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Federal Gazette & Baltimore Daily Advertiser 1807/07-1807/12 msa_sc3722_2_6_2-0586 Enlarge and print image (5M) |
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ISLATTJRE,
Delegate!;, Maf.yiand.
peocnrbst 7.
'-.: lerit as o; Saturday.
SatnJay wen: read. -
Mr Foiward appeared
Stevens, P. Spencer, and Slreett
..•e of absence,
memorial from Littitia Cr'okshanks
of Cificil county, prayingthat a suit brV'ght
upon tie bond f her late husband, may be
dismissed, upon her paying the costs of suit,
•was read and preferred.
Ordered, That Mr, W. H. Brown be ex-
cused from serving on the committee ap-
pointed to bring in a b>ll for the encourage-
ment of learning, and that Mr. Belt be ad-
ded to said committee.
Leavegfiven to brinrr in a bill, entitled
A supplement to an act to restrain the evil
practises arising from negroes keepingdr-gs,
and to prohibit them from carrying guns or
offensive weapons.
A petition from sundry inhabitants of
Bell-Air, in Harford county, praying a law
preventing hogs from going at large therein,
a petition fr m Henry Peters of Baltimore
county, praying a certain road may be de-
clared a public highway, and a petition from
Joseph Howard, and others, representatives
of Brice Howard, deceased, paaying that
C-rraiqt money lodged in the treasury by B.
Harwood, under an act of Assembly, may
be paid to them, were preferred,read and re-
ferred.
Leave given to bring in a bill to provide
for the discharge of insolvent debtors in
Baltimore county.
A petition from Thomas S. Brewer, late
a soldier in the American army, praying
half-pay. was preferred read and referred.
' Mr. Bruce delivered a bill, entitled, An
act to extend farther the powers of the levy
court of Allepar.y county relative to r ads
in said county ,,and for other purposes, which
was read.
The further supplement to the act relat-
ing to negroes, was read the second time,
and the question put, Shall the said bill
pass ? Determined in the negative, yeas 2,
nays 40.
A petition from sundry inhabitants of
Harford county, praying the repeal of a law
passed last session for reviewing a certain
road, orpart thereof, was preferred read &
referred.
Mr. Carroll delivered a bill, entitled, An
act to enlarge the powers of the trustees of
the poor of Montgomery county ; which
¦wa. read.
A petition fr m the vestry of Saint-Tho-
Bias's parish, in Baltimore county, praying
that the managers of a lottery for the bene-
fit of said parish may be authorised to sell
tickets in the city of Baltimore- and a peti-
tionfroro Robert Leatherbury, late sheriff
and collector of Somerset, county, praying
further time to complete his collection,
were preferred', read, and referred.
The amendments proposed to the bill for
\reliefof Mary Gwinn, ere read the t>e-
coifd.time, and dissented fr m.
The following message Was agreed to.
We have received the bill which origi-
nated in this home, entitled, An act for the
relief of Mary Gwinn, of Frederick county,
with certain amendments. The amend-
ments proposed will wholly defeat the ob-
ject wished for by the person applying for
relipf, which this house formerlv thought,
and still are of opinion, ought to be exten.
ded. We therefore have returned the bill
f r the reconsideration f the senate, with a
hope that it may be passed without the a-
mendments proposed.
Thereport on the mem rial of Jeremiah.
T. Chase, relative to confiscated property
purchased by him, wasread the secondtime,
and the questi n put, That the house concur
therewith, and assent to the resolution
therein contained ? Resolved in the affirma-
tive, yeas 41, nays 15.
Leave given to bring in a supplement to
an act for the speedy recovery of small debts
out of court, and to repeal the acts oi assem
bly therein mentioned.
Ttu-housf proceeded tothe second reading
of the bill lor ibu; ding a medical collie in
the city or precincts of Baltimore fi 1 the
instruction of students in the different
branches of medicine, and after making se
veral amendments thereto, the question was
put, That the furthei consideration thereof
Be postponed ? Resolved in the affirmative.
The house adjourned till to-morrow morn-
ing.
Tuesday, December 8.
The house met. Present as on yesterday,
except Mr. Stephens, Mr. P. Spencer and
Mr. Streett. The proceedings of yesterday
¦were read.
Mr. Little delivered a bill, cntithd, an act
to lay out and make a public road in Balti-
more county ; which was read.
The bill for the relief of Mary Gwinn,
and the message relating thereto, with the
resolution in favor of Jeremiah T. Chase,
were sent to the senate.
The house resumed the consideration of
the |ill for founding a medical college in the
city or precincts of Baltimore, and, on mo-
tion, l.ave was given to withdraw the amend-
ments proposed, for uniting the same with
St. Mary's college.
