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t ,„ r i. t nowrrl to point them out, though his tmsUil-
, (.'..it i\.p pvottriso ol sum a p"« i ‘ i . r
• I c nblp to tire safety | iul linger might disturb ihn beauty of
il slsito. It is I the whole arrangement. The ltono-
i.l rnlile
mill hi* illlii n
5otlong,for*exan pl . ,L
rnblc member hail dwelt with great
, ■ t , 1 . antH . ;,uii in. 'pathos upon (lie enormous character
sys’.'-ni i *n t|l " rrs g0 mo- of the power claimed for Congress ini-
inqnisition, Hmii)• ‘.‘ ls j rou ltv i tier the consecution, ami its conse-
y hnt rpl< ' nl, "' n r ; )Ilus |,ilongc.‘ l to Licnt linhilky to.abuse. But the pmv-
i’M’rMionsin succession. He knew er of full sovereignty U in its nature
rliether femhil tenures had been
ever'introduced into that "'e.ntry.-
*' . . ....tMnii extravagant in
Jlut there was notHine
tliijsuprosition that they, ‘ ■ ,
some of the badges ol tvMixy m gh
b,n e been there tolerated II ^uch had
Un the cireuntftnneps, should the L.
States he held to admit new states...
that territory, without st.pulatmg for
tin- abolition of these trim res. Mu t
v e have subjected our cituens nwrat-
i , r thither to nil the oppressions o
v.lianage, of aids and services, and
d,e detestable bondage ol the let,dal
v l5<a ls ? Or if a branch ol the m, ( ui-
k i,ion had been estahlislietl there, could
y(<not have interposed to put clown
4! t pillar of an established religion r
(. ,(• (in. torture had bwn practised as
:'i\ il
in France
it was under the
mid bpain. eoulil no conlrolmg pow-
f i be retained by any compact or n-
t reeiucut, to extirpate that abomina
tion ? ,
He said he would suppose another
en<r, not likely 10 linppen, but yet, as
•. ■ (rustic!, not outrageously improba
ble: There was, it was well know n,
i a many parts of this country, nocie-
tb • of persons called Shakers, of good
j. oral elmacters, and exemplary lta-
j- of incited'-v, whose lnnchuuoiilal
(!,.(c,' : a s were t ini: tried on the duty of
celibacy. They are also a rich peo
ple, and, in some of the'state' , expe
rience mien options, in their »•«.cleav-
oi; to augini'iit their numbers, ami in-
convenieii' ■ from laws which press
Upon their consciences, especially in
military conei ms. In* :me, sir,said
be, all these sects columned and de
termined to make a pilgrimage, and
become sojourners in tins new coun
try c’f promise. Figure to yourself
f iitr or live thousand adults of both
sexes, with their children, in separate
and dismal processions, inarching be
yond the Mississippi until they should
find a spot suited to their m. ■> sions,
then hairing, and sending y ou a mis-
s cinarv with the intelligence of their
“demand/’ to be admitted a- a stale 1 .
Are you bound to admit them with
out a stipulation that they shall make
no laws prohibiting marriage, at the
moment you know this to be the main
design of their emigration, and thus
, ure to a sect of those peculiar and
anti-social tenets n monopoly of die
entire state, and a power of v irtually
e* eluding from its jurisdiction the
great mass of your citizens? There is
no end to the instances which might
be multiplied, wherein your interfer
ence would be indispensable for die
protection ofy'our.citizens and the pro
ve ition of contagions "ustoms, and in-
st’tutions adverse to ti e policy and
n mire of our government. The con
sequences ollhc* doctrine Maintained
on the other side would be detrimental
to (be territorial inhabitants: it would
ere ate a reluctance to admit them tital!
•into the Union. Besides, if compacts
of this description would not be obli
gatory hereafter, those already framed
are void ; and, being void in part,
are wholly null. Hence would arise
uproar and confusionwild.: all things
done under the ordinance, and the
laws which recognize it, arc liable to
b abrogated. The great and flour
ishing state of Ohio, and her cemtigu-
o' ' neighbors, and all that is fixed to
tl t ie soil, should of right revert to the
l ir v. and the grants of Georgia and
:\ i" Carolina are ipso facto rescind-
ed: air 'lie subject matter being net
v hill the powers of the constitution,
nil contracts respccling it, or growing
out of it, must h< . i,.a.
