The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-07-06
called up in its order shall then 10 glad to meet the
gentleman from North Carolina in discussion Of the
la of h.

JULY.
Mr. VINreN-I move that the House resolve tssf
into . Committee Of the Whole on the State of the
Union Ar tomorrow will be the fourth Of July move
thai hen thu House adjourn 1t be 70 Monday next
Judge Embres ,saondsy!'l WedussdayI next.
tioas at the same time'
tleman f. ON Ohio has Withdrawn Of them.
The question was put, and the House agreed to nd.
journ until Wednesday next.
CAPTURED FiELb
Mr. CoLLAMER moved that the rules be suspended. to
enable him TO introduce joint resolution that tho
Two brass held pieces captured by the people Ut Ben
niDgton in lit, now in the possession of the United
States be remounted and delivered to Vermont, to be
held as the property Of the said State
The SrrAKER-The resolution will require three
readings, 1t being joint one
Mr.. CoLLAMER-It requires appropriation at all.
The SPEAKER-lf there be no objection, the resolu-
ton will be read a first time.
Mr. CoLLAMER-I do not mean to detan the House
long, especially the 4th OF July would
remark, that the two brass field pieces lying
Mt the enal throw out unhoused unheltered By
LOOK ng at them, you will hnd the words, chselled,
Taken by the people of Vermont at Bennington,
1l7I" They taken without "A single officer SOL
dier Of the United States army being present, the
10th OF August For this Vermont has received
a dollar. The United States have had these pieces
seventy years thrown them aside In ITS the
people Vermont yes Green Mount boys before
the declaration Of independence in June, ITS, went
over to AXE 1conderoga and they captured hui dred
and thirteen pieces of cannon six mortars and three
howl'zers; and say to you Vermont never received
one copper for it, did they for rail- going
to Platt burg during the last We simply ask that
government to remount them, they were seventy
years ago They are OF no value to you. They will be
to us exceedingly valuable. Wewil keep them bright,
and cherish them in our remembrance The Fourth
Of July is at hand Will you let us have them?
The resolution was read third time and passed
GENERAL cAss-oENERAL TAYLOR
The House resolved itself into u Committee Of the
Whole on the State of the Union Mr. Root in the
chair and took up the bill making appropriations
the the ey and of the for
MIR. FLouRSEr, Of Virginia, who commenced his
speech on Saturday. proceeded to finish it this
ing General Cass he said, voted with fourteen Others
to maintain the extreme-54 40-on the Oregon ques-
ton, when he believed that rejection Of the treaty
would inevitably result in war After the Mexican
treaty ratified he voted for the regiment BILL
which was prevented from going through the House
and becoming law by the Intervention of. the whig
majority The result has shown that the pas
sage OF the bill unnecessary II it had passed,
the executive would have had the additional pa
tronsee of five hundred or more officers General Cass
is an extreme partisan. Last year he voted for the
river and harbor bill, which Mr.. Polk vetoed The
Baltimore Convention nominated General Cass and
repudated internal improvements. General Cass ap-
proves and adopts the Baltimore resolutions In repu-
diation of his vote and the subject in
the Senate When the resolution of thanks to Gene
raj Taylor was introduced in the House, anne ndme MT
was offered neither to approve disapprove of the
eapituation Of Monterey The resolution went to the
retain it.
Mr.. SIMS. of South Carolina-I was in the House,
and voted at the time. There was a question taken
to show the exclusion Of any such amendment as a
censure. gentleman from Tennessee moved to
amend the title Of the resolution to read "a
censure to General Taylor" The democrats voted
against it, We merely wished not to express
opinion with regard to the armistce
MIR. FLoCRNEy-I insisting that the proviso
was censure, because 1t withheld full vote of thans
The country so believed it. and members of Congress
ton of the President to appoint Lieutenant General
the heads Of Generals Scott and Taylor
nomination of the Baltimore Convention General
Cass mputes that the wings deny tho Intelligence Of
wings hold to such doctrines but on the contrary
General Cas- holds that party should govern. Geno-
raj Taylor gives no pledges he, however, declares
that he will not exercise the veto power except in
where there is violation of the constitution and mani
fest hasty legislation. He proceeding to run
parallel between General Cas- and General Taylor
when his hour expired
THE SOUTH.
Mr.. WOODWARD of South Carolina argued that the
err independent of the constitution that they could
not even exist, or assume any cert ain geographical
limits except by the permission of Congress Con-
gress might divide any territorial district into two
or consoiidate any two into He maintained, that
the guarantees in the constitution concerning slaves
guarantees in favor individuals and not States
No question Of State rights was involved; not only
citizens but even aliens entitled all the bene-
hts OF those guarantees in favor Of persons No
authority less than that of convention could changs
any Of those guarantees If the whole government
were compoe provinces instead Of sovereign States
these onal guarantees would remain until ge neral
convention charged the itituton. They were abb
solute In the States the Ieople under two con-
yenions one local. the other general In the terrific
rial districts the people under but one conven-
t ION: to wit-of the whole Union which alone could
abolish those guarantees "Non-intervention proper
~ understood required that Congress should not inter
ere, and also prohibits its chartered governme nts in
the territories from interfering This was the course
Of our forefathers from the beginning of the 60
Mr.. PRESTON, of Virginia, took the ground that
the slave question should never be drawn into
the legislative hail. except from imperious nee ess
ty 1t had been brought here the spirit of party by
the democracy, upon whose platform he could not
II n nd laGa I'm laNn H.
tends that the government has but o limited jursdc-
tion in the territories and that the people of them
their way And this view of the subject is main
tanned by Mr. Bayly of Accomac. Mr. Preston re .uted
the argument. But one solution be given Gen
Cars is too recent convert to know Southern rights
and feel them he is too late changing the North
to command Southern support. This question to be
settled when gentlemen from Connecticut Massachu
setts Virginia and Georgia cit down and talk about it
honestly and without equivocation each man repre-
senting his section and feeling for his section. Mr.
Preston expressed doubt whether the platform of the
convention was Mr. Casss platform AS an humble
lawyer he could maintain before court or jury that
Van Buren, has been driven off by trick and that does
not impair his title. (Laughter) He comes and saws
My Industrious predecessor prepared for me- aud the
law Of Jackson next to the law Of God CITIZENS
my title" The democracy offered the South /"
Northern man with Southern principles" and that
man is now with the democracy in all these points
Amidst the usurpatons Of executive power Gle neral
Taylor was taken up by the people a candidate for
the Presidency. He is man whose reputation has
Of his country. He is great who, with inferior
means, achieves great ends; and General Taylor will
come here with greatness, not military but great
ness the gift Of God he will with the great moral
courage that cheered the gallant men when he led
them to meet the foe. The democratic party are re-
sponsbe for all things growing out of the war but the
glory that has resulted.
The honorable genteman's hour expired before he
. concluded his remarks.
1t now two ocloc k, the time to which the gene
raj debate on the bill was limited
On motion Of MIR. VINroN, the bill was laid aside in
he m n tof;o For
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT
Mr. VISToN explained that the Senate had detac he'd
$50 600 from the general amount appropriated carry
the mall from On areston to Havana by steam, ana
also 5000 to carry the mail from Key West to Ha-
vana He said that he had been instructed to re-
commend disagreement to this
Mr. POLLOCK moved concurrence In the amend |
ment, in order to enable tho Postmaster General to
carry out the provisions Of contract already entered
into, and to maintain plighted faith
Mr. HOLMES Of South Carolina said that the Post |
master General entered into contract the building