FEB. 21, 1832.] The Tariff. [SENATE. lation? The State judges would try, the juries convict, right to put their construction on the extent of their and the sheriff inflict forthwith the punishment; and of powers; that the Federal Government will always construe what avail would your writ of error or appellate jurisdic- for itself, and enforce by its authority its own construction. tion be, supposing it to exist, which is not conceded? If Of course, this must necessarily belong to the Federal you persist in this reckless disregard of public opinion, Government. The question, then, would resolve itself your authority in certain sections of the Union will be con- into this-would a small man permit a larger one quietly temned, scouted, scoffed at, and become a reproach and to take a position on his toes, and refuse to push him off, aby-word. Listen to what that able and enlightened ju- merely because the larger one might resent and punish rist, Chief Justice Parsons, laid down upon this subject. him for doing what he had the most unquestionable right "An act of usurpation is not obligatory-it is not law; to do? And here let me remark on the specific differany man may be justified in his resistance to it: let him ence between South Carolina and Georgia nullification. be considered as a criminal by the General Government, In the case just referred to, the Georgian would knock yet his own fellow-citizens alone can convict him-they down the trespasser without notice, and the South Caroare his jury; and if they pronounce him innocent, not all linian would say, my friend, stand off my toes, or I will the powers of Congress can hurt him-and innocent they push you off; none but the coward will submit to the incertainly will pronounce him, if the supposed law which vasion of his personal rights. No one ought to act on he resisted was an act of usurpation.' the supposition of danger resulting from what he has a right to do. Sir, one-half of the States of this Union have avowed, and acted on the principle, that the States have rights, There can be no doubt but, in conceding to Congress and the means of enforcing them. Massachusetts, Maine, the power to levy taxes, the objects upon which the New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Ohio, taxes are to operate must be selected by that body. In Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Kentuc- selecting, however, the articles for taxation, the constituky. And the Senator from Maine is entirely mistaken tion again takes care that injustice shall not be done. The in supposing they have always been vanquished in the taxes must be uniform; any design to violate this rule controversy. Sometimes the Federal Government has would be unconstitutional. In fact, the constitution was prevailed, sometimes the States, but generally good sense intended to secure life, liberty, and property; and no legisand mutual forbearance have adjusted the controversy. lative device can be resorted to, to pierce the panoply Considering the situation of Maine at this time, the which that instrument throws over the rights and liberties opinions expressed as well as by that State as by Massa- of the people of this country. It is an entire protection, chusetts on the subject of the Northeastern boundary, I even the heel cannot be wounded; and when it shall cease think the Senator from Maine maintains his consistency to subserve his purpose, our Government henceforth will rather at the expense of public opinion, and the local in-degenerate into a despotism-an irresponsible despotism. terest of his constituents; and there is but one ground upon Upon the expediency and policy of this system the free which I can justify his course. If, by loyalty to the Federal Government, he can get it to interpose to protect the rights of Maine, it will be better than to let Maine, single handed, struggle for them. The Senator from Maine thinks, because he stood up for the Federal Government, against State authority, during the late war, that he has a right now to take to himself the same credit for standing forth its champion in profound peace. He tells us the times have changed, and we have changed with them. I contend that it was perfectly right in the gentleman to sustain the Government of the Union during the war; and equally right now to sustain the Government of the States. trade reports, memorials, and arguments of those who have preceded me, will save me the trouble of going much in detail at this time. It has been said that the home market has been improved for agricultural products, through the agency of this system. I have no doubt the free trade policy would greatly increase the demand for most of the agricultural products. And to sustain this position, I quote the following judicious observations: "The Free Trade System.