The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-02-15
Che Nrassart,usetts Spp.
So THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS is ESSENTIAL T,
THE SECURITY OF FREEDOM"
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WEDNESDAY, FEB. I5.1Sao


The REJECTVoN. We continue the pub
iicatlon OF the debate on the rejection of
Van Buren,. The speech of Pondexter
will shew the grounds on which the Jack
son Senators opposed him, in addition to
those set forth by the opposition members.
The whole will repay perusa.
Great efforts are making by the Van Blu
rem editors to excite public sympathy, and
to produce a reaction in his favor, and
against the Senate. In this, they succeed
but poorly, thus far, and must fail entirely
If the people understand the grounds Of
the rejection. In New York, the Tamma-
MES Immediately called a meeting to vote
him up and the Senate dolon. 1t proved a
failure, not being near as large as their
common political meetings. Resolutions,
however, were passed denouncing the Sem
ate in good set terms. AS that course was
taken by the friends of Van Buren,, those
who regarded the supremacy of the Con-
stltution, and believed the unawed exercise
of their delegated powers, by each depart
ment of the government, essential to the
preservation of our liberties, called coun-
ter meeting, which is said, by the New
York papers, to have been the largest po-
litical meeting ever known in that city.
The proceedings were very spirited and
harmonious Resolutions were passed, ap-
proving of the decision in the case in ques-
ton, and reprobating the decttine (which
would degrade the American Senate to
body assembled merely to register the edicts
of any Chief Magistrate"
The Globe, Gen. Jackson's mouth-piece,
is particularly bitter in its denurcations of
the Senate, for its presumption in daring to
reject the nomination and proposes takipp
away from it the right of having any voice
IN appointments, and cutting down the
term OF service of the Senators to two
years! Let the General have his way and
the government would soon be changed to
a military despotism, of which he would
be the chief. The Senate must he cautious
of another such act Of contumacy, or, per-
chance the General may actually serve its
members as he threatened, once before
to "cut off their ears"
THE WEATHER. The late "cold snap"
appears to have been unusually severe
throughout the whole country. In Lering-
ton, Kentucky, on the morning of Jan, &c,
the thermometer fell to IL deg. below zero.
In Louisville, Ky, on the same day, to l94
deg. below. The Mobile, Alabama, Regis
ter, of Jan. 81 says that "on Wednesday
night 1.-THE 25th) the mercury fell ttcenty, -four
degeees below the freezing point, rs deg.
above zero 1t adds; " the ground is now
frozen. Ice has been standing in the streets
since yesterday morning" This must be
considered very remarkable, when it is
recollected that Mobile lies in the same lat
itude OF Madeira, Morocco, Tripoli and Je-
rusalem, and nearly in the same with CAL
no in Egypt, and that it is considerably far
Their south than Constantinope. Noples.
Tunis, Algiers, and Madrid, or than the
southernmost cxtremities of Italy or Spain.
AT Utica, on the 9th Of January, the Their
mometer fell to II deg. below zero, and on
the 2sth, Is do. At Chelsea VT, on the
9th and 2Sth January, 20 below zero. AT
Schenectady, on the 26th, at Union College,
"a below zero. At Baiision Spa, on the
9th, % below zero; ON the 2Sth, 20 below
zero. At .Montrose, Pa, on the 9th ofJan-
uary, 20 below zero. At. Wiache tier, Va,
on the 9th of January, 10 below zero. At
.Nashpillc, Tenn, on the Oath, below zero.