The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-17
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,,

| TUESDAY, March l6, 1852.
Prayer by Rev. MIR. MORGAN and the reading
Of the journal
DEFICIENCY BILL.
| Mr. HOUSTON, of Alabama, moved that the
| House go into Committee Of the Whole on the
state of the Union, and take up the bill reported
| by him from the Committee of Ways and Means
:" TO supply DEFICIENCIES in the appropriations for
the service of the fiscal year ending June 80,
| 1852"
| The motion was agreed to, and the Speaker
called Mr. MEADE, of Virginia, to the Chair
| UNION AND STATE RIGHTS POLITICS IN GEORGIA.
! Mr.. HILLYER, of Georgia, took the floor and
said that he desired to call attention to the speech of
Mr.. McMuLLEN, of Virginia, made the other day,
| in reply to Mr.. CABELL, of Florida. The gentle
man from Virginia, had said that the Union par-
ty Of Georgia composed of factions of par
| ties, and had also called it pie-bald parry
| Mr.. McMULLEN explained, that he might have
so spoken in the excitement Of the occasion But
he intended no disrespect for the Georgia Union
patty So far from The had acted with that par
| ty in the last Congress.
| Mr.. BROOKS, of New York, rose to point
of order and asked for the reading of the 3lst rule
Of the House, which requires that members, when
| speaking, shall con6ne themselves TO the question
under debate He called the gentleman to order.
The Chairman decided that, if the rule was con-
strued literally, the debate would be out Of order;
but as the practice had been otherwise, he should
| permit 1t TO proceed.
| Mr.. BROOKS appealed; but the committee
sustained the Chairman IS decision, 10 to AZ.
| Mr.. HILLYER continued, and argued that the
| Union party Of Georgia--the causes Of the or
ganization Of which he stated--was free from the
| charge made against it by the gentleman from
| Virginia. There could not be found in its ranks
| one Abolitionist, one Freesoiler, one tariff man
| Tor ham and sn far as he
knew, one internal improvement man. He read
extracts from several papers in Georgia which
belonged to the Southern Rights party, including
the Columbus Times, the Georgia Telegraph, and
the Savannah Georgian, to show that they had
been in favor of dissolution Of the Union, some
of them Internationally. He held that under ex-
sting circumstances there no way for the
| friends Of the Union to do but to come together
and form party by themselves. He did not de-
sire to enter into any controversy with the State
Rights party of Georgia; still he would assert the
propriety of the Union party, as proposed, meet
ing together on the first Of April, and appointing
| delegates to the Baltimore convention. 1t was
true that he did not endorse all the acts OF the
Democratic Iarty, which numbered many Free
soilers tariff men, and friends of internal improve
ments in its ranks, and badly needed purging.
But still he believed it far preferable to the Wing
party. He should therefore go for the Baltimore
| convention, which he trusted would lay down a
| pdtOTHi VI WiSu e'eiy DS"'or'" "a.
could stand upon He did not ask for 1t to lay
down any new principles, but to adhere to those
it had formerly acted on. The State Rights party
had thrown itself out Of the regular Democratic
organization, and now resolved itself back. The
$4,000 Union men in Georgia had right to DO
the same. Mr.. Fl reviewed the history of parties
in Georgia since the year 1928.
Mr.. GIDDINGS spoke an hour, in his charac-
teristc manner, on matters connected With the IN
siitution of slavery. He denounced the law for
the reclamation of fugitive slaves, and commended
that it was subject to repeal. In the course OF
his remarks, Mr.. BREcKlNRlDGE, of Kentucky,
proposed to Mr.. G.. certain questions relative to
that law.
| MIR. JACKSON, Of Georgia, replied to the
speeches of his colleagues, Messrs. CHAsTAIN and
HLLYER. Mr.. J. spoke an hour in defence OF the
Georgia Southern Rights party, which he defended
from the charge of being dsunl onsts, reviewed
the several measures composing the compromise y
Ito which he said he willing to accede,
only asking that they should be carried out in
good faith-snd defended, at considerable length,
| the course of Governor Mcdonald.
| Mr.. ORR alluded to conversation which had
| taken place between himself and Governor Me-
Donald, in which the latter had expressed an opin-
| ion against South Carolina seeding.
| The debate continued between Messrs.
JACKSON and HrLLYER until half past clock,
| when
| The House adjourned.
|