Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-01-24
THOS. JEFFERSON
SKETCH OF THE DEBATE IN
CONGRESS.
January s, 1914.

January :, 1914.
JAcKsoN's FINE, On motion of Mr., C..
J. lDgersoll the house resolved itself into
committee of the whole on the State
ofthe Union (Mr. Davis, of Indiana, in
the chair,) and resumed the consideration
OF The bill to refund the fine imposed on
General Andrew Jackson by Judge
Hall.
For which bill Mr.. Stephens had offer.
ed substitute, providing that the sum of
$1,000, with interest'at the rate Of six per
cent. from the 3lst of march, 1915, b
given, granted. and appropriated to and
for the use and benefit of Gen. jackson:
but that nothing 10 the said bill contained
should be constructed as implying cen.
suI0 on Judge ha;. or as, in any way
questioning the property of his decision
in that case.
Mr. Barnard was entitled to the floor.
and addressed The committee at length
mainly in reply to speech of Mr.. Sid
ell.
Mr.. Dacson of La, arose in reply and
spoke warmly 10 favor of the original
bill.
Mr.. Kennedy, of Ia, followed ia vehe.
ment support of the bill. He had suppo-
sed that the public will in this matter had
been SO fully and clearly exposed that
congress had only to act, but it had pleas
ed the gentlemen to debate the question,
q attribute the whole movement 10 party
tactics. As to what had been said by the
gentleman from N. York (Mr. Barnord)
about the majority being unable to lick the
question into such shape that it would
pass the other branch of the legislature,
he should altemp. no licking but to declare
tina the fine had been taken unjustIy and
traitorously from General jackson, and
must be returned to him. Mr.. K, speak.
ing of the respect which was claimed for
the judiciary, said the judiciary was en-
titled to respect just as long as it showed
respect to the will and opinions of the
American people, aud no longer; and for
himself he believed it quite as corrupt 40
any other department of this or any Gov.
ernment. This irreverence might be at.
tributed to his having once been black.
smlthi but as a practicing member of the
bar he had been taught it by his own OBJ
servation and experience. As to the bill
being stopped at the other end Of the cap
ital, gentlemen should remember that
similar bill had once passed the senate;
and if that body should reject it, il would
only show that there existed in this coun.
try party which never learned and new.
er forgot, and which the indignation ofthe
American people would hurl into atoms
If it dared resist their will. He consider.
ed the national treasury as cankered by
the thousand dollars which it uniuslly
withheld from the country's defender, nor
could i, ever prosper as it would, should
it disgorge this i'll gotten gain. He scout.
ed Mr.. Barnard's parallel between the
public services Of Judge Hall and Gen.
jackson, declaring it as his full conviction
that there was a certain class of men in
this country who never had forgiven and
never would forgive General jackson for
whipping the English at New Orleans
|: was not pleasing to see ones friends
whipped before ones face. Advertiug to
The fact that Judge Hall had two maiden
sisters in the city, he dwelt upon it as az.
gravaiing the criminalIty and odiousness
Of his character in a sevenfold degree,
and marking it as dark and damnable.--
General Jackson ought to have hung him
on the first gibbet in the public square,
MIR. X. attributed the fine to q mean feel
ing OF revenge. and spoke with grea'