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New Hampshire Resolutions.

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two hundred and sixty thousand persons petition the The national administration has been signally successful King, and this petition, backed by a collection of thirty in our foreign negotiations, allaying the apprehension of thousand laborers in person, is refused even to be re-internal dissensions, and reconciling conflicting interests, ceived by a creature of the King, until those laborers and during this period it justly received the cordial apshall have dispersed; and all this not even a subject to be probation of a large majority of our fellow-citizens. The noticed on the floor of the British Parliament, and merely long-tried and faithful services of our present Chief Mamatter for a passing paragraph in the periodical press of gistrate, in peace and in war, his personal valor, his unthe day! bending integrity, his patriotic devotion to the welfare of his country, and the moral courage which impel him to the conscientious discharge of his official duties, have powerful claims upon the affection of an intelligent people, which have been, and I trust will continue to be, duly appreciated.

Ever since the quiet of the nation has been disturbed by public agitators in many portions of the country, relative to the Bank of the United States, the State of New Hampshire has pursued the even tenor of her way-she has lent no helping hand to stir up the embers of public strife-she has taken no part in creating public panic and "The principles and proceedings of the great moneydistress. Three panic memorials only have been present-ed institution of our country have been such as to awaken ed to Congress from New Hampshire, and these were a deep interest among the enlightened citizens of our na from a corner of the State, embracing three towns, in tional republic. And there is evidently a violent struggle one of which is a branch of the United States Bank, and going on by this institution to extort a re-charter, and coin each of the two others are manufacturing establish- erce an assent, by oppression of the people. But if the ments, principally owned and controlled by persons living character of the American people is not entirely miscon beyond the limits of the State. The first memorial was ceived, and has not degenerated in patriotism since the originated by the bank itself the two others were the declaration of the independence of our country, and it is work of persons under the influence of the bank, and fully believed it has not, every effort at coercion, and not belonging to the State. The three contained about eleven hundred names, of a population comprising nearly or quite three hundred thousand souls; and counting all the petitioners as citizens, scarcely one-fiftieth part of the legal voters of the State have come here to ask either for the restoration of the deposites, or the re-charter of the Bank of the United States.

every attempt at wanton oppression, will but add strength and energy to the resolution to put down the oppressor. Upon a thorough investigation of the character and influence of this institution, it will be found, it is believed, both in principle and practice, incompatible with the genius and spirit of our Government. The present session affords a convenient opportunity for the Legislature of The citizens of New Hampshire, of the months that this State to express its views on this interesting subject.” have been expended in reading and listening to speeches The resolutions which I shall present, were offered in on memorials, have not probably taken a single hour of the House of Representatives on the same day that the this session of Congress as their share. The democratic Governor's message was communicated. Although the majority of that State has taken up none of your time-it Legislature of this State has always been very decided in has freely expressed its opinions, both at public meetings its political character, it is believed no parallel case since and at the polls, but it has contributed nothing towards in- the adoption of her constitution, exists, where both a terrupting the deliberations of Congress-it has sent no new Governor and Legislature have evinced so unequivocommittees here to overawe the constituted authorities. cal and decided a spirit on national politics, as have this And now, sir, the Legislature, the immediate representa Governor and Legislature. This expression was moved tives of the people of New Hampshire, have a right to at the first moment after the organization of the State claim your attention. Government; and it proves the deep interest that is there felt in the present crisis, and the determined spirit of the people of New Hampshire to resist all encroachments on their rights, and to put an end to that odious monopoly which assumes to stand in the place of the Government.

This Legislature was elected by the people on the second Tuesday of March last, at a point of time when the greatest alarm pervaded the community. The friends of the bank, and the party opposed to the general administration, made greater efforts to elect members of the The resolutions which I shall ask to be read, are not House of Representatives in the several towns, than they couched in language disrespectful; they speak as freemen had done at any time since 1830. The result of those have a right to speak, in a tone worthy the best days of efforts is seen in the vote of the House on these resolu- the republic. The opinions here given, are in the main tions-one hundred and sixty-three Representatives, after decidedly averse to those of a majority of this Senate. a discussion of three days, voting for the resolutions, and These resolutions say, that the course of the adminisonly sixty-two against them. If all the Representatives had been present, the vote would have been one hundred and sixty-seven to sixty-three.