I lore, then Mr. bis said, lie might
snlV’y res? the cjncsticni. I.language
•could not hiruish a power more clear
flu.! cypress than the constitutional nr-
■< 1 Ir to admit r.ew states; and, having
these express words fur his bas-s, he
would again request nothing better
than the speech cl the gentleman from
Maryland; not las speech of ycstcr-
d'.iy, but I lie model of forensic argu
ment anil eloquence which he had ex
hibited in case u f tliu Bank of the
t mod States, to show that the faculty
ol imposing < auditions \va» among
the necessary derivative powers, even
il the in an,up ol the word stoics was
uoi as i xplicit as he had show u it to lie.
In the view winch he had tints pie
s'nice! of the subject, Mr. Otis said,
j: hjd rueicavetred to estahli-Jj prin-
i pics w hied!, it sound,contained a suh-
s tiitial i elutution c,| the most impur-
t.iut dogmas advanced b\ the hoiiora-
bk: gciitieinaii from Maryland, though
.;ot m the order in wliich they hud
Loen arranged by him. He would
tl •'no fore pass rapidly over a review
ome of Ids objections, though his
enormous. If lhe United States ure
apuldo of iaVmg and holding a grant
in full sovere ignty, there is no securi
ty against thrii abuse of powers, ex
cept what arises from the character of
the people and their institutions.—
Here, however,limitations arc provid
ed by the treaty. There cau he no n-
buse of power where the inhabitants
arc* entitled to all the rights of citizens
of the United States.
It lias been also contended, that, ns
Congress has not the constitutional
power to .establish, so neither is it
competent to abolish slavery. To this
lie answered, that the attempt w as nei
ther to do the one or the other; but to
prevent its introduction, by n fair com
pact, into a new region, where it had
not been established by law'. lie dis
avowed entirely the right of Congress
to interpose its authority in relation to
slavery in the del states, anil protest
ed against the wish or design to pro
mote a general emancipation of their
slaves, nothing doubting but that such
a measure w ould be pregnant with e-
vil to master and ruin. A me re im
portant principle asserted by the hono
rable gentleman, he said, was this:—
That when Missouri becomes a state,
- lx* would ncejiiire, ipso facto, the
right to abrogate our restrictions, ns
an incident to state sovereignly. This
assertion is, in f > t, hegg ng the qnes-
tiou. If, by the constitution, conditi
ons may be imposed as precedent to
her becoming a state, they cannot In
rescinded by Missouri in+icr capacity
of a state. There is the w ide st possible
distinction between legislating upon
the internal concerns of a Stale, after
she assumes that chamc'er, and fram
ing a compact by a lc* dative act pre
viously to that event, which is to coii-
stiiute, prospectively, the fundamen
tals of their future constitution. Iu
order to effect the latter object, it is
necessary only to settle the question,
whether the inhabitants of a territory
have a capacity to contract? If they
ure destitute of tiiis power, there is no
safety in dealing w ith them.no securi
ty for any of your reservations, for
your exemption from taxation on your
own lamb, for securing the trial by ju
ry, or habeas corpus, or any other
privilege. If they, on the contrary,
arc capable, of making a compact,
how esm they become entitled to com
mit a fraud by breaking it, in conse-
quence of changing the form of their
community ? If they can bind the U.
States, they can hind themselves. Il
they can claim charter rights, they
must be held to the pcrforiipnce ol
charter obligations and conditions.—
The people of the United States have
framed a constitution; hut their debts,
contra . ts, ami obligations, antecedent
ly incurred, have not been, and can
never be, with justice or honor, re
nounced. !l would hen most unhap
py exposition of state rights that should
render the oppo itc theory convincing
to the nation : its moral would lie,
that no good faith could be expected
from a territorial population, and its
corollary, that no bargain should be
lnueie with them.
