Western Statesman, Volume 1, Number 49, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 18 February 1831 — Page 1

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investigation into this affair, if the Sen

ate were to demand it, if indeed such language were used in relation to one of that body. I must hope, however, and I sail be glad if it be the case, that some misapprehension of the Reporter has been the cause of such a statement appearing in the journals of the day. He had felt it, he said, in conclusion, his duty to say this much, and he could

not our. oeueve tne House wouia an-

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prove ol the explanation he had given. Mr. Cambrelbnq then rose and said:

It is far from my wish to trouble the

House, but so grave a charge has been made against me by the gentleman from

South Carolina, who on Thursday last

nOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JAN MINISTER TO RUSSIA.

It was near twelve o'clock, when Mr. filled pro tempore, the chair vou now

Martin, of South Carolina, said, as but occupy, I feel it incumbent on myself to few moments would transpire before the make a very brief reply. Sir, 1 will in

House would proceed to the Court of the first place relieve the gentleman from Impeachment, he would throw himself South Carolina from all his doubts upon

ou its indulgence for a moment, while the subject. I did use the words" perhc 6poke to them on a subject which con- jurcd Senator" and I shall on a similar

cerned him individually, and which al- occasion, and in the same manner, ap

concerned the Speaker, the House, ply them again. I used the words, and and in some measure, the nation. shall not retract them here or elsewhere.

It is well known, sir, said Mr. M., What, sir, was the provocation when

that the chair of this House has been oc- that extraordinary debate took place! I,

casionally assigned to rac of late, in in common with other members of the

consequence of your indisposition. I House, had listened, without the least

had the honor to occupy it among other intervention from the chair, to a viludays, on Thursday last, when a debate peralive and violent attack upon our

of a very unuia character, unexpected- venerable Chief Magistrate a tirade o

ly took place. I mean the debate on low abuse, and the most disgraceful in

the appropriation bill, and the propnsi- sinuations against the President, the

tion of the gentleman from Ohio, to Secretary of State, and our Minister to strike out the sum providing for the pay- Russia. Yes, sir, I not only heard

went of the minister to the Court of Rus- them, but 1 have marked in the paper

tia. Upon that occaion,as upon every now hold in my hand, passages and cpi other, when I have been honored bv a thets in his published speech, diserace

call to the chair, I ran safely say, that ful to this House base, gross, and infa

however incompetent I may he for so mous.

dignified a station, I have, nevertheless,! Here the Speaker rose to order,

brought to the chair my best cflorts and There was no charge, he observed, made

feeling to perform the duties with pro- against the gentleman from Aow York

priety. During the debate, that extra- The member from South Carolina had ordinary debate as I must rail it, I wit- only risen to slate in explanation to the . , ir .1.

ncssea us progress wuti anxiety, it is Jiouse, mar. certain remarks were

well known to you, sir, and to all who ascribed in a newspaper to another have occupied that chair, that in a member, which he did not hear uttered, warm and animated discussion of any and for which, if he heard them, he subject in this Hall, many things may should have felt it his duty to call him be uttered, which escape the ear of the to order. Speaker. Sometimes from the rapidity Sir,, when I was interrupted by the and vehemence with which they are chair, I was coining to the point in ques-tuoiu-ii, ftiui again from the low tone of tion. What waB the occasion what

the words, even in the alternative. He, Mr. Martin, had understooahe gentleman, to use the words " perjured wit

ness, ' and he believed if the question was decided by the gentleman's peers

around him, he Mr. M. would L e sus

tained. But, if the gentleman insists that he used words manifestly out of order, it was no longer his, (Mr. M's) business, after the explanation he had given.

Mr. Burges rose to address the

House.

The Speaker said that the gentle

man from Rhode Island was out of or

der. He could reserve his remarks until this subject came in its proper course under the consideration of the House.

Mr. B urges then resumed his seat.

not 6ee how this House coubl avoid an hear from the gentleman Ihat he did use

FOREIGN NEWS.

FROM 1HZ NATION, HRNAL

The paragraph which we subjoin is

from the Lynchburgh Virginian. The

Editor has obviously some particular

individuals in his eye, whose conduct

has provoked the sharp reprimand which his language conveys. We do not at

this moment recollect any very recent instance in which a public attack on

the press has been made, which should have awakened our resentment. Whenever such cases occurred there is evidence enough on record that we are

not much given to let on the assailants lightly. While we make this explanation, however, we cannot suppress the mortification which we have sometimes felt on hearing members of Congress, in private conversation, launching forth unjust, and gratuitous tirades against the newspaper press generally. That the press has been degraded by the

course pursued, for some years past, by

the Editor of the Telegraph; that the

purity of principle, the chastity of style,

the elevation ol thought, which ought

always to mark its suggestions, its inves

tigations, and its rebukes,have been lost

sight of by those organs which have

been employed by the party now domi

nant, at least in the Lxeeutive Depart

ment of the government, are facts whicii

produce melancholy and mol lifying re- j bternation.

