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
On the question being about to be put on the answer as amended, Mr.
BLOUNT wished the yeas and nays might be taken, that posterity might see
that he did not consent to the Address.
The main question being put, it was resolved in the affirmative--yeas
67, nays 12, as follows:
YEAS.--Fisher Ames, Theodorus Bailey, Abraham Baldwin,
David Bard, Theophilus Bradbury, Nathan Bryan, Gabriel
Christie, Thomas Claiborne, John Clopton, Joshua Coit,
William Cooper, William Craik, James Davenport, Henry
Dearborn, George Dent, George Ege, Abiel Foster, Dwight
Foster, Jesse Franklin, Nathaniel Freeman, jr., Albert
Gallatin, Ezekiel Gilbert, James Gillespie, Nicholas
Gilman, Henry Glenn, Chauncey Goodrich, Andrew Gregg, Roger
Griswold, William B. Grove, Robert Goodloe Harper, Carter
B. Harrison, Thomas Hartley, Jonathan N. Havens, John
Heath, Thomas Henderson, William Hindman, George Jackson,
Aaron Kitchell, Samuel Lyman, James Madison, Francis
Malbone, Andrew Moore, Frederick A. Muhlenberg, John
Nicholas, John Page, Josiah Parker, John Patton, John Read,
John Richards, Samuel Sewall, John S. Sherburne, Samuel
Sitgreaves, Nathaniel Smith, Israel Smith, Isaac Smith,
William Smith, Richard Sprigg, jr., William Strudwick, John
Swanwick, Zephaniah Swift, George Thatcher, Mark Thompson,
John E. Van Allen, Philip Van Cortlandt, Joseph B. Varnum,
Peleg Wadsworth, and John Williams.
NAYS.--Thomas Blount, Isaac Coles, William B. Giles,
Christopher Greenup, James Holland, Andrew Jackson, Edward
Livingston, Matthew Locke, William Lyman, Samuel Maclay,
Nathaniel Macon, and Abraham Venable.
_Resolved_, That the SPEAKER, attended by the House, do present the said
Address; and that Mr. AMES, Mr. MADISON, and Mr. SITGREAVES, be a
committee to wait on the PRESIDENT to know when and where it will be
convenient for him to receive the same.
FRIDAY, December 16.
Mr. AMES, from the committee appointed to wait on the PRESIDENT to know
when and where he would receive the answer of this House to his Address,
reported that he had appointed to receive it at his house this day at
two o'clock.
_Address to the President._
The SPEAKER informed the House that the hour was nearly at hand, which
the PRESIDENT had appointed for receiving the Address of the House, in
answer to his Speech. The members, in a body, accordingly waited upon
the PRESIDENT, at his house; and the SPEAKER pronounced the following
Address:
"SIR: The House of Representatives have attended to your
communication respecting the state of our country, with all
the sensibility that the contemplation of the subject and a
sense of duty can inspire.
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