MAY 12, 1834.] Exiles from Poland.—Memorials from New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. [SENATE. men that will inhabit the valley west of the Allegany YEAS.-Messrs. Forsyth, Grundy, Hendricks, Hill, mountains, and between the great Lakes and the Gulf of Kane, King of Alabama, King of Georgia, Linn, Moore, Mexico. Already a settlement on the west bank of the Preston, Shepley, Tipton, Tyler, White, Wilkins, Wright. Mississippi, north of the State of Missouri, has laid on -16. our tables a petition praying Congress to extend the pro- NAYS. Messrs. Benton, Black, Clayton, Ewing, Fretection of our laws over that country. We owe it to our linghuysen, Kent, Naudain, Poindexter, Porter, Prentiss, constituents, to our country, and selves, that our legisla- Robbins, Smith, Southard, Sprague, Swift, Tallmadge, tion should keep pace with our population and the exten- Tomlinson, Waggaman, Webster.-19. sion of our settlements; and he hoped, before Congress The question was then put upon ordering the bill to be adjourns, we will authorize the admission of Michigan and engrossed, and decided by yeas and nays, as follows: Arkansas, and form the territorial government of Wiscon- YEAS. Messrs. Benton, Black, Calhoun, Clayton, Ewsin. In this territory the Indian title has been extin-ing, Frelinghuysen, Grundy, Hendricks, Kane, Kent, guished to twelve millions of acres of land that will soon be in market. Mr. CLAYTON said he had no objection to the bill, but the question of settling the northern boundary line of Ohio was before the Judiciary Committee, and he thought this bill ought not to be passed till that was settled. Mr. BLACK said he saw no provision in the bill exempting the public lands from taxation for five years. There were also some other amendments not in the bill, which he deemed it very proper should be put in it. Mr. TIPTON said he had no objections to any amendments which might be thought proper. On motion of Mr. CLAYTON, the bill was then laid on the table for the present. King of Alabama, King of Georgia, Knight, Linn, Nau- NAYS.-Messrs. Brown, Forsyth, Hill, Moore, Shep- On this question the yeas and nays were ordered, and the question being taken, it was decided in the affirmative: yeas 26, nays 14. The Senate then adjourned. MONDAY, MAY 12. The Senate then proceeded to consider the bill grant- NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, AND MICHIGAN ing a township of land to certain EXILES FROM POLAND. Mr. POINDEXTER moved to amend the bill by requiring one settler for every five hundred acres, instead of three hundred, as provided for in the bill; which was agreed to. Mr. LINN then moved an amendment to insert "Missouri," so as to authorize the location in that State, if the President shall think proper. Mr. POINDEXTER said, that these exiles preferred a location in a non-slaveholding State. Mr. LINN remarked, that his wish was not to restrict these persons; he rather wished to give them a greater latitude for their choice. The amendment was not agreed to. Mr. KANE was opposed to the bill. In its present form it would authorize a location on the Galena lead mines. He did not approve of the preference given to these people over our own citizens, and he, for one, was unwilling to make the discrimination. He therefore moved an amendment, confining the location "to lands subject to sale at private entry.' The amendment was not agreed to. MEMORIALS. Mr. WEBSTER presented a memorial from citizens of Rochester, in the State of New York. This memorial, said Mr. W., is signed by 1,371 persons, and, I am authorized to say, contains the names of persons who have been heretofore friends and supporters of the present Executive. The city of Rochester is one of those new creations which have sprung up, in western New York, as by a sort of enchantment. Some twenty years ago, it was a wilderness; it is now a city, of twelve thousand inhabitants. With vast water power at command, and a great wheat country around it, it is naturally a place for extensive manufacture of flour. The manufacturers of this important article find themselves greatly embarrassed by the state of public credit. A great portion of the signers of the memorial are mechanics, and they suffer from loss of employment. morial declares that the value of products is diminished; the usual means of obtaining credits cut off; business suspended; the demand for labor diminished; and the undertakings and enterprises which promised benefit to the community suddenly arrested. The me I have some knowledge of some of the persons whose names are to this paper; and I have received assurances Mr. HENDRICKS was opposed to the bill. He was of the respectable character of others. Their representwilling to sell these persons the land at a minimum price, ative in the other House is so capable of doing them juson a long credit, but not to give it to them. A case of tice, in all respects, that I need not dilate on the various foreigners, similarly circumstanced, existed in Indiana. topics of the memorial. I have no doubt of the truth and A large number of emigrants from the cantons of Swit-accuracy of their statements, nor