Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-12-24

that time It has been debated here and else
where, and | am not disposed 10 resume
the discussion. Ii Is sufficient for me 10
know that the nation wills The repeal OF the
measure. Senators from nineleen Ststes
stand here Instructed to repeal the MEASURE
Senator'S have heretofore said that this cleo
ton ard tiat election SANCTION lnis ana That
measure.
The period has gone by for such appeals.
The people had almost UNANIMOUSLY peth
heard and almost unanimously spoken IN
condemnation of the " Experiment. y
When the Natiou speaks-when the Ma
ton wills--when the Nation commands
what oughI to be done il should be dome
Senators from nineteen States are therefore
bound by the popular sentiment winch mas
has been so sgnally expressed in their sew
eIal States TO vote for the repeal OF the
erea, measure which had been submitted to
them.
had hoped said flr. Clay, that the
President OF the u. S would, III his mes
sage, have said What the TACT is--what all
the world knows-lhat the will OF the nation
was against his favorite measure. did not
expect from him an acknowledge that
he was wrong, nor did expect that he
would speak of amendments TO and I'M
provelnents OF a bill which had been so sig
nally resisted, in a manner unparalleled in
tho history Of the country. In the adhe-
renee to and apology for this system, am
therefore disappointed
One word Of the measure proposed to be
repealed The President and the Secreta-i
ry say that it has been SO far successful !
What evidence is there OF this and how has
this success been proved? Now, continued
Mr.. CLAW, am | thank God, very far from
any Of these Receivers General, and |
would not care if the distance was much
greater than it is. But so far as have
seen its operation have seen no evidence
Gifts success. Has the Senator from New
York or the Senator from New Hampshire,
who so zealously have defended The bill, /
its authors and the Secretary of the Treas
ury BY The by must say that the reward
he has received has been avery ungrateinl
return to that Senator (slr Hubbard) for
lis able Efforts in defence OF this measure
(alludlng 10 the election of MIR. Woodbury.
to the Senate over MIR. Hubbard.)
MIR. Wright followed the debate. He said
| come from one Of the nineteen States al
iuded to by the Senator, and thank him for
the issue which he has presented.
The election he was willing to admit was
extraordinary but he might perhaps say
ii meant. anything i, meant that the people
had decided that this splendid edihce should
be taken down, its splendid pictures and
drapery-and that log cabin and coon
skins should be erected in lis place. For
the frs; time, too, said Mr.. Wright, in the |
history Of this Government, question has !
been decided by the people in favor OF
man who bad no expressed opinion upon
any question Of policy in opposition to The
party now in power. Such would seem to
be the re..ult of the election, for ii the party
10 be in power had any fixed principles he
knew not what those principles were.
Mr.. Clay said, in reply il always pleased
him when he could present a question so
acceptable 10 The chairman Of the commit
tee on Finance. He was glad he was pleas
ed with the tender he had submitted As
am Christian man, said MIR. Clay-Wi,3
great humor-or as hope to be one, or
wish to be one, desire to do good for evil |
cannot forget that the Senator pressed
this same measure upon the consideration
of The Senate when plead with him not TO
press i,-whrn | earnestly entfeated him
to wait but for one day. Yes, and when
the Senator from MAJ Hand plead for a sin
gle nights delay, he declined it, and when
his colleague was absent he would not
await, even for one day his return.
do not, said Mr.. Clay, remember these
things for evil or in Judgment, and shall
certainly submit cheerfully to any proper
delay Of action which that Senator, not
withstandng the past, may now ask. The
Senator says, in spite of the wonderful con-
demnaton OF his party, that Gen. Harrison
has.-that we have no principle s,-that we
are party without principle. Now let
me ask the Senator what kind of party
that must be which has been beaten so sig
nally by party without principles IA
party whose banner was, as he says, coon
skins or log cabin? Must not sucn a beat
en- party have had principles worse than
none to have been so signalIy rebnked
The Senator, continued MIR. Clay, allud-
ed to prior elections, and thinks that in
Congress and elsewhere when this Sub
treasury was IA question at issue, his party
have trlumphed. hope the honorable
Senator will not make il necessary for me
to review the past, to bring to bis remem-
brnnce, for example, the New Jersey out
rage, an outrage conducted in a manner
derogatorv TO deliberate assemblies, and
diseracelu to the epoch in which ii took
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