Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1842-10-01

already passed, ana tnat |4<7"'"* 80 S
certainty Of passage, i = n1nnl|< ''nat
this will at the end Of the session. Hc+I ~
full and Just proportion. % ~ &c 9l''<
limbs Of their monstrous system = &
Claims, some the most base aud others
the most baseless, are now presented Z.
gainst the government, and treated WIN
the serious respect due only 70 ne Ius. g.
mands of the honest citizcu. PC 1Q1osfs
of such claims seem 10 have QIscoFefeo =
mutual sympathy between <hc majority q
this Congress and themselves Iney re-
pair TO the capitol with the instinct tnat
directs the vulture to the cs|ea:
The militia of Massachuse
the very same who, durinG ne Ia{o xtf
when the country was Invaded ard uIcy
ordered by the President mo the pNpIlc
service, positively refused Incidence, re-
fused to pass the line ofs,beir stnte~re-
fused to pull trigger in the defence O. 9
the republic ;they who BY hat very rslnsa',
encouraged the British, allowed them
Judgment in a Massachusetts ssapQ[
they who trafficed with, instead of nght-
ing. the public enemy-they have. nets
theless, lived long enough, q laugh 70 &C.
cret at an American Sena;e, tor having,
Twenty-Five years ago, voted % them ne
third ofa million from the national tree-
sury for these aieir,seruices il the idtttoer
These men, who in every other country
| would have been treated a. traitors, are,
in this, about 70 be paid il money TOR their
treason, by the very government shey Pc
trayed.
Next comes the heirs II Gen. liulIu
with their demand for the sdiary Of their
father, as Governor Of the xterritory Of
Michigan, during the rery ff7ae, ana Jor
! no other time, than the territory was ~
possession of the British~-snrrandered 20
Them by Hull himself togeihef with the
4 gallant army from Ohio-a crime ior
which he was then under arrest, and uf-
forwards condemned by the law, % deqfh,
as traitor. Yet this claim, The very
presentation Of which was an outrage 20
every American citizen, and especially %
to the citizens of Ohio, whose heroic peo-
pie had thus been, by tbs very man, 20
basely surrendered Cd Z. 70 the sns'sy' = 2Elz-
wing committee in the Senatsse
Gated upon the floor, and defeated
cause some Of that party, and all I, ....,-.,
ocrats, were ashamed TO dihhonor the body
, by its passage.
But econOmy-iustice--federal econo-
my and Justice, were with that very same
committee, found a sufficient bar 10 the re-
payment of the fine imposed by vindic-
tive Judge, on Andrew jackson, for having
expelled traiters from his camp, during his
glorious defence of Orleans.
If these things were not on. record, no
individual should state them, as the word
of no man would ale ne be deemed, by the
country, conclusive of facts so dcroga-
8 tory to the character Of The American
Congress. Yet facts they are, and That Of
; record too, whosoever may be injured BY
, them.
Amidst the systematic policy Of public
ruin, which this Congress has pursued,
il has introduced for the FIRST time, prac-
tice in the highest degree dangerous to
the liberties of the people. allude 10
the practice of the House In gagging The
minority, and that of the! Senate yelling
from the public eye, the real condition Of
the Government. In both, the democrat
ic minorities are powerless--ihe federal
majorities direct all actions-hurry oEre-
iard all business, at pleasure. Itis1ifihe
House that the great money bills chiefly
originate. There they have been SIM
dionsly kept back for month after month.
In The mean time, as an excuse for delay,
: debate has been encouraged on matters Of
indifference. Then all things being rea-
dy, those great measures have been sud-
denly brought up, and after the most friv-
ial discussion, the gag applied and she
voice silenced under the ridicplous nretext
!, of want of time. On1such occasions
the democracy are hushed, not BY the
q previous question, but stern resolution
, which seals the lips and forces through nle
measure, without considerations how sver
important its provisions, and without he
exposure Of its enormities, though des,ruc-
tive it may be, TO the best in,eresisr
of the country. Thus have millions been
: appropriated, and taxes by Rhe million
!, voted in the very last msNth Of our seven
: months session without oirs single man %
the minority in the House ha ding hadrine
enough allowed him to EXPOSE the inpoii-
CIV, or enormity of such MEASURES But il
;, matters of no moment, no SAG i applied.
! because in these freedom q spoceh IN
8 dangers neither corruption nor desboiien
u To silence the representstixsI>, 20 spike
the ears Of the people. ,lf<is both sht;r
:, right, and his, that he sho1ld speak, [, is
u theirs, because 1t is theif busines.n',e i
l.. n. = IL.