The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1841-01-08

the House will go into mourning, and wear Grape
for thirty days.
Resoirci, That as further mark of respect for
the memory of the deceased, this House do now
adjourn.
The resolutions were read, and adopted unani-
mously; and thereupon the House adjourned until
Tomorrow, IL O'Clock.
Thursday, Dec. 81, 1910.
SENATE. A resolution, offered by Mr. Tall
madgc, i'll regard to Treasury Notes, was adopted.
House. Mr. Rives, of the firm Of Blair & Rives
of the Globe, presented petition, stating that the
Clerk of the House had given printing to Mr. Lang
tree of the Democratic Review, which belonged to
the printers Of the House, and a select committee
was ordered thereon.
The Navy Pension Fund Bill was finally passed,
the previous question having been moved thereon,
THE BURNING OF TIE CAROLINE.
Mr. Fillmore, of New York, asked for the print
ing of five thousand copies of letter and other
documents from the State Department in reference
to the arrest of Mr. Mcleod, charged with aiding
in the burning of the Caroline. 1t embraces cor
respondence between the American Minister at
London, the British Minister here, and the Sccre-
tary of State. After the five thousand copies had
been ordered to be printed a motion to reconsider
was submitted by MIR Alvord of Georgia.
Mr. Alvord was anxious TO hear the documents
read, and the reading was commenced by the Clerk.
The documents were, first, a brief message from
the President, transmitting the correspondence be-
tween the two Governments
Secondly, letter from Mr. Stevenson, at Lon
don, addressed to the Secretary of State, saying
that no answer had been received to the question
submitted from the United States respecting the
burning Of the Caroline.
The third letter was from Mr. Fox to Mr. FORSYTH,
stating that the British Government would probably
answer the questions submitted without delay.
Some time interviewed, when a correspondence
upon the arrest of Mcleod, now in prison in New
York, was commenced. The first letter concerto
ing the arrest is one which will excite some atten-
ton in this country. 1t is addressed by the British
Minister TO the Secretary of State, and in it he
complains Of the arrest ola subject of Great Britain
and his Imprisonment in New York. lie demands
the release of the prisoner, and proceeds to avOw
the principle or fact that The burning of the Caro-
line was an act committed The British .auihori-
ties.
Mcleod, he asserts, if employed in burning tho
Caroline, which he very much doubts, was en-
poyed by authority. The British authorities,
therefore, he proceeds to say, are responsible, and
not Mcleod. The question, as consequence, if
to be conlrOverlcd, becomes one which must be
settled by the two governments, and not by the
prisoner. This was well known, he thonght,-or
certainly, was more than intina,cd at the time, as
il has been since, and upon many occasions. Mr.
Fox enlarged upon the idea that the prisoner acted
'pon authority, and that the subject matter COM
,lalnt was one for the two governments to settle
In conclusion, again he expresses the hope that the
prisoner will be speedily released.
The most interesting part of the correspondence
) the reply of the Secretary of State to the British
Minister Mr. Forsyth, in courteous terms, ac-
the reception of the letter of Mr. Fox,
md rclcraes his ground of complaint. Under the
'd'cc and direction of the President, he proceeds
o answer the complaints. Always DESTROYS to pre-
crve the amlcabe relations between the two gov
he Processes to be still DESTROYS to ter
innate the present controversy in the same friendly
plrt. lie speaks Of the delicate questions which
AVE been brought before the government in times
'ast, and appeals to Mr. Fox to bear testimony to
he friendly disposition ofhe President and the U.
States towards Great Britain.
1t is with unfeigncd regret he says, that he can
lot now comply with the request submitted. The
circumstances connected with the arrest of the pris-
ner forbid it. lie was charged with arson COM
ncd upon American soil and American property
The history Of the burning of the Caroline was the
istory of great outrage, and the prisoner was
onfncd or arraigncd under the charge of being one
{ a band oflawcss marauders. lie made bis ap-
carancc in New York voluntarily, after the COM
iission of the offence, and was imprisoned as one
f the guilty party. The President, continues Mr.
orsyth, knows of no principle of international law
'hich calls for the release Of such an offender.
Mr. Forsyth proceeded to comment in bccom-
g temper upon the acknowledgment, for the first
me officially made, that the Caroline was burnt
nder the authority of the British government. No
ich avowa has before been officially made, and
now comes from one speaking by authority. 1t
rcomcs the United States, therefore, to act as
,mplainant.
The reading of the correspondence excited somo
cling in the House.
Mr. Alvord of Georgia, who moved the rcconsid-
alton, was the first TO break silence. He was
ad that he had submitted the motion to rcconsid-
:, and the more so from the character of the cor
spondcncc. For one, he was ready to approve
the letter of the Secretary Of State, and do
eeriully approve it, said Mr. Avord-and the
ore readily, since it is the frs, official act which
can remember which has been submitted by this
which has met my appreciation
y party bases are not so strong but can apprc-