Letter from Joseph Sturge, Birmingham
Letter from J. D. Reymert Boston 29. June of the house of William and Charles
Young Ironmongers and wire Merchants Edinburgh and Glasgow, recommends J. P.
Robinson
H.R.U.S— Tariff Bill in Committee of the whole on the
State of the Union Cobb Chairman James Thompson of Pennsylvania closed his
tariff speech and reply to Yancey’s excommunication— Robert M. T. Hunter
followed against the Tariff— Then Toombs of Georgia for it. Then Billy Wick of
Indiana, bitter upon Brinkerhoff the Ohio braggart. Charles H Carroll a
Marylander transplanted to 29 New-York a Tariff whig contrasted by David Wilmot
12 Pennsylvania the solitary but serious anti tariff man from that State— Felix
G M’Connell of Alabama rs
Whitwells—returned after 6. and found Barringer of North Carolina, speaking
against the Bill.— Albert Smith 33 New-York for the tariff and Frederick P—
Stanton 10 Tennessee against it had spoken while I was absent.— Barringer was
followed by Orlando B Ficklin 3. Illinois, anti-tariff—then Joshua F. Bell 4.
Kentucky. Tariff About 9 P.M Thomas Perry 2. Maryland took the floor for the
Tariff— I was wearied out, left the house, missed a step in descending from the
outer porch, fell prostrate and struck my left knee pan on the stone— Slight
bruise Walked out of the