is not postponed until he has descend ed to the tomb. ' It is daily uttered by the living generation. How powerful are the inducements thus addressed to each member to be Inithful to the trust confided to him! , Ilnw much to be ad. mireit the wisdom of our ancestors in framin? the Constitution!. If this was it -only feature; their title to iminor tality woukl be established. . This simple provision is one of the great securities ol , American uoerty. It takes nothing: upon . trust. ' If the Senate kept no journal, it would be a secret conclave, whrre deeds the most revolting might be performed in seer, sy and darkness. The train might there be laid the mine prepared, and the first knowledge of the treason might Je-ltue.xplo8ipn,and conse quent overthrow of free government. Liberty could not -co-exist with such a state of thing. - There ia no liberty where there is no responsioiiuy. anu there an be no responsib,ility where nothingj known, To have a Secre- taryeeiraaaW to write down its proceedings, and to claim for itself the right to cancel, ob literate, or expunge what he had writ ten, isequivatent'to having no journal at all a mockery and a fraud. . The journal of the morning may be cancell ed i the evening that ol to-day may be expunged on to-morVow cancel it in i anjjwjy whether JLWcHPjF.vpd marks, whether with circle or by straight 4inesf it cease to be journal, and that which was. u not. 1 he tour- nal i to be published, but there is no journal. There was one yesterday, borere it earwacn tnepr;'ttixan celled, marked out, or expunged. I'hese are the necessary results of obe dience to your instructions.' If that journal contain a transaction discred- it n . w J' .1.1 ' uauie to me senate, i snouiu pre serve it as a perpetual monument of its disgrace. If to a party leader, 1 will give him and hi friends who may tem porarily have the ascendancy, no war rant to erase or blur the page on which such an act of misconduct is recorded. I should be afraid, after performing such a deed, if Virginia is what she once was and I do not doubt it, to return within her limits. Tne execra- tions of her people would be thundered in my ears i ne son wiHcmian oeen trotf D""tre"rhefn would lurnish me no resting-place. I should feefmvsel f ETriltvr most ruilt v i and however I miht succeed in con cealing myself from the sight of men, I cou!d not,, in my view of the subject, savemysell from the upbraiding ot my own perjured conscience. How could I return to mix among her people, to share their hospitality and kindness, with the declaration on my lips, ."1 Tfave violated my oath for office, and sooner than surrender my place in the Senate, have struck down the Consti tution?" 1 f theJejaUya Journal under instructions, it has a right to do so without If to cancel a part, a rilit to expunge the whole: If to use ink from a pen, a right to pour it from a bottle to destroy the Jour nal in any other way to burn it to make bonfire of all that is bright and sloriousin our history. ... I know it has been said that the piocess directed to be adopted by your resolution is not designed to expunge. I cannot believe this, and reject it as equally injurious to yourselves and unjust to those you represent. You -direct the words "Expunged by order of the Senate," to be written across the resolutions on which you propose to make war. I will not believe that you merely design to ensnare my conscience much less will I indulge for a moment the idea, that you direct a falsehood to, be re corded by me. Those do not under stand you who make such ascriptions, and I am not misled by them. The General AfcSombly of a proud and lofty State, is incapable ot a mere quibble, and such an one as would disgrace a King's jec ter. No, gentlemen, the act which yor direct to be performed, is designed to be, and is equivalent to, an actual obliteration in all its practical results. The manner of accomplishing this act of cancellation, is wholly imma terial. In publishing this journal, from time to time hereafter, the resolution thus cancelled cannot be published as a partof it. f It isdeclared to be ex ntmred upon its face. . But, it in this I could possible be mistaken if. after all, if is merely child'slay-hem ing a few nourishes, and putting tne Secretary of the Senate to the trouble to write a few unmeaning words, the question would not be changed. Such artr-The-Jdr unaltered. .in letiftU-UDC.hADgedJn a comma the same as it now is, "to the last syflableof recorded time;4 Such is the fiat of the Constitution. There ia not a clerk or deputy clerk in the