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ing•the 'eleCtioriof a Speakerta the
Reoregentatiwes, we give
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rooßt : o,the folloiving sketch of The dobato.
that took place 15n the I.3th *hist. ; as we
find it reported in the WashlifirolrUnion;
It wait . ' the clay following that to which
NVlL*.r.l3lo:v came within two votes of
i; an election as tle ...pea.er, and; adtts only
defeated on the pext'ballot by the discove
ry z r f asecret pledge to the free soilers.—!
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Excitetneht, a./ a matter of 'course, ran
high, and all the speakers- wore perhaps
more than usually animated. Two reso
:i;:' lutiona were offered, proposing to take the
• 4 appointment of the members to constitute .
theCOMinittees on the District of Colum
bitt;;o4: Territories, and, the Judiciary
Committee, out ot'the hands of the Speak-
er,itnd . giving their section to the House
—to•hnvc. control of these committees, it
should be understood, .being the greet ob
ject of the free zoiler:;.
The speakers, sketches of whose re-
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mastko; follow, are . Mr. Mom). democrat,
of •19rginia ; Mr. Roor, free soil whig,
of Qiiio ;' Mr. DOER, whig, of New York ;
Mr. Mclaasis, democrat, of Maryland ;
T003i1323, whig, of. Georgia; Mr. BA-
R.EnOvhig, of Illinois ; and Mr. STEPHENS,
whig, of Georgia : •
Mr.MEADE slid Neither orate rosol LI- •
tions before the house strikes at the root
of the evil Which affects the House. We
have been acting for 'eight days a farce
before the people, at a cost to thorn of
a,OOO a day, which all will agree is beco
ming loss and less entertaining. -The
cabs.c which has prevented the organiza
tion of the House is the tear of the intro
ductian of bills before tlie House from cer- .
conmaittees, which will produce dis-
CIIS9jOII and agitation on a question which!
th[entens the , peace and integrity of the I
which, if passel, will either
th:s Con'ederac.y, or enslave
7. , 3rti7n of Under the' pressure of
the pi c;.--ent diff:cultics Which surround us,
r. fair opportuniiy is ofli'rcd to draw forth
froth both sides of the House all the con-1
' : '.-rilivc principle:: of which each is corn
/ pc-F(1. I have anxintr_dy looked (lir some
curlitis from the North, who. regardless
„ F . personal consequences to himself, will
kao-into the gull” which yawn.; for the
peace awl banpmo:..s of this Union. Sir,
10. a propc,sitien be made and supported
by those who ore desirous of crushing this
dcnion of rii-c•crd f 'h , . purp .3'..! of ii:-
tink - thc-consorvati.m on 1 , 1:11 F,i,l; r in op
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position to toly rwastues n'hi la shall look
to' the' nbolition of slavery in' the di:ltrict of
Columbia, or the prohibition of it in the
tei`ritories. If such n proposition Fhould
be adopted, I slmild he willing t o tak e a
8 1) 0 . 1 1ter from either time ofilieLlo.tsc. r.:-
lying. upon him to carry out the views thus
expressed by a majority of this body.
doiat c nir, if the organizat:on of this [louse ,
is to:tie followed by the passage oft hese hills l
--- , if these outrages are to be committed up-
on . my people, I bust in God, sir, that my!
eyes have rested upon the last Speaker oil
the. House of Representatives. - This ex-1
pression is not the ebullition of feeling; it 1
contains sentiments I have well consider
ed!and often expressed, publicly and pri•
vately, _They are entertained in common
with": the people I represent. And I tell)
gentlemen, if these measures be passed,'
thole will be but one determination at the.
Eloatb.--one solemn resolve to defend their
barites and maintain their honor. ' Let this
issue come when it !nay, and you will find'
e&rk southern sine* converted into a
spring of steel. Ido not utter this as a.
threat. I am proud 'to believe that my
racoon both sides of tho line are equally
brave; but gentlemen will finch a difference
bereeen men contending for their firesides,
sail die robbers who are seeking to despoil
their' Or their rights, and degrade them be
fore-the'Word. .If there be any southern
colin who Would refuso to stand by his
eduntry . in such an emergency, PThere
R ecuone," said several voic.os,] hq would
rag only ha execrated by hie own people,
buftliis own. children would heap curses i
ultrraldfis ArdVe. , .
ol‘fr; ROOT.. The propositions before 1
thaillouse are two in number: first, that ;
rta.ioote for Speaker' by ballot ;• and sec.'
