Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-02-08
REMARKS OF MR. WELLER.
HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES,,
January 10, 1874.

tStHdJ, NC ~ ouiieSd ~ pay uio s,jcCts
to the gentleman of Pennsylvania, MIR.
Stewart to-day, and he should proceed
to comply with that promise. But that
the House may properly understand the
difference between that gentleman and
| himself, it IS necessary to go back to It's
origin.
The gentleman from Kentucky, ar.
! Thompson with the feelings of his
heart. hal introduced resolution cal
ling upon the Committee OF Ways and
| Means to make an appropriation Tor the
| employment Of snag boats in the Nlissis-
sippi, to protect the lives Of our unfortu-
nate fellow citizens, and had stated to
| the House, at that time the loss of some
of our feilow-citiZens by the snagging Of
the Steamboat Shepherdess near St. Lou
/ Is. and while this question was before the
/ Rouse, which required prompt action on
| the part Of this body, the gentleman
from Pennsylvania Oar. Stewart came
forward and covered the whole ground OF
party politics, reiterating an 'old stump
speech, he (Mr. Weller) did then, and
does now, say was an insult to this
! House. The main object Of his speech
! was to place him in false position be-
/ fore the country. 1t was al attack upon
( Mir Van Buren,. known to be his choice
for the Presidency, and the choice of the
People Of the West. in which be (Mr.
Z Ste wart} had stated untruths. which be
was ready to prove to the satisfaction al
every member of the House and the
country at large.
After that gentleman had dissorged
himself Of his v!le ISLANDERS against MIR.
/ Van Buren, and hi5 friends. he felt him
self bound to state to that gentleman and
the country that his statements we're I'M
true. and when he made the remarks,
and found the gentleman from Pennsyi-
vauia was absent. he had distinctly sta
ted that he should embrace another op-
portunity of telling that gentleman that
The remarks he had made were untrue,
and II he did not place the brand upon
him (Mr 81 he would take the 6rand
himself. That gentleman had stated in
the course of his remarks Yesterday that
he (Alr. w. and his Western friends
must desert their principles aud stand by
! their man, or desert their man and stand
By their principles, to be consistent;
which lie did here in the face of that
gentleman and the weird pronounce I'M
! true.
Mr., W. said, chat he might not be
misunderstood he would read the re-
marks of that gentleman from the Ma
tional Inte!ligencer, which he presumed
to be good authority for gentlemen on
the other side of the House, upon which
| be based this assertion, wiihouta shadow
| of truth, ;hat TO be consistent, we would
be compelled to abandon our principles OF
our man. Mark what he had 10 say;
| lie did not wish TO be misunderstood on
! this subject. The gentleman from Penn
/ sylvania stated in his remarks, and here
/ thew are reported in the Intelligence.
taat Mir. Van Barren had withheld the
estimates of the Cumberland road.
hlr. Stewart: | presumed the fact.
Mr. Weller: There is no presumption
in the matter; it is positively asserted,
and when he was asked If he made the
remarks, he denied them. II there is a
gentleman on this side Of The ilouse who
will net say the gentleman from Penn
sylvania did not make the remarks just
| read, ard which he denies, he MIR. w. 7
would retract, No man will take back
what he asserted. Then the untruth Ut
the assertion is clearly establi;thed. -
The gentleman from Pennsylvania had
stated What Mr.. Van Buren, had done:
and when he was asked if the remarks.
as reported, were made by him, he De
MED them. Here i falsehood number
one; take it and brand yosr forehead,
Then TO escape from the unenYiable
position he had occupied, on subject
foreign from the one under consideration
he skulks behind an 'infersace.' But no
gentleman upon the floor of this House
has right TO infer 'falsehood,' as he
Nj. S. had done in this Instance
Yesterday, in the course of thar gentle
mans remarks, to screen himself from
the dilemma in which lie hadpaced him.
sell as volunteer, he denied the state
ments contained in his speech in the In