r n Ui as.-. 3 v-..;'4i The whole art vok Government consists in the art of beinq honest. Jefferson. VOL 9. STROUDSBURG, xWONROEjCOUNTY, jPA., THURSDAY, AUGt'ST 10, 184$. No. 4. Published by Tlicodorc Schocli. terms-Two dollars per annum in advance-Two dollars i . -,riPr h-ilf yearly and if not paid belore the end of ?"d.?J"av dniian and a half. Those who receive their lA.rhV i carrier or stage drivers employed by the proprib ?nr will be charged 37 1-2 cents, per year, extra. vn ninwa discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except aUhcPo of the Editor. - irvdrertiseraents not exceeding one square (sixteen lines) i!ibc mserte.1 three weeks for one dollar, and twenty-live n t I for every subsequent insertion. The charge for one and three insertions the same. A liberal discount made to yearly U 1a He ttc rs addressed to the Editor must be post-paid. JOB PRINTING. mrine a general assortment of large, elegant, plain and orna mental Type, we arc prepared to execute every acsenpuou ot ; 1 . . Cards, Circulars, Bill Heads, UTofes, Blank Receipts, JUSTICES, LEGAL AND OTHER BLANKS, PAMPHLETS, &c. . Printed with neatness and despatch, on reasonable terms, AT THE OFFICE OF THE f JTcffcrsotiian Republican. HON. ANDREW STEWART Upon the Presidential CaiiVass. Delivered in the House of Representatives, June 26M, 1848. The House being in Committee of the Whole on the bill making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic service, and Mr. Featheraion having addressed the committee, (as already published) Mr. Stewart, in rising, said he did noi pro pose to answer the remark just made by ihe gentleman from Mississippi, (Mr. Featherston,) upon the subject of slavery a subject on which he never had made, and perhapi never would make a speech on this door. It was an evil, and an evil without a remedy, in that portion of the country where it existed ; but it was an evil which he was opposed extending to any country or territory now free. He thought the discussion of this question had the tendency to give rise 10 " geograjiiral line.,'1" which would divide the great parties of the country, and might in the end subvert our happy Union. He regretted the drawing of such lines ; he thought them dangerous to the harmony and perhaps ihe integrity of this great confederacy. They were divisions against which we were warned by thai great and good man, the Father , r. , tt :. j o. . - li 1. jjcujuc ui i ue -uuiieu oiaies ; wnose voice ue could never hear with indifference, and to which he trusted the people of this country would never Jurn a .deaf ear. There had., tbowever, been introduced into the present discussion another great 'question .1 tj t:j . I . - - -f r I me sr fcs4utiuii uucaiiDii : a qiiesuun wuiciii icsiiuii which, he regarded at this time as more ii e regarded at this time as more important than any question of .the kind which ha id ever been - presented to the decision of the American peo ple, involving nomentous conseqences io the welfare of the country, present and prospective It involved thi question, among others Whether, under the Government as it was now administered, all .power was to he concentrated 1 in the hands of one man, or whether, under cither auspices, under the administration of an other illustrious man, whose name w before "he country, we wre to be brought back to the purer and better principles and policy of the &'her8 of the republic ! It was a question tw'hei'heT.all power the power of the purse and "word, ihe Bower of neace and war, was to be exercised 'fay be President; whether villi 'heJv jWto power in his Ibarra, he was to becou .preice in ihis. country, anwre arbitrary and Je potic thaa zny crowned Irca'd in Europe, save Nicholas of Russia, and Congress and ihe peo ple were ta dwindle ite perfect insignificance; or whether, under the .policy of that other great and good man, Gen. Txylor, the people and Congress were to be retired to their legitimate powers, just riglits and proper influence; wheth er ihe voice -of ihe people was to be heard, and they to be "treated with respect, or whether we were to be controlled and governed by 4 one fon" Was it to be tolerated that, when a ctoss the waters, in Europe, the old world wa Engaged in putting down the 4 one-man power," o were to be putting u up here, by giving all wer to the Executive ; and that, "whilst u "ope was engaged in building up and establUh ,ng republics, we were to be employed in tear ing down our neighboring republics of the South? Ho trusted that we should take a different course ; that, under ihe auspice of that illus trious man whom the Whig parjy had presen ted to the country, we should give an example to the world not of war and of conquest, but of peace of a people united, prosperous, peace ful, happy. Thai was ihe example we owed, to the world, and that was the example which -u wuuiu soon si in ir,0 word( un(er a dilTT cnt Administration from ihu. Rut uniup on. as we now were, under the lead of the one- man power party, we musi M)on become a warlike people, going on conquering and to conquer. JW only Yiipalarr and Cuba, but ,nada. too, and all other territory we abonld hlPMn to fix our avaricious eye tijibri; wutt'tfe' vnnuef&d and 44 swallowed" under iliat' great cluefiam ?)j,m the ProgressivbDernocracy Hd selected a5 their leader. Was this the policy which was 10 bejsustained by tlie people ? No, never ! , A. different, re- sun was approaching ; the misnamed Deraoc raev had selected a leader, and so had the Whigs : the former, a general that always sur renders, the latter a general lhatf never surren ders.,. Under suchjeaders could the result .be doubted 1 ho, it was certain : the contest had in fact, been given up. .The Union, the organ of ihe Administration, Fat.her Richie himself had given it up. What did the Union tell us ? It headed a recent article with " .Wjll the peo pie endure the cheat .?" He went .on through nan a coiumn, telling now they were cheated ny me. Whigs ; .and, in oilier columns it was cheated, cheated, cheated ! Now he would like to know what man or party ever cried " cheaied that was not beaten,?1 44 Cheat" meant 44 beat." In 1840, when ihe Whiga beat the Lipcos, ihey cried, out cheated ;" in 844, whenvthe Loco$ beai, that was the. cry of the Whigs ; srid so wfeen the Union. cried " cheat ed," it admitted they were beaten. . Cheated" was the language of the loser, never of the win- Mr. Hammons wished to propound a ques tion to tjie gentleman, but , t . . Mr. Sieward declined to yield.. for want of time. He, proceeded, to read from one of the arndes, referred to in the Union-in w'tnch h was said that it; was unfair for ihe sWhigs.to take Taylor. If tjiey, had Jaken.Clay, Web ster,. Scott, McLean, or any other known. Whig, he would have been satisfied ; but 'they had .selected Old Zack, a 44 no-party man," and they (the Democracy) could not keep their, men 'in the ranks ; i)iai ihey would not stand fire ; .that like the Mexicans they were not .only retreat ing, but going over io Taylor, in companies and regiments ; that they had not only Barn burners in the North, but, Barnburners in the South : the Van Buren men, aid the Yancey men, ihe Alabama platform- m,en" and the 44 New York platform men;" North,,. quth, East, and West their men were 44 bolting " bolting, bolting. Now this, Mr. Richie said, was not fair; it was a palpable cheat ;" the Whigs ought to have nominated Mr. Claya man they had often defeated, and could, he sup. posed, defeat again. This would have been lair ; but to take up 44 Old Zack," 44 a no-party man," the very man who had fought their bat tles and saved their Administration from infa my and disgrace, how could ihe Whigs vote. ,or htm Democrats could do so with propri ety. Yes, (said Mr. S) and that is exactly what they are going to do. Democrats would vole for him, because he was an honest, true, patriotic, faithfu(old man, who had risked his lile in fighting ihe batiles of ihe country. The i hrtiiPof iinfiiinhtitirotarl nonnU iU n 1 . . . 1 "ii.ivoii.u iieuuic. Iiuv l lie UIMII1 . , t . -e . . ---r r 4, ;.. r; ,, , -A t Xva J1 rSi.i z.