Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-02-14

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Mr.. Adams proceeded to reply to Mr. Gilmer,
md referred TO his former declaration that he
would stop Mr. A's music, saying that he had
auxliares in this design. lie then read to the
House nm anonymous letter he had received, da-
| ted Jackson, N. e. Jan. 20, lS42, and posmarked
Norfolk, Va informing him that his course was
watched in Congress by tho whole South, and
unless he chnnged his course he would be unex-
pectedly launched into eternity. He also exhib.
| tied picturesque representation OF himself which
! he had received, the origin of which he said was
! known to members of the House, in which was
the mark of n rifle ball on his head the word
! abolition" written over on the sides, the words
! "Mene, teke, upharsn !" and underneath the
words, "ro stop the music of John @. Adams, the
9th President of the U. States, who
an one revolving moon
Is statesman, babble and bufioon."
This as well as the reading Of the letter caused
| considerable laughter. He then expressed his
surprise that proposition to censure him had
come from Virginia, to which State more than
any other except his own native State, he was ut
tached, as from that he had been introduced into
public life, by Washington, whose confidence,
friendship and patronage, rs well as Of Madison,
Jefferson aud Monroe, he had enjoyed. In con-
nection with the history of his diplomatic mis-
sIons, aud public services under these Presidents,
he incidentally alluded to various facts of history
which occurred at this time, particularly to his
services when Minister to Russia, tie enormous
influence Of Napoleon nj tina, Court, &c. &c. He
could never eXtInguish his gratitude to those sons
of Virginia and TO that State, and he wns surprised
now to receive this treatment from her Repre-
senlatives. He declared nc would have preferred
to have been stabbed to the heurt ut his desk than
that those propositions should have been brought
forward, to destroy his character and good name.
! Without his concluding, the House adjourned
Correspondence efhc Alias.
Friday, Feb. 4.
Mr.. Adams still continues the great point of at.
| traction here, and still goes with his defence.
He has been engaged today, chiefly with an at
tempt TO prove n combination on The part OF the
! President the members FROM Accomnc and Abe
marie, and the Southern party generally, to eject
! him from the chair OF The committee on Foreign
Relations, for the purpose OF procuring an
1 rangement with Great Britain, by which the South
should he secured in the perfect enjoyment Of the
slave trade and Of their peculiar institutions. Aud
! he charged this alleged cabal with design 10 sac
rfce the territory OF Maine, as guild pro quo 10
Great Britain for her compliance with their de-
signs. He commenced his speech by repeating
the accusation which he brought against Mr.. Gil
mer yesterday, of having tempered with his col
league, Mr. Gushing, 10 procure his MD in an en-
deavor TO supplant him, (Mr. A.. and put his COL
| league in the chair Of the committee.
Mr.. Gilmer denied having had any direct or
indirect communication with MIR. Gushing to that
effect-and called upon Mr., c. to coroborate his
assertion
Mr. Gushing said his colleague was wholly
wrong and unjust in his suspicious. He had not
been the subject of any improper proposal what
| ever-as he had before stated, and he did not
choose to give evidence Of private conversations
at any time--nor would he allow himself to be
called as witness for such purpose.
Mr.. Adams then called upon those who tam
pered with his colleague to come forward and de-
clare themselves
Mr. Rhetl then rose and said that on the oeca.
sion udverted to by the gentleman from Massa-
chuselts, (hlr Cushing) he had spoken to that
| gentleman in the hearing of another member,
who happened to be near, and said-"We Mr.
| Cnshing-l suppose we shall have TO choose you
chairman of the committee"
Mr.. Gushing had then repeatedly said, he nei-
Their could nor would accept The Office and if
! las was nmated by himself, Mr. R.l the commit.
tee insisted upon electng him, he should ask the
| House to excuse him from serving Mt all upon the
committee. Mr.. X. concluded, by saying that he
! decidedly preferred the former chairman, to the
| gentleman who had succeeded him.
| MIR. Profit .hen said that on the same morning.
| The gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr. C.) had
spoken to him, he holding the balance of power
Oh the Committee, which was composed of four
members from the North, and four from the
South, besides himself; and he had impored him
with more feeling than he had ever before known
him 10 express, TO prevent the election Of MIR. Adj
! ams-and had at the same time declared that no
thing would induce him to take the chair of the
committee, if his colleague were removed
Mr.. Adams said he was very much obliged to
his colleague for the friendly part he had taken in
his behalf. He exhonorated the gentleman from
| Albemare, from the charge of tanperng with
his colleauge-it appeared that the gentleman
from South Carolina had been the tamperer. He
| then went on with his Speech and said that il it
was true that he had expressed himself with too
| great acrimony, under the excitement occasioned
by the constant hostility which had been mani
tested towards him, he asked The indulgence Of
the House for having been found subject TO hui
man irallty.
He asked pardon, also Of portion OF the Ken
lucky delegation, and of some of the Southern
Wings, for the too sweeping denunciatiOns which
! he had uitered-and expressed his gratitude to a
| few Of The democracy" of the North, and par
! ticulnrly to his colleague, MIR. Parmcnter) for
the manner in which they had stepped forward to
vote for his defence, in spite of their allegiance to
| their party.
He referred triumphantly, to the manner in
which he had been sustained by the leading jour
nails Of the North mentioned in this connection,
the Courier mud Atlas of Boslon-and said the
conspirators would find very few marks of sub
missive spirit in those quarters. There was III
J deed one leading Journal at the North, which had
| in,imated the opinion that he was in part respon
sibe for this agitation. The editor of This lourn.
al was q relative TO the Minister to England, who
had squeezed in, in spite o, The unholy conbna-
ton Of the Shareholders and perhaps the success
oil ms relative might have Inclined the editor IN
| question towards the conspirators. He said the
press in this city, and at the South, had been bri
bed 10 repress his speeches, to misrepresent
| them.
When he again referred 10 the resolutions of
fered by MIR. Marshall as having been the ruit
of a convention oil slaveholde,s-
Mr.. Tripleu, of kentucky, rose and said that he
had originally invited the caucus in question: for
the mere purpose of consultation in regard 10 the
best means OF securing the peculiar institutions of
! the South from interterence-and not with any
view TO censuring the gentleman from Massachu
setls After the caucus had assembled, his col
league from Kentucky had submitted the resolu-
tons, which he had previously prepared but
they had not been agreed to-
Mr.. Marshall said he had written tho resolutions
nj his own desk, without having previously con-
suited any one. He had communicated them 10