Semi-Weekly Journal, Volume 3, Number 257, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1841 — Page 1

BY DOUGLASS & NOEL. INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER. 25, 1841, VOL. 3. NO. 257.

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Public No. 11.

AN ACT making; appropriations for various fortifica'

Hons, for ordnance, and lor preventing ana sup

pressing Indian hostilities.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRepresen

tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same

are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out or any mo

ney in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated

namely: For repairs of West-head battery, Governor's is land, Boston harbor, five thousand dollars. .

For repairs of Southeast battery, Governor's island,

Boston Harbor, five thousand dollars.

For repairs of Fort Independence and sea-wall of Castle Island, Boston harbor, sixty-five thousand

dollars.

For Fort Warren, Boston harbor, one hundred and

five thousand dollars.

For repairs of old fort at New Bedford harbor, five

thousand dollars. For Fort Adams, Newport harbor, forty-five thou sand dollars.

For fortifications in New London harbor, rebuil

ding of Fort Trumbull, Connecticut, thirty five thou sand dollars.

For repairs of old Fort Griswold, New London har

bor, Connecticut, ten thousand dollars. For completing repairs of Fort Niagara, and erec

tincr and renairiner necessary buildings therein, New

York, twenty thousand dollars.

For completing repairs of Fort Ontario, Oswego,

New York, and erecting necessary buildings therein fifteen thousand dollars.

For Fort Schuyler, New York harbor, seventy thou

sand dollars. fc For repairs of Fort Wood and sea-wall, Bedlow': island. New York harbor, fiftv thousand dollars.

For permanent walls for Fort Columbus, Castle

William, and South buttery, Governor's island, New

York harbor, twelve thousand dollars. For repairs of sea-wall of Castle William and oth er parts of Governor's island, seven thousand dol . lars.

For Fort Delaware, Delaware river, provided the

title to the Pea Patch island shall be decided to be in the United States, including twenty-two thousand se

ven hundred and seventy dollars carried to the surplus

fund, January one, eighteen hundred and forty-one, fifty thousand dollars. For repairing forts at Annapolis harbor, Maryland, five thousand dollars. For repairs of Fort Washington, Potomac river, thirty-five thousand dollars. For Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Virginia, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For repairs of Forts Caswell und Johnson, and

preservation of the site of the former, at the mouth of

Cape Fear river, JNorth Uaroiina, hve thousand dollars. For Fort Sumter, Charleston harbor, South Carolina, fifteen thousand dollars. For commencing dyke to Drunken Dick shoal, for preservatirn of Sullivan's island, and site of Fort Moultrie, Charleston harbor, South Carolina, thirty thousand dollars. For Fort Pulaski, Savannah river, Georgia, thirtyfive thousand dollars. ; For repairs of Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida, twenty thousand dollars. For continuing sea-wall at St. Augustine, Florida, five thousand dollirs. For Fort Tickens, Pensacola harbor, Florida, twenty thousand dollars. For Fort Barrancas, Pensacola, Florida, forty-five thousand dollars. For Fort Morgan, Mobile Point, Alabama, forty thousand dollurs. For Fort Livingston, Barrataria bay, Louisiana, thirty thousand dollars. ' For repairs of other forts on the approaches to New Orleans, Louisiana, fifty thousand dollars. For defensive works, and barracks, and purchase of site at or near Detroit, Michigan, fifty thousand dol- . lars.

For purshase of site, and for barracks and defen

sive works at or near tiunalo, incw iork, nrty tnou sand dollars. For fortications at the outlet of Lake Cham

Dlain. and purchase of site, seventy five thousand

i . w . . . dollars.

For defensive works, barracks, and other necessa

ry buildings, and purchase of site for a depot at or

near the junction of the Matawankeag and Penobscot

rivers, Maine, twenty-hve thousand dollars.

For contingencies of fortificatisns, fifteen thousand

dollars.

For incidental expenses attendiug repairs of

fortifications, fiftv-five thousand five hundred dol

lars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the folio

ing sums be, and are hereby, appropriated in like manner: For current expenses of ordnance service, twenty-

five thousand dollarsFor purpose of ordnance and ordnance stores, sev ntv-five thousand dollars.

