Indiana Palladium, Volume 10, Number 5, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 15 February 1834 — Page 1

( By David V. Cullcjr. Terms $3 PER YEAR 33 PER CENT. D1SCOVXT .MADE oy AVYAXCE, OR 1CI O.Y HAW YEARLY VAYMEXT3 VtfML. KJ liAWlftEWCEBUiaGH, (IA.) SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, ISS-II.

TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. REMARKS OF MR. LANG, of indian.v.

House of Representatives Jan. 23, 1834. The order of the day was then declared to be the resolution of Mr. Chilton, to appoint a Select Comxhitteeto inquire into the expediency of so extending the general pension law, as to embrace within its provisions those persons who were engaged in the Indian wars, down to the year 1794, and the amendment of it by Mr. Bouldin, to appoint a committee to inquire into the moral effects of the pension system upon the community, and how far it ought to be abolished or repealed. Mr. Lane said, that should any apology be considered necessary for trespassing upon the time of House and the patience of its members, in considering the principles involved in the resolution that apology would be found in the importance given to the subject by the people whom he had the honor in part to represent. For the few patriots, affected by this resolution, who yet linger among us, there is but one feeling and but one opinion. We entertain a lively and respectful recollection of their services, and a strong desire to relieve their wants by a nation's gratitude. This being the object of the resolution, it was expected, that it would be permitted to take the usual course, unobstructed by amendments, and unopposed by objections. This we had a right to anticipate, from respect to the wishes of the western people, .and to the persons sought to be relieved, if not as a matter of courtesy to the western delegation. Such has not been the good fortune of the resolution. On the contrary, it has been resisted at the threshold. An attempt is made, not only to alter its character entirely, and prevent all inquiry, but to dash from the statute book the pension laws from the pension list, the names of all the wounded and war-worn soldiers of the revolution, and to stamp the National Legislature with folly, and the Republic with ingratitude. All this is sought to be done upon the extraordinary discovery made by the honorable gentleman from Virginia, (Mr. Bouldin,) that the practice of nations to reward individuals for perilous and important services to the public, is founded in a principle immoral, corrupt, and corrupting. The honorable gentleman from North Carolina, (Mr. Williams,) has urged an objection of a very different complexion. That the resolution sought to place the soldiers of the west, for services performed since the revolution, on an equality with those of the revolution, whom he had supposed a distinct class, more elevated and meritorious than any others. The gentleman from Rhode Island has urged othr objections, equally extraordinary and infinitely more novel. That pensions have been granted to officers and soldiers of the revolution, not as a mark of national gratitude, not as a reward for eminent services, but in the character of arrearages of pay, upon a close calculation of dollars and cents, showing the exact difference between the payments received in a depreciated and a sound currency. That if any such war as spoken of by western gentlemen, ever existed, it was a private not a public war. That if any claim existed it was upon indi vidual, not national gratitude. That they had been paid in the acquisition of land for themselves and children. That it was uncertain whether the white man or the Indian was the aggressor. That it could not be known whether they fought for defence - or private revenge. That they were not enlisted, drafted, nor regularly entered into the public service. The honorable gentleman from South Carolina, to whom he had heretofore listened with pleasure, has still graver objections. Objections, which if correct, would render the resolution fearfully dangerous. He declairs all pension laws unequal, and therefore unjust. That they are calculated to substitute idolence for industry and enterprise. That they swell the patronage of the government, and tend to demoralize the people, and this at the expense of the south. These, Mr. Speaker, continued Mr. Lane, are substantially, if not literally, the objections urged against the original resolution and in favor of the amendment. That they proceed from opinions honestly entertained, I have no doubt. I will go farther, and concede the point, that if any portion of these objections be well taken, the resolution ought not to pass. On the contrary, if met and answered, a large majority may be expected to support it. For that purpose, said Mr. Lane, I throw myself upon the indulgence of this House, and respectfully requestthe kind attention of its members, while I briefly examine the several objections. Those which asserted the corrupting tendency of the pension system unoa the individual pensioners, he first considered. That such was the effect will not be admitted by those who consider that these pensioners are from seventy to ninety years of age before the aid of the Government is extended to them. Are such men to be corrupted by a comfortable provision in their declining years! Are their habits to be demoralised by receiving a merited reward for their services! Such men are too old to learn new vices, even if they were as morally degraded as the gentleman's objection seems to imply. But this implication is inapplicable and unjust the high Shorter of the reat uC'JV of those proposed to be randorc i,nrv..'-sarv to answer the obvitvi wuj vuuta lb UiiUWt VO J jection. The eminent servicesofthcit" earlier years', and their old age, given only to good habits, are cei tain safeguards against corruption, even if such an effect was seriously apprehended. The same answer, continued Mr. L., may be given to the. charge, that the pension system tends to substitute indolence for industry and enterprise, and to make pensioners a burden on society. What energy or enterprise can be expected from men of eighty? What indolence fostered! Is energy checked and indolence nourished by rewarding services which required the highest de- . gree of active exertions! Will the provision for their declining years render them a burden to societyl Without it many might indeed be thrown up- . on the charity of the community, and be forced to the wretched necessity of begging alms from door to door. It is the usage of all nations to reward those who peril their lives in the service of their country, either by civil honors or pecuniary compensations. Yet he would not rest wholly on precedent and practice, which ate often at variance with correct principles of action. The wars of other nations are generally caused by the passions or interests of those who have the direction of the Govern ment. The caprice of a single ruler has been too -eathe cause of national ruin. The people might well object to pension the hirelings who had been the williafc tooj8 o. mt a rujer But our wars Javt boea of a very iffQraBt character. They have

