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had been interrupted in the midst of his spec
oy the expiration of his allotted hour, Just
that point where he had been about to ent
: upon the history of the disease Of which Il
Wing party had died. The gentleman seen
. Ell 10 have been well acquainted with the la
patient during his life, and his relations ha
oeen such to the doctors in attendance. an
to whose disagrecments he attributed The ma
tents death, that of all living he was the hes
qualified to let the House into the true score
Oh the commencement and progress of the dis
ease. Mr. M. said that he meant, when h,
mad leisure, (and he was likely soon TO have q
great deal OF leisure,) to write the history al
,he twenty-seventh Congress and he should
De greatly obliged to the honorable gentleman
from Virginia if he would furnish him with
) nose iacts and anecdotes in relation TO that
history OF which the world was not in possess
ION end were there time he would now Weld
the gentleman the balance of the hour for TINT
purpose.
/ Nlr. WISE here made some remark which
was lost 10 the Reporters earl
J The gentleman had given the House i'm mart
what he considered as the real cause of the
ueieas OF the Wings, and traced it up to ne
ROD previous to the death of President Harrri
son. According 10 the gentleman, there were
ce,'aih diHerences, personal rather than politi
cai' between Mr.. Webster and Mr.. Clay; and the
gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr CusuINc)
nae To-day, III pursuance of the same idea.
given the House some not perfect explanations
OF speech formerly delivered by him. The
gentleman now let the House know what il
was that he meant by the sGxed constitutions
al iacp OF which he had formerly spoken.
ana ana now 1t was that this had DESTROYED the
Wing party. Mr.. VI. had no wish to misup-
rCn o,,I L.
gentleman had no purpose to misrepresent
what he had said If Mr. Nj. understood the
gentleman, the .@iixed fact'' of which he spoke
had been afrayed against certain other unfix-
ed party fact; the fixed constitutional fact be-
ing seated IN the White House, and the unfix-
ca party TACT in this House, and that it was
the struggle between these two facts which
mad occasioned the death of the Wing party.
what did all this mean? Could any thing
else be made out of it but that the opposition
OF John Tyler and Daniel Webster to Henry
Ciay-a personal opposition alone, (for the
gentleman discarded all consideration of prin-
ciPle IN these questions, )-as candidate for
In, 1ne next Presidency, had caused all this rout.
ne gentleman had represented that this Con-
Sress was In an invidious sense, to be defined
as political party, and Mr. CLAW as the dic,o-
torla head oft, and that against this BODY and
and its party head the President and Mr.. Web
sier were arraycd, not on any point of princi.
pic, nor on any system of measures, (for the
gentleman insisted that there was no principle
'nVolVed IN the matter, that all was party
party, ana only party; and he defined party
TO be nothing but an association of men To- get
into power, or Gas Mr.. Nj. presumed) to hold
power when they had got it. Now, putting
f n @g ss srs ASE haa 81 s K
IA that 4.
en-
Mr. MARSHALL said that, if he had misun-
derstood the gentleman il. this, he was no.
capable OF understanding any thing. Had not
the gentleman said that the fixed fact was the
President and his power, and that the party
fact was IN this House, and that the Presidents
was opposed TO the leader of that party If
not, MIR. NJ. could not understand the English
language.
The gentleman had thrown some light on
matter which was very important to us as
American citizens, and he had further thrown
some light upon events that were coming
MIR. Nj. had; understood the gentleman to saw
that the Wing party, Of which Mr. Clay was
the living impersonation-tha this Wing par
~, alias Mr.. Clay, had been killed by John
Tyler and Daniel " ebster; yes, had been kill
edit was dead, stone dead. And the Adj
ministraiion meant 10 hold up lis just and cor
stituiional influence 10, any party who would
come and support-whati Not John Tyler,
he believed there was nobody, so far as he
knew, that calculated upon that; bnt who
would support Mr.. Tylers grand measure
! Tor lie had some measures, and he was so
much attached, too, to his measures and his
! principles, that was, TO Mr.. Webser's measure
and the principles j. involved,) that he would
give his support TO either of the two branches
OF the Democratic party that would come To-
It's support and that OF the Administration.
And this brought him to a principle at last
| A laugh. On the gentleman's own showing,
there was principle about which the moder-
ate men OF The courtry(an Mr. Nj. wasa modcr-
ate man, very moderate man) might debate
Mr.. Tyler and Mr. Webster regulated all that
Congress could DO, and came here with a nea-.
sure of their own, dcnouncing the leader oil
the Wing party ; and they now offered TO
bring any Democratic leader into power who
would aid them i'll this scheme Of theirs
MIR. NJ said he had been quoted as saying
that he had heard gentleman say that this
Administration would cut The same figure i'm
the history Of this country as paremthesis did
IN sentence, and that parenthesis was de-
fined in the grammar TO be clause in SER
tence which might be read in a low tone or
wholly omitted without injury to the sense /;
and an inference had been drawn that he had
meant to charge the President and his Cabinet
, with having no sense. lie disclaimed all such