o'''; , ly, itlutt we divest hitn, of the mostim.
ptirtant functions of:tho Chair, .to model.-
ate the spirit .of 'anarchy', abroad in ,the
land. Ido not think the mover of the first
proposition hada disposition .to have it un
'dentood that. there are members bore who
*ill mstiWeecititlx t as.they Would not open
lyit -V4lthink7tt will be thought/that the
proposition originated in the belief that some.
members would, under the difrerent modes i
oteiging-thei'vote, vote differently. ' I. will
on - Iwo the.auspiciou imputed tome: -He I
did not belleive Ma colleague Plr.Scherielch
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like proposition some time since. Hod's- ditional surrender. I am willing to or
claimed it; and I know him too well to be. !ganize with a , Speaker of either of the
.lieve that he thinks one way and speaks three parties—under any Speaker but,a
another. I will not be placed in an atti- !disunionist. I will not vote for any such
tude in whkeli it will not be known how liporson to occupy that chair.
vote ; and 1 ask the "two great parties," Mr. BAILY was understood to inquire
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b 2, some •to have all the rights !if the gentleman regarded the democratic
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here, to permit me to vote in any manner I nominee [Mr. H. Cobb] as a disunionist ?
t4lease. If any ono tvants the advantage Mr. DUER was understood to reply in
of secret ballot, it will no doubt be de- the negative.
sirable for his purposes. We are told that A MEMHEn. Who then 1
!voting by. ballot is of ancient origin and Mr. DUER was understood to point to
long practice, and popular in a majority ofiMr:.Meade.
the States. Granted. In popular elec- Mr. MEADE. It is false.
tions it is the practice. 1 think it proper,! Mr. DUER. You are a liar. •
expedient, and popular; but we do not l [Here great commotion arose in the
stand on the same footing; We • are rep- ; hall—members from all sides rushing to
! resentatives having the , right , on any (res- I wards the neighborhood in which these
lion, to demand, by a vote of one fifth, a !gentlemen stood. All seemed disposed to
record on any resolution like that of the !advise and take part in the matter.
honorable member from Mississ;ppi. On! The Sergeant-at-arms bore the mace in
all subjects you can thus force members to the scene of the disturbance, and oiler
to record themselves.' seine time, when the Chamber had quieted
As to the resolution of my colleague, I down sufficiently to permit him to be l
[Mr. Carter,] I have. heard of an adver- heard,]
tisement of the play of Hamlet with the Mr. DUER continuing, nslwd pardon of,
play of Hamlet omitted. This is just such the House for what had transpired, on his
another advertisement. We are to have' part, derogatory to its rules of order. He
a play of Speaker, and the part , of the had, he thought, only vindicated his own
Speaker tea out. I trust the Housish- position as a gentleman by making such
es to elect a man fit for the place. Is'not. !an answer as he thought was called for.—
one fit for the office tit to select the corn- He had said nothing personally offensive
mittees ? The office is the third in the to the o•-ntleman from Virginia, [Mr.
country in . rank "power, influence, &c., ' Meade.] He to k him to be a disunionist ,
and it is proposed to divest it of its most , from his printed Speech, in which he said,
important functions. If adepted, what is that if a certain state of things was to con-
to bo gained by it? We will have•to bat- ' tinue, which he believed existed, then lie •
lot for the committees on the Judiciary, loathed and detested the name of the Un
the District of Columbia, rind on the terri- ' ion.
tories, when the "demon" will have his
horns up again. It will not answer for a
good dodge. No, sir; they must face the
music if we can find one•tifth disrosrd to
have the yeas and nays. This House must
be "disorganized" for a good while before
they can make their escape from such a
hole as that, I trust. If they do, they will
find a worse net just beyond it. I do not
impute to my colleague any such design.
It w:11 be thought, if the resolution prevails,
that the House designs selecting a Speak
er unfit to choose the committms. 1 will
not vo'e for one who I think at the time
should not be, trusted to appoint the com
mittees, one and Ell. If we arc to have
such a Speaker, there will be twenty times
as much trouble. I take it my colleague
[Mr. (lidding q wont:, to be on the District
Committee. I !suppose everybody will be
unanimous as to that.
I now conic to the subject of the disso
! lotion of the Union. I trust that v, ith the
Icalm, considerate confidence of the honor
! able member from Virginia [Mr. Meade!!
