Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16)United States. Congress
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Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16)
United States. Congress
Law -- United States; United States -- Politics and government
YEAS.--Theophilus Bradbury, Daniel Buck, Dempsey Burges,
Joshua Coit, Wm. Cooper, William Craik, Samuel W. Dana,
James Davenport, George Dent, George Ege, Abiel Foster,
Dwight Foster, Ezekiel Gilbert, Nicholas Gilman, Chauncey
Goodrich, Roger Griswold, Robert Goodloe Harper, Thomas
Hartley, William Hindman, John Wilkes Kittera, George
Leonard, Samuel Lyman, Francis Malbone, John Page, Josiah
Parker, Samuel Sewall, Samuel Sitgreaves, Nathaniel Smith,
Isaac Smith, William Smith, Zephaniah Swift, George
Thatcher, Richard Thomas, John E. Van Allen, Peleg
Wadsworth, and John Williams.
NAYS.--Theodorus Bailey, Abraham Baldwin, David Bard,
Thomas Blount, Richard Brent, Nathan Bryan, Samuel J.
Cabell, Gabriel Christie, Thomas Claiborne, John Clopton,
Isaac Coles, Henry Dearborn, William Findlay, Jesse
Franklin, Nathaniel Freeman, jr., Albert Gallatin, James
Gillespie, Christopher Greenup, Andrew Gregg, Wade Hampton,
John Hathorn, Jonathan N. Havens, John Heath, James
Holland, Andrew Jackson, George Jackson, Edward Livingston,
Matthew Locke, William Lyman, Samuel Maclay, Nathaniel
Macon, James Madison, John Milledge, Andrew Moore,
Frederick A. Muhlenberg, Anthony New, John Nicholas,
Alexander D. Orr, John Patten, Elisha R. Potter, John Read,
John Richards, Robert Rutherford, John S. Sherburne,
Thompson J. Skinner, Richard Sprigg, jr., Thomas Sprigg,
William Strudwick, John Swanwick, Joseph B. Varnum, Abraham
Venable, and Richard Winn.
The bill was again sent to the Senate, and was soon after returned with
the amendment receded from.
_General Lafayette._
Mr. HARPER moved that a resolution, which he laid on the table
yesterday, respecting Major General Lafayette, should be taken up for
consideration. The motion was seconded by Mr. W. SMITH. The resolution
was in the following words:
"This House, strongly impressed with a just sense of the
important and disinterested services rendered to their
country during the late war by their fellow-citizen, Major
General Lafayette, and deeply regretting the sufferings to
which he is now subjected from a long and rigorous
imprisonment, and which have equally excited their
sympathy, and the ardent wish of their constituents for his
deliverance, do resolve that the President of the United
States be informed, that this House will see with the
highest satisfaction, any measures which he may deem
expedient to adopt towards effecting the restoration of
their said fellow-citizen to liberty."
The question was taken for the House to take it up, and lost--ayes 32,
noes 52.
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