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port. Congress had better know the true tion and corruption, and teach a domineering
state of affairs e'er any more money be squan-iew that they must not commit all sorts of abom-
dered away on a place the public can never fnations in the good name of democracy, and
then hope to hide themselves from public scorn
expect a return of any kind.
by sheltering their guilty heads beneath her
wings.

Extract of a letter to the Editor from a gentle

Rely upon it, Sir, that if the people are compelled to denounce the Senate for having reman in New Hampshire. In New England, as in other parts of the jected a part of the President's bad nominations, Union, there are many men, who, in the hour of or else denounce the President for appointing trial, when Gen. Jackson needed friends, stood to responsible offices, miserable men who had forth in his defence and manfully breasted the been rejected by the Senate for cause, nearly torrent of abuse which was poured upon them unanimously, the Senate will have nothing to on his account; but who now are asking them- fear; the President, much. The establishments selves whether, as consistent politicians, or as for the manufacture of public indignation to honest men, they can advance another step in order" are now out of employment, and the inhis support. They have almost concluded that dependent, thinking portion of the community, begin to stir; and wo to dishonesty and political hypocrisy, when once the great body of the people are themselves again.

"It is worse to bear the ills they feel, Than fly to those they know not of." It would have been pleasing to them had the Judging from the tone of the New England President, months ago, freed himself from that "malign influence," which has already well press, you might suppose Mr. Calhoun has but nigh made shipwreck of his once powerful few if any friends in the northern States; but personal popularity. The President, unfortu- I assure you such is not the case; for there are tunately for himself and the country, has turned a many here who still hope to have an opportudeaf ear to the warning voices of his best friends, nity to show their attachinent to a man, who, in and listened with confidence to the opinions of the dark hours of the late war, discharged all those who love and obey him, not for his good his duty to his country, while another, now of deeds, but for the loaves and fishes with which some notoriety, was prowling about New York, he feeds them. Instead of permitting its friends diligently laboring to defeat the election of that to judge it by its measures, the administration President, whose adminis ration felt sensibly sets in judgment upon those who brought it the support afforded it by Mr. Calhoun. Should into power, and condemns, and then denoun- a ticket be submitted to the people, reading ces, through the mighty GLOBE, every man who thus-Jonn C.Calhoun President, and Philip P. will not bow submissively at the feet of power. Barbour Vice President; such an one would and admit that "the king can do no wrong." find friends even in New England; and friends, Honorable and highminded Senators are abused too, quite as numerous as General Jackson or and vilified for thefaithful discharge of their duty, Mr. Clay's friends would like to see. At all while acting under the solemnities of their oaths events, Mr. Barbour's friends should urge his of office; and this, too, by the very creatures who election as Vice President, for I doubt not but were brought into power by the influence of he will, if a candidate, receive more votes than those Senators, and are now basking in the sun- Mr. Van Buren will; for a union has already taken shine of Executive partiality and extravagance. place between the anti-masons and the friends Sir, have the best days of the republic passed, of Clay in New York, which will place the vote or are they yet to come? For surely, these can- of that State beyond the control of Mr. Van not be they, when statesmen like Calhoun, Buren, leaving him Maine, New Hampshire, Tazewell, Poindexter, Hayne, Tyler, Miller, Tennessee, and Georgia, with their forty-three Moore, Bibb, McDuffie, Root, Pitcher, Suther electoral votes, as all he can call his own; and land, Coulter, Wickliffe, Daniel, John S. even one of these extremely doubtful. As the President has undertaken to make Barbour, and their associates in Congress, and besides whom a host of worthies through Mr. Van Buren his first mate, and soon his sucthe nation, who have done their country some cessor, why should the friends of Mr. Calhoun service in other days, are denounced as traitors hesitate any longer about bringing him into the to their principles and friends; and denounced, field? too, by the acknowledged organ of the chief magistrate himself. It is the noon of American glory, when the principles of Old Virginia Let all the ends thou aim'st at, be thy country's and thy must give room for the uncer ain, unknown Then thou fall'st, thoul't fall a blessed martyr political doctrines of New York, and a Barbour And, unconcerned, may view the falling whole, give place to a Van Buren? It does seem to me, And still maintain the purpose of your soul." Sir, that there is yet a redeeming spirit in the and; that the time has pot fully come when

few office holders at Washington can compel Will some one of the kindest of the "rascalthe people to put up or put down whomsoever ly postmasters" between this and Washington, they may order to be exalted or abased; but it have the goodness to search among his sly cordoes seem to me, that the time has come when ners, and if possible extricate sundry stray cothe honest part of the community should rise pies of the Washington Telegraph, addressed in their strength and stay the hand of proscrip-to this office? Has Mr. Barry's decree against

the further circulation of that print actually and last, that the bank "should not issue and gone into effect? Is the conspiracy against the currency which shall not be payable on demand opposition journals at length broke out in open at the branch were first issued," was also reand undisguised efforts to suppress their trans-jected, by a vote of 27 to 17.

