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. XIII.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 443 & 445 BROADWAY.

1861.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of

On motion of Mr. BEARDSLEY, the House proceeded to ballot for a Speaker.

Messrs. JOHNSON of Tennessee, EVERETT of Vermont, and ANTHONY of Pennsylvania, were

LIST OF MEMBERS.

Maine.-Jeremiah Bailey, George Evans, John Fairfield, Joseph Hall, Leonard Jarvis, Moses Mason, Gorham Parks, Francis O. J. Smith.

appointed tellers; and, on counting the ballots,
it appeared that 225 had been given, as follows:
For JAMES K. POLK,
JOHN BELL,

Scattering and blanks,

132 84 9

The honorable JAMES K. POLK, of Tennessee, having received a majority of all the votes given, was declared duly elected Speaker of the 24th Congress; and returned his thanks for the honor conferred, in the following address:

Pennsylvania.-Joseph B. Anthony, Michael W. Ash, John Banks, Andrew Beaumont, Andrew Buchanan, George Chambers, William P. Clark, Edward Darlington, Harmar Denny, Jacob Fry, jr., John Galbraith, James Harper, Samuel S. Harrison, Joseph Henderson, William Heister, EdNew Hampshire.-Benning M. Bean, Robert Burns, Sam- ward B. Hubley, Joseph R. Ingersoll, John Klingensmith, nel Cushman, Franklin Pierce, Joseph Weeks.

Massachusetts.-John Quincy Adams, Nathaniel B. Bor-
den, George N. Briggs, William B. Calhoun, Caleb Cushing,
George Grennell, jr., Samuel Hoar, William Jackson, Abbot
Lawrence, Levi Lincoln, Stephen C. Phillips, John Reed.

Rhode Island.-Dutee J. Pearce, W. Sprague.
Connecticut.-Elisha Haley, Samuel Ingham, Andrew T.
Judson, Lancelot Phelps, Isaac Toucey, Zalmon Wildman.
Vermont.-Heman Allen, Horace Everett, Hiland Hall,
Henry F. Janes, William Slade.

New York.-Samuel Barton, Samuel Beardsley, Abraham
Bockee, Matthias J. Bovec, John W. Brown, C. C. Cambre-
leng, Graham H. Chapin, Timothy Childs, John Cramer,
Ulysses F. Doubleday, Valentine Efner, Dudley Farlin,
Philo C. Fuller, William K. Fuller, Ransom H. Gillet,
Francis Granger, Gideon Hard, Abner Hazeltine, Hiram P.
Hunt, Abel Huntington, Gerrit Y. Lansing, George W. Lay,
Gideon Lee, Joshua Lee, Stephen B. Leonard, Thomas C.
Love, Abijah Mann, jr., William Mason, John McKeon, Ely
Moore, Sherman Page, Joseph Reynolds, David Russell,
William Seymour, Nicholas Sickles, William Taylor, Joel
Turrill, Aaron Vanderpoel, Aaron Ward, Daniel Wardwell.
New Jersey.-Philemon Dickerson, Samuel Fowler, Thos.
Lee, James Parker, Ferdinand S. Schenck, William N.

Shinn.

jr., John Laporte, Henry Logan, Job Mann, Thomas M. T. McKennan, Jesse Miller, Matthias Morris, Henry A. Muhlenberg, David Potts, jr., Joel B. Sutherland, David D. Wagener.

Delaware. John J. Milligan.

Maryland.-Benjamin C. Howard, Daniel Jenifer, Isaac McKim, James A. Pearce, John N. Steele, Francis Thomas, James Turner, George C. Washington.

Virginia.-James M. H. Beale, James W. Bouldin, Nathaniel H. Claiborne, Walter Coles, Robert Craig, George C. Dromgoole, James Garland, G. W. Hopkins, Joseph Johnson, John W. Jones, George Loyall, Edward Lucas, John Y. Mason, William McComas, Charles F. Mercer, William S. Morgan, John M. Patton, John Roane, John Robertson, John Taliaferro, Henry A. Wise.

North Carolina.-Jesse A. Bynum, Henry W. Connor, Edmund Deberry, James Graham, Micajah T. Hawkins, James J. McKay, William Montgomery, Ebenezer Pettigrew, Abraham Rencher, William B. Shepard, Augustine H. Shepperd, Jesse Speight, Lewis Williams.

South Carolina.-Robert B. Campbell, William J. Grayson, John K. Griffin, James II. Hammond, Richard J. Manning, Francis W. Pickens, Henry L. Pinckney, James Rogers, Waddy Thompson, jr.

Georgia.-Jesse F. Cleveland, John Coffee, Thomas