But in the Senate these resolutions had a unanimous vote. That body consists of twelve members, elected annually, in as many districts; and in these twelve districts not a single opposition man was returned.

tration and of the President, is entirely approved; and that the latter, by his endeavors to restore the constitution to its original purity; by his integrity and firmness; by staying the expenditure of the public money in an unconstitutional system of internal improvements; by settling the tariff on a satisfactory basis; by his resistance of all measures tending to a dissolution of the Union; by his The Governor of the State, elected at the same time as veto on the bank bill, and the stand he has taken against the Representatives and Senators, was not opposed. He the alarming proceedings of the bank itself, has proved received more than twenty-eight thousand votes of the himself to be a true disciple of Thomas Jefferson, the fifty thousand voters, although no candidate was in the father of American democracy: that he only exercised field against him. He made his first communication to a power conferred on him by the constitution, recognised the Legislature, on the 6th of June; and the following by the example of all his predecessors, when he removed extract from that communication, shows that he coincides from office the late Secretary of the Treasury: that the in sentiment with both the Legislature and the people: present Secretary of the Treasury, in removing the de"By the construction of our system of government, posites of public money from the Bank of the United our sphere for official duties lies within the limits of our States, has violated neither the letter nor the spirit of the own State, beyond which we have no control. But as charter of the bank, and that his course is fully approved individuals, we are immediately interested in the pro- by the people, and was demanded by the profligate con ceedings of the General Government, the perpetuity of duct of the officers of the bank: that the Bank of the the Union, and the prosperity of our common country. United States ought not to be re-chartered, because, un

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constitutional in its creation, it has proved itself to be an 2. And be it further resolved, That, in the removal of the institution of the most deadly hostility to the free princi- late Secretary of the Treasury, the President exercised a ples of our Government, attempting to sustain itself and power conferred upon him by the constitution, and which to obtain for its friends political power, by a course of has been recognised by all his predecessors in office; and bribery and corruption, setting at defiance the represent- which it was his duty to exercise, if he believed that offiatives of the people, and veiling its transactions in secre- cer to be unworthy or incapable, or that he was pursuing cy and darkness: that the late protest of the President measures detrimental to the interests of the public. of the United States, against that extraordinary and un- 3. And be it further resolved, That in removing the deprecedented resolution of the Senate, which pronounced posites of public money from the Bank of the United him guilty of a most flagrant offence without either hear- States, the present Secretary of the Treasury has violated ing or trial, was a measure justified by his personal right neither the letter nor the spirit of the charter of the to vindicate his own character from unmerited reproach, bank, and has pursued a course, the expediency of which and by his imperative official duty to defend the Execu- was clearly indicated by the decision of the people in the tive branch, while in his charge, from all intemperate late Presidential election, against the re-charter of the assaults or unconstitutional encroachments; and that the bank, and which was imperiously demanded by the profliSenate, in passing such a resolution, violated the first gate conduct of the officers of that institution. principles of justice, and unfitted themselves for the prop- 4. And be it further resolved, That the Bank of the er discharge of those official duties which, by the consti- United States ought not to be re-chartered; that, uncontution, (if their charges were true,) they were bound to stitutional in its creation, it has proved itself to be an inbelieve the House of Representatives would soon invoke stitution of the most deadly hostility to the principles of them to perform; and they instruct the Senators in Con-republicanism; that we view with indignation its desperate gress from New Hampshire to vote that the resolution struggles to obtain political power by a shameless and which they condemn be expunged from the Journal of barefaced course of bribery and corruption; and that we the Senate. They approve of the course of their dele- witness with alarm, the attempts made by its advocates to gation in both branches of Congress, with a single ex-set at defiance the representatives of the people, to veil ception; and they request him to resign his place, who its transactions in secrecy and darkness, and to justify pro"has long misrepresented, and now misrepresents, the ceedings which, should they be upheld, must end in subopinions of a majority of his constituents." I have the jecting the people of the United States to the dominion of pleasure to state, from intelligence received this morning, a gigantic moneyed monopoly.

