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j p-arri'Jv 1>'»1 we, insuffer
Ji’:n giuirfbie tallest Ireeilotii
fo futuritv, anJ uuveileJ a pin-
■ conleiupfiitioii ol v.l ich our
eip’inded ; scarcely liuJ we,
,j r||t, enjoyed a noble lVa«l.
mee (1k‘ picture rtselt i*d*»lroycJ,
Mg behind only a t>»' recollection*
munificent (lO.-pect. Jo liitn,
a.iurt lived pleasures of the world pa«w
— » • j —- »» a Cl*
pir,merit* wiil rovr r, at two dollar* par tins gorer-metat t.n* to this instant p -.r- its torriUirict a flr*t and secar.u ,:r nlc
for I wonld cheerfully relinquish all; pt. , . .
(lie deli-lit c. pi o*in-; a rue prophet ml arm, relinquishing the residue ol the j sued toward the state ol MimsOuii, is - am ■
' ' land to the United Mute*—another pray j tinned rf flic conduct whtdi was p'lrsu-
he
loav-
of its
the
like fleeting dicams.” One day,
Ttli/ed Indian, proud of the awakened
faculties of his Blind—the next, an un-
recognised tw eek of hit former sell 1 K.
Extracts from the Jddrets of James M.
Garnett, President of the Jgricultvral
Society of Pirfinia.
• • At first view the extraordinary pres
sure of the piesent period, the low pri
ces ..fill the products of agriculture, the
languishing state of our commerce, and
the general embarrassment in the pecu
niar concerns of all the classes of our
community, would scorn to combine so
monf dwi ourugements to agricultural en-
I, r[ rue and exertion, as to forbid every
efi ut at relief. A little reflection, how-
ciei, will shew us, I think, the lolly as
well’as utter inutility of indulging any
feelings which should incline us, even
for a moment “ to give up the ship.”
If me constant exhortation of the l’utri-
ct be " never to despair of the common-
wealth,” the neter failing determina
tion of the agriculturalist, should be to
“ speed the plough to fertilize the soil;
to use its products with well judged e-
couomy ; to defend his rights, and to
tr„»t the. rest to Provide nee. It is cer-
Hinly true, that for some time past we
have had very little encouragement to
labour, a.al still less to hope for » favor
able change. Hut 1 think wo may at
pes-"nt perceive, at least the dawn of
brighter prospects f jr some of us. The
co!•nn and tobacco planters have ration
al ground- io expect belter price*. The
cro|. • f cotton in Indiu, it i*.#.ii I, has so
far i ilcl, that none ran be spared fisc
irtution. Britain, therefore, and oth
er countries where this article is manu
factured, must procure their supplies
princip -liv liom the United States. Our
principal domestic manufactories too,
notwithstanding what you may have heard
to the contrary, 1 have been informed
from most unquestionable authority, will
require more during this approaching
year, than it did in the hist, without any
aid from additional duties. Should an,
Virginia agriculturalist ask, what is all
this to me? lean inform him for!'
benefit that actual experiments ha
proved, the rapacity of a large portion
01 our state to produce rntioo, if set as
abunuautly as the Carolina* and Georgia,
al least in such quantities as to render it
et this time, well worth cultivating. The
labour is greater from the necessity of
tupping and succoring to mature the crop
before frost ; but the product is not much
less in a suitable toil and season, than in
the warmer latitudes oflhe south. With
re-pecl to tobacco, I know not that the
kind usually made iu Virginia is likely
tu find a much more eaten, ive market
than it has at present. In regard, how
eti-r, to the various rivnlships in this ar
ticle with n liich the Virgioians have been
thientened, it is a ridiculous tale which
nobody who has any knowledge of the
subject would venture to repeat. The
peculiai ities of our climate, our soil, and
the superior skill of those who make the
strong, dark tobaccos, will always secure
the pref rence to the Virginia tobacco
over all others, for the purposes of
chewing, and making the more pungent
kii-b of snuff. As to the tobaccos of
Maryland, which we might make, as well
a* the citizens of that state, it is said, that
a market is nuw opening in Russia, where
thu demand, if my information is cor
rect, will be commensurate to any sup
ply that we can furnish.'’
