Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-03-13
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

On motion Of Mr.. CARTIER the House resolved itself
into Committee Of the Whole the state of the Union
MIR HmpARp of New Hampshire, in the chair, and
resumed the consideration Of the special order II be-
ing bill to encourage agriculture commerce, manu-
features and all other branches Of industry by grant
ing every who is the head Of family and citi-
zen of the United States homestead Of hundred and
sixty of land of the public domain upon condi
ton Of occupancy and cultivation Of the same for the pc
riod therein prescribed.
Mr.. MARSHALL, Of California, remarked that it was
not his purpose to discuss the special order though
measure in which he took great deal of interest and
which he believed to be very important to the country
But there had been delivered upon the floor Of the House.
by the distinguished gentleman from Kentucky MIR.
BREcKESRIDGE,) speech containing sentiments wholly
different from those which he entertained, and from all
the conclusions and reasonings Of which he was bound
dissent as well as express his disbelief in all its
situations avely put forth matters Of fact To this
speech he bound by many circumstances 10 make
some response. Although there not member Of the
House more unwilling than himself to
sary the time Of the House. and who deprecated
than he did this whole debate and the consequences which
might and probably would flow from it, stil he obliged
under the peculiar circumstances Of the and the rela
tons which he held 70 his constituents to controver
doctrines and sentiments uttered by the gentleman TO
whom ne had referred He believed that discussions Of this
character should be introduced upon this floor so
long there great Of public policy pendinr
long there single Law that should be passed or
acted upon so long as there single person urging
claim aQainst the Government which had been adiu-
Dictated But he did not intend that gentlemen who diff
fered with him should be wrong and have all the advan
tages of FL that an attack upon whom he believed
to be the ayore Of the Union and upon those principles
which be believed 10 b, the lfeblood Of American demo
cracy, should 20 forth wits his endorsement.
had been prophesed by Of the most learned acute
sagacious and thoughtful Of all foreign
the American constitution and its institutions that the
very thing which happ ening would happen in the
Congress Of the United Sstes that IL would 10 dis
charge its constitutional functions the Legislative body
OF the country and that would become, what II has not
yet become but what no feared il approaching,
jarring discordant, actous balanced caucus OF
Presidential electors.
great result Of Democrat c principles and the verJ
country owed their ext TO the very doctrine which
the gentleman from entucky in the whole 81 his
remarks, deprecated.
There had come fro the people OF California unver
sal expression Of OPT MON in favor Of Judge Dougs o.
the Democratic candid ate for the Presidency and he would
s represent his peo pie he could allow an attack nPor
that distinguished p rson flor the speech Of the gnte
nan from Kentucky nothing but an attack 70 g
a,swered The nomination Of Judge Douglas by th'
1910 ~ California was a most significant fact Ibok a.
r;o;n nroeres,, and history. There not Elag'
haIe SCARF civ any local division Of the wholeUnitet
ctas which was not represented there. The hst an'
t Of national sentiment came from the PEG
HON ne represented. They we're, as II wereh great
Po ;,dced disinterested national conventioti the.
.pg bargaining with any candidate Tor the premier
- Yfornia had influence with the SECRETARY
sta,. ,he : rmy and navy bad no eject upon her
TSa snsach Of the gentleman from Kentucky cfnmenc
=, ;.t - ae. ted defence of Gen. Butler, and ne ma
oao.ad ,shen he had drawn, with a most pofhed an
III az, portrait the truth Of which eicry bod