It has also been strenuously urged,
that you cannot exae't from one state
considerations for her admission w liicli
you dispense with in others, and that
Missouri, mlure el to a pigmy, a sha
dow, with amputated limbs and res
tricted faculties, would not be a state
within the meaning of the constituti
on. But, lie replied, there is not an
exaction of any consideration w hate-
ver in the proposed instance. A con
sideration i > doing or forbeaving w hat
the party granting it may lawfully do
or forbear. But Missouri neither does,
or refrains from doing, any thing fm
the benefit of the Union. She requests
a boon; it is offered cm conditions de
manded by your views of right and
policy. She may accept or not.—
Whether she would lie a state: on an
equal footing, lie must again leave to
the honorable members from Ohio, In
diana, and Illinois. ' a:t them decide
whether they conceive themselves to
be members of degraded states, shorn
of the rights of freedom and indepen
dence. He should not like to face
the storm that would gather over him
who should undertake to prove his to
their faces.
Again, it i-s insisted, that you can
not make a grunt and annex to it con
ditions repugnant to its nature, which
must eiHl-.u its operations. Here, he
declared once more, with all due re
spect, was another petitio priucipii.—
Tin* condition w as precedent in its na
ture, independent of the grant, bind
ing belbre it goes into operation. It
a.isevers imp in seem 1 kc repetitions iu takes nothing'from the state, but im
a: other hu m, ol a portion of his pre-’ poses a disqualification upon the p 0o -
t ons remarks; and it, among tjie spe-1 pic of the territory of ure ihe\ become
ci''ic'tis ol brilliant ores ami gems that I a state, which, binds them in good
v.. <* scattered through the honorable I faith from doing aftenvards an net. af
gci'tleman’s collection, lie should oc-1 lecting injuriously the interests o
ionally find some whose irenuiuc-j those
v‘-’i P°
genuine-j
doubted, he would take leave 1 power k derived.
rom whom the grant of sg.no
To illustrate tlu
principle by an example from com-,
inon life. If a man, having an estate 1
and children, should promyo his i*'-
pht'W to make him equal to liis chil
dren, by giving him, at a certain pc-
riod, a share in the estate, and, upon
iiis claiming the performance of Ida
promise, the donor should require from
him a stipulation that he should bring
no dogs upon tin* farm, there being
already more kept in the family than
was.consisteut with the ssifety <>r con
venience flftlie actual orexipants, tliprc*
would seem to he, in such a request,
nothing unreasonable', and in the n-
greement nothin,rv repugnant to the r-
quitnblc* performance of the promise.
No -ridiculous or invidious, or degra
ding allusion, however, was intended
by' the comparison of the cases.
Great stress, he observed, bad been
placed, uot only by the honorable gen
tleman from Maryland, hut by the ho
norable gentleman from North-t’aro-
lina also, upon the presumed analo
gy between the controversy ofGreat-
Britain a-ml the colonies, and the rela
tions of the United States and Missou
ri, if this amendment should prevail.
Blit lie denied that the revolt of the
American colonics originated in their
unwillingness to conform to the terms
of their charters. The reve rse of this
is the truth—it was the violation of
chartered rights, bv the mother coun
try, which forced the colonies to re
sort to arms. But he did not believe
the good people of Missouri would
have recourse to such an extremity, in
pursuit of a right which they should
have* relinquished. They would find
no supporters oi allies in a cause so o-
dious and unjust.
AVc arc* admonished, sir, said he, of
the distance of the proposed new state.
M ith distance, it is eloquently repent
ed, even despotism must truck and
huckster. But, tin* very distance fur
nishes fi sufficient reason for peopling
(lie country with inhabitants wjiosc
strength and resources will not heiiu-
paiied by a slave population. We arc
also apostrophized to know why we
object :o the diffusion of slavery?
Whether it is not to force manumis
sion ? And, it is added, that we-can-,
not get rid of those who are emanci
pated ; but, by opening the* door, the
master and slave will migrate together,
and the condition of berth will he me
liorated—while, in the other event,
the master will go and the slave stay,
and the state of all those who are left
behind will be still more: unfortunate.
