Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-01-04
Thursday, Dec. 80, lo4l.
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uca.ioa from me Department oil STATE, III answer 10
resolution OF the 9Th INST. asking al any proposition
had been made 10 or received from The British Govern
mcnt since the 4ih of March, lciO IN relation TO mu
ual right Of search, stating that no proposition hat
been made by either Government since that day.
! Mr. ALLEN presented the following resolutions
which, his notlon were read and lad upon the Ia
! ble
Ecsolrtd, by the General assembly Of The State Q
| Ohio. That our Senators III Congress be instructed
and our Representatives. requested, 10 their exer
SONS 10 have the law passed, at as early day as pos
sibe, apporti"ning lie representation IN Congress
anon" the several States.
Resoired That the Governor be requested 10 forward
copy Of the foregoing resolution 10 each Of our Sena
| tors and Representatives. in Congress.
RUFUS +. SPALDING,
Speaker OF the House Of Representatives.
JAS. j. FERAN,
Speaker OF the Senate.
| December 2lst, ISL
Mr. ALLEN said: 1t is with great pleasure that pre-
sent this resolution and speak, as we'll on behalf OF
my honorable colleague my own, when say, thai
we shall promptly obey the instruction II contains a
vet there has been select committee appointed III
this body charged with the subject Of appoionment
should therefore have moved al this time for such
committee and the reference OF the resolution 10 IL Dut
upon consultation with several Senators, more exferi-
enced than myself, learn that It has been the practice
of The Senate, delay action the subject OF the mp
nortonnent until the House Of Representatives had act
upon 1.-THE subject having reference exclusively 10
the composition Of that body may remark trust, SIR,
without lpopre,y that The House have appointed Sc
ect committee, and already charged It with t.s SUBJECT
will add that The committee has, as am informed ex-
delay Of It's action, by inaccuracies IN the
nrned cens,l, laid before IL and which required cor
roctiou When il shall have before 1t ali the materials,
The committee will doubtless conSummate the business
with all practicable despatch. ms Is paFtieuifiy de-
sirahle las took occasion 10 say some days ago. 10
many Of the S;aes and To none more than to ONO
Her legislature commences liz session on the same
day with Congress. The sessions usually continue, !
believe between eighty and hundred days II, mere
fore the apporionmen shall be long delayed, an extra
Of the legislature with all its expenses, VIII
10 Inevitable The distric,mg ii the Sire mast be
naGe during The coming year, and that heare October
as in that month The Congressional election IS held
These are considerations which cannot hope, be ad-
dressed without effect to Congress.
The resolution was laid upon the table
Mr. LINN presented the preamble and resolutions oil
the LEGISLATURE of Missouri lustructing .r Senators TO
oppose any law for the repeal Of the naturalization laws,
and to resist all means designed 10 delay or DIM
Guilty in the attainment OF naturalization
communication presented IRON BLAIR " isiveS
in relation to printing the Sixth Census the copy oil
which had been demanded.
The Senate proceeded 10 the unfinished business Of
Yesterday being the motion Of MIR. TAlLMADGE TO re-
Ter the plan of Fiscal Agent to seicc: committee Oh
nine, 10 be appointed b. the Chair, when
Mr. MANGUM Of North Carolina, WAC had obtain
ed the floor Yesterday rose aud addressed the Senate
IN an unusually animated speech IN opposition TO The
project Of Tie Secretary Of the Treasury Tor an Exche
quer Board. The Reporter regrets, however, that, ow
inr to the frequent falling of the speaker voice. much
that he said was lost at the distant seat from which his
speech was heard and reported.
