Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-07-26
Congressional y,nsr.


! Mr. Wise and MIR Adams had another PASSAGE NJ
each other last week, in which bile enough was ex.
pended to supply the confederscy a twelvemon,h.
MIR Wise commenced il Thursday. in Committee Of
the Whole, by charging that the existing dispropor
ton in Naval commissions had its origin from Mr.
Adlms-when President-and he minated that MI
Adams had given Virginia more than her share TO
obtain her vote.
| Friday, afer the bill was taken out OF Commit.
tee, Mr. Adams rose TO reply, and was proceeding,
when he was called to order by SIR Wise, on the
ground that speech mad. in Committee could not
be answered in the House. He had no objection,
he said, to Mr. AS proceeding, if ne were permit
led to reply.
MIR ADAMS said, tha, if j, were no, in order to
reply to the gentleman's speech msde in COMMITTEE
u was admissible for him TO put contingent
TO suppose that certain charges had been made, and
az he did not wish TO attack eny body in return hs
might suppose they came from any whers-from the
\ regions beow-and that some DEMON Of IIeH had
made the attack upen him. lie was willing TO nut
! /, on that ground. Laughter and cries Of ooh !
oh!'l And he would now say, that II it was a de-
/ mon from He'll that had made such a charge against
I him, he should be willing 10 meet him, fac, To face,
and let him have his say, ay, TO the end of time "
| he chose 10 speak so long, fer rs what he sa!d
had personal reference 10 himself.
Mr. Adams continued, through his hour, to an.
swer the arguments OF this imaginary being whom
he h,d raised from the regions below. lie denied
all the allegation; made 10y tina, being ard lfrmed
that the inequality existed before he came into the
presidential chair. In this connexion, he made the
following statement respecting the line Of conia &c,
he pursued, when President, in regard TO appoint
ments:
But the House had hsen told, by the same au-
thofity already referred to that II there was any
Partially manifested in naval appointments to VIZ.
, gln1 ard Maryland, or the District OF Coumbi,
TOR Mr. a. had not pointed his remarks II Vegin.
il alone, but had included Maryind and the ~ s.
iricf,) that he WIS the author Oft And vast dea
. Of cloquonce had been expended by the sime per
son'gc, who looked into his own heart and findinl
nothing there bu, tho ioulest corruption, imputed
the same 10 Other people, and attributed the fer
encc In the number of appointment between these
q States and Massachusetts, to low, mean, AMI ne
son1l motives in Mr. a. II was said that while n.
was at the head Of aifairs, bu, nine npp1in,menu
had been made OF pcfsOrs from Massachusetts
81 whflc one hundOd and eleven had been made from
4 Virgiuii, Maryland and the District OF Columbi,
Now, supposng this to be true, (which he sLou',
Prove was n1t,l and that II had happened by BIZ
o. agency, there were surely two ways of sccouut
" ing for r. The first was such rs would natural,
occur 70 base hearts and low mirds, AMI il had nc
cord " been imputed 10 abolition, and 10 er on
% oil ambit on on his para ambition 10 get IN
: vote of the State Of virginia and Of the people n
! Virginia. To he sure the gentleman had adm tie,
4 that p ably there might be s're gefe os o. IN
j. heitt NJ u man who was willing 10 i1vor gr a
. and glorious State, Which had been during th
r whole Revolution the leading State IN tn Uoinr
d and w's nov equal to any in oil respects but nun
bers, md 70 refusal 70 give officers anJ appoint
8 merts 10 those Who wfre naturally dear 70 him. o.
D tho people of his own Siste.
b III should not have cKpsc'el impu,anons Of tn
- Character from that quauer but they had beef
Q made. Now Nf a desired 10 state that with th
Z appointment Of mdshipmen he had had nothing q
do, and with the appointment NJ officers gsnertl
he had had nothing 10 DO. II had been objected O.,
him by his friends that he carried thot thing too or
= and no doubt he might have done better for hinsc
e had he shown less reserve On that subject but h
d could sly with perfect tru,h that, during tho fou
" years he had been in Office there was not MAJ
II connected with the Governmsn, who had not NOR
" friends Of his own appointed than he had. III
y could not, upon bis honor, NJ this moment rscoe,
70 ono miIshipman that he proposed during the teri
Is n his public service 1s President Of the Untc
.s Sn'e'; though il was possible there might has
10 been one or two. The practice in those days W.
that, IN reference TO the appointment Of mdshipmo
"A and cadets IN the academy ~ Wts. Point, the D.
b. padmcnts Of The Navy and Of War we're tho so
m dispensers Of ail such iavof.. list was kept
,t an applications with the recommendations accom-
10 panying them, and there they sometimes rested f.
IA months md years: a0d when new appointment
IA were TO be made the list was consulted, and
those presenting sufi cient testimonials such M hn
m longest been on hc, were generally preferred; d.
e rsgard being he'd 90 preserve some just prOporio
b. as TO tho State whence the app iciuon came. n
a. dis rccOlect two three applications Of his r.
the appointment of cadets 10 West Point; bat !
10 had found himself mueh in the situation in who
n Louis XIV. wss said 20 have been place T. "a ma
, FAR more powerful than mr A. had ever been
I than my n our Presidents us'd to be)-who wi
a, forced to ask appointment he desired f,r friet
o NJ favor from The hioa'ef Of Wnr, ond then n
m not slways get ~ A laugh That had be,
Sif AS case, The Secrelary VI War tod him IN