American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1856-03-01
SPEECH OF
HON. is. CARLILE,
On the Causes soAich prevent an organ
azation Of tho House Of Repre's.
l5 Delivered January II, 1856.
CONCLUDED.

But there is another principle of
this Nebraska bill--as expounded by
! the administration-and that is, that o.
South Carolina STAKEHOLDER shall be
selected for Governor of the Territory
of Nebraska territory in which no
one ever dreamed that slavery could
exist; while on the other hand Penn
sylvania Free-soiler is placed as Gov
ernor over the Territory of Kansas
the only Territory where we had any
hope that slavery would be likely to
go. That is another principle of the
Nebraska-Kansas bill.
Mr.. Edmundson. I desire to say to
my colleague, that the gentleman from
Pennsylvania, who was appointed Gov
ernor of Kansas, avowed himself in
favor of slavery, and that he was going
to take a slave with him.
Mr., Carlile. Well, if the President
was deceived by any false impression
made upon his mind by his friends, and
appointed Mr.. Reeder, 1 will take back
all | have said upon that subject, and
say that it is not one of the principles
of the Nebraska bill. But / appre-
hend, wheEathe President had it in his
power, by the removal from Office of his
first appointee, to place man there
who would, at least, maintain the con-
stitutional rights in that Territory of
all the members Of the Confederacy,
he ought to have exercised it. But
>how did he exercise it? BY selecting
for the Office of Governor another gem
tleman not from q Slave State--ex-
Governor Shannon, of Ohio-who, as
Mr.. Stringfellow says in late paper,
"has betrayed them, tool"
Mr.. Clerk, it will not do for the De-
mocratic party, or for any other party
which expects permanent success, 10
turn its back upon principles clear and
well-defined, and plant itself upon mea-
surcs which are construed one way by
one gentleman, and in different way
by other gentlemen. / was gratified
the other day, in a debate which took
place upon this floor, to find that the
gentleman from Pennsylvania on my
left Mr.. JonesJ maintained the true
constitutional doctrine upon the subject
OF slavery; while, at the same time, I
regretted to hear the gentleman from
North Carolina Mr. Clingman1 and
another gentleman from the South Mr..
Jones, of Tennessee say that the Nc
braska bill asserted the doctrine of
popular sovereignty in the Territories.
Whenever, Mr.. Clerk, the people of
the South, or any portion of this Union
begin to compromise away their rights,
they will soon have no rights left to
compromise about. Now I desire to
say, in answer to a question propound-
ed to me by my colleague, Mr.. Faulk-
ner and other gentlcmcn, had been
a member of the last Congress, should
have. done precisely what | wrote to
the worthy gentleman who then repre-
sentod my district should do, and that
was this--that we're / member of
Congress, acting as | have always done,
according to the dictates of my own
Judgment, / should vote against the
bill for two reasons, il not for more
Tho first reason, that it would reopen
the fearful agitation Of the subject of
slavery, without bringing to the South
any practical good, aud would violate
the plightcd faith of the two great par
ties, pledged by them in their national
conventions; and, secondly, that it as
serts the doctrine OF squatter sove-
reignty, which Virginia has ever OPP
posed.
But, sir, I am free to admit, like the
honorable and distinguished, and Twill
add, patriotic gentleman from Pennsyl-
vaaia, Mr.. Fuller1 for whom / have
50 long voted, / would, under no cir
cumstances, vote for the repeal Of the
Kansas Nebraska bill, OF the restora-
ton Of the Missouri compromise, be-
cause one of the reasons which ] urged
against it was the agitation to which it
would give birth and were / now to
vote for its repeal | should be guilty Of
aiding to produce this very agitation
again. Why were not The Territories