! we can get on without its dissolution. I
i received his printed speech, which he sent
to myself any many others, which was
soporific on me at least. I lowever s. if v, 0
are to have the dissolution, let it come u s
soon as possible. Better come before ~'“.:
I organize, 118 then it would not be binding
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while the House is disorganized. Th9l
we can go to work and patch it up again:
'I ask my friend from North Carolina if it
would be hindit D ar under these eirctonszan
cesi If dissolved when we have a z•;:t a
ker, and are abolishing slavery zual the
slave-trade in the Distriet, iiz•et., then it ..‘ ill
be beyond help, I suppose. The gentle
man from Virginia has been wai.ing for
some northern man to come ti.rward u ith
the olive-branch. Does he expect Lily
such movement from this side of the
I louse ? I. see nortl.ern men around lilt:
overflowing with patriotism, but none par
ticularly anxious thus to make a martyr
of himself in the work of iitultirying him
self, his constituency, and the whole
North. . •
If this 'demon” is to distract and ruin!
us in the manner described, why not have ,
the two great parties unite and attack him . ;
instead of spending their strength in ali-
sing the free-soilerB,l 1
They say they have a majority in this
House. Neither party hag: a majority,
without taking in the free-soile.rs. I am
glad to hear this claim put in by a de- 1
.mocrat, as it takes in rrovisoists—nay,
the Wilmot Proviso itself If any party .
really desires to have an organization of;
its own, why don't it uniteits men ? They;
I
to do it yesterday. .
[Here Mr. Root described at length the :
occurrences in the hall of the previous day, 1
with which the reporter, presumes the rea,.
der is familiar.]
I you adept the plan of balloting,, it wa y
force me to take to wr"ting explanatoryl
letters to let the people know how I vote'.
here.. As for the dissolution of' the Union,l
we have several guaranties, against : it.--
When you come 'to divide the Union you
will find the people of the nOrthwe,St, insist- 1
jag that the Mississippi river iefia part of
that territory..l.Ve furnish the water Or it.,
-- Mr. DUER. .We havd balloted long.--,--
L expected it, and that afterwards, the House
would come to a disposition to organize
without' more .ado; as boSt, they, can. Nei
thor of these parties ;have a , majority.--
Thus aSpeaker,cattonlYlA: elected by en!
arrangernentletweeu two parties. .Such
an, arrangement vas :attempted And . failed I
yesterday-414 cannot bo Topeated. . A pro-II
position to resolve the gentleman from 1 .
Georgia [Mr. H. Cobb] intntbe peaker's
chair has been bared.; titttt, 0, ,noling . on I
this side of the House . to make an uncut/.
He hod risen to allay excitement, nut to
creole it—to endeavor to e11;?et an organ
ization. This House must he organized.
He thought a proposition should be made
to adjourn until Saturday for a conference,
which,he thought would end in an organi
zation, as his side had been ready for it
for some days. This he believed to be the
only way to Fettle the rnotter. F;v,ry
thing tried so ti: r, or that may he tried, it'
not of this character, had tidied, and will
probably continue to lail of the end inten
ded.
Mr. McLANE wished to make a mo
tion to lay on the table• all the propositions
belbro the House, in the hope that the
House would return to its good sense and
recover is integrity. He could see no
more danger in proceeding us before-with
attempts to elect a Sre•ikcr, than on first
assembling on Monday last one week ago.
lie desired to protest against coy proposi
non look to a barpin het‘veen tiny two
parties Such on arrangenr lit between
the whip and democrats he thought us
reprehensible as a similar bargain between
Iho dont•crafs and free rs. It was
early known that no party hail a majority
here. Was it not further known that the
nominee of neither party could or did re
ceive a sufficient number of votes to se
cure. his election Nevi - rthclers, lie Mils
for pers,-ve ring in the cl:•et ien ; awl instead
or adjourning at half-past 3 p. m., he ho
ped the House would remain and vote on
li - a• Speaker until the .1,,y :1;..y be exhaus
d. believed tlr,t, had he nut cent'•
la.:fore the !louse trammelled by a caucus
nomination, the gi.attli nian from Georgia
pir. 'cibbl would Imre been elected.—
Even now he tlioly,lit that gent lon could
be elected, there being a majority on the
floor opposed to the presentndministratin n.