of the correctness of zerland settled there, in the most abject poverty, and hav- their judgment in assigning their suffering to the removal ing devoted themselves to the cultivation of the vine, by of the deposites. In this respect, I believe a great maindustry and economy they had accumulated a respecta-jority of the country concurs entirely with these memoble property. He merely suggested the plan of sale, on rialists; and it seems strange to me that any intelligent and extended credit, to the chairman of the Committee on well-informed person can entertain a different opinion. Public Lands. Mr. W. next presented a memorial from the citizens Mr. PRESTON and Mr. SHEPLEY made a few re- of Mifflin county, Pennsylvania. This memorial, he marks, the former in favor, and the latter against, the said, was on the same subject, and expressed similar bill; when it was ordered to be engrossed for a third sentiments as the preceding. It prayed earnestly for rereading. lief. The county of Mifflin, said Mr. W., is a central The bill to provide for the legal adjudication and set-county of Pennsylvania; its products are those of agricultlement of the claims to land therein mentioned, was then ture, and of the manufacture of iron. Every body knows taken up; upon the consideration of which, a considerable the character of the Juniata iron, and this is one of the debate ensued. counties in which it is made. I have received this memo Mr. SHEPLEY moved to amend the bill, by allowing rial from a committee appointed to transmit it, composed testimony to be taken in courts of justice, upon which the of persons whom I believe to be very respectable. I am yeas and nays were ordered. Tassured, sir, that the produce of this county, including Polish Patriots.-Michigan and Arkansas. —Rhode Island Election, &c. The memorials were then referred. [MAY 12, 1834. iron, has sold for half a million of dollars a year. It is ites, in the manner in which they were removed. They supposed that this produce has fallen twenty per cent., so think they daily see an assumption of power; and they that the loss to this county, in one year, by this depression cannot approve it. of prices, is no less a sum than one hundred thousand earnest hope that the "experiment" may be abandoned, dollars. It is believed too, sir, that if it were thought and the public money restored to its proper custody. In consequence, they express an that memorials, remonstrances, and petitions, would influence the determination of Congress, two-thirds of the citizens of Mifflin county would be found uniting in ma- ballot for a member of the Committee on Foreign RelaOn motion of Mr. WILKINS, the Senate proceeded to king application to Government, although it is a county tions, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resignation which has been strongly in favor of the present adminis- of the honorable Mr. RIVES; and, on counting the ballots, tration. The pressure of the times has fallen on them it was found that Mr. CLAY was chosen. with great force, perhaps with peculiar and extraordinary DONATION OF LANDS TO POLISH PATRIOTS. force, from the nature of one of their leading pursuits. These memorialists think that the removal of the depos-triots who have been sent to this country by the Empeites, with the panic and loss of confidence thereby ocThe bill granting a donation of lands to the Polish Pacasioned, is the obvious and true cause of the difficulties ror of Austria, was announced on its third reading; when under which the country labors; and they earnestly hope Mr. WAGGAMAN called for the yeas and nays on the Congress will not delay proper measures of relief. They question, and they having been ordered, the bill was passthink a national bank necessary to a sound and well-regulated currency, and they see no wisdom in trying uncered by the following vote: tain and dangerous experiments. These memorialists, sir, ing, Frelinghuysen, Kent, King of Georgia, Knight, YEAS.-Messrs. Benton, Calhoun, Clay, Clayton, Eware free and independent citizens; they are among the McKean, Moore, Morris, Naudain, Poindexter, Porter, great body for whose good government is established. Prentiss, Preston, Robbins, Silsbee, Smith, Tallmadge, They are tax-payers, and support Government cheerfully, Tipton, Tomlinson, Webster, Wilkins.-25. in all its just and necessary measures. think that Government is made for the people; that, in its But then, they administration, regard should be had to nothing but the public good; and that they have a right to expect such a course of proceeding, by Government, as shall not reduce the value of their property or their labor, or derange the credit and business of the community, or essentially interrupt their industry and prosperity. It seems to me, that this is a reasonable expectation, and no more than a reasonable expectation: and I assure these worthy citizens of Mifflin county that, for one, I shall persevere, with unabated zeal, till the currency of the country is restored, till property resumes its just value, and till American industry shall be again made sure of its honest earnings. Mr. McKEAN asked if Mr. WEBSTER would read the names of the committee. Mr. WEBSTER then read their names as follows, viz. William Mitchell, Jacob Haller, sen., C. Hoffman, George W. Patton, James Culbertson, Jas. T. Hall, John 1. McCoy. I presume, said Mr. W., that the honorable member from Pennsylvania knows these gentlemen, or some of them. Mr. McKEAN said, he knew some of the gentlemen, and presumed them all to be respectable. ill, Kane, King of Alabama, Robinson, Shepley, Swift, NAYS.