Commonwealth of Virginia, who would execute such records. The people would be alive, to the question, and in vindication of their rights, would Expunge the Court sooner than permit the record contain ing the titles to their estates to be ran celled in any manner whatever. They urely cannot take les interest itj the. preservation of the Constitution,, the greaflchaHer oTall their rights. ' 4- ' The effort has been made to hunt up' precedents to justify this. act. The page of English Parliamentary history have been ransacked, and an array has been made' of examples drawn from the times of .the Jameses and Georges of England. - With eqoal- forre might example be quoted to justify an A merican President in executing capital ly a citizen of any one of the States w ithout . the form of a trial. He might equally be justified in the use of the bow-'ring, because such is the power of the Grand Signior. The power ol the English Parliament is unlimited. Sn is that of mi7 "( the States of this Union, in regard to this particular sub ject. No precedent can have force to overthrow an express enactment of the Constitution. - Under its v provision. the Senate is directed to keep a jour nal or its proceedings. If I were per mitted to look elesewhere than to that Constitution, I would go to Virginia for bright and glorious examples to conduct me in safety. The first in point of prominence, although not in point of time, is the course attempted to be adopted byjhe King's party, in ine uouse oi uurfesmrs the celebrated resolutions' of Pi trick Hrnry, of that period These resolu- twins were Declaratory ol tne nsrnts oi n -. t. , '. . r .1 I . . I n n ' 1 British . America. .. After, their adop tion, many of those w ho voted for them -trfttHr ;tT f tv;"'ff ""Kuri., ihfPJ4.t.!!Li!!!!JCili . r . . .i r : i . . giving to in opposite party me acci dental ascendancy; and they immedi ately formed the resolution to expunge them from the journal. But by a stroke of policy as bold as it was suc cessful, Mr. Henry saved those reso lutions from being expunged, which form at this day one of the brightest iS$Joil ed on any man's tomb would eternize hi fa me:-And -ye t, -to -ex puogo- the n from the journal, was regarded as muchNah act of duty by those who pro posed it, as you, gentlemen,' can es 4e m-it to b-4iMb"9 under toiifcU deration. They failed and my pray er, as a citizen of a free country is, that you too may be unsuccessful your pos terity may have good cause to rejoice in your failure. Another example, almost as illus trious, is to be found in the conduct of Robert Beverly, during the adminis tration of Lord Culpeper. The his tory of the incidents of that transac tion are not only instructive, but high ly interesting. Lord Culpeper, armed with all the authority of the King of England,' his master ordered that a 1 resolutipa Durgesses uuring uie auminisirauun of Herbert Jettries, should be exnung e rom-theiey eeordsr-A'as-Ulyde!. rogatory to his Majesty's prerogative. RobertBevecly.was Clerk to the" House of Burgesses. Every effort was made to induce him to produce the journal, in order to have it expunge ed. He was subjected to all manner of persecutions; but he gloried in his suOerings, and his noble spirit rose in proportion to his persecutions. He perem ptorily -refused lo comply al -ledging"that his master, the House of Burgesses, had alone a right to make such a demand, and that their authority alone - hc-4urst-or-"Wonld obey." A nd I - loo, reply to these orders, which are now given me, that I will not expunge the records of the Senate until the Constitution, which, while it is permitted to remain, is master over all, shall be changed, altered or abolished. You will have ffuli opportunity, gentlemen, lo ap point another n.niy..lacc. ...Eor., my part, I will not consent to be made an instrument to accomplish such an ob ject nor shall I envy any successor whom you may send on such a mis sion. Had your resolutions directed me to repeal or rescind the resolution of the Senate, I would have obeyed your orders, although with great reluc tance. I would, nevertheless, have felt myself constrained to do so by my recognition of your right to instruct me. That proceeding would have re versed and annulled the act complain ed of. If your objeci was to vidicate the President in the authority which he assumed and still exercises over the public money, and esteemed it neces sary in order to do so, to have had your opinions expressed through me in the Senate Chamber, they should have been faithfully represented. His vindication, after