Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1838-02-01
VOLUME XXXSV.---No. So.
Why, that lie never heard of such preliminary to
treaty as that of surrendeng the children and arms, and

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treaty that of surenderng the children and arms and
that h. c uld not assent to it,
After some further ren'aA8&flr E. aVowed himself
unwilling 10 carry on this wd longer, though he was
not for yielding He wished pacilcatory course to be
tried. He would arm the Executive with authority and
appropriations enable him 10 adopt course which
should terminated practically.
[ar. Everett, owing to the noise in the hail. and the
distance at which he stood from reporter was nau
dibe the greater part of the time during which he
cuped the nor The above is believed, however 10 be
the substance of his remarks
Mr. Haynes said without intending to nnswer, or at
tempting TO reconcile, the mistaken opinions he had
heard and many of which he had regretted to hear he
had risen solely for the purpose of bringing back the
committee 10 the question before it. Some weeks ago
the Committee of Ways and Means reported bill to
cover the whole necessary for the year
Since that bill reported, the committee had been
called upon or notified by the War Department that
drafts were lyns for services already performed
and supplies already furnished and there money
to meet them Upon this representation the Committee
Of Ways and Means had come to the House and asked
suspension Of its rules tor the purpose of considering
the Proprely of making partial appropriation for the
suppression Of Indian losilies Now neither the Com
mee nor, as Mr. H. believed, had any other friend Of
the Administration who proposed support this bill,
designed taking the House by surprise The very do
read at the Clerks table, gave to the House the
information that this partial appropriation asked for
under extraordinary circumstances; and it was equally
we'll known that the bill covering the whole estima
ted for the service by the Secretary of then remain
ed untouched, for general LIBERAL violent discussion
as gentlemen pleased Why then, should so many r.
relevant topics be brought in now, of national honor,
the validity Of the treaty. the conduct Of the war, the
treatment, Of the Indians, the conduct Of the Cherokee
delegation, or any thing else? The state Of the
called upon them to at promptly; it asked them for an
appropriation under circumstances OF great stress upon
the Department of War and he did hope, under these
considerations, and with feelings strong upon some
OF the topics introduced 10 day any other man. and
as willing if not as able TO discuss them he mplored
the committee 10 report this blI and take future
casion, when The general bill brought up, 10 enter
upon the general debate.
Mr. HoIsey Of Georg here moved that the committee
rise and report the bill to the House.
MIR. Bell wished to make few observations before
this should be done. He adverled the remarks made
by him this morning in favor of the BILL and wished the
House to bear them in mind for he opposed 10 the
course Of his friend from Virginia. And he called upon
the gentleman from Florida the charge he had
made, that the House had been opposed to making ap-
preparations for this object heretofore. This House, lie
commended had granted enormous of money almost
with consideration whatever, upon the first presen
ta0n of the bills demanding them, from the Committee
of Why's and Means, without even the proper estimates
upon which to ground the necessity for those appropria
tons. And all this because the frontier had been in
fames and the people on that frontier in danger and dis
tress This argument had ever been, and was even now
still used, in this third year Of those disastrous can-
pagns. Now, while he willing 10 continue to vote
ior all necessary and proper appropriations, lie was Of
opinion that such investigation should be made
would satisfy this House and the country the mode
| in which SO many millions have been expended He
thought that the burden Of defending this Adninstra
ton in its policy towards the Srmnoes would be found
be rather than the gentleman from Florida, acute
and able as he was, could sustain.
| Mr.. here alluded pUlnedy 10 the triumph with
which the chairman Of the Committee Of Ways and
| Means wont TO hand over gentlemen In opposition
oppose his 10 others Of their party upon
thai floor who take sides upon those questions with the
Administration leaders He asked if such tactics were
| lv and orlin nj
Committee Of Ways and Means ought not to be ashamed
Of pursuing course like that? Ought he not 10 stand
forward himself, and defend his measures if they
be drensibe? Mr.. Is. then made structures upoh
letter from the Washington correspondent oil the Rich.
mond Enquirer in relation TO his opinions and
upon this subject, which he pronounced to be an
uniuunded, false, and malicious sander Alter which,
he remarked, in reply 10 what had faen from The Dele
gate from Florida that urmy Of 5000 was better
for the Seminole campaign than an army Of 10000 in
asmuc they could be better subsised and more easily
welded. And such was the Union entertained ~ dis.
tnGushed officers and men Of the most military expe-
rencc He commended that the Indians would not meet
the whites in the field unless at advantage; thus large
armies were useless while the battle TO be fought
by small attachments Of our troops and al seeming DIS
advantage
Mr. Robertson had not risen 20 into the merits of
the subject but 10 ask of the Chairman of the Commit
tee Of Ways and Means for the estimates upon which
this appropriation was demanded, and The particular
purposes 10 which it proposed to devote It, Who
up he would nllude briefly to the remarks that had
rtllen from the gentleman from South Carolina lhlr
Thonlpson.) in relation TO the morbid sensioillty
imputed to his colleague (Alr. Wse) upon this subject
Mr. called il moral courage rather than morbid sem
sitiveness While making this impuluton, the gentle
m1n had himself shown sensbily upon another sub.
iect in the course of his remarks, which lie could not
| but deem morbid in the extreme. He (Mr. avow-
ed hnsefto be quite unable to discern any be-
tween this subject and that Of abotion aud yet man
in the nation more apt to snuff in the tainted breeze
any breath of that kind He could not how his COL
league wish throw around The Indians on our borders
the protection which s due 10 them from by solemn
treaties could he identified with abotonism or how 1t
could be fairly denounced as 'norbid sensIbty on his
part 1t was wish and purpose TO be expressed, and
to be pursued upon that floor he wished 10 be under.
stood he should vote for the supplies asked for when
necessary for Defence but he unwilling TO vote to
carry this of extcrmnaton II the
were 10 be adopted the inquiry as 10 The best modc ci
CARVING on the war would be perlinent-whether II
would not be better 10 offer bounty upon scaps, as was
done in some sections OF the country IN regard TO
wu.yes-beLwcen which animals and the Indian tribes,
the gentleman from Maine Gar. Ciey) had drawn SO
cIose q paraei' MIR. R. concluded by asking OF the
Chairman Of the Committee of Ways and Means the
question he had propounded upon rising.
Mr. Cambreeng expressed his surprise that he should
he asked for the estimates which had already been print
ed and were probably in The possession OF every mem
ber This appropriation if obtained, was to lie devoted
TO the army actually in The field at present. and 1t was
only partial bill for the present exigency, The general
appropriation bill for the Army not yet having been
acted on. - . =
Mr.. c. replied MIR. Bells aluson to the tnctics of
the chairman of the Committee Of Ways and Means in
the House. in relation to using gentlemen Of the Opp'S'
ton AGAINST each other, in certain cases, instead OF COM
inv G,1word himself lie was not Of any such in
ence over members of the House had been ascribd
to him His object and wish to ac for himself and
TO ac, under the best convictions of what was his duty
He hoped the gentleman friends, meantime, wou!u oe
~ Ls,ter and he more amenabe TO the reProois which
the gentleman from Tennessee had been giving them
over his shoulders. ..d,L,,h,c,u
Mr. Thompson here inerposedd and denied lh's he eIt
a done he must plicitly deny having defended the
P0M C,nbrelens said that he had heard that gentle
MAJ Sa" nJ,,inieIrafion however nnon more