IlechoiiS in our minu, ticcause tney give

in some sort, a color to me contempt (or

TEN DAYS LATER FROM ENGLAND. ANOTHER REVOLUTION. New York, Jan. 31. The new packet ship Sovereign, Champlain, is below from London. The letter-bag was brought up last evening by the Old Line news-boat Thomas II. Smith. The editors of the Commercial Advertiser have received from their attentive correspondent in London, papers

to the 19th of December, inclusive :ship-

pingllists to the lMh, and 1'nces current.

These papers contain the important intelligence of a Revolution in Poland,

and the flight of the Grand Duke Constantine to Russia. A variety of details upon this interesting subject, will be

found below. Among the speculations,

the article from Bell's Weekly Messen

ger of Decembr 19, is entitled to attention. The following is the account of the immediate cause of the revolution, as published in the Journal du Paris of De

cember 14th: j

"It was in the evening of the 23th of Novem

ber, that the insurrection was commenced by the under Ensigns. It was excited by the ab

horrence with which they had to witness the ignotninions death of twelve students, who had

been sentenced by a court martial to be shot

for having sung the Marselleis Hymn. The first point to which the ensigns directed their course, was to the arsenal ; they took possession ui that post, which contained 70,000 guns

and 100 pieces of cannon. The Grand Duke

Constantine was then at Belvedere, about three miles from Warsaw. The fight continued during the whole of the night, and ou the

following morning the people remained masters of the city. The regiment of engineers was the first to revolt. The french tri-colored

cockade was instantly adopted, with cries of "Vive Lafayette, the friend of Kosciusko,

forever!" They went to the houso of the French Consul, in search of the tri-colored flag, and having found it, although the consul (M Durand,) was suspected to be a congregationist, and attached to the fallen dynasty, they joined the Polish while flag and the tricolored one together, and hoisted them in that state. The National Guard is being raised." The Prussian State Gazette, of December 4th, savs the news of the Polish

insurrection caused the greatest con-

the press which it is tie fashion with some members of Conjress to feign, although we do not belie. e that there are

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voice used, or the aimcuity which we me manner, in wnicn tne words perall know prevail in some parts of the jured Senator" were used? The gentleHouse, from the indistinct transmission man from Rhode Island had not only of sound. In the course of that debate gone on uninterruptedly with his abuse; aomethini might have escaped my at- but he went into a grave denunciation

tention, which was not strictly in con- of the Turkish treaty at a moment fermity with parliamentary usage, as when, as rumor says, and as it is believtnay frequently happen in cases of in- ed, that treaty was a subject of discusfringemcnt of the orders of the House, sion of secret discussion in the Senate when the observation which required of the United States was there not

the intervention of the Speaker is not something revolting in this spectacle J&mmunity, no one can be more sensible

heard or understood, until the moment when, a treaty was known only to thefcan ourselves; and we view with as

"As far as we yet know, the plot was se

cretly prepared, find thr-n carried into effsct by a number of young Poles, who are educated in a military school, nr.d consequently have a

military organization. The insurgents has

tened to the palace, and murdered the Russian

sentinels. At the same time they called the citizens to arms, the arsenal was stormed, and all hastened to combat the Russian and some Polish troops, at whoso head the Grand Duke

.,Vvi,.;, )U vonnl nnrl tlio . I Iti i, tor. I Constantine retired fu htine. The Grand

kiu, rii;iii a int. ui itiiu itiv ukiTiiii.i t -

, v,..r. All Duke is said to h

sonal dantrcr

many who feel it. But surely a discrimination should he drawn between the consistent and the inconsistent, the firm and the wavering, the dignified and

newspaper press. All involved in the censure

ested, of the

should not he

merited be a part. Of the vast importance of a pure and elevated press, to the moral and literary character of a

