- Cranch John
- Bingham George C
- Johnson William Cost
It is impossible for me to describe the anxieties, under which my soul is
oppressed, and which I am compelled to suppress, with reliance only upon
superior power to relieve me from them— And with no hope of other relief
than from the close of life, and the transition to another state of
existence— The deepest of my afflictions is the degeneracy of my
Country, from the principles which gave her existence—and the ruin
irreparable of them all under the transcendant power of Slavery and the
Slave representation.— This morning I gave another hour to Mr Cranch
for my portrait. Bingham had
already finished his. I had taken to them yesterday Stewart’s last Portrait of my father; of which Mr Cranch had once made a copy, but of which
he wishes to make another— At the house there was a call of the yeas and
nays on the passage of a bill to require the execution of bonds by
Collectors of the Customs, before taking the oath of Office—to ascertain
if there was a quorum present— The vote was 126 to 1. nays. The
consideration of the Report of the Committee of Elections, on the
contested election between the Speaker
Jones, and John M
Botts was postponed till next Friday— Several successive
motions to go into Committee of the whole on the state of the Union were
made and rejected, till one made by M’Kay with notice of his intention to call up the naval
appropriation bill, succeeded— The house went into Committee— Weller in the chair, and took up not the
naval appropriation, but the widows pension bill.— Sundry languid prosy
speeches in support of Garret
Daviss amendment to extend the pension Laws to the
combatants against Indians till Waynes treaty of Greenville of 1795. and
a further amendment to extend the system to the War of 1812. with
Great-Britain— Andrew Stewart
rose and said he proposed to make a speech about the Tariff— Objection
was immediately made to his proceeding on the ground that any thing he
could say upon the tariff would be irrelevant— The chairman after some
hesitation so decided, from which decision Stewart appealed— The vote on
the appeal was 54 to 4. Not within sight of a Quorum— The Committee
rose, and before 2 the house adjourned— I walked home— The democratic
National Convention at Baltimore this day unanimously nominated James K. Polk of Tennessee, their
Candidate for the Office of President of the United States for 4 years
from the 4th of March next and Silas Wright of New-York, as Vice
President— B. F. Butler
withdrew the name of Van Buren
by his own authority. Wright declined the nomination. Evening call from
W Cost Johnson