Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-08-12
PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
THuRspAr, AUGUST 10, ls4S.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, l64S.
The SPEAKER stated that he had received communica-
ton from NJ r. Trs relating certain official acts of the
President the Uned States accompanied by request that
il be laid before the House 1t communication that he
did feel at liberty present. did he deem il proper to
withhold it. He would lay before the House il were the
pleasure Of the House receive it, Being objected to-
On motion, the rules suspended for the purpose and
the communication was laid before the House and read.
is follows.
WEsTcHEsrER, PENNSYLVANIA, AUG. 2, ls4S.
To the Speaker ofthe House Of Representatives. y D:
Sir The accompanying papers are transmitted 70 YOU
the organ Of the House of Representatives with the request
that they be laid before that body.
They are not what have wished and intended 70 present
but the day fixed for the adjournment OF Congress foods any
further delay my part and until my intention can be exc
cutea they suffice They will answer the purpose Of
dspeng, in degree al least the utter mysicaon with
which the mind country has been couded up in regard
the treaty of peace, and all matters touched upon IN them
During great portion Of my absence in Mexico have
been entirely cut off from all means Of knowing what was
going home and during the entire period my attention
has been urgently pressed upon and constantly engrossed ny
subjects of the greatest to country II was con-
sequenty Of my power make Of such means
presented themselves when the channels for conveying
them ceased to be closed On my arrival home ne s'ae
things among unknown to except from the mere
gmpses afforded by occasional and hasy glance news
paper
soon became aware the mysticaon above referred TO-
As the ouly way which could be thoroughly dsPeled,
determined to lay before the Of the people
connected and detailed narrative Of every thing that has oc
CURED TO me having the slightest bearing upon matters which
the public interests demand that the country should know the
exact truth Of This and full knowledge, and thorough
understandings it Of the very highest importance TO her that
she should possess II for nunbess reasons that most
deeply her and her the most permanent
her now and concern her in the boundess
hereafter The generations which to follow u.s. SO long
nation shall exist and after shall have ceased to ex-
ist deeply interested in this matter. Should the Ame-
can people fail to obtain this knowledge now the evil
quences that people, and in all future time and through
them mankind cannot fail to be such no human mind
calculate. We the vanguard in the movement Of
this age and upon chiefly depends the direction which that
movement is to pursue
Deeply impressed with this truth this plain and obvious
fact formed the determination above stated II remains
however, yet unfuled The attention demanded by my
private affairs the necessity Of providing home for my family
and variety Of Incidents have contributed to prevent its full
fment This however, will take place. II hpe month or
longer The example recently by faleyrand will not
be followed by shall write any thing which is to
be read only century hence The highest interests OF our
country and Of mankind through her. demand that she shall
know the truth; that she shall know She shall have
it; she shall have il noao.
Had Congress continued to sit month or two longer
should at this have broken silence should have
bded until could lay before the country through her repre-
sentaives, the Narrative which have REFERRED connected
unbroken not single gap in it detailed SO far necessary
TO establish clear connexion This is the only way IN which
truth be presented in shape doubt to its
being what it Is Isolated prominent facts will not do
However true they may be, they always be denied and
less pausby conroverted The tcok truth is the
among those who seek their confidence will be bold to
pretend that he does not believe it,
In Of the accompanying papers etter the Repre-
sentaves Of the American People, under date Mexico
February IL, ls4s, my belief expressed that Congress
and the country had been deceived by the individual holding
the trust of Pesident Of the United Sates and that the
object for which that deception had been pactsed the
indefinite proaction Of the warhis potracon oil the war
having for its end the conquest Of Mexico and her absorption
int our Union. This my belief then is my belief
now In that letter. and particularly in the notes
Gently appended to H. my belief is expressed that corrupt
use has been made of the and the influence attached to
the trust of President Of the United States to the
extent Of suborndtion OF perjury.
Upon both these points my belief is positive and firm dis
tinct and clear Equally firm aud clear in my mind is the
further belief that make the former the belief Of Congress
and OF the country nothing necessary but that the
taves of the people should exercise the powers Of inquiry in
herent in them the grand inquest of the nation the body
Exclusively entrusted by the constitution with the power,
and consequently with the duty "of impeachment"
It's uyesterday that the wekn made to ring through
country with the accamations that burst forth from
democratic bosoms the spectacle exhibited by the people
OF France. And glorious spectacle il was Congra-
tulaons and fluctuations poured out from towards that
people; hearts drunk with noble joy and our
public We'd with another in giving uerance to
the enthusiasm which filed our bosoms.
The Of that enthusiasm consisted in the fact that the
French people had liberated themselves from bad Govern.
ment They had risen in the majesty OF and had up
turned that Government upurned the Throne as that Go
yernment called. This they had DONE It had been
at the cost Of civil se Of brothers blood spilled by brothers
hand. II had been the of That the
first result and could tell how long might last
what il involve while il lasted in what il to
end And yet rejoiced. The object in estimation
was worth all this cost all this risk Of whatever else might
cost, Even in the uncertainty TO its being secured, il
enough that this should have been the object 10 make
reckon cheap make disregard dust in the balans
whatever might happen.
Al the head very the head Il speak from indistnc
recolecon Of the which had mpeed the French
people to act which had created the necessity for their
pungng into that Of carnage whose shore human
could dscern-s the head very the head Of those
reasons stands recorded, Thecwrupt use Of Erecutire IN
fuence."
IL is time, high time that should HOME "Cor-
rup use OF Executive influence, such as according TO my
solemn belief has occurred among within the last
sx months cannot have been surpassed by any thing that
formed part Of the 'misrue Of the Citizen Kiug. In
point Of unscrupulousness and agiounes cannot have
been surpassed In point OF sudacy and eonery, doubt
has been equaed by any thing ever ventured upon BY
that monarch"
just as the task Of preparing the papers transmitted
was drawing 10 Close envelope reached by mall bear
ing my address in the hand Of bosom friend whose
name IS irrespecvey Of locality and country among the very
highest OF the profession which he belongs and who has
Intimately known during the latter half Of my life. That
envelope contained, without note comment the words
which viii here uanscribe. am LUTHER, have
ever proposed TO myself to the part Of The task
am now engaged in has been forced upon by the power
OF circumstances II will be end and with IL will