The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-12-27


passage of such a law, he would vote for 1t.
Cries of CHATS right"l He desired to know
if the gentleman from Ohio would do likewise
| Mr.. Campbell. Never
Without concluding, Mr.. Cox yielded the floor
for motion to adjourn which being agreed
to-yeas lis, nays lOS-the House adjourned.
Friday, December 81, 1855.
! The Senate did not sit to-day.
HOUSE
! The Clerk called the House to order at IL
o'clock, and the Journal of yesterday was read.
| Mr.. Giddings, of Ohio, rose for the purpose
of correcting misrepresentation. The gentle
man from Virginia Mr. McMuIenl had yester-
day attributed to him the declaration, that when
the Government should pass into the hands of
the North, and the Abolitionist party should
elect President, then the Union should be and
ought to be dissolved. He could only say that
the gentleman had put language in his mouth
which he had never used, which he had never
thought of, and which he never expected to
utter.
Mr.. McMullen, of Virginia, understood Mr..
| Giddings to have said this in the remarks which
he had made yesterday: that the member from
| Ohio had said, that when the Government
should go into the hands of the North and they
should succeed in electing the President and
solving the Union, should not dissolve it. He
had also said that that member had upon former
| occasions spoken ofthe STAKEHOLDER as standing
| over his slaves with the lash in his hand, and
that the member had now assumed to himself
| the right to hold the lash over Southern Repre-
sentives in Congress. He had condemned the
| course of the member, and had nothing to ia. :
| back.
| Mr.. Giddings. I never did such thing.
spoke of principles, not sections; and, as to
replying to the gentleman, / trust no member.
| will do SO, except in case of palpable misrep-
| resentation.
| Mr. McMullen. What does the member mean
when he says that he hopes no member will
| reply to me-when he says that he will not
reply to me? Does the member suppose that
ne is capable of insulting me? Cries of
"order.'l / will not violate the rules of deco
rum but when have been wantonly sssailed
| by the contemplate member from Ohio will
| defend myself, here and elsewhere. Renewed
| cries of order."I
| Mr.. Cox, of Kentucky, then resumed and
| concluded the remarks commenced by him yes
| terday. In the course of his speech, he called
upon various gentlemen from the Northern
States to define the position assumed by the
| Democratic party in the late elections with ref
erence to the Kansas and Nebraska BILL The
4 replies tuCltcu Htuc IL appear tudt luOsc Noil
| ern gentlemen who had supported the Nebras-
ka act justified their votes on the ground that
| it was favorable to Freedom.
Mr.. Etheridge, of Tennessee, expressed his
dissent to some of the views of his colleague
on the subject of Slavery, and declared that, so
| far as that institution was concerned, there was
| no difference between the Democratic party at
the North and the Republican party.-e.11ceIpt e
be means hsstt calculated to eradieate il f.on
the country.
Mr.. Cobb, of Georgia, rose to defend tn.
Democratic party. He vindcated its caucu
resolutions on The .sbjcct &c the Nebraska bill
and Know nottingham. Never did ths InsG
,, cratic party occupy so proud position. I'll,
! would not purchase votes for the Democrats
candidate for the Speakership by sacrifice o
the principles contained in the caucus resolu
tons. How could his Southern friends asl
I; him to abandon the Democratic organisation
, at the very hour "when, having purged itsel
, of the last vestige of that Free Soil sentimen
which has disturbed its harmony and destroyed
its power and usefulness, it is Just entering
upon new career Of triumph"
Mr.. c. then referred to the determination
expressed by the gentleman from Kentucky
Mr.. Campbel,i moi 10 cooperate with th
Democratic party an effecting an organize
; ton, and declared that if the House SHOULD
for any member who had inscribed upon hi
: party or personal banner the doctrines con
! tanned in the caths and obligations of the Amer
! lean Order. apart from this consideration, h,
should regret extremely to cast his vote for tn,
gentleman rom Pennsylvania, Mr.. Fuller
because In the act of so doing there would com,
| up before him the ghost of the murdered Wright
= who, by that gent!eman's constituency and BY
7 his aid and cooperation, had been stricken
: down because lie had voted for the Nebraskt
= bill, which his friend from Pennsylvania haC
declared he would have opposed had he been
member of the House at the time of its passage
= Mr.. Cox. The gentleman declares that or
account of the proscriptive cha-sc "a .ne OBJ
7 legations of the American party he will neve
vote for any one connected with it, leave i
! to tue country to determine whether he ha
, prescribed that party himself or whether the,
are the prosecutors. say, that to save M
country will take any good man, | care not t.
E what party he belongs. Applause in the gal
leries
Mr.. Cobb. | cannot save my country by
voting with men who do not recognise the
fundamental principles of the Constitution O
the country, and such l understand to be the
defenders and advocates Of these oaths and OBJ
legations. The salvation of this country is not
to be gained by voting for such men.
Mr.. Campbell of Ohio, said that the gentle
man from Georgia had charged the one hun
dred and six men who had voted for Mr.
Banks, with sectionalism, and with principles
adverse to the Constitution. And why? Be
, cause they stand by the principle of SLAVERY
restriction. He would prove that the gentle
man himself and his party, had endorsed anC
acted on this principle.
, In 1916, there was question before thi
! body, of vast consequence to our country-th,
= annexation of Texas and pending that proposi
ton here, the following proviso was introduced
by the honorable Senator from Illinois, Mr.
:, Douglas, then a member of the House
" POcided, hO,oeUer That in such State O
States as shall be formed out of the territor,
north of the said Missouri Compromise line
Slavery or involuntary servitude, except 70
:; crime, shall be prohibited"
II He wished the country to bear in mind tina
Z this proviso did not seek to place restriction
upon Territories, but it went far beyond any
s thing claimed by the enc hundred and six mem
; bers who were voting for Mr.. Banks. 1t pro
u vided that even when Territory should form
!. State Constitution, and be ready to come int
y the Union as an independent sovereignty, tn
= people thereof should hot then have the RICH
4 to tolerate Slavery.
y He had not risen to make speech, but 70
= the purpose of igstifyiig, by the vote upon tn
i proviso he had quoted, the position occupies
= upon that question by he one hundred and 81.
= members with whom be was acting. And h
:" would call the attention of the House to tn
10 fact, that upon that voc the name of the dis
~ ungulshed gentleman rom Georgia was record
10 ed IN the affirmative. Applause.