Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856.

DEBATES OF CONGRESS. 201 DECEMBER, 1824.] Niagara Sufferers. [H. oF R. fidence; and now, sir, thanks to your most gratify- the enemy during the late war; which was ing invitation, I find myself greeted by a series of carried-ayes 91, noes 42. welcomes, one hour of which would more than The House accordingly went into Committee compensate for the public exertions and sufferings of the Whole on that bill, (Mr. CAMPBELL, of of a whole life. in t "The approbation of the American People, and he chair.) their Representatives, for my conduct during the Mr. WILLrAMs, of North Carolina, said, that vicissitudes of the European Revolution, is the he considered the question presented by this highest reward I could receive. Well may I stand bill to be of nearly as great importance as any'firm and erect,' when, in their names, and by that would occur during the present session of you, Mr. Speaker, I am declared to have, in every Congress; as proposing to revive the famous instance, been faithful to those American principles act of March, 1816, which had been the cause of liberty, equality, and true social order, the de- of greater drain from the Treasury of the United votion to which, as it has been from my earliest States than had ever been made, upon the youth, so it shall continue to be to my latest breath. same principle, from the Treasury of any civil"You have been pleased, Mr. Speaker, to allude ized Government on earth; for no Government to the peculiar felicity of my situation, when, after ever had a standing law of the nature of that. so long an absence, I am called to witness the im- The bill now before the House, in effect promense improvements, the admirable communica- posed a l of the most impot tions, the prodigious creations, of which we find enewal of the most important section an example in this city, whose name itself is a (the 9th) of that law. At this moment, Mr. venerated Palladium; in a word, all the grandeur W. said he felt himself entirely unprepared to and prosperity of these happy United States, which, go into such an examination of this question as at the same time they nobly secure the complete it might require. He, therefore, hoped the assertion of American Independence, reflect on House would indulge him, and others similarly every part of the world the light of a far superior situated, with further time for consideration of political civilization. the subject. His object was not unnecessarily " What better pledge can be given of a persever- to delay the consideration of the subject; but ing national love of liberty, when those blessings he thought it important to have before the were evidently the result of a virtuous resistance House, and in possession of every member, the to oppression, and of institutions founded on the correspondence which took place between rights of man and the Republican principle of self- Admiral Cochrane and the Secretary of State government? No, Mr. Speaker, posterity has not relative to the burning of property on the begun for me-since, in the sons of my companions Niagara frontier. There was another docnand friends, I find the same public feelings, and t also permit me to add, the same feelings in my behalf, en,, which he wished the ouse to be in possession of —a document originally-brought which I have had the happiness to experience ill in possession of a document originallybrouget their fathers. here to carry these claims through the House, "Sir, I have been allowed, forty years ago, be- but which, since the year 1818, he had never fore a Committee of a Congress of thirteen States, been able to lay his hands upon. When these to express the fond wishes of an American heart. claims first appeared before the House, the On this day I have the honor, and enjoy the de- claimants never pretended to rest them upon light, to congratulate the Representatives of the the ground that the buildings were occupied by Union, so vastly enlarged, on the realization of the military authority at the time of their those wishes, even beyond every human expecta- destruction. They then maintained that all tion, and upon the almost infinite prospects we can these burnings took place on the ground of with certainty anticipate. retaliation by the enemy; and believing that " Permit me, Mr. Speaker, and gentlemen of the ground sufficient to sustain their claims, they House of Representatives, to join, to the expres- produced all the poof of it that they could. sion of those sentiments, a tribute of my lively But as the House had refused to allow the gratitude, affectionate devotion, and profound re- claims that ground, they have now changed spect."' claims on that ground, they have now changed After the General and the members had re- their position, and placed their claims on a sumed their seats, and a short pause occurred, different one. Mr. W. wished, for his part, Mr. MITCHELL, the organ of the committee of to examine fully the pretext upon which a reception, moved an adjournment. re-enactment of the pernicious law of 1816 was The motion was agreed to, and the House claimed; and with these views he wished the was adjourned to Monday. committee to rise, in order to have the papers The Speaker then descended from the chair, printed. and most affectionately saluted the General. Mr. CAMBRELENG, of New York, said, he IIis example was followed by the members of hoped that no delay would be interposed in the House, individually, and some time was bringing this subject before the House-but spent in this agreeable manner, before the Gen- that they should be called to act upon it immeeral retired. diately; being persuaded that they were as fully prepared to do so now, as they would be FRIDAY, Decermber 17. at any future time. He expressed his astonishment that, of all the members of the House, Nicagacra SXffereres. the Chairman of the Committee of Clainims Mr. TRAcY moved to take up the bill author- should profess any want of information on this izing payment for property lost or destroyed by subject-since, from his official situation, as

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