Litchfield enquirer., 1838-02-08

tion of the three minutes, than the Senator from Pennsylvania will afler he has voted down his recommendation.
 In another part of the debate, upon Mir. Merrick's amendment, to prevent any but naturalized and native born citizens from en. toying the Pre-emption grant-Mr. Clay said, in one of his strong and patriotic bursts of eloquence-" Sir," said he, "I hold that charity begins at home-that we have no right to make laws for the benefit of the set. tiers upon our lands-that by giving our do- main to these interlopers and intruders we rob the old States of what belongs to them as much as to the citizens of the new States. Let our own citizens be first provided for, and then if we have the means we may stretch forth an inviting hand to the world around us." In conclusion, said MT. Clay, "I thank the Senator from Maryland for the amendment he has introduced"
 Mr. Benton, the great Missouri EXpunger, listened to all this with kind of demoniac | delight. " Sir" said the Golden Mormon of the Senate, "I thank him too, and he shall have double thanks-thanks from the Sena- tor from Kentucky, and thanks from me- thanks from one of the Opposition, and from one of the Administration. But," continued the Ball-rolling Senator from Missouri, "t the Senator over the way-Mr. Clay-by thank ing the Senator from Maryland for introdu- cling this amendment, is showing his colors. am glad of it-giad of it, sir-sir, am glad oft. The peopleof the West will now find
 him out, sir-find him out, sir-find out who is who sir-who is friend of the poor, sir, and who is friend of the rich, sir-who would aid the foreign money power, and who would oppress the foreign poor, sir. Sir, too thank the Senator for his amendment- It comes from the right quarter, sir, and shows the power of the Bank, Sir-aye, the Bank, the odious Bank, the diabolical, cor 1 rupting, ruinous Bank, sir.'' There, have given you Mir. Benton's last picture upon pa- per. His fury today was most amusing at the single mention of Bank-for this is now Mir. Benton's monomania-and put the Sen- ators of both parties, as we'll as all who heard him, into roar of laughter.
 Mir. Merrick and Mir. Clay both informed the great "Ball- Roller" that he was well come, heartily welcome, both for the intro- duction of the amendment and its defence, and might use both the one and the other to the best of his ability. You see, above, more of Mir. Benton's cant. The poor and the rich The rich and the poor! The down. trodden poor, and the down-treading rich !! This is now to be the political philosophy of the age. Mir. Benton and the Loco Foco Ad- ministration Senators mean to make it the hobby upon which they expect to ride into office and power.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. %.
 The Mississippi Contested Election in the House, and the Pre-emption Bill in the Sen- ate, wound up the session in both Houses of Congress today. as they have for half doz- en days past. Mir. Bronson, of New York, finished the speech he began on Saturday. in h- hof If tho ciffiSOnr oHor and fol- lowed by Mir. Jenifer, of Maryland, and MT. Robertson, of Virginia, both of whom, in two short and appropriate speeches, defended the rights of the claimants. Mir. Legare, of South Carolina, has the floor tomorrow, and will make an able speech-saying all that can be said-in behalf of the sitting mem- bers- He Is the ablest man in the ranks of the pposition-Conservative and Loco FocO oppOSiII0u UuTIeu HIean-TOr MT. L.. IS no more Loco Foco than Mir. Preston, and is the only man who ought to have replied to Mir. Prentiss, of Mississippi. Mir. Legare as the counsel to take up the cause of the sitting members, and MT. Prentiss as his own coun- sel-the debate to have begun and to have the discussion which it has not had. The vote will be taken this week upon the ques- ton who are, and who are not members of the twenty fifth Congress. My opinion is unlike that of many of the friends of the claimants, and that opinion of course is, that Messrs. Claiborne and Gholson will be de- clared members of the present Congress, and Messrs. Prentiss and Wood sent back to their insulted constituents, unrepresented or mis- represented. Many, however, think other wise. and feel sanguine that King Justice and King Numbers will reign together. The Pre-emption Bill was up in the Senate all day again, but not till evening, and past eve- ming, as upon Saturday. Mr. Benton moved the adjournment at four o'clock. just after a passage at arms between the Honorable Henry Clay and Daniel Webster! Aye Henry Clay and Daniel Webster But don't be alarmed; Daniel Webster and Henry Clay do not pin themselves to each others coat tails, and although they measure swords today, they will be good friends tomorrow, much to the annoyance of those amiable Senators of the Administration, who like Wormwood in the farce, measure their own enjoyment by the guards of their suspenders. The cause and history of this little flare up was just this. Mir. Webster is rather inclin- cd to favor the "squatters" upon the, public lands and to excuse them for taking posses sion of the quarter sections of the land allow. ed tncm by the pre-emption act, passed in lo2Us and since renewed at every Congress, and Mir. Clay. upCa the other hand, is rather disposed to look upon some of them, at least, as a race of inteflopers not much better than Barnegat pirates or land robbers. MT. Webster cQming hom the North, perhaps considers it queer in MT. Clay coming from the West to oppose the pre-emption Bill certainly, however, Mr. Clay thinks it queer in MT. Webster, coming from one of the old States, to lend his influence in it's favor. For
 reasons, however, which I sent you this mor-