Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-03-02
PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS
'.s94 SAruRDAY, FfBRtjARv ]

.s SATURDAY, FEBRuARY 4.
Mr.. WENTWORTH said tia. IN, con:
sequence Of not being permitted to pro:
coed in his speech, (it being private bill
day. )he would send his remarks intended
to be spoken to the press for publication:
These remarkes are as follows. 49,.
"For making q speech in defence ofm1
course upon three questions, viz. Im- q
pfotemeht of hafbors and rivers, q OK up
on tea and coffee, and exclusion of Sla-
very from Territories where mono now
exists, am grossly assaulted by the ed
Itor Of the Union. This was an attack .
not only upon me, but upon the people
whom Inow represent. i
81 had voted for harbor and river bills !
repeatedly before my last triumphant re-
election, as had some Of the distinguished
gentlemen in the Democratic party. A.
mong them notice even . Democratic
member from The Presidents own State,
(Mr. STANroN.) In addition to the .ap.
prevail OF my Immediate constituents
send you to be read the following recent
instructions from the Legislature Of Ill.
"Rcsoiued blythe Senate. the House con.
curing herein., hat our Senators in the
Senate of the United States be instructed |.
and our Representatives be requested to.
use their best exertions TO procure at the
present session the passage Of law by
Congress making appropriations for the
Improvement of the Mississippi river aud
the lake harbors. z. sA,1 q 9afss 10
"Resolred, That the Governor be re.
quested to forward certified copy Of this
resolution to our Senators and each of our :
Repre- entatives in Congress. 7a.'- ast3"
! >1s1 NEWTON CLOUD,
"Speaker of the House of Representatives,
.s. "JOSEPH B.aWELLS, asi
I 10 "iSpedker of the Senate. >
81 had always been for free tea and
free coffee; and whenever | spoke upon
the tariffquestion SO told my constitu-o
ents and they sustained me- And upon
my resolution was sustained by q ma
jority of the Democratic party Of this
House. At the last session the Demo-
cratic Chairman Of the Democratic Com.
mittee of Ways and Means moved to-
strike out the tea and coffee tai, and the
Democratic House Of Representatives
concurred with him. That COMMITTEES Of
Ways and Means still Democratic, refuses,
to report the tea and coffee taI. Of the
five members upon that commit ee, three
of them voted for my resolution. aossA
"Talk as you please about letters here
from persons aofmy district, hoping to-
whine themselves into office by misrepre.
senting public sentiment there, must be.
permitted to say that have letters, an
immense quantity of them too, from mem
of all classes, from laborers. fsrmsrs,s
mechanics, &C., the bone and sinew Of
the Democracy, sustaining me. Here
is the way they talk; will read but one:
81 cannot close this note without beaf.I
ing testimony to the golden opinions you,
have won for yourself from all parties
here in the noble stand you have taken in
relation to the odicus tea and coffee tax.
Thatwas a noble deed, that resolution.
The poor will bless you for it, i ID, esd
.sSir, can show the names to my LET.
tiers. Ishelter myselfbehind ne anony.
nous correspondence. Ills e&s7e-rsQ
"The Wilmot proviso also received my
support before my last election. as il did
that of an overwhelming majority Of the
Democrats from the non slaYeholding
States of this Union. The most Of the
free States have instructed their Senators
and requested their Representatives to-
support the doctrines Of that proviso.
Those instructions from New York and
Peunsylva MIA just arrived had only fifteen
votes opposition in both Houses in both
States. ra sew
"The cry that this proviso should come
up as separate bill, on its own merits, ID
as deceptive as was the kiss6f Judas. Its
friends have tried every honorable means
to bring it before the House, and they
still are anxious to take il up by itself;
and then, when both Houses have passed
it and the President has signed it, its
friends will be the last to embarrass the
three million proposition. ! call upon
men making this cry to show their sin.
cerity. now while they have an oPportu.
nifty, and I promise to aid them. / re-
member that Texas was rushed into the
Union ahead of Oregonby like deceptive
cry. That secured, half ofOregon was given
away. When Northern men objected
to so much slave power in Texas, the cry
was, Oregon will balance it, Now, half
of Oregon is gone TO Great Britain, and
the slave-powsr claims the balance.
Look at the vote in this House! Il was
purely sectional. Ard yet, with the fact
staring us in the face that the Senate com.
mittee have moved to strike out the free
clause in the Oregon bill, we are sgain
asked to lie low and keep dark upon the
subject of slavery in California. i will
do no such thing. Onthe contrary, I
proclaim the alarm to the North, ADD tell