Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-02-24

Those VINO had JUST voted similar bruntv
to Tie Canadien refugees, would not deny
it To- our officers.
Mr.. Telfair and Mr.. Smith of MARYLAND,
opposed the report OF the committee. and
advocated the bounty and Mr.. Lumpkin
| spoke IN opposition To them.
| MIR. M kee made some remarks which
could not b. heard by the u pyr,er and
cir. Pickering txpl iaed his asons for
vnting in favor Of the bounty To- the Cana
Clans, and yet against allowing tie Same
| to our officers.
Mr.. Cannon opposed the bounty to The
officers in a Speech of some i>ngth after
which, the house adjourned.
TIE MEMORY OF WASHINGTON.
The .fol57girg Erere the o6scr1otions with
qohich Nr. Hnger hr .faced his motion
rc8hectfng the htedge Of q former Can
sreSs on tie dca.h Of Gen. UushiugfO,.,
Mr.. Huger said, that what he deemed
solemn duty obliged him to Claim the in.
diligence OF the house for IL W moments.
dc had been detained by severe ind.spo.
sition from attending his duties in that ho-
ely since Saturday last, ard though better
he should not have ven ured ont 70 day,
but for pirce of information which had
accident lily reached him ti,s informing. In
CHARGING HIS eyesover the papers Just hro't
him, he was struck by certain resolutions
published in the Richmond Enquirer, from
which 1t appeared that the legislature of
Virginia had, by an unanimous vrte, aut,. -
'isrd the governor Of tie state 20 apply to
the honorable Bushrod w. shinC,on, :, per
mt the remains OF her beloved san, the late
general Washington, to be removed and
rod NJ 81 r.
heart sunk within him, he confessed. on
reading those resolutions. and recalling to
mind the ems he had rnce Witnessed.
and in which he had once ac.ed a part cyt
the ii~or Cfthat Congress, which reDrcscn
t:d the American nation on the de.rth of
tins great man. He had often Since thonpht
with astonishment, and more than regret
or the apathy OF the American peopie on
TINS subject. But, although he remember
ed, WITH the most poignant grief, the fai-
lure or his eAcrtuns, AID the far more
powerful. eXertons of some of the best and
greatest men who were at that time mem,
DerS OF Congress, to get something done
worthy of the father of his country, and no,
unworthy of the American nation vet he
had not forgotten, that The sixth Congress
mad gore so far as to authorize the Pres,
dent of that day to write in behalf of the
nation to Mrs. Washington, and to make
OF her like request, III regard to the rx-
mains of cur beloved Washingt in.-Nei-
Their had he forgotten the admlrable and
pathetic letter written by that lady; in
which she grants their ques,. Tie re-
mains OF Washington then were pledged
10 the Whole nation and he trusted he
tine was a; length coms, when the honors
s4credly due TO them, would be pad, as
TIL " Oilrrnt lOuo aern RI n W.. bna,,
representatives OF the whole American pe.-
pie. II had himself been a member e
that Congress. and one of those who ap-
proved Oh the application made to Mrs.
Washington. lie mad, moreover, been one
OF tn, mo.ittee, lthe only One now honol.
ed with seat on the fioor) to whom ths
subj CT had been ref rred, when il had last
been before Cong, ess. He did hot there
fore, he trusted, assuT e too much to him.
self. when he ve'tured to think, that it had
In some q gree devOlved on him, as sa-
cred anu solemn duty, to call The attention
ct Congress to this subject at the present
tine, and under the particular ii cumstan-
ces wni, ii he had noticed above. Accor-
dinghy, igdisposed as he was, he had, with. !
out the less OF single moment, hurried
I'd 'wn to the house, and he seized the first
p ssible opportunity to offer the reso ution
lie held in his hand. Before ne read il TO
the chair. he would be permitted to adj,
that he trusted no gentleman could posi-
bly, suppose he meant thereby to express
any disspprobation in regard to The resou-
tons or the legislature, or TO evnce the
SMALLEST disrSspect to the State of Virginia. |
lie was one of the list men in that House |
to d. So. Virginia had been to him in no |
small degree, q e;ond alna-mater. Tho |
he first drew his breath in the capital Of |
South Carolina, he had passed during the |
revolutionary war several OF his early |
years in the former State being ex,led |
from his native State then in possess on If !
the enemy. He bad met every where, and |
FROM thousands in Virginia, hospitality,
Kindness, friendship, ard he might with |
propre,y add, pareut. affection and pro-
lection. 1t was impossible AL tbs could |
ever be erased from his neart, and as he
before observed, lie had never ceased TO |
regard Virginia as his second aima-mater
But South Carolina was not less dear to
him, nor could he forget hr claims on the
present occasion. She formed a portion of
the great Am rscan nation. AS such, she
had her full interest in the pledge possessed,
to the mortal remains of our father & chief.
AS a South Carolinean, therefore, and
member OF the American family, rs well
as from the peculiar circumst lnces con-
nected with his personal situation, being
an immediate representative on the occa-
sion before alluded to, and at the present
time Of the State Of 5 nth Carolina, he felt
himself mperiously bound to ofer the fol-
lowing res LUTON TO the House -