4027 H. OF R.] GALES & SEATON'S REGISTER Oneida county (N. Y.) Memorial. proper, however, to state unequivocally that my colleague has misapprehended my object and purpose; had no design to animadvert upon the gentlemen referred to, although I deemed their circular a fit subject for comment. That will also speak for itself, and I am willing to submit it, with my comments, to the judgment of the public. [MAY 12, at the price of degradation and servitude. This impassioned expression of its followers and partisan The bank only makes "political enemies, not fri Is not its influence seriously impairing the respectf erence due to our moral and religious institutions we not recently seen, in a neighboring city, a fa mob, assembled in defiance of both human and divi This memorial, sir, has been presented and commented for the purpose of bearing inflammatory harang upon elsewhere, and it was there stated that the county support of the bank, on the Sabbath day? Aren of Oneida was largely interested in manufactures, both efforts which are now making to control the pop of woollen and cotton; which were in active operation of our cities in favor of the bank, calculated to wea until the Executive began its experiment; and as the ex- not to eradicate, sound and correct principles of c periment has gone on, one of these establishments after among the mass of their citizens? another has stopped." This statement was said to have Sir, I have done. I will not trouble the Hous been made on the authority of gentlemen who were "in- any suggestions as to what my constituents may th capable of misrepresentation." I know not who should my remarks upon this memorial. I hope noth have been referred to as the originators of this statement, been said by me which can deserve their repreli but I feel it to be my duty to state, that I have direct in- but that point my honorable colleague and myse formation, on that subject, from Oneida county, and that leave to be adjusted between the constituents and down to the 6th instant, (several days after the statement representative. had been made,) no such failure or failures had occurred;| Mr. PLUMMER said he was opposed to the ad nothing had at any time taken place to warrant any such of the resolution; but, before he proceeded to statement or suspicion of the failure of any one manufac- his views on the subject under consideration, he turing establishment in that county. The gentleman the indulgence of the House while he did an act who made the statement, I cannot doubt, had what he regarded as good authority for what he said; but it is equally certain that the statement is without foundation; it is made by some one out of whole cloth. tice, by correcting the report of a speech pub'is the National Intelligencer of the 10th ultimo, purported to have been delivered by his colleagu CAGE,] in reply to a few remarks of his, on the m commit the Natchez resolutions. This was t opportunity he had had of obtaining the floor s publication of the speech referred to. He did to violate the rules of the House, and therefore special permission. [Objection being made, leave was granted, on by a vote of the House.] The memorial represents the county of Oneida as in the most deplorable condition. Now, sir, I cannot pretend to be furnished with all the indications which in fact exist of the actual situation of its business population; but I have one evidence of the prosperity of Utica, which is very convincing to my mind. The Erie canal passes through Utica, and a toll-office is established in that city. Now, sir, although the tolls have been greatly reduced Mr. P. then thanked the House for their kind during the last winter, upon some property twenty per gence, and said he did not know who was respons cent., and on the residue ten per cent., yet a greater the speech; but, let the responsibility fall wher amount of toll was collected in Utica, during the month of April, than in either of the last two years. It is true the canal opened this year five days earlier than the last; but, taking the number of days which it had been open, down to the fourth of this present month, a greater amount had been received than in an equal number of days at the commencement of the last year. This is a very substantial indication of individual and general prosperity. And as to the whole State, the aggregate of the tolls received in the month of April, this year, exceeded that of the last. In fact, sir, I apprehend that the State at large was never more thriving and prosperous. might, it was due to himself, and that good name. and reputation, which he prized above all price, should be permitted to pronounce it as being one most bare-faced impositions ever practised by t ductors of a public journal professing to give to t lic the substance of a speech delivered on that floc did not think the very respectable editors of that for whom he had a high regard, capable of so misrepresentation of facts. The speech of his col as delivered by him, he found no fault with. near to him, and heard every word he uttered. nothing which, in his opinion, called upon hin My honorable colleague objects to a former remark of reply. He did not (said Mr. P.) contradict an as mine. I did say that I would sooner see the State insti- that he (Mr. P.) made. He made