been deemed necessary by the people either to acquire their independence, or to secure its enjoyment. The people themselves dictate the war, and come forward to carry it on. The services were performed for the public, and have a far higher value, because they secure far more important rights, than military services in any other country. Petty rivalry, ambitious of conquest, the desire to set up or pull down a particular dynasty, or motives still more paltry, are the usual causes of ordinary war?. But, with us, our liberties, our republican existence, or sheer self-defence, are the only sufficient causes of war. To the public the service has been rendered, and by the public it should be rewarded. The same good faith of moral obligation binds the Government and the individual: If service is done, to repay; if a benefit is secured or obtained, to be grateful to him whose exertions have effected it. The same principle is binding on all. The only proper difference of opinion is as to the manner in which it shall be applied. Fortunately the laws already made furnish a plain and excellent rule to direct us in the application. The invalid pensioners are provided for in the first instance, and the compensation given proportioned to the amount of disability. To others who served during the same period, until old age had disabled them from supplying their own wants, and then it is that the debt owed by the public, may be paid with benefit to the veteran survivors and

with honor to the government. This, Mr. L. said, he believed to be the true prin- j ciple of our pension system. By accident or design the several laws made and proposed to be made, fixed forty years as the time which should elapse after the service was performed, before the pension was granted. This principle was applicable alike to the soldiers of the west and the soldiers of the revolution. In a few months it will be forty years since the last services were performed for which compensation is claimed by this resolution. And I hope it will be as cheerfully granted. As to the objection that revolutionary pensions are granted as arrearages of pay as difference between payments made in a depreciated and a sound currency, a moment's consideration proves its utter inapplicability. By the law, those who served two years are on a par with those who served 6even, and receive equal amounts. The man who dies before the pension law passes, receives nothing. He who dies in one year, receives one tenth as much as he who lives ten years. The nice calculations of the gentleman from Rhode Island, would show that the compensation should be equal to all; for surely, the dying a few days earlier or later cannot-alter the so much talked of difference between a depreciated and a sound currency. It is obvious that the fancied rule of the gentleman has no application. The true principle unquestionably is that which has been stated. The same principle runs throughout all our pension laws, and applies to invalid pensioners and to those whom age has disabled from exertion. The provision is proportioned in every class of pensioners, to his inability to supply his wants. When forty years have elapsed, Government kindly steps in to supply the nlace ofthose energies which were exerted and ex hausted in its service. The time has now come to apply this principle to those who fought in the Indian wars, previous to the treaty of Grenville in 1794. But gentlemen say , that we exhaust the Treasury, that we tax the south to sustain the pensioners. The number of revolutionary pensioners is at the highest 35,000. One half of these will in ten years be no more. Three-fourths in fifteen years, and in twenty years all will probably have died. Those now claiming will not amount to more than fifteen hundred, and their number will rapidly diminish. The whole amount of expenditure for pensions will be I increased during the first year after the proposed law passes but will thence forward rapidly decline, and before the period shall arrive for applying the same principle to the soldiers of the last war, the pension list will contain the names of no revolutionary pensioners. It has been said, (by Mr. Burges,) continued Mr. L. that these Indian wars were private, not public. I must confess my inability to comprehend this distinction. If regular levies, constant hostili ties, alternate defeats and successes large numbers killed and great advantages secured by a definitive treaty ot peace be distinctive marks of public wars, these were public. Will the centleman say that the campaigns of Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne, were the incursions of a private war. Mr. L. said, hehad listened with great regret to the remarks made by the honorable gentleman from Kentucky, (Mr. Hardin,) as to the conduct of Gen. St. Clair, at Ticonderoga, and in his western campaign. The misapprehension of his character and conduct, was so general, that he begged to place it fairly before the public. On no man has the ingratitude of his country fall en so heavily and so unjustly. The revolution found him wealthy, and with every prospect of advancement that his aristocratic connexions and individual abilities could present. He embraced the cause of his country cast off the ties which bound him to his mother country, and placed his property and himself at the disposal of the new government. 1 hroughout the revolu tion, distinguished for his abilities, but still more for the chivalnc purity of his character he was the I intite friend of Washington, and his house was thehoiue of Lafcvte. As President ot Congresses Governor of the' Western Territory, with powers and responsibilities almost unlimited, he was EtlH the same chivalric and capable otacer. ell may it be said of him, that his misfortunes were his omy faults them alone it is necessary to explain, and heavy is the debt that public opinion owes to his memory. The evacuation of Ticonderoga was wakened into a fault by the subsequent defeat at the west. In the long interval he had received the strongest proofs of public confidence. It is true that the evacuation of the work was condemned in the general opinion. The public are too ready to impute calamities to the mal-conduct of individuals, when in truth, the cause is found in their failure to furnish the proper means. The defence of Ticonderoga was impossible with the force under Gen. St. Clair. The evacuation saved the garrison, and enabled them to join the main army, and thereby secured the surrender of Burgoyne. Mr. Lane then read the following ex tracts: Wilkinson s Memoirs, p. lUi). Extract from a letter dated Mape's Creek, July 28, 1777. "Believe me, sir, if virtue or justice have existence, the man, (Gen. St. Clair,) who stands condemned for retreating from Ticonderoga, will era

long be thanked for the salvation of 30G0 men, who instead of being in captivity are now opposing the enemy.1 Again, page 216, Gen. Wilkinson says: "I shall ever believe that General St. Clair, by the abandonment of Ticonderoga, laid the foundation of our good fortune in the convention at Sara

