The funeral rites were all concluded except for the final commitment of the corpse to mother earth.

If their object had been for Congress to lay a duty of ten dollars per head on the importation of slaves, they would have said so, but that does not appear to have been the case; the commitment of the petition, on that ground, cannot be contended; if they will not be content with that, shall it be committed to investigate facts?

Mr. Page (of Va.) was in favor of the commitment; he hoped that the designs of the respectable memorialists would not be stopped at the threshold, in order to preclude a fair discussion of the prayer of the memorial.

If there was the slightest tendency by the commitment to break in upon the constitution, he would object to it; but he did not see upon what ground such an event was to be apprehended.

He thought that no objection had been offered, of any force, to prevent the commitment of the memorial.

Mr. Stone (of Md.) thought this memorial a thing of course; for there never was a society, of any considerable extent, which did not interfere with the concerns of other people, and this kind of interference, whenever it has happened, has never failed to deluge the country in blood: on this principle he was opposed to the commitment.

The question on the commitment being about to be put, the yeas and nays were called for, and are as follows: Yeas.

If their object had been for Congress to lay a duty of ten dollars per head on the importation of slaves, they would have said so, but that does not appear to have been the case; the commitment of the petition, on that ground, cannot be contended; if they will not be content with that, shall it be committed to investigate facts?

Mr. PAGE (of Va.) was in favor of the commitment; he hoped that the designs of the respectable memorialists would not be stopped at the threshold, in order to preclude a fair discussion of the prayer of the memorial.

If there was the slightest tendency by the commitment to break in upon the Constitution, he would object to it; but he did not see upon what ground such an event was to be apprehended.

He thought that no objection had been offered, of any force, to prevent the commitment of the memorial.

Mr. STONE (of Md.) thought this memorial a thing of course; for there never was a society, of any considerable extent, which did not interfere with the concerns of other people, and this kind of interference, whenever it has happened, has never failed to deluge the country in blood: on this principle he was opposed to the commitment.

The question on the commitment being about to be put, the yeas and nays were called for, and are as follows: Yeas.

" Mr. Page, of Virginia, (afterward Governor)"Was in favor of the commitment; he hoped that the designs of the respectable memorialists would not be stopped at the threshold, in order to preclude a fair discussion of the prayer of the memorial.

She came to inform Captain H. that the girl had been whipped twice contrary to law, before her commitment.

He was strenuous against striking out the section, and seconded the motion of Gen. Pinckney for a commitment.

Mr. Read was for the commitment, provided the clause concerning taxes on experts should also be committed.

Let us then, he said, try the chance of a commitment.

Mr. Wilson wished for a commitment, in order to reduce the proportion of votes required.

If the magistrate will give me a commitment, Prince will call at my house after he has finished sawing his wood, and I will send him to jail with it.

When Prince Hopkins had finished his job of sawing, he called for the commitment, and carried it to the jailor, who locked him up.

The latter had not heard of my recent commitment.

Within a month of my voluntary commitment, that is, in February, I started on a business trip through the Central West and South, where I remained until the following July.

When I went into Cornwall I was seized and brought to Launceston to be tried, and being settled in prison upon such a commitment that we were not likely to be soon released, we were put down into Doomsdale, a nasty, stinking place where they put murderers after they were condemned; and we were fain to stand all night, for we could not sit down, the place was so filthy.

"Well, what do you think of this?" It was a surgeon's commitment of Private Jones Berwick, company and regiment given, into the hands of the Sanitary Commission for ten days.