The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-01-27


row Even in such his conduct had shown no
Of personality unkindness and in the motion
which was nadeto give him opportunity Of inong
himself against the charges contained IN the p.uiion
which he himself presented he the mover courtesy
towards that gentle man, courtesy and Kindness
had distinguished him from the commencement Of Ms
ton SO monstrous as this was made-a proposition, and
thst too like this in the midst OF the cuues emosr
rassmens and confusion in which our public On AIRS
were involvea-amidst all the sources OF IuDc dicon
tent they around them, there were singers enough
70 oe ound to stir up the embers oil d,cora, anu men,
bers to beray the trusts solemnly conhded 20 tnsm y
the people, violate their oaths, and destroy
which they are bound by every consideration y, aono
and Of conscience support and defend And tnat was
not allit was coupled with motion 10 REFER PIopo
ton Of this kind to committee OF that House to take
II into serious consideration and to report upon H.
struck him with horror-it supplied him. ne nsa n1'
believed it possible that there could be men WHO enough
in the CONVERSATIONAL Il result had proved o.ner
wise-men wild enough. and mad enough, to make
proposition that the Government Of the United ots.e.
the members of that House, inviting them to commit
perjury and moral treason There might have oeen
wild enough and mad enough 10 do TINS cSt .. ths
House, but that there was member on tnai moor .nd
could be willing to assume the responsibility, through
all coming time, Of presenting such Proposuon 70 .na
House, he had not believed He had heard whispers,
true that such petition would be but he
had rejected the idea with utter increduty and scorn
Nov might be said and perhaps had seen saa thi ina.
thing ever aud take notice Of it, but to this he could
not give his assent Holding this Union he did to be
the liberties Of the bodybuilding the Union he did
the only means under high heaven, by which that
PRESENTED. could be ed in safety and independ
there was in his Judgment sacrilege in approach
ing in this manner. Coming from any quarter It was
sacrilege-coming from the quarter that i did, It as
sumed political importance that 1t would not other
wise possess He by whom the proposition was made, to
pull down the temple of liberty its high priest
and minstered at its altar 1t was Obscure hand, and
no obscure name that connected with this proce
dure. That name had gone abroad, connected with all
ne ahr,vk ~la trUsa
The enemies Of freedom who had so fondly predicted
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of this confederacy, had now their
eyes turned to the of that hail. and to the
movements of that gentleman in relation to question
which, Of all others presented the greatest danger to
our institutions and which he would here say did not in
the slightest degree, enter into the paper which ne
offered. 1t that question, which that gentleman
had beea fosder Of stirring than any other that had
been looked at by our enemies abroad as the means
by which their desres might be Plished. 1t was
SUBJECT he repeated that he had locked at and
never would God forbid that he should draw line and
array the ,uthern side and the northern man
the Others but the proposition which had been presented
by the gentleman from to that House, the
Northern were bound by love of country to oppose
strenuously the Of the South Were Northern
men prepared to say that under any law right petit
tons Of this sorhs be laid before the Congress Of the
United States without rebuke that member
shall be allowed to present question here and start
az subject of Legislative consideration in that House,
which looks to the dissolution of this Unon1 But he
might be told that at the time this proposition pre-
seneu, there connected with il another-that the
committee to which it proposed refer it, should
report against it, but in his humble Judgment that did
not affect the question. If any thing it made it
H. under some fancied right Of petition to which much
importance seemed to be attached in portion Of the
UnioR the gentleman had BARELY presented the petition
in llment Of what he believed to be solemn duty
be- The subject Of and that re-
port should be prepared and to the House in
cordance with the views oft the mover was to become
as far as went amounting to thistha the
dissolution of the Union fair subject Of Legislative
and could be brought up that House for
discussion Ii was to be debatable question: il was to
OlSedu nv off
Of Legislative functions and this position he should
meet the threshold with the sternest possible rsbuke
Mad such proposition been made by his father and
had he in addition the ties that bound to him son.
all the ties that bound him to the member from Massa
sued the course that he now did. He knew that
the action OF this House on this subject would 60
abroad to the nations of the world, and he
wished it to be shown that whatever of mischief,
and misery and confusion might upon in after
years. this time of the day. Congress Of the Uni
ted States would permit of members to be.
come the vehicle to bring before them proposition so
monstrous that it could not be acted without dis
honor to themselves and ruin to all who might af
ter them This much he had thought proper to say
presenting this resolution. II there wrong in il
LEI the responsibility rest where it properly belonged
That there could be mischief he did believe. He
would harbcr the dea the people Of the North
would countenance movement Of this kind. What,
Massachusetts I! of all the lands on which Heavens
bright beams its radiant smies-Massachusett to
come forward, and through a man bearing the name
which the gentleman did, proposition to dissolve
this Union If she had done this let the severest cen
Of that House fall the from whom the pro-
position came.
The SPEAKER said the member from Massac hu sets
would now be in order 10 address the House in his
defence or to move postponemen OF the consideration
u the subject.
Mr. ADAMS had very little to say now on this subject
The member from Kentucky mr. Marshall after great
variety of argument to prove that he had
snmny towards him and that on the contrary the mo-
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ulosn anu thd' IN using I'LL tne language Wnich the
fancy OF man OF ingenuity could invent1o represent
his conduct in the most odous light, he governed
~ NO other feeling than that of love for the ITnion
~. rsrtieman hs xnnnosed tbouoht he ,vas waL;n a
Ano ~ :, psei ~, sAs NC wss nIaNs
stest deai o W Ms preseh. movement ne
wished 10 wa until he saw wnstner thar House won Id
ADOPT resolution OF the kind before he called to
allew him the privilege of defending himself IL the
sentleman from Kentucky had been Surprised as he Of
SoteJ TO be at his hay brought that
ton he was not less surprised at the he had
vsed. and the charge he had brought against him Of
high treason What was high treason7 The con st;tus
ten of the United States defined VIII at high treason "
and il was not for that gentleman or his punv mind
rive another definition of it, The first volume of The
laws of the United States we aid show what II He
desired the Clerk to read the first of the De
clsrstlon of (elev atine his yocs The