Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1842-02-22

pofill, they should 60 deliberately 10 work
and pot act with precipitancy, fle wohI
submit the motion that the substitute b
! printed, and its further consideration b,
postponed until Tuesday next.
Mr.. Wise. | want TO know what The
motion is. Is 1t to print only? Or, &c
print and postponed
Mr.. Everett. Its to. print'lhe resolu.
ton, and postpone the debate upon it til
Tuesday hext.
Mr.. Wise: Irisenot.to utter one word
upon the question. | would not raise nv
voice.in this Hall on question like this.
l,ask-and it is all / ask-that- voice
from the tomhs may heheard. | ask that
the Farewell Address of Washmgtoumay
be read here. Il have marked the passages
| wish the Clerk to read.
Here the book was sent 10 the Clerk 5
table, and various passages; relating TO The
necessity of resisting the FIRST attempt to-
Wards dissolRlpg the. Union, aud warning
his countrymen Of the danger of foreign
influence, were read.
Some of them, at Mr.. WIS desire, were
read twice.
At the close of one of them the voice Of
Mr.. ADAMS was heard, exclaiming, ''that
should have bsen thought of when the gag
was put on. " ;,
The clerk then read further extracts
pointed out by Mr.. Wise.
MIR. Wise then said he had had these
portions of.that venerable document read;
because its author, had he been present
here, and Witnessed the recent scenes in
! this Hall, could not have. pictured them
better from the life than he. had prophesed
them in this Address, He had marked
the. rise of the. spirit of division from its
very dawn, and,had pointed to its cause.ts
fearful cause, which'was the effect of for
gn-intluences That influence was. now
atwork upon this very question through
out tins ration. Some were moving in
the general. cause from religious feelings
Feelings of religious fanaticsm-un-
conscious, bindiY unconcious, Of the Goa
sequences--ihe. dreadful, the inevitable
eonsequences of the course they were pur.
suing,
Mr.. Everett called Mr.. WISE to or
der.on the ground Of .itrelevancy: the
question was on postponement and
printing.
The reply of, the Chair could n at
be heard.
Mr. Wise. resumed, and said he
would not'print on this subject. 20, he
would not print, and for the reasons. be
was stating when interrupted; because
persons were operated on in their adj
herence to the abolition cause by va
rlous motives: some were honest in
their zeal. nay, even religious, fapati=
cally religious. religiously sincere; but
besides these. there were political par
tisans, members of. a.party which had.
its root at the very. foundation. oCttis.
Government, ...and. which had existed
from that day to this very hour. These
men, as he believed, did deliberately
design to produce that-efect towards
which their course evidently tended
From the earliest date of this Repub-
lie, there he'd existed two great peliti-
cal parties in the country: they had
been distinguished as an English party
and a French party;a Jacobin party
and a'Tory party. And we had seen
some, from family prejudices and he
reditary hatred, taking sides not mere
fy with one of these parties against the
other, but even against their own coun-
try and Government. No man knew
better than the gentleman from Mas
sachusets the whole of this polit-
ical party history--none had "a
greater right to understand il.
He went on to-say that The nation
had evidence of the hatred of this En-
glish party to Mr.. Jefferson, and its
antipathy to shareholders. in doggerel
rhymes aimed at his domestic relations.
No one better knew TO what poetry be
allnded.tran the gentleman from Mas
sachusetts; that gentleman well knew
who it was that wrote those scandalous
lines on the domestic life of one Of the
purest patriots Of the Revolution. He
could tell who it was that could turn and
forsake the friends of his father, and,
in the fury Of his aposlate,zeaI could
prey upon the dead like the vampire.
Here Mr.. Everett again interposed'
and called Nj. Wise to order for ir-
revelancy. The question was on ,prin-
ting and postponement.
The. Chairs. reply was in agreat
measure lost 10 the Reporter, but he
was understood to decide that, though
this latitude Of remark wosld not be
in order on a motion to print. it was
less out oforder on motion TO post
pone.
Mr.. Adams. hope he will be
permitted to go on.
Mr.. Wise resumed, amid great con-
fusion IN. the Hall, which, indeed con;
tinued in a greater or less degree dll
the adjournment, and which often rem
dered it quite impossible for the Re-
porter TO hear word of what Mr.. W.
said. He spokewith great VehemeGce
but with voice so.ftful and unsteady
that the closing part. of many of his
sentences was inaudabfe beyond a .briei
.snace around his seat.