The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-01-12

Ayes, 4O Noes 70.
MIR. HAMLIN-I shall offer resolution, then, cir,
calling on Hoyt give his opinion whether or no
the President of the United States violated the Cons1'
ton in sending troops into Rhode Island to interfere with
people claiming their rights. Qaughter)
Cries of oh no. no, withdraw il; nonsense; no. no."
HAMLis.yes, sir. want their respective opinions oil
each other.
Finally, both these resolutions laid over till to-
message then read from the President calling at
enon to enclosed correspondence between the eecre-
ary oil state and the Portuguese minister here IN wch
the latter complains that the duties of 60 cents Madeira
wine and Is on oporo and IS when the latter Is in bottle
high and very injurious to the trade SC The whole
matter ordered to be printed and referred to
The Speaker then the order of the day be
the question Of postponing the further confederation Of
the report Of the Select Committee Rules to Tuesday
MIR r. C. WINTHROP moved to make It the special order
Of the day for that day Objected to- Mr. Brown had the
c. j. IsGrnsoIL-I wish to ask a question Of the
gentleman from Massachusetts, Adams)
BRows-I cannot yield it for that, sir; for every body
knows his way of answering questions
Mr. ADAMS burst out into loud laugh but gave the
Mr.. A. b. BRowN-sir, don't know that should have
troubled this House this subject had not heard SO
much about this 2st rne abrdgng and destroying tho
man from New York (Beardsley3 who occupies an i'm
portant position the leader Of one section ofthe demo-
country deeply interested in this subject Now
man from Massachusetts, here with petition signed
by 600 or last session, when he brought that
as a daily ornament thereto. Much langhter)
CT IsGERsoLL-Its down stairs in the committee
room, now you can have it brought in again, if you
Bnows.-or when he brought in his petition for
Session. o,'' he presented petition from the PEG;
pie of the of New York praying to be separated
say that refused to listen to them or kicked their petit
tons ont of doorsl No. sir For we did not Do not all
the
he had most patient hearing All eyes We're fixed upon
him. and all ears were opened to his words He was the
selected agent Of these petitioners and he explained their
views and wishes The petitioners in all those cases
heard the agent which they themselves had Sc.
lected They not turned out of doors. No. sir
They didn't to be heard by themselves, but by
the gentleman who offered their petition And we heard
right Of petition But gentlemen say the way
put down the abotonsts throughout the country is to
AS well nigh, general think Of defending his country
against foreign foe by pulling down alt the forts and
gentleman from New York who spoke as if by authority
this subject said were tramPlng upon the consti
tuition and bid us beware of the right of petition.
BEARpsLEy-Did the gentleman say that was advised
take the ground did, Because sir course well
known this subject. speak for myself on this mat
ter and for no else but my constituents; and have
BRowN-Well sir, but still gentlemen say-refer these
petitions and report upon the and if you report upon
them you must debate and discuss their merits all &C.
Cries of " Oh, no. no-that doesn't foow at ALL"
CLNoMANI didn't say would debate these petitions,
M as In bs
come from the various committees and we have enough
| to do
BRowr-sr the best plan is just simply to SAY that
these petitions shall be without being read and
then to lay them on the table This will save the right
right of property to the people the south And will
save our democratic friends of the north from the .up
con of being opposed the right of petitonsimply by
receiving them laying them the table and there,
the rules of the House they wonid lie for ever You
tionsyou had the famous Pinkney report this subject
And what the result of that discussion Why, Your
l A.A:x Iz.A 81 t-a1In al IT,
ApAMs-(with much sarcasm) -Will the gentleman say
whether the Pnkney report was in favor of these pe-
tons
BRowN-Oh no. certainly not in favor of the pc
titions.
right and then followed by the Pnkney resolutions
refusing to receive these petitions at all thar the next
caused such multitude o.! petitions sir
BRowNSr if you answer all these petitions by re-
port there will be end to them and the House will be
able do nothing else fyou eternay agtate this sub
ject-if You continually calling the title to our pro-
perry question upon this floor will decrease the
value OF it. If have title to piece of land to which
know there is outstanding title yet if am to be sued
sued year after the question OF y title may
nine And ID You 90 on referring these petitions our
southern population will be tossed to and fro year
Sir we have taught the children read with
children, and the incendiary sends his frehand
address slaves which is now read by the flick
ering midnight lamp. And what will they do when
they read the famous Pittsburgh letter {Adams)
er by blood or not the writer does not say They will
read that and be spurred ON and unless proper steps
taken we shall have in the south recurrence of the
bloody Of st. Domingo the negro with the sword
in hand and the aggot in the other We therefore
beg friends at the north not to vote for referring
these petitions to have them reported upon but merely
| receive them-.have their contents stated, and lay
them the table. If you will not give us the 2lst
Rule give good rule that shall protect and
property the SOUTH at the time that you respect
the wishes Of your constituents and the purity OF
conscieAces the north Thus will us and
ours-thus will you yourselves and above all you
will and pure and invioate this Constitution
MRsC JOHNSON now moved the House 60 into Commit.
ofhe Whole to dispose of the balance Of the Pre'
| dents Message.
| The House went into Committee-Mr WINTHROP in
Mr. FIcxx Of Illinois, who had the floor said he had
buew words to He adverted to the growing import
Of the west to it's vast resources in agrcuur al
products its mines minerals lead copper, &C. its furs
and various other valuable products He said that out Of
900 paid the public treasury for the sale of
public lands sos had been paid by the west alone
government is the great land,iObber, long will
| the people of the new States have broken and
spece--their hard earnings-will go into the public
treasury and be squandercd upon the army and navy
Little Of the enormous amounts of money annu
ally drained from the new States would return
| them. The people thereof must always suffer from
domain This being the Congress should make be
raj appropriations for the new States they were just
tering life it those old States who had been set
up in house keeping for many years. could afford
to do without any new furniture But the States had
hardly any furniture at ALL and therefore Congress ought
to give them something handsome 10 commence mouse
keeping with Over the Mississippi the Ohio the Wa
BASH and other streams Congress has reserved authority
over the beds Of these rivers to make them common
highway and therefore liberal appropriations should DO
made those affairs which entirely national and not
to those which merely local Instead Of pay ing
nous to idle lieutenants and corporas who
oungng about hotels and taverus drinking the best Of
wines eating the best of dinners and smoking the best
segar give the money thus sqandered to the West to i'm
prove her navgable waters In this subject New York,
Charleston Boston, and all the great cities the
board deeply nterestedthe laborng class especially
for the improvement of waters will cheaper the
price of their breadstufs. We want not extrsvagant
appropriation. Some gentleman said asked for &c.,
100000 We do not All ask for 10 $500 900 and II we
can't get that we'll take $500, 000-Qaughter) We are
opposed to all lavish expenditure but reasonable sum Is
our due and must have it.
Mr. TYLER RAribuS, of NY, q don't know whch)
got the floor and the Committee rose, and reported pro-