toga. The court martial which inquired into the con duct of General St. Clair, and of which Major General Lincoln was President, found as follows: "That having duly considered the charges preferred against Major General St. Clair, (in reference to the evacuation of Ticonderoga,) and the evidence, are ixammously of opinion that he is not guilty of either or any of them, and do unanimously acquit him of all and every one of them with the HIGHEST HONOR. (Signed,) B. LINCOLN, Prest. and Major General." Mr. Lane read extracts from Marshall's life of Washington, corroborating the correctness of General St. Clair's conduct, and giving the reasons for the act, showing that it was unavoidable, was done with the approbation of a council of war, and was productive of the happiest consequences. Mr. Lane quoted extracts to the same effect, from Ramsay's History: "Subsequent events clearly proved the wisdom and propriety of the retreat from Ticonderoga." Vol. 2, p. 33. Mr. L. remarked, that all concurrent testimony clearly showed that this was an act characterized by Gen. St. Clair's usual sagacity, and one which entitled him to gratitude, not censure. The other misfortune, which has blighted a long life of useful and eminent service, and withered in the public estimation a reputation more nearly allied in purity, ability, and common achievements, with those of Washington and Lafayette, than that of any other man, has been equally misrepresented equally misunderstood. Mr. L. said, he would not detain the House by an examination of the circumstances connected with St. Clair's defeat. It need only be remembered that he was stricken in years that public opinion, inconsiderately and most unjustly, decided against him that the then Secretary of War, to whose misconduct the defeat was mainly owing, endeavored to cast the whole blame on General St. Clair. The examination was made by a committee of this House, and at its head was uiies, one oi v lrginia s most UiSiinguisnea sons. After a full and careful investigation, that committee made the report which I hold in my hand. The Secretary of War, on whom the blame was, by this report, justly thrown, obtained a re-examination, the result of which was alike complimentary to General St. Clair, and condemnatory of himself. Mr. L. then read the following extract from the report of a committee, made on the Sill of May, 1792, on the causes of failure of the expedition under Major General St. Clair. "From the foreign state of facts, the committee suggests the following, r.s the principal causes, in their opinion, of the failure of the late expedition under Major General St. Clair. "The delay in furnishing the materials and estimates for, and in passing the act for the protection of the frontiers; the time after the passing of which, was hardly sufficient to complete and discipline an nrmy for such an expedition, during the summer months of the same year. "The delays consequent upon the gross and vanous mismanagements una neglects in the Quartermaster's and Contractor's departments; the lateness ofthe season at which the expedition was undertaken, the green forage having been previously destroyed by the frost, so that a sufficiency of sub sistence for the horses necessary for the army, could not be produced. "'I he want of discipline nnd experience in the troop?. "The committee conceive it but justice to the Commauder-in-Chief, to say, that in their opinion, the failure of the late expedition can, in no respect, be imputed to his conduct, either at any time before, or during the action; but that as his conduct in all the preparatory arrangement?, was marked with peculiar ability and zeal, so his conduct during the action, furnished strong testimonies of his coolness and intrepidity. "The committee suggests as reasons for leaving the numbers of troops, at peculiar periods, and the dates of some facts, blank, the want of sufficient time to complete the report with minuteness, and in some instances the want of the necessary evidence' "7th November, 1792 committed to a com mittee of the Whole House on Wednesday next. 14th November, 1792 Committee of the'Wholo House discharged, and report recommitted to a select committee. 