The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-04-25
SPEECH OF THE HON. LEWIS d. CAMPBELL TC
HIS CONSTITUENTS.

This speech has been reported for the Cincinnati Daily
Commercial" and transfer two extracts from il
columns and ask for them the careful consideration
of the southern knorc-Rotings" whose position the
speakershp is therein defined We ask whether it is
that The SOUTH AMERICANS toould haze Uoted for him
II he woud hare agreed dgats in aVor Of The repeal
Of the Missouri comproissj but he cOudnt consent 10
THE PROPOSED ARRANGEMENT" We ask whether
il is possible that the South americans did agree under
any circumstances to cast their votes for Campbell
Speaker Who of them Esrc parties to the proposed
srrangrntnt" which serny repudated and so de-
eidedly rejected by Mr. Campbel2
When this arrangement proposed to Mr. Camp
bell and who acted the organ of the south Americans
on the occasion? Where this arrangement" pro-
friend, of Campbell were PRESENT. If the arrangement
were proposed in writing, by all means let the country
have the whole correspondence that all the facts may be
understood and the relations subsng between the
North and South Americans may be known Ia this the
which be could not assent without dhonor
When Nv Campbell withdrew as a candidate for Speaker
he promised to make some Developments to show why lie
could rot be elected This speech imagine has been
made In redemption Of this pledge and such is de-
serving Of the attention of the people.
We earnestly ask the attention Of political friends to
the following of the speech and the developments
that will be to follow its publication;
pTo the point about the RuEe-paper assaults upon him
Serespsct and the truth Of history demanded from him
statement OF facts II we'll known that Ia the New
York Tribune time In June last Horace Greeley had
assaulted him, This not the first time that Horace
bad done such thing 10 hun. Years ago he (Mr O. had
when Washington received despatch from his brother
a doctor, since deceased stating that his Hon Mr.. Cs
faherinaw sick and at the point Of death, and de-
laANW hu ~
paired of with southerner, (Mr O. remarked
the talented member from Virginia. and rolled over
the mountains day and night for home where be arrived
at two O'Clock night few hours after the spirit Of bis
fatherin law bad taken its everlasting eight He of
course detained In FIXING up business matters and
king slight provision for the comfort Of his wife and
helpless children, and when be returned he found that
Greeley had published him In black list he had gotten up
Of those who had lodged the vote on some important
measure Mr. O. then addressed Mr. Greeley note, sta
ng The facs-that he had paired of with the most tai
ented member from Virginia had been on a trip occa-
stoned by The death in his family Of a identified
with the history Of the Northwest &c &c Mr. Camp
bell then, he proceeded TO say little afraid Of
paper thought IL bad thing 10 he misrepresented
Lattery he bad got used 10 IT, and found that didn't
burt bad he thought 1t did. Now be had seen
tie elephant often and felt him N over and he 1.-THE ee
phsnt cot 90 dangerous he looked at frat sight
Greeley printed hs ser By said edtoray that Mr. Camp
bell had not paired on his per diem end II would he well
for his constituents TO remember that And Eai1 Mr. c.
m~aner dastardly little contemplate RiDg was
made And in June last Greeley had advertised
III. j.
segon Of Congress when anti-Nebraska Speaker OF
the House would have TO be elected. Mr. Campbell had
already been aProaehs by many Of bis friends relative TO
being candidate for the speak erhip and had been
70 90 toe subjec frequently IL stated that be had
grasped after the speakefshp that was false lie had all
the time said 10 bis fiepds wait and look aroupdtheres
hurry and be bad refused sliop them TO use
bis in connection with tho Office The cause or Mr.
Greeleys attack his (Mr. C.s Identification with the
American party. The Tribune, New York Post National
Era and other papss VI That stripe had proclaimed that
'Amecsn' should have sag position Of honor profit
power in the aniiNsbraska organizations anil e had
reIsd.sja1 bis Amercanisml He was assaulted "a an
American The editor Of the Tribune loudest and
longest in the cry and gnen tue sqn commented there
be 1.-THE EDITOR was in person tbfshing arono proclaim
ing that snow-hothne poEld have place uness he
could give up his know-nohingsrn,
"The long aud memorable contest which terminated In
the election of Banks Speaker occssoned by this
same class Of msn-.hose who we're determined that
knownothinE in good standing should be Speaker When
Campbell arrived ~ Washington, be went quietly 10 his
room at the hotel and approached one about the speak
ershp but allowed bis friends the use Of sD pane and a.
for himself took the ground that be willing 70 support
any good anti Nebraska lie received hfy- hree
votes, Of which had been procured, APP
preached, directly indirectly, by him, any acting
for him by authority. The speakership All Ia all
There MONEY ia il bat S. per day eTra, md that
and far more absorbed by expenses incident
to the Inequalities expected Of the officer Mr. H. told
that, II be would abandon his American principles he
could be elected but be said no-hat his principles
not 10 be baFterRd away. Then why didn't the South
Americans go for hm9 II might be inquired, Why, the
thousand runners about Washington Went TO them at once