The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-09
sble TO learn what the question is. 1t seems
opobt 10 ha .5on,a5 a. ra,nasy this defect

sbe to learn what the question is seems come means
ought TO be adopted to remedy this defect
Mr.. STANTON, of Ky.-The article is mere communi-
cation to that paper and is not written By the editor
the editor Notethe article is headed, Obsoete Ideas
by an Old Fogy.p
10 the precise point understand tho Speaker to say the
public printer has right to this floor and the
gentleman from Ohio TO offer resolution to deprive him
OF this privilege 10 expel officer is a question Of
privilege, and the gentleman submits the proposition on
his own responsibility f.om the reading the article
think II much less violent in tone than his speeches
he is apprehensve of personal attack he right to
ask protection and if he makes out proper case shall
would any other member
MI. MnIsoS (dem) Of Val take it for granted that
Mr. Niehoson is an officer Of the House and may be
expelled thn 1t right he is entitled to the privilege OF
the hoer but conceive he is not entitled TO admission
as the editor of the Union The other persons connected
with him in the resolution only entitled to the
privilege as reporters Of that paper, the questions
ought to be separated II it is proposed to expel Mr.
Nicholson as an officer Of the House may be proper to
inquire whether lie has done thing such justify
his expulsion If the object is to cxpc the editor and
reporters OF tho Unea as persons entitled to the
Iorcrs desks and not officers Of the House. then it
right to inquire whether any Of them has done
In the capacity Of to subject them to expulsion
| question of privilege.
Mr. Hamilton, dem of Md-Let's lay the resolution
| on the table, and proceed to other business.
Tie srEANER-Thc gentleman from Ohio has right to
move to expe an officer Of the House, and is entitled
| the foor.
MI GiDpIScs-I yield one half Of my time to my col.
league;
Mr.. oIDs-I can get the floor after you have done.
the majority, and not with wish to call attention
TO the emphatic language of the article which in
word protection and obedience reciprocal and in
separabe and those who like the abolition ncendiaries
Parker Phillips, Giddings and Others ncessanty
procaimng their hostility to the laws and the constt
tion, and stimulating men, women and children to vo
late them as sacred duty, in opinion have claim
MIR. LAiE (dem) of Oregon ask the gentleman
whether he is apprehensiye Of personal dangers
Mr.. GIppmGs-My friend VIII excuse me. 1t i3 the dig
nifty of this body wish TO preserve.
Mr.. LANE assure him there is no danger. Iaugh-
te,2
| ances Of that kind.
Mr.. LASE-I can only say .Conscience makes towards
us all" propose to go security for the gentemans
safety.
Mr.. GIpDNcs-I understand him to say he will 60 my
security base not asked for it. again call attention
to the EDITORS remarks in which he pronounces that my
self and others without the pale Of the law and that
any assassin whatever may commit murder on re-
mains for the administration whose organ this paper is,
10 whether IL will maintain editors and reporters of
this character and description have to say in reply to
my colleague who talks my speech in Boston, that
served too long here TO permit myself to be called
in question for what have said in this hall
elsewhere He has not ye. got the power, although
where shall speak. ] hsye been too long here
to let gentlemen crack their whips over me.
They must assail freemcn with language like that
though they not acquainted with their rights Let
it be understood am here member Of this body, by
the grace OF God and the favor of constituents will
maintain the rights OF both have not asked protec
ton When do will let this body know it. ask the
protect
representative character. If recolect Alright, my col
league Olds) voted expel the reporter Of the Tribune
for holding up colleague of his to rdicule Ca Voice
t" About Sawyer eating sausages Ha! ha) | will say
10 the gentleman from Virginia Milson the resolution
is nearly in the exact language used whom expeing the
reporter for the Tribune and that resolution adopted
by The democratic party of the House. the reporters
OF the Union ] know not who they are They may
be among my best friends. All aAk is that gentlemen
will record their and hold up assassin like him
who figures in the Union this morning to men OF the
world: place your names on recor aud let posterity
En0y Al 20 VIII m
OF such description Speak to your constituents and
let them understand it, lie may read me out OF the pale
Of human society," but the day will when indi
yidua! will have that authority Not expecting
again to occupy the floor, appeal to every individual
cles these TO which he had referred 1t has been
gested that IL Ia not editorial article but is under
editors for what they put fosth. The presumption is
Mr. Nicholson wrote the article under another name to
hide himself from the public. He has placed IL before
the country the House. and for this let him be held
responsible
show the proceedings expeng the Tribune reporter for
giving personal description Of the domestic habits of
Mr. Sawyer such eating sausages in the lobby, and
coptending that and this noS analogous in
their character as to privilege.