-Messrs. Black, Brown, Grundy, Hendricks, Tyler, Waggaman, White, Wright.-14. sentatives for concurrence. STATE GOVERNMENTS FOR MICHIGAN AND Michigan and Arkansas to form for each a constitution On motion of Mr. EWING to lay the bill on the table, Mr. TIPTON called for the yeas and nays on the question, and it was decided as follows: YEAS.—Messrs. Bell, Calhoun, Clay, Clayton, Ew- Hendricks, Hill, Kane, King of Alabama, McKean, Man- So the bill was ordered to lie on the table. RHODE ISLAND ELECTION. dividuals interested in the result, requested that the subMr. WRIGHT, in behalf of Mr. POTTER, one of the inject should be postponed until Monday next, and made the special order for that day. and the consideration of the report was then postponed The request was acceded to by Mr. POINDEXTER, and made the special order for Monday next. Mr. WEBSTER said he had yet one other memorial to present, and that came, not from citizens of any State, but from citizens of a Territory. It comes from citizens of Detroit, opposed to the recent measures of the ad- proceeded to consider the report of the select committee On motion of Mr. POINDEXTER, the Senate then ministration in regard to the deposites. These citizens on the Rhode Island election; when held a meeting, at which a memorial was adopted, which| has been signed by nearly four hundred names, and which I now present to the Senate. spiritedly drawn, and sets forth the manner in which the The memorial is ably and great check which credit and confidence have suffered, operates upon the interests of the people of Detroit, The very life-blood of Western enterprise, they say, is credit; and this credit has received a most severe shock. The existing state of things checks emigration into this AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. growing Territory. Emigrants, the memorialists say, are not only less able to buy lands, but less able, also, to in-sider the resolutions offered by him some time since, On motion of Mr. BIBB, the Senate proceeded to concur the expense of removal from other places. It is quite the further consideration of the resolutions was then evident, Mr. President, that the present state of things proposing certain amendments to the constitution; and must greatly diminish the amounts received at the land postponed till Thursday next, and made the special order offices, and keep back capital from the new States and Territories. These topics, it will be perceived, the mefor that day. morial treats fully. But the memorialists have not shut their eyes to the other view of this great subject. They to consider the report of the Committee on the Judiciary, On motion of Mr. CLAYTON, the Senate proceeded have looked to the question of legality, and they cannot on the subject of the message of the President concernfind the constitutional or legal right to remove the depos-ling the pension books. PENSION BOOKS. 1724 MAY 13, 1834.] American State Papers.—Memorials from Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Mr. CLAYTON, after some remarks, moved to amend is the resolution of the committee, by adding the following and words: "except when specially authorized to do so by pact of Congress." So that the resolution may read [SENATE. The CHAIR expressed some doubt as to the propriety of receiving proceedings with no other authority than a mere newspaper publication. Mr. CLAY said there was no doubt that the original account was in the hands of the member of the other “Resolved, That the Department of War is not war-House representing that district. It had been the usage ranted in appointing pension agents in any State or Ter- of the Senate to receive proceedings published in newsritory where the Bank of the United States or one of its papers. branches has been established, except when specially authorized to do so by act of Congress." The amendment having been agreed to Mr. McKEAN presented the original, as read in the other House. He had been especially requested to present these proceedings to the Senate. The proceedings were read. Mr. WRIGHT stated that he had intended to make a few remarks, but not expecting the subject to be taken Mr. CLAY said he wished to say a few words upon up to-day, he had left his notes at home, and was not now these proceedings. He was exceedingly glad to hear a prepared to go into the debate. He would, therefore, if voice emanating from the interior of Pennsylvania, exno objection were made, or no other Senator was disposed pressive of the sentiments of that people, with regard to to speak on the subject, move to postpone the consideration of the subject until to-morrow. Mr. CLAYTON assenting, the subject was postponed until to-morrow. AMERICAN