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21st Rule

21st Rule image
Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
July
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Une advantage, at leas!, has resulted from the debate and the several votes on the gag rule. It has furnished the press of the country an opportunity to speak ts mind on the subject. We are gratified to find in almost every Whig paper we open an expression of warm approhation of the rejection of that "infamous rule," as it is called. It is useless for Mr. Wjse to con tend, as he did, that the rüle was not a measure of the last Administraron, or tha the attempt now made to renew it, after i had been rcjected, is not a measure of the same parly, aidcd by some of the Southern Whigs. Messrs. Ingersoll and Fornance who made the motions to reconsider both belong to the opposition. The advocates for reconsideration were Northern Domocrats and Southern Whirs.