[13] LIST OF REPRESENTATIVES.
_New Hampshire._--Josiah Bartlett, Samuel Dinsmoor, Obed Hall, John A.
Harper, George Sullivan.
_Massachusetts._--Ezekiel Bacon, Abijah Bigelow, Elijah Brigham,
William Ely, Isaiah L. Green, Josiah Quincy, William M. Richardson,
Ebenezer Seaver, Samuel Taggart, Peleg Tallman, Charles Turner, jr.,
Laban Wheaton, William Widgery, Leonard White.
_Rhode Island._--Richard Jackson, jr., Elisha R. Potter.
_Connecticut._--Epaphroditus Champion, John Davenport, jr., Lyman Law,
Jonathan O. Mosely, Timothy Pitkin, jr., Lewis B. Sturges, Benjamin
Tallmadge.
_Vermont._--Martin Chittenden, James Fisk, Samuel Shaw, William Strong.
_New York._--Daniel Avery, Harmanus Bleecker, Thomas B. Cooke, James
Emott, Asa Fitch, Thomas R. Gold, Robert Le Roy Livingston, Arunah
Metcalf, Samuel L. Mitchill, Benjamin Pond, Peter B. Porter, Ebenezer
Sage, Thomas Sammons, Silas Stow, Uri Tracy, Robert Whitehill.
_New Jersey._--Adam Boyd, Lewis Condit, Jacob Hufty, James Morgan,
George C. Maxwell, Thomas Newbold.
_Pennsylvania._--William Anderson, David Bard, Robert Brown, William
Crawford, Roger Davis, William Findlay, John M. Hyneman, Joseph
Lefevre, Aaron Lyle, Abner Lacock, James Milnor, William Piper,
Jonathan Roberts, William Rodman, Adam Seybert, John Smilie, George
Smith, Robert Whitehill.
_Delaware._--Henry M. Ridgely.
_Maryland._--Stevenson Archer, Joseph Kent, Philip Barton Key, Peter
Little, Alexander McKim, Philip Stuart, Samuel Ringgold, Robert Wright.
_Virginia._--Burwell Bassett, John Baker, James Breckenridge, William
A. Burwell, Matthew Clay, John Clapton, John Dawson, Peterson Goodwyn,
Thomas Gholson, Edwin Gray, Aylett Hawes, John P. Hungerford, Joseph
Lewis, jr., William McCoy, Hugh Nelson, Thomas Newton, James Pleasants,
jr., John Randolph, John Roane, Daniel Sheffey, John Smith, John
Talliaferro, Thomas Wilson.
_North Carolina._--Willis Alston, William Blackledge, Thomas Blount,
James Cochran, William Rufus King, Nathaniel Macon, Archibald McBride,
Joseph Pearson, Israel Pickens, Richard Stanford, Lemuel Sawyer.
_South Carolina._--William Butler, John C. Calhoun, Langdon Cheves,
Elias Earle, William Lowndes, Thomas Moore, David R. Williams, Richard
Wynn.
_Georgia._--William W. Bibb, Howell Cobb, Bolling Hall, George M. Troup.
_Kentucky._--Henry Clay, Joseph Desha, Richard M. Johnson, Samuel
McKee, Anthony New, Stephen Ormsby.
_Tennessee._--Felix Grundy, John Rhea, John Sevier.
_Ohio._--Jeremiah Morrow.
_Mississippi Territory._--George Poindexter, _Delegate_.
_Indiana Territory._--- Jonathan Jennings, _Delegate_.
[14] Joseph Hamilton Davies, commanding the cavalry in the expedition
to Tippecanoe, where he was killed in a night charge upon the Indians.
[15] Where he became a member of the Canadian Parliament, and as
zealous for King George as he had been in Congress for Mr. Jefferson
after his sudden conversion to the Republican party and its offices.
When Mr. Randolph would be taunted with his abandonment of Mr.
Jefferson, he was accustomed to say that he left him when Barnabas
Bidwell (for Barnabas was his name) joined him.
[16] Non-importation, non-intercourse, embargo.
[17] This allusion is supposed to be to Mr. HARPER, then from South
Carolina.
[18] Witness Bonaparte.
[19] The primitive name of the little stream that runs at the foot of
the Capitol grounds, called the Tyber since the Capitol came to its
banks, and up and down which members were accustomed to walk in that
early day.
[20] These salutary statutes, indispensable for the protection of the
Treasury, as time was wearing out the evidence which would detect
fraud, have since been disregarded by modern Congresses, carried away
by a mistaken idea of justice, and the door opened to an endless
succession of false claims, supported by fabricated evidence which
there is no means to rebut, and plundering the Treasury for the
benefit of agents who have grown up into a regular profession for the
discovery, invention, and prosecution of claims.
[21] The wildest supposition of the abuse of this question, indulged
in by its opponents in this debate, falls short of the reality which
has since occurred, and is continually occurring in the House of
Representatives; for the Senate has, thus far, succeeded in keeping
this gag out of that body. In the other branch, the previous question
has become the regular engine of legislation, and is constantly used by
party majorities, not only to prevent discussion on the most important
measures, but to prevent things from being said which the House and
the country ought to know; and which, being said, might be fatal to
the measure, or its authors. The only safe way of terminating useless
debate is that followed in the British House of Commons. It permits
all that is useful, and suppresses all that is annoying. The plainest
speaker is heard while he gives information: the best is silenced
when he ceases to inform, and begins to annoy. The irregular power of
the House, exerted in coughing and scraping, will put an end to the
harangue of the most wilful speaker.
[22] At the burning of the Theatre at Richmond.
[23] Mr. Venable.
[24] Mr. M. Clay's daughter.
[25] The annual expense of our navy already (1856) costs fifteen
millions of dollars per annum; and yet all that we have got is only the
beginning--the mere commencement, if naval power is intended.
[26] The events of the war of 1812, and the events of all the wars of
the French Revolution, justify these opinions expressed by Colonel
Daviess. These events prove that cruisers and privateers, to cut up
commerce, and not fleets to fight battles, are the true American means
of naval warfare.
[27] This was quite an extemporaneous method of selling an estate.
To render the transaction more intelligible, it may be known that
Henry was paid $50,000 at that time by the American Government for
his disclosures, and it may be supposed that this impromptu purchase
of "_St. Martial, the Crillon estate in Lebeur, near the frontier of
Spain_," was a method which the two romantic friends took to divide the
money which they had earned.
[28] "Mr. Calhoun has since stated to me, that the reasons given by Mr.
Randolph for refusing to agree to the injunction of secrecy were, 1st.
That he doubted the right of the committee to enjoin secrecy; 2d. That
having just returned from Baltimore, he had heard, while in that city,
that the intention to lay an embargo was already known in that city,
and that the British Consul and a great mercantile house there were
then acting on the information. J. Q."
[29] The practice of pronouncing funeral eulogiums on deceased members
had not, at this time, been introduced into Congress.