The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-01-14

be failure Its ysriegatcd plumage would be UNI
satisfaciory rainbow with Its bright and various
q political war had ceased. The vessel OF state
aid not repose on a calm unrufilsd sea. 1t was in
the trough Of the sea, and likely to be submerged
Mr.. RAYSoR, Of North Carolina, gotvthe floor.
He il a very lear-headed, sound thinker, young
high spirited, handsome man, snda good debater;
there a little too much repetition IN his speech,
and his manner of speaking will admit of ssome
slight Improvement. Nevertheless, he is credit
and ornament to the wing party lie said, that II
the wings erred in passing the Bankrupt Law, they
erred on the side OF mercy, and had undoubtedly
done much to relieve the unfortunate honest me-
chapic and trader although many reckless specu-
lators, and wealthy unprnclped men, had doubtless
taken advantage OF the law 10 swlnoe ,!d rss
sons now for the continuance OF the Bankrupt Law,
and therefore should vote for Its repeal. All VINO
were entitled release by IT, or all those VINO were
so situated az not TO have been able by any exeohs
of their own, TO free themselves fro 4 debt, mao
taken advantage OF it, together with many VINO
were unprinciped and shameless. But the iatleI
could not be helped ,0o Iss m se;ioS to his
ship and the merchant to his counting room. Ana
il the country had not been benefited by TINS anu =
other wing measures, twas not the fault OF the wing
partv but OF others For in the very :hour OF trlr
umlh the laurels were sna'ched from the brows OF
the wings by the most shameless and profgate trea-
cherry ever witnessed. And as long as the mnions
and tools Of a corrupt Executive were allowed 10
come into the House and hawk about the spois and
patronage Of the government, so long will the coun-
try suffer disgrace and msery-cred will langulsh,
confidence will be destroyed, commerce VIII de-
cline, honor and honesty will be Frustrated; and ruin
will overspread the land. The Bankrupt Law des,
troys all that noble confidence between man and
man which has so long been the foundation OF our
prosperity. Let the Bankrupt Law take away, as
has DONE all the safeguards and checks against ex-
cessve credits rioteus living and prolisate specu'
ations and will try to live by their Wits homes
y will be an empty name, speculation wiil increase,
gain any thing by running deeply in debt Another
objection against the Bankrupt Law IS, that 1t unset
ties all the insolvent laws passed by the various
States; and inasmuch the interests and commerce
of the several States differ greatly so does the Bank
rupt Law operate most unequay and unfairly on the
different States. He went to say that he was OPP
posed to including corporations IN me law, a. oeHe
ed above ALL believe that the deliberate properly
expressed and unprejudced voice OF my constituents
and the country is opposed to the Bankrupt Law,
and therefore shall vote to repeal IT, But not TOR
the Bill now before the House, unless II Is so modi
fed as to allow those who may have taken the
nitiatory steps previous to the passage OF the law TO
go through He continued II mas oeen , sa,a,
measure left records OF the labors OF the Ex
ira Session. And who. sir, issto blame tor this!
Certainly not the wing party Most grievousiy nave
most grievousy have we suffered for it, The gen
teman from Kentucky (MarshalD has said that the
history of this administration could be written IN
DnrentheSlS. III.
true that the evil men do lives after them, whilst the
good they do is inferred with their bones-if this
maxim be true, volumes upon volumes will not sui
flee to chronicle the profigacyand corruption OF TINS
administration and its shameless scenes OF deprav-
ty of which the hawking the spos In this house Is
but very small sample And if the good only that
men do be buried with them, in my opinion John
Tyler will be buried solus Sir, if ever beheld
spectacle of moral grandeur, 1t was on Tuesday last
in this house when my friend from Virginia rose and
presented charges tor the impeachment OF John
TYLER for his Observation-Disclosures which he speci-
| fed-and which he declared on his honor as gen.
tleman he was prepared to prove and yet, SIR, SO
degenerate is the age we live in, that he could not
| find men with frmness and independence enough
here to sustain him. and have those charges investl
gated. 1t might be said, why take so much notice
of and bestow so much indignation upon so insight
ficant a creature as John Tyler? As Berryer said
of the bloody Louvas, why spend so much time
Sir, am not sorry to this discussion and The
course it has taken in this House. IT has plainly
| marked the lines of party demarcation-and shown
clearly that there are but two great parties In ms
country and that the miserable Tyler faction, sir,
belongs to the Locofoco party after all And to
| know, sir that from the boiltngs and settings In
| the great political cauldron, the scum Will rise TO
the top and be thrown off the winds to be scatter;
| ed whilst from that seething the wing party will
| rise up with the renewed and redoubled energies.
sughe Sir we have e wi marks OF and a
| the locofocos, although some attempts have been
made to hide them, but not 1.-THE SO much as ought
|
| meri.ricious embrace from the public eve The
gentleman from Massachusetts (Cushing) dared his
| new allies to oppose the Administration. In reply,
| the gentleman from Indiana (KenHedy) said he
would push no measures at the President that the
| latte ridlslked. The gentleman from Ohio (Weller)
| after delivering fulsome euogy on John Tyler,
| seems in his overweenng vanity ,tothink that he
act as counsellor to John Tyler, and tell him that
| he must remove Danl Webster and John C. Spencer,
and that then the oco!ocos might take him cordially
| to their embrace. The gentleman from New York
(Rovu hrl,1 ,nL
| and consented to receive Daniel Webster with open
arms, when he embraced the Democratic creed
The gentleman from South Carolina (Pickens) with
| more sense, and talent, and manliness, than all of
| them, comes out boldly, and halls his friend from
| Massachusetts (CushiDg) as one whom he had long
| believed to be a good democrat, and now was sure
of. Sir, what most Illuminating spectacle it is to
see the Wing party that came into power with
tremendous majority, with the prayers of thousands
| and the hopes Of the whole country-whose access
sion was hailed as the harbinger of better days-to
all their best interests and exertions and those
of the country betrayed and destroyed by him in
| whom they trusted, and who, not content with be-
,raying, deceiving. tauntng, and insulting those to
| whom he owes his elevation, but sends one Of his
agents into this Hall to hold up the government for
| sale and barter.
| CUSHING Gisng, with warmth)-Mr. Speaker,
will the gentleman -
RAYNoR, (cooly, and without stopping at ally
| Sir, I've no time for explanations understand
| the whole matter. Sir, since the days of Ju-
| das Iscariot, the world has never witnessed
such case of prohigate and abandoned treachery.
Sir, in my reflections upon the future history Of
my country have thought 1t most probable that in
the course of time we should have our days of de-
generacy, decline, and ruin. But | had fondly
hoped that those days would be far far away in the
long visto Yeas, and that our children, and chill
dren's children, and generations after them would
be dead and forgotten before these events should
occur But, sir, let me ask if the recent spectacle
we have witnessed do not lead us to believe that
those days are close at hand Sir, the gentleman
from Massachusetts (Adams) has compared it to the
sale OF the Roman Empire by the Pretorian Guard
Sir, it is even worse than that sad and degrading
spectacle Sir, it was in the streets and surrounded
by the rabble Of Rome that the Pretoran Cohors
put up the Empire for sale: But sir, even then, the
principles of liberty and integrity prevailed in the
Roman Senate. Yes, sir, at that time. the lofty
principles of Fabus, Of Cincinnatus, of Cato, and
the Scpios, were still preserved in the legislative
halls, whilst here profigacy and corruption stalked