15ih February, 1793 amendatory report rnado stronger in its character and more highly complimentary to General St. Clair-" The history of General St. Clair is a humiliating lesson of injustice and ingratitude. One of the ablest and best of all our public men his services important and long continued, his character above suspicion, his fortune and his life spent in the pub lic service and all this could only procure him contemptuous disregard of just claims while he lived, and the mockery of scorn after a death in indigence and sorrow had relieved him from the weight of a nation's ingratitude. Mr. L. said be was sure that the honorablo pentlernan from Kentucky Mr. Hardin was not aware of thesoficls. He felt sure that had that gentleman known, as ho knew, the descendants of that distinguished man, respects for them would have prevented him from wounding his memory. General St. Clair, unfortunate in all things else, has the rare merit of being truly represented in integrity and ability by his posterity. To them this countryowes a heavy debt of reparation. But there is in my eye an honorable gentleman Mr. Denny, of Pa. who can far better than myself, tell the talc of injustice and ingratitude. Mr. L. then proceeded to answer the objection that the law proposed, and pension laws generally, conferred benefits on the worthless. This, he said, was an abuse in the administration of the public bounty, and required to be vigilantly guarded against. The perjury of a few imposters should not be allowed to militate against the legitimacy of the provisions. It should not bo allowed to deprive the really deserving of the recompense to which the are fairly emitted. Such on argument will

apply to every possibly law. Yet surely the fear ofabusoisnot a sufficient argument against an equitable law. Mr. L. was obliged here to break oft" abruptly to observe the order of the day. Fkidav, Jr.n. 21. Mr. LANE said tint, in conclusion of his yesterday's remarks, he begged leave to say, that he was not a little surprised at the quarter from which proceeds the opposition to this resolution. Hive the constituents of the gentlemen from llio Fast and South reaped no advantages from the services proposed to be remunerated I Have they enjoyed no benefits from the pension system? Who have found homes in the great valley which was the theatre and the prize of the contest? They are emigrants from the East nnd South, and who, whilo enjoying all the advantages which their position and their enterprise have secured to them, will gladly yield aid to the few old men yet living of those whose exertions won the country from its savage possessors. 'Tis said they should not be classed with the soldiers of the revolution. It is unnecessary to institute a comparison if they bo found to have sufficient claims upon tho nation,! gratitude. If pensions were granted, as the gentleman from Rhode Island avers they arc, solely on balances proved by accurate comparison of debts and credits, and should he, on this basi5, adjust the balances due those whom tho resolution proposes to compensate, the Treasury of the United States could not pay tho debt. The wholo West, with its millions of acres of improved land, its unvaluablo channels of commerce, its profitable produce, nnd acquired wealth, is on the one hind, and on tho other a few dccrepid veterans, w hose youth & manhood passed in the wilderness, in daily contest, hourly privation. But, says the gentleman, (Mr. Burges,) they were not regularly enlisted and drafted. Those who lived in the West thirty years ago, will smile atthi3 objection. I would reft r the gentleman to my honorable colleague (Mr. Boon) who will tell him that the pioneer of the West, Col. Boon,