no allusions of tutions prostrated than submit to the corrupt control of sonal character, calculated to wound his (Mr. P. the United States Bank. This does not seen to accord ings. That which purports to be a report of his with the views of my colleague: he is for submission; he published in the Intelligencer, contains, said Mr. is for yielding to the bank, let the consequences be what sinuations of a low and contemptible character, w they may. In this we differ. My constituents do not, in there took occasion to repel, and throw back to this matter, as I believe, agree with the honorable gen- gar and grovelling source from whence they orig tleman more than I do, they have hearts and arms, as as unworthy of notice; and it contained fabricated trust, to resist, at all hazards, every effort to bring them ments, which he pronounced to be false. Hel into passive obedience to the bank. high an opinion of his friend Stansbury to belie But the bank, in the language of my colleague, "seems capable of so base an act as to dress up the speed to have the power of making political enemies, not member, spiced with personal allusions towards a friends. This is, indeed, a new idea. Will the honor- tleman on that floor, which were never uttered able gentleman look at New York, Philadelphia, Balti House. He had too high a regard for his charac more-indeed, in any part of the Union. Has the bank reporter. He therefore held the editors responsi made political enemies only? None but enemies, here or the tissue of falsehoods which it contained. He d elsewhere? Have its unprecedented efforts only resulted he said, to trouble the House with things of that in making political enemies? Has it not almost denation- but it was evident to every one, that the object alized the feelings of a considerable proportion of our production was to injure him in the estimation o countrymen? Have not, in many instances, the firmness whom he had the honor of representing. It was and spirit of American freemen sunk under the influence means of defence. If the speech had been deliv of the bank? "Give us the bank," is the cry, although that floor, at a time when he was present, as MAY 12, 1834.] Oneida county (N. Y.) Memorial. [H. of R. ported to have been, he should have responded to it at that the gentleman should have thought it expedient, in the time. If his colleague had been a little personal in his place, thus wantonly, as I Conceive, to have heaped the heat of debate, it might have been, under the circum-unmerited obloquy on any portion of his constituents and stances, somewhat pardonable. If he had, by any happy fellow-citizens. I, however, do not consider it necessary hits of wit, turned his remarks into ridicule, he should that I should enter upon their defence here. The gen. have been the last man to have complained. If he had tleman's speech is made for home consumption. There been a little satirical or sarcastic in his remarks, and he it cannot affect them. Here I am persuaded it will not. had had an opportunity of replying, he would have been The manner and temper in which this portion of the peosatisfied, even though he had failed to retort with suc-ple of Mississippi have been brought before this House, cess. Every gentleman, he said, was welcome to all the connected with the fact that the representative who feels advantage he can gain over him in fair debate. But himself called upon thus publicly to assail his constituents, when a cowardly, midnight, political assassin, undertook or any portion of them, for no other reason than that they to stab his reputation in the dark, (although his poniard have presented a memorial, accompanied with some res might not have pierced him,) by manufacturing for home olutions of a most mild and temperate character, in which consumption, out of the House, falsehoods and misrepre- the representative is not referred to, except in the most sentations, purporting to have been delivered to his face in open day, on that floor, he felt it to be his duty to hold him up to the scorn and contempt of the House and the world. After having premised thus much, he considered it his duty to his colleague, as well as to himself, that he should point out the particular misrepresentations contained in the paper to which he referred; for, he said, he was certain that his colleague did not desire to have falsehood promulgated to the world in connexion with his name. He proposed to read such portions of the published speech as were not delivered in that hall, but which had been concocted, by some one, since the publication of his remarks, to which they purported to be in reply. respectful language, asking his co-operation in aid of their views; and when, too, the great reservoirs to which gentlemen who are inclined to indulge in this sort of debate may resort for matter and manner is known to the House, the effect will not, I think, be very injurious to them, even here." This paragraph, he said, contained five distinct misrep resentations: 1. He pronounced no "eulogy upon the characters of the gentlemen constituting the committee." 2. He did not "tell the House that these gentlemen, and all others of the State of Mississippi who were opposed to the President, were the federalists of '98, of alien and sedition law memory; nor that they were of the anti-war party, of Hartford convention memory.' 