:iave insurred the greatest per-

for interposing has passed away. He Cabinet and the Senatorial Council of

felt, he said, the full force of those ditTi- the Executive when the friends of the cultieson Thursday, when, however, so administration could get no information Lit as he understood, only one circum- whatever when, sir, intimate as I am stmce took place to require, according with the Secretary of State, (and I am as to his judgment, the interference of the much in his confidence as any other memchair. That was when the gentleman her of this House.) I have never heard from New York (Mr. Cambrcleng,) him utter one syllabic on the provisions characterized tha motion then under of the Turkish treaty when that treaty discu?ion,ri a disgraceful one. I then, was presumed to be under discussion in naid Mr. M., thought it due to myself, to the secret sessions of the Senate, the the House, and to the nation we repre- gentleman from Rhode Island presents sent, to call the gentleman V) order; and us with the revolting spectacle of going I did so. into an examination of its provisions.

But in looking over the papers of the Where, sir, did the gentleman from morning, I find much published, in the Rhode Island get his information? From

reported Fpceches which I did not hear, one of Ins friends the editor of a news

find which il I had heard, would have paper an unprincipled partisan, or

Imposed a ncces-ity lor calling members one who violated his oath some periur

to order, which I could not, nnd would ed Senator? Sir, I know not where the

not have disregarded. It would an- gentleman from Rhode Island obtained

wer no valuablejpurpose now he said to his information he may take his choice

advert to all the parts of those publish- of these alternatives he may take ei ed speeches to which he alluded. They ther of his confidential friends, the edi

would present themselves obviously to tor, the partisan, or the Senator. I

Jill who read them. Yet he could not made no charge then, I make none now

take his seat without noticing the lan- I put the case then, as I now put it, gunge attributed to the gentleman from hypothetic-ally. All I meant to convey

Iew lork, (Mr. L,amDrcleng.) lie Is and with all delerence to the gentle

reported to have said. man from South Carolina,and the Speak-

u I shall not, Mr. cpcaker, travel out kcr all that my language does convey,

of my way and ioiate a rule of order, is this: if the gentleman from Rhode Isl

by entering now into that discussion by and received his intelligence from

.1 . 1 n a

examining tne provisions oi tne l urkish treaty. Whenever I do, sir, my facts and my nrgumentsshall he founded on something more substantial than a newspaper rumor more unquestionable than tec statement of an unprincipled partizan mor unimpeachable than the evidence of a perjured Senator."

Now, sir, said Mr. Martin, it is proper for me .to say, that if such words

were tittered by the gentleman, from

Icw lork, thry did not reach my ear

I should be guilty of gross, of flagitious derelcction of duty, if, while presiding over the deliberation of this House, 1

were to hear such language language

calculated to bring the two Houses into

collision, used on this floor, and suffer it o pM without animadversion. I do

Senator of the United States then, sir,

that Senator had violated his oath of

secrecy and stood in the eyes of the

world a " perjured Senator and upon

such evidence, I would not rely lor mv

facts as a basis of any argument on the

Turkish treaty. Whether any Senator

has placed himself in that unenviable at

titude, is a question the gentleman from

Rhode Island may answer lor bimsell

he may push that inquiry as far as lie

pleases.

lThe Speaker said there was no

question before the House, and repeated

his former remarks, that the gentleman

from S. Carolina had made no charge

against huii. J

Mr. Camhrf.i.f.nu repeated that h

had uttered the words attributed to him,

Mr. MnTi replied, he was sorry to

The following is the account of the

first act of the insurrection received in

Berlin on the 4th December:

"On the evening of the 2Jth Nov. an insurrection broke out at Warsaw. It began in

the military school of ensigns. The youn

men to the number of 500 to GOO, took up arms

and spread themselves through the town, cal

line the citizens to arms. A multitude of stu

dents and inhabitants soon joined them. They

proceeded to the barracks of the infantry, and

the arsenal, which was taken by 10 o'clock

The immenso quantity of muskets and sabres

it contained, were distributed to the people

The insurrection had previously trained the

barracks of the infantry. The engineer regiment was the first that rose, and several other

reeiments soon followed, the Grand Duke

much regret as contempt the course of

lose who thrust themselves in the Ldi-

tonal chair, without qualifications to

make it either useful or respectable, but

who come there for no honester pur

pose, and with no higher design, than

to put up some political idol on the

shrine of power, and who, to effect this

b ect, reauily and rudely trample down

all the courtesies and charities of life,

and make a wreck of all the fair and Constantino, on the point of being attacked or

pure fame which stands between them and their aim. The influence of such

intruders is, however, of limited char

acter; and public intelligence seldom fails to correct the evil before it becomes

of dangerous power: and to that correc

tive source we must at this time look for

a remedy. We will merely add that

we. have known characters to which the sarcasm of the following paragraph would forcibly and truly apply:

