Litchfield enquirer., 1839-01-17

moTialists huFnI,Iy prey that your honorable
body would enact q law prohibiting any for
eign nation from sending to our own any man
who Is not q fuli-blooded Angio-Saxon man,
and can trace his lineage back to !aphet,
without any faint, mixture, stain or biemlsh
from the accursed race of Ham, from whom
the inhabitants of Africa are descended. And
they further. pray that an act may be passed
prohibiting any one from holding any civil
or military Office in the United States who
shall have the least mixture of African blood
in his veins, And, TO carry this law into more
complete effect, your memorialists pray that
there may be q standing committee OF the
House appointed, called the . COmmiLee on
COlors," or "the Whitewashing Committee -
whose duty it shall be to examine into the pc
digree. Of every member Of Congress, and ev-
cry man appointed to public Office, especial
ly in the slaveholding states and whenever
in any case, any faint Of African blood be
discovered, such member shall instantly be
expelled from Office, and his place filed with
pure Angio-Saxon American. And your
memorialists further pray, that that notorious
ly false assertion contained in the Declara-
ton Of Independence, viz: that call menare
created free and equal,' be erased from that
document, and burnt by the hands of the
common hangman. And your memorialiSts
will ever pray. [Signed by 46.l e,t..,p
Mr.. Adams having read it, and being about
to move its reference, Mr.. Dromgoole raised
the question of reception, on the ground
that it was not in terms respectful to the
House. Mr.. Adams commended that il was in
no wise disrespectful to the House, but, on
the contrary, that it agreed in sentiment with
very large portion of its members; and, if
this was denied, he was ready to prove that
the opinion expressed in it in respect to u
clause of the Declaration of Independence
was the opinion now held by great portion
Of the members from the South. 1t was the
Southern slaveholding philosophy. He ask
ed the yeas and nays OH the reception of the
which were ordered, and resulted,
yeas "a, nays III. So the memorial was not
received. c4-t Co.'S. .+.-.EF ,r-E
Mr.. Adams then moved that the petition
thus refused to be received, be entered ON the
Journal. The chair decided that this would
be out of order. - ~ ~ t r"
Mr.. Adams then moved that this presenta-
ton Of the memorial and motion for its refer
ence be entered on the journal. The Speaker
said that this could not be permitted. MIR.
Adams, I wish it for the honor Of the House.
The Chair. If the gentleman has more petit
tions to present, ne will now present them.
Mr.. Adams. Dyes, sir, yes sir, plenty more.
He then went on TO present the residue.
81, From tie Nr,p- York Americun.S ,,,!. 81, y
The Friends Of the Largest LiLerty.-The
Evening Post has more than once claimed,
friends of free discussion, aad Of the largest
liberty. We have heretofore cited some
pretty decisive proofs to the contrary and
now we find, by the yeas and nays subjoined,
that " the Democracy" of the Senate of the
United states all united in refusing place
in the gallery 10 the reporters of distant news
papers. 49,, ..
such is the force of evil associations-Mr.
Buchanan, spoke vehemently against any
such permission, and, as is reported, against
letter writer's and reporters generally.
The vote on postponing indefinitely the re-
port of the Committee favorable to the ad-
mission of the reporters was
Yeas-Messrs. Allen, Benton, Brown, Bu-
chanan, Clay, of Ala. Fulton, Hubbard. King,
Mouton. Nicholas. Niles, Pierce, Roane,
Smith. Of Con-, Strange, Upton, Walker, Will
Jams, Of Mi, Wright-2O.
Nays-Messrs. Clay Of KY, Clayton,
on, Morris, Norvell, Prcntiss, Preston, Rives,
&NOOAHSOsbs ouUbuS W AOss 0"hE-4Ss
So reporters and letter-writers are shut out
from the Senaie-except the reporters of the
papers, who have seats on the
loor. ap
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7, 1889.
In the Senate to. day, we had the Land Bill
up again, discussing it until 3 p. NJ. without
liking any question. The Committee on the
public lands departed from the instructions
given by the Senate, when the Bill was re-
Ferred back to them, by vote of triumph on
last, and reported ain amendment
granting all its privileges to settlers on the
and, and restricting all the inhabitants of
he old States from the benefits of its provi-
sions, unless they left the homes Of their ia
hers and settled on those lands. Against
his Mr.. Clay protested, he knew of no right
hese States had to such privileges as this
would extend to them-in short,
i was a grant on every section of $3.50 in
money. The man living on lands adjacent
might add to his possessions ut the reduced
prices contemplated, but farmer in Virgin.
Ia. or any other State, could not do so. -.i
He called on the Senators from Pennsylva-
mia, and those from Virginia particularly, to
resist this clause. How could they go home
10 their constituents, and tell them they had
voted for The benefit ofthe new States, while
hey denied it to those Of the old-he mcn-
Toned Virginia particularly, because from
that state this government had received one
Of the richest grants of land ever known
He was against disturbing the system at all,
but if we did make the change. oil the states
should stand on the same broad common
platform of justice and equal right. and on
he amendment he should demand the ayes
and noes. .s... s-v.,.,f +, WIN
The little Mississippi wasp, Mr.. Walker.
reiterated his charge of unfriendly feeling on
he part of Mr.. Clay to the new States, and
,aid he had now come Out boldly, and appeal
I'd to the old States against the interest Of
The new. 't. -,s.;gts....e ...,,3
Mr.. Smith, Of Indiana, followed Mr.. Wal
ker in long and able speech, going fully
into the merits of the whole subject, although