Congressional

Lnst week we mentioned th motiou lo censure Mr. Adams ior presenting a pelition for thedissolution of ihe Uclun. - The following extract shows whathia position is upon ihat subject. It is worih reading. Mr. Adams fillüvcd and retnaiked Ümt he would not enler upon his defeuce agauist the extraordinnry revelations of the resolution, until he fuund that the house wus disposed to entertain them. Iïo commcnle(l- with great bitterness and vehemence upou the reso'.uüon. He was charged wilh higli treason. Sir, said he, ths crime of high treason is defined in tbe Consütution. It was not left to the puny mind of the mectiber from Kentucky to defino it. - Mr. A. went on in a stram of iudignanl eloquencei to stato his authority fur the courae he had taken. He called upon tho clcrk to read the firet paragraph of ihe Declaration of Independencc: The followiug paragroph was read. "Thai to secure these right?, goi'ernments are insmuied arnong men : deriviiTg their just powers from ihe consent of the governed : that whenever ony form of government becomc3 destructivo of thtse ende, it is the right of iho people to alter or abolish it, and to instituto new government, aud orgauiziug its powers io such, form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their happinese.1'"It is the nghi of the people, conlinued Mr. Adame, to alter or abolish their govewiment. Upon ihal fundamental principie of our ins:i'uiions dol baso my proposition. Mr. A. went on tosíate hal would be his course of defenca should the House make it necessary for bim to dO fend hiraself ogainat these resolution?. He would prove, be said, tbat ibere wes a conspiracy, on the p3rt of one seclion of the country to destroy all the guaranaes of the Ccnstilution - to abolish the righi of trial by jury ; and the right of habeas corpus. Tney did not confine Ihcir views to the enjoyment of iheir own peculiar institulions, at home, unmolested ; but went into the free States with their principies. Ho would 6how that in the conlroversy be twecn Gergia and Maine, and beWcen Virginia nnd New Yoik, there wa9 a rie libérate attempt lo forcé on the free States the support, maintainance, and perpetuation of slavery and the slave trade. He would prove, too, that a project was on foot to emuggie this country into a war with Great Britain fur tho support of the foreign slavo trade. He did not approve of the prayer of tho petitioQCra. Ilohadasccrtained that they were respectable and rcsponsible men: and he would inform tho House that m3ny others, as well as they, would prefer a dissolution of the ucion to a unión upou unequal teems. His object in movin# thereíerence oí the peiition wa3 to bring forward eome reasons in opposition to their I prayer. ïle wiehed toshow ibat ihe time had nul ycl come whcn a dJESolution was reccs8ary in order tu rcmedy their griev anees, lio wiabed to point oui oiber re sources ond Femedies against those griev anees. The country koew his puskion in regard to the right of pelilion. He would suslain that position, and he doubted nut thia House would be compelled to receive petitiuns from the nnnsluveholding as weü as the slaveholding States. Until tbat object wae cflfected, there were thuusanda of freemeo who would never re6t. Even the gentleman hom Ky. had admitted to him ihai these petitions ought to be received. "0n2 in a Thousand." - The numher of clergymen in this country is rcpTesën'ed at 15,000- white population 15,005,000 or ono ciergymon to a thousand souls.