New-York daily tribune., 1843-02-25
THE Great Position.

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The following account OF the attempt BY Mr.
ADAMS to present the great Massachusetts Petition
in the House of Representatives is from the Wash
ington correspondence Of the American. What
citizen of New York s not proud of the prompt
interference of Representative to prevent the
innocent request of $4,000 freemen from being
heard
WAsHlEcToS, Monday, Feb. 90 lsl3.
On the meeting of the House this morning, all
ewes we're at once attracted towards the desk of
ohm Quincy Adams, upon which stood ponder
GUS wooden wheel or roller, supported on CUB
ssantial frame work-having very much the ap-
pearance of reduced specimen OF " fsherman's
reel" such as we often see along our sea shores,
used for winding up and drying large fshng-nets
os seines. The whole hight of the frame and
roller with its burden, nearly three teet-
Upon it was wound an immense roll of paper,
about two feet broad and nearly two feet in diam
eter as viewed at the end This curious object ia
q petition from massachusetts, signed by 81 1863
otizcns Of that State, praying Congress TO pass
such acts, and propose such amendments TO the
Constitution as will separate the petitioners from
all connection with the institution of domestic sla
Teryt' The names OF these Etty-one thousand
eight Aundred and sirty-three signers, written in
the ordinary form and size, occupied the whole
extent Of this immense roll, which is HALF a MILE
LONG.
Mr.. Adams took the earliest moment when he
could get the floor, to esr this petition, this being
the regular day for the presentation of petitions un
der the rules of the House. But 1t so happened
shat there then pending motion TO go into
Committee of the Whole, which is done by sus
pension Of the rules, and Mr.. Adams was there
fore precluded from any action uatl the vote was
decided. The House carried that motion in the
affirmative; but before the Speaker left the Chair
90 the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole,
Mr. Adams rose again. and asked leave to present
the Great Petition. As he stood beside 1t with
bis hand on the axle OF the reller, it overshadowed
him completely, rising nearly foot higher than
his head The Speaker decided that as one sus-
pension of the rules had &st been ordered, another
motion 20 suspend could not now be entertained,
and that the petition could now be received only
by unanimous consent. MIR. Adams then asked
she unanimous consent Of the House, tor that Pur-
pose.
Before any STAKEHOLDER or Southerner could
draw his breath to utter his objections, two base
Northern Loco-Foc shouted, Il oEjEcT, and
ehas shu, the mouth of the great and venerable
patriarch and cut off the claims Of more than ttty
thousand free men 10 be heard by the servants and
Representative of the people.
The man who first cried, Z" object, was a
Representative of New Yorl, City, known to the
voters and TO seme of the Bankers Of that city by
she name of Fernando Wood. The other who
objected almost at the same instant, was Charles
J. Ineersoll, of Philade phia. Noble rivalry of the
swo greatest cities of1ree America Mr.. Charles
J. Ingersoli seemed particularly wrathful at the
sight Of the petition and labored to make himself
conspicuous in the sight OF the shareholders as
their 6irt-eater. He aspircs to be considered the
most shameless man the House; but New
FORK scorns to be outdone by Philadelphia in
anything.
Mr.. Adams then said-" Well, shall keep the
petition on my desk until have an opportunity to
present Ii; and it shall remain here monu-
nsnt.'' (Here Fernando Wood added in an audi
Bile voice" OF your infamy IT.
Now, iso't that rich John Qlincy Adams,
cient, venerable, nored,-exalted in soul,
"a mind, in station and in fame the coeval Of
The Constitution" its illustrator and its guardian,
whose life 80 the history of the nation, whose cha
raeter and actions are its pride and boast: the
friend and chosen favorte of Washington the dsr-
ling and household inmate of Franklin, the COM
panion and counsellor of all the great and good OF
country tor than hall century, the glory
Of three ages,-he, John Quincy Adams, is e in
famous" Fernando Wood says so
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NV BRUNSWICK EXPORT TIMBER DuTY.-
We alluded, few days since, TO circular from,
the Lieut.. Governor of New Brunswick, proposing
duty upon timber exported from that Province,
IN lieu OF the present stumpage charged upon tim
Der cut upon the crown lands We have since seen
gentleman from New Brunswick who is we'll
acquainted with the views of its Legislature, and
who says that plan substantially like that pro-
2oied by the Lieu,enans Governor, will undoubt-
sdiy be adopted and be made to apply TO ali tim
Der cut sitter this winter.
The details OF the law which will be presented
&C the Lesis'ature, the imposition of an export
duty upon timber. of hfy Cents per ton, and re-
duction of s,umpsge from forty to twenty-five cents
per ton. The duty will be collected ppon ali
timber exported, whether of American or British.
origin
The Webster Treaty ssSures the American Tin.
Der on the ST. John waters, 81! the privileges of
provincial timber.
The proposed duty dees not shesefore violate
the words of The Treaty, although a complete eva
sion of it's meaniag and intent, tits maniiestly a
commu,stion for the present stumpsge upon crown
timber, and ia, in fact, svowea TO be so, BY the
Lieut. Governor And as it is 10 be imposed upon
all timber, without reference origin the previn-
cial Treasury will really collect stumpase upon
every stick of Amercaa timber which hoa's down
the St. John,
The present annual export OF timber from ane ,ne
city of St. John is, We told, about iuo, ooo
tons. Of which two-thirds is upon the TERRITORY
Of Maine, The annual exsc;ion from US, oy she
r-ooosed duty will therefore exceed $33, ,00S.