Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-05-02
NO. 90.
From Philadelphia Daily geu..


Ar Cuilom, of TennesseesoR the. 18th made
one of the m 'stefeetive and telling. speeches
against the Nebraska measure that has been
made IN the Honse, eliciting more epplause from
members than have eVer before Witnessed in
That HAL on any occasion. He denounced the
Whole thing as a netarious scheme to disturb
the peace OF the country, and to promote indi.,
vldaal ambition. He came here, he said. Ito
participate iu the legislation necessary to our
common country. The honest claims of hmm.
dreds Of our citizens are to be postponed, ruled.
out Of court; the stream Of legislation IS to be
damned up by this nefarious project, which be
intended to denounce as work ofpoIitieians m
strargie the legislation of the country for per.
s'nal aerandizement. He believed, in the face
OF God, that he should be coward if he did
tho r,sca ,,s1nse sed j. He should not be Tennes
br;lska and Kansas and Kan.siaiss aRlQt against
is-the hue cry. These halls are made vocal
with the sound of these cant phrases; and we
are told that territorial governments must be
forthwith given them; and the compromise of
1920, the work of cur fathers, completed in
times of great public excitement, when the Un-
ion of these States was in jeopardy is to be re-
pudiated and tramped under foot.
"The question had been sprung on him like
fire bell at midnight. Where, he asked, was
the voice of the people, North or South. ask
ing for the passage of this measure, thus to
bring the North and South by the ears, and re-
OPEN the fountain of bitter waters and the agita-
tons which had well nigh severed this Union?
"The measures came from defeated presi-
Dental asprant-defeated in 1850. This was
the starting point, and should be known from
Maine to the Pacific.
"Where are the South? Where have they
been? Sleeping on their wateh-tower for thirty
/ four years? Was it necessary that they should
be walked up to their interests by your big or
little giants? Laughter. He Senator Doug
lasl is the great Sandhedrim of the State of Illi
nois. Tlaughter,l overshadowing everything
( He has out-heroded Herod, and out southed the
Sonth.
lie referred to the fact that Senator Douglas, in
I lCtS, dHu W tOOf, -dINcu Jiic 4ulocOuAi SOAA
promise rs binding contract, hut now proposes
to repeal it. The "UniSn';, which denounced
such purpose, soon afterwards seized upon i.
as means of nationalizing the Administration.
He referred to NJ. Breckinridge's speech upon
this subject. in which he denied that Mr.. Clay
had anything to do in forming the Missouri
Compromise, and asserted that he did not even
vote for it; and in reply to this, turned to tbs
speech of the same gentleman delivered on the
occasion of Mr.. lays death, and quoted the ell
oquent language in which he, Mr. B. spoke of
Mr.. Clays patriotic labOrs in the three memoir
able speeches, 1920, 1888, and 1850, when be
saved the Union by becoming the great paci6-
Gator, and the author of the compromises of
those periods. This brought forth immense ap-
plause, and told with great effect. Col. Benton
sat near General Cullom, who often appealed to
him for the truth ofhis statements, and it was
observed that the Old Nestor of Congress nod
ded assent to every denunciation pouhced ont
upon the bill and its authors.