Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-06-10
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Plymouth, Ohio, Saturday, June 10.
Gen. Linds' 'ey-Iniustice.

attack upon Zen Lindsey, IN regard to
his course upon the Nebraska bill using
the most Incorporate language, and max.
ing assertions totally void Of foundation.
Among other things he accuses him o.
voting in the affirmative upon the motion
to take The bill out of the Committee OF
the Whole. As every one knows nor,
and as all who kep themselves informed
upon the subject knew then, this is un-
true. Gen. l.indsley with The opponents
of the bill, vo,ed nay, upon the motion
To subsianliato this we give the follow
ing from the National Era. The article
from which the extract is taken, is a re-
ply 10 the same charge made by the Cleve-
land Leader:
This is total mistake. The true re.
cord is this On the eighth, Col. Rich.
ardson moved that the House esolve it.
self into Committee of the Whole on the
safe of the Union, it being his purpose,
II this motion should prevail, 10 move to
lay aside, one after another, the bills on
the Calendar in advance Of the Nebraska
Bill. so as to reach that, and bring it up
for consideration. Of course, the mo
tion TO go into the Committee Of the
Whole, under such circumstances, be
came a tes'. The vote upon it stood
"a,
members opposed to the Bill voted in the
affirmative. Those who voted in the
negdttUe were, Of course, hostile TO the
Bill. .4naOng these negative roics ace
Tad the names Of Edgerton, Ellison,
LlNDSLEY, and Johnson.
We were in hopes that when the Her.
aid learned these facts, it would acknowl-
edge the error into which it had fallen,
and relract the eptheis of "Judas,"
"cowardly traitor" with which he Iashed
the General, hu! were disappointed. This
week it assaIs him still more furiouslv,
and charges the passage of the bill
directly upon General Lindsey, and
"otter northern dough-faces.' That the
passage Of he bill was accomplished by
northern dougbfaces, we are well aware,
bu, that Gen. Lindsfey is one of them,
or that he did anything to aid them, we
deny, and The record will bear us out in
the denial.
The Herald condemns our Represen
tatvs for voting to postpone the Pacific
Railroad bill, in order that the Nebraska
bill might be reached, anl upon that vote
hinges its article. We did not believe
at the time that Gen. Lindsey had been
bought over by Pierce, Douglas & Co..
as the Herald asserts. If his vote upon
he motion TO postpone the Railroad bill
was an error, then were the opponents of
the bill in the Senate in error, for they
advised this very action.
As an endorsement Of his course on
that question, and to show that General
Lindsey did not break pledges made TO
his constituency, as asserted by the Her.
aid, we give another extract from the ar
ticle quoted above. 1t is plain state
ment of the facts Of the case, and cons
ing as it does from the editor of the Era,
an eyewitness Of the whole struggle,
must be perfectly satisfactory. Ii is as be-
fore, in reply to the structures of the
Clev eland Leader:
The next step was TO move that the
bills in advance Of the Nebraska Kansas
bill be laid aside. This could not be done
by wholesale vote it was necessary to
make such motion in relation to each
bill. This was done the Anti-Nebras,
ka men would then call for lelIers, and in
slst upon each motion. In all this oper.
ation there was no detection on the part
OF the members named by the Leader.
Again: that pnper (the Leader) says
"But The trcachery Of these men did
not stop with this act Of perfdy TO their
constituents. On the 18th instant. Rich
ardson moved to suspend the rules, in or.
der to postpone the special orders which
had the precedence Of the bill of treason.
The motion and its sequence required a
two.thirds vote to carry it. The same
four, and their fourteen confederates,
went over TO the shareholders. and rode
down the minority, as before; thus rem
dering further resistance fruitless."
We explained this movement at the
time, and while regretling il as a mistak.
en- policy, clearly understood that the
majority Of the anti. Nebraska Democrats
voting for i, acted from the honest con
viciion of their judgments. The resolu
iion of Col. Richardson to close debate
80 as to allow no time for further discus
sion, was already pending. The ar
rangement proposed on his part. was,
withdrawal of that resolution, and tn
introduction Of another to close deba
the following Friday, saying nothing o
the special order on Tuesday. This wa
rejected by the anli-Nebraska Democrats
But On apprehension began to prevail
that the majority were bent on ridin,
over the rights Of the minority, and owe
the decision of the Speaker, if necessa
ry. This was Monday: The next da,
vas tho sncci,l ordor rouIJ "a. .-.,l.