Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-01-17

that it shosd be refunded aud whatever might be The
supposed danger, he should still say
Fiat ustiua cGlun.
Mr. Barringer regretted that this claim had again made
It's appearance in Congress was old acquaintance
and Mr. B believed lac had know ledge of the pur-
pose with which il brought forward by those
who had pressed it before Ii had been said and not
without truth that looming events cast their shadows be-
lore lie had seen very distinguished gentlemen urg-
ing similar bill OF former Their motive 10 do
so was stronger now than it had been then The effort
when formerly made had failed. MIR. b. had expected
That would tail again. But he was il not alarmed AT
least greatly asonSh. Witnessing the vote by which
'he House had refused TO lay this bill the table And
especially on seeing, he had almost said the very same
gentlemen Who before would not give IL house room now
Young to keep up before the gaze of the country The
terms OF The bill implied that act OF justice was to be
zone he bill protested 10 refund money, and the ma
.urm iercnce VAS that the money had been paid Now
me TACT came to him, through medium stronger than
tradition, that Matthew Lyon had never paid cent of IL
ct he was TO be refunded $1,000 with interest from the
year 1889 The prosecution, the line had not been
aimed at any particular individual The blow had been
aimed at the party. The party understood it, and the
pSy pau me money, every copper OF IT, Was Congress
ABOUT TO pay back what had never been paid? Was This
necessary To v'nicate the money OF the individual su
eeI' MS memory had been vindicdtcd By the political
revolution OF 1901, by the voice OF MIR Jefferson and
oil all who acted with him. MIR. Jefferson went the nj.
most length that this constitutional power womb enable
MN 10 go. lie pardoned at every man who had
been imprisoned under that law aud that without
10 'he merits oil the individual cases, but on the ground
u't the law itself was unconstitutional. lie therefore
PaItohed the whole OF them in the gross The memorv
oil Matthew Lyon amply indicated Instead nj hs
"S ,''eueu 10 make MN an object public scorn lac
nu Deeh hon0red, and made The object envy AZ one
who had suffered i'll the Cause of public liberty vim
ucauo INFINITELY more grateful to the heart of an bonor,
BILE and honest man. than 10 receive a tho,san I,II,s
into his pocket which lac had never paid out off, W.
1t necessary 10 pass this bill as means of lecla,i ,
me sedl'Ion law was unconstitutional? That had been
cone IN much more decisive mamer. The PASSING nj
ths OIL was no test No more heartily believed The
law 10 be unconstitutional than he did, yet he should vote
against Dill 10 refund money that had never been psI
Mr. B then urged the argument repeatedly brought for
ward against the right OF the House TO pass OH he ron
sutuonaliiy oil the law. But why had lh. nancy M,
Oeen refunded long ago? IL wrong had been dono ar,
congress could redress the wrong why had not Mir Ir
iersohS Congress redrcSsed il in 1901? Tn. fercnn
must be that there were stronger in operation now
What could they be: These difficult times TIC
House had been told it crisis In 1867 when ~
Dill hrst appeared one of those ere pending which
cast their shadow before Aye said Mr. b. and the shadow
IS mere Is oVershadowlng provinces Was the avor;,c
oNJcct oil one part OF the country about to be carried; and
were the advocates oil certain doctrine pledged for the
passage of the bill! Were the doctrines OF tho
OF vs. to be re-airmed? He begged gentlemen 10 lcavc
that matter 10 the power which had il under IFS inr
dicon lie did not believe that Just that this mo
hey should be refunded. Aud If il were the Uousc
iad no power And il il had, the crisis did not reou
that House TO affirm dsairm The doctrines nvdyJ
IN me Dill But II 1t did, let that affirmation be made
openly Iut every man upon his COR dire Let them
hot be called TO do, what by Implication they will mo
construed TO do in the form OF bill like this II moht
perhaps, be right, in the opinion of some cenene, q,
cast o1ium and oboquy upon the Judiciary which amer
all, whatever might be the opinions OF the gentleman
from New ork (Alr Root) the tyranny and opprrs
hlfh III.
