Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-05-02
THE OUTRAGElN THE HOUSE

THE OUTRAGE IN THE ROUSE.
we went to the House this morning
.pr me purpose OF hearing. among other
Sh'nss. Mr.. Wright Of Indiana. conclude
MS speech on the Iarif, which he COM
ihenced n Committee ct the Whole yes
'ef"ay; but he had concluded before we
reached there, and Mr.. White, Of Ken
ttneky. Speaker OF the last House Of
Representatives, had the floor on the
same SUBJECT when We reached the Cap
itol. Although the Tariff was the SUD
Ject before the Committee Of the Whole.
we id net hear Mr.. Y hite make sin
BE ai.usien TO It during the fifty min
ufes winch we heard him speak He
may have alluded to it in the ten min
ntes which he had consumed before we
reached the House. The whole Of what
we heard him say, was in relation to the
bargain which has been charged as enter
ed into between Mr.. Adams aud Mr..
Glay in the year 1925, when Mr.. Clay
elected Mr.. Adams President of The u
'nited States, and Mr. Adams made Mr..
Clay Secretary of State. rfT. White
denied that there was any bargain be-
tween them, and read, and had read
by the Clerk of the House, letters from
sundry persons, and Il speech made by
Mr. Adams year two ago, to bear him
cut in what he said.
AIR. White, just at the close Of his
hour, stated that FIVE gentlemen OF the
House had certified to what the newspa
pers had charged Mr.. Clay as having
SAID IN has speech on the Missouri ques-
ton IN February, 1919: If you won't
ietu have black slaves, we must have
white ones &c, which speech he said
Mr.. Clay had never written out
The extract, he said, was taken from
a note to Mr. Rich'S speech, published
IN tie National inteiligencer more than
year after th9t gentleman had made his
speech. N which note Mr.. Rich had said
that Mr.. Clay used those wods. Here
MIR. Whites hour ran out. and Mr.. ia
cob Blinkeihofi' obtained the floor. Mr..
Andrew Kennedy asked MIR. Brinker-
hoti to yield the floor to him moment.
as he was one oft the FIVE gentlemen alu-
ded to, and he wished to prove what he
certified to. Air. Brinkethof, refused
to yield the floos; when Mr.. Rarhbun,
who sits directly in trent Of, and not
more than three feet from, Mr.. White.
said to Mr. Kennedy. Never uind we
can prove it all over the House, Mr..
White replied. you can prove a id
lie, then; swallow that. d-n You' MIR.
EatbDun rose slowly from his seat, with
his thumbs in the pockets of his panta-
looms, and turning round to Mr.. White,
SAID, do You intend to apply the lie to
ne personality To Which Mr.. White
replied, i do, God d--n you;' shutting
bis fists, and putting himself in defen-
siYe, or offensive position, as he said
50. BY The time the words were cut of
his mouth, both Of them had aimed
blow at each other. We could not dis
Germ which struck first. rs soon as We
saw this, we ran to where they were, but
before we reached there they had beer
separated We entered the aisle where
tie combatants were, side by side with
the serseat.at arms. The members or.
dered the geant-at-arms out in men
acing manner, some of them putting
their hands against him. While they
were doing this, we have been told a
man named Moore, who resides in the
Lexington Congressional District of
Kentucky, was behini the Sergeant-at-
trying to pull him cut, and saying at the
same time, 'let them tight it out We
neither saw nor heard this. Our atten.
ton was drawn, at The tine to the mem.
bers in front of the Sergeant alarms,
who were ordering him out of the bar of
the House. We thought if the Sergeant
alarms was out Of his place, or exceed
ing his dutT, that we certainly were
clearly out of our S. and that we had better
keep bright look out, else we might be
ELECTED very suddenly. BY the time we
thought this much, we concluded to get
out of the bar Of The House; and as we
cot cut rear the door that enters the hall
from the post Office Of the House, we
saw the Fash and head The report Of a
pistol 10 the door way. We rushed to
the door. three or four persons just out
side the door, GraPphng with the Ken
tuckian whom We have mentioned, Try
mo to wrest from .,im pistol. As he
apDeared 30 hole bis own with them we
concluded TO assist themj and just as we
were about dong so, voice at our side
said, .Tate me, Mr.. Ri}es, for | am
wounded We at once recognized the
person who spoke, TO be Mfr. Isaac u
Wales, one Of the police of the Capitol.
We took hold of him and fountl that he
Aad been shot through bis right thigh,
near where Il joins bis body. Two men
assisted rs to lake him to his house about
600 wards from the Capitol. On his
,yav thither. he informed US that hearing
a disturbance in the House Of Represen
ta.iyss. he thought it to be his duty to 60
n and assist 10 queIIing it; that, as he
a,,sred the door nearest the post office
Mr. NcCauslen, a member Of Congress
s.i: ,,-ar puffinu the kPntuCkIaD