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Day
1
Month
April
Year
1844
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Public Domain
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The last debates on the 21st rule have been characterized more by a fierce and warlike spirit on the part of Southern members, than by any semblance of argument. Mr. Dellet, of Alabama, referred with much bitterness to Mr. Adams' remark at Pittsburg respecting emancipatiou, that he did not know how abolition would come, but at all events,'let it come'! (Here Mr. Adams bowed to Mr. D.) Then the orator describedfanciful scènes of horror, which he said would be the inevitable result of abolition, pointing every sentence with, 'Let it come!' 'Let it come!' repeated Mr. Adams. The Rhode Island question, and the West Point Academy were talked about forseveral days. The bilí to repeal the Distribulion act was passed tmder the previous question. In the Senate, Mr. Archer presented resolutions adopted by the General .Assembly of Virginia, in response to the resolutions adopted by the legislature of Massachusetts, proposing to amend the Constitution so as to exelude from the basis of federal representation tbree-fifths of slave population. Among,'tfheginnia resolutions were the following unanimously adopted by the legislature of t hut State: 1. Thaf we cannot regard these resolutions as in truth a proposition to amend the fechsral Constitution; but one vitually to dissolve the Union. 2. That whilst we have forborne the expression of complaint at the disturbance of the peace and safety of the South by the agitation of the subject of our peculiai domestic institutions by individuals anc voluntary societies at the North, we regard this attack by the highest constitutional authority of a sister State as in the highest degree unjust, unkind, faithless to the compromises of the constitution, and meriting the deepest condemnation of every patriot and friend of the Union. The resolutions having been read, Mr. Areher moved that they be printed. Agreed to - of course! Similar resolutions of the Alabama Legislature were received and printed, while the Massachusetts Resolves remain on the table, unprinted. The Senators from that State are mum on the subject, and submit to the disgrace in silence. - Who can deny that slaveholders rule? A company of U. S. Artillery planted tbemselves under the windows of the Senate, and banged away until the glass rattled from all the windows, when that respectable bcdy concluded to adjourn. The damage was estimated at $600. An attempt has been made to reform the national expenditures by reducing the compensation of the pages from $2,00 aday to $1,50 a day! This very important question was duly discussed, and after grave consideraron, was laid over for future decisión.

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Signal of Liberty
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