Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1833-02-18

IN SENATE.
GATI.nnAY. BIN 0.

Til SENATE proceeded 10 consider the resolution
offered by MI fnnd 'Nter, calling for copies of MI
ordcis &c uf Military aud Naval Commanders at
Chmlry'on, &c
Mr. GRUNDY, renmking that n few moments
only 81 time remained before the hnnr n, winch the
spcc.al o,dcl VIZ o. he Called mid he should he
brief N Whit he hnd Ia eay ia reply Ia The remarks
made Yesterday upon tn amnndmrn, proposed by
hun, having for lts object Ia leave the usnnl discte
ton wtb the Executive in ,,gatd TO the papers pro
posed to bc nslted COR.
From whnt he (Alr G Ind sud the gentleman
ftom South cnrolna CMr. Calhonn,) hal seemed
90 draw an inference that some corr spondonee o
| an cxcep,ionpbe nature, hid taken place be'weeu
the plesd' ut aud some niis dualB IN some feti Of
7oIih Carolina. have only IL say, upon that
ppiut spd flr g., ,hat that Inference can find no
foundation OF support N any remarks If mine. !,
snld nothing Whalcyetto wannnt H. Nothing thai
| say on kno~ must be rthod upon ~ esdsnce ot
such tacl4, rs the gahlcinhn aeems Ia suppose 10
exist Whht | said was tins that, considering
the peculiar situation OF eif,is n Tho State Of South
Carolina II was thing 10 be expected thni lndlv
dupls should have written 10 the President on tho
subject; not dat The presl lem had responded II
such communications, 81 gwen information III re-
turn. spoke, III saying tina, the Inference OF my
own min !, drawn from what every one knows 10
DC Tie stitc Oh tlllIlgS tnPlf. WIN Httifb WfFf
arrayad against ono another as they there, and
great excitement existed, it wns not to b, presn
med that every one would romein silent, aud thai
the General Government would have no informs.
ton Of what took place there. This wrs "a suprosi
ton entirely lnadmiSsible by my well regulated
mind But he had not nlima,d that the President
had responded 10 socn communications, nor had he
heard il charged that he had. He had indeed seen
something IN n South Carolina paper importing
that the Proclamation Of the President hid been
known Of there before II was known here but lac
had seen that rimor contftd,ctcd here by a paper
entitled To IA much credit as the which promul
gutcd it, and he had no belief IN II.
II had been said, that the President could with
hold any information be chose, without the quuli
hcatlon proposed to be given to the resolution
Tint was very true, Mr.. q. sad. 1t he'd also been
remarked that the President was not afraid Of res
possibility Tint was true, too, Mr. q said. Ev-
ety body knew il TO be so. But, IN asking Of him
for information it ought to be SO asked not 10
seem to require from him more than he ough, To
communicate Whnt Is IT, said Mr. G. thut We
wish no, TO DC communicated Only that the
names Of private individuals, # any such avs con
nccled with tina information IN possession Of the
President, may not be exposed There was no nc
cessity for any such disclosure. Whatever the Tx
ccuve had done he would communicate AMI why
he had done it.
II was merely to prevent private individuals
Gom being compromised that MIR. c. wished 10
limit this call. Was mol party excitement already
high enough in South Carolina 7 Was II not al
rcady high enough throusho the nation 7 Did
gcntl,m men want to add fuel to the fame II they
did, Mr.. q. said he-was opposed to it lie would
IA her see peace and good will and harmony pre-
vail than by any act or Of his increase the dis
cord
Mr. CALHOUN here apologzlng for Interrupt
ting Mr.. Grundy suggested thel II would perhaps
save him some time 10 app'ize him that the morcr
ofthc resolution was not present IN the Senate at
this time
Mr. GRUMPY said he should soon finish what
little he had 10 say, when the resolution might be
nld over TIL tho mover was present. lie wished
that this resolution without being the means ofany
unnecessary excitement, should be promptly acted
upon, because he believed that it would elicit ntor-
m itlon which would 20 IN a great degree to allay
the public feeling, and 20 remove grouudless APP
prehenslons that it would indeed abate rather
than increase the existing excitement III the
South.
The Senator fom South Carolina, had seemed
Yesterday to intimate that the information which
he Mr.. q had then given ought TO be regarded as
em-cffical-Now Mr.. G.. SAID, he wished that
Senator and all others TO understand this that
when he spoke this floor, he spoke rs one of the
Representatives OF the State of Tennessee, and
that no other individual was to be affected or CON-
mitted by what he SAID. When he did speak for
others, nc would say when he did not say so,he
spoke on. r. o. f;ha I" representatives ot Ten