Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1840-06-18

Would the country be rcconciled to It !!
Ii is Just that this defence should thus
be pu, forth by the committee Did il
make the people fairly acquainted with
the Objectionable report Of tho Secreta-
ry of War?
Mr.. p. proceeded to comment upon
the report, and TO examine II in detail.
Ills object was to show that the com
mentsry slurrcd over the next, and
not only slurred it over but gave no
analysis Of it-no proper exposition OF
it nc. Comments from which just con-
clusion could be drawn as to the nature
Of the report.
First, said Mr.. Preston, the first page
and a half of eleven and a half pages
of the report, which purports to be upon
the report Of the Secretary OF War, is
preliminary, but not relating to the re.
port The next five pages marshalled
from the dead some Of the departed
spirits who had long and faithfully serv-
ed the country.
II General Knox then il called from his
gravs-wiih his hamlet on and his plume
flying, like Hamlet's father, to beckon
us on or frighten US from some terrible
undertaking
The name Of General Harrison is
dragged into the report, and his name is
marsh allied forth in battle array to ac-
company the report, and the name Of
him who has brought forward the
scheme which has been the subject Of
recent and general comment III the
country.
But what did Gen. Harrison propose
to do, said Mr.. P.I What was the re-
sembIance between the report of MIR.
Poinse,t and the report of Gen. Harri-
son Why did not the committee go
through the likeness they had attempted
to sketch Why did they, as they
have done, stop short, after tracing all
unimportant resemblance
Sir, said Mr.. p, neither in the plan
of Gen. Knox, nor in the plan Of Gen.
Harrison, do you hear any thing OF re-
cruiting 100000 men, to be under the
control of the President Of the United
States, and ofiicered by men belonging
10 the regular army. These men, un-
der the report of Mr. Poinsett, recon-
mended by the President, may be sum
moned from distance of six hundred
miles, and then DO kept under the con-
troll of the President Of the United
States for thirty days These men in
different divisions, paid and led by the
United States, may be brought out and
called upon in time Of profound peace
to be marshalled by the officers of the
regular army. What is this but stand
ing army : said MIR. Preston.
\ What else in military, or in any Ian
gauge, can it be called by any man al
all disposed to understand scheme like
that put forth by the Secretary OF War?
/ Mr.. Preston, continuing his remarks,
said there was no parallel TO the scheme
of the Secretary Of War in France or
in England-not in the paImiest OF the
conscript days Of Frapce-nor when
England dreaded an invasi n. Mr.. =.
said, when this scheme was first brought
forward he pronounced it a standing ar
my, and from that nome Mt to the present
he had called it by no other name. He
regarded it as this and nothing else, and
it was vain matter to represent it by
any other name with any success.
Mr.. p. passed to the consideration Of
the constitutionality Of the scheme,
which he discussed with great ability,
and all eloquence in his illustrations new
er surpassed by him in the discussion oi
any other question. The closing ap-
peal and warning were beautifully elo
| qucnt and effective.
VI Mr.. Anderson Of Pa. spoke at some
length in defence Of the report Of tho
military committee, and for the purpose
Of showing that Gen. Harrison had been
in favor of calling out the state militia.
i MIR. Preston of S. &. admitted that
Gen. Harrison had been in favor Of call
ing out the militia, but never in the
mons,rously Objectionable manner Of
the Secretary of War. Gen. Harri-
son after the war proposed that with the
consent of the states, the militia Of the
states should be periodically assembled
by the Government. But they were
not to be officered by the regular army
and brought for thirty day 1t a time, in
a time Of profound peace, under the
control Of the President of the United
Il States.
| The project of the Secretary Of War
gave the President this power, if he
saw fit to exercise It. Suppos'ng a time
should return like that of Jefferson and
Burr, and 10000 troops should be as
sembled in the city Of Washington, who
would trust the issue
\ MIR. Critenden rose TO speak, but at
his request the subject was further post
poned until Friday next, in the expe ecta-
iion of receiving the document connect
ed with this subject, and ordered to be
printed on Monday.
The question before the House be-
ing on MIR. Randolph's motion to re-
commit the report OF the committee on
commerce proposing bill 10 repeal the
existing
Il Pilot La,p.
/ MIR. Curtis, Of New York resumed
the course Of his remarks in favor of
the recommitment, and against the re.
peal.
| The morning hour expired, and the
subject was laid over.
II Tho Suh-T,s asurv n,ll oc.,n;,l Al =,