All the arguments, hr said, which had
been pressed upon these points pro
ceeded upon the admission that a re
dundant slave population was an evil;
and an evil too whose tendency' was to
cncrease. Ho certainly w as not now
prepared to go into a consideration of
the nature attd extc ut of this evil in
the old states, or of any present or fu
ture remedy. It was, how ever, a sub
ject of most serious reflection, from
which the Congress of the U. States
could not always escape. It was a
common concern, and lie doubted not
that the wisdom of the ttaiiou would,
in sufficient season, find some adequate
means of relief fr uit the threaleped
calamity, and to this end, and in rea
sonable measure, supply the needful
funds. But, it was enough for his
present purpose, that opening the clquf
would aggravate the evil, anil spread
it far and wide. It it weie* now an ac
knowledged evil in the old states, it
muat sjKiv.lily' become so in die new
ones. Congress is the guardian of
the rights, not of the present genera
tion only,but of posterity ; and, how
ever remote might he the period, the
time must happen when the inconve-
liicncii's of a slave* population, whate
ver is tlu'ir nature, would, if the a-
mendment were rejected, he amplified
to art extent that w ould be absolutely
remediless.
In considering the expediency of
the proposed measure, Mr. Otis ob
served that he should confine himself
within very limited hounds. It invol
ved a prodigious variety of topics, on
which he could not touch without be
ing misunderstood. Besides, all the
principal views of w hich the question
was susceptible had been exhibited in
various publications. He would n :i
attempt to describe the efforts of slave
ry upon the state of society in which
it existed. Hu w ould leave that ex
clusively to the judgment and opini
ons of the individuals composing that
society. \\ ith respect to those* per
sons, as individuals, he was ready to
admit, that fie believed them to hi* as
w iso, as good, us just, mid as generous,
as those of any other section of the
country. Among them lie should be
at no loss to choose bis friends pr bis
executors. Every man felt, or Ought
to fe*e*l, a predilection for his dear and
native home. We* felt it in its full force
without any illiberal prejudice towards
other states or their citizens. It was
also, a great error to impute to the*
North an apathy and col.l feeling of
security respecting the situation of the
South in tlic* particular of theft slave
population. Whatever difficulty, em
barrassment, or danger could be forc-
see'ii, connected with that object, must
11 fleet ihe entire union; and called
loudly upon ihiir combined inteHi-
tlir preventives a i' would to npply
the renti <V. These lomarks lie* made
in no spirt of adulation, but ed since
rity. lie w .aid acknowledge, too,
that, iii supporting the amendment,
he was tut influenced by maxims or
inductions from any religions or mo
ral coeie, tmt might serve ns a rule for
his private rottelm t, or for his opin
ions as a ir.nn. Neither (ltd the claims
of Immunity, as affecting the wretched
beings who were (.loomed to bondage,
decide him in lti» course on tiiis occa
sion. He looked to it entirely as a
question of policy, affecting the cqtii-
iiddo rights of the various parts ot ihc
Union, and the security oral welfare
of the w hole people now and hereaf
ter. It might In* conceded that the
condition of the: slaves would he im
proved by opening tills flood-gate,
aiid the w hole force of his motives
would still be in re.-ervc. Ilis charity
and humanity began at.home. He
rested on the solitary ground of an ad
mitted political evil, which slavery
was acknowledged to be, and which
he conceived it to lie in a variety ol
particulars; and then enquired whe
ther its introduction into this new
world would not tend to promote its
indefinite extension? If so, could lit*
rightfully, and was he: hound in con
science and duty, to oppose a barrier
to its progress ? Tiiis lie would do
first, and meet the evil afterwards, in
its compressed and inevitable shape.
Iti this light, lie regarded tlie diffusion
of slavery, as pregnant with great in
justice and danger. It was not only
unjust in reference to the white peo
pled states, but it was bringing into
contact with foreign nations, with En
gland, Spain, and perhaps Russia, a
weak frontier and tilt: degraded in
struments of intrigue and revolution,
which their ow ners might not be able
in process of time to hold in check.—
On the other hand, let the country be
settled by a white population, ami the
Security of the slave-holding states
would be encrcascd, and the strength
of the w hole nation essentially promo
ted.
There w as a subject on which lie
never thought in connexion with the
present enquiry , but w ith mieasines*
and regret, and to which he would not
now ilo more than slightly allude- It
w as the state of affairs ia the black
empire, rising up in the Adamic, so
far as it w'as open to an examination.
