The North-Carolina standard., 1848-02-23
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usefulness and previous public services. 1t remains
to the President to confirm this any other sentence
that may have been decided upon. For really 1t is
as yet but matter OF surmlse what the Judgment oi
the Court is = Overwhelmed, as the Executive
must be, with business of great national import, 1t
strikes me that heswl hardly be able to find time be-
fore the adjournment of Congress to examine carefully
the youminous and intricate mass of testimony pre-
scented by the Court, with the report of It's Judgment
thereon. SO shall not be surprised If he neither
confirms the sentence until after the close
of thesession.
On Friday, in the Senate, we had an excellent war
speech from Senator Turney of Tennessee. One part
of his effort CALLED the Wings evidently past endur-
ance This was his elucidatlon of the seven lmpor-
points of the war question on which federalism
and Mexico stand shoulder to shoulder. They mutu-
ally insist on the withdrawal of our army without
indemnity-declare that the Nueces is the boundary
that the war unjust on our part, &c In TACT, II
was happy, most happy Illustration OF, the Mexl-
canism of federalism.
In the House. on Friday last the bill for the relief
Of the heirs of John Paul Jones debated all.day.
On that day the goSsps started story that the native
representative from Philadelphia intends to buresque
the distinguished public men who have published
letters the war questions by himself coming eHt
with such manifesto! Both Houses took holiday
Saturday. for which the reporters, II not the claim
ants, are duly thankful.
The ladies making Sc a great to do over Mr.
Clays Supreme Court effort, delivered on Friday)
Their sweet pretty lips babbed little else save the
speech for twelve hours after. The lawyers, howev-
er, were disappointed. The truth is, his heart is
thought to be wrapped up in the before the par
ty court to sit in Philadelphia early in June next.
On Monday last, before the order of the day (the
Ten Regiment billy taken up in the Senate, we
had the grand movement in favor of Gen. Taylor,
which, it had been for days whispered that Mr..
Yulce was to essay. This the commencement
of speech on his substitute for the resolutions of
Senator Dickinson. These resolutions, your readers
should remember, simply affirm the democratic and
State rights doctrine that any attempt the part OF
Congress to egislate Institutions for the people of
Territory, Is equally much against the spirit OF the
compromises OF tho Constitution as to essay the
same thing for the inhabitants of State OF the UniOn
and that in either such egislationlis in direct
contrayenton of the principle Of Selfregulation in
domestic corceTns, maniteSty at the bottom of our
whole system of Institutions. Mr.. Yulee spoke for
half an hour in opposition to this view. He will,
however, be answered in due time, doubtless by
Southern democratic Senators, who severally appear
to have made up their minds that his movement is
but second edition of that of Wilmot which was
designed simply distract the party so that fshy
fellows might attain prominence that when the pub
lie is calm enough to straight they always labor
in vain reach Breese, of Illinois, made the speech
of that day on the Ten Regiment bill.
In the House., on Monday, after receiving resolu- |
tons, they went into Committee the Loan Bill, |
and Duer of New York, aud Simms of South Caro- |
lima, made general political speeches. Mr. Duer |
took the ground that our resolutions of annexation
embraced definite declaration of war against Mexi-
co! If this be true, his friends should long since
have moved articles of impeachment against the
pIOSGcuLe WdF Oh part
bore the existence of the state of things inducing
the Wings to vote that &c the was commenced by
the act of Mexico" Simms proved himself as strong
sound. He has much of the turn and character of
mind Of his uncle, the late Gen. G. G. Dromgoole.
On Tuesday, after Mr.. Yulee had entertained the
members of the Senate present with another hafhour
of his speech against the principle of Dickinsons
resolutions, MIR. UPham, prosy genius, made his
anti-war speech on the Ten Regiment bill. Dickin-
son, by the way, poked fun at Tuee in the shape of
the resolutions of sundry Democratic meetings in
Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and louisiana, the reso-
lutiens of the Democratic State Convention and the
able article in the Southern Quarterly Review, from
the pen OF r. Barnwe Rhett, all endorsing the very
doctrine against which Y. preaching. {
In the House, on Tuesday, by the votes OF. the
Democrats and the Wings, the Committee of
Ways and Means, it was agreed to take the loan bill
out of Committee, at two p. NJ yesterday. Crozier
made the first speech that day, TRADE of abuse
OF the Administration, in which he repeated I" the i
President than one hundred and eighty times
according to the count of sundry wags who kept tally
by way of joke. Good Lordy Mr. G.. can hardly t
dream of any other ogre 'the duck river Colo
mel. How triumphantly does the constant stream a
of Congressional abuse against the Executive dis
prove their allegation that he is second-rae man C
Houston of Alabama made the second speech of the a
day, confnng his remarks to the subject literally be- a
fore the Committee. Mr.. Houston is emphatcaly fi
man OF facts and figures, and aherefore safe man. G
lie may well be proud of his complete triumph over
Flnton, whose garblings and bubbles are Just now b
being relied on by the opposition aid in making the
SeSp panic. cannot essay TO sketch his retutdtiOn
OF the untouuded deductions and unfair quotations n
with which Flnton opened the debate, for it was re- Il
pete with statistical statements and calculations h
trust you will spread his effort before your readers
1t being indeed antidote to the poison of Mr. Chair
man of the Committee of Ways and Means which
besides being ranked from this city by thousands in ~
all directons being republished by half the feder-
al papers in the land Hudson, of Massachusetts ci
Iarson Hudson-who beat Tom Pepper, who u
beat the Devil certain OCCASION and at an up-
gaThe-followed Hodstop and NicholI ~
pf New York; closed the days debate The last n
mentioned new member, made one of the best u
speeches of the session. u
Federalism suffered awfully in tho Senate yestar ~
uay. The resolutions of thanks General TAYLOR Ia
coming up, Mr. Crittenden essayed rebukeato his ID Ia
broher-whg Hale for standing alone in the Senate s
III opposition to them. He threatened and then coax
ed, and again abused the Senator from (elected by r.
the whlgs) New Hampshire This was truly unfor- ~
tanate as an efortn behalf of the claims of the Com
Inander OF the Army of Occupation, into Which it a.
was construed by all present Hale replied in bet ~
ter speech than he had before made In fact he had
inc vantage ground of his antagonist for he stood va
on principle He called the Senate to witness that ~
Lough aenabe as he might be to the CHARGE of abo-
men might brand him for traitor e
III te ORDINARY acceptatlon of the term-no one could h
win truth point to him for hypocrite He had not r.;
spent weeks In attempting to prove the war nouGht -
but murder, robbery, &C., on grand scale and then
LOT Partlzan political purpose wheeled round and bc
hdVocated vote OF thanks to the chief murderer and -
roDoer OF them ALL Such was the substance of his -
argument In defence of his position Foote reDIind
W a LII one OF the most sarcastic, witherino sDeech
es ever delivered In the Senate. He scathed u.Jo e
lor tile shamelessness OF his treachery to his conn -
ys cause, and the federalists of the Senate for tho "
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