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

ne could not get hts anpointment because there
were other applicants who had Older and better
claims bu, in one case he Was made harpy 10y
| being told that there was vacancy ard that HE
wishes could ce gtatifed. loud laughter Tn I
was tho extent OF his appointments in tho War and
in the Navy Departments. What might 10 the
order OF things now he did not know; but thet g
were certain indications that flvoritts did Obtain
preferences not usual IN these days.
| MIR "A. said, in conclusion, that he hoped he had
fully justified himself on q Q grounds he had before
assumed, and shown that tho charges against HIM
were wholly destitute oflourda'ior. lie hoped the
House would rot believe that abolition had any
thing to DO in the remarks he had made. lie must
say one word on that subject. II was subject
much more frequently brought mp ugeinst HIM IN
that House than by him; it never was willing
thing on his part Blu, 1t would 20 ont to Virginia
and the South, that because he had vndic,tsd his
State from false charge, he was actua,ed by views
to abolition. The effect OF such words on ensti-
tuency was well known. All he should say in &c.
gard to It was this, that IL was charge he tho
roughly despisei and false us the heart from
which q proceeded.
| Mr. WISE replied. Alter re-s,s,ins his charge.
that the inequality in the naval appointments was
owing to MIR Adams himself, he said:
To this the gentleman had responded in his usual
strain, and gentlemen had formed ring round him,
/ as they would about n bull dog, to hiss him on
urg ing him to that which themselves dare not do,
and melting him TO still greater bitterness against
one whom they dreaded much they hated
him.
IA voice. every modest, tha;"l
The gentleman had not been allowed Ivy the rules
OF order to aliudo TO Mr. w. as "ihe member from
Virginia." and he had therefore chosen to imagine
that the remarks IN committee had been made 10y
demon OF he'll. And this TO come from venerable
man, who ought TO have evneed some SET respect,
and whose age ought to have admonished hun TO
more decency Of language. A man with one foot in
the grave, and who could say how long the other
would lie kept out oiit by merciiul Providence
a man so soon TO appear before his Almighty Judge.
IL was not very surprising. however that his imag-
nations should be haunted by visions of demons from
the regions below, that he should fancy he area
dy heard their attacks ard accusations. Some gen
tlemen said that MIR w. ought not TO reply 10
an old man like him; but the House and the coun
try would bear him witness that that old man had
been long and often spared Ivy INN. He might re-
ply in the words Of greater th,n he. Here Mr.
w. quoted the well known reply of Pitt 10 reAec-
tions IN Parliament on his youth.
MIR w. siid he chose no, 10 advert to the subject
OF money-he knew not that that was one OF the
sentlcman'S vices: but It wonder that one so
wanting IN self respect, so full of malice, so bent
upon misehlet-should CINE the hall to be haunt
ed by demons. Already he nd foot deep in the
grave-he seemed fast approaching those confines
where demons were said to have their abode-and
II lac persevefed IN his present course without re
repentance and reformation, nothing could save him
but that the nature OF the ncarna,e devil would
make II not safe for hell 10 hold him. IRoars Of
laughter, and ces of "Oh-oh-thars into hun. ~
he rather imagined that the devil might protest A.
gainst the sentence OF the Almighty sending him
there, lest, rs there were probably many negroes
there, he might raise instruction among them.
tHere the merrmeni and confusion was great, and
the Chair called the House TO orderl
After eIpatia,ing ut some length, upon Massa
chuset.s versus Vrsinia-ihe House of Bran,re
rs the House Of Monteelo, and kindred topics, VIC
have he following concluding flourish:
MIR w. pronounced the denial Of the charge 4 5
false. Here MIR w. reiterated the charge of false
hood with added severiIy-(rcadin from written
paper)-but his utterance 80 rapid and impas-
stoned that the Reporter could not follow him. He
caught the words betrayed his isisnds-political
Fngan-never states adversary, but misstites
hlm-sport with mischief-malice, sc.
MIR w. he'd ono thing more 10 add. II the menl-
Der from Massachusetts, was not old man, and
one whom the respect due 10 old age protected, he
would not thus long have enjoyed the mercy OF
words only. While he one whom MIR W. had
endeavortd 10 venerats, he could tell that member
that lis opinions Of MIR w, even when comparing
him 10 4 demon, were no, half so bad rs hose Nj
| w. entertained Of him. He had long ceased 10 re-
spcct one who never respected himself; nor was il
any thing but justice that Mr. w. should ihus pub
| licly express this opinion. Gentlemen might draw
;heir chairs and gather into ring around him. and
might encourage IN IN his Kissing viperous alta ks
On one who never injured him; all MIR w. asked
was that but one Of them would undertake to en-
dorse what that member had said; or if they would
not co that ei them clear the ring aud let the sht
be fair one.