The last Speaker had been deck(' by
tire independent voters—notby a whig ma
jority. During his administration of the
office, the organization of the house was
st !idly partisan. On the committee'',
with unimportant exceptions, six Whigs
and three democrats had been placed.—',
;Mr, Mr L. here instanced the construction
of the Committee on Military Affairs, of,
which a majority of members were oppo
sed to the Irar, and believed that it had
resulted from the bungling of the Execti
, tire. Such had been the magnanimity pf
the whig party. The democrats, ,
lieved, might .expect just such magnanitn
ity to he shown towards them if they e- . 1
lect a whig Speaker en the present ecca-,
slim. He trusted that if a coalition or '
combination is to be fornicd, it may be ar
ranged in open daylight. He did not,
however, see the necessity Tor any such
work, behoving that an organizatiOnceuld
be effected .withput it,. T 9 ithf.,tt end he
would favor a proposition to elect by. a
plurality as a last .'resort. Ho repeated
the conviction, that the authority or a cau
cus nomination, instead of strengthening
the democratic; nominee, had defeated his,
election., lndeed, it had operated in the
same manner uponthe,whig nomination.
Mr. TOOMBS'said the difficulties .; in
the way of the organiFFttion of this IroUsC
are apparent and well understood here . ,
and should be understood bl.' , 'the country.
A great sec:aerial question lips at the foun
dation of all
. these troubles. The dis. 7
gracofid events of yesterday, and the ex
planations conseqnent upon theixOpostire,
provo ,e,onclusively that the
were
party and , the :free-soilers wer both act
ing in refcrence to it; The qouthern dem
oorats,were satisfied, fromthe .public course
and private,:aSsurances, both . of . ,the ;mem
:* whOn they . supported and his frigids;
that ho wesyprthy eftrpet epotLthese,ice 7
portau t t,fteettppl iswee. The, disclosyres
which were made proved that they were,
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none of it; we expect none of it ; therefore ' safe to both sections of the Union. I have ; Gentlemen , when you threaten it, W • '
gen t lemen roust 1
synational tt pardon my want of m- planted myself upon a platform
, shall doubt—when you protest, we 'shall'
pathy for their imp a tien ce . D v giving you' resisting extremes at home and abroad, disclaim ; but no fervid declarations, Da:
willingly • •• • •
the control of the treasury, we increase subjecting myself to the aspen. fiery appeals to southern feelings, no 50t...,
your ability to oppress. I want grievan- sions of e ne m ie s , and, far worse than that,: corn invocations addressed to the Almigh.,
et s redreSsed, and security against their the misconstruction of friends, determin- , ty, (as if, indeed, he were a God of dis- ;
furtl , r perpetration, belbre I a m willing 'ed to struggle for and accept any filir and " cord,) will make us believe that here
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o Give you power over the supplies. Sir, ! honorable adjustment of these questions. this hall there is one man who chart - theta '
I do not regret this state of things in the I bane almost despaired o f any s uc h, at' in his secret heart a purpose so 'aecursed .
House. It is time we understood ,no a- least from this (louse. We must arouse" and so deadly. Sir, we do not believe:the!'
nether; that we should speak out, and and apral to the nation. We roust tell; Union can ever he dissolved. No ey'i, .;
carry our principles in our f o reheads. them boldly and frankly that we prefer, idence shall convince us till the deed' ii••
It teems, from the remarks of the gen.; tiny calamities to submission to such dog-' done. Yet, if such a thing, he pt ssitole,:it .
