Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-01-08
speech Of Hon. .. d. CampbsIl.

The following eloquent conclusion Of this
gentlemans speech, made Oh the l4th Of De-
cember last, win be read with interest:
A word sir, in conclusion, in reference TO the
present administration. ! did not come here this
session to make war upon It. II is wrong 10 strike
the falleni The administration has fallen
year ago the 4th of last March, we Witnessed in
that broad and beautiful avenue the most magnif-
cent pageant ever displayed in the capital OF the
nation. The President was elected by an over
whelming majority Of the peoples votes over the
greatest captain Of the age One who had served
most CALAMITY many battle.felds! de was
borne triumphantly by the masses, amidst the Joy.
ous shouts OF thousands, from the west end OF
Pennsylyania avenue TO the eastern front of this
Capitol There, apparently In manly style, he de-
livered an inaugural address, which was scarcely
excepted 10 by even those opponents who sought
causes of objection. He soemnly renewed the
pledge which two years before had been signed by
the gentleman from Georgia, Mr. STEPHENS to
wit that slavery agitation In Congress and out of
Congress should CEASE Thence he was ushered
into the White House with the greetings Of the
peoples glad huzxas!
Congress again met, and opened its last session
in harmony. The administration threw this apple
Of dscord among us. II pressed upon US the con-
sideration Of the Nebraska bill, and, through its
organs, sought to influence the representatives Of
the people both through fear of punishment and
hopes of reward.
It vetoed the bill passed by a Congress of its
own friends granting lands 10 the several States to
support those stricken poor whose intellects have
been taken from them by the Almighty. At the
same time, under very peculiar circumstances, It
approved the Minnesota BILL granting near mil
lion of acres of these lands to a New York Wall
street company. A bill, sir, which, after base
forgery had been made upon it, passed the Senate
on the 28th of June. The Presidents signature,
Of immediate approval, was necessary in order to
take from the pioneer people of Minnesota that
immense grant and secure 1t to Wall street brokers.
On the 29th Of June he approved II. So speaks
the record
Thousands of voices broke upon our ears from
the laborers Of the INTERIOR asking appropriations
to improve their rivers andlakes--the which
God had given to bear from the arm of American
industry its products to the place where necessity
demanded them. These appeals were not sectional,
but national. The appropriations were voted by
the Presidents friends in Congress by wise con-
stitutional lawyers by statesmen Of long expert
ence in the Senate-under the solemnities of their
oaths. The administration, whilst asserting the
doctrine Of popular sovereignty" to be its promi-
nent characteristic, responded to the public will
I yeto -
1t cast from high places Of trust and from low
ones-from the foreign court and from the village
pUsL oHlCo---lncH, HoHcci, Cuphuic, aHu iuAtiuus
who dared in defiance Of its dictation to exercise,
independently, the sovereign rights of American
freemen and appointed, in their stead, those who
were neither fitted by birth, by education, nor by
other high qualities Of manhood to fill the stations.
II repealed the Missouri compromise. Yes, sir,
it tore from the record that great act of fathers,
rendered sacred, as it has been, to the people of
the North, and of the South by the great cause of
our national Union in which it originated, and
the long acquiescence of all the States. 1t has
opened, in violation of its solemn VOWS, the "bleed-
ing wounds" which the "healing measures" of
1850 we're designed to cure. 1t has thrown wide
open the sluices of sectional strife, as the late
elections and this discussion fully prove.
Irepeat it, sir in spirit Of personal unkindness
to its members, this administration has fallen
fallen like Luciferl" The unerring pen of history
will record, in small space account of its works
and its achievements II repealed the Missouri
compromise, IL struck at the Kno,c-N othings, NOT
knowing phsrs 10 strike--it captwed Greytown
aud pent dozen:
Like the snowflake on the river
moment white-then gone forever"
Looking at its incoming, its condition, and Its
approaching inevitable outgoing, ] repeat "more
in pity than in anger" the words Of the poet;
&C., How are the mighty fallenl
And by the peoples handi Low lie the proud
And smitten with the weapons Of the poor
THEIR TALE Is TOLD; and for that they were rich,
And robbed the poor and for that they strong,
And scourged the weak and for that they made laws
Which turned the sweat Of labor's brow 10 blood
FoR THESE THEIR SINS TIE NATION CASTS rHKM orr."
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