STATE PAPERS. The resolution authorizing the purchase of thirteen copies of the American State Papers, was taken up for consideration. public affairs. These proceedings came from a county, rich in its resources, and numerously peopled by the cultivators of the soil. Mr. C. said he had been given to understand that the meeting was composed of citizens of all parties, and among them a large body of the anti-masonic party. He was glad that that party had subscribed to the resolutions. It was hardly to be supposed that they should countenance a palpable violation of the laws and of the constitution. He was pleased that the anti-masons The resolution was supported by Messrs. FRELING- had joined the rest of their fellow-citizens in recommendHUYSEN and EWING, on the ground that the working what, in his judgment, was the only effectual remedy was indispensable to members of Congress in the per- to relieve the people, to wit, the restoration of the depos formance of their legislative duties; that the work was ites, and the re-charter of the Bank of the United States. already printed; and the object was only to supply those We have been laboring here, said Mr. C., for months, to new Senators who had not obtained them. Mr. KING, of Georgia, opposed the resolution on con-branch of the Legislature were disposed to differ with us. effect this object, but he was sorry that a co-ordinate stitutional grounds-that it was taking money out of the Mr. C. said single facts illustrate truth better than a Treasury for the purchase of books for the private libra: speech or argument. He had received a letter from ries of members, without an appropriation by law; and Nashville, enclosing a check drawn by the Patriotic Bank that any other work or works might, with the same pro- of Washington for $19 87. The failure of that bank had priety, be purchased, and to any amount and extent. He not reached Nashville at the time it was received, but the admitted that works might be purchased which were ne-owner of the draft could not obtain an offer of more than cessary for the use of the members in the performance of $18 for the amount. The writer, however, of the letter, their public duties, but that they should be confined to had advanced the holder (a poor man) $20, and remitthe office, and not be given as an absolute property to the ted the draft to Baltimore, where he apprehended no officer. draft had been remitted by the Post Office Department, difficulty would occur in converting it into cash. As the he thought the Government ought to make it good. He Mr. K. then moved an amendment, that the books had been requested to call on the brokers, the only class should be left in the hands of the Secretary of the Sen-of men who were making money out of the embarrassate, by the Senators, at the termination of their service, for ments of their fellow-citizens, and dispose of it, although the use of their successors; which was negatived. but half the amount should be obtained. He would state Mr. K. moved to lay the resolution on the table for the balance of the session; which was disagreed to. The question recurring on the adoption of the resolu-another fact. A milk-man had by his industry obtained tion, Mr. K. asked the yeas and nays; which were order-$1,200, which he deposited in the Bank of Maryland. On ed, and are as follows, to wit: the failure of that institution, he sold his certificate of deYEAS.—Messrs. Bell, Bibb, Clay, Ewing, Frelinghuy-posite for $700, and placed his money in the Maryland sen, Hendricks, Kent, Knight, McKean, Moore, Naudain, Savings Institution, which shortly after failed; and thus Poindexter, Prentiss, Robbins, Robinson, Silsbee, Tall-the poor milk-man "jumped out of the frying-pan into madge, Tipton, Tomlinson, Wilkins.-20. the fire." Will not facts like these, said Mr. C., forbid NAYS.-Messrs. Benton, Black, Calhoun, Grundy, the idea of an adjournment until something should be Hill, Kane, King of Alabama, King of Georgia, Linn, done? How can gentlemen meet their constituents, when Mangum, Morris, Shepley, White.-13. they bear with them no tidings of relief? Sir, said Mr. So the resolution was agreed to, and it was then order-C., late as it is in the session, I trust something will be ed to be engrossed and read a third time. done to revive confidence, and restore the sacred charOn motion of Mr. POINDEXTER, the Senate pro-acter of the laws, and that we may return to the bosoms ceeded to the consideration of Executive business; when, of a distressed community with the consciousness of hayafter spending some time therein, The Senate adjourned. TUESDAY, MAY 13. ing performed our duty. He trusted that a part of this NEW JERSEY MEMORIALS. ADAMS COUNTY (PA.) MEMORIAL. Mr. McKEAN presented a newspaper containing the proceedings of a meeting of inhabitants of Adams county, held on the 5th April last, disapproving of the course of Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN said: Mr. President, I have the Executive relative to the deposites, and recommend- been requested to present to the Senate a memorial signed ing their restoration to the Bank of the United States, and by 1,445 