-i; 2 a..u; Ic ,:,,. j ..j' ' r,.,,. Casjk, and the 6arty in the, House, who pay him with kicksand cuffs ; we are honest men; we will pay our honest, debts ; w,e have no money, but wc will pay hjq in paper ; we have a liule tbjt.uf a picket whiqh we will deposit at the polls for him in November next. We don't care what you say Mr. Richie, or, what you politicians, sayio ihe contrary ; he has served hjs country long and faithfully ; and we are going toalfank him, and'jliat, too, .without Mr. bass s disgraceful proviso attached tojs vote of thanks for his glorious victoryat Monterev." You might as well attempt to stop the .Mi8sjs-; ippi river as to stop these honest men from oung for. Gen. I aMor But prudence is ihe better part of valor. Mr. Richie is noi going Mo wart to be shot ; he starts in time. He knows Old Zack and Capt. Bragg are sharp shooters, and he no doubt fees a little like Crocket's, coon, t who from the top of a tree seeing a well-known marksman raising his unerring rifle, said : ,44 Is lhat you Capt. Scott ? If it is, don', shoot ; I'll come down" So said Mr. Richie : Is (hat you, Old Zack ? If it is, don't shoot ; I'll come down." Much laughter. But, to make bad worse, the next day after, this candid confession and surrender, out, comes his old friend Van Buren against Mr. Cass. Horrible 44 et tu Brute I his rendered the old gentleman quite frantic, and in hia next pa per we may expect to see him address Mr. Polk in the language of a certain celebrated song, lately applied lo a distinguished Senator from New York : 44 Q, carry me back to Old Virginny, To Old Yirginny's shore," and 1 never, never will come back' to this place anymore! (Laughter.) That was the kind of musicthat he expected soon to hear on the organ, now so villainously out of tune. But enough of this. Sir, we have been Repeatedly told, during this debate, that the Democrats, in their don vention at Baltimore, had laid down a platform, and they complained that the Whigs had adop ted no platform whatever. Butj4he would tell jjentjepien the Whigs had a platform, and they had it in General Taylor's Allison letter, of the 22nd , April ;' and he would proudly contrast mat oroaa, nome. Ainerjcau piauorm, fiiR me narrow, coiiirnctwd, party platform, 'adopted at Baltimore. Couiw', ir, tbVue ' plfoWt Ourst like its author, great and national ; theirs strictly in character, a miserable pany concern. How did Mr. Stevenson,. the President of the Baltimore Convention, himself characterize I this platformy in ;his letter conveying to Gen. Cass the notice of. his nomination ? He. said : The platform, we present you is broad enough to, hold ali Democrats', but -narrdw -enough io exclude all; others. It was broad enough for the Lpco Focos broad enough for the party It w.as a party platform, and nothing! else, and so represented and jbo accepted by Gen. Lass whq pledged himself to carry it out. 'But, luuk at Old Zack s platform ; it was broad- enough for the whole country. , He nobly says:: 44I go lor the whole country ; for the wh.ole people I submit to no pledges ; 1 .make no bargains I submit to no party dictation ; if elected, I mi! administer the Government for the; benefit -qf the whole American people." And, sir, if he could be induced to come down from that high. noble, patriotic and national platform, to this contracted, degraded, miserable platform of par ly, he woiiljl sink, greatly sink in my esteem, and would justly forluJt the support of thousands and lens ol thousands ofhe patriotic and honest men of all-parties, who were now rallying io his standard. No; Gen. Taylor wouldfnever come down to such a miserable narrow platform of par ty as thai laid down by ihe BaliimoreConvention; but would honestly and faithfully administer the Government for the benefit of the whole peo- ple,;and according.io the principles of the Con stitution', as. construed sand, .administered by the early Presidents-of the Republic,,. The first hing they, put forth in the. Baltimore, platform was democracy ;" they had theiname,, with out one of .the