Delaware State reporter., 1856-02-15
Cnllen,s Lass Great sneech.


! 1t wilirrbe remembered that about three
weeks ago. Mr.. Cullen made his second speech
in Congress; and that he withhcldit from pub
LEGATION until he should have revised it and 9th
erwise made it mastery specimen of oratory
and eIoquencc, to astound the nation and his
Know Nothing constituents in particular, with
the idea that at last there was a great man IN
the council halls Of the nation, and that that
great man was E6rsitA D. CULLEN, Esquire
himself and nobody else.
Three weeks have the citizens of Delaware
been suspended on the tip.toc ofexpcctation.-
Three weeks have his constituents been breath
Iessly awaiting the PRONUNCIATION Of that great
speech, which our ncighbor, the Sentinel, said
was to utterly +" confound his enemies" At
last, like the rushing of the mighty winds, it
pectation down so suddenly! What fall was
there
1t has come, tame, feeble, flothy thing,
compared with his maiden effort which had
some spice and fire in it. There was some
apology for the first, owing to the peculiar con-
But this thing purports to be CULLEN as chin
SELF" having had the benefit of a careful revi-
sion.
What unparalleled ignorance is displayed
where he confesses that when he went to Con-
gress he .knew nothing of the peculiar party
divisions oflhc House. lie knew not how the
members stood" Such paIpable ignorance is
objectionable in any one in his position; the
voluntary public confession of it is the height
of folly -chdishness.
We can imagine his political position when
he reached Washington. His ideas were SO
deeply engrosscd in all abstract rcvcry on his
unaccountable elevation to the honor Of rep
resentative, that he took no note Of the move
ments of the world about him. He was in a
similar position in this town about year ago.
He started to visit an esteemed citizen, whose
residence is halfmilc from Dover. lie
walked lcisurely up the lawn until he had got
within about thirty yards Of the front entrance
when, raising his head from an abstractcd revc
ry he spied the is o iron dogs which flank thc
entrance to the main porch, and stopped ant
looked aIOnS tlne ~ the suspicious poSltIoH
the grcyhounds; at last he turned and quick
cned his steps back to town, ever and amor
CHANGING back TO see if the dogs were following
him. Thisisfact. WE
CuLLEN's second speech, unworthy the spac,
: it occupies, will be found in another column
We can make no serious comments on it, TO
verify has it utterly "confounded his enemies.
: CULLEN, with all his professions for the eleva
: ton Of national man to the post Of Speaker
failed in the first vote to throw his mite for it
: accomplishment. He was one Of the unworth,
sir, who, by voting for FULLER on the last bal
lot, prevented the election of national man
e and contributed as much to the election of BANK
: the Black Republican,, as if they had voted 70
! him. We do not pretend TO say that his on
/, vote would have absolutely prevented the cleo
ton of BANKS, but we do say he contributed
it by failing to do what he could to prevent it
by failing to vote, with the mass of his poltica
colleagues, for AIKEN We hold him response
7 bic for not doing what he could to prevent tn
1 election Of a Black Republican Speakcr-an
j his vote must be taken as having contributed
that result.