“ The foregoing remarks on the cul
tare of cotton and tobacco, nnd in rela
tion to the prospects of selling them, 1
have been inUoced to oiler, from having
heard, that many nf my brother ngricul
toriiti had determined on cultivating
them for a part of their next crop.—
How far such determination may be ju
dicious, each man must determine for
himself.—l could not forbear, however,
to suggest what appears to me worthy of
mature consideration, before any final
choice is made. A cotton crop may he
made by tho*e who have not heretofore
attempted it, without any additional ex
pense of preparation ; without much
previous experience : and with nogrea
ter exhaustion cf the soil, than is occa-
sinr e-l by the feast exhausting crop which
tv* now cultivate. This cannot he sail
of 1 oIvhcco. The outfit is very expen
sive, where none has previously bet
raised ; the deterioration of the land and
the destruction of timber very great ;
and the skill nee* ,-ary for the profitable
management of this crop, both in the
Virginia and Maryland mode, which are
quite distinct from etch other, is a mat
ter, to be acquired only by long and la
borious experience. Not Tri«inegi.-lu-'
himself, could he visit the earth, would
be able tn malic a tolerable tobacco plan
ter by a snorter apprenticeship, than
some five six or seven years. The at
tempt therefore to make tobacco, as a
temporary expedient, aJnpted by those
who know little or nothing about it
would be a hazardous experiment, to
s tv no more of it. Sonic very good
friend, of mine, I know think differently;
for thev seem to calculate ou acquiring
the lequriite skill merely by wishing for
it, and asking a few questions of old
practitioner*. There is certainly much
p!e*»-;r in seeingwtrpredictions verili-
* 1 ; hot 1 e muot yet admit, as applica
e io tovowlf, what Dr. Swift once sai l
oe friend whom be represented as
orviWhis Heath—
rj-*„e*ehiis*l l *t) AioiiW die,
m hu prediction prove a lie."
tins«use, lor the supreme gratification ol
finding the hopes of Uit-c friends reali
zed in becoming oil-hand tobacco plan-
of adequate skill, w lieu they now
scarcely know tobacco from mullen.
To my forlorn brethre.n with the
breadstuff farms, in whiih class I must
rank mvself, 1 scarcely know what to
say. Alter turning my eye* in every
direction for a glimmering of hope to
cheer our gloomy prospects, I can ice
but one narrow vista of light. If con
gress, iu its wisdom, would only think fit
to diminish the enormous duties with
which the great staples of France, Spain,
I'urtugal, and the West Indies, are at
present so heavily burtheued; they would
greatly replenish their own exhausted
coffers, by a restoration—at least in part,
of the revenue formerly derived from
these sources, hut now almost entirely
lost ; and they would at the same time,
again open to us an extensive market,
where in better days we found a very
lucrative vent, not only for the flour,
indian corn, and pork of the middle and
southern states ; but fur the oil, lumber,
fish, beef, and cheese of the north and ol
the en«t.”
The public we hear wants reve
nue ; and w hat has been done, or propos
ed, tn obtain it ! lias foreign trade been
encouraged, that the treasury might In
filled in the mode most agree.ihl>- to thu
American people, bv such moderate du
ties upon l. irign importations as invari
ably increase revenue ? No such tiling.
Other nations have discovered a disposi
tion to injure or destroy our commerce,
and we have most sagaciously done all
we could to In-Ip them, by annihilating
somt branches ol it, anil crippling all the
rest ; like the cunning farmer, who
made it an invariable rile, whenever a
lamb or a pig was stolen from him, to
kill another for himself, on the princi
ple of always securing at least half of bis
own. Have we piul'esseii ourselves the
devoted friends of the grc.it landed inter
ests of our country, as the lifeblood,
which gives health, vigour, and activity
to the whole body politic?—how In*
this friendship been manifested ? Why,
by making the rice, the cotton, the to
bacco, the bread stuff-farms ; and the
verniers of lumber, beef, pork, oil, fish
aral cheese, tributary to some hundred
or two sugar planters in Louisiana. Has
the insensate clamour hoof, r.fis-J .it ;
“ come, li t us make ourselves indenen-
dent of ail tiie world ; an achievement,
by the ;v.,y, which ihe raod ol nature has
denied to every kingdom upon earth,
whose object is to cultivate to the fullest
extent every source both of individual
and national happiness ; what project
would the most ingenious guesscr a-
moogst you conjecture has been devised
to accomplish so glorioas a purpose !—
Why to enact a kind “ tender law in an
ticipation” by which the domestic fabri
cators of certain favoured goods, are to
he enabled to pass them like depreciated
money raised by force to the highest
standard value ; at some forty, fifty, or
one hundred per cent more than those
goods are intrinsically woitfi. Hussoine
hydraulics! dreamer seen in his sleep, a
contrivance for making water run up hill
without any reference to its source, ot
to the eternal principles vvliii h regulate
its motions ;—or what amounts pretty
much to the same thing ;—has a financial
conceit got possession of some of our
cranium*, that the precious metals in the
form of money, can he made by the
mere process of legislation, to flow or
remain wherever they may be supposed
to he wanting ?—hoiv is it to ba execut
ed ? Verily, by restraining or destroying
that commerce with China nnd India
which has in times past circulated, most
profitably from ten to fifteen millions of
dollars worth of our property !! Is a
home market proposed to he created, as
an adequate substitute for all t!tc most In-
crulire part of our foreign commerce ;
—w hat are the inodes suggested to i fleet
this desirable object ? One of the most
ingenious of the device* is, to tax tin
coinraeroe to the utmost extent ;—to
make less bread and meat ; to convert a
portion of our hardy yeomanry into spin
nor* and weavers ; and if alt this will
not do, to import more mouths fiom
Sheffield, Birmingham anil M inchestf
\Jare excises and direct taxis been held
up to us for year*, as abominations to the
land ? how are we to bo guarded against
their rectirrcn- e ? Not certainly, bv
punning « course which directly load,
to them, as inevitably as the suction of a
whirlpool lends to ingnlph all those who
venluie within its c ach. Po not under
stand me, gentlemen, bv the foregoing
remarks as objecting either to an ov i-e,
a direct tax, or any other legitimate
means of raising anv amount of revenue
required by the public wants. But I
certainly will object, as long a* ti.ad
spares me life ; as our constitution give*
ine liberty of speech, to any mode oft ix-
ation whatever, winch i- calculated like
the proposed tariff, as well as many part*
ofthat which row exi«t», to load any One
cl.i«s in the conunouitv with mor* than
its fair and just proportion ol'llie public
burthens.”
