The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-12-24

General BAYLY'S mouth he said to the
House that no such correspondence had
taken place General BAYLY finished his
speech. Mr.. BRowN ''folded his arms"
and said nothing. But Mr.. Brown, in
pursuance of his instructions, kept up a
very active ''pointing at the record" Mr..
Roof followed General BAYLY, and Mr..
Brown still Esfolded his arms" more reso-
lutely than ever, pointing at intervals to
his recorded votes with renewed vigor.
But it seems that General BAYLY was not
satisfied. He became apprehensive that
he might have been used in practising an
imposition on the House, and he made
a private call upon Mr.. Brown, and prob
ably told him to quit the shaking of heads,
folding of arms, and pointing at records,
and "to leave off his damnable faces
and begin" wordof -mouth reply to his
questions. This brings us to
| iii. The SECOND BRowN BAyLY VERSION OF THE
PLOT.
From the Union.
"Mr. BAYLY (interrupting Mr.. R.) asked the
gentleman to allow him to make personal expa-
nation; which request having been granted,
"Mr. b. said: think it due to myself and the
House to say that, since was last up, have had
| conversation with the gentleman from Indiana,
| (Mr. BRowS) was mistaken in saying that no
correspondence had taken place between him and
| the Free-Soilers. correspondence has taken
place; but in it he that he had refused
| to pledge himself; and had said than that,
forming the committees, he ucold place the members
Of that party in such positions their standing in
the House and the country ioodd seem TO him to make
proper. But the correspondence will be produced,
| and it will speak for itself"
Thus it was that the Wing portion of the
House, for the first time, knew from Mr.
Brown that correspondence had taken
place, and notwithstanding Mr.. Browns
denial, to the vey effect implied in Mr.
AsHMUN's intevogatory. This expose by
General BAYLY put stop to MIR. Browns
shaking his head, but caused wonderful
shaking Of heads among the other mem
bers of the House. There was no stand
ing mute longer. Mr.. Brown was no
longer in position to follow out the in
structons of the senior editor to the letter
| So he rose
| Folded his arms, and thus he spoke"
~. The BRowN PLOT, BY BRowN.
From the Republic.
"Aftcr he had received 50 votes of the House. the
gentleman from Pennsylvania, (Mr. WILMor,)
with whom he had long been acquainted, and the
gentleman from New York, (Mr. d. p. KINd,)
with whom he had served in Congress, and with
whom he had generally voted, being on the Dem
ocratic side of the House, desired to have con-
ference with him. When he had the conference,
he found that the objection which they had to vot
ing for him was, that he was selected as the ia
vorite of the South. The gentleman from North
! Carolina (Mr VENABLE) said that he would not
vote for Wilmot proviso man for the Speaker
| ship, and yet he voted for him, (Mr. BRowS.)
The gentlemen above named had no personal OBJ
lection to him. They desired not to ask him what
| his vote might be, but that he icould organize the
Committees for the District Of Columbia, on the Jk
dietary, and Territories, in such a manner as
Mould giue to all a fair expression Of opinion. He
told them that he would not make pledges as to
| who he would place upon them. The gentlemen
said that they did not desire TO be placed upon
either of the committees; all they desired ,cas that
the committees should be constituted that all sec
tions should be represented-the North and the
| South-the Wilmot proviso men and the anti
Wilmot proyiso men. He informed them that he
trouId constitute the committees as 10 satisfy them;
| they asked him nothing more than what was
fair and equal representation"
Thus much for Mr.. BRowN's account
of the interview between himself and Mr..
| WILMoT, the parent of Free SoiL, when he
was negotiating for his daughters hand.
1t bears a striking resemblance to the in
terview on similar subject between RICH
ARD Ill. and Queen Elizabeth. The
crooked-backed monarch was enamored in
his way of the princess, very much as
Mr.. Brown was enamored of Free Soil.
Brought together with the father of the in
teresting object Of his affections, Mr.
Brown observes Ia Richard
/ "You have daughter
'Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious"
Struck by the truth of this observation,
and wondering what the deuce Mr.. Brown
could be after, Mr.. WILMoT replies a Ia
the Queen, and reproaches Mr.. Brown
with having been the death of sundry of
Free-Soips relatives and offspring, all of
which were buried in the hall of records,
bearing on their persons the stabs of Mr..
BRowN's murderous knife. Whereupon
Mr. BRowN observes:
"You speak as if that had slain my cousins
This gives the tender and afectionate
parent a chance, and WILMoT Bursts out
amid his tears
cousins, indeed: and by their uncle cozened
OF comfort, kingdom, kindred, freedom, life
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