Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-03-01
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Deliuered IN the House Of Representa-
ttces, February IL, 1851, on the Bill
20 Indemnify the Public Printer.
The joint resolution to indemnify
Thomas Ritchie for certain alIedged
losses sustained i'll the execution of
the contract for the public printing,
being dIilier consideration,
MIR. ORR said:
MIR. Speaker: Before entering up-
on the discussion Of the bill submitted
to the House for consideration hy
the chairman of the committee on
Printing, desire to put myselfright,
ln reference to a. controversy which
has arisen by the publication, in the
Globe, OF a speech which / made at
the close of the last session, on the
proposition TO release the public prin-
ters from their contracts.
Ii there was any wrong perpetra-
ted by publishing on Wednesday,
remarks made on the preceding Fri
day, am responsible for it alone.
The. debate which gave rise to the re-
marks occurred on Friday night.
Congress adjourned on Monday, at
l2o clock. That evening l consoli-
dated the remark OF three five min
ute speeches in one, and carried il
that night TO the Globe office, and re-
9niested its publication in the Daily
Globe OF the next morning. The
foreman stated that they were too
much crowded To accommodate me.
Insisted that its publication should
not be postponed longer than We'd
nesday morning, and gave substan-
tally this reason. that / expected
Mr.. Ritchie would at once assaiI
these who had been prominent to de-
feat him, IN carrying a bill which
would give him from $4,000 to $780,.
OOO, as a gratuity for the non perfor-
nance of his contract; and that il
was due to us, as swell as the country
that the facts elicited by the discus
sion shouldigo forth at once to repeI
his UNJUST assaults. The sequel show
ed that had not tmisjudged Mr. Ritch
ie'spurpose. On Tuesday mornihe,
/ the Union contained two columns of
the most reckless perversion offacts,
concluding with a. slanderous impu.
tation upon the motives the honora-
Die members from Kentucky (Mr.
5 Marshal} and Maryland, (Mr. Evansy
as well as my own. But his perver
ted facts and slanderous inlputations
were shortliyed They did not sur
wiye the rising oftwo suns lfIhad
succeeded in procuring the appear
ance OF my remarks on Tuesday NOR
aing, as desired, the little effect
which Mr. Ritchie's prosy broadside
produced would have been neutral
izedi my ahtidote would have rem
derel entirely HARMLESS his poison.
gsateycr of 1arm remained aN or
ednesday morning to truth and jas
fice,in Mr. Ritchie,s philippe, was
most slgpally dissipated by the publi-
cation OF the remarks of my gallant
friend from kSentucky, (Mf, Marshal)
on Thursday morning. The whole
Z responsibility is upon my shoulders. .
In q subsequent article Mr.. Ritchie
IN very general terms, charged that
spy remards were sfiIled with mis-
statements indicative of mingled ig-
/, alorance and hostility; i do not
/, sIalgu iobe inIalGbIe, Ms. Speaker,
but can with truth declare that hos
tilIty' 70 a political adversary has
never yet caused me wilfnIIy 10 per
EetFate against him any Injustice.
In9thesdischalge Of the hugh trusts
c5pfi1ad 10 0llne sbya generous cOnsfi4
tue 3c NAY rule has thus far beenthe
wise admonition Of the fallen Vol.
sey.-
rI'bat once trod the ways OF kloFy,
Aad sogndea ell the depths and ahoals ofhqeog
t9his failhfdl friend Cromwell, when
he lsatla him
sHelpst and fear, not q.
LIT all the ends shea st at be thy countFy's,
thy aoas an5 srath's
sjE fsScf lis eIsaee that NV
coEESe has been actuatee 81 hostility