that a new choice, in this solitary case, has been made- 5. And be it further resolved, That the late protest of and that the expression in this new choice is.no less deci- the President of the United States, against the extraordided than was that in each branch on the resolutions in fa-nary and unprecedented resolutions of the Senate, provor of the administration.

nouncing him guilty of a most flagrant offence, without either hearing or trial, was a measure justified by his personal right to vindicate his own character from unmerited reproach, and by his imperative official duty to defend the Executive branch of the Government, while in his charge, from all intemperate assaults or unconstitutional encroachments, and that the Senate, in passing such a resolution, violated the first principles of ordinary justice, and deliberately unfitted themselves for the proper discharge of those judicial duties, which, by the constitution, (if the charges in their resolution were true,) they were bound to believe the House of Representatives would soon invoke them to perform.

These, Mr. President, are the sentiments of a State, which, although inferior in wealth and numbers to many of the other States of the Union, is second to no State in point of intelligence, integrity, and patriotism. The citizens of this State have ever been among the first to come forward in defence of the country's rights. The war of the Revolution, and the war of 1812, bear witness to their valor. No State, in proportion to her size, has sent forth more warriors, fought more valiantly, or bled more profusely. The time has been, before she knew herself, that this State was led in her political opinions by the influence of the metropolis of a sister State-when the money and the mercantile cupidity of that metropolis kept her in 6. And be it further resolved, That our Senators in Conleading strings. That day has gone by. The hardy yeo-gress be, and they hereby are instructed to vote that the manry of New Hampshire have become independent in resolution passed by the Senate on the 28th day of March property, as they are free in spirit. They rest on their last, "that the President, in the late Executive proceedown resources and their own judgment-they are under ings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon the lead of no man or set of men. The millions of a mo- himself authority and power not conferred by the constinopoly cannot corrupt them, nor can a hundred thousand tution and laws, but in derogation of both," be expunged bank speeches, circulated gratuitously among them, from the Journal of the Senate. change their opinions. The resolutions follow:

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened, That we approve of the course of the administration of the General Government, and that the President of the United States, by his ardent endeavors to restore the constitution to its original purity, by his stern integrity and unbending firmness in resisting the approach of corruption in every Protean shape; in staying the lavish expenditure of the public money in an unconstitutional system of internal improvements, by the National Government; in settling the tariff on a more equitable basis; in his prompt resistance to all measures tending to the dissolution of our Union; in his veto on the re-charter of that dangerous institution, the United States Bank, and in the unyielding stand which he has taken against the recent alarming proceedings of that institution, has proved himself to be a true disciple of Thomas Jefferson, the father of American democracy, and has greatly increased the debt of gratitude due to him from the American people.

7. And be it further resolved, That we approve of the course of the delegation from this State, in the Congress of the United States, with the exception of that of the honorable Samuel Bell.

8. And be it further resolved, That the honorable Samuel Bell, since his re-election to the Senate of the United States, has pursued a course in defiance of the wishes of the people of New Hampshire; that he has long misrepresented, and now misrepresents, the opinions of a majority of his constituents, and that he be and hereby is requested to resign his seat, agreeably to the solemn pledge heretofore made by him.

9. And be it further resolved, That the Secretary of State be, and he hereby is, directed to furnish a copy of these resolutions to the President and Vice President of the United States, and to each of the heads of the Departments-to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to each of our Senators and Representatives in the Congress of the United States.

After a rejoinder by Mr. BELL

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Portage County (O.) Memorial.-General Appropriation Bill.

[JUNE 23, 1834.