3. He brought no "charge, he said, against the people of Mississippi." 4. He did not charge any portion of the people of that State "with entertaining political opinions held by them in utter detestation." In the last place, the whole paragraph, he said, was false; for scarcely a single sentence or word therein contained was delivered by his colleague at the time pretended. Mr. P. then read: Mr. PLUMMER then read from Mr. CAGE's speech: "Mr. C. resumed. I did not hear the commencement of the gentleman's speech this morning, not being in my seat when he began it; but the first sound which fell upon my ear, after I was so fortunate as to reach my seat, was a most deserving eulogy upon the characters of the gentlemen constituting the committee which reported the resolutions adopted at the meeting of the citizens of Natchez. He accorded to these gentlemen honor, worth, and respectability. He placed them in an attitude that could not fail to be most gratifying to their warmest "I believe he is not generally suspected of acting friends. It was at least so to me. I thought his eulogy very promptly or decidedly upon any question of magcreditable to his head and his heart. But, alas! how nitude, until he shall have looked well to the effect it is short and evanescent are the honors of this world! These to have upon that overshadowing popularity which he gentlemen were not long permitted to enjoy this enviable place in the minds of the listeners to the speech of my honorable colleague. After besmearing them, he commences by telling the House that, among the honorable and high-minded men, he could discover among them the name of but one man who was not now, and who had at all times past, been decidedly opposed to the present has, in the course of his remarks, informed the House he enjoys in our State. Yet, for the life of me, I cannot imagine the channels through which the gentleman bas derived his information." He used no such language. "I must be permitted to say, among these good citiChief Magistrate and his administration. He proceeded zens, I know no line of distinction, either personal or to tell the House that these gentlemen, and all others of political, such as the gentleman has thought proper to the State of Mississippi who are opposed to the President, draw in his imagination, and on one side of which he has are the federalists of '98, of alien and sedition law memo- thought proper to place what he is pleased to call the ry-the anti-war party, of Hartford convention memory.working men; to the other, I believe, he has given no Sir, said Mr. C., whatever may be the faults and foibles name. If he means, by working men, the industrious, of the people of Mississippi, or any portion of them, in enterprising, frugal men, of all vocations, then I imagine the opinion of the gentleman, they are, in my estimation, we are all on the same side of the question, and constithe last people on earth obnoxious to the charge the gentute the working men, or at least we will say so, as they tleman has thought proper to bring against them on this embrace certainly the most important and interesting occasion. I know no man, of any party or politics, who, portion of society. If the gentleman means, as distin. if he were not a participator in the scenes of the last war, guishable from the working men, the non-working men, did not rejoice at our victories and mourn over our de-as that portion of our population that he does not infeats, whose political differences were not merged in the tend to patronise, then, too, do I think he will be in the intense anxiety which he felt in the common cause. Yet, majority; for, however much we may lament over the sir, one of the representatives of such a people has been foibles and imperfections of our fellow-men, there are induced to charge them, for reasons and under circum-few among us who will be found the advocates of the stances best known to himself, with entertaining political idle and dissolute, whose conduct, in reference to their opinions held in utter detestation by every individual families, and those dependent upon them, is pronounced, against whom they are made, and which charge is utterly by the highest authority, to be worse than that of an false and unfounded." infidel.' "It is a matter of deep regret with me, said Mr. C., "If the gentleman intends the line to be drawn be 4031 H. or R.] GALES & SEATON'S REGISTER Oneida county (N. Y.) Memorial. [MAY 12, tween the rich and the poor, then the distinction is an "Whilst my colleague was alluding to the cou invidious one, and should not be permitted to insinuate the Legislature of Mississippi, in reference to the itself into any portion of the society of this free and inde- question, if it had suited his purposes equally we pendent Government, where the road to wealth and fame might have told the House what took place i is equally open to all. Besides, it would be a political body in December last. As he has thought pro distinction that cannot be defined. How much, or how pass over that part of the history of their acting little, must a man be worth to belong to this new-fangled doings on this subject, I will, in support of m party of my colleague? And is it not more perfectly