madge, Taylor, Tompkins, Trimble, Tucker of Virginia, Walker of Kentucky, Wallace, Whiteside, Whitman, Williams of New York, Wilson of Massachusetts, and Wilson of Pennsylvania.

NAYS-Messrs. Abbott, Anderson of Kentucky, Austin, Baldwin, Ball, Barbour of Virginia, Bassett, Bateman, Beecher, Blount, Burwell, Campbell, Cobb, Cook, Crafts, Desha, Edwards, Garnett, Hall of Delaware, Hall of North Carolina, Hendricks, Herrick, Hitchcock, Hogg, Johnson of Virginia, Lowndes, Middleton, Murray, H. Nelson, Patterson, Pindall, Pleasants, Rice, Richards, Savage, Scudder, Sergeant, Settle, Simkins, Tarr, Townsend, Tucker of South Carolina, Williams of Connecticut, and Williams of North

Carolina.

SWORD TO COL. JOHNSON.

A resolution awarding a sword to Col. Richard M. Johnson, in consideration of his valor and good conduct at the battle with the combined English and Indian forces on the river Thames, in Upper Canada, on the 5th of October, 1818, was read twice and put on its passage.

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of our country. The division of militia from the
State of Tennessee, under his command, destined
to participate in the defence of the Southern
frontier, descended from Nashville to New Or-
leans with unexampled rapidity, and arrived at
a moment the most auspicious to the safety of
that important point. Without this reinforce-
of the force called for by that great emergency.
ment General Jackson would have been destitute
The consequences of such deficiency might be
During that memorable campaign
imagined.
the gallantry of this corps and of its intrepid
commander elicited the thanks of a grateful
people, and of the illustrious General under whom
they fought and conquered. I accord my hearty
assent, said Mr. P., to the proposition made by
the gentleman from Tennessee to reward these
services by a suitable manifestation of the na-
tional gratitude. But Mr. P. suggested to him
the propriety of presenting it in a distinct reso-
lution, properly digested and matured.

Mr. DESHA made a few remarks in support of the expressions of the resolution, as to the gallant conduct of Col. Johnson, on the occasion referred to. He was present when those services were performed, and could bear testimony to the intrepidity displayed by Col. J.

Mr. CLAIBORNE, according to the suggestion of Mr. POINDEXTER, withdrew his proposition for the present; and the resolution then passed nem con.

THURSDAY, April 2.

Mr. CLAIBORNE rose to offer an amendment to the resolution. While the House was dispensing rewards, he said, for meritorious services, he wished to introduce to attention the names of two other characters. One was Major General Carroll, of Tennessee. That officer was engaged in the public service from the commencement of the late war to its glorious termination at New Orleans. Mr. C. briefly recapitulated some of the distinguished services which this officer had rendered. He had organized the force which repaired from Tennessee to the defence of New Orleans, and which by its rapid march under the direction and exertion of Gen. C. had reached that place in time to save the city from the enemy; and he had rendered other services too prominent to need being mentioned, and which would not permit him to be overlooked on this occasion. Mr. C. next mentioned Brigadier General Coffee, whose name was familiar to every one. At the commencement of the war that officer volunteered his services, and by his zeal and influence induced a great many others to enter the service. For his merit he was promoted Mr. ROBERTSON, of Louisiana, from the Comfrom captain of a mounted company to the committee on the Public Lands, to which was refermand of a brigade; and his gallant conduct in the Creek war, at Talledega, at New Orleans, &c. had proved him worthy of the distinction. Mr. C. concluded by moving to insert the names of these officers in the resolution.

Mr. POINDEXTER rose to second the motion of the honorable member from Tennessee. The distinguished services of General Carroll, from the commencement of the Creek war to the close of the late contest with Great Britain, Mr. C. said, were known to the nation, and appreciated by all who witnessed his meritorious conduct. At the critical and interesting period, when a powerful and well-disciplined army of the enemy invaded the State of Louisiana, and menaced the city of New Orleans, the exertions of General Carroll were particularly conspicuous, and eminently contributed to the glorious result which gave security to that city and renown to the arms 15th CoN. 1st Sess.-53

The SPEAKER presented a petition of Vicente Pazos, of Peru, in South America, on behalf of himself and others, praying compensation for their private property which was taken possession of upon the occupation of Amelia Island by the troops of the United States.-Referred to the Committee of Claims.

Mr. SEYBERT reported a bill to change the name of the district of Erie in the State of Ohio; which was read twice and ordered to be engrossed and read a third time to-day.

red the bill from the Senate, entitled "An act to adjust the claims to lots in the town of Vincennes, and for the sale of the land appropriated as a common for the use of the inhabitants of the said town," reported the same without amendment, and the bill was committed to a Committee of the Whole.

The SPEAKER laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the State of Pennsylvania, transmitting a certificate of the election of Jacob Hostetter, as a member of this House, in the place of Jacob Spangler, resigned; which was referred to the Committee of Elections.

