Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1837-01-30
VctitJ-4Ul,tli Congress,
SECOND SESSION.
IN SENATk -AloApAy, JAN. l6.
TIE EXpuNGlNG RESOLUTION.

THE ltXPuNGlNG RESOLUTION.
The debate having closed, an the question
! being about 10 DO taken
Nj WEBS hlt rose aud addressed the s.
nalc a, follows
Mr. President Upon the truth and justice Of
The orl9nnl resolution Of the Senate, aud upon
the authority Of tho Senate 10 pos. that re,olu-
ton, had an opportunity 10 cypress my opln,.
onS At subsequent period, when the President
protest was before us.--Ihese opinions remain
altogether unchanged.
! And NOV, bad the Constitution secured the
privilege II entering PGoInsr on the Journal
/ | should not say one word ON this occasion al
/ though, what II nov proposed shall be ac-
icumpllshed, ! know mol what would have been
The value OF such u provision, however formally
OF carefully II m Git have been inserted IN the
body oil that instrument
But, rs there Is no such constitutional pryi
lcge, | can only elect my purpose by thu, ad-
dfessln. The Senate, aud | rise, th.r.tors, 10
mak, that PROTEST In this manner, IN the
face oil the Senate, aud IN The face Of the coun-
Try which cannot present IN any other forn.
,peakn my own behalf aud IN behalf ofiny
colleague; both speak az Senators from the
State OF Mas achnseils, and a such, we solemn.
" PRorEsr against The whole proceeding
We deny that the Senator, from the 9th Y
states have any power authority 10 .4punse
any vote or VIE, winch we hay. gwen here.
and winch WE have recorded agretably 10 the sx
press provision of the Constitution.
We have high personal interest, and the
state whose representatives, we are ha, also
high interest, IN the culture pre- .erYatlOn of every
part and parcel oil the record oil our conduct a,
member, oi the Senate.
THIS record. the Constitution .olrmn1y de.
clares. shall be- kept-bp1 the resolution before
the Senate declare, thai TIN, record shall be- ,r
DHag,d
" neither snbsterfnec and evasion, and, as il
apppar. To US. the DEGRADING mockery OF drawing
black lines upop the Journal shall or shall not
leave our names aud our votes II bp, when
tins violation Of the record hall have been COM
nlcted snll III. term :" To expungen and the
I,rm ia keen u when appli,d TO a record mn
porls IDEAS exactly contradictory, as much so a,
the term " to preseryen and the term to de
,troy.n
A record which is erunBgrd. is not n record
which Is Eept any more than n record which is
dfsfJovfd can be n record which IS Dresprrpd
The part expunred Is no lon. ,er part Of the re-
cord IT has no longer legal existence. It
cannot be certified rs Il part of the proceeding,
of the Senate for any purposc Of proof or eyi-
dence
The object of the provision of the Constitu-
ton, as we think, most obviously j., that the pro
rcedinus OF the Senate shall be preserved ia
writing not for the present only. not unul pub
lished only, because a copy oil the printed Jour
nal Is not regular legal evidence; but preserv-
ed, as otherrccords are preserved, TIL DESTROYED
by time or accident,
Every one must see that matters Of the high
est importance depend on The perma eni prpser-
vation ofthe Journal, Of The Two Houses What
but the journals show that bills have been regu
larry pa ,,ed into laws, through the several sta
members, or who i president or speaker, or sec