Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-02-07


the next time then experience would be worthless.
we learn nothing if not made more cautious, and
we repeat the same blunder. 1t is best that you
should strike out the names of the individuals de-
sgnated from the resolution. They may obtain
the contract if they will perform it cheaper and bet
ter than anybody else. But prudence demands
that whenever this bargain is made, that PROPOSE
tons should be received from any and all practical
printers to dc. the mechanical work, and the Coy
eminent furnish the paper. | ask, and | hope
some gentleman will tell me, why Donelson &
Armstrong are to have this printing? ask again,
and receive no answer, why they selected from
all others to do this work What peculiar claim
! have they?
A VOICE. Why should they not have it?
Mr.. VENABLE. Why should they have it !;
They have no claims upon that l know Of
They have held me up in common with those with
whom have acted Southern fanatics co-operat-
ing with Northern Abolitonists They have de-
nounced us in the strongest terms which they We're
capable of using. They have no claims upon me-
and L wish to let them know it. A course such as
this journal has pursued can never create claim
upon the confidence of those who received their
denunciations. What claims have they upon the
/ Government? What claims have they more than
any other printers What more than Blair &
Rives-more than Boyd Hamilton, already execut-
ing runous contract, struggling with the embar
easements arising out of that contract and claiming
printing, and practical printing alone; but Boyd
Hamilton is no editor, merely humble laborer
at the press. Then I should like to know-and
the question has not been answered-from whence
and how did this claim of Donelson & Armstrong
originate?
| Mr.. Speaker I have spoken plainly, because
think plainness and candor becoming and proper
have without resentment, given expression to the
conviction of my understanding, and the feelings of
my heart. l mean to act independently and with
out any concealment of my views. The time when
l had feelings of resentment has passed away. The
assault upon the old line Republican State-Rights
Democracy was, so far as l was concerned, fierce,
but impotent. But the memory of events is not SO
easily oblterated. believe that we are deeply res
ponsible for the dissemination of unsound opinions
more SO, indeed, than for criminal acts. The
one is general and extensive evil; the other linn
tied in its effect, and dsarned by the deformty Of
the vice. l confess that my spirit chafed when
saw in paper purporting to be the organ of the
party to which, from my youth up, had belong
ed, denuncations of those, the grardnoe OF whose
offence was, that they concurred with Jefferson and
the Republican fathers-that L ey adhered to the
ancient Republican landmarks, and venerated al
most to idoiatry the Constitution. The selection
of the editors of that organ the peculiar favortes
of this body is the exclusion of all others-the ex
tnction of any chance of competition selection
which, to be just, must be founded upon acknowl-
capabilities. No evidence of either has been furn-
ished, and insist that so extensive and costly an
operation be submitted to the ordinary competition
which the custom of the country has made law :;
that the law requiring the printing to be let by
contract to bidders be complied with, for it is unre
peaed, and that present printer at least have
bad contract, by chance for better one.
Mr. NABERs. 1 shall take particular pleasure in
paying little attention to few of the observa-
tons which have fallen from the lips of the distn-
guished gentleman from North Carolina, Mr..
| Venable. am prepared, to some extent, to ap-
precate his allusion to the Washington Union.
And am prepared, to a limited extent, to appre-
ciate the feelings Of the gentleman, for he has, no
doubt felt the weight of that paper during the last
summer and the last fall.
! Mr.. VENABLE. If the gentleman will allow
Inc, 1 will merely say, that was elected by one
thousand four hundred and forty majority of the
voters in my district.
Mr.. NABERs. will say to the gentleman, if
that will give currency to speech, L was elected
by three thousand majority of the voters in my dis
trict But am going to speak of the doctrines
promulgated in the Washington Union and before
the people too. And by the by, without meaning
the slightest dsparagement to the gentleman from
North Carolina, or his constituents, l Will say
that was elected by constituency equal in intel
ligence with those of the gentlemen to whom
propose briefly to reply. Now, ask, what terri
Die GllIg HAS DOIlelSOn q Armstrong w hat
breach of the law have they been guilty Of that
they are to be condemned here, in connection with
the resolution now under consideration Why,
they have been teaching consolidation They have
been teaching Federalism! Now, put it to gen
temen upon this floor, have the editors of that pa
per been engaged in teaching Federalism, or con-
solidation or have they only departed from the
gentleman's particular views of these things? To
be more explicit, have they departed from the text
or from the gentleman's commentary upon the
text? l wish to know that. While the gentle
man charges upon that paper the incubation of
such sentiments have fallen from his lips to-day,
desire to know if it may not be possible that he,
too, might possible be mistaken with regard to the
true and orthodox doctrines of the Democratic par
Ity? Who are Doneison & Armstrong? never
heard them charged as Consoidationsts and Fed
eralists until 1851. Never
Mr.. ORR. I call the gentleman to order.
| TCries of "Go on ~ "Go on!"]
Mr.. ORR continued I hope the gentleman will
be allowed to proceed in discussing the resolution
before the House; but it seems to me this debate
would be much more appropriate in Committee of
the Whole on the State of the Union.
| A Member. Then let go into Committee of
the Whole on the state of the Union.
The SPEAKER. The Chair was not disposed to
arrest the gentleman from Mississippi Mr.. Nabers
in the of his remarks but it certainly not
in order to discuss the subject proposed to be dis
cussed by that gentleman. His remarks, in the