The Arkansas banner., 1844-07-17


 should feel myself bound to conform to their wishes thus communicated
 Here we have the doctrine from the mouth of Mir. Clay himself It is
 "fo conform 10 he nriH q cur constita- emts.n
 'To dct, not in our orn, but in q deiegated cbaraeter.n
 "Wheaerer they kaonc thc aeiShes and wiH ot those ,cio sem Mem here, they are boasl3 Co conform to hat wiH emirelyn
 ''IFe are nothing more fhan he mirror to reject Ae will of Hose aeho called us 10 our dlgRifed stdtj0RS.o
 ''H is no matter ia what ecordS or fan0uage those instructions are giren.n
 ''1ind I,' says Alr. Clay, after maintaining that the word request is better, because more respectful, than tue word instruct, sSHOuLD FEEL MYSELF BOUND TO COMPLY WITH THEIR WISHES THUS =CoMAlu- NICATED.n
 Let us now see how far this preacher fol- lowed his own preeepts.
 Al tie extra session of Congress in lSAl, Mr. Clay took leading part in the passage of the Bankrupt law, which he called ''d iiak tn he great system of Whig measwes'
 As anticipated, the people of Kentucky rose up against the law, and demanded its repeal almost unanimously. Their sswislies and wil'' were very significantly indicated through the legislature
 I On the 9th of Jan, lSi2, tue Kentucky House of Representatives adopted the follow ing resolutions ously-oratleast with out dIvison---viz:
 ''l. Resolrcd, That in the opinion of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, ii is the desire of large majority of the people of Kentucky that the Bankrupt law, enacted at the late extra session of Con- gross, shall be repealed
 ''2. Resolred, furiher, That our Senators in Congress be. and they are hereby, instruct ed, and our Representatives requested, to use their influence to have the said law re- pealed.o
 On the 18th of January the resolutions came back 10 the House from the Senate amended, so as to read as follows:
 ''itesolrcd by tte General Assembly, of Ae Con1monmeafH of Renucky, ii'iiiat 1t is the desire ol majority of the people of Ken lucky, that the Bankrupt law, passed at the late extra session of Congress, shall be re. pealed, or so modified as to free il from it's retrospective operation; and that our Sena- tors and Representatives in Congress be re- quested to use their influence 10 obtain such [ repeal or modieaton.n
 The change made in the Senate, with an other resolution added by that body, declaring that the people of Kentucky, as well as the General Assembly, regarded ssthe continuance | in force of the Land Distribution Law as ol far greater importance than the repeal of the Bankrupt law,n was negatiycd i'll the House { of Representatives by a vote of , to S2, and in consequence of this disagreement the re. , solutions failed; but no man was Jeff i'll doubt as To the sswishes and wll' of tho State in relation to the Bankrupt law O that we have abundant evidence besides tho unanimous adoption of resolution to tha effect iffeach House of the General Assembly .Mr. Clay himself, on presenting certain petitions against repeal of the law on the ! 18th January, 1872, uttered the following ''A single remark he must be permitted ill ; reference to the delegation in the other House f from his own State. At the last session, every member of that delegation, with one solitary exception, had voted against the pas sage of the Bankrupt bill, and even that , single advocate of the bill, on his return to his own district, found so great and general dissatisfaction with the provisions of the bill, that he had on the present occasion iel it his duty to give such vote as he presumed it would appear he had this day given in tha body on the question of repeal. .o-See Cong Globe, lSdl-2, page l36.
 And .Mr Gorret Daris did, with the en al K tIto 1, c of Representatives, vote for inc repeal of tho e law
 .Hr. .Hofehcod, the colleague of Mr Clay { in the Senate, gave testimony to the sswishe. 3 and wll' of his constituents in the follow. , ing manner, viz:
 s'lt could not have escaped his notice, and that of the Senate, that the Legislature o Kentucky had by large majority passed T resolutions upon the subject of the Bankrup ? law, expressing an opinion that it ought tc 2 be repealed.
 9 Whether the Bankrup s law was measure of national benefit, or na !, ional injury, was question about whlcf . the people of the United States could form | their own conclusions; but whether the mea a sure would affect adyanmgeously or inju T riously the interests of the people of Ken Q tucky, they alone were competent to judge l and SO far as he was concerned, he though 3 tiatfrom their judgment there was no appeal. T Surely, here was evidence enough to satis n fy the most ncredulous as to s'the wishes an, ], wll' of the State of Kentucky. !. l. There was the unanimous vote of tn
 Kentucky House of Representatives, instruct !, ing their Senators, Messrs. Clay and More Q head 10 vote for ihe repeal. : ?. There was the vote Of the Senate 0 |, Kentucky, we believe equally unanimous ' requesting them to vote for the repeal. y 3. There was the unanimous vote of tn t delegation from Kentucky i'll the United State 0 House of Representatives in favor oi repeal e 1. There was the vote of Mr Claws col Q league in the Senate for the repeal, avowedl, IT in obedience to the unequlvocal and over l whelming opinion and will of the State c