Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-01-27

lile HotaOle OeclaraIlOn, t1dt " II Ine aunnlnls-
tration was as pure as the angels in Heaven, it
must be and it should be put down."
This peculiar state of political feeling and
political affairs led to the introduction of sew
eral important questions, and to debates, in
volving great principles, and they often be-
came of an exciting character. One PROPOSE
ton, on which, the debates in the House, are
embodied in this volume, was for such an
amendment to the Constitution, as would pre-
vent the election of President and Vice Presi-
dent from deyolving on Congress. This prop
osition was carried in the House by a very de-
cisive vote, but one accompanying it, for uni
form system of voting by Districts, in which
each District should be entitled to one vote,
was lost
Another subject of exciting debate, was the
proposition of President Adams to send min
lister to the Congress of American Nations, to
be held at Panama. A series of Resolutions
in favor of general system of retrenchment
in the expenses of the government by re-
| ducton of the number of officers receiving sal
aries from the government, and the avoiding
of all appropriations, not absolutely required
by the justice of the claim or the necessities of
that government, gave rise to protracted and
able debate. The object of these resolutions
was, to embarass the administration and de-
prive it, as far as possible, of any patronage,
and thus to strengthen the opposing party,
which then had majority in Congress.
a &c all
in the two houses at this time. Among others
there were, in the Senate, Gov. Paris of
Maine, Samuel Bell and Judge Woodbury.
from New Hampshire, Dudley Chase from
Vermont, Daniel Webster from Massachusetts,
Martin Van Buren, from New York, Louis
McLane from Delaware, L. w. Tazewell and
John Tyler from Virginia, Nathaniel Macon
from No. Carolina, Robert Y. Hayne from So.
Carolina, ]. M. Berrin of Georgia, Hugh L.
White of Tennessee, Gen. Harrison from
Ohio, Thomas H. Benton from Missouri, &C.,
&C. In the House were Peleg Sprague from
Maine, Ichabod Bartlett from New Hampshire,
Isaac c. Bates, John Davis, Edward Everett,
and Benjamin Gorham of Massachusetts, Iris
tam Burgess from Rhode Island, C. C. Cam
breleng, T. j. Oakley, Henry r. Storrs, John
w. Taylor, and Silas Wright from New York,
James Buchanan, Samuel D. Ingham, and
John Sergeant from Pennsylvania, Philip P.
Barbour, John Randolph, VIM. c. Rives,
Charles Fenton Mercer, and Andrew Steven
son from Virginia, Gov. Hamilton and George
McDuf1ie from So. Carolina, Gov. Metcalf and
and Charles A. Wickliffe of Kentucky, John
Bell and James X. Polk of Tennessee, Joseph
Vance, Elisha Whittlesey, and John Wright
of Ohio, Edward Livingston of Louisiana and
Edward Bates, as the sole representative of
Missouri
We have extended this list, as matter of
curiosity to show how well the States were
represented at that time, and how much more
than now, they were in the habit of sending
their ablest men to Congress. 1t was the de-
bates of such men as these on the questions
we have alluded to and on kindred subjects, of
which the volume under notice is composed.
The principles they enunciated, and the argu-
ments by which they were supported, have lost
none of their value by age. They come to us
with an authority that makes them portion
of that mass, which, together, makes the COM
mon law of politics and legislation. They are
indispensable to the American who woul1 have
a just conception of the theory, principles, and
practical workings of our political system.
Samuel Clough of Providence, is wholesale
and retail agent for the work, as well as for all
the other publications of D. Appleton & Co.