The Arkansas advocate., 1832-04-04

ten comfnhnlcation, oblectif1g only to ,ls. part ofltasbich contained ct imr,,,ss lions enmJ public conduct, withent ssa cihcation ofiny acts ofmal- administrat;ppee "A motion was then made and earr5e5 postpone my message to the first of Ja,,s " and the House refused to let it be raas or spread on the Journals, althoupL ttu yeas and nays were taken, and entered ~ the Journals. A motionwas next mada,n expcl tic cliailsaan fthe committee. wLo had, in obedience to the joint rule of fLo two Houses, handed ne the memorial Whether this course proceeded from ipao rance, or was a sort Of spite action aoair.. me. for not letting them give you the la,s I will not undertake 10 determine bS, tcon1inccd l ain, that every man of san and candor will pronounce il to be one o, the most extraordinary and disrracen scenes which eyer occurred in a Leriss tive body"
 shall now, fellow citizens, give diferentand eorveet Interpretation oftbe proceedings growing out Of this much. talked of memorial. join issue with tbo Governor, aud wien the case is fairlr argued, submit t 10 the eandor and is. ' telligence of the people tosay, whctbpr the 5odiaaq and disgrace of the transac ton docs not more properly attachiiself :o Hls EnceAene5 aad ( f5se q lis par. tieedor friends.
 The memorial, praying for the clcc. tion ef q Governor, was not memorial of the Legislature or General Asscmbr 1 of the Territory of Arkansas, but If the Lsgislqisve Council end House ofR. lweseptatires of the Territory of Arkan sas; of course, q document that lbp Governor had DO more business with. or control over, than he could have had oyera joint resolution ofthe Two Houses This his Excelleney well knew; this he chairman of the committee on enro. ments well knew, or oaleHtt0 harehnoaa. and the joint rule of the two Houses. in obedience to which his Lxcelency says the chairman of the committee handed him the memorial, as Governor, had no more application, er.releYarcytoi, than 1t Lad 10 resolution. With knowledge of this fact, tic Governor went into the private room of the Clerk 1seftiie House of Representatives; t eas room under the same roof and ai5ove my own. The Assistant Clerk of fl.c Council and myself were sitting aloBe when he entered. The Assistant Clerk having intimaied 10 me previous ls. that his Exccllenes wished teie-fete with him, and 10 make some notes from the memorial, 1 retired. Twas subsc. ffaenily fold by the Assistant Clerk, that he called it his ..impcachment,g and that hc made eopious notes frorait; he saw its Phraseology, and if he had not e'fst5Tcfiy hasosr3a end jfo1,ese6a tiialhe had no official relation 10 1t, do you sup. pose that he would have sought ii mi. rotcty, and made notes fomit? lfhe had considered it Ia document that would be eGeiaily presented to him as mat. ter course and of right, why not wait, with tue dignity and composurc becony ing his elevated oifNial stafion1 After this, the Clerk of the House of Repre- sentatiyes, casually, or otherwise, pla. ced il into the hands of the ehairmanoi the committee on enrolments. He was l your friend, Governor. You wantedtO get the memorial "under color of legis- lative authorlty,'' so that you might havea prctext to tell the people thatit was ''spite actionagainst you." grow. ing out of your veto on the "Ten Sec ton Bill, accuse the respectable ma- .jority of the two Houses with corruption in relation to that measure, and thereby divert the public mind from the odinm that had fixed itself upon you, for what causes, l shall not now make your heart bleed afresh'' 10 tell.
 But to the memorial again: So fg from it's being handed to the Governor, "in obedienceio 10 joint rule of the two Houses, then in full iorce,n it was hand. ed to him in direct piolatioa, impliedv at tleast, of joint resolution. appointing a committee to hand the memorial fths Legislative Council and House of Re, presentatiyes to our Delegate to Con gross.
 That committee reported, in part, as follows, to wit: ss That the full and complete discharge of their duties have been arrested by the following circum. stanees-which circumstances, your committee believe to be unprecedented, uGustifable, and of a sarreptitioas cha racter.s It was sstrreotitiousiy convey. ed 10 you, and between the hours Of elcocn and t1pelre o'clooh at nzght. That report had been made to the House, You knew that you had the paperin i'm piled violation ofa joint resolution; the