The srAkER said-The question Of privilege, as en-.
Union, but on the resolution itself.
Mr. 0LDs- do not propose to question the conduct OF
here elsewhere do not propose to arraign him be
fore this body for others of his colleagues gave their
votes for the Nebraska bill under the influence of
bribery and corruption But allude to 1t for the pur
pose o showing that this appeal for protection does not
come from him with good grace who could leave his
colleagues and TO distant city and there, assassin
like, stab private reputation in the dark when his col
leagues were not there to reply to him When he made
the accusation he must have known in his heart It was
| false in conception and utterance =
Mr. GIDnSGs-Doss my colleague speak for himself or
\ for others9
Mr.. OIps-Ah, do speak for myself or for othersS
speak for myself Others and speak to him and to
others What said did not say in the dark, nor in
Boston where the abotionss could protect me in what
said like my colleague. What said is the floor Of
the American Congress and for him and others to hear
that he who and asks for protection has
right to claim IT, when he go away and, assassin
lfe stab his colleague and give utterance to what is
false in inception and has no existence except his
brain But my colleague says he does not seek protec
on for fear of personal violence but wants the House
to take care OF its own dignity II recoect right
/ there memorable occasion when the House did
undertake TO preserve its digny-when the conduct OF
my colleague such that under vote OF censure, he
sew ft TO resign his seat. Like the man who was
i kicked down stairs, he said he left before the
row commenced. Uaughterl A pretty thing to
preservedS have already said, he who comes here TO
make accusations, should come with clear hands and
pure heart. Can he do so If those colleagues who
voted with him on certain questions, felt an apprehen
sion OF personal violence why do not they, too claim
protection, II they cannot protect themselves Have
party call inccndiares to apply the torch TO the
pitol and destroy the inmates beneath the crumbng
runsY Let me refer to what his colleagues in fanati
cism ssy;-Cassius NJ Clay advises that traitors be
punished example for all future time. Every man,
he remarks who voted for the repeal Of the Missouri
premise deserves death but, he adds there is way Of
nhctnp the penalty So thought Horace Greeley there
fore he called the incendiay to apply the torch
thinks Wendell Phillips and Theodore Parker, and so
think strong minded women Of the North and II Is ad
yiscd that they who may escape the halter shall be
broken the wheel Of public opinion This Is whot
colleague undertakes TO Go. Hows BY branding his col
leagues being bribed, and making statements false in
inception and uterance. Break them the wheel o,
public opinion Let them create public opinion. You
cannot reach them by blows fney have not the cour
age TO apply the torch to the capitol but they have tho
rersoral courage 10 90 to Boston ond stab repu-
tptiop and call on their hearers TO crash those
who differ from them in opinion the wheel of
public opinion And now, one OF them comes
slulking back and asks the expulsion of the pub
lie printer giving the truth II relates TO my col
league | feel that have done my colleague service
for every attack made him by lover Of the constitu
titn aud The fanaticsm Of the party with which he
acts only helps TO build him mp and return him to occu
py a seat In this hall Ny colleague talks about kicking
southerners with kind OF support of right meas
nrcs on this floor He knows what II Ia to be kicked
Ny colleague always man OF peace, and has con.
sistently voted against all measures II personal