people must lind shelter become the subjects of AN
Gus desposm. He imprecated that penl.man,s ncrc,,
towards an institution assailed every side, whose
very existence seemed now 10 hang the breath of
noStls, and which, should tumble into the dust wouI
involve That gentlemans and his own, and every mans
liberty in its ruins IL the Judiciary couId NOT
people, they must take refuge under the shade of hrn
or submit their nccks, others had done to a nilar,
deSpolSm' Let gentlemen beware. The act they were
70 uo might lead 10 consequences such he prayed
God TO forbid. N P"J'"
lie had meant to ask the gentleman from Kentucky
QNr Johhson) now happened, that he had sumbered
over inc interests oil justice for these vears
when the claimants were his constituents and The
very son oil the sufferer was member of the House He
had meant TO ask him what oLliquty of purosc or
neglect OF duty had suffered the rights of an innre
10 he weighed down so long man
! lMr. johnson explained by reminding Mr. b. of hi,
ohg absence from The House. and assuring him that no had
made his remark elsewhere Mr. b. replieI tb,t ,L
Tact had escaped his recollection or the voice of The
ueman's remonstIance hal not be en- loud .uongh 70 -
the covering Of his obscurty
MIR Daniel said that he regretted exceedingly tia, the
gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Barneer) was en-
urehiuy haunted by shadows and hobeobins He Ind
been for consider able me after the gentleman bc -,
speak, IN doubt as TO what grounds he meant to
upon whether he intended to vndicaie the sedition
law or not lhe gentleman however had finally come 10
the conclusion, that the law unconstitutional and We,
he was entirely opposed 10 giving any frie ia the prei
se, because orSoo'h' perhaps nevertheless, possibly
peTchance the bill might be intended to operate Tor some
political purpose. Lest it might operate against ccrn
paper that was lying abroad, kite perhaps Mr. d. could
not tell The gentleman has seen such manor i'm t,o
distant elements flying through the country, or very nos
Soy me gentleman might have had other motive for
bringing The subject forward at the present moment Mr.
H. had the evidence OF colleague of bis that a ocne
man Oy no means opposed TO that paper had brought for
ward similar bill in the Senate.
/ lie gentleman, however, had mat, another qrapJ a.
coVery-such an one nobody had ever made before that
The money TO be refunded had not cen paid NV NJ
Lyon tall but by his Party. The gentleman hal no.
Inced no evidence in support OF such an assertion IA.
is Intended asa mere shift to get clear of the main
uoh, winch was a decision the Scdion Inv; Wa a
Story IKE this wholly unsupported 10 defeat fir cl,iu
Nat was The object OF the bill? To destroy The Gover,
meni! No. TWAS TO vndcae the Government. il ,yas
TO build up that which the Sedition Law had torn ,o,v
Inc Dill would sustain the Constitutions not oyert,rn !,
pass The bill would fulfil, violate their oath How
gentlemen could reconcile ii TO their own minds TO declare
me Law unconstitutional and yet refuse TO redress the in
Jury had inflicted he loss 10 conceive He
more astonlShed at the argument of the gentleman from,
virginia, (hr Craig) than at any Other which had VET
1een advanced. re well recolecied that when the Bnc
io TOAD had been proposed, aud was expected 70 run
through that genemans district, Ic had maintained tb
OH 10 De unconstitutional; yet, il The money was in the
treasury was constitutional 10 appropriate il TO carry
ne Dill into effect Now we had money plenty in he
ireasury-and though the gentleman might hold the bill
unconstitutional yet 1t would be quite constitutional to an
Proprae the money. Hc hoped the gentleman yyouTl
stick to his old ground.
| The residue Of Mr. Daniels speech and Mr. Barrp.
/ gers reJolnder, we must, for the present deGer1
several gentleman were claiming the floor when
| On motion of Mr. Vinton
ne House adjourned, without having come Io any do
cision upon the question depending. mt
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