"Obscure members of Congress, who are

scarcely known beyond the districts which they represent, and who have acquired their distinction only by accident, are in the habit of spitting their venom, against newspapers

and Editors, whenever they rise on the floor

to inflict upon the House a nonsensical har-

rangue ; which they have previously committed

to memory ,hke a school boy. 1 his is never tne case with gentlemen of character, and staudine, and mind. They know, that with all the

abuses of the Press which are acknowledgedly great it is a tremendous lever, working

an immense amount of good to the worm

more, indeed, than the feeble comprehension

of such men as utter their furious tirades against

it, can embrace in their grasp. The very day,

too, after he shall have denounced the newspaper press, as prostituted and abandoned and

and profligate, you will see the denunciator

carry his disfigured manuscript speech to the

office, containing his foul mouthed slander, to

be published to the world not in its crude and undigested shape, as it was spun by his brain

but to be revised and corrected by the Edi

tor himself. The press is hit only means of

distinction a newspaper immortality is all

he aspires to reach and yet he is constantly assailing it like the East India idolator, who lashes his deity into kindness. We do not choose now to mention the names of the gentleman to whom we refer but we mustextress our astonishment that they are let off so ightly by the Washington press. They should punish them by publishing their speeches, verbation et literatim. This would be a sorer punishment that the scourge of Junius.

surrounded in his palace, effected his retreat

upon Traga, with his guard two Russian reg

iments and a regiment of Polish cavalry, who followed him from a sense of military honor; but will remain neutral if the soldiers do not

disband themselves and Join their fellow-citi-zea. The exasperation, for a long time smothered, was so very considerable at the moment

of insurrection, that some Polish detachments who at the commencements refused to give up their post of arms to the people,were massacred as traiters. Forty-one Colonels or Majors

were killed in endeavoring to keep '.the troops in obedience. It is added that two aids of the

Duke were slain- The opinion at Warsaw was, that the defection of the Polish army would become general. The chief of the municipal police,aud two Russian Generals, were killed. The German General llauch, and Count Stanislaus, Potosky, was also killed, in endeavoring to rally the troops. The military

chest, and the house of the Paymaster-General were plundered. General Klopiecki has taken command of the Polish troops, and is en

deavoring to restore order. It is said that he

has already 1600 troops of the line under his command. The French tri-colored cockade

was adopted at the beginning of the insurrection, but it was soon replaced by the Polish

cockade. A corps of National Guards was organizing. The Council of Administration os

tablished by the Emperor of Russia, in conjunction with Prince Lubeski, Minister of Finance, Prince Adam Czartorinski, and Prince

Michael Radzivil, form the Provisional Government, and have issued a proclamation, in

which they acknowledge the rights of sovo reignty of the Emperor Nicholas,but on condi

tion that the separation of the two States shall

be complete, and that no Russian military corps

than Keep garrison in the Kingdom of Poland

Lieut. General Czartorinski was the first Min

ister of Poland in I814,whenthe Lmpcror gave

10 mat country a liberal Constitution the ex

ecution of which was afterwards suspeuded by

tne same sovereign. Prince Radzival, is cousin of the Gov. Gen. of the Duchy of Tosen, (Prussian Poland) and brother-in-law to the King of Prussia." The Prussian Stata Gatette of the

6th, gives the following version, embracing many additional particulars:

On the morning of the 29th of November

tranquility still reigned here, but towards se

ven o'clock in the evening,'a report spread rapidly through the town, that two regiments of the Russian Horse Guards had come to blows with the pupils of the Military School and se

veral companies of Polish Infantry. The engagement was most sanguinary, and many lives were lost on both sides. The Russian cavalry of the Guard retreated, and a detachment of Polish troops repaired to the llelvidere Palace, where His Imperial Highness the Cesarowitsh was no longer to bo found. At this moment a general alarm was beaten, and all the troops in Warsaw assembled under arms. In a short time it became evident that a part of the population were about to join the troops. At eight o'clock the gates of the arsenal wero broken open, and arms were distributed among the people. The battle lasted till day break. The prisoners of Stoto were set at liberty. The following persoo te 'nii to have lost their lives: Generals Gendre and Tensch,Vice President Lubourazki, the Minister of War, General Hancke, and Colonel Mecizewski; General Rlumer was pierced with balls, General Stanislaus Potoeki is dangerously wounded. General Nouicki also lost his

