Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-07-07

which they prom,sed, f3onaparte detested absrac- tians when he gias.,ed the supreme power, as did Cromwell. Every batie plunderer cries sut against distractions ;ahd lhe bighwayman, ,wien he approach es the unwary trafelIer scouts the distractions oi morality and law which woad interfere between hun and his victim.
 Mr. Clay of Kentucky saidihe question before the Senate was mere motion to print fifteen hnndren copies of the report of the Secretarya notion made by himself fortnight ago. And on this proposition 10 print we have bean favored with speech rom late Vice President of the United States (Mr: Cai- houn) late Secretary of the Treasury (Nlr W ood- bury) and the late Chancellor of the Exchequer W.T. Wright.) These speeches have occupied the Sen ate several days of this extraordinary session when we all hope will not last more than sixty days; and every thing has been discussed in them except the question immediately before the Senate. So many speeches had been hung upon this slender peg that it could evidently bear more, and he would there fore, forbear reply to the gentleman many of the topics alluded to in the discussion, and he would say to his friends the best answer you give to those long speeches is to respond to them by eacting the measures which they denounce, and which the coun- try so loudi, calls for.
 MT. Woodbury said it was difficult to please the gentlemen on the other side to the proper tune for the discussion of the measures recommended by the Secretary of the Treasury. IL first proposed that the discussion should take place the resou- ton proposed by the Senator from Missouri, MT Benton I and then he believed at the suggestion oi the Senator from Kentucky, [Mr. Clay] himself, 1t was agreed that it should take place his rosolu- ton to print extra copies of the report But the oe- nator still thinks the discussion premature, and says, that it has been entirely ruess of results. But was this SO? Has not the Select Committee, of which the Senator from Kentucky is chairman, in the report and bill to establish fiscal agent, which he has pre- sented this morning, abandoned all the positions which were assaied in the Secretary's prolet, and
 left him to be whisted down the wind without word in their fayor3 What other result The fourth in stalnent to the States, which occupied prominent place in the report of the Secretary, and when ne had taken the liberty to designate as an approprla' ton, which had also been assaied, and the commit tee had abandoned the whole proposition. The com mittee had too much sagacy to endorse the recom- mendatlon to distribute nine millions among the States. when we called here with the proiessed object of relieving own necessities The thirty one millions of national debt which the Secretary had coniured up, is admitted on all hands to be mere phantom. He thought there had been abundant proofs of the benefits which had resulted from the discussion.
 Mir. Clay said the Senator from New Hampshire should have waited until the measures alluded to by the Secretary had been brought before the body for its action. By SO doing, he would have saved lit tie of his wind which, from his large size, he sup posed was commodity exceedingly useful to him.
 Mir. Woodbury ;ad he would consult his sense of proprety m selecting the time for the dis cusson of any question which fairly brought be- fore the Senate.
 Mir. Buchanan ,ad he did not rise to make speech. It had been his intention to offer marks upon the report of the Secretary of the Trea sury; but he should forbear It would be downright cruelty further to expose the mistakes not to give them harsher name, of that extraordinary docu- ment. His chief Object in rising was to protest gainst the principle assumed by the Senator from Kentucky, [slr. Clayl that this not proper cason to discuss t merits of the Treasury report. Of all occasions it appeared to be the most proper. When he had asked to print fifteen hundred copies of this report, migh not be permitted to enquire what it contained? It had been put forth to the world as the justification of this expensive scsslon, called al the most iIconyenent of the year; and it propsr inquire whether it contained any such justification! Was it not competent for his MT. B's] friends to show, they have done concusively, that from beginning to end, it contain ed gross blunders and mistakes, which the very facts spread upon the face of the report itsel when rightly understood, abindattly disproved!
 MT. Clay. Is ita proper time to discuss the con dition of the Treasiry under a former Admnistra- tion, upon mere resolution to print this report?
 Mir. Buchanan had not said that it was; but it proper, he mainared, to discuss any subject treated ofby the report itst, proposed to be printed, with a view of contr0vertng its statements. lie had frequently remarked that the Senator from Kentucky adept in that species of political fact, which der anticipated defeat enabled him to lead off upon new scent, until time was given to his discomfted friends rally Instead now ofztemptng defend the
 report ofhis end the Secretary he desiresto change the ssue and prove that It's merits ought to be dis cussed on this motion. Never since he (Mr. B. had been memher of the Senate, had he any do- cument ably examined criticized, and triumphanty demolished, as had been this unfortunate report. Even its friends did not attempt further to defend it. Without referring specially to his (Mr. B's) other friends who had so unmercifully handled this docu- ment, he would say that his friend from New York (Mr. Wright had made such an exposition of its iaacies and unfounded assumptions, in his clear and conclusive manner, as was wholly unanswerable. He should be exceedingly glad to hear the Chancellor of the Exchequer IMr. ClayI make the attempt to answer the speech of the old Chancellor Mir. Wright
 Mir Clay. I shall do so hereafter, when the proper occasion arrives
 Mir. Buchanan said the present was the acce pted time. An answer now mIgth prevent the conviction the public mind, which must result from this days debate that the Treasury report could be deend ed. An due to the able Senator from Maine who had gallanty but unsuccessfuy attempted to sustain this report and had said every thing which could be said in its defence. Would the Senator from Kentucky suffer him to stand alone against an hosta For his part, he would not now speak if for other reason; that he would not accept such odds against one gallant champion. He would not attack him after he had been successfully assailed by so many others. Had the new Chancellor of the Exchequer thought proper to reply to the old, he would then have had five six questions to propound him, arising from the face of the report itse on which he should have respectfully requested answers But there further resistance, he should not delay the business of the Senate by the argument which he had intended 10 submit. On the very first suitable occasion, he would propound the questions to which he had referred.
 Mir. Clay of Kentucky. Question, sir!
 The motto. of Mir. Clay to print l ,5OO copies of the report of the Secretary of Treasury was agreed