Litchfield enquirer., 1842-02-03

Hon. John 0. Adams for having presented to the House petition for this purpose.
 Mr. M. spoke for half an hour concisely and forcibly, giving his views upon the highs lv important and sacred nature of the Con- stitution, under which this was the first at- tempt ever made to present petition of this character, and expressing his surprise that any member should be found on this floor to assume the responsibility of being the mover of proposition to dissolve the Union, which, disclaiming all personal prejudices against MT. Adams, he considered as meriting the severest rebuke of the House.
 MT. Adams held the unqualified right of the people to petition Congress for the peaceable dissolution of the Union as we'll IS other purposes, in support of which he call ed for the reading by the Clerk of the first paragraph of the Declaration of Indepen- dence. He replied pungently to some of the grounds taken by Mr. M., and glancing brief ly at the causes of grievance to the people, named as one most prominent, the suppress sion of the right of petition. He should ask of the House, whenever they came to act on this resolution, which he did not believe they would entertain, an opportunity to defend himself, in which case he would go into de- tail of tine whole subject on the right of peti- tion, slavery, &c. He said there was con- certed plan to smuggle the people of the free States into war with Great Britain for the protection of Slavery, and that tho grounds taken by our minister at England with res- pect to the right of search, were utterly ful- lacious and absurd, the intention of which was the maintenance of our slave system.
 Mir. Everett briefly spoke ofthis resolution as an initiatory step-on which he looked with alarm-to consequences which he hard ly dare contemplate. For the purpose of giving opportunity 10 deliberate action, by the House, and of defending himself to Mir. Adams, he moved the printing of the reso- Iution and its postponement till Friday next.
 MT. Wise, without allowing this motion to be put, took the floor and spoke at great length, advocating the resolution, and giving vent to his well-known feelings of bitterness towards MT. Adams.
 Without final action on the subject, the House adjourned.
 In the Senate, many petitions were pre- sented against the repeal of the Bankrupt Law, and few in its favor.
 Several resolutions, bills, sc. .,wcre brought before the Senate, but without final action.
 The bill to repeal the Bankrupt Law was then taken up, and Mir. Berrien spoke at great length in able opposition to the bill, contendiDg that the law, so beneficial in it's design, was practicable, and should be per- mitted to go into operation, leaving to expe- rience to discover and remedy it's defects.
 Mr. Huntington took the floor. and the Sem ate adjourned.-N. y. Tribune.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.
 The House of Representatives have been occupied to-day in an Abolition discussion, on the resolution yesterday submitted by Mir. Marshall censuring Mir. Adams for pre- Senting petition for the dissolution of the Union.
 Mir. Wise resumed from yesterday, and concluded his remarks, occupying two hours and half. His main proposition was, that there was an English influence abroad conl- bincd with an English influence at home to break down the Union, and bring about a union of Aboltionists and disunioaists. To prove this, he examined at great length the various Abolition movements, severely com menting on the course of Mr. Adams, as we'll as other prominent actors in this cause. He closed by asking the House if they realized 'cho was the object of this resolution, and drew a comparison between what MI. Ad- ans is and what he ought 10 be, who having occupied the highest office in the nation, gifted with commanding talents, a sound mind, enriched by extensive information and long experience, and being the only link which connected us to the revolutionary pa- triots and to the past, ought to command tle profoundst respect of the House, to be listen- ed to with breathless silence, and looked up to for lessons of wisdom by the young men of this Hall but who, by the conduct of his age. had nearly annulltd the debt of grati. tude once due him from his country.
 Mr. Adams said he had desired to give the gentleman from Accomac an opportunity to pour out the vials of his wrath and disgorge to the fullest extent his bile, which had been accommodating for three years. He now made point of order, that the House had no right to entertain the resolution, as it charged him with crimeS-subornation of perjury and high treason-over which they had no juris- diction. He referred to the time when n man now present had come into this House with his hands dripping in the blood of mur- der, the spots of which were still on him, and who was more guilty of the murder of Il brother member of the House, than the man who pulled ihe trigger of the deadly rifle. He had then opposed the trial of this man by the House, as not being the proper tribunal. great degree from his (Mr A's) effort-cs- capped punishment, though his hands were dripping with the blood oi murder.
 Mir. Wise said he would now declare to the country, the House and tke world, that he was not responsible for a single act in that case, except what he had done in defence of the life of q friend and he now with pain, eftcr the gentleman had thrice repeated it, pronounced the charge as personal, whoever might make ii. and as false-as black lie as he beliered that man (1lr. A.) to be q traitor.
 MT. Marshall briefly spoke to the point of order, contending that the charge was not made in the resolution, which Mir. A. had stated, and that it was legitimate subject for the action tthe House.
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