whose name has been immortalized by the greatest poet of the age, spent his life in incessant contest, and strange as it may seem to the well-drilled notions of the gentleman from R. I. never wa enlisted in the service. We, of the West, have been weak enough to suppose thai wc might be permitted to defend our home and our families, to serve our country, nnd aid each other, without a regular enlistment, NY havo carried on, our weakness still further, and thought that ifprivations were endured, and dangers encountered, it took nothing fromourmcrit tint we might have slunk away without the risk of bun" shot for desertion. But ihcsa objections cany their answer upon their face. Mr. Lme proceeded to say that ho begged leave to add a few words to what he sid yesterday in reference to tho objection that the provision would occasion a largo draft upon the Treasury. Under the act of ISth March, ISIS, eleven thousand and thirty-four revolutionary soldiers were placed on the pension list. Under the act of 7th June, 1S32, twenty-three thousand tiircc hundred and forty-eight have been enrolled, including one hundred and seventy-seven who relinquished old pensions and camo in under this act. Tho claims not yet decided will swell this number to twenty-fivo thousand. J he whole number of pensioners may bo estimated at thirty-five thousand. An examination and comparison of the several censuses of our population, show that a class of men between twenty and lorty-hve years ot age, seven-eighths will die in forty years; one-half of the remainder will die in the ten years ensuing; one-half of this remainder in the succeeding five yeais;and five years more, making the full period of sixty years will remove them all. o Forty years has been fixed by custom as the period which shall elapse after the service is per formed before the pension is granted. One-eighth ofthose who served, alone survive, and they rapidly drop olfin the ratio stated. The number whom the proposed law will place on the pension list, will not exceed fifteen hun dred. This will more than supply tho vacancies caused by deaths of revolutionary pensioners during the first year after the passage of the law. In the succeeding year it will be rcducrd to nearly its present number, and subsequently the diminutions will go on rapidly, until in twenty years our pension list will be clear, from all save the invalid pensioners of tho last war. From this view, it appears that this dreaded draft upon tho Treasury amounts to a few thousand dollars during a single year. Supposing the s:.mc principle applied to the soldiers of the last war, as in justice it must be, not more than ten thousand will survivo to receive the benefits, and these will not come upon tho pension ubi iium ueam nas siriCKcn oil all tlic old pensionpps 'Pl.Io r.nrr..i .I... ft . r ,i crs. ins icuuui uiuu upuu iuu j roasury is, mere ioic, only m the gentleman imagination. Tho expense under tho head of pensions is, w ith the slight exception noticed, now at its maximum. Time will rapidly diminish it despite tho gentleman s torcuouings. But, even if the supposed law did increase the expense, Mr. L. said he should support it. The question in his opinion, rests on principles not to be affected by such an objection. A few thousand dollars more or less are to this nation of trifling import, compared with the preservation of its good faith and general policy. He had already said, that our wars aro made for national defence, and not to gratify the passiens of a single ruler. Our soldiers are not as the soldiers of other nations. Our wars will probably be very few, and a great incentive to exertion would be lost if our pension system were abandoned. " The profession of a soldier is at all times unpleasant. In peace he who is unfortunately thrown into tho ranks of the -Vmy isdeprived of all social njoyrncntsjs 'aut oul frora in3 iyrnoathin and