—Some idea of its advantages over the restrictive, may be seen by comparing the amount imported, when the duties were one hundred cents per gallon on Madeira wine, with the same when the duty was reduced to fifty cents. By the first, the customs received, as per Mr. By the second, as per Mr. McLane's report Under different circumstances different rules of conduct $97,000 95,000 Difference, $2,000 $1,900 greater to pay for it, besides the advantages the navigation secured by carrying so much more; and people in moderate circumstances can afford to drink a glass of good wine instead of deleterious trash." "For this nineteen hundred dollars less at the customstruggling in deep water, and it was all right for the honor- house, the country derive a benefit of about two hundred able Senator to swim then; but now he is upon the terra thousand dollars per annum for there being imported firma, let him escape from the river; let him stand erect nearly double the quantity of wine; the exports, whether upon Maine and State rights. But it is said, if the Gene- in the shape of codfish, flour, or rice, would be that much ral Government has not the power against all opposition to support itself, our Union is a rope of sand. This is a mere fallacy; the Government rests, at last, upon the States, and is founded on the supposition that the people will, for their own interest, sustain it. Cannot the States, The Senator from Rhode Island has gone into a calby refusing to act, dissolve the Government? May they culation to show that, upon the supposition that the not refuse to elect Senators, electors, and members to the duty increases the price of the article, the cotton-plantother House? Does this make the Government a rope of ing States derive an enormous increase of their prosand? The question is, will the people do what is oppos- fits by the tax of three cents per pound on cotton; and, ed to their own interest? Have they not intelligence and by establishing this acknowledged absurdity, supposes he forecast enough to govern themselves? This is presumed will escape from the argument, so far as regards the duty by the theory of our Government. Is there any danger on cotton goods. The fair way to test this matter is to that the weaker power will resist the stronger one, unless repeal the duty on both. I pledge myself, if the Senator it is clearly right? But it is said that both parties have a will vote to repeal the duty on manufactured cotton goods, SENATE.] The Tariff. [FEB. 21, 1832. I will vote to repeal the duties on raw cotton. It is not we had just escaped from a hazardous war; the manufacpretended that the tax operates as an increase of the price tures to a certain extent sprang up under war duties; of the domestic article, to the whole amount of the tax in Bonaparte had been put down; the whole disposable every instance. But we are told the duties reduce the prices British force had been thrown upon our shores; our capiof the article, and that, in progress of time, we shall be sup. tal had been sacked and burnt; Baltimore assailed; their plied with the domestic fabric at prices below the foreign squadrons fell down the Chesapeake, passed South, article. This does not seem likely to be the result, as ap-threatened Charleston, making only a bow to Fort Moultrie; pears from the following letter, written by an intelligent merchant of Columbia, South Carolina, from New York: NEW YORK, September, 1831. DEAR SIR: I have forwarded you some New York papers, and now discharge what I feel to be a duty, in stating to you the state of this market; this I could do with some accuracy, by saying at once that there is an advance of twenty per cent. in all descriptions of staple goods, such as are indispensable to planters. will, however, go more into details. Since September, 1830, Nails have advanced 1 ct. per lb. Bar lead 66 Bale roping 66 Anvils and vices 14 3 66 66 2 to 3" 20 per ct. 40 66 26 "" 12" White lead (25 kegs) 31 cts. per keg Hardware has advanced in price from ten to twenty per cent. All descriptions of domestic goods, such as brown and bleached homespuns, striped homespuns, checks, ticklings, negro clothing, &c., have advanced twenty per cent. in twelve months; and cotton yarns twenty-five per cent. Dufil blankets and coarse woollens, about twenty per cent." attacked New Orleans, were gloriously defeated, and soon after a treaty of peace put an end to the war: cotton rose from seven cents to thirty; and while prosperous beyond measure, exulting in the arms of peace, and triumphing over the trophies of the war, we consented, upon the pure principles of benevolence, to sustain, by liberal legislation, the manufacturing interest. And this is brought forward against the South as a criminal charge. You asked us then for a pittance as a bounty, because it was given you; now, with a pistol presented at our breast, demand all we have. If the I believe I speak the truth when I say the average product of the South Carolina planter is not more than six hundred pounds of cotton to the hand; and the Senator from Louisiana, who sits near me, who is good authority on this subject, admits that, with this result, the expenses of such a planting interest must equal the income. Can any one doubt, then, that the duty of forty per cent. might as well be laid upon the exports as imports? According to this rule, the Government gets two hundred and forty weight, and the planter three hundred and sixty, of the product of each laborer. And yet the honorable Senator from Kentucky has gone into a calculation to prove Every planter in the Southern country knows that these that South Carolina does not pay an equal portion of the articles have increased in price. The continued assertion, taxes. Assuming the aggregate amount of the imports of by the manufacturers, that the higher the duty, the the whole State to be eight millions, and that our aggre cheaper the article, is just about as true as the proposi- gate expenses equal our income, it would follow, as a tion that, by putting a fish into a tub of water, the weight mathematical certainty, that we pay from three to four is not thereby increased; and the latter would be quite as millions as our portion of the taxes. It is considered by susceptible of proof by learned dissertations on hydrosta- the manufacturers a species of crime, on our part, to own