Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-05-01

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from South Car0Ii{f MT. - 3k3S3 - e
marked on the floor the {3e I! sz3
Virginia that Cesar !ad found '.ss a1''
sounded: and nov he are toldby q nc less 10y
& s,Ipoi5rter of {I1e Chief Magistrate, that W.
are Committing treason Treason S1r' when
and, where. ana against whom2 WY, ne had
honei that treason consisted only in some overt
act. as is defined III he Constitution; but now,
it seems, that treason Can be committed agalnst
one of the parts of this Government. In the
Reign Of Terror we bad only Sedlflon; put now %,
opposition to the President was treason. ne
honorable member said Mr.. O., tells us that the
people will sustain the acts ofthe Executive, and
that we shall see it when the people come to
decision. The gentleman might have taken les
sons from the recent results of the elections both
in the North and in the South; and yet one OF
his most constant arguments is to tell us OF What
he hopes from the people. He may yet nave 70
Mace himself in the anxious seat OF the constr
tuents of the member from Maryland, and, like
them. repent the support he has given to those
who have brought such disasters to the country
With respect to the resolutions OF the Legls-
latures of New Jersey and Maine, the President
records them in his Protest as censure OF the
Senators from those States, and asks the Senate
to record them on their Journal as authentic; yet
all this is not to be taken as rebuke OF those
members for their votes in the Senate. why, the
honorable gentleman might see, at once, that
int had committed a
palpable abuse of the privileges OF this House.
He rose to ask the gentleman from Georgia il
he had done him justice in relation to the con-
versation he had referred to as having taken
place between the President and the Ex-King
of Spain. The President said he had made the
Ex-Emperor Napoleon his model. Now he, Mr..
c., did not say that he feared that the President
could use the army and navy to disperse the
National Legislature; but that he had too much
confidence in the patriotism of the army and
navy to fear that they could be used tor any
SUCH purpose. On the contrary, he said that
two Of the officers Of that House would be suf-
fcient to meet any force that could be sent.
Mr.. WEBSTER said he was very sorry to be
compelled to rise again on this question But
circumstances had come within his own knowl-
edge which he deemed it necessary to men
ton When he arrived in Philadelphia, on his
return to Washington, he received information
Of the very extraordinary communication sent
by the President to the Senate certainly all that
he conversed with viewed it with the utmost alarm
and disapprobation. When he arrived at Bal
timore, he found multitudes of People in the
streets, certainly not assembled in ariotous man
ner, but evincing deep state OF feeling from
some great cause. When the boat arrived at
the wharf, gentleman came forward and in
troduced one venerable man, who addressed
him, by saying-"I am a member OF the Pres
'byterian Church, and you may be surprised 10
see me in the crowd on such day; but re-
member that we had no Sundays in Revolu-
'tionary times, to interfere with our duty TO our
country. We know that our liberties are in
danger, and we came down to you, TOT the pur-
pose Of making you acquainted with our true
situation, and to ask what we are to depend on
The honorable gentleman says this crowd
was composed of men Influenced by the exes-
perated feelings Of faction. Was there no feel-
ing Of evaporation separate from faction? DID
the honorable gentleman never hear OF the eX-
asperated feelings patriotism? And did these
feelings never call forth crowds to assemble IN
the streets even on Sunday? With what eyes
did the gentleman look on the many who meet
on every day Of the week through the whole
Union2 Were they exclusively of the classes
of one particular party. He must know that
these masses were collected by general feel
ing of oppression. Did the gentleman never see
such crowds collected at steam boat wharf
that he could not get through without beng Jost-
led? So far as he (Mr. w y was concerned, it
was matter of no Importance. But so far as
the City of Baltimore was concerned, which
was behind no City in the Union for high pat
riotsm, intelligence, moral WORTH and religious
feeling the observations of the gentleman de-
served some rebuke
The honorable gentleman seemed to have in
his eye some terra incognta, out OF which
that great voice is to come, which is to settle this
great question in favor Of the Administration.
He himself decides that this terra incognita was
not on the sea coast (and he knew in this he
was correctly for from Maine to South Carroll
ma, that feeling which the gentleman calls
evaporation and faction the people call pa
triotsm-a sense Of injury and oppression.
Where, then, is the terra incognta to be found?
The gentleman said that Philadelphia always
thought against Pennsylvania, but recent events
seemed to incline the gentleman to think that
all great cities differed with the country. On
the great question which now agtated the peo-
pie, he apprehended that the cities and the coun-
try thought alike. If a question affected the CT
ties only, the country might, from not under
standing it, view it in different light. But on
the constitutional question, whether the free in
of the country are to be preserved, the