Mr. WEBSTER said that this paper could not, proper- There was some discussion on this motion, in which Mr. ly, be received by the Senate. It was not a memorial, PRESTON, Mr. BIBB, Mr. CHAMBERS, Mr. SMITH, contained within it no request to be laid before Congress, Mr. CLAYTON, Mr. FORSYTH, Mr. EWING, Mr. and its presentation was wholly unauthorized.

Mr. BENTON replied, that it was a document coming from the Legislature of one of the States of the Unionand though it contained no request to be presented to Congress, it conveyed instructions to their representatives and as such was proper for the consideration of the Senate. It was usual, he said, to receive and refer such papers, and precedents could be found on the Journal. Mr. WEBSTER said he would consent to lay the resolutions, for the present, on the table, and if the gentleman from Missouri could, in the course of the day, find any precedents to justify the receiving of the paper, he would not oppose it.

The resolutions were then laid on the table.

PORTAGE COUNTY (OHIO) MEMORIAL. Mr. EWING presented a memorial from Portage county, Ohio, complaining of public distress, occasioned by the removal of the deposites from the Bank of the United States, and praying Congress to adopt some measures to relieve their pecuniary embarrassments. Some reference was made, Mr. E. said, to his course in the Senate, and the memorialists sustained him in disobeying the instructions of the Ohio Legislature, as not in accordance with the sentiments of a majority of the people of that State. After disposing of various bills, &c., the Senate resumed the consideration of the

GENERAL APPROPRIATION BILL.

The question being on concurring in the amendment of the Committee of the Whole, concerning the Documentary History of the Revolution

Mr. SOUTHARD moved to strike out the amendment, and to substitute an amendment making an appropriation without interfering with the contract, and instructing the Secretary of State to institute an inquiry into the character of the contract, &c., during the recess.

The discussion was renewed on this motion, by Mr. SOUTHARD and Mr. FORSYTH, and the yeas and nays being taken, the question was decided in the affirmative, as follows:

SIIEPLEY, and Mr. GRUNDY, took part; after which, the question was taken, and the amendment was rejected, as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Bibb, Calhoun, Clayton, Ewing, Grundy, Kane, King of Georgia, Linn, Mangum, Poin. dexter, Prentiss, Preston, Silsbee, Tyler, Webster.-15. NAYS.-Messrs. Bell, Benton, Black, Brown, Chambers, Clay, Forsyth, Frelinghuysen, Hill, Kent, King of Alabama, Knight, Leigh, Naudain, Robbins, Robinson, Shepley, Smith, Southard, Sprague, Swift, Tallmadge, Tomlinson, Waggaman, White, Wilkins, Wright.-27.

Mr. CLAYTON moved further to amend the bill, by adding an additional section, providing for the pay and mileage of the honorable Elisha R. Potter, while attending here, to contest the election of the honorable Asher Robbins, as a Senator from Rhode Island. Mr. C. said he made this motion under instructions from the Committee on the Judiciary, though he would vote against it

himself.

and KANE, and opposed by Messrs. POINDEXTER and The amendment was supported by Messrs. WRIGHT

SPRAGUE; when

Mr. WEBSTER moved to amend the amendment, so as to provide only for the travel of Mr. Potter to the seat Robbins was declared the sitting member; which having of Government, and his attendance of one day, until Mr. been rejected, yeas 16, nays 21, the question recurred on the original amendment of the committee, and it was adopted, as follows:

YEAS.--Messrs. Benton, Bibb, Brown, Chambers, Grundy, Hendricks, Hill, Kane, King of Ala., Knight, Linn, Preston, Robinson, Shepley, Silsbee, Tallmadge, Tyler, White, Wilkins, Wright.-20.

NAYS.-Messrs. Black, Clay, Clayton, Ewing, Forsyth, Frelinghuysen, Kent, King of Georgia, Leigh, Mangum, Naudain, Poindexter, Porter, Prentiss, Smith, Southard, Sprague, Tomlinson, Webster.-19.