tho acquisition.', which aro tho aim and gratification of other men. When grown old and dciepUl hey arc thrown upon the cold charity of tho world forsupport. I have been pleased tosce a bill in troduccd, providing an asvlmn for their old ace. If such be the state of the regular soldier in timi of peace, what is the condition of tho citizen forced Irom his homo and family, to encounter privation and danger foreign to his habits? Wo hive already declared, by hws universally approved, what should be done. Wo have provided for the soldiers of tho revolution, and forth invalid soldiers of tho last war. The pension laws constitutes a system consistent throughout. The soldiers proposed to bo relieved, stand on thesamo footing before thu Congres?, as did tho soldiers of the revolution beforo tho Congress which passed tho pension laws for their benefit". Consistency with existing 1 iwj, nnd justico to these individual, imperatively call on us to rnaUo the provision contemplated by tho resolution. It is truo that we cannot melo out to each service its exact reward. It I true that wo m ay benefita few unworthy in providing for tho many whci aro worthy. The same objection will apply to er. cry law, and such an argument is a paltiy evasion of a just debt, Mr. L. proceeded to say tint the gentleman was mistaken in supposing that those men had been paid in land. Jf they have the good fortune to possess any, it has been purchased at the Government price: which price, with the fifty millions proceeds of the s les of public land, havo been drained fioui the west to bo expended on tho seaboard, for th i benefit of tho constituents cf thj gentlcunu rvho urge the objection. It is also s aid, tint they were merely frontier settlers, and mt distinguishable fiom oilier frontier settlers. Can th;s bo true ? All tho frontier settiers from Plymouth to the mountains when attackcd by tho Indians could retreat to tho settlements not so with those wcstofiho mountains for J0 years those men, without aid r the possibility of retreat to tho settlements, wero engaged in incessant warfare. The Indian enemy could tdicltor himself from pursuit, in the forest or tinder the protection of their British ally. Whilo tho list Mand of.thu whit loan Wis at his cabin door in defence of his family. Mr. L.s iid, that be wr.s most surprised, not by the low estimate tnado by tho gentleman of tho service of these western 'soldier, but by tho cnlogy which ho had pronounced upen their Indian enemif j. According to tho gentleman's statement, tho Boons, the WickliflV, and tho Spencers, will be for. gotten, whilo the mints ami tho deeds of the Indians will bo remembered. Tho rentleman nU.

! where is tho history of theso twenty years of war where tho memorials of their battles and sufferings? Iain happy in hrin nblo to ttll tho pentloman that there is a history, wiitten by a distinguished citizen of Kentucky, tint faithfully records thorn all. Marsh-di'a History of Kentucky. To it I refvr the gentleman, and am sure that ho will agree that the suffeiins of these p'onccis of tho West, o far from being exaggerated, havo never been fully appreciated. Mr. L. said, he wished the gentleman who bad endeavored to depreciate tho advantages of theso services, would look to the present condition of tho west for their answer. The motive, the conduct, and the conscquonccs of these services, aro alike honorablo to thosn who performed them. Mr. L. said, that ho wished, for tho honor of tho nation, that those whom tho gentleman so unjustly underrated bad been near this city, with their sons and grandson?, some years since, to second tho efforts of a Barney in defeuco ofihisiity: bad they been, tb;s capital wuild not have been in llunes, nor a British Admiral in tho Speaker's chair. Mr. L. said, ho had omitted to notice an objection of the gentleman from South Carolina; (Mr. 1'inckney,) that all pension laws weic unconstitutional and afks that tho claiiFO may bo shown which gives to the Government tho lower to n.nko such laws. In return, Mr. L.said, he would i ti e gentleman, where bo would find tho clause giving to Government tho power to grant to tho crew tho value of the ship they captured to pay tho tiiijen for property taken by tho enemy to expend tho money of tho people for tho rich drapery and r stly furniture in this llullmoro for show than conven ience to e xpend millions, on nnd around this capitol for the same purpose. For & II this then? is no clause in the Constitution yet who ever doubted that the power was given. Mr. L.said ho was not among ihoso who approved tho modern doctrine of implication. But bo v:s inclined to believo thero was more danger to be apprehended to tho Republic and the Constitution than from a captious ndheioncc to a literal construction instead of its plain and obvious spirit, and the equitable intent of its framcrs. Tho limitation contended for is at variance with the simplest and most necessary forma of tho Gor eminent powers which aro tho indispensable attributes of every Government. Tho power to carry on war.ofneccssily giestha power to pay the soldier, by such allowances or pensions as may bo pioportioned to their services and wants. Powerless indeed would bo that Government, and limitc d that Constitution, wh'ch could not reward the soldiers by whoso exertions it was established and supported. Mr. L. concluded by expressing tho hope, tint the amendment (.ffercd by the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Bouldin) would bo rejected, and that the original resolution would be adopted. Three convicts havo been pardoned by tba Legislature of Khode Island, on condition that they shipontrAuii voyages under direction of tho Sheriff. The total number of deatbsin Baltimore, during tho yoar 1S33, was 2405, including 002 bl&cki.