The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-04-29

I ork MIR. Brooks sara tnat tne southern
Wings faltered If the gentleman chose to
take the Southern Wings and the slave insti-
tuition under his direction here, they are to be
accused of faltering because they will not fol-
low his lead The gentleman seemed to think
that he is to be sacrificed, and taken as vic
tim to the altar. because his manifestations are
not obeyed There was, he repeated, no rejec-
ton of the Compromise resolution; there was
not one Southern Wing against it.
MIR. Brooks said the matter of Parliament
airy law he would not undertake to discuss; but
it is fact which the people will understand,
that in the first Wing caucus Compromise res
olution was introduced and adopted; and that
in the second it was ruled out as not in order.
Mr.. Stanly inquired whether the gentleman
had not written letters showing that he would
leave the caucus before it was held! He had
the New York Express, in which q letter APP
peared, signed, IAN Eye on the Capitol" He
had shown it to several gentlemen this morn
ing and they had concurred with him that it
contained expressions made use of by the gen.
tleman last night in caucus.
Mr. Brooks asked whether that was the only
authority the gentleman had for charging him
with the authorship of the letter.
MIR. Stanly Does the gentleman deny it :!
Mr.. Brooks said, most emphatically wrote
not one word of it.
Mr. Stanly Did you not supervise or die
tate it!
Mr. Brooks replied that the person by whom
the letter was written had submitted it to him.
and that there were several harsh expressions
in it against the gentleman from North Caro-
lima, which he had demanded should be strick-
en- out
Mr. Stanly Yes
Mr.. Brooks continued He did not hold
himself responsible, to any degree, for one word
or syllable of the letter. If he had expressed
such sentiments as those contained in the let
ter, they are those also of gentlemen with
whom he associated constantly.
Mr.. Stanly. This shows the authority by
which Wings are denounced by Wing cor
respondent
MIR. Brooks The gentleman's allegation
was that wrote this letter
Mr.. Stanly. The gentleman's authority and
Mr.. Brooks. The gentleman said wrote
this letter
Mr.. Stanly. No.
There was great confusion in the Hall during
the above proceedings. But few gentlemen
were in their seats.
Mr. Howard, who had yielded the floor, said
that he should like to know what was going
Mr.. Washburn Will the gentleman from
Texas give way for moment?
Mr.. Howard. We have got as much as we
want.
Mr.. Stanly And more too
Mr.. Washburn remarked that he was in the
caucus last night and also had attended the
first one. He understood the gentleman from
New York MIR Brooks to say that the Wings
had declared themselves in favor of the Com
promise measures, and affirmed them as a
6nality; but that since that time. events had
taken place operating on the Wings of the
North He MIR. W. denied this altogether
The Wings of the North occupy, in his judy
ment, the same position towards the Compro-
mise they did then. IA voice: What was
that?' The Wings of the North, of all classes
and circles, were in favor of not expressing
afirmatvely or negatively, but
would support any Wing candidate, whether
General Scott, Webster or Fillmore Only it
is required that they shall not give an express
sion on these measures as test of adoption.
| This is what We understood the gentleman to
say amid the confusion
Mr. Howard wished to know whether the
gentleman and his party are opposed to any
of the Fugitive Slave Law, or in
favor of enforcing it as it is
Mr. Washburn. We are determined not to
agitate it We are in favor of leaving it as it
is, for the present, certainly. Laughter.
The honorable gentleman continued to speak,
notwithstanding there were loud cries of
" Order and occasional outbursts of merri-
ment Nearly all the members were on their
feet, and not few of them were in the area
fronting the Clerks desk.
Mr. Meade. Let the Sergeant-at-Arms be
called, to take the gentleman in custody. fIa!
ha ha!
The Chairman. The Chair must warn gen.
temen against proceeding in this course of de-
bate 1t has been suffered to 20 on; but he
appealed to gentlemen to preserve order
Mr. Durkee. 1t will break up both parties,
if they don't stop it Laughter.
Mr.. Howard am apprehensive that it is
a matter of fact the Wing party are opposed
to political orthodoxy
Mr.. Washbun. We are in favor of it. We
are opposed to making sectional questions ma
tional issues Cries Of" Order!"l
Mr.. Stanly believed that it was designed to
break up and have no National Convention at
all The Wings assembled to fix the time and
place for holding it the people did not send
them here to instruct them.
Mr. Howard repeated, that instead of giving
a clear and explicit pledge, they had taken
shelter behind mere Parliamentary rule.
That party deserves to be broken up for there
is nothing to hold it together but the wish to
possess and administer the Government. 1t
must, indeed, be destitute of sound primes Piles
when it is forced to take shelter on question
of this magnitude under the Parliamentary
law.
Mr. Stanly. Let tho gentleman look to the
proceedings of the Democratic Convention as
shall to that of the Wings; and then if we, as
Southern men, cannot be satisfied with their
action, we may stand shoulder to shoulder
Mr. Howard ! am glad the gentleman has
made the suggestion.
Mr. Stanly. Very we'll
Mr. Howard resumed IL struck him that
in quibbling about the Parliamentary law,
they had lodged the question The refusal to
answer to the Compromise is not going to sat
isty freemen Having concluded his remarks,
On motion, the Committee rose, and the
House adjourned
THURSDAY, April %.
The House resolved itself into n Committee
of the Whole on the state of the Union, MIR.
Hibbard in the chair and resumed the consid-
Grafton of the bill giving to every man, the
head of a family, u homestead of one hundred
and sixty acres of land, on condition of occupa-
ton and cultivation for period of five years.
Mr. Molony said that We are approaching
one of the most important Presidential cleo
tons which has ever taken place under the
Constitution involving vast interests to the
American people; one that has already called
forth deep solicitudc in this House and out Of
it. and exciting throughout the country an in
terest perhaps never before expressed in any
similar contest II was right and natural that
it should be So when we take into considera-
ton the great stake the American people have