Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1834-03-20

i and patriotic people to madness and des-
: pair.
d Mr.. President: unahectedly indisPos-
e ed, and unwilling as am to trespass up
. on the Senate, could not decline COM
!, plying with request addressed to me
e by respectable portion Of my fellow
d citizens, part of The bone and sinew Of
8 the American public. Like the Scnatur
e from Massachusetts, who has been en-
: trusted with the presentation OF their pc
= tition to the Senate, | found them plain,
: judicious, sensible men, clearly under
, standing their own interests, and, with
, the rest Of the community, wIithing un-
der the operation Of the measures OF the
Executive. If j have deviated from the
) beaten track of debate in the Senate, my
apology must be found in the anxious So
! licitude which feel for the condition Of
the country. And, sir, if l shall have
been successful in touching your heart,
and exciting in you a glow of patriotism,
| shall be most happy. You CAN pre-
vail upon the President to abandon his
ruinous course; and if you will exert the
influence which you possess, you will
command the thanks and plaudits of
grateful people.
In the HOUSE Of REPRESENTATIVES, on
the 10Th inst on the question to postpone
the consideration Of the Report of the
Committee of Ways and Means, Mr..
BURGEs made the following remarks:-
Mr.. burgess said, that, in common
with others, he felt deep anxiety that
Congress should listen to the voice ofthe
country, and should respond TO it in ac-
cents which should intimate a desire to
obey its mandate. There was nothing
so oppressive as hope deferred. The
country had been led to hope that to-day
the House would take up this subject in
earnest, and begin to discuss the Report
Of the Committee Of Ways and Means.
And now they were met with motion to
postpone. Gentlemen might rest assur-
ed the People would scrutinze closel ly
the reasons for such stpOnement.-I
Gould they postpone the calamties which
were pressing them down to the very
earh' Could hunger postpone its call
for bread? Why postpone debate? Why
not suffer gentlemen, who were prepared,
to 90 on and deliver their views 10 the
House? They were ready: why should
they not be hcard' Why, lorsooth, gen.
tlemen wanted the letters Of certain Sc
cretaries of the Treasury. What! must
the House 60 to the letters ofthe Secre-
taries, to learn what was the law? If
he believed that the Secretary Of the
Treasury had acted faithfully, though he
might have been in error, he should not
be for condemning him. But if, in such
great concerns, he had knowingly per-
yertod the law, he would arraign him
lie would arraign him, living dead.
If living, he would arragn the man; and
if dead, he would arraign his memory.
Don't tell me, said Mr.. b., ofleiters I
of a Secretary going to justify transac-
ton which has brought upon the whole q
country greater, more universal more G
overwhelming flood of widespread ruin I
han any single measure that ever had 9
been attempted, since the foundation Of b
he Government. Tell not me of the b
etters of Secretary Crawford, or Secre- v
ary Dallas, or Secretary Hamilton, or 4
my other Secretary. Have we not the C
aw? Why are we to 60 TO them? Do a
not gentlemen tell us that they are the
mere instruments Of the Executive g.
Why not 90 to the dicta Of the former
Preside nts? Why are we told that we
must have the views and opinions of their c c
,nderlings?-when, in the same breath, L
hey preach to us that the President has 81
perfect right of control over all their .
loings? The President! sir, the Presi- y
lent is the only power in such Govern I"
nent! II is he who must tell us what the 0
aw is--what it means--and what should ',
'e the practice under it. !, u
Mr.. Speaker, if it be--oh, if it be, in ="
Iced, as the gentleman from Kentucky, p
Mr. Chilton) would have us to beieve: 'e
there is, indeed, any CLEAN of hope CT G.
hat there is relief for the country com u, ~
ng, l, for one, will agree to sit here, III "a
asting, and in sackcloth and ashes, till W
he moment shall arrive when an oppres- AZ
i've, an arbitrary, a tyrannical Govern W
nent shall say to the people, cit is G. y
ough--we will now give you relief -
But what is it that the gentleman from or
'ennessee (Mr. PoIk) tells US? The W.
ppendix is not ready! Ay, sir, when -,
unger is gnawing at our vitals, and we u
re all but sinking in despair, we are told
ne appendix is not here! You must ge
ait for the printer! Why keep up this O
ladowy phantom Of paltry controver- =;
Y, that has no longer an existencei- -
Why, instead Of telling US what the Sc IN
retary ofthe Treasury has done, keep B
nging in our ears that the Bank must tic
nj he oh m rterad5 That !, moi Tho o,,o, |