Engrossed bills of the following titles, to wit: An act to change the name of the district of Erie, in the State of Ohio; and An act to provide for the publication of the laws of the United States, and for other purposes, were severally read a third time and passed.

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Honors to the Brave.

APRIL, 1818.

An engrossed bill for the relief of George Pear-gress of his gallantry and good conduct in the conflict son was read the third time and passed.

The bill from the Senate, entitled "An act limiting the time for claims being produced for lands authorized to be granted to the inhabitants of New Madrid," was read a third time and passed. The bill from the Senate, entitled "An act to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Office; and for designating the western boundary line of the Virginia military tract," was read the third time, and passed as amended.

of the river Thames, in Upper Canada.

Mr. CLAIBORNE said he had not yesterday named General Desha, in the remarks he then made; it escaped his recollection at the moment; but that officer was well entitled to the notice of the House. General Desha, it would be recollected, had left his seat in Congress, in the Summer of 1813, when the Northwestern campaign was a subject of great anxiety, and joined the Northwestern army, as commander of a division of Kentucky troops, and to his intrepidity and good conduct was in a great degree owing the result of the battle on the Thames. On that occasion he occupied, with his division, a situation of imminent danger; and at a moment when the the line, it was by General Desha's courage and example, and denouncing death to the first man that broke, that the ground was maintained, the tide of victory turned, and the day crowned with success. Mr. C. next turned to the services of Generals Carroll and Coffee, and enforced what he had yesterday said of them, by referring again to the various instances of the zeal, activity and bravery which had characterized their conduct, and which, under the Almighty, had saved the city of New Orleans from a ferocious enemy.

A message from the Senate informed the House that the Senate have passed the bill, entitled "An act confirming the claim of Tobias Rheams to a tract of land granted to him by the Spanish Gov-enemy pressed with great force on that part of ernment," with amendments. They have also passed a bill, entitled "An act for the relief of Lemuel H. Osgood;" in which amendments and bill they ask the concurrence of the House.

The House then resolved itself into a Committae of the Whole on the bill to provide for paying to the State of Indiana three per cent. out of the net proceeds of the sales of the public lands in said State, to be expended in the construction of roads and canals within the same.

Mr. HENDRICKS made an unsuccessful motion to strike out a clause which imposed on the State of Indiana annual reports of the proceedings under the bill; but the Committee having risen and reported the bill, Mr. H. renewed his motion, which was then agreed to, and the bill ordered to be engrossed, as amended, and read a third time..

Mr. HARRISON said, that with regard to the conduct of General Desha, in the action on the Thames, he had mentioned it with approbation in his official report of the action, and he now repeated that he there performed his duty, and did everything that he could do. But, so did General Henry, who was third in command, whilst GeneThe following bills successively passed through |ral Desha was fourth; they stand in that respect, Committees of the Whole House, and were sev-perfectly on an equality. erally ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, viz:

The bill for the relief of Sarah Dewees; the bill for the relief of Gad Worthington; the bill for the relief of Thomas and John Clifford, and others; the bill for the relief of Commodore John Rodgers; and the bill for the relief of certain friendly Creek Indians.

HONORS TO THE BRAVE.

Mr. H. moved, therefore, that the name of General William Henry be inserted in the second resolution. Mr. H. gave some explanations of the positions occupied by the two divisions in the action, and stated that it was the division of General Henry which occupied the front line, and was most pressed by the enemy; that of General Desha formed with it a right angle, and though less exposed, yet General Desha himself, he believed was at the point of junction where the fire was most heavy."

Mr. CLAIBORNE had not called to mind the

Mr. CLAIBORNE, agreeably to the intimation which he had yesterday given, to submit a resolution for awarding to certain officers testimonials particular circumstances of the affair, or doubtless of the respect of Congress for their distinguished he should have recollected the name of General services, offered the following joint resolution: Henry, and would have included him in the resoResolved, by the Senate and House of Representa-lutions which he had offered. These were hontives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be requested to cause gold medals to be struck, with suitable emblems and devices, and presented to Major General William Carroll and Brigadier General John Coffee, in testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of their gallantry and good conduct in the several conflicts during the late war, at Talashatchie,

Taladega, Enotochopko, Emuckfaw, Tehopeka, and

New Orleans.

Resolved, That the President be requested to cause a gold medal to be struck, with suitable emblems and devices, and presented to Major General Joseph Desha, in testimony of the high sense entertained by Con

orary rewards that cost the nation little, and he was always willing to bestow them upon gallant services. He had intended to propose swords on this occasion, but he found, by the precedents, that medals were more customary, though the cost of the latter was perhaps not less.

Mr. OGLE suggested a doubt whether, if these resolutions passed. it would not be proper also to

seek out the meritorious officers of the Revolution. He had no objection to voting a medal to each of the gallant officers named, but protested against selecting the officers of the late army and passing by those of the Revolution, for, if the

former merited one medal, those of the latter deserved two, and he moved that the subject be referred to the Military Committee, that resolutions might be reported conformably to his ideas; or at least that the distinguished officers of the Revolutionary Army might be included in these honorary rewards.