tleman From New York, that we arc to be , radation and injury as they would entail i shall not be our fault. We shaltnet bo''
intimidated by eulogies upon the Union, , urn us; that we holckfthat to be the eon- i intimidated by threats of violence, ' ‘1 1 .0 ;
and denunciations of those Nvlio arc not' summation of all evil. I have stated.my.. shall not shrink from the calm expresSien s;
reads to sacrifice national honor, essential positions. I have not argued them- I' of oer deliberate judgement, ~Wn:arti
ntc;res!s, and constitutit- nal rights upon its I reserve that for a future occasion. These; hero as freemen, to speak for freemen,
altar. Sir, I hate as much attachment to are principles upon which I net here.---I and we will speak and act- es-becontespsi
the Union of these States, under the con- 1 , Give me securities that the power of the: in the face of the world and of posterity: ,
stitution of our fathers, as any freeman; organization which you seek will not be Gentlemen, who is there among us, amid
ought to have. I ant ready to concede used to the injury or my constituents, then, all this talk of dissolution,, that does not',
end sacrifice firwhatever it a just and
,you can have my co-operation, but not I lore the Union? is theretruan in this vaSt ;
honorable man ought to sacrifice—l will till then. Grant them, and you prevent' assemblage who, on the coolest reflection,'
du no more. I have not heeded the as-, the recurrence of the disgraceful scenes; would not'give his blood to cement'iti IS
per.ions of tho,:e aho did not understand, of the last twenty-lbur hours, and restore! not this our country, and is it not all •Oltr,,
'or el.,,irtal to mi,rcpresent, my conduct or tranquillity to the country. Refuse them,
, `courses? [Applause.] Sif, I confess this
opuu; ns• in relation to these questie as, and ; as far as 1 tun concerne d, u; e t dis- response gladdens my heart : and already'
w blob, in my judgment, Fn vitally affect cord reign forever." I reproach myself that I could waver . , in :
it. The time has come when I shall not 1 A Member moved that the House do' my confidence bat for a moment.: It SYs4
only utter them, but make tln ni the basisllo lV adjourn, but th ; Clerk iecognised `a mournful spectacle 'to a true-Minticd '
of m ; y political action here. Idu not, then, , Mr. Baker, who gave way to Mr. Deer, man, when threats of - disunion, fierce 'aril'
hesitate to avow before this House and the I for a personal explanation.
!bitter ; could draw forth shouts of appladie:
to vote: from gentleman on the other side of tho..
country, and in tlw pres c we oithe living ; Mr. O. said that he was retaly
i God, that if by your legislation you seek for any northern or southern whig, to or House as triumphant as if diSunion ivetc ..
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to drive us from the territories of Calitbr.' ganize. Ile voted for the %%big member glory, 7' ad as it, indeed . the threat were trit.:;,,'
nia and New Mexito i . purchased Its the' from Louisiana. ready accomplished. And yet sir, the: -
common blood raid treasure oldie a hole! Mr. INGE. x.l'ill you vo!'• for the: echo contradicts the utterance. ' Thiii i
people, and to abolish slavery in this Dis- ; member [Mr. Toembst iViao (4a:w a i l ? ; „h oot f or t h e u n i on w ill b e ta k en ni .„ t).t ni i n ir ,: s ,
trier, thereby attempting to fix a nationalM. 1)1. ELI: Not believeing, from what ' the, mas ,,,e s , till it bec o m es a perpetual an.
degradation upon hall I
the States of this he has said, that he is now a disenioncst, .. theta of hope and joy. , It will swell amid..
eonredera.:.y, I' tent j iiit,,disimion; and ii I would vote for him in order to organize.: the mountains of the .North, and teasel;,my Physical cournge be equal to the main- He has said only that he would pretCr dis- ;with the winds across the prairie,s,of the
touanec of, my convictions of right and union to contingencies which, in his opin- ; West, It Will reverberate through all am'
duty, I` will dcvote all I am and all I have ion, may arise. : vast extc union or the confederacy., tind ',be,
onearth to its eonsummation. From 1787; Mr.. HARMANSON asked Mr 1./tier a' repeated by a thousand advancing gcnera.
to this, ionr the people of. the South have question, in atone to low to be heard by tions. Sir, in the name of the men ot,the l .
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asked nothing but justicanothing but the the reporter. i NOrth, So ruddy attacked—and spealtnn , -
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maintenance of the princitibelicnd the spin- Mr. MI ER said that if he believed a i what I kiwis , to' he theirsentimernpl ; My
it which
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our fatherg,..‘ in the dirt- man in the Spcnker'S chair Would use his adissolution:of thiii Union : is, ,niusC kr
oration of the constitution. Unless we arc l power directly or indirectly to dissolve the • ;,hall be impossible; as long cisart:Arne' rt..
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unworthy of our ancestors, wc will never Union, he Would riot vole for hint.. can heart beats in an American bosom f Or.
