Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-10-16

ranks OF that VICTORIOUS party. And was
not the party founded, in the second place, {
on that other great idea of reciprocation
of catholic forbearance for the varying l
opinions of men banded together for the
performance of great patriotic duty
that Of riddiDg the country of the corrup-
tons and raisrue of the then Administra-
toni He commended that there was this gen
eralund ertakng pervading the party, of mu-
tual Respect and Difference for each others
OPT MONS This was the result of necessity.
J. he party could not have existed on any
+ other conditions, still less could it on any
other conditions have conquered. 1t was
upon the broad and great platform of
opposition to the Administration and of
cancellation towards each other, that the
members of the Wing party entertaining
themselves opinions of every shade of diff
ference, and associated in their past history
with every diversity of party--it was upon
this lofty platform that they had planted
the banner of Harrison and Tyler. and raj
lied around it as the great symbol of union
and of victory for the whole people of the
I United States.
Mr. c. said that the spectacle which the
party now exhibited was a most humiliat-
ing one. In the very freshness of our
power, now that we stand on the threshold
of greatnass-now, when all the depart
ments of the Government, the Executive,
the Senate, and the House, hold here the
power Of a triumphant and enthusiastic
majority-at such Il time we allow our
selves to be rent assunder by intestine d.
visions and mutual elimination. We were
doing this not because we have as yet
failed in any one of the object for which
we came into power-not because we
have cause to expect that we shall fail in
any one of those oblects--but only because
there is difference of opinion between GER
tain members of Congre and the Presi-
= dent as to the time and the details of one
: of the measures contemplated by Con
gress.
= Mr.. G. entreated gentlemen to pause a
y moment in their career of self-destruction,
d and to reflect upon the circumstances sur
:; rounding them, and the events Of the pres
, ent Congress. We met here in conse-
l. quence of call by the late President of
id the United States. to enter upon such
: measures of legislation as should be sug-
lie gestcd to us by him. We came here with
t. the knowledge. not only that we were q
he triumphant majority, but with a sort OF
T. overweening sense of the party omnipo'
Sc tence in these halls which we were thus tC
n, exercise. In the outset, the proceedings
ID of the house were interrupted by thai
lie most unhappy and deplorable question o
'd abolition--the cause of so much idle anC
al fruitless agitation in this House--a ques
IS ton which he hoped at the next session
ia to see separated from the question of thu
10 right of petition, and thus rendered susccp
r tible of ready settlement, so far as thl
n House was concerned. After this brie
r., delay, we entered upon the business o
81 the session, and mark the magnitude o
ed dealt WITH and the energy with which they
aI had been carried through the House.
1d The House had, in the first place, passed
Iir the loan bill, by which the floating deb
occurred by the last Administration wa
OF separated from the current dealings of thu
ed present, and placed by itself, with a pedg
IL on our part, however, that it should be eX
ed tinguished and paid by the present Admin
ig istration. In the second place, we hav
ed passed the land distribution bill, which, i
y his (Mr. C.'s) eye, if it had no other meri
he was entitled to the highest considerable
cal in being, at the same time. permanel
his prospective presumption bill. Then W
in had passed the revenue bill, and he won
Of say in regard to that though he voted fc
led it with extreme reluctance on account
zen various objections of detail, and with Il
ICY greater reluctance because in that vote
lis differed from some of his respected &C
OF leagues, yet he thought it was due to Il
uc- principle that at all hazards of personal
ere party popularity, we should not shamh
to on from indebtedness to Indebtedness, al
should at once provide means to meet 4
led, debts. and carry on the business of {
en- Government. Next we had passed sund
nan great measures Of public defence, for t
for augmentation of our naval armament, a
the the prosecution OF our land dcfences. viii
rim bills alone were enough to do honor tc
nci- Congress. Next we had passed that gre
car act of humanity and Justice, as well as
ndi- mercy, the bankrupt bill, by which
With many thousands Of our fellow citizc
ten would be emancipated from the servitu
and of state of insolvency, which was ali
5 to injurious both to creditors and debto
the Finally, we had swept from the statl
mia book, not only the Sub-Treasury act
pom sole measure of Mr.. Van Burcn's Admin
men tration--but also, the deposte act, the oh
heir measure of Gen. Jackson's second peri
and have thus ctlectually put the stamp
ndi- the public rcprobation upon all the fin
into cial policy of the last Administration. $
Incl eral of these bills had already recei,