Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-12-20

thus:
Mr.. Brown. One word. have 10 say that
sfnnd by i1hdt remarked 10 my .Soufhers friends
II a proposition we're TO prevent the extension o
, Slavery in a territorial bin, f,eouid role agains
il.
so Mr. Brown Is the man who voted agains
r Mr.. WinIhrop's free soil amendment to the Ore
gon bll;- ...tf
Mr.. Brown is the man who had first backed
up David Wimot by declaring that "he had al.
,oays opposed The extension Of Slavery -
And Mr.. Brown is also the man who now as
sures the House that he still stands by bis
Southern pledges, and will vote against free
soil territorial bill!
1t was hardly necessary TO add any thing more
to the iniamy of the coalition canddate-the
Free Soil and Savocratic coalition candidate
for Speaker bu, his Southern friends" would
not let him off so easily:
Mr.. Venabo said that somc few DAYS since he
announced to this House that he could not vote
tor Free Soiler or an Abolitlonist and the same
or the next day he voted for Mr.. Brown 1t was
bu, just TO himself TO place himself clearly and
fairly before them. He was led to the conclu.
eon which he came to by conversation with MI.
Brown. During The Presidential cdnrass he re-
ceired letters from him in ichich he denounced
Free Soiiism and .qboLiiionism. He had asked
the gentleman whether lie still held bc opinions
and he said he had moi changed them. Mr.. Vena-
bic voted for him under the iull conviction that
Mr. Brown thought that the Wlltnot provlso was
unconstitutional, AM was against II in every
form
Mr.. Hubbard, of Alabama, stated that he was
The one who addressed Mr.. Brown letter.
only required non .inlcr.erence-no more. He
preferred man from the North, to offer sone-
thing on the altar OF our common Union. lie
addressed him a letter, and Mr.. Brown pointed
to his course, and Mir. Hubbard was satisfied
He sail that no man deserved the Speakership
who Should tell how the committee would be
constituted. When Mr.. Brown told Mr.. Hub
oard that lie was candidate, he thought that
gentleman should have furnished him wltn copy
OF The letter which he addressed 10 Mr.. Wlmoi.
And now comes up an important witness
one who shows that Blown had actually dcceiy-
cd him:
MIR. McMulen of Va. remarked tina, this .vas
the FIRST tine ho had ever attempted to speak |
word IN an assembly ola dellber,tvc character. |
Anxious a. lie was to organize lie had his fears
ns TO The gentleman from lndidna. last night |
Madam Ruhur mentioned The Intelligence 10 |
It To be his privilege to inlelrogaie The gentle
innn, and know iron him his position. called,
said Mir Nc Aulen, uPom the gentleman from In
dlaHa TINS morning, not feeling qilic satisfied III
any own nlnd us to his views upon the great
question which ugi,aics the couatry aud told
mn that IL was runured, aud that he was charn-
ed with having given pledge to the Free SJi
party OF the House IN relation To- the organizi-
ton ot the Committees, aad that he waited TO
Know It 1t were true. lie stated 10 me thut no
one hut cniicd upon him on The subject, and that
ne had made no p'else 10 them, or oil any kind
except that be II ID said that, IA Constituting tue
Committees on Territories ana Committees ON
The District of Columbia, he would place the
gentlemen VI tins House where he thought the,
should be placed, and that lie would be goyer,-
ed IN regard TO the selection OF the Committees
by the standing and abIiiiy OF gentleman. told
him that was poased 10 hear rhls, and then ask
ed hin ii he had given pledge TO the Free
SoIlcTs that they should be placed on the cone
mlttees named; he answered no. left him sa;-
lstied that could vote fnr him.
Finally Mr.. Brown himself founders still
deeper into the mlre. The story goes on thus
Mr. Thompson of Miss. rose to move an ad.
lournment, but Withdrew 1t at the request Of
MIR Wan. J. Brown, who SAID, there is uuthing
IN the least inconsistent in what the gentleman
from Vrsibia has Just stated as having taken
place IN the conversation between US, ami what
have stated 10 the House. | never nude any
pledge rs to where would place the Free Soll.
erS ~ making up the Committees; and it | had
been elected Speaker of this House, / tcOuid
hdee 80 composed and made up The committees that
no ore could havt The ieast objections 10 them and
ieel very confident that they would Lave hcen
highly satisfactory TO the gentleman from Vlr-
ginla.
We have but one fact TO add to com ctc the
character OF the soihtloD candidate tor Speak
er. He was une OF Pulk's uAe-mcn in the Pos,
Office Department, and 81 nallsed himself by re-
moptng Democratic posiniasters in 1919 because
they favored .free-soiiism We remember II
remark bic instdnce in Vermont: Ed,rnrd
ID. Barber, the commandment chief OF Goa.
IltlcnIsm In Vermont, was behcided by Vim. j.
81 orn jar The crime Of icing a free soiier. Tlu-
~, "politcs" Of the striped sort make strange
beditlows." Wlmo,, Giddings, Wentworth
and Peek voted with the Siavocrats for man
whose votes stand recorded against free soil
who last year, as one of Cass' 8 tools, coIrespon-
dcd with The SIavocratS, announcing free soil
and aboli,lcnsm-who W to Marcel last was The
Jack Ketch Of the Slavocrals to behead ee soil
poStmaslers-and who now has capped the eli
max OF political inialny by playing on both sides
Tor the speskership.
This 10 another demonstration of the rotten
ness Of coalitionsm, which we commend to the
sober reflection OF free soil Wings.
Dissolution of The IIpinp