Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1838-01-04

IOr ADMISSION WOutu pretail.
Mr.. Bell contcnded in opposition 10
Mr.. Claiborne that the present was not
an adjudicated case at all. No decision
had been given between the present par
ties.
\ The proceeding was wholly ex parie.
The people had not been heard. There
was no decision between the parties which
could bind the House. The report Of
the com,,ittee he pronounced 10 be incon.
sistent with the constitution and the laws.
Mr.. Bell spoke strenuously against
the reference to the committee OF elec-
tons, and said il was unconrtcous to re.
fuse the members admission to seats.
Mr.. Foster Of N. Y. rose, and was
going into the merits Of the question,
when Mr.. Graves called him TO order, on
the ground thit he was entering into the
very discussion which he cont ended and
had moved that the applicants should be
admitted to take part in.
Mr.. Foster then proceeded to contend
against the admission Of members before
a report should be made.
The whole matter was finally referred
TO the Committee on Elections.
In SENATE, Wednesday, after the ex-
press mail had closed
| Mr.. Calhoun prese nted tho following
resolutions, which were ordered to be
printed
Resolved, That in the adoption of the
federal constitution, the states adopting
The same acted severally as free, inde-
pendent and sovereign states ; and that
each, for itself, by its own voluntary as
sent, entered the Union with the view to
its increased security against all dangers
domestic as we'll as foreign, and the more
perfect and secure enjoyment Of its ad-
vantages, natural, political and social.
Resolved, That in delegating por-
tion Of their powers to be exercised by
the federal government, the states re-
tanned, severally, the exclusive and sole
right over their own domestic institutions
and police, and are responsible for them,
and that any intermeddling Of any more
states, or a combination of their citizens,
with the domestic institutions and police
Of others, on any ground or under any
pretext whatever, political, moral or re-
ligious, with view to their alteration or
subversion, is an assumption Of superb
ority not warranted by the constitution !;
insulting to the states interfered with,
tending to endanger their domestic peace
and tranquility, subversive ofthe objects
for which the constitution was formed,
and, by necessary consequence, tending
to weaken and destroy the Union itself.
Resolved, That this Government was
Instituted and adopted by the several
states of this Union as common agent,
in order to carry into effect the powers
which they had delegated by the consti-
tuition for their mutual security and pros
perity and that, in fulflmeat of this
high and sacred trust, this Government
is bound so to exercise its powers as to
give, as far as may be practicable, in
creased stability and security to the do
mestic institutions Of the states that COM
pose the Union and that it is The SOL
emn duty Of the Government to resist all
attempts by one portion Of the Union to
use it as an instrument to attack the do
mestic institutions o: another,o or 10 weak
en- O, destroy such institutions, instead Of
strengthening and upholding them, as it
is in duty bound to do.
Resolved, That domestic slavery, as
it exists in the Southern and Western
states of this Union, composes an import
ant part of their domestic institutions, in
herited from their ancestors, and existing
at the adoption Of the constitution, by
which It is recognised as constituting an
essential element in the distribution Of its
powers among the states and that no
change Of opinion, or feeling on the part
Of the other states Of the Union in rela-
ton to it, can justify them or their citi-
zens in open and systematic attacks there
on, with the view to its overthrow and
that all such attacks are in manifest VIC.
lation of the mutual and solemn pledge
to protect and defend each other, given
by the states, respectively, on entering
into the constitutional compact, which
the Union, and as such is manifest
breach Of faith, and violation Of the
most solemn obligations, moral and re-
ligious.
Resolved, That the intermcddling of
any state or states, or their citizens, to
abolish slavery in this district, or any OF
the territories, on the ground, or under
the pretext, that it is immoral or sinful /;
or the passage Of any act or measure OF
Congress, with that view, would be d.
rect and dangerous attack on the insti-
tutions of all the slaveholding states.
| Resolved, That the union Of these
states rests on an equality Of rights and
advantages among its members and
that whatever destroys that equality