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accept less as a condition of union. A' Mr. HUBI3,I„RD. It is tearing your , the Almighty sends his WI:3(1011i ' au& his!
neat constitutional right, which was de- atones from the bond, and leaving it bind-; goodness to guide u s an 4 to.hless us: •_,,',
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(dared by a distinguished northern Justice ing on . us. • • . ' Mr. STEPHENS, of Georgia, i niat
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of the Supreme Court (Judge: 'Baldwin) to Mr., BAKER of Illinois said ; Although i wish to be called on to discuss the question
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be the corner-stone of the Union, and wifh-' among the Weakest and 'humblest of (1101 of the Union of. these States. '
,Ho cherish.,
out, whielthq avers, in a judicial deciSion, northern men, I cannot reconcile it to my ied mote than aught else,the compact form
it ould never' have been formed, has al- sense orduty to permit the observations•o& ;ed by.our fathers isflor .the revolutionary
ready practically • been ; abrogated in all the' honorable gentlemtinTri.iiii - GeOitra; struggle. , ,Dut, 1 toll this House, that when
of the ..non-slaveholding• States. I .ukan j,Nr..T600) . A to pass without iinmediate I theWilmot Proviso is, consummated in-:
the : right to reclaim fugitives from labor.— and
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: reply. And while I know! my section of the country,,from : thilt dny r
I ask any and every northern man on this him to' be one of, the most eloquent and the Union is disolved : and, wh,:ther the.
floor to answer me, now, if this is riot true. gifted, of the South, it in:precisely for this ! North North belieyes it or not,. it will 60,,found
-Hr this greatright, indispensable to, the , rea:iott I, shall utter this response, withoat: to be true.
_This Union svas „flircraiidi : fbr
Unioinia any longer, for any practicable 1 unreasonable exeitcment, and :I trust in a; the cormnoil benefit. We or. the! Scant
purpose, a living. .principle are becoming:temper. 1 avow Myself, in the' Came into it,fur mutual benefitsas welhas
none to ' deny •it.. You., admit. , you have' tirst place, as decidedly in laver of what is; the people',of the %North. ; It ; was .not ty,
'not performed' your. constitutional „duly; called the_ IVilinot : Proviso: It embodies ; have our:rights or -fcclingartrampled : oni,
that you withhold from us a right w a hich ' Principle approved by imy judgetnept,! and I tell gentlemen, from: whictia.r see- •
was one; ofpits main - inducements to the i :old dsarao my heart.; reind;yet I May Si', ! firm they come, , not to Lu de 'f , 47pott
Union • yet yOU wonder that we look ttp- l at once In, rinstvCr to questions such tea, ' thisaubieet. • We will n . Q ., 4 te . ' 46 '''•.01 , &•
op .you reu,logips of a Union whose most Ithose:proposed'te .the honorable gentleman' slims on' oar rightta.... , ,F • tri's '-'
sacred . principles ,you have thus tranipled I fro"M new. York, [Mi'. ',Titicr,l that l' liai:&' this subjcct I),'
utnie,,r reot as nothingbetterJhan )nexce, notsought.ta maketlii - a, test in the selee- meets a reap
nary hypueritieal:eant. ,This . llistrietwfiS ton ofit Speaker ,m'ilie organization of men ;sitppc.”
ceded iminediately altex • the constitution this *House. ' , . ..' _ the Urrion
sins 'brined. . It was the gill of Maryland...l . ,l_SYn - uld have,cheerfitllv : voted'lbrthe take. . 'IT
to . licr sistor,States for the location oh their honorable. gentleman from : Georgia, [Mr: table jut
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common government, Its municiiall law toonibs,] and I did on yesterday vote for wea4;•
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mistaken'; and, with a promptness honor
,able to theM. they instantly withdrew their
support, and left the discredit to fall where
it properly belon g ed. The free-soilers,
who were engaged in the discreditable
conspiracy, secretly and dishonorably
sought to acquire advantages in the organ
ization of the House by private pledges,
concealed and intended to he concealed
from the great majority of those whose
votes were necessary to elect the person
for whom they voted. They sought, by
a discreditable trick, to secure those ad,
vantages in the organization which they
had not the courage or the boldness open
ly to demand. They affected to rely on
a written pledge, which they know was
given in fraud and treachery. I leave the
morality and honesty of t;.is party to be
tested by the simple fact of this transac
tion, with the single rental* that these are
the men whose consciences have no rest,
on account of what they call the sin ()Isla
very. The Whig party presented their'
nominee, who has received the support of
the great majority of that party. No ,
pledges were asked by the northern mem
bers of that parry, for the very sufficient
reason that. being in a majority of nearly
three to one, they were very abundantly
able to take care of theoiseivcs. I did not
act with them, because the events oft he
past, of the present, and the prospect of the
future, force the conviction on my mind'
that the interests of my seeiii.n of the U- 1
Mon are in danger ; fflui I am therefore en-'
willing to surrender the great Fewer oi l
the Speaker's chair without obtaining se-,
curity for the future: We have just listen-
ed to strong appeals upon the necessity of,
organizing the House. I confess Ido feel
- that necessity. From the best lights be
fore me, I cannot sec that my constituents'
have anything to hole from our legisla
tion, but everything to fear. We are not
impatient to have the doors of your trees ury thrown open. and linty millions of the ;
common nixes of the whole nation thrown
into the lap of one half of it. We ask for,
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maintained and protected domestic sla.
