Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1835-02-12
WHOLE NO. 254.
u. s. CONGRESS.
IN SENATE.


Boston, representing the defenceless situa-
ton of that City, and urging the necessity Of
an appropriation i"r fortifying Castle Island
which. on motion of Mr.. Silsbee was refer
red to the Committee on Military Affairs.
Mr.. Calhoun then rose, and requested the
Secretary to read paragraph from a news
paper which be sent to the table. The Sec
retary then read from the Globe of Saturday
the following paragraph -
"Whe,her Lawrence has caught,i his Wis
its to the Capitol, the mania which has pre-
vailed during the two last sessions in the Sc
nate-whethcr he has become infatuated
with the chimeras which have troubled the
brains of d disappointed and ambitious. ora
tors who have depicted the President as
Caesar who ought to have a Brutus--as
Cromwel-a Ncro-a Tiberius, we know
not. If no secret conspiracy has prompted
the horrid deed, we think it not Improbable
that some deIusion of intellect has grown out
Of his visits to the Capitol, and that hoarng
dcspotsm and every horrible misc hief threat
ened 20 the republic, and revolution and all it's
train of calamlties, imputed as the necessary
consequence Of the Presidents measures, il
may be that the infatuated man fancied he
had reasons to become his country's avenger.
| IF lie had heard and beGered Mr.. CaIhouns
speech the day before yesterday, he would
have found ample justification for his attempt
on one who was represented as the canse Of
the most dreadful calamities to the nation
as ono who made perfect rottenness and cor
ruption to pcryadc the vtals of the Govern
ment-nsomuch that it was scarcely worth
preserving, if it were possible"
i Mr. Calhoun rose to make a few remarks,
II not so much in reference to himself, for that
was of little Importance, as on the political
4 ho, nf tIa nh tbao fJ,cia nj 20
vernment paper, which had just been read to
I the Senate. There were some things, which
! taken in themselves, were of so little impor-
: tance rs not to be entitled to notice, but
which, standing in connexion with other mat
ters, we're frequently of great Importance
and demanded attention. Whatever might
be the character of the paper (the Globe)
+, from which the paragraph just read had been
= taken;-however low,-however degraded ts
t character might bet was yet known to be
the organ of the Executive will and that it
was sustained, pampered by, and dependent
, upon, that branch of the Governments; and in
, commenting on paragraph like the present,
Il in which the Executive was personally con-
f cerned, it was not an unfair presumption to-
! conclude that it had his sanction;-had been
authorized by him. To pass over the person.
I al insinua,ons, which as he had observed,
2 were unworthy of notice, he (Mr. C.l would
= say few words on the new political prnc
= pie set forth in the paragraph. 1t was impos-
= slble to read the article, and not see that it
r went on the ground, that whosoever con-
demns what he believes conscientously to be-
r the abuses and corruptons OF this Govern
+ ment, was to be held up in the light Of an in
: stgator of assassination; and that no uncer-
= tainty on this point might be left on the mind
G of the reader, the article referred to partlc-
It ular transaction in which he Mr.. C.) was per-
= sonaly concerned. He would not conde-
o scend to defend himself in relation to the
$ matters contained in the paragraph that had
e been read; they needed no defence. What
v were the facts? The Senate were in debate
h on the Post Office reports.
d The Post Office, it was acknowledged, on
r, all hands, stood convicted Of enormous abus-
y 'es, not to say corruptions. He had risen, in
o his place, to comment generally on the abus-
l. es thus exhbited;- he had made no personal
r illusions whatsoever. He spoke of the cor
ruptons Of the times, and of them main
3 ,'ly-thoueh this he did say, that the evil wa.
t. no so much to be attributed to any defect III
'e the working of the machinery as in the adj
nr miniStraton itself. Yet these general denun-
IN Citations, in these broad terms, are asserted
st by the Government Official here, MS warrant
e, ing an individual to make this attempt at as
a. sassnation. Could he have wantonly said
n, that which would have authorized assassina-
e, ton, he would be little better than an assas-
IN sim What to hold up abuses to instigate
~ assassination To what was the authority
ge of this body reduced or attempted to be
as reduced? According to the new doctrines
OF the Senate was to look silently on wheI
he these corruptons and abuses were passip.
of beneath their eyes, because, forsootb, the,
might ultimately be called Oh TO express the
ID, opinions IN their judicial character.
no This body, then, dare not express opinions
, 10 and, if they do express them, they may b.
oe called on to expunge their recorded sent
to mcnts from the Journal of the Senate. Thel
'ur what ncxt' No individual Senator is TO b
OF pcrmitted to cxprcss any opinion rs to par
ma ticular individual, lest he be held up to th
is world as the nstigator of assassination =
ne General denunciations Of misconduct, col
Iruptlons OF abuses, were To be held up as III
n dicating assassination! Could they mistak
the tendency of this Did they not see clear
IIly as the light Of Heaven, the march to IRE
sponsble power? Did it not confirm wha
he tMr. C.l observed but the other day, tina
n stage had been reached in our political al
r. fairs, that must result in reformation or revo
D, lvon? lie saw around him, in the ranks &
ON the Administration, many old trends anu &C
ouaintances. whose patriotism and whose a
Il,ncbment 20 the institutions of their countr,
en'- could not be mistaken. lie asked them
", look. TO see what we are cOne to, to see win
-. was the nelancholy result Of this state
''y, things. The degradation Of parties, and Il
,,le consequent growth of au responsible powt
Of lie understood the crisis To which the cou
,Itry had arrived. lie knew tho danger to
Il incurred by exposing abuses existing In