course, and to give to the House some idea of v clear that, if such is made the test of party, there can be the probable portion of the people of that State no permanency in it? Every man aspires to a competency the gentleman has sought to place in so odious for himself and family. Should his industry and enter- before them, inform them that, during the sessi prise secure this to him, beyond a given amount, then he ferred to, a resolution was introduced into the ceases to be of the one party, without any effort of the of Representatives, instructing their Senators, a mind, or the change of a solitary political opinion. On questing their Representatives, to vote against a the other side, accident or misfortune, under the opera-ter of the United States Bank. It was laid up tion of this political thermometer, must decide the vic- table in that House. The Senate, perceiving th tim's political station. In fine, sir, said Mr. C., the resolution was not likely again to be called up people of Mississippi, as I recognise them, are all the House, introduced a resolution of an opposite cha working class, in some vocation, and among them much instructing their Senators and requesting their the largest proportion cultivate the soil, upon whose sentatives to vote for the recharter, with such m prosperity essentially depend the happiness and prosper- tions as Congress might deem proper. This res ity of all. They are an enterprising and thrifty people, passed the Senate by a majority of nine to thre and, if permitted to pursue the even tenor of their way, sent to the House, and there laid upon the table under a just and wise administration of the constitution the one which originated in that body. My corre and laws of their country, they will be prosperous and ent adds, that, upon a joint vote of the two I happy." there would have been a majority of two in favor recharter.'" This, said Mr. P., has all been fabricated since the speech was delivered. He again read: "Indeed, sir, if the gentleman has not mistaken his growth and strength in Mississippi, his opposition to, and aid in, any measure, must settle the question, so far as Mississippi is concerned. I am, said Mr. C., as little disposed to give my advice to my colleague, as he is to me. I will, however, take the liberty of saying to that gentleman, not to lay the "flattering unction to his soul," that, because he is strong in the affections of these people, they will therefore permit him to experiment upon their affections, attack their best interests, and sap the very foundation of their prosperity. No, sir; and though he may be the largest, strongest, and most beautiful proportioned tree in all their political forest, yet, if it be found that his beauty and ornament is to be sustained at too great a sacrifice, these people may think proper to relieve themselves of the dense shade, with its chilling influence, which withers and blasts every flower in its reach, extending itself even to the destruction of every cotton plant, in every field in that fertile region of the country." No such language used by my colleague, said Mr. P.; all made up since. So far from using this language, he said, his col did not hint at a single idea therein contained. Again, said Mr. P., speaking of his vote on se portant question connected with the bank, the aut the speech says: "I hoped to have had him on our side; I fou there upon one occasion, on what was consider some extent, a test vote; and this was some time af letter was written. I hoped to have had him side throughout-it was quite reasonable that it be so." Mr. P. said he had never given any such vote, a his colleague made no such charge. Mr. P. then read "It may have occurred to him, however, that t a fit occasion, and fair, to leave some impression a without stating the fact, that he had seen some s and that he was not afraid of fighting. If he has su ed in making this impression, I, at least, shall not his repose under it, by attempting to add to, c from, his brow the laurels which, in his imaginat may have won, by saying what he has or has not the field of Mars. I shall take the liberty of asl not a division of the question, a division of the p and, so far as I shall respond, speak alone for mys All a mistake; all fabricated since. Mr. P. begged leave to call the attention of the particularly to the following paragraph. It is elo and some one will certainly recollect it. He then Mr. PLUMMER then read the following extracts: "Sir, this may not be a libel upon the gentleman himself, but it is a most egregious one upon me, if he intends to convey the idea, by the interrogatory propounded, that such was my course; and not less so upon the people of Mississippi, who have honored me with their confidence. "It was in this situation, said Mr. C., where m I cannot believe, sir, that the gentleman himself pursued was fired with, and received its strongest impress that course, and I have but one reason for doubting it; love of liberty. It was there where I was taug and that is, that I do not believe the high-minded, honor- we were engaged in a conflict in defence of our able freemen of Mississippi could be brought to support freemen. It was there I heard and believed itany man for a high and responsible station, however large when the tocsin of