Mr. ROBBINS was present, but declined voting. Mr. WHITE submitted an amendment, appropriating one thousand dollars to be paid to the legal representaYEAS.-Messrs. Bell, Chambers, Clay, Clayton, Ew-tives of the late William Wirt, for professional services ing, Frelinghuysen, Kent, Knight, Leigh, Moore, Nau- rendered the United States in land cases, in Florida, Misdain, Poindexter, Porter, Prentiss, Preston, Robbins, souri, and Alabama. This amendment, after some reSilsbee, Smith, Southard, Sprague, Swift, Tomlinson, marks from Messrs. WHITE and WEBSTER, was Tyler, Waggaman, Webster.-25. agreed to.

NAYS-Messrs. Benton, Bibb, Black, Brown, Calhoun, Forsyth, Grundy, Hendricks, Hill, Kane, King of Alabama, King of Georgia, Linn, Mangum, Morris, Robinson, Shepley, Tallmadge, White, Wright.--20.

Mr. CLAYTON moved to amend the bill, by introducing an appropriation for the Delaware break water.

After some remarks by Mr. CLAYTON, Mr. WEBSTER, Mr. NAUDAIN, and Mr. CLAY, in the course of which the importance of the amendment was universally admitted; but it was suggested by Mr. WEBSTER, that the motion should lie over until it should be ascertained whether the harbor bill would be passed by the other House. Mr. CLAYTON, on the assurance of Mr. WEBSTER that he would not place the bill out of the reach of amendment, withdrew his proposition, giving notice that he should, on to-morrow, renew it, unless the harbor bill should by that time be passed.

Mr. CHAMBERS gave notice that circumstances had occurred, which would render it unnecessary for him to renew the proposition which he suggested on Saturday, to strike out the salaries for the cabinet ministers not nominated.

Mr. PRESTON moved the amendment made by Mr. BIBB in committee, to appropriate four hundred dollars for recording the opinions of the Supreme Court.

Mr. POINDEXTER then renewed the amendment which he moved in Committee of the Whole, making it obligatory on the Government to pay the appropriations in notes at par value, at the place where they are paid, and asked for the yeas and nays, which were ordered.

The question was then taken, and decided as follows: YEAS.-Messrs. Bibb, Black, Chambers, Clay, Clayton, Ewing, Frelinghuysen, King of Georgia, Knight, Mangum, Naudain, Poindexter, Porter, Prentiss, Robbins, Silsbee, Smith, Southard, Sprague, Tomlinson, Waggaman, Webster.-22.

NAYS.-Messrs. Benton, Brown, Forsyth, Grundy, Hendricks, Hill, Kane, Kent, King of Ala., Linn, Morris, Preston, Shepley, White, Wilkins, Wright.--16.

Mr. CHAMBERS then moved to amend the bill, by ingrafting upon it the bill making appropriations for the public buildings. He stated his conviction that, in its separate form, this bill could not pass at this session.

Mr. WEBSTER opposed the motion, not being willing that the general bill should he made a cart to carry every man's load which could not move in any other direction.

After some remarks from Mr. PORTER to the same purport, the question was put on the first clause of the bill, and rejected. The amendment was then withdrawn.

Mr. ROBBINS moved to amend the bill, by introducing

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an appropriation of $500 for the trustee having charge of large, numerous, and admirably well-conducted. Flourthe appropriations made for the library, (the Register of ishing and beautiful villages had consequently sprung up the Treasury.). in various parts of the county, with gratifying and won

Mr. WILKINS gave notice that he should on to-morrow, after the reading of the Journal, move the Senate to go into the consideration of Executive business.

There being a loud call to move now, Mr. WILKINS said that, although he should prefer going into Executive session to-morrow, he would, in compliance with the general wish, move that the Senate now proceed to the consideration of Executive business.