principles. Gen. Cassand the whole 'of them,, talk about r44Jeffersonian'.domoc racy;" and, while ihey talked about democracy and .about 1 nomas Jefferson while they .re tained tJie name,-ihey repudiated and trampled underfoot every .principle of Jefferson,every principle adopted and. practised uptjn all the early Presidents every one of them,, wjthout an exception. They preach one thing, and practice the .opposite. Their democracy the Jeffersoniaa-.democracy ! Why, they went for the veto power the great- conservative power of putting down the wilhof the people, and put ting up the will of the President. This one man power that which,.as had been well said, was intended as 44theiexir.enie medicine of the Constitution" had now,become the daily-bread tbe-Prestdent feeds upon.. Thomas Jefferson and his illustrious compeers never. exercised the-yeto ; he never, exercised it in -a. single instance .in. the eighljiyears -of his Administra tion. -During th&jfirs't .iwenty. years of- the administration ihia, Government there-never was a veto except- in. one, or two. unimportant cases by Gen. Washington ; but vetoes, ve toes, had now hecome; the order of the day. We were now governed by vetoes,' and nothing but vetoes. At the last session, . Congress pai sed,,iie, rjver and harbor bill, and sennit to the President ti wrjtf, afraid ,Jo veioJt, putji in his breeches pocket ; but, ,atrihis .session, be sent it back vyiih hia reasons. .against i, and this House had voteddpwu.iho.se reasonsby a vole of 138 to 54 a votef.thir.iy more than two thirds! And yet it wan no.law; it was defeated by the will of one man. And this was the pow er Gen. Cass and his pany advocated ! What was Gen. Taylor's position in this re spect ? He held, like a true republican, .that with regard to questions of domestic policy it was for the people and the people's represen tatives tp. prescribe the law, and it. was ihe do ty of the President to respect their will , and I cajry it into ellect. . Ihia was the dpctripe ol TOeu. Tayjpr that k was wilh ihe people, the democratic, people, to govern themselves. Yet, although Gen.; Qass and his party in pracjice sustained and applauded, this despotic power - w of 4,pne man to defeat jhe .will of the people s representatives Tajrly expressed, jhey talked abnut, "democracy',' whjle,jhey ,were riveting chains on ,jhe .people ; t.Hey talked ahojjt ,lhe beauties pf economy, whi,le they, were daubling and trebling the expenses of Government ; they talked loudly rabout the capability of the peifple, for,self-goyernment, nd Mr. Cass undertook to say. that ij. was a, great dividing line between themselves, and the Whjgsp That wa,s,a part of the "platform," andtheir profession, !,was di rectly contradicted by their practice: ; i,hey prac tically denied the competency of the people for self-government by the arbitrary exercise of the veto power. What did this 4pJajform" further say f That velo power had saved .the people from a system of internal improvements. Thai it had saved the peopleI rom t what ? From themselves ; from caryingpui tlujir own legislation i' from, usiyg their own money. fpr their own benefit, for the improvement qf iheir own country. .. 1 hey (the President and party; could take $60,000,000 a year ipto Mexico ; they could' go all over the worldand .spend the money of ihe people,, but ihey, would syf- er no part of the money to he-expended utjder, the direction of the people's representatives 44for the people's benefit."v They denied tljie power to Congress to spend the people's mon ey for the rieoole's betifit in the iniprovemetil of tneir country, nut c. Rimea ana exercieo power looppre!s,'i8X, burden the people. That was the practicaj construction which this party placed upon the con9titution.Mbat' the. veto was to save the people from themselves : and yet'in their, platform they said that ''the people's money ought to be carefully guarded, for the people s benefit. A small mistake theyshould have said 4,Jhe party's benefit"--7a variation merely of theory ; from , practicle ; for, while