Litchfield enquirer., 1830-03-04

have been cOnN iCted." Nr. SPEIGHT' OI North Carolina, moved to strike out this par agraph. The question was nnt' ac:orons "a the form then Practlsed: sna" uhFSF words stand, as part "fthe plan" &c' New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode ls'a"u; Connecticut, New York, New Jersey: ana Pennsylvania-seven States, voted m the al frmative. Maryland, Virginia and South ! Carolina, in the negative. North CaroHn" was divided. As the consent of nine States was necessary. the words could not stand and were struck out accordingly. Mr. jet. ferson voted for the clause, but was Overruled by his colleagues.
 In March of the next year, 17G5. MT King, of Massachusetts, seconded by MT. E' lcry, of Rhode Island, proposed the formerly rejected article, with this addition: An6 that this regulation shall De Gn article ot con'- pact and remoia q. fundan,ental principle ot the Constitutions betmcen ike thirteen original Stotes, and each of the Stnles described !" Inc Resolre," SLc. On this clause, which pro''- dcd the adequate and thorough security, the eight Northern States at that time, voted aI-
 frmatively, and the four Southern States negatively. The votes of nine States were not yet obtained, and thus, the provision was again rejected by the Southern States. The
 perseverance of the North held out, and two
 years afterwards the object was attained. is no derogation from the credit, whatever that may be, of drawing the ordinance, that
 it's principles had before been prepared and
 discussed, in the form of Resolutions. Hone
 should reason in that way, what wculd be- come of the distinguished honor of the Au-
 thor of the Declaration of Independence = There is not a sentiment in that paper winch had not been voted and resolved in the as-
 scmblics, and other popular bodies m me
 country. over and over again. But the honorable member has now tounu out that this gentleman, MT. Dane, was d
 member of the Hartford Convention. How ever uniformed the honorable member may be of characters and occurrences at the
 North. it would seem that he has at hts ei- ] bow on this occasion some highminded and lofty spirit, some magnanimous, and true 1 hearted monitor, possessing the means of To- cal knowledge, and ready to supply the hon- ] orabie member with every thing, down even 1 to forgotten and moth-eaten two-penny
 pamphlets, which may be used to the d'sad-
 vantage of his own country. But, as to the Hartford Convention, sir, allow me to say. that the proceedings of that body seem no"
 to be less read and studied in New England
 than farther South. They appear to be
 looked o,not in New England, but elsewhere
 for the purpose of seeing how far they may
 serve as precedent. But they will not an-
 swer the purposc-they are quite too tame.
 The latitude in which they originated was
 too cold. Other conventions, 9f more recent existence. have gone whole b,r's length ] beyond it. The learned doctors of Cotton 1 and Abbeyille have pushed their commen- taries on the Hartford collect so far that the original text writers are thrown entirely
 into the shade. I have nothing to do, sir, 1 with the Hartford Convention. Its Jour
 nal which the gentleman has quoted. never
 read. So far as the honorable member may ! discover in its proceedings spirit in any de.
 gree resembling that which was avOwed and | justified in those other Conventions, to which I have alluded, or so far as those proceedings
 can he shown to be disloyal to the ConstItn- ton, or tending to disunion. so far shall be as ready as any one to bestow on them apprehension and ccnsure.
 Ha:i ing dweit long On this Convention, and other occurrences of that day, in the hope,
 probably, (which will not be Sratiied) that
 should leave the course of this debate to fol low hn1. at length in those excursions, the honorable member returned, and attempted another object. He referred to a speech Of mine in the other House, the same which ] bad occasion to allude to myself the other day; and has quoted passage or two from it, with holc. though uneasy and idh0urinS air Of confidence, as if he had detected in nle an Inconsistency. Judging from the gentleman manper. a stranger to the course ofthe de
 bate, and |" the point in discussion, would have imagined. from SO triumphant tone, that the honorable member was about to O. verwheim me with manifest contradiction. Any one who heard him. and who had not heard what had. in fact, previously said, must have thought me routed and discomit- cd, as the gentleman had promised Sir, q breath blows all this triumph away. There IS not the slightest difference in the sentiments ofmy ea1arls on the two occasions. Wbat l Said here on "Wednesday, is in exact accord 1 ance with inc opinions expressed by me in the other House in 1895. Though the gen ileman had the metaphysics of Hudribas- though he were able
 "To sever and divide
 '' A hair 'twixt North and Northwest side"
 he yet could not insert his metaph yscal scis sOrs between the fair reading of my remarks in 1895, and what said here last week - There is not only no contradiction, no differ enCe, but, in truth, too exact a similarity. both in thought and language, to he entirely in just taste. had myselfquotrd the same speech had recurred {" it, and spoke with it open be- fore me; and much Of what said was little more than repetition from it. In order to make ;inishing work with this alleged conira- d c ,iu, nprr)it me tO rpclr ia fhp origin 0f