Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-01-05

OF his colleagues mind and his peculiar mode of reasoning
in which, with all due Difference his colleague be must be
allowed widely 10 differ with him. The gentleman cared not
what be the past of he cared not for
life of consistency life illustrating the particular views be
entertained in regard to great political questions All this
went for naugh with him, and he preferred pledges made to
order the Of election to effect the purposes of the
occasion. He (Mr s. thought differently. He cared very
little he cared not at all for pledges by which somebody
was to be cheated But he did for life marked upon
the records of the country without such temptations nu
him made use Of to procure pledges from can
didate on the Of election.
He did not rest merely upon apro reasoning in what he
had said with reference to his colleagues position He hoped
to be excused for referring facts which had recently taken
place. Every body recoleced how certain bill to put
in the chair make himself Speaker, had been read
first and second me and finally been lost upon its passage
Every body ecoeced the agreement which had taken place
between parties in this hail. and the position of their can
didate He begged the gentleman from Indiana (Mr BaowS
him for this reference because became necessary
his colleague The gentleman from Indiana stood
upon the records for two three Congresses voting
directly opposite to the gentleman from Massachusetts, Mr
WINTHnoP) some Of these questions. The gentleman
(Mr BRows had been for the annexation of Texas for
sitting debate for laying the table and smotherng reso-
utons nquing into the proprey of aboshng slavery in
the District of Columbia and extending the ordinance of 1887
all the territories of the United States These the
gentlemans votes, and his colleague (M GIDDISGs knew
yet he had chosen to vote for the gentleman from Indiana
upon pledge Of that gentleman vamped for the occasion,
contradicting the Of his whole previous He
Mr had not much faith in these death bed epentances
He had much faith in these sudden conversions and least
Of all had he faith in them when they seemed ohave been made
under the strong mpulve influence of reward just ahead
that to be given in case pledges were made the other
side.
He repeated that he tired of hearing certain gentlemen
to themselves to lecture the Wing party. There
might be proprety in it, if they had not entirely sepa
rated from the party but having done so, he protest
against the right Of gentlemen in pharisacal spirit to
preach purity and good conduct to all the rest Of the world
assuming to be champions Of all that right and putting
every body else in the wrong This requiring of pledges
showed that there at each eHd of the Union who
would for candidates who refused to give pledges Of
sectional Characteristic would not vote for Northern
man because he Northern man, and who would not
vote for Southern because he Southern
What did this mean If he took the position that he would
not vote for man because he Southern man. and
another gentleman would not vote for because he
was Northern man, what did it amount to II was dis
union. They might cover it they pleasedit dis
union 1t might perhaps be defined but the first step
yards disunion but it step from which the
luence followed inevitably fate One secon-he North
or the Souhmus have the majority. Disanchise all upon
the other side, and the Union could not hold together day
1t ought hold together day. The Wing party and
of the Democrats differed from his colleague in this
spect They believed that this Union resulted from
promise between the slave and the free States They enter
tanned peculiar local sectional views which educaton habit
association had forced upon them in reference to the question
Of slavery He in favor of the ordinance Of 1857 He
had always voted with the gentleman from Massachusetts
Mr WINTHROP in favor of did not feel that upon
this account he must stand here and claim to dsanchse
every living in the slave States because he differed with
him that local. sectional question He had voted the other
day. part Of the time, for Northern men, and part Of the
time for Southern He had been willing to vote for any
whom he believed to be conservative and true Wing
But failing elect such man, and finding that at both
tremes of the Unon there who would stand out
to the bitter end unless the whole of
the House consented to their peculiar views he Of
those who had very reluctantly consented to the plurality
tenn the only mode of organizing the House. He hoped
did his colleague injustice when he said he knew the ob
macy of his character and that impression could be made
upon him. ..
Mr.. GIDDINGs, Gin his seat.) You right.
Mr.. SCHENCk (continuing) said the gentleman then
admitted that unless the House Of Representatives to
him, the House could be organized but that he would
PREFER in the language of the gentleman from Georgia. M
TooMns that disorder should reign forever, rather than
that the House should be organized any other ground than
that which he chose He (Mr. S. did not feel thus. Be-
levng it to be entirely constitutional although, in other cir
Of doubtful expedency he had voted for the
plurality rule He had not known, however, his colleague
had ntpaed that the election Of the present Speaker
would oe the result He had known that the organization of
the House would be effected by it. He had not known but
that when the between the present Speaker and
the Northern Wing, who had not given pledges but who
known to be right and sound upon all these questions
who upon the record had entertained the views generally
entertained in regard to these sectional and local questions by
members of the two great leading parties of the country at
the Nohhe had not known but that when the issue
sentcd between these two gentlemen, Of his colleagues
associates at least might be induced to take the gentle
from Massachusetts, choice of evils if he might be
allowed the expression But he had found that he
mistaken These gentlemen had held 10 the end deter
mined that the House should remain in state of disorgani
zon unless the great of the House came to their i'm
practicable views. ....., ."
He thought there occasion for the Examinations they
had heard here about dsunon He had been sorry hear
gentlemen take the position that they preferred at to
put end this Union rather than what they considered
the present state of things should be enforced the country
But he found precedent for speeches of this Sort He read
from speech Of Wendell Phillips of Boston, delivered be-
fore the National AntSavery Society the following extracts
We confess that intend to trampe under foot the Con-
stution of this country call upon you to do likewise
Shall tell you why You make revolution in
this matter until you make the common sense and the
arragn against the despotism of the majority the
cenous convictions Of the mass OF the minority, whatever
it be-" ..#
Daniel Webster says you lawabding peoplethat
nifty. Shame it, If this be true if the religion of
New England sinks low its satue-book. But say
not ha.D-abAng community God be thanked for It,"
That the OF American politics. We have forced
the Democratic party of the field the original ally of the
slave power. We have sent the Wings into alliance with
Southern shareholders. 1t is natural alliance. is the
Lords the Lash and the Lords of the Loom associated is
the capital of the country and the conservatism OF the country
against the ideas of the country
Mr. GIDDINGS inquired if the gentleman called Mr. Phil
lips Free-Soer ".,
Mr.. SCHENCK replied that he anti slavery man.
who required the majority to to the minority,
and who declared they did not let dsunion and dis
order reign forever. Here extlemes meet. The
Wing party, as charged by Mr.. Phillips, indeed the
conservatism Of the country. Coming from the North
and som the South representing every sectional interest," they
acted oher for the general good for the maintenance
rights and of the whole These and these in
teests he Ml S) was ready maintain, her: and else
where wherever lis hand his voice could do it, against