The Arkansas banner., 1844-04-10

making 1t such? Who came into that House, on the first day of the session, with labored protest. declaring, in what they were pleased fo called solemn and formal manner, that ss sereraz perSoas''--ay, fsaid MT. N.,) per- son whom the people of four ot the sovereign States of this Union had elected, commits stoned, and sent here as representatives by taking part in the organization of this House, had been guilty of "proceedlng lawless, essentially revolutionary la its cha- racter, sabrerSire Of tte consultation and all iaac and order, and lending directly 10 the de- struction of OUT free form of gorernnaeni;" ;"- nay, more; that these lawless persons-these reyolutionists-these subverters of the con- stitution and all law and order-these de- structionists of free government, had, to cap the climax of their iniquity, been guilty of perpetrating .'d legaz traudn upon the nation. Why, (said Mir. NJ the gentleman who pre- ferred these high-toned charges composed the universal whig party then, i'll this hall, with one honorable exception, NIr. Chappelll. It would seem, to persons of ordinary sagacity, that these denunciations were sufficiently broad in their terms, and sufficiently indiea- tive of party. N ot so, in the opinion of gentlemen on the other side. The magic effect which a single 1cord might give to the political cduldron was not to be disregarded; i; and so the gentleman from New ' ork, Air. Barnard, on the second day of the session. took occasion to superadd the charge of a~l- Hfcation, not against the people of four States merely, but he charges the majority here of piling one act of nullifcaton upon another. bo -,l men not to make this a party question. He would tell the gentleman from New I ork, and others who had echoed the gentleman's denunciation about this hall, that the ghost of nullifcation. which they had coniured up for this occasion, and which appeared so ter rife to their hallucinated vision, was. never theless, an honest ghost, which he confidently believed would never down at their bidding.
 Did not the report of the minority of the committee manifest any party feeling? He would notice but one among the numerous instances. That report says
 Pennsylvania being the second largest State in the Union, has tWenty-lour represen- tatives New Hampshire. being one of the vals in Pennsylvania, has divided, or nearly divided, her representation politically; while that of New Hampshire has elected her entire delegation of the sanse party. The conse- quence is, that on nearly all the great poiti- cal questions which divide the people of this nation, New Hampshire, probably, has four times-certainly two-fold-as much poacer in the present House, as Pennsylvania.1
 Here Said Mr. N N.Agentlemen had boldly avowed their object in sustaining this act of Congress, to be for political and party pur- poses. The political influence of New Hamp- shire, with but four out of two hundred and twenty-three representatives upon this floor, had become a subject of deep alarm; so much so, that 1t must be aeptrazizcd or changed, by compelling her to district her territory for the choice of members to this House. And yet this must not be made party question. He would tell gentlemen not to fatter them selves with the belief that the political inGu- ence of New Hampshire would either be neattralized or changed, should her legislature district her territory. No: she would pre- sent to this House and to the nation the same united and unbroken front
 The gentleman from Kentucky, Mir Gri- der, had seen fit to question the patriotism of the people of the four recusant" States. 1 NIT. N. said he thanked God that the character of the people of New Hampshire for patriot ism was established long before that gentle mans day The deeds of her revolutionary heroes, patriots, and statesman, in the cause of human rights and freedom, occupied too conspicuous a place in the page of history :; they had been too fully registered in the archives of this nation, to experience the least detraction by that genteman's insinuated i doubts The battle-felds of the last war, on our northern frontier, had been enriched with the patriotic blood of her indomitable yeo- marry; and he would now warn gentlemen that the lion-hearted veomanry of that little State would ever be ready to defend them selves against the enemies of thelr rights, whether they came in the shape of armies and fleets from abroad, or in the shape of acts disfranchising them of their constitutional rights at home. There was not (said Mr. N ] a more brave, patriotic, honest, and intelligent people on the face of the earth, than the peo- pie of New Hampshire; and he believed the same might be said of the people of the other three States. Yes the people of New Hamp- shire placed as high an estimate upon the value of the Union, as the people of any other State; and while they would scrupulously refrain from any attempt to abridge or annul the constitutional exercise ofany powervested in the general government by the compact of union, they would, on the other hand, at all times, fearlessly resist, to the extent of their ability, every encroachment upon rights dele gated or reserved to the States or the people. To the maintenance of these rights, without abridgment, they would cling, as the only anchor sufficiently sure and steadfast to save them from the centralizing whirlpool of con- solidation. They never would consent to sit calmly by and see those States which had been most beautifully described as the '.massy pillars" upon which the grand superstructure of this confederated government rested, reft of their strength and beauty, and finally stricken down by the strong arm of the federal gov emment. No-never