There was a phenomenon which mo
dern times had not w itnessed—a na
tion of black pe ople, intent upon im
proving in the arts of civilization,
hold, fierce and warlike, and growing
more and more capable of ruminating
and feeling for the oppressions infl’et-
<*d upon their race from time immemo
rial. First or. la-t, these people will
be acknowledged as an independent
state, and commerce will give the
access to all parts of your country.-
Whenever he imagined Louisiana peo
pled by slaves, scattered in immense
groups throughout that vast region ;
and tiie face of the country itself; pos
sibilities resulting from an intercourse
with St. Domingo, rushed upon hii
mind, which it w as enough merely to
intimate, to be understood. He would
then leave the question of expediency,
inexhaustible as he felt it to be, with
those few general remarks, being una
ble to agree w ith any measure which
should counteract the spirit of the age,
by encreasiug the mischiefs of slavery'
to a degree boundless in extent, and
perpetual in duration, and to email on
posterity a scourge, for which we rc-
pr< u. Ii the memory of our ancestors.
of Mr. Itoiats, postponed to to-mor
row.
The bill making further provision
for the sale of puhiu* lands (changiiu*
the terms of sale from credit to cash)
was taken up, nml the amendment
proposed yesterdry by Mr. Walker t
of Alabama, was, after sonic discus
sion, withdrawn’ by him, in order to
be offered again on a future occasion.
Mr. Etlmtrds offered the following
amendment:
The whol'* subject tvr.q on motion r.chievomenl with the Cuerriere, that
proud frigate of the first class which hud
earned her name, inelefiancc, emblazon
ed in large letters on her fore-top-sait^
that the American picaroons niinht be-
wnre of ms majesty's ship, and make no
mistakes. That was an event on which
they were generally silent, or their
praise very faint. Mr. K. believed that
old F.oglund would consent that forty
Parkenhams, with all their legions,
liotild hate been buried in the alluvial
kinds of the Mississippi, to take back tha
single action of the G'terriere ; because
f ail he it furtJirr enacted, That, dint action had done more than any thin;
every person who now is, or hereafter
may be, an actual hand fide settler up
on any quarter section of lasid which
shall have been previously exposed to
public sale, and remain unsold, shall
be permitted to purchase such quarter
section in the same manner, and on
such terms as arc now authorized bv
law.”
After considerable discussion on
this, and the preceding amendment,
in which Messrs. Walker of Alabama,
Otis, King of New-York, Louri•?,
Walker of Georgia, King, of Alaba
ma, Macon, Haggles, Edwards, Leake,
Smith, and Johnson,ol'Louisiana, took
part,
A motion was made by Mr. Smith,
to postpone the further consideration
of it to Tuesday next; which motion
was negatived, (ayes 15.)
VIUDAY, FEBRUARY 25.
The Senate resumed the considera
tion of the report oi the committee ol
finance, on the memorial of sundry
sufferers by the late fire tit Savannah,
praying a remission of duties on good
destroyed, &c. and of the motion rela
tive thereto, made by Mr, Elliot, of
Georgia, as above stated
This motion w as further supported
by Mr, Elliot and Mr. Walker, of
Georgia, and opposed by Mr. Barbour
and Mr. Macon,
Tin* question there *i being taken,
it w’as decided in the affirmative, by
21 votes to IS.
TfOUt
Seii--' ut'.il fraternal feelings to adopt j of Gcor
VV>X ii WFiSS."
IN SENATE.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24.
The Senate proceeded to the con
sideration of the report of the commit
tee of finance, on the petitions of An
drew Low and others, merchants of
Savannah, w bo pray for the remission
of duties paid and secured to be paid
on a large amount of imported goods
which were consumed and destroyed
by the late fire in that city. In gen-
), the government has refused to re
mit the payment of duties in such cas
es. Relief has, however, in a very
li'tv such cases, been granted; but, in
extraordinary eases—such, for exam
ple, as the goods being in the custody
of the officers of the United States, to
secure the payment of duties. The
report concludes an argument of some
length by recommending the adoption
of a resolution “ that it is expedient to
grant tlu* prayer of the petitioner.”