/ Mr. NJ. commenced with Il promise, very frequently
made in Congress, to occupy but shor time IN The re-
marks he had To offer IL not his design TO 20 into
ANYTHING like regular dissection or severe analysis OF
The tremendous prOiet submitted III the Secretary re-
port, vet inasnuch as very strenuous efforts were
making pre-occupy the public mind ~ lis iavor, Ar
VI did desire 10 express his views OF the scheme: III
presenting which he desired il 10 be clearly understood
that he smoke for no interest," clique, party either II
the Senate or out Of il the opinions ae should ex
press were his own. lie had not only ASHAMED iron
all consultation or comparison Of views upon the sub
iect bat had resisted such consultation when pro
posed 10 him; because, looking ut all the past, nc
vas disposed 10 ''!et cones b. hy cones and
regarding the actual state Of the country and The
amount Of the public distress, he was prepared TO meet
gentlemen WHO should propose any feasible measure o
ITS relief in a broad and catholic spirit. On all this
subject Of banking he held, probably, some peculiar
opinions he did not set much value pPon them nor
did he deem them Of any great Consequence to others
but suc! as they were they his There WAS one
reflection which could not hut have occurred TO every
mind They had here presented tc them paper
marked by consun,iiate ability, end drawn up W.T.!
great labor, the production, Il was SAID OF gigan
TIC intellect or others had expressed themselves oil
the first mind tlIS republic, ana gentlemen vi
sides of the House had wed with each other IN bestow
I ing upon il their highest enlosi gums.
4 lminatGrp however, AZ e II criticism, he was
compelled tu d,.irr III h,S judgment on the logical quail
ties Of tins productions well from the asin,r aud nge
NOUS Senator (Alr linchanan) from Pcnnsylvania, as
from the able and learned Senator from South Carolina
(Nlr Calhoun, than whom in tins country wa'
better fitted Judge the coscness Of any specimen
Of logic submitted 10 hun. IT was very markate INA
the report passed over aud seemed studonsy TO avoid
those points Of argument connected with The genera
subject on which The abcs minds had for years don,
battle and in the deductions ch did make, SO la
from cyhlbng the force ana cearncss OF logca head
IL presented most obvious defects logic, tic con
illusions drawn from premises laid down beng neon
seculivc, abrupt, and instance especially, mon
strous. There fact, IN reference 10 the paI
suggested IN tins document, which must have strnct
all no witnessed The proceedings of that body Here
was project, the production oil mighty intellect on
of the first minds Of the age-a mind familiar Tor t"eh
" years with The public affairs, Of this country ah'
closely Identified with great and glorious, ana Vic!'
rous political partyand yet, wonderful 10 tell, WIZ
all this acknowledged ability all this experience an'
knowledge Of public Affairs aud all tins careini era
boration Of a great and allmporant snhJec', wheh u"
result of lis abors presented to the Senate not
man had been found who would rise III ms pace a,'
say, al will take it." project was thrown OUT ''e"
ed by enough of intellectual power TO force Amos. anS
principle upon the assent Of other minds ana ye' e'e
was not found among all the members VI 'r'' oos
no, not poor as TO do reverence anu WY
The case was plain. II was an attempt 10 "he mug
essentially ncompatitle-to drink at once, ui'a W y.
same Gun from the mouth and from the sources oil INT
Nile. And here he must be suffered 10 say, that tn
course Of the honorable Senator, and Of Those wn
4 were on this occasion associated WIN mus hioi.u"
chershinn as they did, the most exalted respect Tor t
sonrce from whence tins document came, was such a
entitled them to the respect Of every candid and up
r;rbt man They stood maniuily by Their principle
~ ,bov mood or bad and too honest aud too "a
~ 10 step into the deadla which had been arlully
preparrd 10 catch them.
To the honorable Senator from New York (Nlr. Tall
madne) he would say that, although he wiling Il
do any thing which could consistently BE- done, 10 re
lcvc the dslreses of the country, and were prepare
10 receive and consider whatever that Senator and hi
committee might propose as substitute for tins scheme
yc, he greatly feared that their efforts 10 prepare suc
a measure would be wholly unavanr: he feared so
How did il happen that nobody could be found TO com
into this new PROJECT Was ii not, obviously, becaus
f old principles had been abandoned: Whatever mo
,ivcs might have led 10 the presentation OF such