in-' that persona entitled to the iira-l ailed toward* these stale* when colonic-,
pre-emption in the purchase of public j by hi* Britannic alajebty and his l.iilhlui
lands, tuny be permitted to make p-1)- Lords and ( ominous m Parliament as-
fluent for said l#nds within the tunefl here-! spudded, tfl'iiat was their language at
tnfure prescribed hj law, or prompt pay-1 ter our independence wa« declared ?—
irent, at Ihe option of the person hoi*}. I tVhnt w as their conduct which led to the
mg such pre-emption nght---the other,, long and bloo„y war w!.i. It terminated
praying that the right of pre-emption in | in the acknowledgment of our indepen-
the purchase ol public lands may be ex- j donee ! i he very language w hidi we
tended to certain settlor* therein de-crib-1 .ire holding, and the very conduct we are
ert ; which memorials were referred to I pursuing toward* Missouri. ’I lie p
pprehen-iv e you willccnc \
government, preparatory to tin if as munion table by the came *
xmiiinc the rank "fa state of the Union, j give yourselves, that we will";
lie Cul not see why it could not give toi no name. Air. laid he sliof
them u third, fourth, nr fifth grade of against the proposed amendmV
lie considered Missouri " “ 1 M
the coumnttpc oa the i’ublic Lands
Mr. Kobcrtson, conceiving that Mis
souri had, in this entry, been styled a
territory, objected to her being so sty
led ; but, on examination, finding it was
not so, waived a motion ho was about to
have made to amend it.
Mr. Coea, however, adverting to the
terWv* of the memorial, said, that it ap
peared to he from ihe Senate and Hon--’
of Representatives ot “ the Mule ot’
.Missouri, though nut so stated in the
Journal. Mr. C. moved to amend the
Journal in tlwl particular, by inserting
the words “ ihe State of,” before the
word “ Alisso n
el, said Mr. li. ran* on all fours. In
our extreme tenderness for the rights
mid privileges of the colored citizens
we have already brought into jeopardy
the right* and privileges o f our white
fellow-citizen* a* well as of these color
ed one* who are the objects of our Bidi-
-ritude. Air. li. said, be. had intended
to abstain, as he had until now abstained,
from taking any part or lot in tlii* affair.
But, when he saw the Coogres* of the
United Stales pursuing a course of con
duct in servile imitation of the British
Parliament, he could no lunger retrain,
lie would stake hi* salvation, ha said,
dear to him a* that v» as, that, if the Con-
When the Reporter entered the Hall, j «titetion of Missouri had contained an in-
•Mr. Barsocr was up arguing in favor of hibilion of Slavery, the lluii*e would ne-
tli
amendment, which would in ike
Jourual conform to the fact, which, he
couieotleJ, it di I not a* it now stood.
.Mr. Amii.r*on expressed his opinion
flint the Journal, as it stood, expressed
^ruly the fact of a memorial being pre
sented from Missouri. Though it iroglit
have been more distinctly stated, yet the
omission of the words proposed to be in-
serted did not take from Missouri the
character of a state, it being a frequent
mode of expression in regard to other
*tate*, to speak ot'th :tn without the pre
fix of " the state of.” Air. A. a!*o sug
gested a wish that hi* friend* should not
press the objection they had srt up, by
way of obtaiaing a decision ot the JUitsou*
ri question, on a motion to amend tile
Journal.
Mr. Robertson made *ome remarks
in favor of the motion. The memorial*,
lie mid, professed to he from the Legis
lature of the State of Missouri. It .Mis
souri li id not been considered a* a state,
of course the memorial* in that shape
would not Imre been received. Having
been received a* memorial* Irotn the
state, why should not th* fact be correct
ly stated on the Journal ‘i
Mr M'L.'.ne, cf Del. v,a» h. favor of
the proposed amendment, w. the geticr
iff ground that, if it took place, the Jour
nal would correspond mare pr< ■ liciy
with the fact, than in its pretent >bupe.