For armament of fortifications, one hundred thou

sand dollars. For purchase of saltpetre and brimstone, twenty thousand dollars. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the following sums bt in like manner appropriated: For preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities,

ninety-seven thousand two hundred and thirteen dollars and ninety-two cents. For arrearages of pay due to a battallion of Georgia militia for service on the frontiers of Georgia and Florida, in eighteen hundred forty and in eighteen hundred and 'forty -one, seventy-eight - thousand four hundred and Dinety-five dollars and ninety-two cents. For the Quartermaster's Department, the sum of four hundred and forty thousand and forty dollars; that being the amount required in addition to the amount appropriated at the last session of Congress; which last sums of money for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities are to be expended under

the directions of the Secretary of War, conformably to the acts of Congress of the nineteenth of March,

one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and the

acts therein referred to.

For surveys in reference to the military defences of

the frontier, inland and Atlantic, thirty thousand dol

lars. . For arrearages due for roads, harbors, snd rivers,

where public works and improvements have hitherto

been made, and tor the protection of public property

now on hand at these places, and for arrearages for

surveys and completing maps authorized by the act of

March third, one thousand eight hundred and thirtynine, forty thousand dollars. For the defraying the expenses of selecting a suitable site on the Western waters for the establishment of a national armory, a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars; and the President of the United States is hereby authorized to cause such selection to be made, and to communicate all the proceedings which may be had therein to the Congress of the United States, to be subject to its approval. For the construction or armament of such armed steamers or other vessels for defence on the Northwestern lakes as the President may think most proper, and as may be authorized by the existing stipulations between this and the British Government, one hundred thousand dollars. JOHN WHITE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. -SAM'L L. SOUTHARD. President of the Senate fro tempore. Approved, September 9, 1841. JOHN TYLER.

viz: For balance required, in addition to the sum applicable out of the amount appropriated at the last session of Congress, for arrearages of pay due Florida militia called into service by the Governor of the " Territory in eighteen hundred and forty, nineteen thousand three hundred and eighty-eight dollars and two cents. For arrearages of pay due Florida militia, commanded by Brigadier General Read, for six months in the service of the United States, commencing November, eighteen hundred and forty, and terminating April, eighteen hundred and forty-one, two hundred and

Public No. 12.1

AN ACT to provide for placing Greenough's Statue

ot Washington in the Kotundo of the Capitol, and for expenses therein mentioned. Beit enacted, &c. That the accounts of Horatio

Greenough for expenses incurred in the execution of

of the pedestrian statue of Washington, authorized by a resolution of Congress, February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and the accounts

and charges for freight of the same to the United States, be settled under the directions of the Secreta

ry of State, according to the rights and claimants un

der their several contracts liberally construed: Provided, That not more than six thousand five hundred, dollars shall be allowed the , said Greenough, in the event that the Secretary of State, under such construction as aforesaid, shall consider him entitled to charge the same; and not more than eight thousand six hundred dollars for the freight aforesaid, and detention of the ship, and for an iron railing around the

statue, including the sum of fifteen hundred dollars

assumed to be paid by the said Greenough, in addition

to the original contract as made by Commodore

Hull; and the sum of fifteen thousand one hundred

dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary

is hereby appropriated tor the purposes aforesaid

bee. Z. Be it further enacted, That the sum of five

thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be neces

sary, is hereby appropriated, for the purpose of re

moving the said statue from the navy vard at Wash

ington, and for erecting the same in such part of the

Kotundo or the Capitol as may be deemed best adap

ted tor the same by the Secretary of the Navy, in ac

cordance with the joint resolution of Congress of th

twenty-seventh of May, eighteen hundred and forty

any thing designating the particular spot contained

in the act or fourteenth of July, eighteen hun dred and thirty-two, to the contrary notwithstan

ding.

Approved, September 9, 1841. v Public No. 13.1

AN ACT authorizing the transmission of letters

and packets to and from Mrs. Harrison frco of

postage.

