Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door,
And keep him there! Or shall we let him in,
To try if we can get him out again!”
Instead of shutting the door, the English left it open; tyranny got in; and the evils produced by its expulsion, to that nation, may possibly have been equal to those which submission would have produced.
The question was called for loudly at half-past nine, and put—the yeas and nays being taken, were:
Yeas.—Messrs. Anderson, Bailey, Baldwin, Bradley, Breckenridge, Brown, Cocke, Condit, Ellery, Franklin, Jackson, Logan, Maclay, Nicholas, Potter, Israel Smith, John Smith, Samuel Smith, Stone, Taylor, Worthington, and Wright—22.
Nays.—Messrs. Adams, Butler, Dayton, Hillhouse, Olcott, Pickering, Plumer, Tracy, Wells, and White—10.
Upon the President declaring the question carried by two-thirds—
Mr. Tracy said he denied that the question was fairly decided. He took it to be the intention of the constitution, that there should be two-thirds of the whole number of Senators elected, which would make the number necessary to its passage 23.
It was moved to adjourn to Monday.