E L. S. DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT, SS. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventeenth day of July, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the United States of America, E. B. WILLISTON, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office, the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Author and Proprietor, in the words following-to wit: "Eloquence of the United States: compiled by E. B. Williston, in five volumes." In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned."-And also to the Act, entitled, " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." CHA'S A. INGERSOLL, Clerk of the District of Connecticul. A true copy of Record, examined and sealed by me, CHA'S A. INGERSOLL, Clerk of the District of Connecticut. CONTENTS OF VOLUME SECOND. Mr. LIVINGSTON's Speech on the Alien Bill, in the House of Representatives of the United States, Mr. HARPER'S Speech on the Appointment of Foreign Mr. MASON'S Speech on the Judiciary, in the Senate of the United States, January 13, 1802, Mr. MORRIS' Speech on the same subject, in the Senate of the United States, January 14, 1802, . Mr. GILES' Speech on the same subject, in the House of Representatives of the United States, February Mr. BAYARD'S Speech on the same subject, in the House of Representatives of the United States, Mr. CLINTON'S Speech on the Navigation of the Mis- Mr. Ross' Speech on the same subject, in the Senate of the United States, February 24, 1803, Mr. MORRIS' Speech on the same subject, in the Senate of the United States, February 25, 1803, Mr. TRACY'S Speech on the Amendment of the Consti- 286 Mr. TAYLOR'S Speech on the same subject, in the Se- nate of the United States, December 2, 1803, President JEFFERSON'S Inaugural Address, March 4, Mr. QUINCY's Speech on Foreign Relations, in the Mr. GILES' Speech on the Embargo, in the Senate of the United States, November 24, 1808, President MADISON's Inaugural Address, March 4, 1809, Mr. QUINCY'S Speech on the Admission of Louisiana, in the House of Representatives of the United Mr. POINDEXTER'S Speech on the same subject, in the House of Representatives of the United States, Mr. RANDOLPH's Speech on an Increase of the Army, in the House of Representatives of the United Mr. CALHOUN's Speech on the same subject, in the SPEECH OF EDWARD LIVINGSTON. ON THE ALIEN BILL DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, JUNE 19, 1798. By the provisions of this bill, the President might order dangerous or suspected aliens, to depart out of the territory of the United States. The penalty, provided for disobedience of the President's order, was imprisonment and a perpetual exclusion from the rights of citizenship. The bill provided, that, if any alien, ordered to depart, should prove to the satisfaction of the President, that no injury to the United States would arise from suffering him to remain, the President might grant him a license to remain for such time as he should deem proper, and at such place as he should designate. The bill having been read the third time, the question was about to be taken on its final passage, when Mr. Livingston addressed the House as follows: MR. SPEAKER, I ESTEEM it one of the most fortunate occurrences of my life, that, after an inevitable absence from my seat in this House, I have arrived in time to express my dissent to the passage of this bill. It would have been a source of eternal regret, and the keenest remorse, if any private affairs, any domestic concerns, however interesting, had deprived me of the opportunity, I am now about to use, of stating my objections, and recording my vote against an act, which I believe to be in direct violation of the constitution, and marked with every characteristic of the most odious des. potism. VOL. II. |