St. Mary's beacon., 1858-05-13

dent os the Senate. HI, King. Il Alabama, then,
direcEed the roll to bs eaIIcxl. The yeas anal
nzys had been prfvi5uaiy ordered and nso-
cee1led to Be called - tho Secresafy u thef
Senate. Mr.. Ashury Dt4kcns. .F0Fss- three
Senators were present au Eipg I'VE absent
The yeas wefc
/ YEAs- Messrs. Benfd own, Buchanan.
Dana, Ewing, Of Illinois b. Gfpndy. HUB
bard, King, OF Alabama 1sMn, Norris. Nicho-
las. Miles, Page. Riycs, Robinson, Rzggles, Se-
yier, Strange, Dlllmadse. Upton, Walker,
Nars : Messrs. Bayard, aek.fCalhOun.
I Clay, CFEttcisdcn. Dayis. Ewing. of Ohio. Hsf-
bricks, Kent, Knight, Moore, PrcntiSs, Preston,
Robbins, Southland, Swift, Tornlinsaal, Webster,
White. - -
The passage Of the resolution was announced
from the chair Mr.. Benton rose and said that
nothing now remained but to execute the order
of the Senate, which he moved be done forth
with. II was ordered accordingly The Se-
cretary thereupon produced the original man
uscript journal of the Senate and opened at the
page which contained the condemnatury sen
te.rce of March 28, 1884, proceeded in open
Senate tn draw square of broad black lines
around the sentence. aud TO write across its
face in strong letters these words :-"Expungei
hy order of the Senate this 18th day of March,
/ 1897 Up 10 this moment the crowd in the
great circular gallery, looking down upon tho
Senate, though sulcn and menacins in their
looks. had made no manifestation Of feeling;
ana 1t WIS doubtless not the intention Of Mr..
/ Webster IL excite that manifestation when he
referred to their numbers aud expressed his ig-
noranyc Uf the feeling with which they would
syc the decd done which he SO deprecated
into To ti.t
mainly composed as usual, siaCethe bank uues-
ton bSsaa, v: friends II that Institution but
lis appearance be,x!me such that Senator linn
t.e colleague .! Senator Benton. MIR George
w. jones, since Senator from Iowa, and Others,
sent out and brought III arms ether friends
gathered about lnn, among them Mrs. Ben
ton, who, rcncnhC1Ig what hal happened to
General jackson. aud knowing that, after him,
her husband was most obnoxious ID the bank
party. had !.cr anxiety sufficiently elected to
wish 10 be near him, in this concluding scene
ot seven years contest with that great mo-
neycd po~cr. Things were iii this state. when
the Secretary Of the senate began to periorla
'he cxpunging process on the manuscript Jour-
nal. Instantly 4 storm cf Kisses grams and
vuclieratpns ar ae from the left wing OF the
c!rI unr gallery, oTcr ihe hea.i of Senator Duu-
ton. The presiding officer promptly gave tho
orlcr wlri'h the rules prescribe in such cases,
70 clear the gallery. NJ Benton opposed tho
! vrIer, saying. = g ..-.s .-. 1l.- -r-,s-l - -
= | hope the sa!le.ies will not be cleared, as
many innocent persons will be excluded who
have been guilty uf nu violation Of or,ler. Let
the rufans who have Ira.!c the disturbance
alone be punisllc,l let them he apprehended.
| nope the sergc.nt-at arms will be directed to
n,tcr the gallery aad seize the ruf1ians, ascer-
tanning who they are in the best way he can.
Let him apprchcud them AMI bring them to
the bar Of tne Senate. Let him seize the bank
rUifians. hope that they will not now Le
, suffered TO insult the Senate as they did when
it was under the powrr IF the Bank Of the Un-
lted States, when ruffiaylS, with arms upon
them, lnSu.ted us with iInpunity. Let chem
> bc taken and brought to the bar Of the Senate.
Here is one just above me that may easily bo
, iIcutifed-thc bank ruffians. 1886. .@ s..'-i
! Mr.. Bcllton knew tia: Ire was the obic.t OF
Z this outrage, aud that the way 10 treat these
} sl6altcrn wretchcs was TO DEFY and seize them,
: and have them dragged as criminals to the bar
| Of the Senate. They were con;:rcgated immc-
! diAtcly over his head, and had evidently col
lected into that place. His motion was agreed
$ 10. The order t. clear the galleries was re-
! vokcd, the order to seize the distur5ers was
given, and immediately executed by the ener.
SetGC ScA cAScAuI-dl-aIHS, DIT. OOlu OndEhbOTG
and his assistants. The ring-leader WAS seized
and brought to the bar. Tlis sudden exampl,
iitimidatc,! t.e rest, and the expunging pro
cess was performed in quiet. The whole seen.
WAS impressive but no part Of it 50 much $.
as t. sec the great leaders who for seven Ion:
= years had warred upon General jackson; and
/ thousand times pronuunced him ruined, caci
: rising in bis place. with painful reluctance, :,
| cnf:ss themselves van1tiiShei-to admit hi
power and their weakness-and to exhaIc theil
i gricfs in unavailing reproaches and impotent
dcprecations. 1t was attribute 10 his invinci
: tility which cast into tie sfacle al the euIo
: gum of bis friends. The gratifcatfon ofGeh.
r cral Jackson was extreme lie gave a gran,
/. iuner y the cx xPungcrs tas shey were called
| anal their wives, aipi bcing tto weak to SIT ID
i, tie table, lie only met the company, place.
the ''head clpungel" III bis CHAIR and with.
drew to his sick chamber. That cxpureation
) it was the 'ctowning mercy Of bis civil, a.
g New Orleans had bccn Of his military life 80.