Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-07-23
HAMPDEN.
For fhe Repisfer.

The brief account given by of your correspon- dents, Wednesday,, of the course of Mir. c. c. Iangdon nhhe last leg slature relation the city charier and his violent abuse of the people of Mobile who favor repeal of the property qualification of common council has brought that gentleman out in
 furious paragraph of denial He pronounces the quo- tation of h authenticated speech, to be ''ma- ignant iasthood' and promises us defence against the damnirg evidence which his words bear against him, of having indignantly insulted three ifths of th voting men of Mobile What line of de- fence 50 practised in pervertng facts, denying
 truth and covering his opponents with denunciations without cause justification, may adopt to escape from the return of his own bitter denunc ations in judgment against himself, cannot anticipate. The temper mwhich he commenced, proof of the fright and excitement into which the sight of his speech threw him
 But am disposed to give Mir. Langdon fuller chance, to say all his say at once than your corres- pondeut He places Mir. Langdon in the front ground, as the only offender this repeal against the people of Mobile. charge him with being only the leader, and his colleagues, Gen. Joseph Bates, Thomas McC. Prince and A. 0. Holinger, to be according to the measure of their medocrity, equally guilty of the of fence He had the pert tongue, by which the above was layished with more volubilty-but theirs, was disposition equally fawning upon the rich, and equally insulting to the poor, manifested by their words, and especially by their votes. mean to group them mere prominently together than your correspondent did, and define exactly what they have to answer for, than fell within his plan.
 These men could at Tuscaloosa strain all their in- huence support of this hateful and anti-republcan measure, ,--they could join loudly as any body in maintaining the right of the landed wealth to lord it over mechanical industry and honest poverty,--they could sheer British tory at the presumption of the poor in wanting an equal right to voice in the government under which he liyes and could class the non voters for common council with ROC UES, THIEVES and INCENDiARlES;- but now that they have face these poor men, and their again. they are very anxious have these things for gotten aud are secretly denying and qualifying their own words s,-endeavoring to coax the working men to send them back as the Representatives of Mobile to the same place where they uttered these islanders, with the approval of the county on their conduct and language. These men would now be glad, if the elo- quence on which they prided themselves at the time when they raled against those citizens of Mobile who owned no lands or houses, ,-had never been re- ported and would @ content if the Journal of the House were mutilated at the pages which record their votes. Luckily am possessed of the Journal and also of the printed debate reported by their political friends of the Independent Monitor the whig paper at Tuscaloosa. This is the record on which they ought to be tried before the citizens of Mobile,
 in despite of all their pleas for e,ason and, if on that issue, the men of Mobile who were thus wanton- ly outraged, whose wishes coniemptuously dis regarded, whose motives and character were so vely slandered by their own representatives, from eager ness shaver oyer with adulaton the property hold CTS of this city, if they say do vndicate them selves they have less spirit than the proverb allows to the earlh-worm which will turn when the heel presses. u. J
 The history Of this bill and the action upon it at Tuscaloosa, is as follows: s" .-i G
 On the 22d of April last, our Senator T. l.. ToUL- MIN introduced into the Senate bill to repeal the property qualification of the Voters for Common Council in this city, as to extend the privilege of voting for Common Council to the qualified voters for Mayor and Aldermen. It was passed through the Senate on that day, and was sent immediately io the House. It made no ind,scrminate change in the voting class, but proposed to elevate the class which now votes for Mayor and Aldermen to the privilege of voting for Common Councilmen also.
 On the next day. the 23d of April, the bill reached the House of Representatives.
 No sooner was it announced, than MT. LANGDoN bounced upon it, and attempted to stramgle it at once. He would not allow 1t n moments chance, even to be read second time for reference, in the usual way. In this insulting effort to kick the ap- plcants from the door of the Legislature, he was aid ed by all his colleagues, Bates, Prineea and Holiiager
 use Mir. Hollingers name from necessity, although having been unceremoniously dismissed from the company of his colleagues, he has no share in the canvass of this year. Mir. LANGDoN, the moment the bill was announced moved to lay it the table, that is, to prevent all action upon 1t. ni At rt He made, in support of this motion, of his characteristic speeches. The amount oft was, that he objected to entertaining the subject at all-rsfly, because he had not originated the bill by himself or by his associates the delegation in the House; sec ondly because it had been originated by the demo- cratic Senator; thirdly, because he did not know that the people here wanted it, fourthly, because he professed to know that none but yagabonds did want