The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-19

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kom the high horse. at l6y aaa
the interests Of their consdta tiIs ioohine
cabin voter, for ifthey did. the latter might forget
them Having considered The census, he (Mr.
| 81 would proceed to something else.
A Vo,cE. All right. You have made good
speech on the census, any way. Go on.
Mr.. GORMAN, OF Indiana, said that Mr..
umes a. large the American Archives. Ths
gentlsmans (Mr. SAIrHs - were based on The pri-
ces paid in 1919. 1t was not now proposed TO
! pay those prices, but the whole matter was left
with the printing committee to determine. All
that was proposed was to give the job to Messrs.
Doneson 8 Armstrong. Mr. klvss' estimates
were made on an improbable hypothesis There
was not shadow Of probability that the House
would adopt any such basis. fsf5E N
Mr. SMITH, continuing, went on to discuss
! the Presidential question. He rejected the term
old fogies, which had been applied here to
some Of The candidates. 1t would be cruel and
ungenerous in the young Democracy" Of which
he was one. to apply this term to men who have
served faithfully on the battle field or in the De-
mocratic ranks--iO Jackson, or 10 Calhoun, whose
intellect was more like that Of an angel than Of
man. He considered that the claims Of all should
be treated in a more fair and honorable way. The
The prominent idea indicated by the speeches
made, was that confusion existed in the Democra-
tic ranks. II so, the question was, how was it TO
be queted To this he would devote some re-
marks, although he believed that the body Of the
party was never more composed, and that the
confusion existed here and nowhere else. The
confusion rose from the ambition of few party
leaders. He believed that it was no way to pre-
vent 1t by presenting again to the party the can
didates already covered with defeat. II was bet
ter to go into the next contest with a new
man. There was limit to friendship, and
| ~ Ia 1,.t.~ IF ~
draw from the canvass. When a man finds
his friends all honey, that is no reason why he
| should eat them up. II was his duty now to give
up for younger man. -Four years was as long an
any defeated candidate ought to assert his claims
The Democratic party was progressive and held
to rotation in office, and twas unjust TO the young
Democracy for Gen. Csss's friends to continue TO
press him. lie MR. 81 asked, would the Dem
ocracy Of the country still continue to hold the
milk bottle to the lips of second chdhoodi Young
America had arrived at the day when she would
not only claim her rights but assert them.
MIR. Smith question
Mr.. SMITH. have not much time left, and
can't answer now, but will promise to be neigh-
borly on some other occasion IA laugh, and
cries Of very good"
Mr. NABERS. What do you mean by
F." Young America" Who do you include?
MIR. SMITH mean any man who is over
2Oand-ess than GO Laughter. The gentleman
is not more than SO, and may come in. Renewed
laughter.] But seriously, Mr.. s. said, he would
be understood to include all the young and enter
prisins Democracy of middle age He did not
wish to be understood as speaking particularly for
MIR. Douglas. Kentucky had great man, and
Georgia another, but il was not his desire to par
ticuarlse-bis mind was not yet fully made up.
He had spoken of two whom he did not mink it
expedient to support, who were connected with
the last disastrous canvass.
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meaning of" Young America" Who would the
gentleman includei ~
Mr.. SMITH said he had named two whom he
would exclude. He did not know that he could
wish to include Mr.. Buchanan.
MIR. NABERS. Does Young America" in
clude, part Of her policy, any change in the
long established principles Of this government
Mr.. SMITH replied that he would answer yes,
in three letters. He was DESTROYS of having the
young, enthusiastic, and ambitious Democracy
take part in the affairs of government, as well as
the old ones.
gentleman doctrine of 6 Young America, it
would cover the whole question of Intervention,
Kossuth and all. He protested against departing
from the path our fathers trod. Young America s
argument seemed to be that men become silly and
foolish as they advance in years. 1t was an old
maxim that young people think the old ones are
foolish, while the old ones kno,o the young ones
are so--and it might apply in the present case. AS
to the assertion Of Mr.. MARSHALL, of California,
that his State disnterested, and the very best
exponent of national feeling of any in the Union,
he (Mr. NJ doubted it.. In California were to
be found the language, sentiment, and feeling OF
every possible tongue and people to be found
on the face of the earth Its sentiment was
anything but national. And as for the eulo-
gums which had been passed upon Judge
Douglas, Mississippi never saw the day
when she did not have men on this floor every
lie l.. tl
emit Congress. Uaughter) 1t was said that
Judge d. was brought up in cabinet shop. He
MIR. NJ might also assert his own claims on a
similar ground, and say that in early youth he en-
tered the corn-feld. Like Judge D., he had also
invariably been Democrat. As he, also, might
come up prominently before the country at
future time, it was his desire to have history and
the world set right on these points. (Laughter.)
Mr.. N proceeded to explain his connection with
the Union party in Mississippi. AS a Union man,
it was true that he had solicited Wing votes,
when the old party lines had been broken up. So
had the Southern Rights party there done the same
by the 10th resolution at one ofits conventions.
Their platform, like the suspenders sold by cer
tain auctioneer at Memphis, were short enough
for any boy and long enough for any man, or
short enough for any Democrat, and long enough
for any Wing. The politicians Of both parties in
Mississippi were for resistance, but the people
for the Union He was willing to unite on
a sound Democrat at the Baltimore convention
for one who would not dodge the fugitive slave
law, as Judge DouGLAs did at the last session--on
such man as Mr.. Buchanan for instance, (buthe
did not wish to designate particular man, The
convention, he hoped, would lay down couple Of
planks in its platform-one in favor ofthe fugitive
law, so important to the Southern people, and the
other in favor Of non-intervention. He hoped it
would not depart from the advice Of Washington
and take up the highfalutin doctrines Of the dayto
crafty Abolitionists. 1.-THE Democratic party is
80 10 o,.,1Ac Ia
from Maine to California. The year 1852 must
decide whether it is to be- or whether it is to be
cut into as many fragments there OPP Mons
north and south Of Mason and Dixon 3 line. He
(Mr. NJ had spoken not to yndcate himself
with his consttuenis--for they d ID not desire it.
but to vndicate them in the eyes of the country
He closed with desire for the continuance ofthe
Union and the government. He could say of it,
las he could Of his wife--for he had the fortune to
have one--if she had any faut,) "with all thy
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