The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-02-08
Correspondence of the N. Y. American.
Washington city, Tuesday, Jan 2oln-

WASHINGTON CITY. Tuesday, Jan Goth
Mark the day with red letter In youa 90
md trnst the beginning of a new era
IS ,r,o unlimited republicanism-of uni
VI Ehsrtv and of free discussion.
Tbe Southerners' caucus resulted in de-
.o,n,;Tat;on to expel John Quincy Adams, II
unss;hIe- But, as the Constitution requires
two thirds to affect this, land fortunately
Southern sIavers and Northern slarerS do not
onite constitute two thirds of the Representa-
tives of the nation.) they resolved tojeet OF
tbe House first by resolution, inflicting all
the indgnity of an Expulsion, by declaring
him deserving of it, and then, it the signs ia
vored, to amend it into an actual expulsion.
In selecting their agent for this shameless
purpose, they manifested some Judgement
Thomas F. Marshall, who, in some of his wild
flights, had attracted much attention by his,
high and truthful compliments to Mr. Adams
and to New England, was taken up by them
and flattered till his judgment gave way un-
| der the delicious intoxication, and he consent
| ed to be their tool.
| The Southerners came into the House this
morning with looks and movements which, to
The commonest eyes, betrayed their conscious
ness of some awful and terrible movement or
their part, which, in their fancies, was 10 over.
whelm ard crush Mr.. Adams and his cause
forever. They looked dark enough-somt
pale brown, some yellow, some blue, and some
black-with lips compressed and breath drawn
hard. They gathered into groups by them
selves, and conyersed in deep whispers; anc
the whole aspect of the scene, at twelve O'Clock
was that of conspiracy just about to burst into
a revolution. They waited impatienlly for the
reading The journal. to open their battery
but Mr.. Fillmore secured the floor, and asked
leave to make some important reports from thu
Committee on Ways and Means, with view
to have the bills printed and referred TO th'
Committee of the Whole for future action.
Mr.. Marshall then rose before a crowded
House and galleries.
Then got up Mister Henry A. Wise, and il
his own peculiar, inimitably ridiculous style o
solemn, empty headed pomposty, set himsel
10 do away the evident effect of MT. Adam
procedure, by calling upon the House TO ''lister
TO voice from the TOMB ~ He called fol-
the reading of the Farewell Address Of Wash
ington. When the Clerk read the famous pas
sage-"Frown indignity," &c, Mr. WIS.,
screamed out in the style of tragedy hero
Read that again." The feeble imitation wa
too palpably ridiculous. II was almost killing
The whole audience burst into merciless laugh
Ter at this realization ofthe frog and the OK
And the poor frog seemed for the moment tt
have actually exploded with the shock. HI
sat with such face as did not suppose any
man was capable of putting on and, to punisi
the House, he made the poor Clerk read doz
en- tedious passages of the Address, in spite o
remonsirances that all we're perfectly familiar
with the admirable document in question. /
put me in mind of "Hark from the tombs dole
full sound" Mr.. Adams increased the roar o
laughter by calling on the Clerk 10 read the re
peatcd clause again and he pointed out it
proper application, by saying-"That shoul
have been thought of when the gag-lav wa
passed."
Wise then went on with redoubled bitterness
and for two hours lavished every species of ma
lignant impeT;iuence upon Mr.. Adams. Fl
called him vampire, an abuser OF his father
DC. In his incoherent rawlings he talked o
40 English party,a French Jacobin party, witt
one or both of which he identified the moder
Aboiiitonists, and so on, reading column afte
column from the Emancipator and other Abo
lition papers, till his friends moved and carrie,
an adjournment, 10 enable him TO continue to
morrow.