Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-03-13

lncNpedcnf especially hat hcIs
au respect to recent decision of the Supreme Court
The memorial indirectly TO renro,cb ,bc S,a, r
Georgia with the course she had pursued the In
dams within her limits and also with the of hey,
laws upon particular individuals If decision had been
given by which those laws of Georgia were declared ob
unconstitutional with what propriety could the House now
act on the memorial before IT, before the subsequent course
OF Georgia should be known?
lie understood that mandate had gone 10 the Court be-
low TO correct its erors the on which il was
founded would soon be laid before the public and though
Mr.. W. did not believe that il was the wish or Josos c
the gentleman from Massachusetts, throw into the scao
oil public sentiment decision of the House of Reprcscn
by the adoption OF an elaborate report from select
committees yet such it was manifest would be the
quence OF the motion he had made. Why should such Il
committee be rascd Was ii for select committee OF
that House to investigate what the Supreme Court might
have done Could add any thing what the Court had
done Before the House passed the memorial il ought
10 have the opinion of the Supreme Court before it-ten
they might see how far the action Of that Court had fallen
short and in what respect needed from the acton OF
that House He put it TO the House, whether such re-
terence proposed would be respectful either TO the
General Government or TO Sovereign State To give
through the report of committee parfe statement
oil what were the laws Of Gcorgaof what had hitherto
been doneand OF what ought yet done in
to the Indians within her limits! He trusted he had said
enough show that such measure would be improper
But If farther Legislation needed he would give the
House reason why the memorial should sent TO the
Committee Indian Affairs. That Committee had the
interest Of the Indians, well interests of the Unit
ed States in reference the Indians, under its peculiar
charges aud was for them inquire whether Congress
had done all in the way ollegsation, which ought to-
DO on that subject; and if any thing further was wanted
that Committee might present il to the House in the
ves from the State of Georgia. he opposed to the APP
pontmcnt OF a select commitee
Mr. CLAYTON, OF Georgia, said, that Il was not
his intention to oer disresrecto the gentleman who
introduced this memorial, he believed there one
who cherished towards him higher degree OF veneetion
yet he felt himself at liberty what he was well con-
WINGED the people oil his State would say were they per-
sonaly present And that was that the gentlemen who
had drawn up and presented that memorial were doing
what they had no right TO do-were medding with what
did not concern them, and acting impertinently in
the presentation OF such paper He was almost afraid
as he
did half million OF free people oil The United States and
knowing the great indgny which thew had ateIv recev
ed in the pronouncng OF decision which he hoped and
believed would be resisted with promptde and spi-
n' which become Georgians, and which, he very
sure never would be executed till Georgia was made :,
bowling wilderness AS to the memorial, Georgia would
treat as 1T deserved-with sovereign contemp and for
himself lie did not care where il went though he should
suppose the most proper reference would be the Com
m.teo Forgn Relations, since seemed now TO be set
tied that the Cherokees constituted independent foreign
hngdomihe gentlcman had referred to his resolution
with respect to the Bank but there q difference
between thi, aud the question 1t expressly declared
in the charter Of the United States Bank that its
affairs examined by the Houses task should be
performed by select committee.
This was the why he had moved that hi. rcsou
ton should be referred such committee although the
gentleman from Massachusetts, had said that the
were similar, yet ne should say God forbid that Georgia
should put herself footing with the Bank of the
United States and whenever she soreaed, he should
always repel tue attack. Georgia stood upon equal
ootng with the other States, and far very far above the
Specializing footing OF the Bank of the United States.
Mr. e. said that he had risen for the express purpose of
showing his contempt for that memoIia and he would.
therefore, move amendment the motion gentle
from Massachusetts, which was that this memorial
should be referred to a Select Committee provided the
State OF New York should first consent that Committee
of this House should be appointed 70 tle a
ner In which that State had treated the Indians within her
limits He would ask the Representatives fros tina. State
what they would think of inquiry into conduct of
State OF New York in sending Oft her Indians to Green
Bay TO freeze to death, after first taking away their do
minon from them How would New York like it, should
Georgia present memorial such had now been read
But he did injustice tothat great and patriotic State This
memorial, he was confident, the OF that State
but would turn out inv esgaon TO be the work of
few OF her citizens who were dressed in black gowns
who protested TO minister in holy things made many
ianacai pretenslons to superior benevoence humanity,
pety love TO the Indians, and all thatwho though that
Georgia had not piey cnoughthat she had sufficient re-
gard the principles of humanity who therefore were
gracousIy willing to take the State of Georgia their
holy keeping The memorial proceeded from few prag-
matca Individuals who disposed TO be busy bodies
in other mems matters If the House had any respect
such memoTiaiss as these-they would throw such
memorial under tho table and not apgravate TO vet
higher degree, the feelings of State already wrought
up to higher pitch than she could bear and who
only wanted the application Of match to blow the
Union into ten thousand fragments; when there was
not State south of the Potomac which was not at this
moment, under the highest degree of excitement, whose
People not rising against oppression, and by town
meetings and every other form OF expressing public OPT.
Mon; endeayoring to bring the United States TO
sense OF justice Would that House consent TO make it,
self the instrumeh of adding excitement excitement till
they should rend the Union peces' few steps more and
they would bring those States to condition like that in
which the colonies Were Immediately before the rupture
with Great Britain, He warned--he cautioned gentle
he would not soop TO them Memorials like
these could be got any time by set of deluded IA
natics Congress should look the condition of the old
States and not by reckless and uneeng course provoke
them yet farther. He prayed gentlemen consider.
lie warned the House proceed with prudence aud con-
sideraoD, and though he would not impIorc them vet
he earnestly warned them 10 disregard such memorial
Mr.. Pendeton of New York, said that the gentleman
from Georgia had great to dstrust himself
to the important question before the House lie DO.
eved the House had seldom witnessed greater emotion or
inadequate occasion. The gentleman To-
imagine that the petition which had been presented came
from the State of New York
Here Mr. Clayton speaking across SAID he had correct
cd hmsclfJ But it such thing II petition
from citizens Of the United States, who possessed by the
Constitution, right which gentleman there was COM
petent question: TO present their Wishes hopes, OPT
Mons 10 the House Of Representatives What was tho
question: The memorial presented statement Of what
had been the law from the earliest period of National
History until the present time A law which pub
cly known in The nation and which sustained by the
treaties of ihe United States, aud by the Constitution.
Against which of law, Georgia had assumed ju-
isdcon which did not belong to her, and under the
crcise of Which, two American citizens had been commit
ted TO prison.
Mr.. r. asked whether there the least portion In.
grcdicnt of novelty in the statements which the petition
presented Was this attempt to resist the oncrodch-
ments Of Georgia. Far from it, The petitioners stood up
for a law which while this country possessed any thing
tnat could be called antiquity, might claim that antiquity,
having coeval with the existence OF the Govern
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Such nteuoorafsts were not 10 be CHARGED with rash