The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-05-16

| II.
Mr.. GORDON called for the reading of the report.
which read.
The bill was lald aside TO be reported.
| On notion the committee rose, and reported the
above several bills to the House.
And the House adjourned.
| PERSONAL
The following are the personal explanations (rc-
ferred to yesterday Of Mr.. THURMAN and Mr.. della
| NO.
Mr.. DELANO then rose and returned his thanks
to the House for their courtesy IN granting the leave
| requested
As preliminary, he asked that an extract from the
report of a speech made by his colleague, Mr..
| THURMAN,I IN reply to the speech previously made
by Mr.. d., be read; and 1t was read accordingly.
| Mr. ID. then went on to observe that the whole
scope of the gentlemans argument had been calcua-
ted 10 place him IN false position before his consu-
uentS, his State, and the country at large The gen
tleman's speech was calculated If not intended to
put him IN position similar that of the old federal
party IN 1872, 10, and IA; not only being op-
| posed to the war with Mexico, but also to
| the means of carrying 1t on after it was
| declared. Such representation Of the sent-
| ments he had expressed was most unquahhedly
without any foundation truth. All Gentlemen
who had been present, and had done hun the honor
| To listen TO what he had said, would, he was sure
do him the justice to bear witness that although he
had, IN strong terms, expressed his disbelief Of and
the DECLARATION that war existed by
| the act of Mexico; and also that he thought the
President guilty of violation of the constitution
in the manner in which he had brought the war up-
| on the country; yet that he was ready to lend the
| government all the means they desired to enable
| them to prosecute 1t with vlgor and maintain the
| honor of the country. Whoever imputed TO hun an
unwIllngness to vote the supplies carry on this
war, placed him in false position, and did, HIM an
act OF gross injustice to which he should not submit
| either here or elsewhere. He appealed to all gen.
| temen round him to say whether what he had now
stated was not in substance correct.
But 1t proper that he should go little lurther
| and notice some parts of the report of the gentle
| mans speech somewhat more IN detail.
| The gentleman had said that Mr. D. had de-
| nounced this war as a "democrauC' Mr.. d.
positively conradiCted the correctness of this asser-
ton He had not SAID that this was u democratic
war He denied 1t utterly; it was an effort to COM
| nit him to declaration he had never made and
| thus to place HIM in false position He had SAID
that 1t was "presldentIaI" war-a war commenced
by the President IN an unconstitutional manner and
| by illegal means and he denounced 1t vet as such;
but he had not said 1t was democratic war and he
did not believe the democratic party would sanction
and approve the means by which the war had been
produced,
Again, the gentleman had represented him as. de-
nounclng this war as war against Omnlpotence "
Mr.. D. had said no such thing, any thing equiv
aent to it. All that the gentleman had adduccd
under this charge applied to what Mr. ID. had said
in relation to the allowance Of SO month to the
volunteers, because they would be called in the dis
charge Of their duty to encounter, only the dan
| gers and hardshps of war, but also Il climate to
which northern constitutions were not accustomed
| and which was of fatal effect upon them All that
part of the gentleman's representation was without
even a shadow of truth.
Again, the gentleman had said that Mr.. D.
charged the advocates of the war with going for
their country right or wrong, and being W i'll
ing to fight for it,"
Mr., THURMAN here explained. The report
was, IN that part of 1t, incorrect. He had not made
any such charge. His language had been misun.
derstood by the reporter.
Mr.. DELANO resumed. What he had said
was, that he himself prepared to go for his
country, right or wrong, now that war had been
commenced, and he would readily vote whatever
was necessary to maintain its honor in the prosecu-
ton of the war, and bring 1t to speedy successful
| and honorable termination.
M. ID. did not wish a controversy with any zen
tleman, and least OF all with colleague; but he
would not submit to such gross mIsre presen tation
even from that gentleman, He had had language
put into his mouth which he had never used He
made this denial both in justice to himself and to
his constituents.
The charge that he had initiated the language of
the federal papers unworthy of his notice. He
never had read of those papers, though he pre-
sumed he might have done with advantage to
himself. At the time the extracts read by the gen.
teman were published Mr. d. had been too young
to take any part in political affairs Like the gen
tleman himself (he presumed) he had at that time
been in the arms of his mother, wearing red stock
ings and calling for milk when he Is was hungry.
His was not an ancestry to teach him the principles
of federalism. II was democratic, Of the Oldest
| school, and of the strictest sect.
| He had now stated, substantially, all he meant
TO say; and he thanked the House for It's courtesy
in allowing him opportunity to put himself right
before his constituents and the country.
Mr.. THURMAN, in reply, said that before a
member undertook to form a judgment that he had
been purposely misrepresened by another, and
particularly colleague, it was but courteous, to say
nothing of Justice, to first inquire of the latter II
present, whether the remarks in which the supposed
misrepresentation exists, were correctly reported
This (said Mr.. THURMAN) the member from
the Mount Vernon district [Mr. DELANol has
not seen fit to do; but, apparently going on
the hypothesis that the report Of my remarks
Is correct, he, without inquiry into its correctness,
says that he will not be msreprescnted here or else
where. II is true that he does not charge me with
,oilflly msrepresentng him; but he repels what he
calls misrepresentation, and speaks about there
elsewhere" Now, in the first place, (said Mr..
THURMAN in reference to the gentleman's "here