very. You accepted it. Your honor was
pledged for its maintenance as a national
Capital. Your faith was pledged to the
maintenance of the rights of the people who
were thus placed under your care. Your
fathers accepted the trust, protected the
skiveholder and all other citizens in their
;rights, and in all respects faithfully and
honestly executed the trust; but they have
been gathered to their fathersoind it was
left to their degenerate sons to break their
!hitt' with us, and insolently to attempt to
play the master where they were admit
ted as brethren. I trust, sir, if the ;
repre
sentatives of the North prove themselves
1 unworthy of their ancestors, we shall not
prove ourselves unworthy of ours; that
• we have the courage to defend what they
I had the valor to win. The territories are
,
the common property of the people of tne
United States, purchased by their common;
blood and treasure. You aro their com
mon agents; it is your duty, while they
are in a territorial state, to remove all im
pediments to their free enjoyment by all ;
sections and people of the Union, the slave
bolder and the non-slaveholder. You:
have given the strongest indications that ,
you 11 ill not perform this trust—that you ,
will appropriate to yourselves all of this
territory, pe rpetra ;e all these wrcngswhich
I have enumerated; yet with these decla
rations on your lips, when southern men
refused to art in party caucuses with you,
in V. hiell you have a controlling majority
—when we ask the simplest guaranty for
the future—we are denounced out oldoors
as recusants and factionists, and indoors,
we arc nitt with the cry of “linion,
Mon." Sir, we have passed that point.—
It is too late. I have used all my ener
gies from the beginning of this question
to save the country from this convulsion.'
I have resisted vi hat I deemed unnecessa
ry and hurtful agitation. I hoped against
lo,pe, that a sense of justice and patriot.'
ism would induce the North to settle these
petitions upon principles honorable and,
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Of every description, prtnted to the very beat style,
and on the shortest notice, at the COUNTRY; DOL—
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the distinguished memberTrom.Kentucky . i '
[Mr. Moorehead.l._ Siir,. hi voting thuS, as ,
in voting for 111r.1 , Vinthrop,ilinviAesired
to select a whip as Speaker-,known to iria,
and to the country. I have not asked;
and I would pot ask,, that his opinions up•i•
on the subject of slavery should innuendo'
him in the selection' of committees . ; but
_I
do desire that he should be a WhigL-con 7
saint and relinblei--and witlythis I .have
been, and would be, content. I desire,
the nest place, to remark asto these threats
of disunion, listened to so painfully n and so ,
intensely. ,Sir, 1 deny that the great &el:
dy of the people of the North have Witithed:7
to raise such a question; or. to excitn:-.ark,
reasonable agitation ; nor, when the scenevi
and speeches of this day shall be sprea - d . .2
before them, will they believe our breth.'
ern of the South to be in earnest. -
Mr. WALLACE, of South •Carolina.--; 7 4 , 4
We will teach you that. we are it earnest:,!;
Mr. BAKER,' I should be obliged.. t 0,,,
gentlemen if they would tell me . how ‘ .
knowledge shall be imparted.. '
Mr. WALLACE. When I said thou'
would teach you, I spoke ill the Mario -or;
the people of the South; end in my• ppin- , (1
ion, they will have their rights in spite, of, ,
the North—and it is that we intend . 'ta
teach you.
Mr. BAKER. Sir, I Profess myself
still unable to learn, from the gentleman's
explanation, haw we are to be taught. , --
The North will stand by the constitution,'
and thus stand by the Union. We Willis,
think, and act, and vote upon the proViSo;
as Jefferson did. We will be governed
by the majority of the people upon this
question.
[Here Mr. HILLARD, of Alabania,'
denied that a majoritY of the people had . a
right under the constitution, to decide
I repeat sir, we will be governed by thee - '
will of a majority of the - people, 'constitu
tionally expressed ; but neither for
District of Columbia, nor California, not , _
New Mexico, will we' desire, or even .
dream of a dissolution of this Union'.