life. Generals Kedel and Bontems havo been arrested. Generals Essakoff and Englemann have surrendered themselves prisoners of war. General Trcbicki was killed. Yesterday Count Sobolewski,and the Minister of Finance, Prince Lubechi, issued in tho name of the Emperor a proclamation by which a new administration was named, consisting of the following individuals : Priaeo Senator Wojewoden Adam Czartonylski, Senator Wojewoden Michcal Radzivil, Senator Michiel Kochanowsk. Senator Count Lewis Patz, Secretary Julian Niencewitez, and General Joeph Chlopinki. The whole of yesterday (the 30th November) the inhabitants of Warsaw remained under arms, and in the afternoon the National G- :d began to be organized under the command of Count Lubienski. The shops were closed. Hitherto the Russian troops appear to have remained quiet. The Polish regiments of infantry and cavalry, stationed in the Provinces,

have received orders to move without delay.

towards Warsaw. In the principal streets of Warsaw, artillery has been planted. The Amortisation Committee of the Publio Debt has placed the public property in the Bank, un

der the protection of the citizens. In tho Avenue, and near the Alexauder Church, tho en

gagement is said to have been most sanguinary. Every body is hastening to Powask, whither the Russian Guards have repaired. On the

Saxon Palace and in the Cracow suburb, patrols of Polish cavalry are stationed.

According to the foregoing accounts, the

slaughter among the superior officers must have been immense. Many armed females

were seen bearing their share in the dangers of the day.

'i he shops were still closed on the 1st irit.

but the new President of Police, Wegrzechi,

had issud orders that they should be re-opened. In addition to the Polish troops, 30,000 of tho inhabitants were under arms. Patrols of the newly organized National Guards were

already passing through the streets. They have taken up several suspicious individuals, and the property and money found upon them had been deposited at the Council House. Towards two o'clock in the morning no more firing was heard, and tranquility was soon restored. The Russian families, residing at Warsaw, have been placed under the protection of national honor. Such of the members of the Chamber of Deputies as happened to be at Warsaw had allowed themselves to be made the orguns of the popular voice, and had obtained the dismissal from the Adrniuitrative Council of Prince Lubccki and Couut Grabowski, in whose stead others have been joined to the Council. It appears that the newspapers had not been published one day, in consequence of the Compositors having joined the insurrectionists.

The Grand Duke Constantine had forbiddeu by a proclamation, the Russian troops to interfere iu the insurrection further, leaving ths Poles to re-unite themselves, but at the same time he cautions the Poles to beware of (the precipice upon which they stand, and exhorts

them to return to order and tranquility."

Warsaw papers to the 5th of Decem

ber contain the following intelligence

from that capital:

The Authorities of this city have issued

detailed instructions for the general arming of

the citizens.

"On the 1st of this month several armed cit

izens were seen with tri-colored cockades, red, blue, and white. The day after, however, only white cockades wereeen. It is reported

that Gen, Kosnicoki has been killed near Kalussin. A great number of armed land-owners and peasants are hasteniug to this city from

lvahsch. Gen. Chlopicki reviewed on the

1st of this month the newly organized Nation

al Guard. Tho Students of our University formed a separate division of this guard, under the orders of Professors Schirma and Hubo. Gen. Ilichtcr surrendered at the same time with Generals Essakoff. Kiffkof. Lance and

Englemann, and the Emperor's aid-do-camp

llaturhn, and t.ol. lguatictf. All these offi

cers are kept under arrest fn the Royal Palace.

Divisions ol troopsof the line and several citi

zens have arrested those persons, whg attempt

ed to plunder houses nnd macaziues. Gen.

Siemiat Koffski died in thu night ef tho 2!)th. The Council of Administration being informed that his imperial highness the Graud Duka Czarowitseh desired to know the present wish

es of the nation, sent to his head quarters four of its members, viz. Prince Czarteroyski, Prince

Lubccki, and the Deputies Lelewel, nnd 0trowaki. This deputation represented to his Imperial Highness that it was the universal wish of the natiou that the constitution should be completely carried into execution ; also, that his Majesty would fulfil the promise made by his illustrious predecessor, to incorporate with the kiugdem of Poland the Polish provinces formerly united with Russia; and, lastly.

that the Lithuanian corps, under tne commanu of the Czarowitsch, might not enter the kingdom of Poland. Lastly, the deputation observed, that it was the most ardent wish ofthe nation, that all the anoic.nt parts of Poland

I now under the dominion of Russia, should M