Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-12-29
M. Hard Hits.

On the 10th, while a proposition to cast
lots between Messrs. Winthrop and Cobb
WINS under consideration, Mr.. RooT of Ohio
made a speech, in the course OF which he
made some hard hits, as follows:
lie did not feel authorized to give advice
to either OF the two great parties; but as Inc
was willing 10 take it, he might perhaps OF
fer Il liitle-that was, Tor each 10 stand up
and die game. Let us tell these TWO great
parties tIiat they have not got us INTO "a Phil
adelphia Convention nor into a b fillmore
Convention; there is no yelling a man down
here yet.
Ia voice {: Nor into a Buffalo Convention.
NO, (said Mr.. X. nor iuto "a Buffalo Con-
%ventioi. If you had, you would have had a
Speaker long ago-as good n one as you
will get after all your labors.
They had heard (he proceeded to say
something from the gentleman from North
Carolina, (Mr. VcnabIe) who had said that
both parties were patriotic in their efforts to
elect a Speaker and organize the House, and
that if half q dozen individuals saw fit 10
take the responsibility of defeating the orga-
n~ization of the House, why, the blame would
be OIL them, "a laugh and that they would
be called to an account by their constituents.
lIdl wac lHC NCI1 uSNOAiitNpiihN AZ wi AtJ
courted. Let every gentleman look to his
own constituents, if The please, or TO the au-
thority which controlled him. Gentlemen
needed not be at the trouble of reminding
him of what he owed his constituents; they
and he would arrange that. This was not
the first time lie had belonged to a small par
". 1t was not the first time he had heard
the majority of the House denouncing a few
men who did not act with them. In the days
of the Mexican war there were fourteen who
were denounced as " traitors" because they
did not see fit to vote with the majority of
the House.
They settled that matter with their con-
stituents; he (Mr. r. did, and he was here ;
while some gentlemen who had denounced
him as a I" traitor" had endeared themselves
so much to their constituents that they had
kept them at home.
On a subsequent day, Mr.. Stanly of North
Carolina spoke %sneeringly of "Freesoilism,
Wilmot Provisoism, and all such tom-iool-
cry" Mr.. RooT thus replied:
He had no doubt the gentleman had spo-
ken the feelings of his heart when he had
spoken in that manner; but let him tell that
gentleman, whether his political associates
saw fit TO tell him so or not, he ventured to
say that nine out OF ten OF those representing
the Wing party from the North would not,
and the others dare not, when brought be-
fore their constituents, say that the Wilmot
Proyiso was a humbug and tom-ioolery.-
Let them do so, and you could find in his
(Mr. RS section of the country political
graves as tllickly spread as the graves OF the
victims of the cholera, in those villages over
which that pestilence had ~swept-whose
fields would be so full of graves as to make
them look like stone q~uarTies, where there
would not be turf enough for a man 10 wipe
his feet on. 1t was q deep-seated, immovea-
Bile sentiment, fixed in the hearts of the
people. They talked not OF ~disunion, or any
Thing of that kind but that sentiment they
intended should be represented here. They
expected that their representatives should
stand up and speak out on all proper occa-
sions and he hoped that no man designed
10 speak ON this or any other subject except
upon proper occasions.
toI lie warned his friend from North Carolina
tAir. Stanley that he was placing some OF
his political associates in a ve'y peculiar sit
uatiOn when he talked about the Wilmot
Proviso being "tomfoolery."
~ Mr.. BoKEE, lin his seat) Let them tell
of it.
Mr.. Roor replied: Well, he supposed
they would. He did not call upon gentle
men to answer; and they would save them
selves some breath and trouble by withhold
ing their answer until they were called
for.