The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-08-08

o'nei oiJects. they shall not be paramount
TO NIL others. If the honorable Senate
from Penn. will not do his duty, that vii
h)t prevent me, and | must tell him, tina
ms Is the last place in which, and am Ia,
last man against whom, he, whose legisla
ture had instructed him not to barter ava,
any thing. not to he cajole.l TO abandon an,
one sota o! the protective system, shout.
have Inslnuated improper motives. Howev
or, the Senator who had stated he had stood
out awhile, would now say how much only
OF that system. which he was instructed tc
defend, he had yielded
Mr. Mangum here interrupted Mr.. CLAY.
by calling him 10 order for having referred
TO the conduct of my of the Committee OF
Conference. Mr.. II lowell well sustained
Mr.. Clay in the course he had taken; as
the gentlemen of the committee themselves
had entered into explanation of their con-
duct, it was therefore subject open to
comment, although it had been oat of order
in the first instance TO have made any in
Quiry into the individual conduct of the
committee. Mr.. Clay then said, 1t was IN
necessary to discuss that. Mr.. Mangum
however persisted in his point of order, and
having reduced it to writing, it was suhse-
quently oVer-ruied, &c CATHEDRAL Upon
which Mr.. Clay remarked. that he hoped
they had done with points of order, and
that the Senator who had usually con-
Quoted himself so decorously, would hence
forth pursue the even tenor of his way.
Mr.. Mansum rather tartly observed, that
he did not want the honorable Senator to
instruct him as to his course. sc. Mr.. CLAY
replied, that he might take just what course
he pleased. Mr.. Mangum rose and said,
he certainly would, and was about leaving
the Senate, when | presume his better re-
Election convinced him that he had been in
error, had been pronounced SO by the chair,
and he returned to his seat. After which,
Mr.. Clay denounced in strong language
the abandonment of the protective system,
and particularly vindicated his course in
relation to it. Mr.. Webster followed, and
commented very severely on the conduct of
Mr.. Wilkins, who said, "that he abandoned
the amendments as to woollens because it
was but a litte:" but why was it but little?
simply because that Senator had abandon
ed every thing else in the bill, &c. The
whole of the foregoing debate was the
most interesting, beth as to matter and
manner, that had occurred for the session.
1t was not lessened when Mr.. Hayne, laugh
ing, got up, and explained how he had art
ed on the committee, declaring in effect and
substance, that as the Senate knew, full
well what his opinions were upon the pro-
tective system, he felt himself, when chos-
ell, in situation somewhat strange some
what like the feelings ascribed to Asmo-
deus in church who wondered how he
got there: Qaughtel,i but having got into
Ihe conference, he was determined to make
the best of it for the South. He first applied
TO the senator for New Jersey upon an ari-
rle in which he did not feel much interest,
and although he commended for Il while, yet
npon that he would finally give way. Then,
AZ he never tourhetl upon the iron interest,
llanghter) in which both gentlemen felt so
deeply, he applied to the senator for Penn
sylvania upon some other article, who was
also very well inclined to accommodate him
upon particular. matters; until finally he
worked upon one and then upon another of
she committee, and in this way he managed
to reduce their opposition to IA very small
matter indeed-to only two or three articles
as TO woollens. seven per cent. Upon this
there was II struggle made Ivy the Senator
from New Jersey, of cent. per cent down
to two per cent: but the Senator from
L CHioyIdIid Hdfiu9 tudt tilCfG
was protection enough in the bill for the
woollen manufacturer, the Senator from
New Jersey finally gave way, and being
further satisfied by gentleman on the
Committee from the House of Representa-
lives that an establishment in New Jersey
for manufacturing Duck would not be in
lureti, all the amendments were then given
up, and they recommended the Senate to
recede from them. He then repeated, that
as the Senate knew very well what his
opinions were, (towiy bo,oing to the ground
he begged to return his sincere and hearty
thanks to his co-laborers, for their valuable
assistance in enabling him to effect his OH
jects, for his constituents in the South.
Considerable laughter followed this declar-
aton, and tine expose itself was received
with much evident modification on the part
of the Hon. Senators implicated. After
some humorous remarks from Mr.. Holmes
upon the adloltness displayed by Mr.. Hayne
and the discontinue that ensued from the
narrative, the question was taken en- post
ponng the bill, which the Senate refused to
do, Ivy large majority, principally on the
ground that if they did so, they would not
have any bill at all.
A motion TO re-commit the bill was made
by Mr.. Hayne and rejected. The question
on receding from the amendments were
severally put and carried: upon which Mr.,
Wilkins, to shake the impression made by
his dupirity made another essay, and went
into long explanation of his motves-le-
ferring for justification to the votes just
taken--and being followed by Mr.. Webster
in reply, the hollowness of Mr.. WIS. profes
sions in favor of the protective interests
generally was, he said, practically illustrat-
ed by the fact, that it appeared he had act
ed on the previous determination to surrcn-
der every article hut one-and that too
1.-THE woollensl as soon as it was asked
and ground that faaifed the professions
in its favor--that it was already sufficiently
protected. Mr.. Wilkins attempted reply
but was unable to proceed. Mr.. Dallas
his brother-in-la and Co Senator, came TO
the rescue, remaiking that the bill in its
general features met his views; and thus
owing to the conduct of the senators OF that
great State, from whom more was to he eX-
pected than any other, that they were to he
strong advocates of the Protective System,
and who, if injury is to flow from the bll
must feel it, hus the Protective System
generally received stab, from witch i
will not easily recover. Divide ct impera
has been the tactics Of the oppostion-the,
have succeeded thereby.
Exfract IF ifnsr .from gentleman Of Gin
cinnofi, dated I'm July, 1882, TO his trien'
ia Baltimore