Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-07-27

the time directly appealed to That Senator'S re
collection appeared to claim Tor hun the credit
having devised the great adjustment IN question:
The country had always looked 10 Mr. Gay a. ~
author; and he himself jealous al that gentleman
high and lust reputation and OF the honor which .
even reflected upon his State. could not consent e
have that leaf torn from history OF whiehH formed
one Of the most brilliant pages. The measure was
beyond doubt, his; and his should bc the credit o.
Iit.
MIR CALHOUN re-sta,ed the fact Of his in,efview
with Mr. CLAr, after his return from Philadelphia
and declared that his own suggestion 10 HIM then
was, that the question admitted no compromise
except that OF time. Seven yeas was the period
which he then mentioned a. that during which the
reduction of the dates might be extended. Nor
was the idea one In him; he had canvassed
II the year beior with = Congressionh friend. now
no longer in the public councils. But, indeed, he
h,d never proposed, he had never wished, TO over.
turn all manufacturing inieres, by any sudden
change. The large investments of property made
IN those shments, at the invitation of leg sla-
ton itself, claimed the national care, even IN
sures not adapted for their advantage. The Sena-
toe would perceive. then. that he and MIR Clay had
adopted. separately, the same idea ut the time
Me- CRtrrEspES mad spoken with no purpose OF
liking upon the Senator contradiction. He was on
y anxious not To suffer his distinguished prodeees-
sor TO bc deprived OF tne the most Justly won
and the most honorablo-ihat OF the Great Paeh-
Gator.
Mr. CALHOUN replied, with some warmth, that,
in doing tas he was willing to do) every justice to
the claims OF Mr. CLAr he would vindicatc equally
every thing that was due to himself and to the part
he had borne in the transactions in question. He
desired no credit borrowed taken from the repu-
touon of others. lie was averse TO all personal
warfare, and rarely gave any occasion for II.
MIR CRIrrEsDES remarked. that any thing which
he had said OF personal nature was involuntary.
IL was impossible TO conduct these discussions of
party politics-which certainly the Senator pro-
voked ottener than he dd-wthout referring to the
nd If H.. .-ks
them. The Senator had been for so long time
mixed with all the great public events of the coun~
try that they could not be canvassed without touch
ing him. His opposition TO the gentleman was 20
htcal only, and unmixed with the slightest feeling
Of personal III will.
The Senator had challenged him TO say when or
in what he had been known to change his pub.
lie opinions or conduct. This was inviting him To
very wide and long survey, for which he hardly felt
there would be time. He should have TO begin Ivy
going back about 20 years.
MIR CALHOUN intimated that il was not necossa
~ that the Senator should go back far unless he
chose.
MIR CRIrrEspEN. As TO what was so often
vhunied about and so rarely seen, an undertaking
consistency he cared little for IT, honored and sought
II little, knowing that it was not given to finite IN
tellgence- The only consistency that he ever at
tempted TO practise or exact was that of actirs,
apart from all temporary motives up to the sincere
convictions OF the actual moment.
As 10 going into the history OF the Senator's
opinions TO distance Of twelve, or fourteen, or
twenty years, las he seemed to expec,1 he had
never studied his life by epoehs and could no, pre-
tend 10 treat it in that way. He had made no
charge against the Senator Of voting for public ex-
travaglnce. But the Senator after opposing for
years, as extravaganza the party that lately went
out OF power, and denouncing them 9th violence
for every shape Of political enormity, joined them
while that exiravagance was al its height. THIS
was what he had TO say on the matter Of eKpsndi
lures.
Aef -
certainly at one time ia favor OF great system Of
internal improvement by the National Government
tic certainly proposed TO marry that system with
banking, by employing upon it the bonus taken
from the United States Bank. He certainly ndvo.
Gated NJ one time the principle OF raising up domes
tie manufactures by protecting them. He had Ger
tainly main agency in bringing about the charter
ING Of a National Bank. And he certainly changed
from the opposition to the support OF all the OF
an Administration which was, AZ the time abandon
ing no Old measure and adopting no new one eX-
cept the sub-Treasury
lie would recur 10 but one more fact The Sc.
major was bitterly opposed 10 the land distribution
ana IS bitterly IN favor oil the compromise nc, and
yet, as he knows, a like measure OF distribution
was passed contemporaneously with the compro
mise, and was in full view Of the parties TO that
arrangement so rs really to form part of the
me nsure Itself la short, the Senator, in his view
OF the saneiiiy OF that Adjustment admits or rejects
Just what conditions and whatever parts OF IL he
likes.
MIR CALHOUN denied that there wos any c,n-
neHion between these two acts. As toextr,v5sance
no admitted that Of the Van Buren, Administratio
while he was opposed to it. All Administrations
were nearly nike extravag'nt; and the party IN
power were stI more exuavaganI than the Van Blu.
rem Administration.
TITS would be but an Indifferent reason Tor hav-
ing loined an extravsgant Administration, bu, that
Mr. Z = prophetic powers enabled him 20 foresee
the future delinquencies Of Wing ascendancy, and
mat the Van Burenites would grow economcal-as
soon as they ceased 10 be in power.
The debate closed here, by a motion from Mr.
LINN TO proceed with the orders before the Sc
nate