tics, as the other is by pretenders to political and statistical slaves; but I can tell these philanthropists, that their infallibility. One thing we all know, that something can-policy makes us cannibals; for it is not at all uncommon not come out of nothing; that we pay, now, nearly with us, for benevolent masters to be forced to sell their thirty milions in taxes, drawn from imports. If the duties slaves to pay for their subsistence; and many planters may are taken off articles not manufactured in the United be said literally to be living on their capital. States, one of two things must happen, either that the fo- average product of the cotton planter were as great as reign article, burdened with the duty, will be consumed, the Senator from Kentucky estimated it, I should be less or that it will be excluded by the domestic article. If con- inclined to censure the Government for its exactions. sumed, it proves that the tax increases the price; if not Here Mr. CLAY explained, by saying his position was, consumed, where will you get your revenue? If domestic that the average of the whole of the cotton-planting States, fabrics fall below the price of the foreign article, then the according to information received by him, he believed to tax will prohibit the foreign article, and we shall have no be equal to five bales.] This may be so; I only speak of the revenue. Sir, this will not be the result; the foreign product of that part of the country with which I am acarticle will still be imported, consumed, and the people quainted, when I say I believe the same does not exceed two taxed. bales. The Senator from Ohio seems to think the planter It will be recollected that, two years since, a company can escape from the tax imposed on imports, by selling his was incorporated in South Carolina to make a railroad produce in Liverpool, depositing his money in bank, and from Charleston to Hamburg; and they applied to Congress then selling bills drawn on it. But let me ask, where, in the to assist them. While the result of this application and mean time, are those articles to come from, which, accordthe extent of their means remained uncertain, an intelli-ing to the admission of the Senator from Louisiana, are equal gent capitalist told me that, if the scheme failed, the com- to the proceeds of the sale of the crop? The planter or his pany would realize, in the purchase of manufactured iron, slaves cannot wear money, or eat money; he must import which pays a less duty than the raw material, the sum of the articles, without which his business cannot go on; or one hundred thousand dollars upon the iron purchased for he must bring home his money, and buy at an increased the railroad in Europe, by selling it for common agricultural price those taxed articles from the domestic manufacturer. purposes. With such facts as these before us, who can I call the attention of the Senate to a publication fursubscribe to the doctrine that the duty decreases the price?nished by the Senator from Louisiana, as to the comparaWe have on our tables, essays, written to prove that it tive results of the sugar planter of Louisiana, and the is all nonsense to take off any of the taxes. Is it not palpa- cotton planter of South Carolina; the one protected, and ble that those who think so, do not pay them, but derive the other prostrated, by the Government. the benefit therefrom? "The capital invested in a plantation capable of When gentlemen are driven from every position be-ducing, by the best management, 400,000 pounds of suhind which they entrench themselves, they fall back upon gar, and 10,000 gallons of molasses, worth on the plantation vested rights, and tell us it was the South that imposed 23,000 dollars, must consist as follows: this system; they get furious, and say, it was you that have 1,500 acres of land, at $50 per acre done the mischief. Now, what are the facts? In 1816, 90 hands, at $600 each pro 75,000 54,000 FEB. 21, 1832.1 OF DEBATES IN CONGRESS. 40 pairs of working oxen, at $50 40 horses, at $100 Horizontal sugar mill 2 sets of boilers, at $1,500 each Buildings of all descriptions 12 carts 80 ploughs All other utensils, such as timber, wheels, hoes, spades, axes, scythes, &c. The Tariff. 458 [SENATE. 2,000 If the West be the country it is represented to be, why is 4,000 it that such an immense sum has been conferred on its in4,000 habitants in the shape of bounties, in their purchase of 3,000 public land? It appears from evidence I have before me, 25,000 upwards of sixteen millions have been remitted to the pur1,200 chasers of public land. The South has been liberal. 300 When it was prosperous, the tariff of 1816 was conceded by them; when purchasers of public lands said they could 1,500 not comply with their contracts, their purchases have been remitted. When we stand upon our chartered rights, who $170,000 can now upbraid us with a want of patriotism? The time The annual expenses on the above plantation cost 10,700 has arrived when, if we do not take care of our own housellars in the following items: Provisions of all kinds Clothing of all sorts Medical attendance and medicine Annual losses in negroes Taxes Horses and oxen Repairs of buildings "Two crops of cane are generally made in succession hold, we shall be worse than infidels. 