Delaware journal., 1828-02-15

,,ote Of 107 to 62 Mr, Wicklide then moved the
lpre vlols question, which was carrled, and the
resolution was ultimately adopted by d vote Of lU6
Ito G9
Our readers will bear in mind the suggestion we
threw out few days since, that it was the intention
Iof the Committee on Military Affairs to keep back
the documents, from the War Department, until
report to whewash Gen. Jackson could be prepar-
led to accompany them to the world. The procee-
|dings OF yesterday justified our suspicious. The
report was made; it whitewashes the General, and
lit was ordered to be printed in connection with the
documents is intended to send this report abroad
as an acquittal of Gen. Jackson, by the House Of
Representatives when, in fact, the House has
passed no opinion on the report. The proceedings
of yesterday are of character to alarm every re-
|hectng citizen. The rules and practice of the
House have been entirely oyerthrown, for the pur-
pose of serving party views and personal ambition.
The very men who last year cried out so indig-
nantly against the application of the previous ques-
ton to stile debate, have applied it themselves,
to stop short discussion which was calculated to
place in strong light the violations of precedent
and propriey by which the views of.he party we're
to be effected. We call upon all patriotic and in
teigent citizens to reflect these proceedings, and
to estimate before the next election, the benefits
which the country has derived from Jackson
jority in Congress.
The proceedings connected with the report Of
the Committee on Military Affairs on the case OF the
militia men, are calculated to arrest the attention OF
every man-In the first place the documents fur
nished by the War department. on the call OF Mr..
Sloane, were referred 10 the Committee on Military
Affairs, and ordered to be printed. 1t has been the
uniform practice, when such order has been made
by the House, TO send the documents TO the printer,
forthwith. In this instance, the papers were IN
stanty taken possession OF the Committee. NO
member out of that Committee could get a glimpse
Of them. They were kept by them about ten days,
while the report was preparing, and the party were
receiving their cue; and the result has been the
successful motion of yesterday to print the docu-
ments, as an appendix to the Committee 1t was to
be expected when Mr.. Wicklitfe obtained time, in
the first presentation of documents to the House, to
examine them, and see if any other would be me-
cessary before the order for the printing was gyen
and when he subsequently moved for the printing
himself with declaration that the friends OF Gen.
Jackson had nothing to fear, that the documents,
would have been Immediately sent to the printer,
without any intermediate process or intervening
agency. We have been mistaken. A process Of
preparation, digestion, and arrangement, has been
considered necessary; and it has been deemed SO
that the rules and practice OF the
House have been violated to carry it into effect.
What is the plain inference which every man OF
common sense must draw from this ? Does good
cause require all this caution to support it II there
nothing to fear from the full exposure of all the
facts to the public, why all this care and anxiety to
rearrange them. and fortfy them with argument
carrying with it the authority of Committee?
Truth is above all this trckery and the very resort
to such management is of itself sufficient to fix sus-
plcon deeply in the public mind
The Previous Questi m.--The legitimate object of
the Previous Question is to terminate protracfed
discussion. Yesterday it was used in the House of
to PREVENT ANY DISCUSSION on the
case Of the Six Military Men. Mr.. SLoAN's resolu-
ton on this bect had been referred to Commit
tee appointed by a Jackson Speaker, and consisting
son men, They made whitewashing report. ON
which discussion was gagged by the Precious Cues
tion. No matter-the documents will now be be-
fore the People and though they arranged, to
speak more properly, deranged by the Heroites in
way calculated to produce deceptive impression,
''IRUTH MIGHTY, AND WILL PREVAIL" We
shall say more-much more-of this deed that shuaas
The light!
or At meeting of the Brandywlne branch of
he Delaware Bible Society held l5th Feb. 1923,
he following persons were appointed officers of the
Society for one year.
John Elliot-President and DepositorH