they talked about guarding the people's money for the people's benefit, they were actually ap plying 110 'ihe.benefit? nf themselves; and while they isaid. that they were opposed to le gislating for- "the benefit of the few ajt'the ex pense of the: many," yet this was precisely what they were doing. They were legislating the money from the-people's pockets into their own ; legislating entirely for the henifit of the few .at the expense of the many. iTheirwhole system, in the very face of ihe eyes of: iheir theory, was to enrich the; few at the expense of the many ; and this he would soon show was a game well .understood by their great leader Genera Gass.A ' t . ? They talked about ''.economy." and preached it in their platform. They were great economists1 the real Thomas Jefferson economists, while, as he had stated; they proscribed and trampled under foot every one'of hiV principle's. ' Thomas Jeffer son was the enemy of a national' debt." " Look at our national debt now,-created by this "Democrat ic" Administration. 'Mr. Adams administered the Government for 'twelve and a half millions a year, on the average-of his whole term; this sutn :cover- lng the entire:expenses of his Administration, ex cept what was applied to the public debt. .Mr.' Adams was. denounced and put out for his extrav agdnce. Mr. Yan Buren .came in this? lover of economy, this admirer of Thomas Jefferson and the expenses of the Government during his Admin istration ran up to twenty-eight and half millions, instead of twelve and a half. Gentlemen smiled he defied them to deny it; he challenged them to the records. They might promise to answer, as they 'had done before, butthey would never do.it never; because they could not, and the least said the better, v ' ? j Mr. Thompson, of Mississippi, (Mr. S. yieldinff the floor with'sorae hesitation for one question,), asked if the-gentleman did not now stand side by "m I. - wu?i -a u -i nV ' Mr, Stewart. What ! side by side with Martin - Van Buren-T A laugh. Thank pod, I have nothJ side with Mr-. Van BurenT ing to do with Martin Van Buren, and n.ever- will have. I would ask' if the gentlemen himself, who was formerly so ardent a supporter of Iti Van Buren, was for Van Buren now ? Was he now his candidate 1 Was he for Van Buren or Cass ? ' i Mr. Thompson's reply was not heard. . 'Mr. Stewart, continued. ,fle said the expenses of the Governments had now run up under Mr.' Polk to!60,000,000-a year. They had increased rom $12,500,000 under Mr. Adams to $28,500,000 under Van Buren, and now to $50,000,000 or 860, 000,000,. under the'present "economical-'Admin- lstratiori ! J his was thejr boasted Jeffsrsomnn 'economy;'' this was their oposition to a "nation al debt. Why, they had done nothing but make: national' debts. Mr. Van.Burenihad found some 540,000,000 surplus in the Treasury : he-had left- souie $40,000 ofnational debt, after selling seven or eight, millions of bank stock. . Mr. Uf Ik had ound some $17,000,000 of deptyand hadTnow-run it up-to -one hundred millions -of dollars ofover ! 1 his was "Democratic consistency!. ThQpeo pie wouia marK.it at the next election. 1 nomas, 1 it 1 . 1 -i - mi Jenerson. was opposed -io a standing army to a 1 great navy ; yet- the gentleman - from North Car olina (Mi. McKay) had told the House that the appropriations- for the naval service tfa;d fun up within a few years from $3,000,000 to $11,000,000 ! And this under this beautiful Jeflersonian Admin istration, which went by the rule of contrary, look ing one way, apd rowing the others 1 He always thought Mr. Jefferson was the friend. of peace-. What was Gen. Cass v For war, war,- war ! . First with England -he was for "fifty-four lorty or tight then ha-was for Mexico, fur swal lowing" (to use;. his own, language) the whole of - Mexico ; next for Yuaatan ; and then he might be lor Canada.