The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-13
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

posrpoSrMENr OF THE SPECIAL ORDER.

posTPoNEMENT OF THE SPECIAL ORDER.
The House proceeded to consider resolution
introduced by Mr.. STANLY, of North Carolina,
postponing the special order tine homestead pli)
10 this day week.
The resolution was laid on the tabe-the yeas
and nays being ordered-l2l 10 %.
By unann GUS consent the special order was
postponed for one week, after to-day.
poUGLAs AND BUTLER.
The House went into Committee of the Whole
on the state Of the Union, (Mr. HBBARD in the
ChairO the "homestead bill, !" granting l60 acres
OF land TO actual settlers, being in order.
Mr.. MARSHALL, of California, having the
floor. smoke an hour in reply to the speech Of
Mr. BREcKEsRIDGE, relative to the comparative
claims for the Presidency Of Messrs. DoucLAs 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-although he
deprecated this sort Of debate, and thought that
Congress should not become factious caucus for
the making Of Presidential candidaies-stll 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 ear
pression Of Democratic opinion in California for
Judge DouGLAs. His nomination there was
significant fact. California might be termed "a
great national convention, inhabited as il was,
il emenaed the truest expression of national SEN
tment which could be found in sny State. lie
claimed for It's people high authority, infinitely
superior TO that coming from any other source
lie would proceed to state and comment on
what he considered TO be the purport OF Mr..
BREcEENRIDeE' speech, and in so doing he
proposed to say just what he thought about II,
and what he meant. Nobody was responsible
for what he should say. The gentleman firm
Kentucky had commenced with a thin, shallow
defence OF Gen. Butler, and denounced two arti-'
cles which had appeared IN the Democratic Re
rico, with which he had adroitly insiDuated that
Judge Douglas was connected. He (Mr. M
considered his speech to be an attack upon that
gentleman, proceeding from certain class whom
the Rsrinc had denomnaied +" old fogies." Now
these same cold 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 ell
at,empiing TO break down the hopes OF Young
America Mr.. NJ. allud' d to a gentleman here,
who, he snid was messmate OF Gen. Butler
an older man, but by no means an older fogie"
than his (Gen. b. ~ younger friend from Ken
lucky, by whom the latter had been put forward
TO make his late speech.
Mr.. BRECKENRIDGE (inlerposing) said
that his friend from California was very much
mistaken, il he supposed that he (Mr 3D. was
put forward by anybody. He was accustomed
10 mark out his own course for hImsel.
Mr.. MARSHALL continued, and intimated
that the gentleman ffom Kentucky, (Mr. Back
EsRIpcE,) in case Of Gen. Butler g nomination
and election, was expecting TO be appointed At
torney General Of the United States He Mr.
M. bad also heard IL rumored-he was not now
prepared to furnish the proof, however that up
on a certain occasion, there was a large Taylor
meeting somewhere In Kentucky, at which a
Young man was present and advocated General
Tayor's cause That young man was said 70 be
MIR BREcEENRIDeE, and he would ask him
whether such was the fact
Mr. BRECKENRIDGE, after making short
explanation Of what he had said in relation TO
"proeress," TO which Mr.. MARSHALL had allu-
ded. denied that he had ever been Wing The
republican principle had deaecied in single gem
Grafton Of his family, but he had ever been Dem
ocrat lie admitted that he did take part in rec
ommending Gen. Taylor for the Presidency, but
ttat was before he had been taken up by the
Wings. If he lMr. B.. had committed polItl-
cal error in so doing, IL was the only one OF his
life.
Mr.. MARSHALL continued, and spoke Of the
design Of Mr.. BaEcKeSRDeE's speech bei g
malignsnt, and calculated to much deprecate
Judge Douglas, now the first choice OF large por-
ton of the Democracy and the second OF all, and
promote the chances Of Gen. Butler, for whose
nomination there was previously no possible
chance He would inquire Of Mr.. PENN, (of
Iouisiana, y whether there had not been a consul
tation between Mr. B. and himself relative to this
natter
Mr.. BREBKEN BRIDGE desired the gentle
man from Louisiana to state il he Mr.. b had
ever given him any information that he intended
20 attack Judge Douglas
Mr.. PENN was understood to reply that he
had not In turn, he would ask the gentleman
from California il hedid not furnish TO the Repub
nc newspaper, for publication last Monday, GER
lain article attacking Mr.. Buchanan
Mr. MARSHALL replied that he did. The
.rt,cle came from Democratic newspaper. His