.Mr. Warfilld taul, that a deridon in
favor of the proposed amendment would
not express the s*-nsc of the House, ei
ther in one way or the other. Conceiv
ing that the entry on the Journal, as it
r.ovv stooJ, wa* an entry of that descri;
lion which would explain sufficiently
vvhat was the nature nf the memorial, he
was epposed to the amendment.
Mr. Smith of Md. proposed, in order
to obviate the difficulty, t j irwert in the
Journal the word* “ purporting to he,”
a memorial from the Sen ate and House
nf Representatives of the stale of Missou
ri, U-t. * *
Mr. Cook was opposed to the propos
eil amendment. If made, he slid, it
would deride no principle. It' Missouri
was not a State, rolling her so would not
make her so. It would he an equally
appropriate amendment to style her the
Republic of Missouri, a* her Convention
had styled her in the Preamble to the
Constitution which had been formed for
her government, Stc.
Air. Cobb, in reply to a wish which
had been expressed, that lie would with
draw hi* inoticn, ■aid, that lie could not
consent to do it
nal to conform, as it ought, to the fact.—
Three memorial* had been presented
from a body, organized under a Consti
tution of government, formed by virtue
ol a law of Congress authorizing the peo
ple of .Mi-souri to form a state govern
ment. In th .1 shape having been pre
sented, in that mid in no other shape
could the memorials have Int-n receiv
ed ; nnd the Journal ought to state the
fact a* it occurred.
.Mr. I1amv;vtx was sorry, hn said, that
any discussion should have ari-en a* to
tiie description of any paper presented
to the House in the stupe ofa memorial.
It had beeu tl.o uniform practice, in ma
king up the Journal, to give to tnemou-
ali I* tin: iialDO which they thnnselves
j*»umed. By way of illustration, lie re
ferred tu the memorial presented at the
present ses.iion from person* styline
iheais Ives the N itional Institution fop
the protection -fiDome-tic lndu«'ry,from
the Delegates of Agricultural Societies.
i, .Missouri
ory. Those' 1 Y f -
m ist he comp \ V .
this propositioVl ,
ter have heard of the objection now rais
ed to it ; and, were he to engage in the
discussion of it, he would take that
ground. How ever that might he, he said,
it was a more important matter that the
J on nisi* of this House should contain Un
truth. An honorable member behind
him had uttered the sentiment, the other
day, that it was proper that petition* to
this Hoo»e should contain tiie truth. It
was of infinitely more importance, Mi.
R. said, that the Journal should contain
the truth ; and he pronounced, that the
Journal for yesterday.in it present mu
tilated, mangled, and garbled state, did
not speak the truth. It holds out that,
•aid he, which wo know to hr And
is it a mere matter of form, that v. e
should send out to the People, a* the re
cord of our Proceeding*, a paper which
contains, on the fare ol it, a palpable an )
atrorion* falsehood ?
Mr. Little called for t'.q^c -liag of
it was read in part, when
iu*e, in his opinion, Missouri’
*tntc, am) not a territory,
held the other opinion in i 1
to vote in favor of this |.ivpuouos. i v
acknowledge that their ground w;ss\ \ V 4
tanable- *1%.
Mr. KnvvARns, of N. C. said,
gard to tlits motion, he did not, when i\y
before, mean to insinuate that the gen'd.
man from Virginia (Mr. Parker) h.u'\
meant to set a trap for others. He might
have laid a snare without designing it.—
For himself, Mr. Id. *aid. he believed
.Missouri was a State. He feared that
the motion of the gentleman might he a-
dopted, and that the misnomer would he
entered on the Journal. For no otln r
reason had he wished the motion to ba
withdrawn. Hr should vote against the
motion with pleasure, because he believ
ed .Missouri had lost her territorial char
acter and could not he otherwise than a
state.
Mr. PvnKZR said he was placed in n diffi
cult situation by the application to l.inito
withdraw his motion. Other friends vvito
opposed to his withdrawiog it. He had cou-
i laded to per-ist in it. It was not hitendrd
as a trap for any one. Had it hern so in
tended, he did not know hut that he might
Inve found illustrious examples. It was not
a question of mere form. The state of the.
vote jii-t taken proved thr.t it was not. The
question iu faet,:is voted upon, had hern, is
Missouri * state or terri'ovy ? If she was u
territory, ns she had hero voted not to he a
State, why reject this proposition so to design
nat • iier ? I say, said lie, sbe is a slate—
aad, were I a citizen of that state, 1 would
never, at your suggestion, strike out that
rlause in tlir constitution to w hich objection
Ins been made. Il l found it convenient to
government, ile consider
to be in a grade between territorial de
pendence and the condition ot a membei
of the Union ; w hich idea he illustrated
bv reference to the situation of the Stale
of v erinont, before she adopted the fe
deral constitution, iec.