Be it enacted, Src. That all letters and packets car

ried by post to and from Mrs. Harrison, relict of the

ate Wilhim Henry Harrison, be conveyed free of

postage during her natural life.

Approved, September 9, 1841. I Public. No. 14.1

AN ACT to make appropriations for the Post Office

Department.

Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of four hundred

and ninety-seven thousand six hundred and fifty-seven

dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out

of any money in the J reasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Post Office Department to meet

its engagements and pay its debts, of which sum fif

teen thousand dollars are hereby appropriated to ena ble the Auditor of said Department to purchase aC'

count-books fur his office, and to bring up arrears of

its business: Provided, That in virtue hereof no clerk shall be employed for a longer period than one year; to be accounted for in the manner prescribed in the

second section of the "Act to change the organization

of the Post Office Department and to provide more effectually for the settlement of the accounts thereof,"

passed July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six: Provided, That the money hereby appropriated shall

be accounted for by the Post Office Department here

after, when the condition of its funds shall permit, to be refunded into the Treasury, or deducted from any

sums which the Post Office Department may hereto fore have paid into the Treasury.

Approved, September 9, 1841.

CONGRESSIONAL WHIG MEETING. At a meeting of the Whig members of the Senate and House of Representatives of the 27th Congress of the United States, held in the city of Washington, on the 11th tf September, 1841 The Hon. Nathan F. Dixon, of Rhode Island, on the part of the Senate, and the Hon. Jeremiah Morrow, of Ohio, on the part of the House, were called to the chair, and Kenneth Rayner, of North Carolina, Christopher Morgan, of New York, and Richard W. Thompson of Indiana, were appointed Secretaries. Mr. Mangum, of North Carolina, offered the following resolutions:

Resolved, That it is expedient for the Whigs of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United

Stutea to publish aa Address to the People of the Uni ted .States, containing a succinct exposition of the prominent proceedings of the extra session of Congress, of the measures that have been adopted, and those in which they have failed, and the causes of such failure, together with such other matters as may exhibit truly .the condition of the Whig party and Whig prospects. Resolved, That a committee of three on the part of the Senate, and five on the part ol the House, be appointed to prepare such Address, and submit it to a meeting of the Whigs on Monday morning next, the ) 3th inst., at half-past eight o'clock. And the question being taken on said resolutions, they wree unanimously adopted. Whereupon the following gentlemen were appointed said committee: Messrs. Berrien, of Georgia, Tallmaiige, of New York, and Smith, of Indiana, on the part of the Senate; and Messrs. Everett, of Vermont, Mason, of Ohio, Kennedy;, of Maryland, John C. Clark, of New York, and Rayner, of North Carolina, on the part of the House. 1 When, on motion, the meeting adjourned, to meet again on Monday morning.

meeting

Monday, assembled,

September 13, 1841. pursuant to adjourn-

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Mr. Kennedy, of Maryland, from the committee appointed for that purpose, reported the following Address: Fellow-citizens: The Extra Session of Congress has, at length, been brought to a close. The incidents which belong to the history of this session, nnd especially those which have marked its termination, are of a nature to make so strong an impression upon the country, and to excite so much interest in the future action and relations of the Whig party, that the Whig Representatives in both Houses of Congress have thought it their duty, before separating, to address their constituents with a brief exposition of the circumstances in which they conceive themselves to be placed by the events which have recently transpired.' .. - This session df Congress was called as almost the first measure of that illustrious and lamented citizen whose election to the Presidency was no less significant of the general sentiment of condemnation of the

acts of the preceding Administration, than it was ex

pressive of a wish tor an immediate and radical change in the public policy. The improvidence of those who had just been expelled from power had rendered it in

evitable; and the country hailed the meeting of a new

Congress as the sure pledge of relief from all those

evils which the disastrous incompetency of the men at

the head of oitairs had brought upon it

The People desired the early adoption of the policy which had been promised them by the Whig