3,500 The Senator from Kentucky has told us that cotton plant1,570 ing is the most successful and prosperous labor in the 500 country. I have shown that it is plainly not so in South 1,500 Carolina. And he has alluded to the non-consumption 500 resolutions adopted some two or three years since, on the 1,200 subject of Western live stock. It is true we did feel dis700 satisfied that a people, apparently deriving so great a be300 nefit from our staple, should combine with an alien interest 1,000 to break it down; and these resolutions were resorted to, as well to open the eyes of the people of the Western with the restrictive system. There is but one of two States, as to make an experiment how far we could fall in courses left to oppose the unjust restriction of commerce; either to throw it off, or fall in and make the most of it. A large portion of South Carolina would be benefited by $23,000 excluding Western live stock; but these demonstrations 10,000 against the Western trade, although tending to lessen it, Being about 7 per cent. on the capital invested." 12,300 were soon found insufficient; voluntary associations to rehave in my possession accounts of sales of a cotton plan- smuggling will go on against the severest penalties. When sist the prohibitory system can scarcely succeed, when on in South Carolina, with about the same capital, and we found the friends of the American system among us proceeds are less than three thousand dollars! The profiting by our voluntary restrictions, we had nothing left year with us has been an unfavorable one; but five but to trade with the innocent Kentuckian, who abjured sand dollars is a fair average estimate of this planta- the tariff, or to trade with the smuggling Carolinian, who ; by this it will be seen that the gross amount of the was a friend of the tariff. iton planter is not half as much as the expenditure of out South Carolina, seemed opposed to the restrictive e sugar planter, with the same capital, the one making system, in all its forms, free trade has been resumed with As public sentiment, throughross amount of $23,000, the other of $5,000; and yet the the West, and is still carried on, I believe, as one of the gar planter is to be enriched at the expense of the cot-principal sources of the commerce and wealth of that planter, through the agency of the Government. country. Those interested in grazing, and live stock, are vett proceeds e do not envy the prosperity of other sections, from thought to exceed far those interested in manufactures, in ses beyond our control; our labor is now unproduc- that region. This will be seen by the following commuwe ask nothing but the right to use what God and nication, which I doubt not the correctness of: ure has given us; and this is denied us to favor interests dly more prosperous than we are. What has been done for the four Southern States, Viria, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia? No To the Editors of the Kentucky Reporter. CUMBERLAND FORD, Jan. 5. DEAR SIR: As heretofore, I send you the amount of Horses, 4,077 Hogs, (including 307 shoats drove 71,459 Stall-fed beef cattle, 842 Sheep, 387 $980,000 g-literally, nothing! This is the proscribed region; stock passing this place, on the Wilderness and Turnpike are made to feel the Government, not by the bounties road, during the year 1831, for markets, which, perhaps, onfers, but the burdens it imposes. It is here that con- some of your many readers may be desirous of knowing, ding parties for political power assail each other, with- to wit: the least respect to the opinions, interests, or prejues of the inhabitants of the country. The honorable ator from Kentucky makes a merit of turning his back us. Sir, what have we done to provoke the vennce of our brethren? Did we not assist to achieve our ependence? Did not South Carolina furnish her share men and money to maintain the cause of the revolution? we not stand by our country during the late war? hat portion of the funded debt came to the South? hat portion of the pensions does she receive? What tion of the appropriations for internal improvement? primogeniture was the cause of depression at the South; We have been told that the abolition of the rights of much of the public land? Of this we complain not; that we are too poor to live, too proud to work, too honorask nothing but equal laws, and that the Government able to resort to ignoble means, and hence we rush into uld not sequester our estates, and divest us of what nullification. The Senator from Kentucky is entirely misfully belongs to us. When we complain of the action of taken in the character of our laws, the habits of the people, urlaws upon our industry, we are told to remove to the and causes which urge them on to nullification. We have lands in the West. Is this your remedy, that your a law with us which subjects all idlers, strollers from gulation shall drive us into exile? Have you sympathies tavern to tavern, loungers, disorderly persons following the Indian, which you have not for the white people? no lawful employment, to be taken up for vagrancy; and I Probable amount of all, SENATE.] The Tariff [FEB. 21, 1832 ports to be. He is as severe with the President pro tem. as Junius was with the Duke of Grafton; he is not willing to admit that he can do right by accident. It is obvious that the American system party want the whole game in their own hands; they are not willing to surrender any thing. have known a man deposite his cash in security for his the manufacturing committee thoroughly what it pur good behavior, as the only alternative left him from being sold as a slave to some one who would make him work. There is not a more laborious or industrious people in the world than the people of South Carolina; they live by work, while others live by their wits. The only portion of our population who are exempted, by