Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1854-04-05
nessrs. breckenridge and cutting.

BIessrs. Breckenridge and Cutting.
The following is the concluding portion of TIL
late debate IN the House of Representatives be
tween these two gentlemen, in regard to the mo
ton of Mr.. Cutting to refer the Nebraska bill +
the Cornmiltee of the Whole The bill properl
before the House at the time the discussion too
place, was the civil and diplomatic appropriate
bill.
Mr.. Cutting then took the floor, repeating hi
charge that Mr.. Breckenridge had made a mos
unparliamentary and personal assault on him.
MIR. Breckenridge again denied that he ha
called in account his intention and motives, an
challenged him to point out the occasion whe
he had said it was his intention and motive t
destroy the bill.
Mr.. Cutting. I submit it to the committee
whether the whole tone and scope Of the gentle
mans remarks was not an attack on my motive
for making the motion did. The facts are befor
the committee. scoru his imputation. stanc
here not his superior, but his equal, having for my
self a reputation equally as dear, if not soofy, a.
that of the gentleman. Istand here the repre-
sentative Of a constituency of whom am tht
Improvisation, As far as concerns myself, wheT
he imputes objects and purposes, | hurl back thu
imputation with the indignation it deserves.
Did I not state my views2 How does thu
member undertake to assert that professet
friendship for measure with view ofkilliig i
by sending it to the foot of the calendar and wher
said the committee Of the whole had under the
control the House bill which they intended to taxi
up, he retreats and escapes and skHlks behind TN
Senate bill at the foot Of the calendar2 ~. 81,
NJ. Breckenriege-Rising hastily and in earn
est tone--Iask the gentleman, to withdraw, tina
last word Sensation.
= Mr. Cutting-with emphasis will withdraw
nothing. What have said was in answer 10 tht
most violent aud personal attack evor madeon any
gentleman on this floor. s.aHals
Mr. Breckenridge. When the gentleman say.
sknik he says what is false and he knows it,
Great excitement and cries of order.
Mr.. Cutting. | do not answer remarks snch al
the gentleman thought proper to employ. They
belong 10 different region. am not here Il
desecrate my lips by answering in such tone AM
manner. The gentleman said | undertook TO b
more southern than the South, itself owe no
thing to the South, nor do curry favor with tina
section Of country.
He then proceeded to state explicitly tina
he did not move that the bill be rereferred 70 tn
committee to kill it, but merely to take it out o
the powered any one 10 stifle discussion on 1t b.
moving the previous question.
After some further remarks the House adjourned
The Know NorHIYGs.-The Baltimore cor
respondent of the Washington Sta' gives the fol
lowing:
A fellow named Peter Morris, or so ST ng him
self, claiming alliance with the "Know Nothings,
played quite slippery trick here last week. ii
came, as he alleged, from the North, fortfie'
with letters of recommendation from varlou
'sknow Nothing" associations in new York ant
elsewhere to give one grand concert to the '.Knov
Nothngs" OF Baltimore. For this purpose he ad
vertsed literally in all the papers that woulc
trust, upon the strength of his honest c0untenanc'
and spurious letters of credit. The concert final
ly came off on Monday evening last, in the grea
hall of the Maryland Mechanics Institute. Their
were present about two thousand. probably more
pure, nnadulterated Native American ''Know No
things" The "Know No.hngs," perhaps a
mongst other problematic ''negdtires," did no
know much about music, and desired taking the
initiative lesson from their genius. There is ar
old rule in grammar, which says two negatives
make an affirmative or in other words, two pos
tive nothings put together in the same category
make something. Thus, the '.Know Nothing
professional singer and the 'Know Nothing" AL
dience being conglomerated, brought about some
thing which resulted in grand suck-iu. The fel-
low pocketed about five hundred dollars as the sub
stance or quintessence of his labors in teaching
the "Know Nothings" something of which they
were before ignorant, absquaulaicd, vamosed,
leaving poor printers and others to suffer. He
went upon the principle that some things could be
done as well az others and has infused into his
singularly cognomzed brethren, spirit inquiry,
which may demonstrate to them the necessity Of
learning something before they encourage another
mountebank to teach the ''Know NothiDgs" SO
expensive lesson.