The proposition was opposed by Mr. WEBSTER, be-derful rapidity, furnishing a ready and good market for cause it had been considered and disapproved by the its agricultural productions, and stimulating and richly Committee on Finance, not but that the officer was very rewarding that great branch of industry, by which the meritorious and praiseworthy, but that the precedent aspect of that section of Connecticut had been highly immight be productive of numerous claims of a similar proved and its inhabitants enriched. But he was sorry character, for past and future services. to be informed, that, in this county, which was so prosAfter some short discussion, the motion was negatived. perous until near the close of the last year, an unfortu On motion of Mr. WEBSTER, the bill was then post-nate change had taken place, and to learn, even in the poned, and made the special order for to-morrow. present week, that the work of destruction was fearfully and lamentably progressing. He was authorized to state that about eleven thousand spindles had been stopped in the county, and that mercantile confidence is destroyed, industry paralyzed, labor denied its customary reward, and actual want felt in the recent abodes of comfort and ease, while the hopes of the manufacturer are sorely disappointed. Accustomed to examine, deliberate, and judge for themselves, the memorialists have formed, and unequivocally express, the opinion, that nothing can reestablish public confidence and credit, animate the desponding, and restore to the farmer his late prosperity, to the mechanic his spirit of honest enterprise, to the manufacturer his hopes and activity, and to all classes in the community the rich and varied blessings which they recently enjoyed, but the return of the public deposites to Mr. MORRIS said, he had been requested to present the re-charter of the national bank, or the incorporation the place whence they have been wrongfully taken, and the proceedings of meetings in six different counties in of a new bank, upon such principles as will give and seOhio, on the subject of the bank and the Executive. cure to the country a safe and well-regulated currency. They approve the course of the Executive in opposition Looking to national legislation alone for relief, they ask to the bank, and were all couched in the same language, the prompt exertion of the constitutional powers of Conthat was, they expressed the same sentiments. These counties were among the most respectable in Ohio, both in population and intelligence, and they stretched across the State, from the west to the extreme east. Mr. M. would not occupy the time of the Senate with further remarks, except to say, that they contained sentiments which he approved; nor would he ask for their reading, except the proceedings from the county of Hamilton.

The motion was agreed to-yeas 22, nays 19.
The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of
Executive business; and, after the doors were opened,
The Senate adjourned.

TUESDAY, JUNE 24.
OHIO MEMORIALS.

The long proceedings from this county were partly read, and the whole were referred and ordered to be printed.

gress to accomplish these great and desirable objects, and to rescue the nation from the deplorable consequences of an Executive experiment, which, in their judgment, was commenced, and can only be carried forward, by the assumption and exercise of a prerogative partments of the Government, and endangers the interwhich infringes the rights and privileges of the other deests and liberty of the people.

The memorials were referred to the Committee on Finance, and ordered to be printed.

NEW HAMPSHIRE RESOLUTIONS.

Mr. HILL.

WINDHAM COUNTY (CONN.) MEMORIAL. Mr. TOMLINSON presented the memorials of about Mr. HILL moved to take up the resolutions of the New 1,600 citizens of Windham county, in the State of Con- Hampshire Legislature, which were yesterday laid on the necticut, complaining of the general stagnation of busi- table, in the alleged absence of any authority for him to ness, and the pecuniary embarrassments and distress oc- present them. casioned by the removal of the public funds from the cusMr. President, my colleague said yestertody of the United States Bank, and the unwise and dis-day that he knew where these resolutions came from; astrous interference of the Executive with the currency that they came from this city. If he knows this, he and labor of the country. Information from gentlemen knows more than I do. in whom he perfectly confided, Mr. T. said, warranted Messrs. CLAY and EWING objected to these remarks the belief that there is not among the numerous memo-as being out of order. rialists a single individual who is not a voter, and that the Mr. HILL wished to assign the reasons for taking up sentiments expressed by them are in coincidence with the resolutions, and began again with his speech. those entertained by more than three-fourths of the electors of that respectable and influential county. At this period of the session, Mr. T. said, he did not propose to occupy the precious time of the Senate by asking that the papers be read, nor by detailing their contents, and making the extended remarks which, under other circumstances, the interesting subjects discussed in them would doubtless justify. He deemed it proper, however, to state for the information of the Senate, that Windham is an inland county, abounding in water power, which has been made to contribute largely to its substantial prosperity and wealth. In this county the manufacture of cotton was long since commenced, and had been pursued, until lately, with great success. Having had the satisfaction of repeatedly visiting that county, he could say that the manufacturing establishments there located were VOL. X.-130

Mr. POINDEXTER objected; it was not in order for an honorable Senator to discuss the subject on a question of taking it up. If it was necessary, the Senator could say what reason there was to take up the resolutions; but to discuss the merits of the subject was out of order.