all, cannot con sist in the form ' in which it may be urged. It is to be found alone in the legislative expression of opinion; and even if your declarations in his behalf were confined to your own journals, the historian would not fail to avail himself of them a efficiently as if they stood emblazoned on the heavens. that you would not be wTHTng"to pult down the Constitution unnecessarily and without object. sident, you have cast on me, in com mon with others, the very reproach which you are pleased to regard so offensive in reference to him. You have publicly, and before the world declared a pesolufion for Which . I yoted. to be "subversive of the riffllta .flfKtbe4IouM:C.'rIwpventatiea-r;nd the fundamental principles of free government. " If you design to charge me with impurity of motive in the vote thus given, your accusation would imply the highet censure. But this I do not; ascribe to you. You intend to say no more than thatyour judg ment and opinion, differs fromthat ex pressed by me upon the subject out of which grew the resolution of the Sen ate, and that the Senate committed an error, which, in its effects, is calculat ed to subvert "the rights of the House of Representatives and the fundamen tal principles of -fre government." The. ceusure which your' resolution conveys, implies a want. of correct judgment, on my part, in voting for that resolution, -and nothing more. If this be your meaning and I will not permit myself to think otherwise -I am yet .to learn how I incur the hazard of subverting "the rights of the House of Representatives and the fundamen tal principle of free pvernment," by having declared in substance, what as a member of the Senate' I did by mr vote, declare, that the President had mistaken his course, and that his con duct was 'in derogation of the Con stitution and laws." Have I done more in this, than you have done in your declaration? And if not, I sub mit it in all candor to your dispassion ate judgment to say w'hetheivir I was liable to trial on impeachment before you, you would consider yourselves I as having already pronounced upon my tguilf in advaDc'eV rrihhUcVrfainly 'uuulieam of excpuiig to Vou Ji5 my i judges because, resting on toy in- itesniy oi muinc, i innuiu icci ton- should C.f.n, it t..miltlal. There can be no guilt without a criminal design and I- would be among the last to ascribe to thTPfesIdenT. atiy criinl. nality of design. Am 1 to understand 6u as declaring, that because the House of Representative may origin ate an impeachment against the Pre sident or other ollicer of the Govern; ment, theSanate has no right to ex- Eress an opinion as to any act of the reside at owufikthor oflicmi JJu, inartcr what may be the act, eVen if k annihilates th powers; of. Uie .- Se lute has it no power inherent in all other bodies, of self-protectlon-aiid defence? A Breunus'may invade the body and pluc k4t by 4lbed-aeiji5c.gi:!jl ing Jothis it has no authority to strike. Go to that " venerable Patri arch of Montpelier, (Mr. MadisonJ and ask him whether, in framing the Constitution, he designed that the Sen ate should be a mere motionless stock, or a vigilant sentinel tu gi ve notice of the approach of danger to that very Constitution which it is, sworn to sup port whether the Representatives of the sovereign States are such mere automata as to move oWy when they are bidden, and to sit in their places, like statues, to record such edicts as may iome, to.tUeini; M;tiPcidftti recommends a measure ' .which the Senate believes imuolfiie'sharCtt not which he may believe t be correct, bu t which the Senate ...thinksunconsti tiitional may "it noiF "say so? And does its so declaring tend to subvert or to support "the fundamental princi ples of free government?" You surely can be at no loss to deride. The Sen ate, in the instance of the late. Postmaster-General, (Mr. Barry,) who had contracted loans in his official charac ter for the u9 of. his' Department without authority, declared by an un animous vote, that hi" proceedings in this - Tespectwerriir" vtdtiitionofihe Constitu tioo and yet no complaint has ever been uttered against that re solution of the Snate. How comes it about, that anathemas have not been thundered in the ear of the Senate because of that vote? Why is not that ordered to be expunged?. Why is not thatslsoTleclared to be "subversive of the. rights, of the. House - ot Represen tatives, and of the fundamental princi ples of free government?" Is not the erroras vital when it affects William T. Barry, as when it affects Andrew Jackson? If so, every motive of gen erosity prompted an interference in behalf of the first. He wa powerless, and is now in his grave.