war should cease to sound, and and beautiful he may have grown, or however much he be restored to our land and country, that we sh may have strengthened with that growth, either phys- permitted to return to the walks and duties of civ ically or mentally, who would thus consent to prostitute where we might enjoy freedom of thought, of the noblest gift of God to man, immolate that divine fac-and of action, uncontrolled by any other influenc ulty which raises him above the rest of the animal crea- those of moral rectitude, amenable at all times, tion, and thus consent to become the willing instrument abuse of our liberty, to the laws of the best Gover of party, regardless of consequences, either to them or their common country." Mr. P. said that his colleague did not use any such language when he delivered his speech. Mr. P. again read from the same speech: if wisely administered, that has existed since the c of man. To this happy and peaceful state I ha been restored; and am now, thank God! enjoyi liberty, and exercising the freedom of opinion action, the birth-right of every American citize MAY 12, 1834.] Oneida county (N. Y.) Memorial. [H. OF R. any man or party," right or wrong. The people of Mississippi would disdain to ask such a pledge. The gentleman was not required to make it. The CHAIR interposed, and arrested his remarks, as transcending the permission granted by the House. Mr. PLUMMER thereupon asked leave of the House there is none to make me afraid.' It was there, too, I was taught, by the force of illustrious examples, never to shun responsibility, when the good of the service in which we are engaged requires that we should meet it. How we shall meet the responsibility forced upon us all by the question now under consideration, is a matter about which gentlemen may and do differ. I hope we shall to proceed; but it was negatived. all meet it in a spirit of frankness and candor, and with an eye single to its merits, and the great interests involv-ply, said that it was at all times, and upon all occasions, a ed in it." Not one word of this elegant extract, he said, was spoken on that floor. All concocted since. Mr. CAGE, having obtained leave of the House to re painful thing to him to be drawn into personal or political contact with any individual earthly, and it was particularly so when that individual was his colleague; one who In addition to the extracts which he had read, the most had been selected by the people of Mississippi to attend of the remainder of the pretended speech of his colleague, to their interests upon that floor. It would be far more he said, had been fabricated since that time. But a small desirable that her Representatives should harmonize perportion of it was delivered on that floor. It was the sonally, apparently at least, and should agree in their result of some eight days' labor. If he might be allowed efforts to advance her interest. That they should differ to express an opinion, he would say that it was the joint in their sentiments on political subjects of vast concern, effort of congenial spirits, afraid to meet the real question was, perhaps, what might be expected; but that they before the people of Mississippi. He said it was a wanton should expose themselves before the House and before and premeditated attack on him, unparalleled in the his-the nation, and thus destroy all the joint influence they tory of parliamentary speech-making. However unin- might otherwise exert for the good of their State, was teresting it might be to the House, in consequence of his deplorable. peculiar situation he begged the indulgence of gentle- Mr. C. said that he felt the immense difficulty that was men while he briefly responded to some of the general thrown around his conduct on the present occasion. He charges, intimations, and innuendoes, contained in the pre- knew what was due to the dignity of that House, and tended speech of his colleague. When he had the honor what he owed to himself as one of its members, and he of addressing the House on the presentation of the reso- would not sacrifice either, by entering into a personal lutions from Natchez the other day, he thought that he collision on that floor. He had witnessed too much of it was distinctly understood by the House and his honorable in that House, and witnessed it with pain, and he never colleague. On that occasion, he said, his colleague had would descend from the honorable and dignified station stated that those who composed the meeting were emi- which his constituents had assigned to him there, to notice nently well qualified to judge of the cause of the pecu-personal and abusive allusions to their Representative. niary distress which pervaded the whole country, and the That hall had never been designed for such purposes. wishes of the people, or something to that effect, and It had been erected, that therein the Representatives of added that he concurred with them in opinion. the people might deliberate on great and weighty subMr. P. said he differed from them and his colleague in jects connected with the interests of the country; and he opinion, and felt it due to those of his constituents com- would not detract from the dignity of such a design by posing the meeting, as well as to himself, that he should replying to