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them to reach it in time. Coffee was returning home from the Creek war, with an exhausted army, when information of the danger of New Orleans reached him at Baton Rouge. With his exhausted men and worn down horses he instantly started for the scene of action. No rest did he permit himself, day or night, but hastened with a Mr. COLSTON, though feeling the highest re- celerity unexampled and astonishing, and arrived spect for the officers mentioned, and for their just in time to save the city and win a conquest eminent services, yet objected to these resolutions which will ever be regarded as a most important on the ground that it was neither customary nor and most glorious one. Would the House deny proper, in voting these rewards, to go below the to such men as these the poor and pitiful reward commander of an army who had to bear the dis- now proposed? Carroll had been twice wounded grace of defeat, and who it was right should reap in the Creek war, and was called on, at a mothe rewards of success; that to pursue a different ment's warning, to repair to New Orleans. He course would involve the necessity of awarding hastily collected his troops, organized them for the same to numerous other cases, as there were the field in less time than was ever known, and at least fifty others who had rendered important with a rapidity never witnessed before, by his services and were entitled to notice; and it was unwearied exertions reached the city just in time better to stop, or Congress would be overwhelmed to insure the victory and share in its glory. Mr. with cases of this kind, &c. Mr. C. referred to C. agreed to what had been said about the Revothe evils which he had witnessed in Virginia, of lutionary veterans, but hoped, if it was thought making these rewards too common; and referred proper to reward them in this way, that gentleto the circumstance of the Legislature of that men would bring them forward in a separate propState being called on to appropriate fifteen thou-osition, and he would cheerfully support it. If sand dollars, at one time, for the purchase of he asked for what was not given to others, turn medals, &c. which had been voted to gallant them away. If he asked for what they did not officers from that State. He had opposed the deserve, turn them away. But if he asked for practice then, and felt himself bound, however them what others had received, and which they high his sense of the merits of the distinguished deserved much more than some who had received officers in question, to do it here. this distinction, he hoped it would not be denied to them.

Mr. SMITH, of Maryland, said a few words to Mr. CLAIBORNE, to show that the vote of a gold Mr. HOPKINSON made a few remarks to dismedal had always been considered a higher honorsuade the House from adopting these resolutions. than to bestow a sword, and that medals had, It was a painful task to urge this course; but, he therefore, been generally given to the Command- said this House had no wealth to bestow; these er-in-chief of an army, and swords to the inferior honors were all it had to give; they ought, thereofficers. fore, to be given sparingly, and not wasted. The honors of Congress ought not to be given, he said, for fidelity, for diligence, and bravery, because these were to be expected, and belonged to every American officer; but were intended for some signal action above all, to be rewarded above all. Instead of confining these marks of distinction to proper occasions, all history did not furnish as many of them as the history of this country for the last two or three years, and the practice was so common that it would cease to be any distinction at all. Mr. H. did not make these objections from any insensibility to the gallant services of the officers referred to by Mr. CLAIBORNE; but, besides his opposition on national grounds, he thought that delicacy towards these officers themselves ought to forbid the passage of the resolutions. It was now three years since the

Mr. CLAIBORNE observed, in reply to Mr. COLSTON, that the services of the officer named in the first resolution were as important and valuable as those of any Commander-in-chief in the nation; and if these distinctions had been granted in numerous other instances, as he could show they had been, it was highly proper they should be in this case, particularly when some who had received the honor had not served so long, nor rendered services half so important as the officers he now brought forward in the first resolution. Mr. C. then referred, severally, to the resolutions voting thanks and medals to General Brown, to General Scott, to Generals Ripley, Miller, and Porter, to General Gaines, and to General McComb, accompanied by thanks to their officers and men, and relied on these resolutions to show that the honors of Congress had not been confined to the Com-close of the war, and the public would ask why manders-in-chief, but, on the contrary, they were nearly all subordinate officers, and some not higher than the rank of Colonel. Generals Carroll and Coffee, if they had not the reputation of Commanders-in-chief, deserved the applause of saving a city from a merciless enemy, whose rallying words were "Beauty and Booty." Mr. C. adverted to the circumstances under which these officers received the news of the danger of New Orleans, and the great exertions which enabled

these officers had not received this reward before; why, for the first time, they were brought forward at this late day? And, after being so long neglected, might not the proceeding now be imputed to personal favor? Mr. H. concluded by moving that the resolutions lie on the table.

Mr. POINDEXTER hoped that the motion to lay the resolutions on the table would be withdrawn, that the two resolutions might be separated and the sense of the House taken on each by itself.

The bill from the Senate, to provide for payAfter some further opposition by Mr. CLAI- ing to the State of Indiana three per cent. of the BORNE to laying the resolution on the table, the net proceeds arising from the sales of the United question was taken on that motion and carried-States lands within the same, was read a third ayes 58, noes 54.

Mr. SEYBERT reported a bill to establish a port of entry and delivery, at Cape Vincent, at the fork of Lake Ontario and the head of the river St. Lawrence; which was read twice and order-morrow. ed to be engrossed and read a third time to