mission through the post office-an institution Mr. MARCY, of New York, then proposed an that belongs to THE PEOPLE, but now convert- amendment that Congress should," at any time ed into an instrument for promoting the de- after the new charter came into operation, be signs of a worthless, corrupt, and ferocious privileged to change, alter, or modify the char. kitchen cabinet? How else shall we account ter, as exigency might require. This motion for the fact, that while the Globe passes freely was lost-29 to 15.

from Washington to New York, in one day, it Mr. TAZEWELL next proposed an amendment requires two or three days, and sometimes for- to "strike out 15 in the 6th line, (this referred ever for the Telegraph to perform the same to the donation of the charter,) and to insert journey? Oh, that the eloquent Kinderhooker were here, to describe the extent of "our suf ferings," for they really "is intolerable!" N. Y. Evening Journal.

CONGRESSIONAL

MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1832.

10." Mr. TAZEWELL supported his amendment with his usual ability, He was replied to by Mr. DALLAS. Then followed Mr. HAYNE, in support of Mr. T.'s motion, Mr. CLAY and Mr. WEBSTER against; and, after an animated and lengthened discussion, in which Mr. BENTON, Mr. SMITH, and others, took part, the amend- * ment was negatived, by a vote of 27 to 20.

The bill was then reported to the Senate, and ordered to be printed as amended. Senate then, at a late hour, adjourned.

The

In the SENATE, on Saturday, Mr. Daltas presented two memorials from citizens in Phila delphia, remonstrating against any reduction of duty on imported leather. Mr.PRENTISS present- In the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Mr. ed a similar memorial from citizens in Windsor, VERPLANK, from the Committee of Ways and Vermont. The resolution, submitted by Mr. Means, reported a bill to provide for carrying BENTON, calling on the Secretary of the Trea- into effect the treaty of limits between the sury for monthly statements of the affairs of the United States of America and the United MexiUnited States' Bank, for the last three months, can States. It was read twice and committed was agreed to. Mr. KING presented a memo-to the Committee of the Whole on the state of rial from the Board of Commerce of Mobile the Union. Mr. DOUBLEDAY and Mr. STEWART praying for an appropriation, from Congress, severally presented amendments to the tariff for deepening the channel of the bar of Mo-bill, and they were ordered to be printed. Mr. bile. Mr. SMITH called up the bill to release | RUSSELL moved a resolution, which was agreed to from duty, iron used on rail roads and inclined of providing that the House, for the remainder planes: a modification to an amendment propos. the session or until otherwise ordered, should ed by Mr. HAYNE, having been adopted, the meet at 10 o'clock in the morning. Mr. SUTHER bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third LAND presented a memorial from numerous citi reading. Several private bills were ordered ens of Philadelphia, on the subject of the tariff to a third reading: the following were read a which was referred. The resolution, on the sub third time and passed-the bill for the relief of ject of the Post Office, was, after a short discus John F. Girod of Louisiana; the bill for the sion agreed to,the previous question having been "relief of Henry Waller;" the bill releasing ordered on the motion of Mr. Roor. The the title of the United States to the site of Fort SPEAKER laid before the House a communication Ganesvoort in the harbor of New York; and the rom the Secretary of the Treasury, with furbill to revive and continue the act for the pay- ther information respecting the tariff. It was ment of certificates of 7th May, 1822. referred to the Committee on Manufactures. The consideration of the bank bill was resu-The House was engaged, during the residue of med by the Senate as in Committee of the the day, in the consideration of the bills relatWhole. Several amendments, submitted by ing to the tariff, a great number of which were Mr. BENTON, on the previous day, first came acted upon, and at 4 o'clock the House adup-one to repeal so much of the original char- journed.

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ter as restricts any future Congress from granting charters of incorporation to other banking companies, and grants exclusive privileges to In the SENATE, yesterday, Mr. BENTON laid the stockholders in the Bank of the U. States, on the table a resolution calling on the Secreafter being discussed, was rejected by a vote of tary of the Treasury to report the whole 26 to 16. The second amendment, that no amount of branch bank orders which have been member of Congress, officer of the Federal Go issued, and from what branches. Mr. DALLAS vernment, or alien, should be allowed to hold presented a memorial from sundry farmers and stock in the bank, was also rejected-34 so 6. mechanics, &c., of Pennsylvania, remonstrating The third, that the stockholders should be "lia- against any abandonment of the protective sysble in their individual and private capacities to tem. In the course of the morning's business, the amount of their stock," if the bank should several bills were considered and passed to a any time fail to pay its responsibilities, gave third reading, among which were the bills to rise to considerable debate, and was finally re- confirm certain claims to land in the Territory jected, on a division, by 33 to 11. The fourth of Arkansas, and the bill to amend the act for

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Treasury, with instructions to report them:

this was rejected, ayes 10, noes 37. At 6 o'- may again come up together. clock in the evening, the Senate adjourned.