- Wow, hero was the practice ofttir gentlemen over the way, and of their leader, vy10 talked so loudly abQpt Mr. Jefferson's principles 1 War was a barbarism in this enlightened age and country, ikwas an absurdity, a crime, and i'c was considered, s,o by Gen. Taylor. .1 : " 1 . But a little more of the history. of Gr., Cass. He had. been on all sides of all question. There was. not a question of public policy. o t he countiy upon which Gen. Cass had not occupied apposi tion on both sides. Once a Federalist, now a "Democrat;" when the questioa p.f the annexa tion of Texas first(came up he wr decidedly; op posed to it ; vyheru it was said . that the British were going to take Texas, "let them' have- it," saia ne,, " .w do not want it.1' But a little before the, nomination, on the 10th oCMay, 1844, he wrote ajetter to,.Mr. Hannegan', in. which he was for im mediate annexation and foe slavery too. He was agajnst annexation, and, .for annexation : against the proviso and for the proviso'; -against protection and. for protection ;, against internal imnrovement anu ior uiiernai improvements. With reference 1' 1 - - 7 . tplhe Wiimot prpvSQ.Genr, Cass was decidedly. ipr 11 at nrst; he was a oreat Droviao man :..and then at the. next sessiop of Congress, jwhep he found it would rjot do for a certain, section, he turnea.agairis the provisp and in his letter to Mr. Nicholson s?Ad 44 a change has bead, going on in ray ,mind,",and when the slaveholders demanded tp betallo,ved to, carry their, slayesto new territo ry,, he says it would greatly jraprove the comfort an5 condition of the slaves if they were scattered ivam ...I.. r . , 1 - ... i mwic icrMipryana ne'was now a pieai sia protective tariff; but now opposed to all protection Tha 'Uu.. r V r.. : . i if Yua wueii vjeu. uusa iuibu jut uuurpai improvements : but he wrote.an answer to a let- tor of invjtatidji to attgpd the Ch'icagb Convention very man ; aqdthe, gentleman from Mississippi (Mr.,Fen1therston,)ihacl just iaid he was pledged to. veto the.Wilnifit irnvisn 'Ha W&S onno Ihr a in his neighborhood a letter of four lines, stating that he could not. ailend ; nd at Cleveland the djher day when asked for his opinions op internal improvements and the proviso, he said there was such a crowd he was. afraid :he, could not-he hearri. arid therefore he spbke on other subjects I Now; the Baltimore Convention declared-that Internal improvements were unconstituttanal, and Cen, Cass said;Amen ; he agreed to evsry word iu that platform. HenVas a man who 'had been oit all sides'of all questions ; a man of no principle, no consistency, bui a time-serving, vacillating, weather-cock candidate, and that had secured his nomination for; -the. Presidency. Bui he (Mr. S.') thought his party1, now felt very much as Fa ther Ritchie did very much like giving it up. Had 4he Whig 'candidate ever vacillated, ever changed his position; his principles! No. They were laiddown in?'the Allison letter, andwern fixed asfthe. everlasting hills, having their founda tion in justice 'and truth based ion the constitu tion of 'the country, and upon popular rights xha emanatioif of a sound: head and ao'ure heart.' it was impossible that they could be wrong, or could change. - - ' " n ;jGeh. Cass was once'a great lover of volunteers. He was a volunteer himself, and was sometime called the 4,old volunteer."' But now it was on the-records of Congress, and there was no escapex from it4f-he put it to .gentlemen on the other fcidtr of the House, that at this session of Congress; an Decemher2Uth, in the Senate of the: United Statesf Gen. Cass introduced a bill reducing the pajr.f the volunteers for commutation for their cloiiiin one third J : Mr. Wick interposed ; but ' - ;Vi ' Mr. Stewart declined to yield tHe floor, as-' hii. hour tfas fast running away. B wouldi' shave gentlemen the bill; here-it was, as it appeased o:a the records of the Senaie,: . 44 In the Senate of: the United States.. December 29, 1847. , ,p f " Mr. Case, from theCommittee on Miliary Afc fairs, reported the following bill, which was- read and passed to a secofid reading.": 44 A Bill to. provide clothing for volunteera in tha service of the United" States. ;. 