The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-06-29
Tmentp=Se0enth Congress.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,,
FIRST SESSION.

FRIDAY, June 25, 1S4l.
Mr. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, from the Com
mtee of one from each State, to which referred
the Message Of the President of the United States Of
the 22d Of June inst communicating correspondence
between himself and the Hon. J. Burnet, &c. Wright,
and others, committee on behalf of The people of
Cincinnati appointed for the purpose of removing the
remains of the late President WILLIAM HENRY HAIR
RsoN, from the city of Washington to North Bend,
for interment, reported the following resolution
Resoiped That Saturday next the remains of
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, late President of the
United States, be removed under the superintendent
of Committee Of both Houses of Congress from The
Congressional Buryng Ground, and accompanied by
such committee and the Delegation from Ohio, to the
line of the District of Columbia.
Resolred, That when the two Houses adjourn
they adjourn to Monday next
Which resolutions unanimously adopted.
Mr. POWELL presented petition for the renewal
the charters of Banks of the District of Columbia
Petitions were presented for General Bankrupt
law.
The question pending was on the resolution con-
sdered Yesterday, calling the President for ntor
nation relative TO the Mcleod case, on which Mr.
CUSHING entitled to the floor.
Mr.. CUSHING resumed from yesterday, his re-
marks on this subject and entered into an answer OF
the charges made, yesterday, by Mr. lngersoll upon
the Secretary of State, and indicating Mr.. Webster
from all those imputed blunders
In this great issue (said Mr.. Gushing the true is
sue between the United States and Great Britain, on
the merits of the destruction OF the Caroline not only
were the United States perfectly in the right but at
the same time, in the other great issues which are
pending between England and the U nitcd States-the
question of the North Eastern Boundary and the
North Western Territory of the United States What
the attitude of the opposition on this subject
He called on gentlemen to mark the peculiar feature
of their attack the of Mr., Webster, and the
consequences of their assumption, that Mcleod was
personally responsible. 1t was, that the United States
were deliberately to quit the lmprcgnable fortress of
~, nd II all EnUl nj In
nerpose new issue
The English Government had demanded the release
of Alexandr Mcleod Where Mcleod? In
the hands Of the President of the United States
Had the Federal Government control over his person
No He in the hands, and under the control OF
the State Of New York; and not merely ms state,
bat he in the hands of the municipal courts OF
New York. And this demand was for his Immediate
release The United States could not interfere for
the release of any individual in the bonds of law, but
by process OF law. Therefore the demand could not
be sustained and the United States coud they did,
promptly refuse a compliance with this demand.
The gentleman had assumed that of necessity,
the alternative of decision in that court in re-
gard To Mcleod must be his release, such refusal
to release him, would require the Government of
the United States in compliance with the despatch, to
interfere. 1t was no such thing. The Government
of the United States, had proved that in Me
cod was entitled to immunity under the law of ma
tons and that was that Mcleod soldier OF
Alexander McNab and ii he killed Durlee it was a
necessary part only Of the destruction of the Ca
roline hut that il was done under the orders of his
Government.
The conclusion to which he arrived, was the posi-
lion in which he started that the United States, on
the great questions pending between them and Gfeal
Bntain and especially on the main and principal
question connected with Mcleod, were in the right
and if they should be involved in a war with Great
Bctain, they would BE- ustfable, in the face OF ma
tons aud of Heaven, to prosecute that war to all ex
trcnities. But it gentlemen Of the opposition, by
their legal ingenuity, by pasty spirit concealed the
true issue and their country involved in war
them would be the responsibility and to them he
appealed that they throw aside all party questions