The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-03-19
TWENTIETH CONGRESS.
SATURDAY. March 8.
FIRsT SESSION.


HOUSE. Tho House resumed the consider
alton Of the bill making appropriations fol. In
ternal improvements which was read a third !
Time, and passed. Yeas, 1874, Nays, 81.
MONDAY, March 10.
SENATE An unfavorable report was made |
on the resolution, submitted by MIR Chandler,
to abolish the Office of Major General of the
United States Of America. The report was re-
committed.
tary Affairs, for the payment of the Claims of !
the State Of South Carolina, for monies expend- |
ed during the last war, was taken up and dis
cussed. wonder when a bill will be introduce
ed 60 pay the Massachusetts Claim-1
HOUSE. The Speaker laid before the House
the report of Civil Engineers, from which it APP
pears, that the leEgth of the Chesapeake &
Ohio Canal, commencing one mile below Cum
berland and terminating at the tide water at
she city line of Georgetown, win Inc 1s6 miles,
and 1853 yards, and that the cost of Canal
will be as follows
40 feet at water line-2S feet at bottom, and
feet deep, S4,00S, 005, %.
43 feet at water line-33 feet at bottom, and
. feet deep, 81, 360,991 66.
60 feet wide at water lne-45 feet at bottom,
and feet deep, $4,479,346, SO.
Including contingencies, superintendent,
&c.
The House then again went into committee
eff the whole, Mr.. P, P Barbour III the chair,
on the Tariff Bill. Mr.. Wright, of N. Y. re-
summed his speech, and continued to speak until
past 3 o'clock, when the committee rose
TUESDAY, March IL.
SENATE. The consideration of the bill pro-
viding for certain surviving officers of the Rev
olution was resumed, the motion to fill the blank
with 81 900, was lost, only 12 voting for it.
Mr.. Hayne moved to fill the blank with 100000,
nd Tod fIa hut
no question was taken on it.
HOUSE. The House resumed, in commit
tee of the whole, the discussion of the Tariff
when Mr.. Woodeock made some observations
in opposition to the bill as reported After he
had concluded the committee rose.
WEDNESDAY, March r.
SENATE. The bill providing for certain
surviving Revolutionary Officers, was consider
ed. The motion to fill the blank with eight
hundred thousand dollars pending. After some
discussion, the question filling the blank with
eight hundred Thousand dollars was decided in
the negative-ayes 10, noes 90 A molten for
the indefinite postpohement of the bill was neg
atived-ayes %, noes %. A motion to fill the
blank with five hundred thousand dollars was
also reiected-ayes 20, noes %. The bill was
then laid on the table.
HOUSE. Mr.. Randolph moved the follow
ing resolution That the Committee on the
District of Columbia be instructed to inquire
into the police established and enforced in the
counties of Washington and Alexandria, in re-
gard to slaves, and other negroes and mulat-
toes and to report what measures, if any, are
necessary to enforce discipline among them.
Mr. Randolph said that the negroes and
muattoes, whether bond or free he knew
not, were in the habit of nightly assem-
bling in military array with band of music, and
OF training, and going through military evolu-
tons in the front of the housein which he lodg-
ed. He was in the habit of seeing this every
night, and such was their array that he was I'M
der the impression that it was the marine band.
He did, indeed, think the music of an inferior
character, but he could not conceive the pur-
pose for which this band could nightly parade
the square, and marshal in front of his board
ing house. As soon as he discovered what
the fact, he sent a servant, to say to them that,
if they assembled again, he would adopt a sum-
mary mode of dispensing them; as he should
deem it his duty, as free white citizen of these
United States, to do in all cases of dsorderly
assemblage of persons of this character; as he
should deem it his duty, as officer of the ar
my, whenever he perceived tho first seeds of
dangerous mutiny or officer of the navy,
to put to death any man who flies from quar-
ters. He held this to be practical and efficient
humanity. The greatest statesman of the last
century, and the greatest philosopher in the
world, had laid down the maxim, that he would
be an unwise legislator and unfit to be trusted
with the sacred deposit of the liberties of the
people, who did not regard the slightest inva-
sion Of an object of such value, as far more i'm
portrait than the greatest dangers which might
assa objects of ordinary magnitude This
maxim was bottom0d on sagacity which would
have extinguished the fire of St. Domingo, and
would have quenched, in their own blood, the
bravoes and assassins of Paris, who domineered
above that towering and brave people. 1t is
one of the easiest things in existence to do
mischief it is one of the hardest to do good At
this very session, printed petition had been
laid on his table, and it was presented from this
District, which was fraught with more mischief
to the interests of the States south of the Poto-
mae, than all the Tariffs, all the corrupt Presi-
dental elections, and all the Internal Improve
ment bills, that had ever agitated this House or
the country High was his respect for the
right of petition, Mutius like, he would have
thrust his hand into the fame, and burned it
off, rather than he would have presented this
petition. He who is forewarned is forearmed
Iie here cast censure on those philanthropists,
-phllanthroplsts, projectors, and agitators,
who are always busying themselves with the
concerns and interests of others. One of these
had been on the eve of exciting an instruction
across the river He then spoke of the unity
'of interests which prevails in the union, and adj
yised gentlemen that the interests of the SOUTH
ern States are so intimately blended with those
of the north, that they must all prosper or per-
ish as one and blasted be the man who shall
attempt to separate them, whether by treaty
with the great King, or any other King, the
tendency of which is to dissolve these United
States He would not be that man if he could,
he would be worse than parricide But when
he was called upon to offer his throat to the
knife--and to see his neighbors offer up their
chaste wives, and pure and undefled daughters,