The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-25

YET some Of my friends are Aiupost dsposed to
accuse the Committee Of Wuysa and Means Of a
disposition to plumber the Treasury, when we are
| trying to save the Government about $500, 600
| MIR. BROWN, of mississippi, interposng, and
the floor being yielded to him, said; Will the gen
tleman allow Inc to say that he has made a remark
| which am sure he viii qualify when his attention
is called it In the heat ofargument the gentle
man has dropped suggestion IN regard to. the
Mexican Government which am sure must have
been elected by what has been said BY gentlemen
the other side, and not duly weighed by the gem
tleman from Virginia. Whatever may have been
| our former relations with Mexico, have no doubt
my friend from Virginia would regard it as being
in bad taste, to say the least, to affirm that the
Mexican Government would not be above con-
niving at the robbery Of the specie in process of
trans portation to their capital for the payment of
an instnIment of the money due by this Govern
ment II ought TO be recollected, that the Mexi-
can Government has diplomatic agent here
What would we think if Lord Palmerston, in the
House of Lords in England, should say of the
tation of specie through the Republic, the Govern
ment would connve robbery
Mr. BAYLY. Suppose he should say so.
OF course, rese1f Il. - i
Mr. BAYLYIsseneif have said anything
MIR. BROWN. tmerely wish to suggest to the
gentleman whether he does not think it proper to
qualify his remarks.
Mr.. BAYLY. Well, sir, will qualify the re-
mark to please the Gentleman; but do not think
any the better of the Mexicans since the peace
than did before and during the war. believe
they are the same IN all respects
Mr.. BROWN. There is a difference between
| a state Of war and a state of peace
Mr.. BAYLY. Very well, them
(Cries of"Take it back; take it back, BAY
Mr. BAYIY Why the shortest way to get
clear ofthis thing is to take ii all back. suppose
every one understood by remark to be iocular.
/. Mr.. ASEiMUN, (the floor being yielded) said
he would suggest to the gentleman from Illinois,
the chairman of the Committee on Foreign At
fairs, that he ought to retract what he had said
in reference to the British Government stealing
n Mr.. BAYLY Now have go. into pretty
fix. ~ "a
Mr.. BROWN, of Mississippi, said he had sim
ply called the attention of the gentleman from Vr-
ginia to this matter, because on account Of his po-
sition here, which is well understood in Mexico,
any expression used by him is calculated to have
weight and importance attached to it. at y
| Mr.. McCLERNAND. The gentleman from
Massachusetts has stated that imputed to the
British Government purpose to steal this money.
said no such thing, and do not believe the gen
tleman understood me to say so. 1t was certainly
very far from my purpose to say so. stated that
| tHt IlcAtCdu 0OVcffIneHL was }nQeDleu 10 the
| British Government !; that here was proposition
| to pay over this money to the Earrings, and that
it was not impossible that the British Government
! might lay its hands on the money, and apply it to
the liquidation of portion of the debt. did not
impute dishonesty to the British Government. II
it be true that the Mexican Government owes the
British Government, would not the latter have a
right to deain the money Of the former in the
hands Of subject Of Great Britain
| Mr.. BAYLY (resuming) said: Sir, as the gen
teman seems to think that from my official posi-.
ton the remark made will be excessively often
siye to the Mexican Government, | beg that the
reporters will not take the slightest notice Of it.
But the gentleman need have no fear; if this coun-
try and Mexico should get into difficulty about it
/ trust shall be surrendered up as an offender
and dealt with according to law. But the gentle
man from Mississippi asks, what would we think
/ If Lord Palmerston should get up before the
/ House of Commons in England, and make such
all insinuation in regard to this Government?
| would ask the gentleman what he thinks this
/ Government ought to do in such case, 1t has
so occurred that this very Lord Palmerston did
in the British House of Commons on one occa-
sion, when speaking Of Of the States Of this
Unon-and the gentleman from Mississippi, be-
lieve regards that dignity as much higher than
| that of the General Government certainly do,
and think my friend from Mississippi does also
had the effrontry to talk about bad faith, oil
swindling on the part of of the States of this
/ Union, asState too, with which believe the gen.
/ tleman from Mississippi has some little acquaint-
| ance. And yet the American minister did not de-
mand his passports and come away. And neither
the gentleman nor anybody moved declaration OF
war in this House.
Sir, am sorry that l have been obliged to de-
tain the committee so long.