Mr. I'.DWAKos, of North-Carolina, ap
prehended that this proposition would
operate ns a trap-question, producing
embarrassment without benefit, and ex
pressed Ills hope that the mover would
withdraw it.
Air. Livkrmo&z made a few remarks
to this effect : that the house ought to
regard the substance and not tiie shadow;
that the name was of no importance tu
the actual condition of .Missouri. When
the que-timi should present itself in a
proper form, he wo* ready to decide it ;
but it could not he affected, either in out
way or the other, by the appellation
w hich should be given to Missouri on the
Jonrnul of this house.
Mr. Mzrceiv was gratified that this
motion had been made. As this w as the
commencement of our intercourse with
the l’eople of Missouri, he was desirous
th tt every step of it should bo marked.
Mr. AL made sonic further remarks, iu
Ihe cour«e of which he expressed hi* re
gret that Ihe course ol the remark* oftne
gentleman from Illinois, (Mr. Cook,) had
been, in hia vio-v, disre-pectf il to Alis-
*onri.
Mr. Cook disclaimed r.nv intention to
speak disrespectfully of the IVople ol
Missouri, whom, on the contrary, lie
said, he heM in high re-pect ; anil he
, , , i i i it in iivrn mi.Ttir-. at ■ hmi su u ii»ii*rmr-in 'w
sincerely hoped that Misioun would h« ) :av-.-lf to do so, I would ; but I would not do
admitted into tbc I nion, and soon
Mr. Cutler of Lou. said that, on in
specting tiie Journal, it appeared that the
original entry in it corresponded with
the caption of the Memorial, in which
the word State, is employed. As the
Jonrnil now real", moreover, in the
part speaking of the public I inds, the
word* " within the said state” had lin n
erased in two instances, tu avni I the
word “ Stale," which in ido the whole
your recommendation, even for tho
ir.iporMnl boon of being admitted into the
Guinn. 1 wonld rather lie trodden dewn by
tli" armies from the North nnd Ihe Kjst. and,
if you could ret them, from the South, than
y e! ) this point; and t avow it in the face of
Ihe world. If ever on ra th a people lialv
been maltreated, it i* this people. There
seemed, Air. I*, •ai’l, to be a suppressuin of
something on th t Journal—beeaose the ve
ry word* vv iicti li ,d been stricken out of :t
w ere to be I'.ouid in flip caption of the me
ttle memorial . „ „„ , - —- . , , • , ,
Mr. L. expressed hitutclf satisfied, and entry absurd, inasmuch a* the memorial I moHa.-. by were they suppies-ed.
. , , • , _ i . , . . . t or Hie purpose, svi. ently, of implying the
saul he was sorry the chair ha, depart- » made to apply not to purchaser* o. I th „ p » * He was not for this mode of
eturom the uniform practice and regular l*»n<i < *ntth , .n trie? « m I state, winch | -he for bavin* the facta stated
rule in recording the proceedings of 111: [ words were erased, but to purchasers of j pi, j, Rnglisb, tiiat all might iindemtand
bouse. I bind) throughout the L'v.tcd Bt.dw>. AL. i iliem. .'Ir. 1*. smd lie wanted to bear no
Air. Rhe.1 was in favor of the propos-j D. said he would therefore e-k whether , '"u- r p.,.-, us here—tie list! beard
tu amendment, it was the duty of the j the Clerk had undertaken to make these ■ IM,,rc l ' iarl '‘" "igb «f them l ot, il
bouse, lie thought, to see that facts were alteration-.
correctly stated on tfic Journal. Tiffs j 'J'lie Srr vnr.r. then stated from th"
boose had, in its public act*, styled Mi*-
souri a State ; and why should she not
be so called on the Journal ? He read
the caption of one of the memorials, to
-hew that it purported to fie from the
Senate and House of Representatives ol
the State of .Missouri, in General Assem
bly, Stc. The Journal, he sai l, ought
to describe the memorial j« it really was.
The question on Mr. Cnob’s motion
was then taken, by Yens and Nay*, us
follows :
j to the form of the
it shout I -»o a pnu
Jnui
fire
lit
mat-
ei.ent, cron as
ho wished that
i one way or
chair, that it was the practice, th.it the I tho other, « : ,d iiota mere, riumoc'ibon.
Journal should be written by the Clerk. I .'.1,-. Rosa said fie was ■whit that the
Ihe rules of the Iloi:*n mado it the duty House had involved itself io tw J iBcultv
ofllie Speaker to “ examine and correct | by the reception ol the petitions in t, e form
the Journal before it is read.” If, being | in " bicl1 «',ey wa re presented, as be-
so examined and corrected by the .ipea-1 » Th * y ought not to have I.
wtate.
reived iii ti;.»t form.