citizens of the county of Middlesex, and city of a re charter of that institution. New Brunswick, in New Jersey, who are friendly to the Memorials from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. [MAY 13, 1834. present course of the administration-opposed to the re- at the close of the session, and felt grateful to a kind charter of the bank, and who concur with the late instruc- Providence, that had healed our divisions, and restored tions of the Legislature to their Senators and members amity to all our relations. The President, early in the of the House of Representatives. This memorial is alto-season, had visited the Middle and Eastern States, and gether respectful in language, and possesses the uncom-was welcomed by all parties with respect, and, I may mon merit of brevity. I hope it will be read, printed, add, with gratitude. His fellow-citizens rejoiced in an and referred to the Committee on Finance. occasion that permitted the expression of their esteem I am also charged, sir, with a memorial from 300 citi-and good will for their Chief Magistrate. Those who exzens of the county of Morris, in New Jersey, opposed to pected to re-assemble in our public councils, anticipated, the late rash experiment of the Executive, in the removal with no common satisfaction, the pleasant duty of harmoof the public moneys from the Bank of the United States; nious and tranquil legislation. There seemed to be no and who believe that duty to the country requires of the other prospect, than that we should meet together, and, President to retrace a step so ill considered, and fruitful without distraction or discord, deliberate on the great inof evil. I beg leave further to present the memorial of terests of the country. At such a hopeful crisis it was, 241 citizens of Elizabethtown, New Jersey-201 citizens that the President was pleased to strike a blow which asof Livingston, New Jersey-and 100 citizens of Union tounded the whole nation-brought its business to a stand, township, in the same State-all holding the same senti-and suddenly and violently arrested a tide of prosperity, ments of regret and complaint, with respect to the hostile such as we never before enjoyed. And so soon as the attitude of this administration towards the bank. President, my fellow-citizens of the Middlesex memorial began to denounce it as an inroad upon the law and the Mr. public mind recovered from the shock of this measure, it will find that those, in our common State, whom they are constitution. True, sir, the unrestrained presses of party pleased to denominate, in their memorial, "a few bank assailed every man who questioned the transaction with partisans," are increasing, and, indeed, have already be- the odious calumnies of bank attorneys, bought up friends, come, a formidable body of freemen. We have introduced their names to the Senate, not it. and purchased advocates. But the people did not believe only by hundreds, but thousands, many of whom were, dignant terms, repelled these slanders, and besought the They knew better, and have, in clear, deep, and inuntil lately, the friends of the President and the support-party in power to pause. ers of his policy, and who have been constrained, by causes which they could no longer resist, to oppose a meas fairs with the people. They have too much good sense I rejoice, Mr. President, at the aspect of political afure whose influence on the prosperity of the country to decry, or consent to break down, the Senate. They they have seen to be so disastrous. Sir, I feel bound to range on our side, sir, and encourage us, unflinchingly, say, in my place, that, so far from these consisting of "a to withstand this tempest of passion and abuse. They few" only, they do, in my clear conviction, at this mo- console us by the assurance that, however factious pressment, compose a decided majority of the good people of es may deem us, they continue their confidence in the the State of New Jersey; and such, I have no doubt, will integrity of our conduct, and urge us to an unyielding rebe the demonstration of the next fall elections. The pro- sistance of power. And, sir, let the administration becess is going on before the people; they are now satisfied that the remedy is with them, and that we can do nothing but raise our solemn protest, as we shall; and they are coming up to the rescue of the constitution with a noble firmness and an ardent patriotism. The issue cannot be otherwise, as I trust, than triumphant, for sound principles and the authority of our laws. lieve that, however unavailing may be our efforts, we will, Mr. President, one circumstance, in the discussions of the present session, has struck me with great surprise. YORK COUNTY (PA.) RESOLUTIONS. We, who have resisted as we could, the late measures of adopted by a number of very respectable citizens of Hallam Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN also presented resolutions the Executive, have been charged, and by some of our own body, with mere party purposes, and a design of posed to the removal of the deposites and friendly to the and part of Windsor, in York county, Pennsylvania, opcreating