The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-02-10
nae QUESTION sErrLED.

session of Congress fer establishing uni
/ form system Of Bankruptcy, which passed
/ the House of Representatives some DAYS
ago, was yesterday REJECTED in the SEN
ate. Tie bankrupt Lar stands, there
fore, the Lor Of the Land.
/ This decision is in accordance with our
expectation, announced to our readers
some DAYS ago. and the majority OF one
vote, BY which the law has been saved
from repeal, small as it is, IS still more
! favorable vote than we calculated upon, We
having supposed that the vote upon il
would have been tie, as would have been
the case had every Member of the Senate
Z been in bis place and voted upon the bill.
A lie vote would, however, have rejected
the bill as completely as a majority Of one
or Of twenty votes.
We congratulate the friends Of the
Bankrupt Law that the firmness of the SEN
ate has saved the measure from a prema-
ture grave, and that an opportunity is az
iorded Of testing its merit by lis conse-
quenccs.
More than twenty years ago, VIC be-
came converts to the eXpcdieney Of carry
ing into efec, the provision Of the Consti-
tuition for the establishment Of a Bankrupt
Law, under the influence Of the eloquence
and force of argument of Il distinguished
man Judge HorRINs, then a Member OF
Congress,) who, we most sincerely lament,
has not lived to witness the successful
termination to his labors in behalf of the
measure. TO this dictate Of our Judgment
has been added, upon the proposition to
repeal the act, feeling of deep sympathy
with those whose hopes had been excited
by its passage; the only feeding We have
ever had on the matter.
But neither our sympathy nor our fee
ling is enlisted in favor Of the defects in
The law. We trust that no time viii be
lost in reporting, considering, and passing
a bill to supply whatever is defective, and
remedy whatever is wrong, in the act
The friends Of the law will, we trust, aid
its opponents in making every amendment
to it which can tend TO make il more Just,
equitable, and equal in its operation. If
such amendments are required, indeed, it
( is more incumbent, now, upon the friends
/ than upon the adyersaries of the law to
propose and support them.-N. Int 25ta.
AYEs-FOR REPEAL
Messrs Allen, Archer, BayGrd, Benton, Bach
anan, Calhoun, Fulton, Graham King, Linn,
( NcRoberis Morehead, Pierce, Prentiss. Rivcs
Sewer Smith Of Con, Sturgeon, Tappan, Mood
bury, Wright and Young-22
NAYS-AGAINST REPEAL.
Messrs. Barrow, Bates, Derrien, Choate, Clay,
CLAYTON, Evans, Henderson, Huntington, Kerr,
Mangum, Morrick, Miller, Phelps, Porter, Sim.
mons, Smith of Ind, Southard, Tallmadgo. Walk.
or, White, Williams and Woodbridge-23.
Absent. Messrs Bagby, Cuthbe,t Dixon, Mon.
ton and Prestoa--2 for and against the repeal.
" Going it Strong. In an Official &C
count of the proceedings of the Locotoco
meeting in this town on the night of Sat
urday the | 9Th inst. we find the following
paragraph -
at being announced that The nominee Of the
Convention was present, upon call from the
Chair, Mr.. He.ry rose and addressed the meet
inr. Ailer abiding to his nomination, and ex-
pressing his qualification at the spontaneous call
Of the peoplc-rnade a brief statement of the f.
nanccs of the Government, and showed from
public documents that the Wing party have
brought upon the country an actual and Propos.
cd debt of S9l 100000; which they have done
in the short space Of ten months"
1t might not perhaps be right to charge
"the nominee Of the Convention " with ut
tering the bad grammar of the above rara-
graph but he is doubtless responsible for
that mons,rous SANDER upon the Wing par
~, of having brought upon the country
any sort Of debt, either actuul or pro-
posed" to such an amount as sol 10000
In the first place, it is monstrous hum.
bug to say that the Wing party has "pro-
posed any such debt; and in the next,
il is a still greater humbug and absurdlty
to speak of proposed debt " as debt
brought upon the ecdntry. We suppose
I it is upon some such principle that " the
nominee OF The Convention expects to be
brought upon the country" as Governor.
He may ret an ''actual vote Of ten thous-
and, and he proposes to himself TO get
further vote Of forty thousand. Gov.
Morchead will doubtless give him some
useful lessons on these matters in the
course of the Summers drilling.-Fay.
Observer.
We are glad to learn that news has been
received in Kentucky by Gen. Combs,
from the United States Consul at Chihua-
ha, that he had On interview with his son
"a prisoner with 90 others at that place,
(siy hundred miles on their march from
Santa Fc towards Mexico,) and that he
was in good health; and that letter has
been received by Gen. Combs from the
Minister of die United States at Mexico,
informing Gen. Combs that assurances had
been given by the Mexican Secretary OF
War IGen. TorneD to Mr.. Mayor, the
United States Secretary Of Legation, that,
as far as was in his power, every lndul-
ecnce should be extended to his son.-
Net. Int. FEB. l.
Spurious BiRs.-We have been shown