- Leavitt Joshua
- Cruit
- Rothwell
- M
rsThornton - M
rsTalbot - Talbot Theodore
- Mary Talbot
Mr
Leavitt called this morning, and told me that as there
appeared to be at present an interval of leisure from discussions of
much interest to the cause of liberty he proposed to avail himself of
it, to pay a visit to his family. The Intelligencer of this morning
contains the Letter of Joshua R.
Giddings to the Legislature of Ohio, in answer to their
infamous factious resolutions of censure upon me for presenting the
Haverhill Petition— In the House Wise offered a Resolution for a select Committee of five
to consider and report upon the expediency and propriety of separating
the patronage of the Government from the private and political press and
on the best mode of effecting that purpose adopted without opposition—
So was a Resolution offered by Joseph R.
Ingersoll, instructing the judiciary Committee to enquiry
into the expediency of reporting a bill for selecting juries in States
where obstacles are interposed by the local laws. Committee of the whole
on the state of the Union Briggs
in the Chair— General Appropriation Bill— Stanly moved to strike out the item of appropriation for
the Salary of the first Auditor of the Treasury and his clerks— Jesse Miller of Pennsylvania is the
Auditor; and in the report of Wise’s Committee of investigation, into
the Swartwout defalcation,
Miller was charged with culpable negligence and incompetency; in not
discovering Swartwouts embezzlements— Stanly modified his motion, to
strike out only the auditor’s own salary and sent to the clerk a speech
of Proffit’s made two years ago,
vehemently denouncing the Van
Buren administration for retaining Miller in office. A
ludicrous debate now followed, between Proffit—Charles Brown, Wise, and John C. Clark; succeeded by John G. Floyd, Underwood, Gordon, Arnold, and Holmes
of South Carolina, in which Proffit boasted that his speech had elected
half the whigs in the house, and Charles Brown said Ogle’s speech had elected the other
half.— Linn of New-York finally
took the floor; the Committee rose, and the house adjourned— Cruit was here with his claim, and
Mr
Rothwell brought me a mortgage of Obadiah B Brown, as security for the
note of Withers, and a release of the
bond and mortgage of the Columbian College; which he left with me, to be
called for in the course of the next week to complete the final
settlement of that concern— Evening visits from Mrs
Thornton, Mrs Talbot and her son and daughter. I was obliged to leave them
for my chamber—