Irom
n i e-
• . . * , ■ , i *t«vi;ii ii.fsv iuiin, M'lfijfinr!, Air. I«. said*
ker, it tlunilJ not, n» the opinion ot nn\ , t V as either .1 territory or a state. 1 f uh« he a
member, be correct, it was competent J state, >h" i* u state known to the vowstituti-
for any member to move to atn-snd it, an.l un of the United States. Sin- is not one of
for tlw house, shoo! I such be its pi
suro, to dire-t it to bo amended. In live
present mffance, the presiding officer
Yeas—Me«*rs. Abbot, Alexander, Allan, Ten. had thought proper so to correct the
Areher, Md. Archer, Yu. BJil.t ic, bull,Barbour, j Journ tl, -,t tli.it it should not tie taken
P,u>ly, Bloomfield,Brevard. Brawn,Bru.di,Bry- e .;), e r to affirm or deny that .Missouri was
an, ii.irton, Burnell, liulkr, !.* j. ( .tnit*»:., . .t . 1 .• , . ...i • 1
Cobb, Cocke, Crnwi'on' CrmvctT, Culpepper, ' th-.t being a question Oil which
Cuthbect, Bdn’nrfl*, N. C. Eu«tit v rislmr. Floytl, | tho hvwas greaily Uivided itl oj»m-
Foot, (iari»»*.!f, CJorham, flacklry, Hali, N. C. | icu
I la.'rJi(i. Hill* Honk's htcksoii, Johnson, Jonr
old origin il thirteen a.aies. Man sin*
*’v«*r i’ui’civimI into th** federal fau.dy
a statr? Sii> has not. Docs sou asa mif.
the cliarnctcr of a slate without bein^ so le-
ceivrd ? Does she tell yo«i, we were once
a territory, hut we hate thrown oft* our ter
ritorial diameter atSiirnd (hat of a state,
witii'Mit your auUifrity ? if this* doctrine ia
to h toh i it* (1, <*aid *'i.*. 11. away with your
forim of t«*rnto?i:d government at once.—
Jones Term. Little, Livermore, Lnwnrlen,
McCoy, McCreary, Mu Lane, Del. McLean, Ky
Mci<s t Mercee, Metcatf, T. fv. .Moore, Ne..ile,
N(*!son» Ya. Newton. I'arker, \ a. Pinckney,
Ramlolfili, itankiri, hiiea, ftubvrtsoii. Sawyer,
Settle, Shaw, Simpkui*, Sloan, Smith, N J
Smith, Md. A. Smyth, Va Smi:h, N.C. 8*c’ven«,
Terrell,Trimble,Tucker, Va. Wulker, Williams,
Va. William*, N. C.—7<S.
Nays—-Manrs. Adams, Allen, Ma«s. Allen,
N. Y. Anderiou, Reecticr* Bo Jen, Baihun, but
ler, N. II. Campbell, On v*tt, Clark, Cook,
Crffts, Cushman, l>anr, Darlington, Dennison,
lie wirhed the Juur- I bicluvn< Kddv, Ldwards, Con. Lev, Fuller.
‘ Orov, N. Y. Geo* , Penn. Cnyon, Hall, N.
Hull, Del. Hemphill, Hendricks, Herrirk, Ili!?-
sham, Hobart, lioMetter, KemUil, Kinsley, Ln-
tliro|», Lincoln, Macluy, McCullotirli, Madn y,
Mart bam!, Monell. it. .Moore, S. Moure. Aim-
ton, Moseley, Murray, Nelson, M>ws. Parker,
Mass. Patter f*n, PhiLon,Pitcher, Plainer, Hi; ii,
Kichard«* Ricniooad, Ko^er?*, liou, Hum, Scr-
reont, Sil-bee. So iilmrd, Rtorrs, Street, St.-onp,
Vt. SHrontr, N. V. Tfoinlin'on, Tracy, Ddree,
I’plmm, Yu.1 Iteasselurr, Wallace, Warfield;
W eiidovcr. V^ hiiuian, \\ ootJ—-*o.
The Y e.ts nnd N’nys br.in» p^ual in
number, the Speaker declared bis vote
with the N.i\s. No Mr. Cobb's motion
tv ns rejec ted.
