The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-03-07
The CHAIRMAN thought that this wa. no point

The CHAIRMAN thought that this was no poin
Of order.
, Mr.. sTANLY, Ito Mr.. HlLLIARp.) Dare you. a
a clergyman. to talk about resistance?
Mr. billiard. call the gentleman TO order.
Mr.. STANLY. No doubt you feel hurt
Mr., billiard. No gentleman will make per
sonal remark.
Mr. STANLY'S reply was to Us inaudible. Ill
asked, Who is entitled TO the floor?
MIR. billiard state my point of order. TIL,
gentleman was INDUCING IN personal remarks
and was therefore out of order.
The CHAIRMAN said, did not hear distinctly
the remarks.
Mr.. STANLY. The gentleman said they wer,
false.
MIR. billiard No.
The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Alabama
will send TO the Chair the remarks said to be per
sonal, that the Chair may decide whether the gen
tleman from North Carolina is out of order
Mr.. billiard. The gentleman has made per
sonal remarks touching myself
The CHAIRMAN Will the gentleman reduce
them 10 writing?
Mr.. billiard. That have preached, as a cler.
Mr.. STANLY Oh, no!
1 Mr.. billiard. That have encouraged citi-
zens of the United States to shed each others
blood. called him 10 order for that.
! The CHAIRMAN did not wish to make an i'm
proper decision, and asked the gentleman to re-
| duce the Objectionable words to writing.
MIR. STANLY inquired whether the time thus
occupied would be taken TO the hour allotted to him
in the debate9
The CHAIRMAN replied that it would not.
There was perfect calm while the Clerk was
writing down the language of which Mr.. HLLIARp
complained 1t was read to the effect that Mr.
STANLY had charged him with Decorating the
Scriptures to urge citizens of the United States 10
shed each others blood.
! Mr.. STANLY. That is not the point of order.
1t is characteristic of the man
Mr. billiard. ] call upon the gentleman to
take his seat.
Mr.. sTANLY. l call upon you to take your
seat
The CHAIRMAN. Gentlemen differing the
Chair will submit the subject to the committee.
Shall the gentleman from North Carolina be per-
United to proceed with his remarks?
| Mr.. McCLERNAND. understood the gentle
man from North Carolina to say he hoped the gen.
! tleman from Alabama would not desecrate the
Mr.. billiard. "Again "-desecrate them
f" again"
MIR. MocLERNAND Ibid not understand him
to say again"
order
The CHAIRMAN said he could not, in justice to
himself, decide, because he did not hear the re-
marks, and the gentlemen differed.
MIR. BAYLY. Did the Chair say that the gen.
| tleman from North Carolina disclaimed the words
| attributed to him?
Mr.. sTANLY. What said was in answer to a
| rude interruption.
| Mr.. billiard The gentleman is mistaken
| Mr.. GORMAN. was sitting the gentle
man, and think that know the precise words The
| gentleman from North Carolina spoke about paying
his respects to the gentleman from Alabama. The
gentleman from Alabama said that he would reply
! to him, when the gentleman from North Carolina
remarked that he hoped, when he did SO, he would
not pervert the Scriptures "a voice: "Desecratc
Yes, desecratethe Scriptures to induce the citizens
of the United States to shed each others blood.
! Mr.. billiard. ! understood the gentleman to
say that had desecrated the Scriptures and he ex-
pressed the hope that would not do so again. re-
marked, that this false. He asked me to repeat
1t. rose and asked whether he meant to say that
had desecrated the Scriptures for any such pur-
pose; and the gentleman said he understood that
10 be the effect of my remarks. said il false.
i here say know the relation ! bear to this body
| and to society. have scrupuously forborne TO
offer aggression any where, because ] do not hold
myself amenable to the ordinary mode Of redress.
| have not uttered sentiment hurtful to the gen
| tleman.
| Mr.. SCHENCK. suppose it to be the duty of
the Chair-the question of order having been made,
| and the words objected TO submitted TO him-to
decide whether the language constitutes breach
| of order. When the Chair has decided an appeal
may be taken, and then motion for the gentleman
to proceed will be in order. Before such motion
can be made, the Chair must decide something.
The CHAIRMAN. The Chair has decided no.
| thing.
Mr.. SCHENCK. Then there is nothing to APP.
peal from.
The CHAIRMAN then put the question, Shall
4 ~
proceed in order,
And it was decided in the affirmative, almost
unanimously.
Mr.. sTANLY said that there were only two noes,
| and he would now go on. He hoped that there
would be no further interruption, because a man
| may say more than he intends in the heat of de-
bate. He proceeded to show that tho South have
no great reason to complain. They have slave
| holder for President who owns tive hundred ne
groes; a slave holder-an excellent gentleman
was elected Speaker of the House. And yet there
was aggression on the South How many MEM
bers have the South in the Cabinet They have
five out Of nine the bench of the Supreme Court
and arc well represented in the foreign missions
They have full advantage. General Taylor beat
Cass (who thanked God that he never owned
slave) in the free States; and two millions FIVE
hundred and eighty-thre thousand six hundred
and fourteen votes, only, is the majority this
terrible band Of Abolitionists! He would say
word to the gentleman from Massachusetts,, (Mr.
MANN and to the gentleman from Pennsylvania,
| (Mr. STEvENs.) He would not talk to decent
negro, especially one who had gray hairs, as the
latter did to the committee. 1Laughter.l When
he Mr.. STASLY) grew up 10 mans estate, of three
| hundred voters in Ncwbern sixty we're free
| groes. This continued until 1895, when the con-
stitution underwent a change. The vote sixty
against sixty five only. Were such a proposition
as this to be proposed now, not one man would be
| found 10 advocate IL. Slaves cannot now be eman-
cipated there. Make your speeches, and blush II
| you have got shame. Many a man has know ledge
without refinement Of heart; and though he
preach fine things without charity be il as sound
ing brass and tinkling cymbals." But for your ef
forts, thousand negroes Of North Carolina would
| be emancipated now, and VIC could say, in the
words Of the psalmist, ethiopia herself stretches
her hands unto Cod" and they would have educa-
ton such they should receive. Stick to your
lectures, say smart things, advertise them, and
sell them; write about killing Morgan, but let MS
| alone.
Gentlemen complain that California will come
| In, and that Oregon and Minnesota will be admit
ted as States How arc we to prevent IT, Are VIC
10 have another foreign war, and Yucatsn and
Cuba annexed Are TO have another war for
/ the propagation Of slavery They say that the
South will be hemmed in by free States. How is il
/ 10 be helped Has not Mexico abolished slavery
/ New Mexico can have slavery or not. As 10 Cali
fornia II Is for the people decide this question
He had no idea Of refusing her admission, and COM
pellipg her TO set up for herself If VIC reject n
State because she win not tolerate slavery, storm
will be raised, compared to which the agitation
nectcd with the Missouri question a tempest in
teapot. II no southern man but ono votes for the
admission Of California, he would. [Demonstra-
tons Of approbaton.l He wished 10 know, II the
Union should be dissolved, whether there would be
any means for the recovery Of fugitive slaves What
becomes OF our coast Gentlemen do not know the
dangers which threaten va.
Maryland and Kentucky do not make half a,