The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-09-06

er trivial in itself the investigation might be-.
Mr.. Carter wished to know.whether it would
be in order to have the writ returnable before
the magistrate.
Mr.. Stanton, of Kentucky, one of the com.
mittee, explained that Mr.. Richie did not in
tend to treat with contempt the authority ofthe
committee or the House. After answering be.
fore the committee, he left it with the impress
sion that the committee was satisfied with the
answer. He was surprised to learn the action
of the committee after he left.
Mr. Schenck said that Mr. Ritche was very
courteous towards the committee, but still he
was contunacious witness in technical
sense.
Mr.. Meade denounced the whole proceeding
Of the House, authorizing appointment of an
nqusitorial Committee to extort from an editor
the names Of such office holders as were cor
respondents for his paper, as most unjust to in
dvidual right, and dangerous to the liberty Of
the press and OF the people. He maintained
that a man did not become a slave by accept
ing office under the Government, and that he
had the right, as freeman, to dispose OF his
time, not belonging to the Government, as he
pleased and to dispose of his money received
from the Government as he pleased.
He deemed it the duty of the House to re-
trace its action in this matter, because it was
anti-republican in principle, especially improper
as theinformation proposed to be extorted could
not afford matter for Legislative action. The
judiciary, he maintained, would discharge a man
upon such an arrest. He reioiced that the ed
tor had refused to answer such impertinent
questions as had been directed by the House.
Mr.. Carter moved a substitute for the origi-
nal resolution and amendment as follows:
Resolved, That the subject be recommitted
to the committee, with instructions to proceed
by the ordinary process of investigation to the
discharge of their important duties.
The previous question was moved and sus-
tained
Mr. Stanly was about to make concluding
speech on the subject, but
Mr. P. King, of New York, moved that the
House proceed to the consideration otthe busi-
ness on the Speakers table 1t was carried in
the affirmative, and
The Texas Boundary bill and the proposed
amendments we're taken up.
Mr. Clarke, of New York, who was entitled
to the floor, replied to the remarks of Mr..
Brooks, of Yesterday. He said that with him
and his constituents the Wilnot Proviso or
more properly, the Proviso of 'S7. was a senti-
ment or an abiding principle. He alluded to
the abandonment of the Proviso by Mr.. Brooks,
and said that the gentleman in the New Con-
vcntiou introduced resolutions strongly enforc-
ing the Wimot Proviso, and that it should be
forever applied to our territories; and that now
he had abandoned it because, as he alleges it
was merely used then for the purpose of arrest
ing the progress of the American arms in Mex
leo.
Why, said Mr.. Clarke, the Mexican war had
terminated six months before the resolutions
were penned and introduced into that Conven-
ton. Mr. Clarke then examined into the claim
of Texas, to show that she had no right to the
territory claimed by her and in dispute between
her and New Mexico. He, for one, should vote
against paying her Il dollar for land that did
not belong to her.
Mr.. German defended the right of Texas to
all the territory east of the Rio Grinde, com.
pretending Santa Fe and all the inhabited por-
ton of New Mexico, or nearl y so. He viewed
the junction Of the extremists Of the North and
South-the junction of ultra slavery men and
the free soil men against this bill, as portentivc
of great evil to the country. He advocated the
passage of the bill, and maintained that it could
be passed If it were not for the New York rep
representatives, who were SO acting sto place
the responsibility upon the President of using,
or not, in a certain contingency, the military
power Of the country against Texas.
He warned them that their conduct was lead
ing this country to Il civil war. Before conclu.
ding, however, should civil war come, which he
prayed God to avert, he would be found where
the flag of his country was found. He con
cluded by denouncing the Wilmot Proviso as
having been brought forth by ingenuity, and
that it had had an iniqutous race.
Mr.. Daniel obtained the floor, but yielded to
motion that the House adjourn, and it accord.
i"g!y adjourned
THE BILL IN THE HOUSE.
"Ion," writing to the Baltimore Sun on Sat-
urday, says:
"There arc at least hundred and twenty
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