Mr. Elliot, of Georgia, moved to
amend the report by submitting the
following resolution for that reported
by the committee:
“ Ficsolved, That the report be com
mitted to the committee* on finance,
with instructions to report a hill au
thorizing the* remission of 25 per cent hitc contest with G. Bri
on all bonds due, or becoming due, at
the Custom-House at Savannah, in
Georgia, executed for she payment of
duties on imported goods, wares anil
men hand ze, not ensured against tire
in that city—and extending the addi
tional credit of two years on such
bonds.”
This amendment w as earnestly sup
ported h, Mr. E!. rand Mr. Walker,
E OF REPRESENTATIVES.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22.
On motion of Air. Reid, the house
a reed, by a vote of 77 to A9, to consider
the following resolution, offered by him
esterday:
Resolved, That the President of the
United States be requested to impart to
Ibis house any communications touching
die Florida treaty, which may have been
received from our minister plenipoten
tiary at the court of Spain, which have
uot been heretofore communicated, and
which, in his opinion, it may be consis
tent w ith the public iutere»t to commu
nicate.
Mr. Randolph, presuming that the ob
ject of the resolution w as to obtain gen
erally such information as the Executive
had received touching the treaty, (w ith
the* reservation expressed in the last part
of it) he suggested to the mover the pro
priety of omitting that part of the motion
which confined the call to information
received from our Minister at Madrid.
Mr. Reid acquiesced in the suggestion ;
and, thus modified, tho resolution was
adopted, and a committee of three ap
pointed to present it to the President.
Mr. Lowndes offered the following re
solution for consideration:
Resolved, That the committee on na
val affairs be instructed to enquire into
the expediency of extending to the wid
ow of Captain Oliver II Perry the, pro
vision which is no*.v made by law fdr the
widows and children of naval officers
who die from wounds received inaction.
Mr. L. observed tint ii was conceiv
ed that the family of Commodore Perry
was embraced by the existing Imvs which
provide for pensions, as it was not to be
supposed the generosity or magnanimity
of Congress diet not intend to compre
hend such a case ; but as this appeared
to be doubted, lie had deemed it proper
to propose the enquiry which he had
submitted.
The resolution was adopted ncm. con.
Mr, Randolph -rose to offer a motion.
He believed it would be very difficult
lor any member of this bouse—certainly
it Was not possible tor him—to keep pace
with the honorable gentleman from
South-Carolinu, (Mr. Lowndes,) in the
race of honor and public utility. That
gentleman had, by the motion which had
just been adopted, anticipated him in
part, iu a proposition which he (Mr. It.)
had intended on this particular day, for
reasons which would suggest themselves
to the mind of every one, to offer to the
house. When he bad Ibis morning heard
the tower guns announcing the return of
the birth day of Washington, Mr. It. said
the thought had come across his mind—
in reference to certain proceedings in
the house and elsewhere—“ this people
draw nigh unto me with their lips, and
honor me with their mouths, but their
hearts are far from me.” His purpose,
Mr. It. stated, was to make a motion
relation to the wife and children of the
late Oliver Hazard Ferry, of the United
States’ navy. It was liis opinion, Mr.
!!. sitid, whether correct or not, that
the country owed more to that man, in its
tain than to any
other w hatever, always excepting ban
Hull—that man who had first broken the
prestige, the cuirn»s of Britbh invincibili
ty. He hud frequently, Mr. lb said.
hearJ persons of that country speak in
terms of admiration of the achievement
ol Captain Hull, in hi> escape from n
ffeet of the enemy, in the Constitution
frigate—of the admirable seamanship be
had displayed—of liis professional skill;
but be had never heard :nv of them
else to open the eyes of Europe, uud dis
pel the illusion of British supremacy oat
the ocean. Next in glory to the victory
over the Guerriere, was that on Laka
Erie, by the gallant Ferry ; and this,
Mr. lb said, was not inferior in lustre
to any event in the naval history ofEng-.
land, save that of Lp Hogue, under Ad
miral Knssell. One, said, Mr. R. ha*
shewn us the way to victory with single*
ships, the other w ith fleets. Shall wo
suffer liis family to melt up the plate that
was given to him by his countrymen, by
corporate or legislative bodies', in com-'
pliment to his gallantry, to buy bread 1
He w ould say no more, hut at once oll'er.