and spreading abroad a factitious alarm. At the United States Bank. Mr. F. said that this meeting professed commencement of our debate, the existence of any dis-to embrace all parties, and he was authorized to state that tress was denied-when that forced conviction, it was then ascribed to panic, panic; all the work of speeches members of the meeting had sustained the Executive, in such was its character, and that one of the conspicuous on this floor, got up for no end but to carry forward this late measure, until his own observation of its conseparty devices! Sir, if I had no other object than one so quences convinced him of its ruinous tendencies, and preunworthy, I would say to this administration, Hold on deavor to bring the Executive branch of the Government your career-drive on the ruinous expedients which you vailed with him frankly to change his own course and enhave adopted, and the sooner will such policy accomplish be made of these resolutions. your total discomfiture. No, sir; it is because we regard to wiser counsels. Mr. F. moved that a like disposition the measure as oppressive to the country, and destructive of its commercial prosperity, that we have and do, with LICKING COUNTY (OHIO) MEMORIAL. pure intentions, seek relief for our constituents. Mr. EWING presented the memorial of sundry citidesigns! why, sir, I believe that, even now, if the Presi-ing for the restoration of the public deposites, and reParty zens of Licking county, in the State of Ohio, praydent could be persuaded to review his proceedings, and charter of the Bank of the United States. reinstate the public moneys, and restore confidence to trade and enterprise, that he might enjoy a measure of the memorialists, but it was large, and he believed the Mr. E. said that he could not give the exact number of tranquil and general popularity not surpassed since the memorial expressed the sense of a majority of the people times of Washington. How was it when the last spring of the county. opened upon the administration? The tariff had been ad-who handed him the memorial, that the meeting from justed by the noble stand of the honorable Senator from which it originated was got up by highly respectable citiHe said it was stated, by the gentleman Kentucky, [Mr. CLAY,] for which the American people zens, formerly friends of the present administration. It should never cease to be grateful. The unhappy collis-was done for the purpose of consulting on the crisis in ions with our sister State of South Carolina had all been the affairs of our country, in the capacity of a people, not happily accommodated; we shook hands together in peace of a party, or of parties; and the meeting was attended, MAY 14, 1834.] Pension Agency.—Newcastle County (Del. ) Memorial. [SENATE. and the memorial signed, by men of all parties, all having ting forth, as they say, "the views and opinions of the an equal share in the general prosperity of the country. democracy of Newcastle county," and approving of all The county of Licking is situated near the centre of the acts of the Executive. Before I proceed to notice the State of Ohio. It has been for many years a highly the resolutions themselves, I will say a word or two about agricultural county; and, since the construction of the the manner in which this same meeting of delegates was Erie and Ohio canal, it is most favorably situated for ex-got up. port commerce; and all agricultural products have since First, sir, a paper was circulated for signature, purportthat time commanded a good price, and the county has ing to be a call for all those approving the conduct of the risen in wealth and importance. But the memorialists President to meet in general county meeting, and express say that the shock on commercial credit, occasioned by their views and sentiments. But when this paper was the removal of the deposites, has affected them most se- passed round, so many of the former supporters of the riously, in all branches of their business. Wheat, which President refused to sign it, that it became obvious such is their great staple, and which, floured and exported a meeting must be an entire failure, and expose their imin large quantities to the Eastern market, has fallen from potent attempt to scorn and derision. The plan of oper62 cents to 443 cents per bushel, and other products in ations was then changed. Circulars were sent round to proportion. Their exchanges have been deranged, and the faithful, in the respective hundreds, to call a meeting their merchants exposed to loss and ruin, from the fall of in each hundred, and send five delegates from each to a the prices of their staples in the Eastern cities. In short, county convention, to express their opinions about the they are affected by the experiment, and they feel its ef- present state of the affairs of the country. fects in the same manner with those of other counties in The Jackson party, sir, have hitherto polled something the State of Ohio, whose memorials I have heretofore upwards of 1,600 votes in that county. But, with all this presented; and, with the rest of their fellow-citizens, they effort to parade and organize their