Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-04-01

at the manner in which man Of intellectual ingenuity
had twisted and distorted words and opinions out Of their
proper connexion.
He explained that the reason why he permitted two
days elapse before he replied to the gentleman was
because the gentleman himself after making his speech
the other day the motion to commit, put down the
hachway of the previous question: SO that he de-
MED an opportunity Of responding to him.
He had sad and he repeated thatwi the gentle
mans motives he had nothing to do he had made nor
should make no attack upon them When he spoke OF
the movement of the gentleman, he characterized il as
the effect Of which would be kill the BILL and said
that, after the question decided, he surrounded
by every aboitionis in the hail. and received their con-
gretulatons for the he had pursued He did not
intend to charge the gentleman with Intentionally play
ing the part Of assassin but said and could take
it back, that the act, to all ntens like throwing one
around it in friendship and sabbing it with the
other-to kill the BILL
The gentleman from New York had said that there
were but eighteen nineteen bills before the Nebraska
bill on the calendar? ..
Mr. ENGLISH. There fifty bills before the Senate
bill.
Mr.. CUTTING. Before the House bill.
Mr.. BRECKENRIDGE. l will nail the gentleman to
the counter there. Before the House bill, says he?
.Why give up that will never reach the Senate bi
but will reach the House bill" But did not the gen.
teman say that his object in moving to commit the bill
that he might discuss the bill and examine the Badger
proviso! And is not the Badger amendment contained
in the Senate bi Thus it would be that the bill
examining into could never be reached.
The meaning Of the gentleman's remarks about the
press that he Mr.. B. had acted in concert with
papers in this city to drive the gentleman from the sup
port of the BILL Was 1t not low ambition for man
take against measure because another
for it Did the gentleman suppose that twenty Admins
trations could drive him Mr.. B from his position?
Even if the Administration against the bill he (ir
b. would go for it. They should never influence him in
this respect. He had more connexcn with the Adj
minisraton than any other gentleman on this floor.
The gentleman had said that he Mr. b. was the last
individual whom he supposed would have made assault
him. because in the hour of his greatest need the
Hards to his assistance This innuendo deep
that he could not understand it, and therefore asked for
explanation.
Mr. CUTTING replied that he had been informed that
during the in Kentucky it having been intmated
that the gentemans friends needed assistance to
plish his election his friends in New York made up
subscription of ST. 500 and transmitted it to Ken
tucky be employed for the benefit Of the gentleman,
who is the peer of Presidents and Cabinets Laugh
ter ." ss....... ~. ....
Mr. BRECKENRIDGE. And not only the peer of Pre-
sidents and Cabinets but the peer the gentleman from
New York, fully and in every respect. Applause
Mr.. WALSH believed that he had good right to
speak for the Hards any other gentleman upon this
foor When The sad) came here protested against
the Administration interfering in the local affairs of the
State Of New York, and my colleague states that
portion Of his constituents have been guilty of the same
interference in the affairs of the people of Kentucky
Laughter.
: Mr.. CUTTING. Is that all the gentleman from New
York rose for? -r .. -
Mr.. WALSH That is all. will be on hand by and
by, though. .. .,. ". n.
Mr.. BRECKENRIDGE, resumng, said that the gentle
should have known the truth of what he uttered be-
fore he pronounced it this floor He (Mr was not
that any ntimatons sent from Kentucky that
funds needed to aid in his election, nor was he
aware that they were received He did not undertake
to say what the fact might be in regard to what the gen
teman had said but he had information whatever of
that fact He (NIr. B. came here not by the aid Of
money, but against the use of money. applause. The
gentleman could not escape by any subtley by any
ingenuity thorough and complete exposure of any ipge
nous device to which he resort for the purpose Of
putting gentlemen in false position and the sooner he
stopped that game the better.
Mr.. CUTTING said that he had given the gentleman
opportunity Of ndugng in of the most violent in
faminatory and personal assaults that had been
known upon this floor and he would ask how could the
gentleman dsclaim any attack upon him when he fol-
lowed it up by declaring that his Mr. Cs) intention
and motive was to destroy measure for which he pro-
fessed friendship? #..
Mr.. BRECKENRIDGE asked the gentleman to point
to the occasion when he made such remark.
Mr. CUTTING submitted to the committee that the
whole tenor and scope of the speech of the gentleman
from Kentucky was attack upon his motives in NOV
ing to commit the bill. 1t in vain Tor the gentle
to attempt TO escape by discaiming it; the fact
was before the committee But he would say to the gen
teman that he scorned his imputation. How dare the
gentleman undertake to assert that he had professed
friendship for the measure with view to kill it, to as
sasstate ~ W VI
And then when he said that the Committee Of the Whole
had under its control the House bill upon this identical
subject which the committee intended to take up discuss,
amend and report to the House. the gentleman skulked
behind the Senate BILL which had been sent to the foot of
the calendar!
Mr.. BRECKENRIDGE. ask the gentleman to with
draw that last word. @=. .".
Mr.. CUTTING. withdraw nothing. have uttered
what have said in of the violent and
personal attacks that has been witnessed upon
this hoor. ...
Mr.. BRECKENRIDGE. Then, VIXEN the gentleman
says skulk, he says what is false
The CHAIR. The gentleman is not in order.
Mr.. CUTTING. do not intend upon this floor to an-
the remark which the gentleman from Kentucky
has thought proper to employ. 1t belongs to different
region. 1t is not here that will desecrate my lips with
undertaking to retort in that manner
Mr.. c. then declared that in moving to commit the bill
his object to get it in such shape would be salts
factory to the country and put at rest the oucres of h
naticism which now prevail throughout the land.
He desired peace and harmony, and would suggest to
gentlemen who anxious for the passage of the bill
that it not the best mode of accomplishing their OBJ
ect by assang those who proclaimed themselves favor
able to its principles and its great cardinal outlines 1t
seemed to him. if gentlemen desired the CT the
BILL would answer better purpose if they would turn
their batteries upon its enemies rather than attempt to
destroy those who were its friends. E.. b.. +.
Mr. YATES then obtained the floor, when the commit
tee rose and the House adjourned
TUESDAY, MARCH %, 1854.
.... IN SENATE.