personal remarks. In reply to what the genexplain the reasons for the course he intended to pursue. tleman had said respecting a pretended speech, he would His colleague had written home a letter which had found observe that, when he had presented a memorial from his its way into the newspapers, and was trumpeted forth to constituents, its consideration had, on the motion of his the world by the opposition papers as positive evidence colleague, been postponed, and, on the subsequent petithat the people of Mississippi had turned against the ad- tion day, he had entered the hall, not knowing that the ministration, and were opposed to its measures. In these consideration of the memorial would at that time be in times of high party excitement, he said he was in honor order, when, to his surprise, he had found his colleague bound, as one of the Representatives from that State, to on the floor, and engaged in debating the subject of that rescue her from such unjust imputations. For that pur-memorial. He was without a single note of preparation; pose, and for the purpose of repelling a charge made on and being thus taken completely aback, he had made at a majority of the members of that House, that their course the time such observations in reply as then occurred to was "the effect of party trammels," and that "they him. The gentleman had said that the speech which were under the influence of decided party discipline," it subsequently appeared in the Intelligencer as his, was became necessary for him to speak of the situation of the written, but not delivered. Now, Mr. C. would not political parties of the State he had the honor in part of vouch that all that was contained in that speech had been representing, and the circumstances under which he was spoken upon the floor of the House. He had drawn it elected, not for the purpose of showing his "overshadow-out as he had thought proper at the time. The gentleing popularity" among the people, nor his irresistible man complained that he did not know whom to make reinfluence" in the Legislature, of which his colleague sponsible for what it contained. He now said to that genspoke, and which he was not disposed to dispute about, tleman that he (Mr. C.) was responsible, and he alone, but in justification of his course as a Representative on for every thing contained in it. that floor, and for the purpose of repelling the insinua- The gentleman had spoken of it as the "joint production, so far as he was concerned, of being under the in- tion of congenial spirits:" to this Mr. C. would reply that fluence of "party trammels," or "party discipline." he there pledged his honor (which was nearly all that he He adverted to the circumstances under which his col-possessed) that every sentence, word, and letter of that league was elected, and the means by which he obtained speech was his own production. Would the gentleman, the votes of the honest and unsuspecting citizens, for the on the honor he had pledged, say as much for his own? purpose of showing that he, [Mr. CAGE,] instead of the Mr. C. felt it due to the editors of the National Intelliindividual addressing the House, was misrepresenting the gencer, who had published that speech or document, or wishes of the people of Mississippi, (if there was any whatever else the gentleman pleased to call it, to make misrepresentation,) as had been charged in the public this avowal. Mr. C. said he had none of that ridiculous newspapers on the authority of his letter. Mr. P. said pride which some persons manifested in respect to what he did not accuse his colleague of pledging himself "to came from him. This he could assure the House and the go the whole animal, or blindly to follow the dictates of gentleman, that every thing purporting to come from VOL. X.--253 him did come from him. The gentleman had called he had used was too plain to be misunderstood. He portions of that speech false, and said that it was a fabri- not intended the speech he had published as an inte cation. Now, the speech had come out under his name, rence in any way between his colleague and his const as his speech, and he was responsible for it, there and ents; and it now gave him great pleasure to find that every where. He was now responsible for it. The ed- colleague had relieved him from that multiplicity of itors of the paper had never seen the speech till it was sonalities he had heaped upon him. No man was delivered to them; and he presumed that their reporter more disposed to avoid personal collisions than he had not made himself so busy as to tell them that it had when he could do it properly, and in an honor not been prepared by him; and, even if he had, he took manner. it for granted that the editors would have published it notwithstanding. The gentleman had said that the speech was intended to injure him with his constituents. It had been intended for no such purpose. It had been intended as the best. argument Mr. C. could offer with a view to sustain himself, and to show why he had taken the course he pursued. If that gentleman did nothing himself to injure himself with his constituents, Mr. C. should certainly never make the effort. He would take no such course; and the gentleman had mistaken his character when he had spoken of him as a midnight assassin, stabbing