force, these primary pray, as a remedy for those evils, for the restoration of meetings were miserable failures. In the two southern the deposites and a re-charter of the Bank of the United hundreds of the county, containing about 600 voters, and States. where the strength of parties was nearly equal, but These memorials were severally referred to the Com-twenty-five persons attended these calls, as I have been mittee on Finance. informed by most respectable authority. And even in the city of Wilmington, with all the advantage of a night The Senate then resumed the consideration of the re-meeting and drumming up for their forces, they could port of the Judiciary Committee, upon the message of the bring but about forty or fifty to rally round their standard. President, in relation to the pension agency, and the Bank And these delegates, thus appointed by a handful of the PENSION AGENCY. of the United States. Mr. WRIGHT having the floor, reviewed, at length, the various acts of Congress, from the year 1789 down to 1828, granting pensions, and establishing pension agences, and contended, that as the Secretary of War had the power of designating the places where disbursements should be made, he had also the power of appointing the disbursing agents. Mr. CLAYTON then expressed a wish to give his views of the subject at length, but, as the hour was late, and the Senate thin, he moved to postpone the subject, and make it the special order for to-morrow; which was agreed to. The Senate then, on motion of Mr. BENTON, proceeded to the consideration of Executive business, and, when the doors were opened, The Senate adjourned. WEDNESDAY, MAY 14. NEWCASTLE COUNTY (DEL.) MEMORIAL. The CHAIR presented the proceedings of a democratle meeting of delegates from the different hundreds of Newcastle county, Delaware, sustaining the act of the administration in the removal of the deposites, &c. people of the county, nearly, if not quite one-half of them, too, old, thorough, uncompromising, proscriptive federalists, have undertaken to express "the views and opinions of the democracy of Newcastle county." Sir, if they had professed to express what their proceedings do express, the sentiments of the Jacksonism of the county, I should not have thought it my duty to trespass upon the time and patience of the Senate, in endeavoring to expose the pretences by which they are attempting to practise upon their fellow-citizens. Mr. President, I have been a citizen of Newcastle county of democracy. I have been honored with the confidence more than fifteen years. I was brought up in the school that are past, when the old party lines were strongly and support of that portion of my fellow-citizens, in days drawn. I was thrice nominated by the democratic State convention for a seat in the other House of Congress, and received the support of that party in opposition to that distinguished federalist, the present Secretary of State, whose brother I see is now among the chosen organs of the "the democracy of Newcastle county." Sir, it is well known that political contests in the State which I have the honor, in part, to represent on this floor, were always fought on the old distinctions of democracy and federalism, until the year 1827. Then the spirit of Mr. NAUDAIN then rose and said, that the citizens of Jacksonism swept over our little State, and overturned Newcastle county, speaking for themselves, by their me- our old party divisions; and our citizens, as they have done morial, signed by a majority of all the legal voters of that every where else, ranged themselves under new banners. County, appeared a few weeks since before the Senate, And now, sir, after they have pulled down the good old declaring their opinion that the distress which pervaded democratic flag, torn it in pieces, and scattered its fragthe country, and which seemed to be still increasing, was ments to every wind-after associating themselves with occasioned by the removal of the public deposites from the most uncompromising federalists within the Statethe Bank of the United States; that, to effect this removal, with one-half of this very meeting made up of the bitterthe President had violated the laws, and disregarded the est of the opponents of democracy-men who had spent constitution of the country; and praying Congress to their political lives in reviling it, and the great founder of Cause the deposites to be restored, and the bank to be the party, Mr. Jefferson-with men among them, too, who re-chartered, as, in their opinion, the only effectual means not long since declared that "if they thought they had of relief. one drop of democratic blood in their veins, they would Now, sir, said Mr. N., we have the proceedings of a have it out at the risk of life"-such men, Mr. President, meeting of delegates appointed by primary assemblies of so elected, and so constituted, are talking about "the the people, in the several hundreds of that county, pre-views and opinions of the democracy of Newcastle county!" sented to the Senate, through its Presiding Officer, set- What do such men know of democracy? 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