The question was then put, That the
house reconsider the said bill ? Resolved in
the affirmative.
The bill being read throughout, the ques-
tion was put, Shall the said bill pass ? Re-
solved in the affirmative, and sent to the
senate.
The clerk of the senate delivered the bill
to extend Centre-street, in the northern pre-
cincts «f the city of Baltimore, and the bill
to make valid the will of Arthur M'Dade,
endorsed " will pass." Ordered to be en
grossed. And bill authorising Benjamin Ray,
late sheriff and coliectior of Montgomery
«Ountjr, to complete his collection, endorsed
« will pass with the proposed amendments"
-hqrilicfr amendments were read.
The biH to authorise the drawing of a lot-
tery v, . city of i for the
purpose therein mentioned, was read tfie
secflud lime, passM and sent to the 5' r»a e.
A petition fi 1111 Margaret and Harriet
Hammonds of Paki noiv county^ praying an
alteratipn in the lave for buildinga bridge
over Hammond's Ferry, was pr. furred, read
ami referred.
The bill authorising a lottery for raising
a sum of money for the purposes therein
mentioned, was read tile second time, passed
and sent to tl'.e senate.
On motion, ordered that the report on the
petition of Evans Willing be withdrawn.
Mr. Winder delivered a favorable report
on the petition of Evans Willing ; which
was read.
A petition from John Swan, counter to
the petition of William Gwinn, was prefer-
red, read and referred.
A petition from sundry inhabitants of
Caroline county, praying for a bridge over
a branch of North west Fork river ; a peti-
tion from sundry inhabitants of Montgome-
ry county, praying for a road, and a petition
from sundry inhabitants of said county,
counter thereto, were preferred, read and
referred.
The bill for the benefit of the joined evan-
gelic lutheran and evangelic presbyteri in
congregation of St. Paul's church, in Wash-
ington county, was read the second time,
passed and sent to the senate.
Mr. Boone, Mr. P. Spencer and Mr. Ste.
vens, appeared in the house.
On moMon, that the supplement to an act
for rectifying the ill practices of attornies
in this state, &s. have a second reading, the
question was put, that the house itself from
into a committee of the whole ? Determined
in the negative.
The house proceeded to the second reading
of the said bill, and after amending the same,
the question was put. that the further consi
derationofthesame be postponed until the 1 t
day of May next ? Resolved in the affirma-
tive, yeas 49, nays 10
A petition from John Roody, of the city
of Annapolis, stating that he was wounded
at the bat'le of Camden, and praying assist-
ance, was preferred, read and referred.
The clerk of the senate delivered the
Supplement to an act for the establishment
of a school in Caroline county, endorsed,
" will pass with the proposed amendments,"
which amendments were read. The bill to
erect a new bridge over Great-Choptank
river, endorsed, " will pass with the propos-
ed amendment ;" which amendment was
agreed to, and the bill ordered to be en-
grossed. The supplement to the act to
prevent the going at large of swine in
the village of Hillsborough, in Caroline
county, and the bill for the relief of James
West, an insolvent debtor, endorsed, " will
pass." Ordered to be engrossed.
A petition from Henry Walter, of Kent
county, an alien, praying he may be enabled
to hold real property, was preferred, read
and referred.
Mr. Little delivered a bill, entitled, an act
to regulate and discipline the militia of this
state ; which was read.
The house adjourned till to-morrow morn-
ing.
Criticism, and that it was their'duty
country to make them. ^^^^
the
tr the message with at-
jht to have rWen as a po-
Debates in Congress.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Thursday, December 10.
The bill from the senate appropriating a
sum of money for constructing an arlditi
tional number of gun boats was read a third
time.
Mr, Elliott. When an individual uncon-
nected with party, and who looked with a
single eye to the national good, offered any
observations to that house on any subject
of great national concern, it might be ex-
pected, in common times, that some atten-
tion would be given to those remarks. But,
these times were inauspicious ; these were
not common times ; these weie not the
soft seasons of persuasion. He who would
now offer his sentiments to the house, owed
to himself and to thein to make himself well
acquainted with the subject. If he did not
think that he had done so, he would not
trouble the house with any remarks on the
question then before them Circumstances,
peculiar to himself would not suffer him, on
any light or trivial occasion to address the
house : Personal afflictions,* of the most
heart rending nature, and which produced
sensations utterly indescribable, rendered
such exertions paivftd in the extreme. But
there were times in every age and country,
and he believed those times had arrived .in
this age and this country, when the tender
sensibilities of the heart must give way to
the sublime energies of the mind.