On this result bein'; dec bred—
Mr. Papier, of Virginia, ro-»e. The
vote which h u! j<i*t been t.ikivi, lie «;ud,
was, wit Vi a few exception*, of iii.it geo-
t:raj*hi«; d chnrartrr whir.li h i.I marked
tin? whole proceedings in regard to Mis-
Mr. Tnr-tBiv requested the Clerk to L*‘yo*ir t.'riatori.'SH.,ii.iio «t o.wt. tiie ch«-
. . . a I . - racier of staies. II .Misaotin l*e a Plate, «ntt
state the date ot the pc.ition, in order to nllJ „ H | awf|) | (Utr . , {) H j lat taw U ,, le
shew that the petition was not posterior [ a state ? It sound ovlhodoxy in
to the decision of this house .against de- pul,tic-, Hat there cannot he a slate within
daring the admission of Missouri into
the Union, and tint therefore Missouri
had not n-sumeil a name which h i I been
denied to her by Congress. Air. T. ex
pressed hi9 satisfaction that Air. Conk
bail explained hit meaning ; having be
lieved, until he had .made it, that his ob
servations in regard to Missouri bail
been ironically intended. Mr. T. did
not by any m-ans consider the present
motion a* a trap, hut a* a serious prepo
sition, which gentlemen would not find *
if easy to dispose of. There were mem
ber* of this house vv ho believed that .Mis
soni! vv.i* yet a territory. Mr. T. said
he was not one ol them ; but those who
did believe *0 would of course vote for
the resolution. Ile was obliged, he said,
to the gentleman from Virginia for Iniv-
ing suggested what lie had dune in regard! Court hasoyirtin- presentment ofa jury—
to tlieqini'nUflbf'tiroC'i) the proccudii: .sof a power to alt r it in manner or forin, hut
the British i’ai !i urn-at during our Revo-! ’ 1 ;'- ‘ 1 sou- 'ama-. Mr. U. hiir,- required t!i«
lotion and thuea nf tlm present Con/r-s*. : ' '■ 11 'I 1 ' u ‘ Journal a* it was I., fore ii
Ho did remember himself maty instan I” d '. the speaker this imyrnlng.
i i,. , -• i . ,1 i tie speaker pronounced that >t wi-s not
ces in wlii. ti flic p'titi'iti* ut flic peo.di ■ ,
1 1 t 1 nn.er to reau any Journal, as the Journal
of the Hu
the territorial l inits of tlie United Stales,
without tiie authority of the Congress of tho
United Slates. Missouri was not astute by
that authority; and he was perfectly ready
to vote and declare Ilia opinion that Missouri
is now a territory.
Mr. Rims referred to the nrt of tile last
session of Congress to shew that Conges*
had authorized the people of Missouri to
form a state g jVernm. nl mid assume Midi
name as they might think loo per. They
had assumed a name accordingly, mid Mr.
U.said it cool.t not he taken from them ix-
ept hy law. This lloiiso, then, had given
them the name, which wa* now rrfuied to
them on the Journal. Nay, at this veiy scs-
-ion, a joint cm.uni.tee nf the House, ap
pointed to modeler the sub,eel, had r, ported
r rc -ol.itiou iii La.-in;-, nit- adiuiseloi, o(the st.itc
"/ Alt.*-ouri into the Union. Wttfiw peetto
too Journal, Mr. R. •aid th - Speaker had n
power over it aonl.igous to ih.it which
of these ft ties were refused to be rect-tv
ed ia I’arli uncut bccaosc th- pi tilioners
did not correctly describe themselves.
souri. 1 or Iff* cwn p irt, he s..id he did 11 lc remembered the letter of \V
out at first consider t!ii* ijue‘lion as in-j ton was refused to he received because
valving any matter ol principle; hut. it purported to come from General iVa*h-
j being a new mem! t, b« foil referred to I in-tors. Had not the People of Mis* mri
| Bio Journal, and In* found that, in all a right to hnp'.ize themselves by *uch
from the UelegHtcs irom fanout mter- „ f rnsM ,. r i 11 |, fron , „| ,te*, they had n .amu as thev chose ? Mr. T. ,,iJhe
I In. ute ,mi i, ixc. all orivlnch.| 1)ccn Mated to he from it. "s ; and lh.it j re K reted that the chair should have tho’t
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
huuse of REPi:r.sE.\T.rnrEi
Fripav, Nor. 12.
The Journal of the preceding day was
read, which is, according to the Rule, of
the House, the first business on the o-
peniug ef each day’s sitting.
The tirri entry in the Journal of yes
terday was read in the following word#:
Mr. I.oti'ndes presented three memori
als of the Senate and Hou-e of Repre
sentatives of Missouri,on* praying tiy.it
the nu:*-hi,<frs of fuhlic lands may he
permitted to app.ly 1he payments already
Qiadc to lucli of their entrits as the said
without investigating the merit* ot’th* .
pretensions of tho respective ineinutial-1 voilorl as l
i-t«, ha I been announced in the J jur.ial I, ,, ;^|
iu their own Imguugc. We pay that)
respect to petitioners, (aid Mr. B. that
we designate them ns they chose to de
signate Iliem-elves. The unnuuci ition
on the Journal oftlieir designation*, was,
properly, amoie recital of .what they
chose to call themselves, ll'j^he princi
ple were now to be introduiy-d, t’aat
very person or association
were to be held to prove that they
are wh.it they profess to he, it would in
volve the lion ie in endle-- difficulties.—
He was therefore in favor of the amea,,-
rnent proposed hy Jlr. Cobb.
