Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-12-22


ton in the House of Representatives with reference
cognsng the Governments OF Spanish America running
all the way through history down to the bill for which
the gentleman from Massachusetts, voted himself to re
cogoise the black Republics OF Hayt aud Liberia Cor
gres has always expressed Itself by bills resolutions and
appropriations upon these questions OF international
cernmeut.
Gentlemen say that they would nave voted for this
luton If it modified to read the Executive
Department The gentleman from Pennsyivania hr,
STEyENs) said that. But the word Executive" or
President" includes all these officers; and there
for tabng the resolution except this that it strikes
at the policy Of the Secretary of State or the President
for whom he speaks And what is that policy policy
which humiaes this country the eyes of the world
policy which placed before France knees with
mouths in the dust which told the Emperor of France
that we the Congress Of the United States had voice
in this matter but that this Government would humate
itself in the dust before foreign Power and allow that
Power to overturn all the cherished traditions Of ma
on and TO place and perpetuae throne upon this cont
nent Not sucb sir the old policy Of the better days
of this Republic when another policy and another parry
ruled 10 this country.
Let not this House by its vote crnge before The Exc
cutve power Let stand up in its self defence and
for its privileges for its retrospect aud its own
dignity Let emulate something Of the dignity and sci
respect Of tbs old parlamentsrsns Of the better days of
England when dared to go to the Tower when men
drawn and quartered because they criticized the
prerogatives which we're unconsttutionaly exercised
Mr.. DAVIS, Of Maryland, said his request had been
made in all seriousness lie not in the least degree
rufisd in his temper He hsd been brought up mino
ties and lived in minores and trusted he would always
bear himself with equsnimty During the eight years
service in this House he had manifested personal spleen
or disappointment hence there occasion for the
mean malice Of the gentleman from Massachusetts
1t had been repeatedly stated that the resolution
sailed the President lie ready to assal the Presi
dent any body else when he stood the broad
track Of republican principles and yet nobody In the
committee contemplated assault on the President The
resolution not cobweb Of his brain, brought
here to hang fine dissertations upon about the abstract
rights Of different departments Of the Government This
House had asserted s authority in matters of the gsve
national importance which had arrested the stte
ton Of the civilized world and made anxious the heart Of
every friend of liberty 10 it. free nation borders
lay bleeding in the alons Of the French eagle, and
grant adventurer who had the soil of Mexico
called himself Emperor The American House Of Repre-
sentaves bad declared that 1t did not accord with
policy to recognise any monarchica Government erected
on the ruins OF any republican Government n America,
least Of all in Mexico our negbbor aud friend II did
not relate to remote possible contingencies, but to