OF THE DEBATES OF CONGRESS, FROM 1789 TO 1856. FROM GALES AND SEATON'S ANNALS OF CONGRESS; FROM THEIR REPORTED DEBATES, BY JOHN C. RIVES. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE THIRTY YEARS' VIEW. VOL. XV. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 443 & 445 BROADWAY. 1863. 5386.6 20 HARVARD COLLEGE ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Sonthern District of New York. MONDAY, December 4, 1843. This being the day fixed by the constitution for the meeting of the 1st session of the 28th Congress, the Senate met, and was called to order at 12 o'clock by Mr. MANGUM, President. *LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE SENATE. Maine.-John Fairfield, George Evans. New Hampshire.-Levi Woodbury, Chas. G. Atherton. Vermont.-Samuel Phelps, William C. Upham. Massachusetts.-Rufus Choate, Isaac C. Bates. Rhode Island.-William Sprague, James F. Simmons. Connecticut.-J. W. Huntington, John M. Niles. New York.-N. P. Tallmadge, Silas Wright. New Jersey.-W. L. Dayton, Jacob W. Miller. Pennsylvania.-D. W. Sturgeon, James Buchanan. Delaware.-R. H. Bayard, Thomas Clayton. Maryland.-Wm. D. Merrick,-vacancy. Virginia.-Wm. C. Rives, Wm. S. Archer. North Carolina.-Willie P. Mangum, W. H. Haywood, Jr. South Carolina.-Daniel E. Hugér, George McDuffie. Georgia.-John M. Berrien, Walter T. Colquitt. Alabama.-William R. King, Arthur P. Bagby. Mississippi.-John Henderson, Robert J. Walker. Louisiana.-Alexander Barrow, Alexander Porter. Tennessee.-E. H. Foster, Spencer Jarnagan. Kentucky.-John T. Morehead, John J. Crittenden. Ohio.-Benjamin Tappan, William Allen. Indiana.-Albert S. White, Ed. A. Hannegan. Illinois. James Semple, Sidney Breese. Missouri.-T. H. Benton, D. R. Atchison. Arkansas.-Wm. S. Fulton, A. H. Sevier. Michigan.-A. S. Porter, W. Woodbridge. LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRE SENTATIVES. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. MONDAY, December 4. The House of Representatives was called to order precisely at 12 o'clock, by MATTHEW ST. CLAIR CLARKE, their Clerk, who stated to the House that he would proceed to call the roll of the members. New Hampshire.-Edmund Burke, John R. Reding, John P. Hale, Moses Norris, Jr. Rhode Island.-Henry Y. Cranston, Elisha R. Potter. Connecticut.-Thomas H. Seymour, John Stewart, Geo. S. Catlin, Samuel Simons. Vermont.-Solomon Foot, Jacob Collamer, George P. Marsh, Paul Dillingham, Jr. New York.-Selah B. Strong, Henry C. Murphy, J. Philips Phoenix, Wm. B. Maclay, Moses G. Leonard, Hamilton Fish, Jos. H. Anderson, R. D. Davis, Jas. G. Clinton, Jeremiah Russell, Zadock Pratt, David L. Seymour, Daniel D. Barnard, Wm. G. Hunter, Lemuel Stetson, Chesselden Ellis, Charles S. Benton, Preston King, Orville Hungerford, Samuel Beardsley, J. E. Cary, S. M. Purdy, Orville Robinson, Horace Wheaton, George Rathbun, Amasa Dana, Byram Green, Thos. J. Patterson, Charles H. Carroll, Wm. S. Hubbell, Asher Tyler, Wm. A. Moseley, Albert Smith, Washington Hunt. New Jersey-Lucius Q. C. Elmer, George Sykes, Isaac G. Farlee, Littleton Kirkpatrick, Wm. Wright. Pennsylvania.-Edward J. Morris, Joseph R. Ingersoll, John T. Smith, Charles J. Ingersoll, Jacob S. Yost, Michael H. Jenks, Abrah. R. McIlvaine, Jeremiah Brown, John Ritter, Rich. Brodhead, jr., Benj. A Bidlack, Almon H. Read, Henry Frick, Alexander Ramsey, Henry Nes, James Black, James Irvin, Andrew Stewart, Henry D. Foster, John Dickey, William Wilkins, Samuel Hays, Charles M. Read, Joseph Buffington. Delaware.-George B. Rodney. Virginia.-Archibald Atkinson, George C. Dromgoole, Maine.-Joshua Herrick, Robert P. Dunlap, Luther Sev- Walter Coles, Edmund Hubard, Thomas W. Gilmer, John erance, Hannibal Hamlin-3 vacancies. Massachusetts.-Robert C. Winthrop, Daniel P. King, William Parmenter, Charles Hudson, John Quincy Adams, Henry Williams, Joseph Grinnell-8 vacancies. W. Jones, Henry A. Wise, Willoughby Newton, Samuel Chilton, William F. Lucas, William Taylor, A. A. Chapman, Geo. W. Hopkins, Geo. W. Summers, Lewis Steenrod. North Carolina.-Thomas J. Clingman, D. M. Barringer, |