The VICE PRESIDENT said it was impossible to anticipate what the remarks of the Senator would be. Mr. POINDEXTER moved to lay Mr. HILL's motion on the table, and this motion requiring unanimous consent, Mr. HILL would not give way, but again began his speech.

Mr. CLAY called the gentleman to order-it was not in place for the honorable member to reply to his colleague, on a motion to take up the resolutions.

Mr. BENTON made a few remarks, most of which were inaudible.

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Mr. CLAYTON said, that one of the Senators from Pennsylvania, and the Senator from New Hampshire not now in his seat, had, to use a common phrase, paired off. The honorable Senator from Pennsylvania having occasion to leave the eity, had prevailed upon the honorable Senator from New Hampshire, who was of opposite views,

PUBLIC LANDS.

[JUNE 24, 1834.

Mr. POINDEXTER moved to take up the resolution offered by him the other day, relative to the sitting of a committee, during the recess of Congress, for the purpose of taking testimony upon the subject of frauds on the public lands.

to vacate his seat also for the remainder of the session. Mr. WRIGHT offered an amendment, to the effect Mr. HILL. My colleague said, yesterday, that he that the examinations of the committee should be conknew where the resolutions came from. If he knows this, he knows more than I do; and if he turns public in-that they went from this city. All I can answer, is, that if he structer in New Hampshire, he will meet, in the author of the resolutions, a gentleman who will be his equal. Mr. POINDEXTER again rose to order.

Mr. HILL. My colleague said that the resolutions were got up by the sons of old tories

Mr. EWING begged to call the gentleman to order. Mr. SHEPLEY wished to have the consideration of the question taken up.

Mr. WEBSTER wished to follow out the strict parliamentary rule.

The CHAIR. The gentleman from New Hampshire

will sit down.

Mr. BELL, who had come into the Senate Chamber, re-stated what Mr. CLAYTON had told the Senate, and thought, under the circumstances, that it was improper for him to enter into any discussion.

knows this, he knows more than I know. When he returns to New Hampshire, and there takes the field as a political gladiator, as he has promised us, I am inclined to believe, that he will meet an antagonist in the author of these resolutions, who will convince him that the sole object of his political troubles and his fears, sojourns not now in the Federal city.

My colleague says the resolutions were introduced, and advocated, in the Legislature, by the sons of old tories. [Here Mr. H. having been repeatedly interrupted, sat down.] One of the expedients of himself and his party ever has been, to single out the very few belonging to the democratic party, who have been allied to tory and old federal families, as themes of reproach. My colleague cannot even claim the merit of origiset on edge because their fathers have eaten sour grapes. The nality in making this discovery. The children's teeth are not two gentlemen in the New Hampshire Legislature, assailed by my colleague, (Messrs. Gove and Atherton,) are not the less esteemed because they sprung from the party to which my eolleague belongs--because their fathers were his political associates. These men are both his juniors in years Whatever YEAS.-Messrs. Benton, Brown, Forsyth, Grundy, they now are, they have never made pretensions to be any thing Hendricks, Hill, Kane, King of Alabama, King of Geor-else; whatever they may be, I trust the mutations of my colgia, Leigh, Linn, Moore, Robinson, Shepley, Tallmadge, league will not be taken as their pattern. If my colleague would brand the great majority of the Legislature and people White, Wilkins, Wright.-18. of New Hampshire as tories, let him reflect that there are of that Legislature, and not of his party, who bear the names of Thomas Jefferson and John Langdon, the sons of whig fathers, who never disgraced their names or their sires; and that if they deserve the name of terics, the whole political world must be turned upside down.

