The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-12
HOUSE OF PERSONALITIES.
THURSDAY, March IL, 1852.
DISAPPOINTMENT OF THE SPECIAL ORDER.

P0STP0NEMENT OF THE SPEClaL
The House proceeded to consider a resolution
introduced by Mr.. STANLY, of North Carolina,
postponing the special order (the homestead billy
to this day week.
The resolution was laid on the table-the yeas
and nays being ordered-l2l to %.
By unanin GUS consent the special order was
postponed for one week, after to-day.
DOUGLAS AND pUTLER.
The House went ints Committee of the Whole
on the state of the Union, (Mr. HiBBARD in the
Chair,) the s'homestead bill, granting l6O acres
of land to actual settlers, being in order
Mr.. MARSHALL, of California, having the
floor, spoke an hour in reply to the speech of
Mr.. BRECKENRIDGE, relative to the comparative
claims for the Presidency ofMessrs. DOUGLAS and
BUTLER. Although he (Mr. M believed that
discussions of this kind were not proper to be in
troduced here, so long as there were questions OF
great national importance pending-althoug he
deprecated this sort of debate, and thought that
Congress should not become a factlous caucus for
the making Of Presidential candidates-still he
could not allow the sneer which had been thrown
out by the gentleman from Kentucky against his
(Mr B's.) California constituency to pass unno-
ticed There had been almost an unanimous eX-
preston of Democratic opinion IN California for
Judge DOUGLAS. His nomination there was
significant fact. California might be termed ga
great national convention, inhabited as 1t was,
by people from all parts Of the Union; and from
it emenated the truest expression or national SEN
timent which could be found in eny State. lie
claimed for its people high authority, infinitely
superior to that coming from any other source
He would proceed to state and comment on
what he considered to be the purport OF Mr..
BREcKENRIDGE' speech, and in so dong he
proposed to say Just what he thought about II,
and what he meant. Nobody was responsible
for what he should say. The gentleman from
Kentucky had commenced with thin, shallow
nd nca1 fSn0 nrff.
Giles which had appeared in the Democratic Re
rie,r, with which he had adroitly insipuated that
Judge Douglas was connected. He (Mr. M
considered his speech to be an attack upon that
gentleman, proceeding from certain class whom
the Repie,c had denominated :" old fogies." Now
these same old fogies" were as much at war
with each other ,as they were with Judge Douglas,
since the latter represented principle of progress
which was fatal to all OF them. They were all
attempting to break down the hopes of Young
America Mr. NJ. ALLUDED to gentleman here,
who, he said, was messmate of Gen. Butler
an older man, but by no means an older "fogle"
than his Gen. 3. ~ younger friend from Ken
lucky, by whom the latter had been put forward
to make his late speech.
Mr.. BRECKENRIDGE (nterposing) said
that his friend from California was very much
mistaken, if he supposed that he (Mr b. was
nut forward by anybody. He was accustomed
10 mark out his own course for himself
Mr. MARSHALL continued, and minated
that the gentleman from Kentucky, (Mr. Back
ENR,pGE,) in case of Gen. Buffers nomination
and election, was expecting to be appointed At
torney General Of the United States He Mr..
M J had also heard it rumorrd-he was not now
prepared to furnish the proof, however that up
on a certain occasion, there was large Taylor
meeting somewhere in Kentucky, at which
young man was present and advocated General
Taylor's cause. That young man was said to be
Mr. BREcxENRIDGE, and he would ask HIM
whether such was The fact
MIR. BRECKENRIDGE, after making short
explanation Of what he had said IN relation to
"prosress," Ito which Mr.. MARSHALL had allu-
,led } denied that he had ever been Wing The
republican principle had DETECTED in single gen
Grafton Of his family, but he had ever been Dem
ocrat He admitted that he did take part in rec
ommendng Gen. Taylor for the Presidency, but
that was bef,re he had been taken up by the
Wings. IL Mr.. b. had committed politi-
cal error in so doing. il was the only one Of his
life
Mr.. MARSHALL continued d, and spoke ofthe
design of Mr.. BRECKEnRiDGE's speech bei' e
malignant, and calculated to much depreciate
Judge Dongias, now the first choice Of large por-
ton of the Democracy and the second Of alt, and
promote the chances of Gen. Butler, for whose
nomination there was previously no possible
chance. He would inquire of Mr.. PENN, (of
ou;saua whether there had not been CONSUL
taton between Mr. b. and himself relative to this
matter' -
Mr.. BREBK BRIDGE desired the gentle
man from Louisiana to state if he MIR. b had
ever given him any information that he intended
TO attack Judge Douglass
Mr.. PENN was understood to reply that he
had not. In turn, he would ask the gentleman
from California il he did not furnish to the Repub
he newspaper, for publication last Monday, GER
tain article attacking Nh. buchanan
MIR. MARSHALL. replied that he did The
article came from Democratic newspaper His