party. That policy had been brought to the consider

ation of the country throughout a contest of nearly

twelve years' duration, maintained with unexampled devotion; and its principles were-illustrated by the

precepts and practice of the mosteminentand patriotic of our citizens in every form by which they were able

to address themselves to the intelligence of tne .People. No one misapprehended these principles; they were identified with the labors of that great party whose unparallelled success was both the token and the reward of the general confidence of the nation. They promised reform 1st. In the restraint of Executive power and patronage; 2d. In the wholesome regulation of the currency, and the advancement of the interests of industry; and 3d. In the establishment cf an economical administration of the finances. They proposed to accomplish the first of these ob

jects by limiting the service of the President to a sin

gle term; by forbidding all officers ot the tiovernrrcnt

from interfering in elections; and by a voluntary self-

denial, on the part of the Chief Magistrate, in that ex

cessive use of the Veto power which had recently become so offensive to the country as an instrument

of party supremacy.

They hoped to achieve their next object by the es

tablishment of a National Bank; by an adjustment

of the system of duties upon a moderate and perma

nent scale, adapted as nearly as practicable to the interest, and conformable with the views of every portion of the Union; by the establishment of a uniform

system of bankruptcy, and by the distribution of the proceeds of the public lands nmongst the States a measure recommended not only by considerations of

justice to the States themselves, but also by a sad experience of the embarrassment produced in the cur

rency resultinp: from the administration of a fund ot

such variable amount as an item in the ordinary revenues of the Governmnnt. The establishment of an

economical administration of the finances they expec

ted to attain by cutting down all useless offices; by

enforcing a strict accountability of the public ajrents;

and, more conspicuously, by making exact and ade

quale provision for the ascertainment and eventual li quidation of that public debt which the past Adminis

tration had created by permitting their expenditures

to overrun their receipts, and which they had con

ceded from public observation by the easy device of

epeated issues of Government notes.

These were the prominent points to which the poli

cy of the Whig party had been directed, and which

constituted the great issues before the country in the recent Presidential election. We nre aware that our

adversaries in that contest now deny these issues, founding their denial chiefly, upon the fact that no formal manifesto was put forth to declare the terras

upon which we insisted. We chose rather to appeal to the widely-diffused knowledge of our principles

hich had been impressed upon every man's mind in

that long struggle of years gone by; with which one party had been identified, and of which its very name

as an exponent. It need not be said that, in a representation spread

over a territory of such extent as that comprehended by our Union, and exhibiting interests so diversified,

what might be called the characteristic principles ot

the Whig party, throughout this wide sphere, should be subject to occasional modifications, dependent up

on local influences, and that it was incumbent, therefore, upon the party to move together in a spirit of

mutual concession and accommodation of sectional differences of opinion. ' It need not be told that, in, the system of measures which we have enumerated,' conflicting views might naturally exist between the Representatives of distant portions of our Republic'

and that only by the yielding of minor interests to the establishment of the general good, entire harmony was to be obtained in the action of Congress. This was natural, and to be expected. But we felt a proud consciousness that in the patriotism of the party all . such difficulties would vanish, and that the demands of an enlarged welfare would be met and fulfilled, through the virtue of that spirit of compromise and forbearance, that liberal and comprehensive sentiment of self-denial and concession, which rests at the heart of our confederacy, and which constitutes the living principle of our union: Before the appointed day ar

rived fur the meeting of Congress, and at the expiration of but one short month from the date of his inauguration, our beloved President was snatched from us by the grasp of death: too soon for the happiness of his country, but not too soon to awaken in our bosoms a deep and awful sense of the irreparable loss which we have sustained in the deprivation of a great and good man not too soon to convince us how long and how bitterly our country is doomed to deplore this heavy misfortune. In this our calamity, wo hoped to find consolation in the character and principles of him whom the Constitution had designated to fill the office of the departed chief. It is true, that towards that individual, even at the moment of his selection for the Vice Presidency, i,o very earnest public attention had been directed: and it is equally true that but a passing regard was bestowed upon the current of his previous life and opinions. We only knew him as one professing to be a member of the Whig party, and as seeking to identify himself with those great leaders of that party whose opinions and principles were deeply engraved in the most conspicuous