The question was then taken, on again taking up the resolutions, and negatived by the following vote:

NAYS.-Messrs. Bibb, Black, Calhoun, Chambers, Clay, Clayton, Ewing, Frelinghuysen, Kent, Mangum, Moore, Naudain, Poindexter, Porter, Prentiss, Preston, Robbins, Silsbee, Smith, Southard, Sprague, Swift, Tomlinson, Tyler, Waggaman, Webster.-26.*

[From the Globe.]

But a rank offence against the dignity of this body has been committed by the introduction of these resolutions. My col*Mr. BLAIR: Having been interrupted at four several league says the presentation was "altogether gratuitous--untimes, by Messrs. Clay, Ewing, and Poindexter, this morning, asked and uncalled for." He was backed by the Senator from in a simple attempt to do justice to a large majority of the Massachusetts, (Mr. Webster,) who said the consideration of people of New Hampshire, I have written out, and ask you these resolutions presented a grave question for the decision of to insert in the Globe, the remarks I intended to make on the the Senate! They had been read in our hearing, and that could Occasion of asking for a consideration of the resolutions yester-not be taken back; but they were not addressed to the Senate, day laid on the table, on motion of Mr. Webster, passed by but to Senators, and therefore ought not to be received. Althe Legislature of New Hampshire, approving of the course of though I know these resolutions, certified by the hand of the the President, and disapproving of the conduct of the United Secretary of State of New Hampshire, to be sent here directly States Bank, and the course of the Senate of the United States for the purpose of presentation; although I know it to be the in condemning, without hearing or trial, the President of the intention of the legislators who passed them that they should be United States, and instructing their Senators to vote for ex- presented, I must confess that for a moment the idea flitted punging the obnoxious resolution from the Journal of the Sen-across my mind that I had been guilty of some impropriety in It is proper to remark, that the Senator from Massachu-presenting them, when I saw the Secretary looking into the setts, (Mr. Webster,) after acknowledging that it was a com- body of the resolutions to discover whether or not there was a mon practice to present resolutions to the Senate as these reso-request they should be presented. I immediately recurred to lutions were by me presented, without an especial vote of the the last year's Journal, to see if I had a precedent. The first Legislature for that purpose, and that he had no objections to page I opened presented me certain resolutions of the Legistaking up the resolutions and disposing of them in the usual lature of Massachusetts relative to the measures of South Carway, voted against taking them up! The motion to take themolina and adverse to the tariff bill. I found these addressed up was rejected (tantamount to voting not to receive them) to the Senators and Representatives in Congress from Massaby a party vote.

ate.

SENATE CHAMBER, June 24, 1834.

ISAAC HILL.

chusetts--but no request was made that they should be presented. By the side of them I found resolutions from the Legislature of Missouri against re-chartering the United States Bank--and no request that they should be presented. Both sets of resolutions were presented, read, received, and ordered to be printed. Senators in both cases presented them on their own responsibility.

Remarks of Mr. Hill, in Senate, June 24, 1834. When my colleague, Mr. Bell, yesterday, made his onset upon the New Hampshire resolutions, I had no idea it was a shot and a retreat. He has, I am informed, left us, and no Recurring to the procedings of the present session, how many leave of absence yet asked, and much the most important busi-resolutions and public addresses of meetings have been preness of the session to be yet performed. He has paired off, as they sented to both branches of Congress, cut from the columas of call it, and, therefore, his party loses nothing by his absence. some newspaper, without a request from the meetings that they He has gone, but not for good. If he lives he will come back again-he is too much of a Yankee, and too little of the Virginian, not to hold on and be back here on the 1st of December next--for he knows full well that this is his last chance, and that New Hampshire will never send him here again.

My colleague says he knows whence these resolutions came;

should be presented? I hold in my hand the printed resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts in favor of the restoration of the deposites, and of re-chartering the Bank of the United States of the present year. These resolves, by vote of the Legislature, were sent to the Senators and Representatives in Congress from that State; but no request was made to present

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