Mobile register and journal., 1845-03-13

I Isiatlve compact, for the admission of Texas. If the hrst lails the other cannot, if do not mistake the complexion of the next Congress; and the cer- ianty of that fact may he an nducement with such | as do not fhIBh that Texas be consiiiutonay annexed otherwise than by treaty, to give their votes for 't in thai form. Mr. Bagby voted for the Texas resolutions with view to their eifectuation under the ueay provision in Sr. Benton's bill, which was added II It comes in that shape, he vote for it.. And all who Can vote for the legislative annexation can take II in ihe treaty form, because it IS auihor- ised, m advance, by legislative enactment. If il come in the shape of articles of union, to he passed upon by Congress, there will be majority in both branches ls carry the measure.
 All, therefore, who are willing do justice to Mr. Bagby, must tha! him for his manly and open He exposed himself for the cause, and he saved the cause; and who tta, is sincerely it's friend, can de- 1 nounce him it's enemy!
 | EXPLANATION.
 | MT. BAGBY rose tO say, that for ihe first time since he had had the honor of being a member of this body he had 10 ask the indulgence o the Senate for a few moments while he called it's attention to a mat ter entirely and exclusively personal to himself. He regretted exceedingly that he should be under the cessity o askng this favor any time under any circumstances; and more especially did he regret
 being called upon to ask ihs indulgence when he re. hccted that the last hours of he session rapidly running out But the Senate of the United States had nigh collective character to maintain; and that I inds sidualy maintaining what was dne himself as a senator and as d man, and repelling false, caum. nous, and unjust accusations made upon him.
 He felt called upon by solemn of duty to state, Ia relation 10 the great question which had SO | loug agitnted this country-which he must without the slightest mputatiun of vanity, be permitted to say he had had some humble nstrtneniaity in settling, so far as the action of Congress concerned that his course upon that question had brought upon | him, m communication from the Washington cor nfnEft R,p., I,.h han ged leave to send 10 the Secretary's table to have read.
 Here the Secretary of the Senate read the follow. ing extract from the Richmond Enquirer, dated 2Slh u:
 "A correspondent from Washington, on Wednes- day night (rom the Capitol, II o'clock , informs "To the surprise ofa great many-neariy aH-but not all, Bagby, of Alabama, spoke to night against the House resolutions as unconsutionai Such bursts of triumph as ihe whigs generally senI forth the hotels and streets yuu can hardly imag ine-nor the full extent o the enunciotions of the demoeras who proclaimed hun reacherous deserter. Ieras considasd lost. My own sangune temperament did not allow me to consider il sad off hand, it is bullying fnesse, and he does not meaa do what he says. Presently D. H. Lewis rose 10 his feet and was about 10 give his colleague wha, he deserved, when he sent word to Lewis, b, Payne of Alabama, if he (L.) would not speak, he (B woald vote for the resolutions, wifh Ury shgh modification. With that understanding, Lewis took his seat again; and 1 thue JUG tAdhs Ih ms speecH, Willie her friends say but little, under his promise made since his speech to vote for the resolution At the of his detection, II was announced that ahig (no heretofore claimed as friend) would vote for the resolutions and thus the vote still appeared stand l 2S to "A. Whether the Benton men will come in Gas they promlse) or shall pursue a that is defeat the great measure we have yet to learn Our friends still say we shall carry tls question 10 nor row. fear there is much greater cause 10 doubt it 1 than we had Supposed.
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 journed at half past l0-aer agreement was made, that at or about o'clock tomorrow, the shoLld be taken ''
 In this time of general acrmony and defamation, ! when slander after islander stalking stills lhe fences oi human reputation, and detraclon mercIlessy huTllng her enveaOmed shafts at per- haps far better men than he was, il not aston ishIng that even he should have in for sma II portion of unjust Remuneration. But he had made it u rule through life (and it was one from which he should not depart) to vindicate his character from unjust assaults, and to repe all assaults upon it, from what quarter they might, provided they were worthy of noiIcs.
 | The editor of the Richmond Enquirer was man venerable for hs years, distinguished for his ntel- gence and. he understood, for bs soCial virtues cupying high rank in that pr0iessioa in which he 1 had SO long abored How far il might be compa- ble with the duties Of such editor, and such a man, to give circulation, coequal in extent with the extent of the circulation of his paper, to the aro- cIous calumny contained in that article upon Der of this body, he should not pretend to discuss determine here. He left that 10 the editors own iutnre deliberate iettectiOn and to the enlightened | and intelligent judgement of an impartial world. That paper was published in the land Of his birth. l IL was published in that land where his ancestors, | through all past generations, lay entombed-pub-
 shed in that hand where the friends his youth and hs childhood, and where the brothers of his heart, st i'll resided The effect that publication of that kind 5uncontradlced by him, would be likely 10 have under the representation that was made, and the character of the place where II was published, called upon him 10 contradict 1t.
 He did mol know who the author of that commI- Dcation was-he went further, he did not care who
 e author was. It might be of those harpies who prowl about this Capitol, whose occupation is
 ing, and the bread of whose life is the scandal and deiamation of other men, 1.-the author of that class, he left him to the ipfamy and deestation to which his occupation consigned him. 1T he belonged 10 that class of whom better things might be expected than "bearng false witness against hls neighbor." he left him to Heaven, and to the 'horns that in his bosom lodge, to prick and sting him."
 | What did the article imply? It implied this, and charged this: that the face of the American Sem ais-ia the face of the American peoplein the face of all Christendom where the Richmond Enquirer was read-he inIuced to recede from and aban- don the position in which he sood in regard to the annexation of Texas, under the influence of tive which, permit hun to say, had no abiding place m ms neart. Ana that was hat alter ms honorable ] colleague, [Mr. Lew,s,l whom he intended, with great pleasure, to exempt from all participation in this business, took the floor for the purpose of giving him (Mr. B) what be deserved, he took the alarm, and sent member of the oiIer House 10 him MT. Lewisl to say that, if he would not sacrifice him, (Mr. B.,) hut would him from the rod he would for the House resolutions with very slight modification. He exempted his colleague from all participation in this matter. He denied it in the presence of the Senate of the United States: He denied, desirable as might have been to have fe-red with his colleague up0n that or any subject, that he ever sent message 10 him either upon that subject, or his speech regard 10 Texas, or his vote in regard 10 Texas, or conferred with him in refer ence to that subject. He denied another thing-tlat he had ever said, inu,nted. that he would vote for the House resolutions 'wiih a very slight modi fication." And he denied thirdly another thing that he had ever said, or ntmaed, that he would vote for the House resolutions upon any other condi t0n than that condition wblch he stated to the Sen ate sn the night spon which he declared his views upon the subject, and that was, that the amendment offered by the Senator from Mississippi Mir. Walk erl-which was the bill proposed by the Senator from Missouri (hIr. Benton)-should be attached s them.
 IMr. Benton. It was your bill as well as mine.]
 That was the condition, and the only condition upon which he ever said he would vote for the resou lions from ihe HoHse of Representatives. These were the three great points implied in that commit ncat,on; and without deainlng the Senate any long CT. he would avail himself of this high and solemn .ba. inc lime If tle Sen1t w mn ssinp