- I had a per sonal regard for Mr. Barry He was talented, and his fault lay in being loo confiding.- Honest himself, he did not suspect others, and they deceived him. This was the rock on which he' split. In voting for that resolution t did not design to impute to him moral guilt: I did not believe it T designed noth ing more than to vindicate the Con stitution. I thought that in doing so. I gave support to "the fundamental principles of free government," and never once dreamed that I had done anct in the remotest decree, subver sive of the rights of the House of Re presentatives. But say that in all this I was wrong. In voting for the resolution of the Se nate against wh'ch, you are now so indignant. I d'd no more than . carry out thepi'ople's declared views of the Legislature, as expressed in the'r res otutions of that day, and which were passed by overwhelming - m.ijofiti.'Si.f more than two tonne woota nouses. TdereiTtoTie l lie term employed by tne legisla ture were strong and decided. The xmtttttfrtif Ttte" PresTiTcirr Tvas repre sented a dangerous afol alarming. I was told that it, could not be. loo eironsly condeined that he had mani fested a desposition greatly to extend bTsofficial influence ami ..because. with-these declarations "before . me, I voted for. aremlutioa ivlich, dclarf '.thattbes President in ; the-? tste-Kxe ! cutive proceedings, has, asspmed up-in himself authority and power , not con ferred by. the Constitution and Laws, but in derogation of both, t am now ostrarisetl by your fiuK' which require obedience. 'or; resigji)trbn. Compare the resolution of the' General Assem bly oHhot-day with thetobovi resolu -tion. and its mildness will be entirety obvious. I submit. ; with alt due de-' ference ioyourselye what if to be the. coiMition -of a Sena'torjn'i'uture, if, for yielding obedience , to (Jth .wishes of one Legislature, he is to be called up on to resign by shoth"; -' If he diso beys the first, 'ha' i contemned ifhe obeys the last, he yiolafss his oath and becomes an object of. pcorn and con-, tempt. I respectfully ask, if this be the mode by which the great right of instructions is to be sustained; may it not degenerate, into an 'engine of fac tion an instrument to be. employed by the -outs to get in. : Instead of being directed to noble purposes tu the ad vancement of the catlseof rivil liber ty ma v it not br converted into s polit ical guillotine, devoted to the worst of purposes? Nor are thrta -anticipation at all weakened by the- fact, as it ex ists in the rase now under considers tion, that several of those who consti tute the present majority in the Gen eral Assembly, and who now call uron me to expunge the journal or, to resign my seat, actually voted for th verf resolutions ol a previous session to which J Jhve referrf il, j'y' h'ave'thti; gVidethen," with.' C auk- 'ness, but without designing oftencc j expressed to you jny ippinignj;.cVith' ths question, whether the rol of the Senate which you. direct fob expunged, be true or false. I hay, nothing in this place to do. If false C force as effectually as to cancel' if You have preferred to adopt a different course. I dare not touch the journal of the Senate. The Constitution for- bids it. In the midst of all the aitt tions of party, I have heretofore stood by that sacred instrument. It is the only post- of - lMmori:snd; ""of Safety?" Parties sre continually, changing. The men. of to-day gi ve place- to the men of to-morrow; and the idols which one set worship,; the. next destroyed. The only object of my political worship shall I be.ihfei;upftUiuiiotttw will not be the instmmenlJATc- throwlf. A seatTn the Senate is suffi ciently elevated to fill the measure of -any man's ambition: and as an eri dence of the sincerity or my convict 1 tions that your resolutions cannot bt executed without. "'dotingjnyoajhJJ surrender into youFTiantls"ihree un-f expired year o( my term. .1 shall ! carry with me into retirement, !') the principles which I brought with nu into pnbltcr4tt'e and byhe-arirrender ' of the higli st&tion to which I was. car'-1-ed by the voice of the People C,.Yiriti ginia, 4riiil:ia.mfcijri cniui ren.w.nicn snan .irarn lorpi to re gard as nothing place and ohTreV "when fice of honor. .... . . I am, gentlemen, your Fellow -CitizettJ '. . "JOHN TYLER, - On motion of Mr. Smith of G, the ' the letter was laid upon the table, and ' Mr. S. moved that 10,000 copies be ' printed for distribution