Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-03-24
.VG.ESf gEg "a, 1886


The public, they stouily maintained, would fall upon
them, ii the proposed oblteraon of the Journal took
place. AND they affirmed that II was no answer 10 all
these real injuries 10 say that the expuneed part would
bc transferred TO the Journal and there preserved
IN full for, they declared this transfer would msead
and enibarrass them because they could read the
ooiiteaied words in the place where they FIRST put
but would be disappointed in looking for them there and
might not be able to find them in their place, under
inherent date on another page and in different
iuuie Tins is The substantive part of the objection
my Dotion and it there happened TO be any reality in the
supposed existence of all these wrongs and injuries
there might be apology for the resistance they
up; but this is the case OF these disastrous
consequences viii All is mistake and dclu-
sion, the creation of fancy, the cheat OF imagination
and the igment of the brain. There will be nothing
lost nothing destroyed, nothing displaced All will ex-
st Just us clearly and just useuy, for every practi
cal and every legal purpose, it does; and this
will establish by proof in less time than il has taken
to state the proposition.
request the Secretary to show me the Senate Jour
nails for 1888 "a; TO tell what the journals are and
how they are kept disposed of?
| The Secretary stood up, and said
There is manuscript copy of the Journal and print
ed copy The manuscript journal is but single copy,
ands The same that is read in the Senate every morning
IN Sheets and which IS afterwards bound in volume
From this manuscript thousand aud copies are
printed and distributed follows The Secretary here
showed the list of distribution from which appeared
that twenty five copies be placed in the library OF
Congress; two hundred and were TO fur.
nished TO The Governors, Legislatures, Universities Col
eges, and Incorporated historical societies. each State
two copies each to each member of the Senate and of
the House OF Representatives, five copies each to the
of
the House OF Representatives, the LEADS OF Depart
menis, Attorney General judges of the United Suites
Courts; two each to all bureau officers twenty five to
the Secretary of State; thirty five copies for the Offices
OF the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk OF the
House OF Representatives; and copies each TO the
Ministers from Great Britain, France Spain Russia
Prussia, Sweden, the Netherlands Denmark Portugal
the Hanscatc Republics, Mexico, Colombia, Chill Peru
Buenos Ayres BRAZIL and Central America; and to the
Consul General of the two Siciles
Mir. b. resumed We now arrive upon firm ground
and have solid matter To 30 upo,I. We see and fee
the question, and handle both the objection and the
TO 1T. The Secretary is platform of
my battery, and has already expunged the objection
to my moton whether the motion shall succeed IN ex-
punging the journal not. He says there are Two
sets OF journals the manuscript, which consists OF
one copy aud the printed which is multiplied To 1910
copies. Hitherto the discussion has proceeded luon
the assumption That there but one copy of the
Journal and that any eFasurc OF that copy would be
total loss OF the erased part But 1910 other copies
start up To onr view, stand in array before u.s. and
offer their multiplied pages TO free perusa and The
question is, what all these copies lor? What
use is made of them in fact, and in law And the
answer comes quickly the question can be put
the only ones read, used referred either in this
Senate in the other House, before the public or by the
members themselves: secondly, that in point Of law
they equal footing with the original manu-.
script volume and received legal evidence in everv
court OF justice Such are the decisions; and, to
impede the march OF my argument, by the volunnous
citation of cases, refer you for n summary of them TO
Peakes Law OF Evidence, American edition. by Norris
IN the notes at the bottom OF the pages 3D. Go. He SAYS
The printed journals Of Congress haze Len ao,oed 10
DC read 'oitaont rro Of their aaihentcty and refers
to cases This puts an end 10 all objections 1t settles
all questions Take the Constitution as you please TO
maze or TO preserve journals, and it is complied with
for both is done One copy is directed to be made
thousand and ten made. Parts are directed TO
be published; all is published. Suppose preservation is
intended; the most ample precautions are taken 10
preserve them, and to multiply them, that every
State in The Union, and every Kingdom Republic
and empire, in Europe and the two Americas shall
possess copies, in addition To- all the departments Of
the Federal Government the library of Congress and
nd of Inc
Clerk of the House. Besides all this each Senator has
two copies for himself All these are equal III law and
many ten thousand times superior use, to the manu-
script journal Suppose that be BACKED up aud
botied out according 10 the import of the word
is the cxpunged matter lost? any fact suppressed
gentlemen prevented from justiiyng themselves by
showing what they had done is the kno edge of ony
thing cSiinguished3 So far from il, that il the manu-
script Journal should he secretly withdrawn and burnt
not Senator here would find it the end of his
lie unless grauitousy told of it little does it enter
into tie head Of any think of that ipurnal much
less to look al it or to il Suppression of facts
Suppression of the knowledge ihe fact that lbe
Senate OF the United States, in March, loal adudred
PRESIDENT Jackson TO be guilty Of having violated the
laws aud Constitution of his countryi tile preposterous
conception never entered our inaginahons We know
mat tnis act OF The Senate y 10 i've and TO live while
American history lasts We know that it is to gain
notoriey, aud multiplied cXisencVs from the very
motion which now make 10 say nothing IF our own
action, my rcsuutun speeches. the newspaper pub
lications and the universal attraction of the public mind
TO the subject our own journals again to become the
recipient OF It's existence and the instruments of its d
rope. The new manuscript journal read this morning
table, will contain every word Of this udon,en
the 1910 copies to be printed VIII, every one be honor
ed with It's impression.
Nothing is suppressed; nothing insane is intended
The whole effect and The whole design OF the motion
is, TO declare the solemn Of the SENATE thut such
proceedings ought have taken place that tbev
we're wrong from the beginning, and require a remedy
which cxirpaies TO the The To- expunpe does
this; and there IS other remedy which can amount 10
its equivalent, stand for substitute 1t Is the par.
amenaiy phrase and the only in the whole voca-
bu!ary OF parliamentary language, which implies that
original, wrongful proceeding, which liners misconduct
well error, aud requires rebuko well MS reversal
Take any other phrascgO into CifcuinlocutUn
epithcts together--wfiie essay; and al united will
not express the meaning, and up 10 the i'm
port Of this single word Eeyersr repeal rescind
all admit either legal, innocent beginning, and
fail IN that hagant conception Of wrong which the
word expCnEc alone imports. Try them by their
accepted meanings Acknowledgment
aw,-and rcsclnd an order; aud Of these terms
imply either misconduct or defect of power in the Par
directed the order superior tribunal annuls and
makes void tie Judgment Of c Inferior the legal error
is corrected but Judicial misconduct is not rr6uked
These terms are ell nadequatc and only nadeouac
but inaPPicablc; Tor they IMPLY remedes.whch have
application 10 the state Of Tire case against President
Jackson They all apply 90 future proceedings They
all intended 10 arrest the progress VI measure
still IN course Of execution. Thus. wo cvcrse an at.
tnndeF to stop the corruption Of blood and prevent
Use forfeiture Of csates repeal law, prevent its
further operation; resciDd order TO arrest FOL
6imcnt; annul aud make void Judgment 10 prevcnt
execution ifon being taken out upon In all these
there IS something to be stopped or restOrod but in
President JacksDns there i8 uoting corrupted
blood TO be purified forfeited estates 10 be restored;
law in operation whose progress requires 20 be arrested;
I rri. f.tHtf Ill. DO.