Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1834-07-10
From the Philadelphia Gazette.
HON. ISAAC HILL.

hoNs ASAAC HILL.
Our Washington Correspondent, in his
letter yesterday, made allusion to tho RI
diculous position occupied by Senator
Hill, in presenting, without authority,
certain resolutions purporing to have
emanated from the New Hampshire Le-
gislature. In the Baltimore Patriot VIC
find more detailed account of the at
tending circuInsta .:es, which we cx-
tract:
"Mr. President" said Hill, "my col
league yesterday said that he knew the
source from which those resolutions
came. ."-"I call the Senator to order,",
interrupted Clay. 81 wish to know, il,
upon question of taking up the rcsolu.
tions, he has II right to reply to what was
remarked yesterday upon the general
question" by this time Hill was under
'uil sail. His speech was spread out
before him; the sheets were all arranged
in regular order; and as it is difficult to
stop boat which the oars have long
been propelling, 50 it was difficult to
stop him. Accordingly ly he went on some
time after Clay called him to order, and
it was not till Ewing repeated the call,
that he was fairly stopt. To be called
10 order! this was a puzzle to the honor
able Senator. He had intcllined in his
speech no reply to call to order. As
he could not SIT down to write one, and
us il was difficult to wlitc reply Oh foot,
he was in what Major Jack Downing
would call a cOnloundcd bothcration. A
call to order The honorable Senato,
was dumb. IL they would lay over the
question, and give him time till to- NOR
row, he nigh. make arepIy; but reply
now! there was nothing OF the sort in his
book; and it was unkind in Clay and
Ewing to interrupt wrttcn-and to cX-
pect an cxtcmpoIaneous speech. For
syth threw back his head and gigglcd
Wright looked rs wise as an owl. Ben
tons rcd whiskers actually bristlcd.-II
1'ha, 'ogueish Clay kept on with letter
he was writing, now and then peeping
over his spcctacles to see what Hill was
doing. Preston started about like
green horn. Poindexter held on to his
sides, and laughed, though he tried new
er SO hard, to wear the face of n grave
Senator. The fact is, the confusion Of
Hill was so indescribably ludicrous, that
II threw the whole Senate into a burst Of
laughter at his expense. Van Buren,
decided that the Senator from N. Hamp-
shire had not gone far enough to enable
him to Judge whether he was in order or
not. Upon this Hill attempted to pro-
cecd, but Poindextcr getting the floor,
moved to lay Hills motion to take up
the resolutions, npon the table. This,
however, Hill do'sed, upon sugges-
tioD that he would not yield the floor
and smiling little nt the thought, and
then putting n iierdish aspect upon his
face, as if he would chew up spikes and
shingle nails, or make homny Of such
chaps as Webster and Clay-he began
again TO read and to read. He had not
got further than the next sentence be-
fore Ewing insisted upon the call to or
dcr--that abuse of his colleague was not
relevant TO the mere taking up Of the re-
solutions. Poindexter followed up the
call, and so did CIay--when Van Buren,
remarked that what Hill said was not in
order. Hill, however, went OH madder
than evor--when Ewing insisted that he
should stop, rs the Vice President had
pronounced him out of order-whereup-
on the Chair rcmarked-"the Senator
from New Hampshire will take his
seat" 4
This was sad rcbuke for poor Hill
from a political friend too-and will he I
ever forgive the little magician, for fore
ing him to keep speech for another oc-
casion, which in the process of keeping,
l am sure will corrupt and purify? Hill
sat down-and no painter could draw
Al,< ri. lhnl c.,l Ia il IL