The North-Carolina standard., 1849-01-10

MR.. sTEELEs RESOLUTIONS AGAIN.
twill BE ssensby reference 10 the proeeedipgso ol
the House of C6mmons, thar the substii1te reported
by Mr. Dobbin from the Select Commitiee 70 whom
the above Resolutons were referred came mp az the
special order of the day on Wednesday last. =
Quite an animated debate arose; principally upon
a call for the yeas and nays BY Mt. w IIliams ol
Mecklenburg, who with others, seemed misehieyous-
" inclined to make black and white . business
of the voting part ofike proceedings. Atsach man
Hesitation of Democratic ilberality, the Wing aide
Of the House appeared very much amazed. Strong
appeals were made against having the yeas and nays
recorded, ard it argued tatif the call was with
dawn unanimous vote could be had for the Resolu-
tions but not with it. Mess. Satferthwaie and Ray
ner especially were understood to appeal the mag
nanimity of their Democratic friends not to insist
the call. They treated the Resolutions as of Demo
cratic origin, and designed as traps to catch Wings
in-seeing the while, as doubt they didthe bait,
the long triggers and the short ones, and all that,
and peturing their imaginations the forlorn condi
ton Of their associates and themselves, when in p:
ture, they might perhaps be peeping through the
cracks of this Identical naughty Democratic trap.
Mr.. Steele heard it all The call insisted on,
land MI, Satterthwaite did not vote. Mr., Rayner at
first did not know whether he should vote or not on
the 4tha Resolution Perhaps he shoaid-like his
friend from Beaufort-ask to be excused. He desif
ed to amend BY modifying it not to deny fhat
the exercise ofgthe disputed power of Congress in
the premises was against the spirit and trse nneGAis
F tie f6nsftiJi, but merely to declare itf' eo1a-
Eryto BsipfeafiOq e fransrs IT HE E6,slststion.',
The SPeakersdeclared the amendment oat 2Sr order,
and MI r. did not vote on this Resolution he
thought Congress bad the constitutional power claim
ed by ats advocates. u - II $
Butt Mr.. Rayner did vote and for the 5th Res
olltion, by which he says he ,cM not eoneede. the
potc and others of his friends are in the cate
CORY. He somewhat defined his position afterwards
by suggesting that paper Resolutions but little
protection to the South, and when the emergency
arose that demanded resistance, he was for drawing
the sword. Mr.. H. C.iJones objected to the words
and meaning" in the 4th Resolution, and desired
they might be stricken out but his motion was ruled
out of order He believed that the exercise Of such
power by Congress would be against the ''spirit ~
but not " meaning' of the Constitution. Mr.. Jones
asked therefore to be excused from voting this
Resolution; but the House, not appreciating any
great difference between the words esprit +" and
meaning refused to excuse him, and he excused
himself Towards MI. Stanly (whose position, by
the way. was left underlined by his speeches,) the
House was more tender, and from some circumstance,
at his own request, he was excused from voting.
From some cause or other these Resolutions have
occasoned much .yexation and uneasness to the
Wing members Of the House, from first to last. They
expressed much regret at their first introduction by
Mr.. Steele, believing them to be sort of political
conceIn, which the Assembly had better let alone
and less regret at the call for the yeas and nays
on the substitute. The speeches of Messrs. Steven
son and Dobbin'in reply to Messrs. Rayner, Satter
thwaite, and Stanly, on Wednesday, were triumph
ant viadication of the Of the Democrats ofhe
House and we are obliged to believe that even the
Register would have been forced to excIam on the
occasion, had he been present, that the position of
the leaders of his party Zone at which the De-
mocrats WERE sexed and the Wings ashamed -