Mr. Randolph, after a preliniir.ary
remark or two, not distinctly h* ml from
the pre-sir.g of Members rour.d him, laid
that he rose to introduce □ precedent ap
plicable to this occa.ion, which, he trust
ed, would be reteiied with all ihcre--
pect due to so high and transcendantal
authority. The conduct, (aid lie, whieii
Uii-d, tl.at e-
« person*
it they re.i'll-,
memorial
He
dev i ffion from tiff* unit
should have orcurrr
instance of Mi souri, and not in any o
ther. There iv Iip -.rid. something in
it—he did not sav vvhat it ivu*—but ho
was for consi-tenry, at all event,, in tin:
rc-'ords of the Congress of tho I'nion.—
lie was tiir t!ic record* nf this house
speaking, in the u.vr.ls of the laiv, the
Iriitti, the whole truth, and nothing hut
the truth. Under this impression, a-Jtlie
hoove had n fused to acknowledge Mis
souri to he a stale and as she mint be a
territory ifth* he not a flute, lie moved
to lose.* in the Journal, he fare the ward
*• Missouri" th* words " the territory of.”
Air. Dsush objected to this amend
ment, for reasons which he assigned at
length. He was-I -pinion that Missouri
was, constitutionally and politically, a
slate, and not a territory. Rut, as it was
the custom of tin, government to give to
m torritori.il j Journal. The subject, in itself not very
w no reason why n; important, had been mule so hy the a?-
nilormity of practice j terniion of the Journal, which alteration
d iu this particular j it seemed had been undo hy the Speak
er. It appeared to betray tin unreasona
ble jealousy oa tiffs subject, to say tin-
least o! it. Ile begged the Speaker’s
pardon, ! u said—he ff;J not tn" 11 to s iy
that lie frit this jealousy ; tssit, in the
coarse which he h ,d taken, there was an
overweening e .'ition—an appearance ol
i jealousy which ought not to have been
betrayed towards this lh nple. Mr. T.
said he trusted gentlemen would not I’eci
much difficulty in voting nn this euesti.Ti. i
\\ c t.iul, s,ud lie, that the quettiou jus|
taken, sm ill as it was, lias drawn a fine
Across the I'nifeJ State*. 1,-t the Jogr-
n-d st.ir.d as it ought to do. Do not tell
tli- I’eople of .Missouri we are sojaalous
of you, we are fearful of your thruting
yAurself into the Union, nnd partaking at
the tarred hoary and dimkiag of tho cup
of wiq*f. not,ay to them, vacate Jo
is,-, hat that which had been cor-
rerti-'l by it, presiding otliecr.
A.ftn a few further rein ok*, tn tiie same
t'licet as the preci-diag, Mr. Ilhva took hi,
s-.'it.
•Mr. Tr. ( HER sai.l hi? had voted a^aiosi
themiitioii to iot4*drt the word “State” tz he
should vote agninnl th ii; bumum lit* ronsi-
d<*r»’d ii not ai|iisrinle or pn»p«*rlo decide ii»-
ui«lt* 11any a main Question, and one wliieli
vv«s mucii fon'C'tnij. Tu avoid afftirdinjj a
^»ne umlormity oi practice |>rc - J it sett‘under the n • c^sifv ol ailerinpj tin* P r, eud»*nt, lor precedents had l>e»*n already
*| ,, «:ud horn tbe Journal, ho thought it |>ro
per to le.’iv,! th- Journal in its present shape,
n .Lier JiT.nni.iy; nor denying any things
He Niiould, Itteiefore, vote n^iinat the «*
niendment now under consideration, as he-
h.id against tint firit proposed.
Mr. Lowndes rrnr, in ronsequenre of a
sugic-tion from Mr. Knss, to say, that, ivhri
lie yesterday presented these uiem". ials, he
J s i n tie staled, in midilile vv ords, that tiie;
were from Ihe State of Missouri, lie ill*,
out mean tn enter into this question—but, he
* i d, io the anxiety to escape one difficulty,
tin: object of one of the memorials at hast
was presented on the Journal differently
from vs hit that olijeet was. It w*s necessa
ry that the object of each petition should tu
stated on the Journal of the day on which it
was presented. By the erasure ofthe word*
“ u ithin Oit State” twice where it ought Ii
have occurred on the Journal,the objects o.
thu memorialists were perverted. Buth-
did not mi an toenler^feft the discussion.
Itav iug otily risen tflfeu^ie fact which o.
ciir#d yesterday. ■
Mr. Archer, of Virginia, said, lb« hou*'
had decided one half of the question re
peeling Alfcejouri, They had decided wb-j