courtesy, from working, is the female part. With us, the men support their families by their industry; the fathers and sons save the mothers and sisters from the rays of the sun, or a dependence on strangers. It is said the progress of civilization is marked by the estimate in which the female portion is held in society. Among the savages and barbarians, it is considered degrading for the males to work; they hunt, fish, and engage in war, but the females till the ground, hoe the corn, and make something to subsist on. From the display made of female industry in this debate, Prohibitory duties are but parts of one entire wholeI should be inclined to think we were retrograding to a aristocracy, monopoly, debt. The wealth of the few, and state of barbarism. From a letter before me, taking a sin- the poverty of the many, make up the British system; an gle cotton factory as a sample, the whole number of fe- and this is held up to us as an example to follow, by th males employed in the cotton factories is sixty-six thou-American system champions. The friends of high taxes and the British restrictive sys tem feel the full force of the breach made in the symmetry of their policy by the payment of the national debt. we were in debt as much as Great Britain, no question would arise about the constitutionality of the tariff. The forcing power could then be applied to any extent This difference is not sufficiently marked by those who look to the policy of Great Britain as an example to be followed. sand. Where are the men? what are they doing? Why Great reliance, in this debate, is placed on the opinion do they not take the burden of subsistence and protection and reports of Alexander Hamilton. Let us hear what h of those females? If I had it in my power, I would make says of the propriety of adopting the British system: it a penal offence for a manufacturer to engage, in his He says, "I believe the British Government forms th employment, an unmarried female, in the lifetime of best model the world ever produced; and such has bee either parent. The little pittance thus made is but a poor its progress, in the minds of many, that this truth gradua equivalent for the hazard and danger to which their health, ly gains ground. This Government has, for its objec peace, virtue, and honor, are exposed. If we cannot public strength and additional security. It is said with boast of female operatives in manufacturing establishments, to be unattainable. If it was once formed, it would mai we are not made to blush by the developments of Magda-tain itself. All communities divide themselves into t few and the many. len societies. The first are the rich and well bon The Senator from New Hampshire, in the course of his the other, the mass of the people. The voice of th speech, made a suggestion which it is proper for me to people has been said to be the voice of God; and howev notice. It acquires additional importance from the cir- generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it cumstance that similar charges are made from what may not true in fact. The people are turbulent; they seldo be considered the ministerial quarters. He says, he hopes judge or determine right. Give, therefore, the first cla that no unison of purpose exists between some of those a distinct and permanent share in the Government; the politicians who urge the highest duties, as necessary to the will check the unsteadiness of the second. As they cann vital interests of the country, and some of those who urge receive any advantage by the change, they, therefor to a forcible existence of high duties, because they were will ever maintain a good Government.” oppressive. I can assure the Senator, if the insinuation was This is the language of the great Corypheus of the pr levelled at me, or those with whom I act, that it has no tective policy. The tariff laws are the foundation, in fac foundation. I repel the imputation. What double motive of the British system, on which the "the rich and well born can influence us to hazard the peace of the country unne- will mount and rule the honest yeomanry of this country cessarily? Have we nothing to lose by revolution and The Senator from Kentucky, in his zeal to bear dow civil war? What political preferment awaits us as a com- free trade, with less than his usual magnanimity has a pensation for seeming what we are not? What act have sailed the learned author of the Free Trade memorial. H we done which has shown our attachment to principle is has told him to go home to Europe, and inculcate his pri vacillating or ambidextrous? Show us the anti-tariff mea-ciples. The same causes which made him seek refuge i sure we have opposed, or the anti-tariff man that we have turned from and abandoned. this land of freedom, still operate to keep him here. H has been an American citizen longer than I have; he ha Let us see how far the honest men, the patriots, the done his country some little service, and has been abl judicious tariff men, differ with high pressure tariff men. sustained on this floor. And let me tell the Senator on The treasury report on this subject is nearly identical thing--if that individual were a member of this Senate with the resolutions of the Senator from Kentucky; he would defend himself from the imputations thus heape it proposes to keep on the duties on all which are called upon him, with the sparkling eye of genius, and the cut the protected articles. The political compromising party, ting sarcasm of a tongue as skilled in debate as powerfu with which the Senator from New Hampshire acts, con- in