Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1839-03-16

rdness to any degree OF humility. /
D. =. HOLM January, Mr.. tallmadge offered
.so, calling on tho Post Master General
certain information respecting pos. masters
,cn,oyed and appointed. 1t is within the mark |
tosay that single clerk could, in two days, have
furnished all the facts and circumstances asked
for. Nothing heard of the resolution-No
answer was returned-no intImation was given /
of an intention to comply with the call. Al
last as the session was approaching lis end, Mr. /
Talmadge offered a resolution asking THIS fnnc-
tionary for his reasons for not complying with the
resolution Mr. Kendall condescends 10 answer
Ibis: and in quite petish tone says that the on
" reason Why he did not send the information be-
bre was-ihat IT was not ready.
Here Is his letter.
Post Office Department, Feb. 81.
Hon. R. NJ. Johnson,
" P. and President Of the Senate,
Sir: Just as my messenger was about to start
for the Capitol, with several communications, in
GLIDING my reply to the resolution Of the Senate,
adopted on the 18th instant, received their
luton Of this day, asking why the information
then called for has not been communicated.
In reply, | have the honor 10 state, that the
only reason | have To give why it has not been
before communicated, is, that it was not ready.
'''''e'''' AMOS KENDALL
The nsoence of this letter excited at once
general feeling of resentment among all the most
respectable members of the Senate; and before
anv one spoke formally, there many cxcla-
nations which showed how the matter
garded
Mr. Tallmadge instantly rose and character
lied the communication as diSpraCeu III ITSELF,
and insulting to the Sody.
Mr.. Sewer vent step farther, and proposed
that the letter should be sent to the President;
and that the President should be requested to
remove him.
Mr.. Foster then rose, and said in substance,
ho feel Of inst nd To-
nation which the commun lion of the Post Mas
ter General had excited in his bosom-he could
not conceive of an aggression more wantOn, more
deliberate in its character, and more insulting to
the high coordinate department OF the Govern
ment to winch il addressed. had looked a
round, said Mr. Foster, 10 If some Senator
equally alive the rights and the dignity of this
BODY, and from his age and station here, more
competent to the task than am, would not make
some movement calculated to rebuke the insult
and to vindicate the character Of the American
Senate against act of official insolence, with
ont a precedent in the annals of Congress. | re
iolce Sir, find, that the honorable and spirited
member from Arkansas has thrown himself II
the breach. The political friend of the offending
functionary as he il, and yet not blind to the fau
of a friend willing that lie should escape hi:
Just retrlbu,ion, the duty he is now fulfilling, EN-
inently becomes that Senator could almost ell
Wy him the honor he has acquired III THIS noble
aud praseworihy act.
The offence, Mr. Foster said did no; confn
itself to any particular member any political
division of the Senafe--The call which Orgua
ted this act OF violence was The deed Of the Who'll
body aud the gross outrage directed mt al
But suppose it could be Otherwise, said Mr.. Foo
tcr--There times and occasions, when tn
spirit of the party should fly these walls, an
Senators should rally one man, il defence
their dignity, and the dignity of the poop
whose institutions they called to presid
If this was not one of those great occasion
he felt that his mag ination was too dull 10 tigu
u conceivable case for such firm and united int
position. Whence from what school, said N
Foster. has the high funciionary In quests!
drawn his code of manners-or is 1t, that sudd
elevation recommended by talents alone, has
intoxicated the fortunate subject, that he cai
the privilege of gasconadng over those who ha
right 10 feel that they equals Of his mast
lI il had been the lot of the Postmaster Gen
al, said Mr.. Foster, to have reached his enyial
emincnce by passing the gradatIons OF Office,
1 dare say, most of US ave,--trIed by the p
pie before hand, and basing our claims upon ;h
conference.-the would have learned lessons Il
would in all probability have reserved us ir
this insult, and him from the rebuke his rece
aggression richly deserves. | second the p
position OF the Senator from Arkansas, said \
Foster, and in the speedy atonetnent which
adoption of his resolution must work out, | trt
such an example may be will for the
ture protect this body from the painful degre,
ton nov ieve,ied at us character.
Nlessrs- Crntendcn, RlyeS, IaiinadGe, a
Webster successfully expressed their sentmel
respecting this insult in strong terms. Mess
Buchanan. Linn, Calhoun, and Walker also
inited that the act disrcspecttul. Mess
Mics, Benton, Allen, of Ohio, and Smith of Co
defended their worthy co-rnate and yoke -fellt
Amos, and saw nothing disrespec.ful in the n
ter at all.
Alter some conversation in regard the ft
IN which the sense of the Seuate respecting
act should be expressed, the resolutions were
dfed rs follows:
ReSolred. That the letter of the Postms:
General TO the President of the Senate, stat
that the only reason he had not sent an ans,
TO a previous resolution because il was
ready is considered by the Senate as dsresp,
full 10 this body.
Resolred, That said letter, with the resolat
to which It Purpors 10 be an answer, be laid
fore the President of the United States for S
action as he may deem proper.
The question being divided. the vote was
ken on the first resolution, which was adopte,
follows:
fEAs:--Messrs. Bayard, Brown. Buchar