The true Democrat., 1854-04-18

T SoHIlolnan, put OD)oCUeQ to ms movement to Kill the bill, and I spoke of his receiving the con- gratulatons of political abolitionists in this hail. l do not intend to charge the gentleman with playing the assassin intentionally; but 1 said and cannot take it back-that the act was to all mtents as one arm thrown around the brother, while with the other the fatal stab was inflicted. l will leave it to the committee to judge There can be no two opinions on the subject. Let us turn away from the verbiage of the gentleman. Here we find the bill on the table, snug and safe, under the control of the House. The House bill had been referred to the committee ot the whole on the state of the Union. This gave the friends of the Nebraska bill double chance. The one could have been taken up in committee discussed and matured; the other, whenever the House chose to go to the Spea- ker's table, could have been discussed in the House. Under these circumstances the gentle man from New York refused to go with the friends of the measure 10 discuss the House bill in committee, but voted against it, and after wards he himself moves to go to business on the Speakers table, and next moves to send the Senate bill to the committee of the whole on the atate of the Union It is placed at the foot of the calendar, and may never be reached until the end of the session. Has not the gen. tleman remarked that said there were scores of bills before 1t. have no recollection of this, do not find the word in my notes or in any printed speech. I said it was put at the foot of the calendar. Has notthe gentleman perspicui- ty enough to see that when 1t is desirable to kill a measure 1t IS always sent to the committee of \ the whole on the state of the Union.
 Mr. English (dem.) of Ala.-There are fifty | bills on the calendar before the Nebraska bill
 Mir. Cuttng-Before the House bill
 | .11,\ pof 4bo | House bill, he saw now-but he did not say the Senate bill must be discussed and Badgers amendment looked into?
 MT. Cutting shook his head.
 MT. Breckinrdge-It is useless for the gen. tleman to shake his head
 MT. Phillips, (dem.) of Ind.-Mr. Badgers amendment is not in the House bill.
 MT. Breckinridge Nor is Mr. Clavlons amendment in the House bill. 1 don't like to ! push this matter; the gentlemans replies are evaslve. lis arguments are better suited to a bad case i'll a court of law than in adeliberative assembly. How came the national-the essen- tlally national gentleman-from New York to be found in open union with the abolitionists and freesoilers on the floor? How came he to receive their congratulations, and why do their ' presses take him up as the hero of killing the Nebraska bill. He can never rub out from any \ plain mans mind that the effect of his motion was to kill the bill. The gentleman asked me why made speech. The Nebraska bill can ! be revived and brought before the House; but for that his movement would have succeeded, and its warmest friend would have had the means of aiding his abolition friends and put ting 1t to death. What, he asks, could have been the motives of the gentleman from Ken lucky, in assailing him, friend of the measure IA, Why drive him of, a national man, to glorify persons at the other end of the avenue? The meaning of the gentleman was covered up with verbiage; but it was an inuendo that the gen. tleman from Kentucky had acted in concert with the presses ill this city, to drive the gentle man from New York from the support of the bill. Is 1t not low ambition for a man to pur- sue course of hostility towards a measure be- cause another Is for 1t? Does the gentleman suppose twenty administrations could drive him from his position? believe the administration honestly in favor of the bill and 1 will support them on that point. But if the administration were against it, 1 would, nevertheless be for it, and they should drive me from my position l ! have no more connection with the administra- ton than any other man. I owe them nothing except what is due to all engaged in the execu- ton of the laws. 1 am sustained by the ma jonty of my constituents, the peers of Presi- dents and Cabinets. (Slight applause) So far from driving the gentleman from the support of the bill 1t was with the profoundest regret and moytitcation 1 saw his course. I have listened to the debates in which he traced the previous course of the national party in New York: and although he was opposed to bringing that quar- rel into Congress, 1 could not refuse my sym- pathy and good feeling, though they did not want sympathy. So far from making war on the hards my sympathies were with them- Hence the pain and wounds, especially of the South when they saw him turn sharp corner and enter into alliance with the very worst ol political aboltionists in the House, which every man with five grains of sense knows was to kill the bill. l am not sure understood the gen. teman. do not suppose he has authority tc speak for any one but himself The gentleman said I was the last individual whom he expect ed would make an assault upon him, because in the day of my greatest need, the "hards' came to my aid. This inuendo is so deep that l do not understand it. 1 ask an explanation.
 Mir. Cuttmg-The explanation will be given l am informed that during the canvass in Ken lucky, 1t being ntimated that the funds were needed in order to accomplish the success of the gentleman, my friends in New York made up subscription of some fifteen hundred dol lars, and transmitted the fund to Kentucky tc be employed for the benefit of the gentleman who is now the peer of Presidents and Cabi- nets. Iaughter.)
 MT. Breckinridge (proudly and defiant J. And not only the peer of the President and the Cabinet, but the peer of the gentleman from New York in every respect. Applause on the democratic side of the House)
 Mir. Walsh, (dem.) of N. VI believe have as good right to speak for the hards o New York as any gentleman in this hall or out of it. l have stood and stemmed the torrent of treason in the north, when those who have at tempted to speak for them have skulked from the threshhold of the places where their meetings were held, and do not want an imputation O this character to go out unexplained to tht world. When we came here we protested against the administration interfering with ou local affairs, in New York, and now my col league states that portion of those who sent him here interferred in the same way in Ken lucky.
 MT. Cutting-Is that all the gentlemen rose