He considered the hill on the table as of
more importance than it generally appeared
to have been considered. He considered it
as a poor miserable substitute, for those bold
and glorious measures of defence, which
the present awful crisis so emphatically re-
quired. What result did a view of the pre-
sent crisis afford ? Was it common ? Were
the present times of the common kind ?
What had become of our bright and flat-
tering prospects of peace ? These prospects
had been overcast by a dark, dismal and
threatening cloud. In the language of an-
cient and divine poetry, this was " a day of
trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and
desolation, a day of darkness a"d gloomi-
ness, a day of clouds and thick darkness."
He considered the crisis as awful, and that
gentlemen were responsible to their consci-
ences and their country for the measures
they might pursue.
Speaking of the magnitude and import-
ance of the present crisis, the mind was na-
tuially led to the constitution of the Uni-
ted States, that bond of union which had
not only heretofore, but he trusted would
long continue to preserve the integrity of
the government. In the third section of
the second article of that instrument we were
informed what were the duties of the presi-
dent o^ the U. S. in times of unusual dan-
ger and terror. " He shall from time to
time, give to congress information of the
state of the union, and recommend to their
consideration such measures as he shall
judge necessary and expedient." From this
imperative mandate, it was an easy transi-
tion to the manner in which the president
had performed this duty. He hoped it was
in order to speak ol documents which had
been laid before thein. He believed they
were proper subjects for investigation and
* Mr. Elliot alluded, we prciuiHe, te the re-
cent losttf a promising ion-
He had looked 0
teiition, which ou
¦1 day, bot be could fir.d there: ;i n 1 unequivo-
cal recommendation oi' this measure. He
had made this examination, because hecon-
lidtred gun boats to be an executive mea?
.it he coul'l finij 110 reedtmrt'end
of iiieiw in the-message, The whole sys-
tem of (Isfence of administration, began
and ended witii gun boats.
One or two m^re desultory observations,
and he would proceed to the argument
which he proposed. As he had before ob-
served that these were no common times,
he would now remark that common lan-
might be dispensed with. He was
the personal enemy af no man, and he
wished that no man might be his enemy-
He had suffered much from the lacerations
of calumny, but this should not dnv« him
from the discharge of his duty. To day
he »ou!d not perhaps speake a usual lan-
guage, but he would offend against no law
of the house—against no rule of decency.
He would expose the clashes, the species,
and the variety of party as he believed them
to exist. If they did so exist, they were
dangerous, and it was their duty to expose
them to their country and to posterity.
When on the subject of gunboats, the
first nutural enquiry was, from whence came
they ? From what strange f uuiam descen-
ded this torrrent of national delusion and
destruction ? Whence this strange passion
for them within two or thiee years ? It was
easy to account for it. Gun boats had
no friends except the heads of the govern-
ment, who had very unaccountably become
seized with a strange passion for thein.—
The object wa said to be the protection of
commerce. The policy of the times was
not understood to be, nor was he a friend to
such policy, to protect commerce in every
in every clime and every sea. They
only contemplated protecting it to a limited
extent. This was a proper object. Com-
merce was entitled to as much protection as
the country could afford to it consistantly
with general arrangements, and the state of
her resources. It was friendly to civilizati-
on. There was a greater mutu. lity of inte
rests between agriculture and the other arts
in this than had ever be!-we been witnessed.
But it was not merely for this purpose
that gunboats were intended. He now
understood they were to form the greatest
part of the national defence. The organi-
zation of a general system of defence was a
matter of the first importance ; if .veil orga-
nized it would command the respect of fo-
reign nations, and would be propitious to
the continuance of the union. Commerce
would have to be protected in some way,
and some general system of defence wculi
have to be created. The doctrine of the
times was, that we were unable to protect
our commerce on the ocean fiom Britain.
It was thence argued that we ought to have
no naval force. He thought it incumbent
on those who recommended gun boats to
shew the utility of such an establishment.
Had there, he asked, been any information
furnished the people of the United States to
induce them to form Such a conclusion ?
He knew of none.
brats, unconnected with other msans of de-
fence, had ever been useful.
They had also been told in that message,
(that gun boats had been of great use at Gi-
ifar; Every man who sought for milita-
ry and naval information, had read the ac-
count of the siege of Gibraltar. He had
read it with attention, and could not disco-
i ver that gun boats had been of any kind T>f
J service. True, it was, that gun boats had
i first originated in the Baltic, a sea scarcely
j subject to wind or tide, and fhey had there
J been found useful. From that circumstance
I the French had been induced to use them
' against England, but they had not there
been f mud equally efficacious.
They had |