The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-03-12

understand that the honorable member said,
in advance, that lie would either have our
votes or our scoips. | know not the precise
meaning which is to be attached TO this HUI
name and elegant expression, if he really
used it. 1t might be well, perhaps, to refer
| il, for inquiry, to the Committee on Indian
| 1Gdrs II be only intended, BY his toma-
hawk threat, that he would deal few stabs
at my character behind my back, ho is well
come to all the glory of the exploit. But
whatever he meant, did not intend that he
should have either my vote or my scalp, if
could help it and seeing that my vote would
make no difference to the result, | declined
10 crafty his desire to cnsnare me. And
now, because the trap of the honorable mem
Der failed to work, in the only case in which
il was Of special importance for him that it
Should work, lie flies into passion, strips of
his neck-cloth, and begins to scold about
dodgng and skulking!
Why, sir, the honorable member forgets
himself. Certainly, his speech forgets itself,
for in the very same paragraph, in which
he upbrarls me for my course in this case,
he describes his own course in another case
as entirely identical with it. would not ask
a better justification from any one. than that
| NhlNh Ahi hNubih hi'ihbci llllhstl Has
furnished me out of his own mouth Hear
what he says sir, as to his own conduct at
the late Presidential election:
"It was nothing more (says hc) but a
game at the best. neither wanted to cheat
nor to be cheated, and hence toook no part
in it. / stood out"
Does it rot lie admirably in his mouth 10
charge others with skulking, and to cxclaim
| l., q. : Al.
10 dodge" when in the very same breath he
is boasting that he skulkcd himself from tho
great Pres dental struggle
Nor is this the only instance of the same
sort in the honorable members history.
What else but lodging was his conduct in
the protractcd contest for the Speakership
What did he do, but throw away his vote to
the end, on an impossible candidate What
did tho eight peculiar Free Soilers do, but
pair of, four from each party, and, by neu-
tralizing each other, virtually not vote at all;
virtually dodge, by refusing to vote SO as
10 make any difference TO the result /? Sir
there arc those here who believe, that the
first grca. dcscrton Of the Northern princi-
pies at this session, has been exhibited by
those who have thrown the organization OF
this House into the hands OF "a Southern
Democrat. OF that the honorable member
stands convicted. Ana my opinion IS, that
any one, who considers the adroit and in
genous manner in which it was done, BY
seeming 10 vote and yet practically not vo-
ting at all, will come TO the conclusion, that
if the honorable member desires to see the
true .1rJM Dodger" Of the day, he must
look At home.
Nor Is this all, MIR. Chairman. The hon :
oraole member has maze great Wanting o.
what nc 'cou'd Haee ao1s on inc last night o.
the last session, II the walker Amendment
had Deen longer persisted IN Inc more
important inquiry, sir, is, what uid he do
Where was he during the weary watches oil
'ha' memorable hisht Where was he
when the honorable memOer from lcnnes
see MT Andrew Johnson) moved TO strike
OUT the word impartial from the vote o'
,hahHs 10 the Chair VINO then was - will
nns TO wound but yet AFRAID to strike z
Where was he, too, when The honorable
member from kentucky (Mf. MoreheadI
moved that most monentous amendment to
the Walker Proyiso, in regard to the right
iul boundaries OF Texas Ills name Is not
on the record and, though the proverb /;
somewhat mu5ty, SIR cannot help reminding
the honorable member that those who hive IN
glass houses should not throw stones.
But he tells US most pathetlcally, that the
Nllmot Proyiso has been wounded in the
house OF It's friends nay, that SO lar as this
House could kill It, it'has been killed. Well
now, sir, this remains to be seen. Doubtless,
the honorable member finds 1t for his pur-
pose at this moment, to think so, or at least
10 say so. but 1t remains TO be seen wheih-
er the great principles oil the Ordnence oil
o nave lost any portion OF their vitality
whether theY have not as strong and hvlng a
hoiu on inc hearis oil other Northern and
western men, as on that OF the honorable
member himself and whether, on the prop
or occasion, IT real necessity or reason
able demand Tor their assertion and MANI
| 'ehahce should arse, they would not be as
serted, ana be maintaired, by as large ma
| Jomty IN thls BODY, as they ever have been
heretofore. believe they would be.
but Inns 10 say.-that II these principles
nave been wounded and struck down,-it 1t
be true, that, by laying on the table an un-
reasonable resolution oil the honorable mem
per from ONO, we nave KILLED the NIlmot
FrovlsH'-its death must lie forever at his
door, and not ours and the true inscription
on It's tombstone VIII read thus =" Here hes
NciIm to the restless vanity and head
strong rashhess oil INC honorable member
IRON ONO, who held It deliberately up 10 re-
ceive its death blow in oider 10 crafty bis
passion ior noior'ety' and hiS pque against
some OF his Old friends Of the Wing party"
why, sir, the conduct OF the honorable
member, on this occasion, was what French
philosopher has called " worse than fault"
1t was mslake-a fatal blundcr. 1t was n
moment OF all others, when the North should
not have been called on to show its ha nd =
when gentlemen from the Free States should