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for checking these aggressions


Mr.. L. said he had no ambition for war,
nor had he any for submission. We had
submitted so long. endured SO many insults,
by land and sea, at home, abroad. on our
borders. and every where, that he was Tor
| resistance We should never hold up our
| heads until we had war with Great Brit
ain. He repeated he did not court war,
.. but it must come sooner or later.


Mr.. King had hoped that his friend from
Missouri would yield to the proposed amend
ment. He thought the declaration IN the
preamble was unnecessary, and that t could
give no force to the bill to keep it there.


Mr.. Crittenden thought the preamble
could do no good-that its appearance there
would rather prejudice than help our claim
that our right was Just as strong without
as with the declaration and that 1t had bet,
ter be Withdrawn. The question was then
taken on the motion to strike out the pream-
ble


The vote was II for stiking out, and IL
against the motion. The Chair was about
to decide the question, when two or three of
the Senators called for the yeas and nays.
Some confusion arose. All OF the Sena-
tors believed IN the justice of our claim, and
a vote was about to be taken upon a motion
which would give divided opinion upon the
right of the United States to the territory.
Mr.. King, under these circumstances, ap-
pealed TO Senators to withdraw the call for
the yeas and nays DIR. Phelps and Mr..
Linn, as members of the Select Committee,
consented, and now unanimously the Pre-
amble was struck out.


The Bill was about to be reported to the
Senate, when


Mr. Fulton of Ark, moved an additional
provision to the Bill, to the effect that every
settler in the territory with wife and child,
should have for his wife l60 acres, and loo
for each child taken to the territory.
Mr.. Benton made strong matrimonial
argument in favor of the amendment.


Mr.. McRooers suggusted as a further
modification that the land for the wife, should
be for the benefit of the wife alone. Accept
ed


were adopted and the bill ordered to be en-
crossed.


During the morning Mr.. Huntington of
Conn. presented the following resolution,
which will come up again tomorrow
ResoIced, That the Committee on the
Post Office and Post Roads be instucted to
inquire into the expediency of SO modifying
the existing laws, as that each assistant
Postmaster General shall be appointed by
the President 5y and with the advice and
consent of the Senate.


Also whether it be expedient to repeal or
modify the law which prohibits contractors
for the conveyance of the mail. from carry
ing, without the consent of the Postmaster
| General, newspapers other than those con-
veyed in the mail.


In the HOUSE, the proceedings were
unimportant The bill to repeal the Bank
rupt Law being in hand, and Mr. Marshall,
of Ky, being entitled to the floor, he said
that be did not feel sufficiently strong to ad-
dress the House, in consequence of his re-
cent exertons in Baltimore.
| MIR. Milton Brown then argued at large
! IN favor of uniform system OF bankruptcy,
declaring himself against repeal


Mr.. WeHer declared that as he voted a.
gaInst the Bankrupt bill, he would now vote
for It's repeal.


MIR. Ferris, of n Y, followed upon the
same side, insisting that there has been uni
versal call for repeal


Without taking the question the House
adjourned


Our Washington dates are to the 5th inst.
Quite a sensation has been produced in the
Senate by question of veracity and ranco-
rous outbreak between Messrs. Benton and
Rives, which began on the 4th and was pro-
longed on the 9Th.


1t appears that while the Treaty of Wash
ngton was before the Senate, map, said to
have been marked by Dr. Franklin, was
adduced, in which the boundary between the
British and American possessions precisely
tailed with the one contended for by Great
Britain MIR. Benton produced during the
debate another old map of Mr.. Jefferson's S
Mr.. Rives understood him, land so charged
in his speech,) to adduce it for the purpose
of confronting and invalidating the map Of
Dr. Franklin, when really, on examination
the two maps corresponded.


On the 4th inst. Mr.. Benton attacked Mr.
Rives with considerable violence for this old
speech, denying Mr. RS allegation Mr.
Calhoun sustained Mr. Rives. This rem
dered Mr.. B. furious. who replied with
great warmth There the matter ended fol-
that day.


On the 5th. Mr.. Walker again alluded to
the matter, and it appeared that his under
standing of the facts conceded with that o.
Mr.. Rives.