the following resolution :
Resolved, That provision be made by
law for the support of the family of Hi'b*
late Oliver Hazard Perry, esq. of the
United States’ navy, and for the educa w
lion of his children. •
M r. Lowndes concurred with grew
cordiality iu Mr. K’s resolution. He
fell in its fullest force the sentiment of
gratitude to the man who had first taught
bis country to hope for victory by fleets,
as well as by single ships; and Mr. L,
said it was only because he had svyos-*
ed that the house would not at this lime
•five its approbation to a proposition
such us Mr. Randolph hud offered, that
tie had contented himself w ith the very
inferior one which he had submitted.
Mr. Hazard, of Kliode-lsland, did nofi
rise to say much on a subject, on which
he said he could scarcely trust himselfto
speak at all. But he rose to offer hi»
thanks to the gentleman from Virginia
and the gentleman from South-Carolina,
in behalf of the name of Ferry—to thank
them in behalf of the state which gavo
him birth ; to thank them in the name of
his amiable widow ; to thank them ia the*
name of our common country.
The resolution was adopted ; and,
On motion of Mr. Randolph, a com
mittee of three was appointed to bring*
in a bill in pursuance thereto.
THURSDAY, KOI. 24.
Mr. Meigs made a motion that that
journal of the house should be amended,
so as to place his name in the affirmative
on the vote taken yesterday , upon disa
greeing with the Senate in their amend
ment connecting Missouri with Maine,
the same having been erroneously stat
ed in the journal (and of course in tho
National Intelligencer) the other way-
But the motion was declared net to bo
in order, ns the yeas and nays cannot bo
altered, after they have been once re
corded.
The Speaker laid before the house s»
report from the Secretary of the Trea
sury made in obedience to a resolution
ot the House of Representatives of the
1st March, 1319,“ directing him to trans
mit to Congress at an early period in the
next cession, a general statement of the
condition ofthe Bankofthe United States,
and its offices, similar to the return made
him by the Bank: and a statement ex
hibiting as nearly as may be practicable*
the amount of capital invested in the dif
ferent chartered banks in the several
states, and in the District of Columbia;
the amount of notes issued and in circu
lation; the public and private deposits
in them ; the amount of loans and dis
counts made: by them, and remaining un
paid, and the total quantity of specie*
they possess; and also to report such:
measures as, in his opiniou, mav be ex
pedient to procure and retain a sufficient
quantity of gold and silver coin in fho
United States, or to supply n circulating
medium, in place of specie, adapted to
the exigencies ofthe country and within
the power of the government;” which
w;if ordered to lie on the table.
On motion of Mr. Crawford it was
Resolved, That an act of the . Legisla
ture ot the State of Georgia, ent|tle*d
“ tin act to grant certain powers to the
commissioners of pilotage for the port of*
Darien, and to authorize them to collect
tonnage duty on vessels,” be refeired to
the committee on commerce, and* that
said committee be instructed to enquire*
into the expediency of giving the con
sent of Congress to the operation of said
act-
Mr. Randolph rose to make a mo
tion ; which, he said, he should very
much prefer to have made by any oth
er member than himself, but which be.
felt it to he his duty to bring forward;
and lie trusted that, whatever other*
might think, or however others miglit
act, lie should never feel a disposition
to shrink from the discharge ol hisuu-
ty. It was impossible, Mr. R. con
tinued, for any man to see what wa*
goiiig on here—abuse heaped upon u~
bust:, like Pelion upon Ossa, until u
was impossible to tell where it'would
(‘ml—it threatened to reach the skies.
This house, he said, was emphatically
entrusted with the purse-strings of dt»
nation. He hoped it would not prot o
to be the ease tltat the people had, aC .
cording to a well known maxim
law, trusted the lamb to the ciistoO
ofthe wolf. He hud said, this lu |J
1 speak with cordial niiplauso of liL
tvas entrusted w ith the purse-strHU
of the nation; and it behoved it, i* 5 ^ “
grand inquest ofthe nation, also
quire into abuses of ever) des4r*( )U ‘