in the dark. As he was anxious to sustain his honor before that House and the nation, he wished them to believe that he was no midnight assassin, either of character or of person. So far as this representation might go home to his own State, it would not be believed. Mr. C. said he had no imputations to throw back in return upon his colleague. He would not consent to make that floor a place for indecorous language to any one; and he would not himself be guilty of that which he should condemn in others. He would say, however, in reference to his former speech, written or spoken, that he cared nothing about it. He alone was responsible for any thing it con tained. Mr. PLUMMER now rose to reply, but The CHAIR interposed, and said that the matter could go no further. Mr. PLUMMER said he only wished to explain. The CHAIR replied that the gentleman had already had an opportunity to explain, and could not proceed unless by the express permission of the House. Mr. PLUMMER thereupon asked leave of the House. Mr. CLAYTON objected. He said he had a memorial in his pocket, which he was anxious to present; but, if these personal explanations were to go on, the day would be wasted, and he and other gentlemen should lose the opportunity. Mr. CAGE said that he hoped the gentleman would be permitted to explain. If he had any thing to state .which would tend to allay the unpleasant feeling which had been produced on either side, he wished to hear it. Mr. CLAYTON thereupon withdrew his objection; and the question being put by the CHAIR, Mr. BROWN, of New York, moved to lay the m rial and resolution on the table. Mr. SELDEN remonstrated, and wished only vote, without debate. Mr. BROWN refusing to withdraw his motion, Mr. WILLIAMS demanded the yeas and nays. Mr. CLAY moved a call of the House; but it was tived. The yeas and nays were then taken, and had been claimed by the CHAIR to be yeas 90, nays 90; and tha CHAIR voted in the affirmative, When Mr. GARLAND, who had voted in the neg but whose name had, by mistake, been recorded the affirmative, had the record corrected. Whereupon, Mr. HAWES changed his vote fro negative to the affirmative. This left the state of the vote as before, as follow YEAS-Messrs. William Allen, Beale, Bean, B ley, Beaumont, Bockee, Bodle, Boon, Bouldin, B Bunch, Burns, Bynum, Cambreleng, Chaney, Samuel Clark, Clay, Clayton, Cramer, Day, P. D son, Dunlap, Felder, Forester, Foster, Fowler, W K. Fuller, Galbraith, Gamble, Gholson, Gillet, G Gordon, Joseph Hall, T. H. Hall, Halsey, Hamer, son, Hathaway, Hawkins, Hawes, Howell, Abel Hu ton, Jarvis, Noadiah Johnson, Seaborn Jones, Ber Jones, Kavanagh, Kinnard, Lane, Lansing, Luke Thomas Lee, Loyall, Joel K. Mann, Mardis, Moses McIntire, McKay, McKim, McKinley, McVean, Robert Mitchell, Page, Parks, Parker, Patton, Patt Peyton, Franklin Pierce, Pinckney, Plummer, Schenck, Schley, Shinn, Standefer, Sutherland, Taylor, William P. Taylor, John Thomson, Turri Houten, Wagener, Wardwell, Webster, Whallen, White-90. NAYS-Messrs. John Quincy Adams, Heman John J. Allen, Chilton Allan, Anthony, Ashley, Barber, Barnitz, Barringer, Bates, Baylies, Beaty ney, Briggs, Bull, Burges, Cage, Campbell, Cha Chilton, William Clark, Clowney, Connor, Corwin ter, Crane, Darlington, Davenport, Deberry, D Denny, Dickson, Duncan, Horace Everett, Fil Philo C. Fuller, Fulton, Garland, Gorham, G Griffin, Hiland Hall, Hard, Hardin, James Harper, Mr. PLUMMER had leave to explain. He said that tine, Henderson, Hiester, J. W. Huntington, W the remarks he had before made had been directed to Cost Johnson, King, Laporte, Lewis, Lincoln, what he had then termed a pretended speech. His col- Lucas, Lyon, Martindale, Marshall, McCarty, McK league had now avowed himself to be the author of it. In Mercer, Milligan, Moore, Murphy, Osgood, Potts speaking of the author of the speech as it appeared, he say, Reed, Rencher, Selden, William B. Shepar had used the term midnight political assassin. That was Slade, C. Slade, Sloane, Spangler, Stewart, Ph all he meant. He had used the term assassin in a politi-Thomas, Turner, Tweedy, Vance, Vinton, Wan cal sense; but, since his colleague now admitted himself Elisha Whittlesey, Wilde, Williams, Wilson, to be the author of every part of that speech, and as the Young-90. editors of the paper had been exonerated from the re- The SPEAKER Voting in the affirmative, the m sponsibility, Mr. P. was willing to withdraw the remarks from Oneida county, and Mr. SELDEN's resolution, he had made. He now understood the gentleman to say upon were laid upon the table. that he had no design to injure him, either in the House, or at home. With that understanding he withdrew the ADAMS COUNTY (PA.) MEMORIAL. remarks he had made. There was no unkindness in his Mr. CHAMBERS remarked that he had been r bosom toward any one; and if he had rightly understood ed to present to the House the proceedings of a his colleague as meaning to say that he had not designed meeting of the citizens of Adams county, Pennsy to injure him, he withdrew what he had said. Mr. CAGE replied that he did not pretend to say either more or less than he had spoken. The language The held at Gettysburg on the 5th April last. ceedings (said Mr. C.) I have had in my possess some weeks; but, under the rules of the House, |