acts of our political history, nnd were read nnd understood by every citizen in the land. In this connection, where he had sought to be prominent, wediscerned what we conceived, nnd what doubtless he meant, to be a pledge of faithful adherence to the cardinal doctrines for which we struggled, and with which the hopes of the country were indissolubly bound up. We hoped to find consolation also in tho fact that his accession to the Presidency brought him into communion and intimate political fellowship with the chosen vanguard of the Whig party the first selection made by General Harrison of a Cabinet, distinguished for its paramount ability, integrity, and fidelity to the glorious cnuse in which we had'eonqueredn Cabinet eminently crowned with the public confidence, in whom all men trusted as in the very embodiment of the principles of the party to which they belonged: who were inseparably associated with its glory, and in whose generous and honorable relation to the President we had the security of wise and prosperous counsels, nnd he the pledge of a co-operation which should enable him to accomplish all that the nation desired. These hopes were still further enlivened by the encouraging tone in which the President referred, in his first address to the nation, to the ''ever glorious example" afforded him by the Fathers of the great Republican school, and the declaration of his determination to walk in the path which they pointed out. In the indulgence of these hopes, Congress entered upon its labors. By adopting rules for the despatch

of business comformable to the emergency of an extra session, and in view of the great amount of legislation which the times required, we have been enabled to achieve all, and even more than all, that our constituents could have demanded at our hands. The leading and great measures of this session have been under discussion, in Congress and out of it, for many years past, and little remained to be said beyond a repetition of former debates. There was nothing in the circumstances or position of either party in Congress to require, or even to justify, protracted discussions; and the majority, therefore, felt themselves entitled to give to the extra session the character of a Congress of action and decision, rather than one of debate; and we feel assured that in this effort we have done no more than respond to the just expectations of the People. First in urgency against the bills passed during

the session, and that to which the public command most imperatively drew the noticeof Congress, was

the repeal of the Sub-treasuay law. Our next care was the enactment of the Land bill. This was fol-

owed by an act converting the debt which the prece

ding Administration had entailed upon the country in

a Joan ot twelve millions of dollars, which is limited

for its redemption to a period of three years. Associated with this measure was the Revenue bill, rendered necessary not only as a provision towards the extinguishment of the loan, but also as indispensable for the supply of means to meet the ordinary and necessary appropriations of the year. The Bankrupt act, so earnestly and so long solicited by a large and meritorious class of our citizens, has been passed under circumstances which cannot but reflect the highest honor upon the Representatives of many sections of the country. As a measure standing alone, it might perhaps have been destined to a further delay; but being brought, as it was, into that series of measures which were supposed to embrace the scheme of relief which the nation at large required, it met from a Whig Congress that support of which the chief argument and highest va!ue are derived from

the respect which every one felt to be due to a com

prehensive policy, whose scope should include every interest in the nation. It is a trial for the benefit of the country, and remains to be altered or improved.

as the public wants may hereafter be found to require

ihe importance, in the posture ot our affairs, of attending to the national defences suggested the measures of establishing a Home Squadron, of repairing and arming the Fortifications, of providing fur the defence of the Lakes; and of bringing the nation at large into a state of readiness against hostile aggression in regard to which measures, as great unanimity prevailed in Congress, wo may safely assure ourselves they will meet the unprovided approbation of our constituents throughout the whole Union. This rapid review, fellow-citizens, will exhibit what we have done. What we have failed to do remains to be told. It is with profound and poignant regret that we find ourselves called upon to invoke your attention to this point. Upon the great and leading measure touching this question our anxious endeavors to respond' to the earnest prayer of the nation have been frustrated by an act as unlooked-for as it is to be lamented. We prieve to say to you that, by the exer

cise of that power in the Constitution which has ever

been regarded with suspicion, and ofteh with odium, by the People a power which we had hoped was ne

ver to be exhibited, on this subject, by a Whig President we have been defeated in two attempts to create

a Fiscal Agent, which the wants of the country Lid