, 1842-02-19

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land of my fathers. As the birth place of
Shakespeare, Milton, Newton and Locke
love England; but it is English insolence,
English pride, and English fanaticism and
selfshness that ! would rebuke.
If it be the policy of the British party
here TO bring about a war with England, in
order to the introduction of foreign influence;
IT they will raise the war cry, let it go
forth. England will find that. though she
were TO lay our cities in ashes, the effect
would not be here as it is in European
countries. Paris, is France:-but not New
York, Boston, Charleston, Orleans and all
the other cities of the Union, upon the sea-
board, constitute this country. These NAV
be subdued, but the country, as England
would find, is insincibIe. Mr.. w. next al
luded 10 Il remark of Mr.. Adams, when the
Farewell Address was read. and here he was
corrected by Mr.. A. and acknowledged his
error.
am glad TO find, continued Mr.. W., that
! mistook the gentleman. that he has not lost
his reverence for the father Of his country,
But oh! how much desrcr ought this coun-
try. itself, to be to him. and how can he who
has served well this country, in times past,
and who owes SO much to the country. how
can he be instrumental in anv effort TO break
up this glorious Union;a Union in which
not we alone, but all mankind are interes-
ted?
But the gentleman said, in e~xcusing him
self, that he wished to show these petitioners
that now was not the time to bring matters to
IN lssue-ROD was not the time 10 break up
the Union; wait n little longer--agitate the
question OF slavery in the District of Column
bla; keep this bone Of contention alive; and
II the South still persist in the + attempts 10
maintain their institution. then it will be time
to come forward with this proposition.
Mr.. w. said that he should ask, at the
proper time, 10 be excused fiom voting on
this resolution, but though he could not vote
upon it, he owed it to his constituents to
speak upon it. liza wild beast we're let loose
in this assembly, he should be taken and fet-
tered. So, when an attempt was made, in
any quarter. TO break up the Union, and 10
array North against South, by infaming
passion and exciting discord, it was the
bounden duty Of every one TO crush the ef
fort-no matter whether the mover in such
a design were clothed in the panoPly of age,
learning. dignity and honor. For himself,
he would not pronounce whether lmbecillty.
monomania, or any thing else had possession
of the gentleman from Massachusetts, but
he would say that he believed that this gen.
tleman was far less weak than wicked.
Mr.. Wise said, that SO far as he could, he
intended that this petition should be used as Il
test TO see how many friends of the Union
were on this floor. The question of its re-
ception should be directly voted upon, that
the country might see, who were the abet-
tiers of their country's destruction. After a
few more remarks, personal to Mr.. Adams,
MI. Wise said he would not conclude, and
let the House take what course they pleased
in this matter.
Mr.. Underwood next got the floor. but
Mr.. Adams rose to a point of order, which
the Chair required him 10 reduce to writing;
saving that he took that occasion TO an
nounce that such would be the future course
of the Chair with all points of order.
Mr.. Adams was glad to hear this; he had
once or twice commended for this; he then
sent his point of order in writing to the Ia
hIe. which was-that the House had no right
10 consider the resolution offered by the gen.
tIeman from Kentucky (Mr. Marshal0 mas
much as it charged him with a crime over
which the House had no Jurisdiction, and
which. if it were entertained by the House,
would deprive him Of his constitutional rights.
Mr.. Adams then called for the reading OF
that norton of the Constitution which de-
clares that every individual charged with
crime. shall have a speedy and impartial trial
=, iury Of his peers. The resolution OF
NJ N. was next read, and when finished
,bere. said Mr.. A. are the charges, suborna'
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