throughout the Statev -. M r.' Botfs moved . tojniendj he jnok2 tion, and that 25,000 copies be prin ted. Mr. Smith accepted thismodifi- cation of his motion. -' -- ' ' On this question considerable dis-i Cussioh took place. in winch Messrs. ? Brownof Pi-Botts, Gilmer, -iVV'itchcrf Dormnn, Gregory, Summers, Stanard, and Brooke supported, and Messrs, Miller, Harrison, Garland of M.Wat--1 kins, Woulfolk, Madison, and llolle- man opposed to motion. Mr. Miller moved that 1000 copies, be printed. - - : - The aye sand uw. ha v in a; - bee n or -dered at" the call of Mr. Bcnton'Twvr': the motion to print-5000 copies, the; vote was taken and decided in the negatives as as follow: "? Jtyrt -llpnri. Gri'inldi, Dnnnmond, Cl'.j mer, Sonlliall, Gsrlnnd of A. Ilrooke, Cri(f, CumpMI, Pate, Hunter of n. tlenslmw, " llcnhrinfr, Chftin, Wilon, of C. Servsnt,"' Htl. l'r'ice. Hale of V. Davidgnn, Smith of Frederick, Smith of Gloucester, Withered, -Mullen, .llottkr firnrory, Grifr, Ilefry,- 8ommer; f;Her, Neill, "Begrd. Priwell, Tsjr- loroft liafrdiile, Wugjrener, tlentmv Mur-daiiH-li, Cooke, Master Swanson, W'rteheV Morri lni-ma'ny tjrhurn, tlarlef , 'Debuti- V mutt, Jetl, Conning'liam. Brown. Stanard 50WT .V- Mewm, Bunks,' (Speaker,- LavWe, -M'Hey, Miller, ' Wilson of 11. l)rean7a ; Tiirnbiitl. Mallnry, Booker,'aAoitin.- 1aniel,' Samoef, Hichanhnn, Jnlihxon, H.ll, VaOfrtian,' tlHnler, ofE. Smith f K. Hickrrxon, .transv' Steeer. Holland, Bowen, Watts, Wat kins,-, Hail of G. A vent, Carrinelnn, Clrman, t Sloan, Nixsn, nmidtd!, tlarrnum, Kincheloe, Kontuine, llnllrmin. Fleet, Rotiinwn, fivat Stmton, Harria, Tailor of M. k M. Uoer, t Garland of M, Wille.Vj Moriranv Chapman,, Ingle, Sherrard. Brnivn of N. Lrland,. -FilSir. perslil, troolfotk, "Almnn l. Adams M'Oov,'. Cackley, Hopkins, Caimll Madivon, Sliai'd",' Williams, Mnrtenev, Nick I'm, Moffittv Cnv rail,- Jesse, M'Multen, Bare, Itinker, Botjs, flrutclifiild, Vloncore, llargrave, Gibson,. Prentiss, Saunders -78 ,' After a few remarks from Mr. Gil, mer, Mr. Miller withdrew his motion, and 185 copies of the letter were or printed for the use orthJ. General Assembly. . - ... A motioo - f-Mr-VJKe' Mhet 8 additional copies, making in all 1000, be printed., was rejected. - ' ' -41n'-.intio-iVtsr4is ... lUsolred. That this ftniise y II on to-mrtri .1 row proceed by .loint vote with the Senate, to the election of a Senator, t serre in lh CnnfrressnTthe United States, to anpplythe ;' place of the Hon John Ty lerr'ilgned. , Twonty-Fonriii cot(rrc-si. m Correspandence of the. Bullimore Oironicle, , ! Wshiti?i, Obrtiary 24, J8.6. The Senate ws waaliwlay the ace ne of the most splendid and fervid eloquence an.elo, auenee' that was argumentative at well a, rhetorical. I Will hever frtrjfet it tliefhv pressioa.it has made is indelible. v " :v;Tbe,sneries.'tntHeoftheT1hreafentix appearance of the wewther, w ere well filled and, let it he remrmherei) by the readers of this letter as one of the moat interesting cir. cumslances of the day, a the prtst nee t? the daughter and brother of tke n.tor, and; alsothedanpliterof his colleairiie, (Mr. f:aW boon.) The daughter of the dt-t'nniuishrit southerner seemed wrappel in ttet tton his glov ing nd splendid . fliR hta Srd t frhr nappy mat she was there to blern h m with Ixr young almirat'ion. After aom statjatical readinranr Mr. Bentcn, at a few minutea pat one, Mr: Preatnn took the floor- the rrdrrof the day being the report of the Military CoiM rittee making appmpritions for tlie eollec turn of materials and the purchase f sites, and to commence the construction of fortifications and for other purnoaea, ' He expressed hi opinion npon the merits of the bill at large said that he looked with, great anxiety upon the Treamuy of lhe Unit A Htatra, he was aware how importaDt it was tu legislate omit his auhjee the traoury aa in plethwio state overcharfred . wirivan enormous amount on hand thirty millionrif dollara But this b 11 would not' drain' if. No, no. You mht scatter money ahrosd- lavish it build ymir forta el PariMn marllr, but still the mighty torrent would flow on with the vamneas of the of.ran. The conn, try was an immense one it wa rick beyama computation it was likr the ancient bwlv who was covered with barharie helmet and tees sores. ' We were strivirtjr to throw afT the irtittfiing iitcumbraiicr, but we' eouM not; He tb.eo went .into a history nf forrtRratio' r 'poeanri.tfionll--spoke ftMVty'y fjr orile tlteory of V:iIngiur tViU' tKaiii- 7
The North-Carolina Star (Raleigh, N.C.)
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