In answer to an inquiry of Mr. FORSYTH, re

In the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, lative to Mr. SPRAGUE's resolution on the colomemorials were presented by Messrs. MIL- nial trade, still laying on the table, Mr. S. said LIGAN, CHOATE, and JOHNSON, of Kentucky. that having fully expressed his own opinion on Mr. WHITTESEY, from the Committee of Claims, the subject, it was not his intention again to reported a private bill; Mr. ADAMS, from the call it up, unless at the instanne of any Senator Committee on Manufactures, a bill from the Se. who wished an opportunity to record his sentimate for the reduction of duty on iron to be used ments on the measure. The following bills for railroads; Mr. WICKLIFFE, from the Com- were read a third time and passed: mittee on Public Lands, made a report, accompanied by a resolution, on the subject of cer

tain treaties between the United States and the

The bill for the relief of the legal represen tatives of David Dardin, deceased; The bill for the relief of the legal representatives of John McKew;

The bill for the relief of Dorothy Wells, widow;

The bill for the relief of Gertrude Gates; The bill to remove the Surveyor General's Office, south of Tennessee; and

Chickasaw Indians; a bill was also reported from the same committee supplemental to an act granting pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands. The further consideration of both these subjects was postponed till this day a week. Mr. H. EVERETT offered a resolution, calling on the Secretary of the Treasury The bill making an appropriation for the eto report to the House the amount and value ployment of additional clerks in the Surveyor. of wool imported into this country from Smyr-General's offices in Mississippi, in the south of na; which was agreed to. The House, on moTennessee, in Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, and the tion of Mr. ADAMS, then went into a Committee Michigan Territory. of the Whole on the state of the Union, upon The bank bill, the special order of the day, the tariff. Mr. ADAMS addressed the House on was then taken up. The several andments the subject of the amendment offered by the having been gone through, and agreed to, on gentleman from Pennsylvania; after which, the preceding evening, the question was now Mr. JENIFER, Mr. STEWART, Mr. DEARBORN, on ordering the bill to be engrossed for a third and CRAIG. The question was then taken on reading.

the modifications submitted by the gentleman Mr. WHITE, of Tennessee, being in possesfrom Maryland (Mr. JENIFER) to the amend- sion of the floor, addressed the Senate at great ment of the gentleman from Pennsylvania, (Mr. length against the principles of the present STEWART,) which were rejected. Mr. ALLEN charter generally-against giving the exclusive then offered an amendment providing that the franchise to the present bank, on the score of duties on cotton bagging, &c. should remain their having violated their charter in regard to as at present; also, to make certain other pro- the circulation of bank orders-and against the visions on the same subject. This amendment expediency of the present time in so long analso was rejected. The question then recur- ticipating the expiration of the charter yet in red on the amendment of Mr. STEWART, on force; and had not concluded his remarks, which Mr. Davis addressed the House till four when, after speaking two hours, he gave way o'clock; when the committee rose, and the to a motion of Mr. GRUNDr's to adjourn. House adjourned.

FRIDAY, JUNE 8.

In the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, at the opening of the sitting, a question arose in relation to one of the documents appended In the SENATE, yesterday, Mr. FRELING to the report of Mr. ADAMS, on the bank, which BUYSEN presented a memorial from Newark, N.J. gave rise to a long discussion. It was upon the numerously signed, praying that Congress will subject of the money advanced by the Bank of do nothing to interfere with the settled policy the United States, in anticipation of the appro of the country with regard to the protection of priation bill, for the payment of the mileage domestic industry. Mr. TIPTON, from the Com- and allowance of members of Congress. A mittee on Public Lands, submitted a report on statement in explanation of this matter was read the resolutions of the Indiana legislature, and from the Chair, showing that the money had also of the Senate, relative to the sale of lands not been loaned to the members or paid in adin Indiana. The Senate concurred in the vance, but was actually due to them when amendment of the House, to the bill authoriz paid; and a resolution was moved by Mr. ing the inhabitants of Indiana to enter their LETCHER, and agreed to, directing the stateback lands. Several private and other bills ment to be entered on the journals of the were forwarded in their legislative stages, House and printed, as an appendage to the which will be again noticed in order, on their document in question. The bill further to ex. third reading. The Committee on the Judi-tend the pensions of the widows of those ciary, reported certain amendments to the bill who have died or been slain in the naval ser. concerning the issuing of patents to aliens; the vice, was ordered to be engrossed for a third bill, after several of the Senators had briefly reading this day. Mr. STEWART made an unexpressed their opinions thereon, was again laid successful motion to suspend the rule, for the onthe table; and an other bill of similar descrip- purpose of moving to print his amendment on tion, was, on the motion of Mr. MARCY, taken the tariff question. The House, afterwards,

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