Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-04-12

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hen referred 10 the Committee Of the Whole,
,oe ether with the bill under discussion, 1t was
not in order 10 refer to II.
MIR. Burgess. I claim the right 10 reply 10
what the gentleman from ). Carolina has been
permitted TO aliege against me. !he PAM
phle, SO much abused by the gentleman, IS the
speech which gan here in my place, anu
which, had il not been for want oil hea'th,
should have finished. 1t was then written. IL
was spoken $50 FAR as IL was spoken) as IL was
written Except the reply to the Chairman a'
/, is now published. did then, as do ho"'
denounce the honorable gentleman for gross
plagiarism on the Boston Report. IL was 'heh
done in his presence. would not rob the gen.
,leman Of any of his claims to originality.Since
he came into public life, he has certainly ais,
covered mind not altogether barren; tx can ea''
up numerous family Of political soPh'smi.s'e-
ultimately, and in all their features, peculiarly
his own More than this ] cannot allow ~
him. His ,eeming genius could never nav. a:
produced. "a report on The Stale Of tue II
nances," had there never bceh any intercourse
between him& the masculine absurdity OIL the
Boston Report. The gentleman accuses me OIL
making this accusation against him insidious-
". |, is no part OF my character to do so; ana
the gentleman knows that his allegation has
on this floor. I put il in print, and | sent a
printed copy of the whole speech TO him Tor
his perusal Had the present fusion Of his
genius, and gentlemanly accomplishments, been
poured out upon me, then should have looked
for the source Of it in the fiery and combustI-
ble elements Of his nature. The generously
passion ate temper of Southern cline can fur
nish no such apology for that cautious male
volcn &c which lies it wal, ten days and nights;
and then, suddenly uucoils and aims her iangs
al the interpreting adversary. The gentleman
saws have some character for some learning
thank his courtesy: but would have referred
the appreciation OF a less questionable authoi-
i,y. Whatsoever progress he may have made
in science or letters, he seems not TO have a
dopted the style of speaking common 10 scho
lars and gentlemen. He who could use terms
Of vulgar abuse such as he has used 10 ms, be-
fore this House, aud this nation, places him.
self below the reach Of any rebuke from my
tongue.
THE Speaker here inlerposed, and said, that
when the gentleman from South Carolina made
his remarks, the Chair did not suppose that
they were intended for any member Of the
House. He certainly understood them as ap
plying 10 the author of some pamphlet out Of
doors. 1.-THE Chair had supposed, for mo-
ment that the gentleman from S. Carolina had
had allusion, in what he said, to amy speech de-
li,ered in Committee, or the House, or 10 any
member Of il, he should promptly have arrest
ed the debate, and called to order. No; SO un>
ders,sndins it, he had permitted the gentleman
from South Corolina 20 proceed with his cx-
3lanalion.
Mr. McDuffe said, he was glad that The mem
Der from Rhode Island had, by his usual and
-. l.. l. a. r.
,esy, made it in order for him TO soy, what he
would have said before. if il had been Al that
rauu wpsrorfect, IN surprising that the illusions
made by me 10 a certain pamphlet, when be-
fore occupied the floor, had refsi cnce to what
that member had sent out to the world this
morning, as his printed speech. I didn poin,
the allusion to that speech in terms, because j,
would not have been in order TO do SO. | will
tell the member from Rhode Island why l did
not take notice of the insinualion in his printed
speech, when it was delivered. The obvious
reason was, Sir, that the printed pamphlet
which hrhas published as his speech was never
delivered a, all; and the reference hnade BY him
TO the report Of the Committee Of Ways and
Means, in what he said in The Committee of
the Whole, was entirely different, and occur.
red in different way from wallpapers in the
printed pamphlet which he has published as
MS speech IL VIII DC reCoIlecUd by every
gentleman who heard the member from Rhode
Island, that, before he had made any offensive
allusion 10 the report Of the Committee OF
Ways and Means, the Chairman called him TO
order. And j: was then-apparen,ly under the
influence of irritation at ;he decision of the
Chair-that the member from Rhode Island
said, for the first, and only time, that the re-
port Of theCon.miliee Of Ways and Means csn.
tanned the same views that were contained in |
the Boston Report. This was all that he said |
on tina, point. AS the member from Rhode Is.
land was an old man-and sincerely regret
hat his department has not been more becom,
ing his grey hairs-l was disposed TO pass ev>
er without notice, words which then sup
posed to have proceeded from the impulse and
excitement orthe moment. 1t is no, every false
charge or insinua,ion that is sIanderous. But,
Sir, when saw the impu.alion of plagiarism
deliberately and falsely made agains, a com.
nil,re OF this House, ina printed speech, a
speech, Sir, which i. took the member about
5 minutes TO deliver, with very slow utter.