Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1854-05-04
NEBRASKA AND KANSAS.

We publish a brief synopsis of a
whole. souled speech, delivered in the
House of Representatives by callan,
Wing of the South.
Mr.. CULLOM. after preliminary re
marks. said that when he left Tenn. ssee
he had not dreamed that he should be
called upon to participate in the vexed
question which has sprung on The House
by the bill TO organize territorial govern.
ment for Nebraska and Kansas. He
came hither to participate in the legisla-
ton necessary TO our common country
! The honest claims Of hundreds of our
citizens are TO be postponed. ruled out
OF court; the stream OF legislation is TO
be damned up BY this neiarious project,
which he intended 20 denounce as a work
OF politicians, to strangle the legislation of
the country for personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
lie believed, in the face OF God, that he
should be coward if he did not de
nounce it. lie should not be Tennes
seean il he did not denounce this plo.
against the peace and quiet of The Union
Yes, Nebraska and Kansas, and Kansas
and Nebraska, is the hue and cry.--
These Halls are made vocal with the
sound of these cant phrases; and we are
told that territorial governments must
forthwith be given them; and The com.
promise of 1920, The work of our
fathers, completed in times Of grea,
public excitement, when the Union OF
those States was in jeopardy. is to be
repudlaled and iramped under foot.
This is naked question of repudia-
zion or no Reputation. You may, he
said, tall, to me about bad faith and out
ragged southern hoaor, bu, tell you, the
Nurih and the South, the East and the
W es,, shat this is a naked question
whether the sons, the descendants of
our patriotic fathers, who pledged their
honor on grea. and momentous ques-
ton, vii! repudlaie their solemn oblisa-
lions on mere bubble and pea.
The question had been sprung on him
like tire bell al midnigh'. W hers, he
asked was the voice OF the people, North
or South, asking for the passage Of this
measure, thus to bring the North and
Soul, by The ears. aud re open the foun-
tain Of bnter waters and lie agilaiions
which had well nigh severed this Union!
The measure came from a defeated
Presidential spiran,--defeaied IN 1851.
This was the starting point, and should
be known as such from Maine 20 the Pa
cifc.
Where are the South? Where have
they been! Sleeping on their watch.
tower Tor thir,y-tour years! Was ii
necessary that they should be walked up
TO their Interests by your big or little g:
ants! Laughter. lie Senator Doug
las, Is me great Sanhednm Of the Safe
Of ilItiois, laughter, overshadowing ev
erythlng. He has ou,-heroded Herod,
and out sou,hed the South.
Tie referred TO the fac. tina. Senator
Douglas, in lS49, 1850, and in 1854. re.
garded The Missouri Compromise as
binding contract. bat now proposes to
repealit The 'Union,' which Genounc
ed suca purpose. soon afterwards seiz-
ed upon Il as means CT Ealionalzlng
the Administration.
lie denied that the North has repudi.
aied the Missouri compact, and asked
for The proof. 1t could no. be shown.
lie spoke OF The provisions of the
bill, which, he contended, do5s not con-
tam the principle .of non.in,ervenlion
which is claimed for it; and in -couc!u
sion, he defended the Missouri Compro.
mise, and eulogized and yindica,ed the
memory OF lennesseans who sustained
and assisted IN the passage of that meas
ufe. The men Of 1854 who rise here
and asEerse their character shall always
find in him yindicator.