44 Be it' enacted, c. That in lieu of the ry.nny: which, -under existing laws, is 'allowed to volun teers as a commutation for clothing, the President, b& and he is hereby authorized, to: cause tb a vcui teers to be furnished with clothing in kiod, ai'tha same rates, according to grades, as i. pruAiit&S for xhe lro JS wfthe J ht ami f .. The biU proVided that in liei of tha " clothing in kind" be furnisheito the i-o-luntees' at the .same rates according Upgrade a.s vided for the regular army. Now he re was a let ter which he had received from the 'idjutapt' Gen eral, stating what the allowance to. the regulars was : - - Apjutantt Ge.ve r.al's Office, , . 44 Washington., June j6, 1848. " Sm In reply tri your er, qUjrv of the 15th in stant, 1 respectfully inform y(,u that the' average allowance, of clothing per rr.. jnth i0 the soldiers of the regular army is about f. 0.35. enclose here-, with a copy of'4 General Order No. 10.'.' current series, in which ypu-will ',ind specified the.articlea of clothing, and-their vf.'lUe f0-r each year of the term of enlistment. 4 Respectfully, " . m TT " k R- JONES, Adj. Gen. To the Hon. A. c thwart, . .. "House pf Rerp resentatives, Washington." This $2,35 was ,0 all grades, dragoons, artillery men, &c..;.ibut jy examination of the "general orders" refered. to hv t1iR Ariintant nnRral. h . J J lound that1 tru whole amount of cloth in a- for infantry for fve years was $114,55. 1-2, which by- compuiation, n would he seen, gave $1,91, per month to it' & infaniry, and no more. Thus ij ao peared tbh.t ihis 'bill of'Gen. Cass reduced the al ktwance 10 infantry volunteers for clothing from $3,50, Stowed by "the act .-of 1846, to $1,91, the amou'n'f allowed to the infantry of the regular ar may. "The "Union." it was true, and Mr. Came ron said the volunteers could have thejr option ; b'ut the languague of the-bill was express ; n)bdoy ould mistake it; it was that this "clothing in k.ind" should be; ftirnished "zn lieu of tlie money . . 1 . . which under existing laws is allowed." Now, could yPu find any option there ? The hill provi ded that clothing, which cost $.9l per month, should be inrnised irc.ieu of the $3,50 allowed un der previous laws. ? Mr.- McClelland interposed, and w,as under stood to speak of the construction put upon the law by the Adjutant General ; but what he' said wds not caught by the Reporter. Mr. ' Stewart declined, to yield, and said he caredmot what construction the Adjutant General had been induced to giva to the law by Gen. Cass or a'nob'ody else ; there was the law as it was re ported by Gen.rCass, and as it passed. He knew it-was said that. Gen. Cass had s'een the Adjutant General and goti him or the Pres'ident fo nullify by construction, br veto it ex post Jacto ; he migh't have found, it would not do to strip the volunteers .of their clothing; hanging .and burning in effigy might; have been unpleasant ; and the Adjutant General .might have been induced to construe this law. of General Cass directly contrary to its pro visions ; still there was the law as introduced by General Cass and pass'edV which expressly provi ded for this change, and that $l.!)l, "clothim; in kind" should be fu rinsed' "in lieu'' of the amount previously allowed, which was $3,50. If it was intended to give them their election, ais is how pre- tended, why did hot Gen. Cass say so in his bill ; why not say tha't the volunteers should be allowed fa draw $1,91, the amount of clot King allowed to regulars, which should be deducted out of the $3,50 to .which they were entitle!!, tyid not as the law de6lares "in lieu" of the 3,50. The $1,91 was xb to? be in pan, but in full. The' hi W was too plain. "Ingenuity could I not (hystffy it h was not only outrageously unjusu oui 11 was nearly uncohstftutional and void. What right had Gen- Cass to report and pass a law 'imjtfiiririg the ob. ligation, of contracts!" The Government had contracted to pay the voluritefe'fs $8 ber month and $3.50 ftrclotninir: He.voluhn eM had agreed fo take it, and had gone io Mexico. Vlrauight7j.hen, "I i f -w. A f "A. f
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