advocating the cause of truth. I was the more surprise stitutes the head of the tariff column of attack. If there to hear the denunciations of this gentleman, since, at th be a wish to meet on middle ground, let the friends of Free Trade Convention, he was looked upon with som protection advance to the centre; I, for one, will not stickle jealousy for his supposed political partiality to the Sena for a hair-breadth on this question. All we desire is tor from Kentucky. We live in strange times, and scen justice, equality, and uniformity in the regulation of the to be acting the Midsummer Night's Dream--those we wo tariff, so as to meet the expenditures of the civil list and turn from us; and those who woo, we turn from. just wants of the Government. The gentleman is not backward in retaining foreigner The Senator from Kentucky has animadverted upon the in his ranks. I will not say to Mr. Carey, "Go home." conduct of the President pro tem., the Senator from Mary- am willing that he may still remain, and shed any light ha land, on account of his not constituting the Committee on may possess in favor of the principles he thinks right. Internal Improvements favorable to increased expenditures the eulogy which the Senator from Kentucky pronouncer in that branch. While he censures for this, he does not on the foreign emigrants to this country, he omitted t give the honorable Senator credit for creating the Com- notice the Scotch. This might have been considered ac mittee on Finance a manufacturing committee, or making cidental, but for the thrust he made at the Scotch me EB. 23 to 27, 1832.] OF DEBATES IN CONGRESS. Territorial Judges.-The Tariff. ant in another part of his argument. They are, by me means or other, put down as the friends of free ade, and consequently denounced. Now, the truth is, e have not in the country a more industrious, moral, and orthy class of people than the Scotch. Of those engaged agriculture, they are temperate, untiring, and intellint, and, with us, convert to use and subsistence a portion our lands which would otherwise remain a wild and ste wilderness. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23. 462 [SENATE. HOLMES, (and agreed to on the following day :) How does it happen that the Scotch merchant comes in THE TARIFF. Mr. DALLAS then took the floor, and moved an adjournment. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24. vate bills, and in executive business; after which, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27. دو The Senator from Kentucky has been kind and retful to South Carolina, while he reprobated her prints, and made war upon her friends. for telling him what the people of that State think of He will pardon rival Western candidates for the first honors of the try. They think the Senator from Kentucky is a hele hog" tariff man, and that General Jackson is not h of a tariff man. Their principles form their assoons; and the present ultra notions of the Senator from tucky, upon matters of constitutional law and public cy, place an impassable gulf between them and him. honor him for his eloquence--for his early opposition federal encroachments-particularly his opposition to incorporation of the United States' Bank. services during the late war, when he stood forth the mpion of his country against a bold and talented minoWe are grateful to him, and his associates, for their cess in procuring an honorable peace-for his present THE TARIFF. ciples and his present policy, we praise him not. The resolution of Mr. CLAY being resumed, mong other animadversions upon the temper mani-contests of deliberative bodies, and deeply sensible how Mr. DALLAS rose. ed in the South, the Senator from New Jersey has read little claim I possess to the attention of so experienced a Unaccustomed, said he, to the ece from a Southern paper, headed "A call to arms. being asked for his authority, it turns out to be from tofore, from venturing to participate in its most important Richmond Enquirer. "council as this Senate, I have shrunk with solicitude, hereay as to induce a belief that the people were even now And this is quoted to us in such discussion. ng into ranks, to oppose by force the Government; tence of past services for the common good, no ability to Bringing with me to your hall no recollection or preof course, it could be no other people than the hot- enlighten, and no erudition with which to add to the stores led nullification party. Sir, the Senator from New of your wisdom, I am painfully assured that personal pruey understands the Richmond Enquirer on some points; dence should keep me silent. The force, fervor, and Mr. WEBSTER laid on the table an amendment which, the apportionment of representatives among the several he stated, he had intended to propose to the bill "for should be under consideration; and he also laid on the table States according to the fifth census,' when the same ordered that the amendment and documents be printed We value sundry documents relating to the subject of said bill; and for the use of the Senate. I am surprised that he should seem disposed to hold brilliancy of the distinguished gentlemen who have preSouth responsible for the belligerent call of Thomas ceded me, rendered doubly effective by the remembrance of their former toils and achievements for the prosperity hie. There was a time when, whatever appeared in that pa- and honor of our country, add peril to the temerity of my eating the temper of the South. n his own tion in his own camp. The Senate adjourned to Thursday, the 23d. dered by the gentleman from South Carolina. |