Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-04-01

fh. ,f;.sasnrc not only not commented on y 'ne
organ here. but in the enjoyment OF paohe pat
/ fonage-when see public oiseers at heiiis e'a
| abroad acting ho-fii- TO the measure and ma
them cherished in the possession of their places
I am induced 10 AK what sort Of measure j. u
wren iis enemies are rewarded and its fraends
assailed and their motives impeaehed
+ find that this ha4 nov become test gues,
ton see il is made 50 by prominent frienu
Of the administration here but in paper IN y.
HAMPSHIRE regarded as Intimately friendly with
the President the editor disclams il "a party
test There is but one single ground on winch
the Democrats of the N.rth can standard thatls
the ground of non intervention. If this II found
in the bill shall vote for il. wish to come To
a plain understanding with all sections, to know
precisely what the bill is, 50 that hereafter there
may be no difficulty in this particular.
Mr. breckenridge. haye forborne to inter
rnot the gentleman. While his remarks are fresh
ON nv mind / would Ike 10 respond to them.
Mr.. Cutting With the understanding that
the time employed viii not be deducted from my
hour.
Cries of no objection -agreed-let us hear 1t
out now.
Mr. Breckenridge. have listened to the wor-
DIV remarks of the gentleman, but he has not met
a single position that | took the other day. IL
beftted man to see him twist words out OF their
legitimate cunnexion. ! spoke of the gentleman
stigmatzing it as the Badger proviso, and adyer-
ted To the remark of the gentleman that 1t dId not
do Justice 10 the South when it was acceptable
to great majority of Southern members.
wish to say here the gentleman talks like "a law
yer in bad case, but not like n statesman. In
nv speech the other day ! referred to the notes
from Boston and the West.
Mr.. Cutting. The buge notes
Mr.. Brec kenrdge-an he said we wished to
hurry through the bill without full discussion
If any member will look at my remarks he will
thafI ii Z | "A
cusson will bring the people to the bill, and al
though New England might still oppose she is
not the centre, and that the West stands on the
principle of the bill. Was there any reason for
the gentleman to say that | feared the bugles
1t passes ingenuity, or something more than
that.
he gentleman said that | allowed two days
to pass before attacked the victim and his mo-
lives, but does he not recollect that he put down
the matches by the previous question, and com
PEELED the delay HIMSELF did not interrupt him
today b. cause his speech was fixed upon the
ground that had attacked his personal motives.
Taking the UNDERMINING away the whole fabric
would have fallen. | objected to his movement
to kill the bill, but made attack upon his mo-
tives. do not intend to charge the gentleman
with playing the Assassin Intentionally, but |
said and cannot take it back, that the act was
10 all intents, one arm thrown around the
b-other while with the other the fatal stab was
inflicted.
Mr. breckenridge then proceeded to review
thu course of Mr.. Cutting, IN referring the bnl
to the Committee of the Whole, and the effect OF
that motion, in placing it at the foot of the calen
dar, where it may never be reached until the end
of the session.
The gentlemans arguments are better suited
to a court of law than delberatiye assembly
How came the national gentleman from n. \ ork
TO be found in open union with the enemies OF
al. Al Al Il. tlar.
on this floor! How came h,e to receive their con
gratuatons, and why do the presses take him
up as the hero of killing the Nebraska bill! lie
can neverrub out from any plain mans nina
that the effect of his motion to kill the bill
believe the administration honestly in favor OF
the bill, and will support them ON that point
but if the Administration were against 1t, would
nevertheless be for it, and tn y should never
drive me from my position.
have no more connection wit h The Admins
tratl"u than any other man. lowe them moth
ing, except what is due to all enga ge IN the ex-
ecuton of the laws. ! am sustant ID by the ma
jority OF my constituents, the pee OF Pres-
dents and Cabinets Slight aapau Sc
SO far from driving the gentlema from the
support of the bill, it with the pro, 'oundest
regret and modification that | saw his co'urse.-
His sympathies with the .'hal DIS, . and
hence the pain and funds, especially OF the
South when they saw him turn sharp co rner
and enter into alliance with the very wors OF po-
litcal abolitionists in the House, which every
man with five grains of SENSE knows was to k.ul
the bill. do not suppose he has authorit to
speak for any but himself.
The gentleman said | the last man who
he expected would make assault on him. re-
cause in the day Of my greatest need the 'hard s
came to my aid. This inuendo is deep. tn at
| do not understand it. | ask an explanation.
Mr.. Cutting. The explanation will be give a.
! am informed that during the canvass in Ke n
lucky it being intmated that funds 1T
ing in order to accomplish the success of he
gentleman my friends in New York made pa
subscription of some $500, and transmitted the
funds to Kentucky, to be employed for the en-
eft of the gentleman, who is now the peer OF
Presidents aud Cabinets. Laughter.
Mr.. Breckenridge. Proudly and defiant, and
not only the peers of the President and the lab
met, but the peers of the gentleman from N. Y.
in every respect. Applause on the Democ ratio
side of the liouse.)
Mr.. Walsh. believe | have as good n ri ght
to speak for the lizards of n. York any en-
tleman in this hall or out of it. l have stoot / and
stemmed the torrent of treason in the North " hen
those who have attempted TO speak for them
have skulked from the threshold of the la.ces
where the meetings were held, and do not want
an impu alton on their character to go out unex-
planned to the world. When we came her we
protested against the Administration inter- el.ing
With cur local affairs in New York and no v my
colleague states that portion of those VIII o sent
him here mtertercd in the same way in Ken lucky
Mr.. Cutting. Is that all the gentleman rose
forl
Mr.. Walsh. That's all--I be on hand by and
by, though. Uaughter.)
Mr.. breckenridge | do not want scr APPS of
Geographic dispatches for my speech. ] lie de-