OF THE

DEBATES OF CONGRESS,

FROM 1789 TO 1856.

FROM GALES AND SEATON'S ANNALS OF CONGRESS; FROM THEIR
REGISTER OF DEBATES; AND FROM THE OFFICIAL

REPORTED DEBATES. BY JOHN C. RIVES.

BY

THE AUTHOR OF THE THIRTY YEARS' VIEW.

VOL. VII.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 346 & 348 BROADWAY.

1858.

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 Southern District of New York.

SIXTEENTH CONGRESS.-SECOND SESSION.

PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES

IN

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

MONDAY, November 13, 1820.

This being the day fixed by law for the meeting of Congress, Thomas Dougherty, the Clerk, and the following members of the House of Representatives, appeared, and took their seats,

viz:

Jones, Charles F. Mercer, Hugh Nelson, Thomas
Newton, John Randolph, Ballard Smith, Alexander
Smyth, Thomas V. Swearingen, George Tucker,
and Jared Williams.

From North Carolina-John Culpeper, Weldon N.
Edwards, Thomas H. Hall, Charles Hooks, Lemuel
Sawyer, Jesse Slocum, James S. Smith, Felix Walker,
and Lewis Williams.

From New Hampshire-Joseph Buffum, jr., Josiah From South Carolina-Joseph Brevard, William Butler, Clifton Clagett, William Plumer, jr., and Na-Lowndes, John McCreary, James Overstreet, and thaniel Upham.

From Massachusetts-Benjamin Adams, Samuel C. Allen, Joshua Cushman, Timothy Fuller, Mark L. Hill, Jonas Kendall, Enoch Lincoln, Marcus Morto, Jeremiah Nelson, James Parker, and Henry

Shaw.

From Pennsylvania—Henry Baldwin, William Darton, Samuel Edwards, Thomas Forrest, Samuel ress, Joseph Hemphill, Jacob Hibshman, Jacob Hostetter, William P. Maclay, David Marchand, bert Moore, Samuel Moore, John Murray, Thomas Patterson, Robert Philson, Thomas J. Rogers, John Sergeant, and James M. Wallace.

From Delaware-Louis McLane.

From Maryland-Stevenson Archer, Joseph Kent, Peter Little, Samuel Ringgold, Samuel Smith, and Henry R. Warfield.

From Virginia- Mark Alexander, William S. Archer, William A. Burwell, Robert S. Garnett, James

Starling Tucker.

From Georgia-Joel Abbot, and Thomas W. Cobb. From Kentucky-Richard C. Anderson, jun., William Brown, Alney McLean, Thomas Metcalfe, George Robertson, and David Trimble.

From Tennessee-Newton Cannon, Francis Jones, and John Rhea.

From Ohio--Philemon Beecher, Henry Brush,
John W. Campbell, and John Sloan.

From Louisiana-Thomas Butler.
From Indiana--William Hendricks.
From Illinois-Daniel P. Cook.
From Alabama-John Crowell,

The following new members also appeared,

to wit:

From Massachusetts, WILLIAM EUSTIS, in the room of Edward Dowse, resigned:

From Pennsylvania, THOMAS G. McCULLOUGH, in the room of David Fullerton, resigned:

From Virginia, JOHN C. GRAY, in the room of James Johnson, resigned; EDWARD B. JACKSON, in the room of James Pindall, resigned; and THOMAS L. MOORE, in the room of George F. Strother, resigned:

From Kentucky, THOMAS MONTGOMERY, in the room of Tunstall Quarles, resigned; and FRANCIS JOHNSON, in the room of David Walker, deceased:

Who severally produced their credentials, and took their seats.

JOHN SCOTT, the Delegate from the Territory of Missouri, and JAMES WOODSON BATES, the Delegate from the Territory of Arkansas, also appeared, and took their seats.

The Clerk having announced that a quorum of the House was present, said that he had received a letter from the Hon. HENRY CLAY, late