Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-04-17
UNITED STATES SENATE.


UNITED STATES SENATE.
Mn. TAyLERs SpEEcH-1he Senate hav-
ing convened on the 4th ult., nine new Sem
ators attended, were qualified, and took their
seats. Mr.. Tyler, Vice President of the U.s.
having taken the oath of office, and assumed
his place as President Of the Senate, delivered
the following excellent address:
SENAToRs:-Called by the people of the Uni
ted States TO preside over your deliberations,
Il cannot withhold the expression of the high
estimate place on the honor which they have
conferred upon me. 70 occupy the seat which
has been filled and adorned--to say nothing of
my more immediate predecessors-by an Ad-
ans, Jefferson, Gerry, Clinton, and a
lTompkns, names that, altogether belonging
to the dead, still live IN the recollection of
grateful country, is an honor of which any man
would have Just cause to be proud. But this
honor is greatly augmented by the considera-
! ton of the true character of this body by the
high order of moral and intellectual power
which has distinguished it, by the dignity
which has, for the most part, marked its pro-
ceedings, and, above all, by the important du-
ties which have devolved upon it under the
Constitution. Here are to be found the imme-
diate representatives of the States, by whose
sovereign will the Government has been spo-
! ken into existence. Here exists that perfect
equality among the members of this confeder-
acy, which gives to the smallest State in the
Union voice as potential as that of the lar
gest To this body is committed, in an emf
nent degree, the trust of guarding and protect
ing the institutions handed down to US from oul
fathers, as we'll against the waves of popular
and rash impulses, as against attempts at Exec
utive encroachment on the other. 1t may
properly be regarded as holding the balance in
(which are weighed the powers conceded to
this Government and The rights reserved to
| the States and to the People. tits its province
| to concede what has been granted; to with
hold what has been denied; thus in all its fea-
lures exhibiting a true type of the glorious
lconfederacy under which it is our happiness TO
live.
Should the spirit of faction-that destructive
spirit which recklessly walks over PROSTATE
, rights, and tramples laws and constitutions IN
the dust, ever find an abiding place within this
hall. then, indeed, will a sentence of condem
nation be issued against the peace and happiness
of this people, and their political institutions be
made to topple to their foundations. Blu
while this body shall continue to be, what by
I its trainers it was designed to be, delberativt
in it's character, unbiased in its course, ant
independent in its action, then may, liberty bt
regarded as entrenched in safety behind the sd
cred ramparts of the Constitution
While | occupy this chair, Senators, | shall
have frequent occasion to invoke your lndul
gence for my defects, and your charity for m,
, errors am but little skilled in Parllmenta
ry law, and have been unused to preside owe
deliberative assemblies. ALI that can urge Il
excuse of my defect is, that bring with me t
;, THE chair an earnest wish to discharge proper
! ly It's duties, and fixed determination to pre-
q side over your deliberations with entire I'm
Epartiality.
, The annexed appointments, in addition
!. those already noticed, have been made by Pres
le ident Harrison, with the advice and consent {
the Senate:
lie Allen A, Hall, of Tennessee, charged affaire
at Venezuela.
le Thomas Haynes. navy agent, PHILADELPHIA;
Lorenzo Draper, consul, Paris, Frsnce.
'e Henry G. Bosler, U. S. Marshal. for the we
5 tern district Of Pennsylvania.
ie > Daniel Hugumin, U. S. Marshal for the di
trict of Wisconsin.
s. Clark Robinson, u S. Marshal fcr the no
them district of New Yoraa.
y VIM. M. Meredith, u. S. Attorney for IL
~ eastern district of Pennsylvania.
: Henderson Taylor, u. S. Attorney westel
district of Louisiana.
r Isaac N Stoddard, Collector aud Inspecte
y. Plymouth, Massachusetts,.
Is Myres Elliott, Surveyor and Inspector, Hal
ford, North Carolina.
y Lieut. w. X. Hanson, to be Captain. !
brevet.
% William A. Spencer to be a Captain in y
IT, Navy.
a Abraham Bgelow, to be commanderin 4
Z. Navy. tss,
is VIM. L, Maury to be a Lieutenant in Il
Navy.
Al DARK CLouD-Orders from the Britt
I government have arrived in the British We
t. Indies, to put $4,000 negroes under militia
e discipline, as regular soldiers. in addition.
the ordinary black force Of regulars and M