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resort and the question was whether state
banks should be employed without or with
authority.
General applause was murmurcd through
the chamber, when Mr.. Rives concluded.
Mr.. Wright spoke in reply. but had not
much to shy, except to ask the Senator
from Va, to wait for the facts.
Mr.. Calhoun said he was against nnv
connection between tho Banks and the
Government, even when constituted by
law and much more when constituted
without law. iIc was obliged 10 the Scna
tor from Virginia for bringing the matter
forward. He thought the Senator was
mistaken in supposing that the sub.ireasu.
~ was abandoned. The people had rem
dercd a verdict in favor Of it.. "Pshaw,"
replied half dozen Senators. The rcso
luton was agreed 10.
DECEMBER 18.
The House resumed, as the unfinished
business of yesterday, the consideration OF
the petition presented by Mr.. Grennel, for
he recognition Of the independence of
Hay,.
The question being on the obi rcion Of
Mr.. Wise to its reception.
Mr. Grcnnell spoke against the objection.
file maintained that the right of petition
was sacred and unrestricted, and insepara-
BILE from freedom. 1t was an ancient and
precious right, and bad existed wherever q
CLEAN Of light or liberty existed It was
a privilege, as the privilege Of addressing
prayer or petition to the Supreme Being.
There had been Of late an increasing dis
regard Of this sacred right. If the people
could redress their own grievances and
supply their own demands there would be
no occasion for them to come here; but as
they have committed their own power to
the Federal Government, &c great extent,
it is necessary for them to exercise this
right. He considered hat the right of
petition was assailcd, and he would here
defend it. The petition originated in a
religious sentiment and in a desire 10 pro
mote the commercial interests.
: Mr.. Wise here begged leave to make a
, remark which he wished the gentleman to
answer. If we serd a minister to Hayti,
Hayli must send u minister to us. What
sort of minister will he be- A free me-
gro plenipolentiary. assuming here, in the
midst Of Slave Safes, all the pomp and
phernaIia of an ambassador from SOW
creign power What will the slave hold.
ers say to this as daily spectacle and daily
f example?
Mr.. Grenncll proceeded, and insisted
upon the commercial advantages to be de-
rived to this country from a trade with
, l1ay,i. It's agricultural resources were
, the richest which the earth afforded, and
its destinies were naturally identified with
those of the continent upon which it must
be dependant. The consumption OF the
, products of the U. s, in Hayti would be
immense, after putting our trade upon n
proper footing there. He read some let.
lers showing that every foreign nation cx.
cept the United States had representative
, in Hay,i, and all nations were competing
for her valuable trade; that the trade Of
Hay,i would be OF more va ue to this coun.
try than that OF all the West Indies put
, together, and that Havii had htila ~"
, navigation OF her own.
The gentleman from Virginia says this
, is great movement for anna gamation-
no, social certainly that he cannot mean.
, Mr. Wise. Will the gentleman answer
what | said? If q minister comes here
from Ilnyti, he and his family must be
called upon by the members and their ladies'
and all officers of the government. accord
ing 10 the code Of etiquette which the gen
tlcman from Massachusetts Mr. Adams J is
, said TO have established. Would not this
be social ANA 'gnma'ion
Mr.. Adams, with wnrmth) wish to say
t to the gentleman from Virginia, that Inev
er established that nor any other code Of ct.
, iqueHe. (Laugh,er.)
Mr.. Grennel could not sec that the mat.
t ter of color would oe any objection to COM
. mercial intercourse, which was all that was
4 proposed. Suppose the consequences which
G the gentleman predicts do follow. 7, could
not be matter Of great anxiety, here oil
n elsewhere. But the gentleman asks, should
? we recognize an lnsurrectionary back re-
+. public, established in our ncIehbOrhood
; The revolution in Hay,i in 1894, was o
5 the character Of the revolution in France
: French doctrines, and French Loco. Focc
Il Jacobinism prevailed in Ilayti. But, prio
/ to this, Hayli was actually independent -
Il The negroes had been emancipa'ed by The
/, French Convention. IN 1885 France &C
e knowcdged the independence Of Hayli
Hayi was now an independent power ca
o pablc Of maintaining the dignity and reclp
d rocaling the obligations Of an Independent
!. power. Who respected the laws OF ion
J., more than Boyer' He did not sec thu
= force Of the gcn'lemen'- objections, founde
is upon the revolution which took place il
20 IIuyt nearly fifty years ago.
u i.-,. ~,-.-.- r-- 49, ..-,.-. o.
e Ilayli. which must be redressed by nego
1t citation or by war, or let alone. The prope
Of means were negotiation, but we could NJ
~ negotiate without establishing diplomat
re relations, and, thereby, acknowledging be
8. independence. Suppose we take the altc,
W native of war which the gentleman fro'
s. Virginia proposes, will not such q cours
~ he viewed rs uuiusilfable by all nation,
"a II would be irt0ilug them MS pirates.
VI Mr.. LcgaIe here rose TO speak, but wa
v, arrested bv the chair. lie said, il is yer