The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1857-04-29
From the New yo,k Commercial Advertiser.
NOTICES OF ROCKS.

Ass,,osxesr os raR DssArss OF CoSGR Sss. FROM
,7ss 10 1856. Vol. II. New York; D Appleton
q 70.
Nr. Benton is proceeding with his work
fajpidis. Two Of the fifteen Or sixteen vol.
hrnes which the Abridgement is 10 compose
are already published--two stout octavos o.
afoat eight hundred pages each The hrst
volume closed with the FIRST session ct the
fourth Congress. June, 1896; the Second
so,ume begins with the second session OF the
,,me Congress, December, 1898. and ends
with the second session of the seventh Con.
press. March, 1903. During the period EN-.
braced by this second volume, President
Washington retired from Office, Presidents
Adams and Jefferson we're elected, ruptures
with France aud with the Barbary powers
incurred, and important debates were held
in regard 10 the free navigation Of the Mis-
sissippi, the alien and sedition laws, natural.
ization, the judiciary system. taxation, the
naval establishment, &c. The debates are
abridged BY Mr.. Benton with much care and
excellent judgment. and his notes, some Of
which are elaborate, are very instructive and
useful. Andrew Jackson, the after hero OF
New Orleans, first appears in the Congress.
sional debates in December, 1895. when he
smoke in the House Of Representatives in
defence of Gen. Sewers expedition against
the Cherokees. In note on this debate
Mr.. benton says:-
"The true ground on which the United
States becomes liable TO State for its ex-
penses in suppressing or repulsing Indian
hostiIities turns upon the idea Of an actual
invasion, or such imminent danger OF il as
tot to admit Of delay; then the contingency
happens in which the State may engage in
war, anil all the acts of Congress, and the
Government orders give way before con.
stitu.ional right. Tennessee, like other new
countrie, in the United States, was settled
without law, aud against law. Its early
settlers not only had no protection from the
Federal Government, but were under legal
disabilities To pursue the enemy. This arose
from the polics Of the Government to pre-
serve peace On the frontiers BY restraining
the advance Of settlements. and curblng the
disposition Of people To war. The history
&c all the new settlements, from the Atlantic
10 the Pacific, il the same; people 90 with
out law and against iaw and when they cal
neither be stopped By the Government, moi
driven back by tie Indians, then the Govern
ment gives then protection
In l.e-, slaves were recognized as pro
psrty by vote Of the House Of Representa-.
tives yeas 6s, nays 2s,l imposing direct
tax upon them. Most OF me members lrn'a
the slave States supported the tax, and M
reason assigned for their doing 50 was ina
" the taxatinn OF lands and slaves went TO
sether in the slave States-the people wert
used 10 TIE ass0ciatinn-and 10 omit slaves
- the direct tay wu-lld he unjust and unnoD
ulsr, as sparIng the rich and making the "a!
fall heavier upon persons q less prop'rty.
In l59s. the House o. Representative
was the scene Of the first debate on the pro
hibition Of slavery N territory, which tool
Place under the reherai ,onstitut'on.-
Messrs. hutiedse, Gus, 6aiiauh' harper
Narnum, and others, tnnk part 10 u, ana u
remarkable that the constitutional power
Congress to make the prohibition was M
questioned by any SPEAKER.
In the same year, ey close vote, the Nav
Department was created, and as the proceed
ings show, BY party vote-the Republican
OF that day being against navy.
Mr.. Benton directs attention g the lac
that ~ tie earlier Congresses. the speaker
were he'd 20 ne point even When we Hons
was N committee 81 lne whole, ana hence U
debates were Drlei, iorciOie and instructive.
The hrst instance o. Presidents Messag
being sent to the two Houses at the com
mencemeht OF session, occurred IN 1901
when Mr.. jefferson adopted that plan. In
note accompanying the Message he said :
"ln doing this have had principal regar
90 the convenience OF the Legislature, to IN
economy Of their tine. to their relief fror
the embarrassment OF immediate answers. o.
subjects not yet faily before them, and TO tb
benefits thence resulting 70 the pubic al
fairs" Dir. Benton says:-
~ was one " Mr.. JeHersnn's rrf,rms-
the f"rmer uay q assembling the two House
~ hear an address 70 person from the Presi
dent, returning an answer 10 II, the tw