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NJ WASHINGTON, May a. 1856.
The speech of Hon. Il, NJ. Fuller, in the House, on
last Saturday, has created immense sensation. 1t
was not only a complete and triumphant yindication
Of himself but it contains expose Of the Freesoism
of the Pennsylvania Democracy, Gncluding old
Buck himself } which has thrown Southern Locofo-
coism into extraordinary commissions. Yesterday,
Mr.. Clancy Jones, Of Pennsylvania - one of the
greatest demagogues in the -attemptsd reply.
But Clancy made a miserable failure. 1t was udi-
crous to observe Glancy's affected dignity, and
mockheroc air, he vainly endeavored to convince
his Southern associates that the Pennsylvania De-
mocracy were all right on the question Of slavery
Fuller, in a reply Of q few minutes, positively dis
membered him; and Clancy retired from the discus
sion with look very much like that Of schoolboy
who has just received a vigorous thresing from his
master. NED 53f@ X
4 Already one hundred thousand copies of Fuller's
speech have been ordered, in pamphlet formand the
most curious part Of it is that several thousand Of
them have been ordered BY Democrats. And the use
they intend to put them to is for the purpose Of in
juring old Buck by showing the dubiety Of his
record. They were ordered by Democrats in the in
terest Of Pierce, Douglas and Hunter-thei object
being to Kill off old Buck, 50 to make room for
themselves. We live in great country.
The Senate has been entertained for two days past
with an extended speech from Gen. Cass on Kansas
affairs, squatter sovereignty slavery, freedom, the
Constitution, the Union, the star-spangled banner
and hail Columbia. The old general, among
other things, warmly defended his favorte principle
of squatter sovereignty in the Territories thing
which is universally regarded by the Democracy OF
the South, and indeed by all parties at the South
as a dangerous and indefensible heresy. In other
respects, so far as sectional questions are con-
cerned, his speech was unexceptionabe. In the
affairs of Kansas the South was right and the North
was wrong As to slavery, he was opposed to it in
the abstractbut if the South choose to have it, let
them have it. For his own part, he thought the con-
dition of the slaves in the South general thing,
wasgan enyiabe one. He had seen more misery and
destitution in the proudest capital of Europe Cthe
General never makes speech without abiding to his
European residence) than he ever saw among the
slaves of the South and if the North would let the
Southern institutions alone, he would guarantee that
the South would let the North alone. twas time for
sectional agitation to stop and he held that man an
enemy Of the Republic who fomented and nursed it.
Sumner Of Massachusetts, has the floor for next
Monday and after that the debate will continue until
the question is disposed of. There will be no diff
Guilty in the passage of Douglas bill through the
Senate and the probabilities are that it will pass the
House also. wa
The steamer Merrimac has been ordered to sea,
with sealed dispatches 1t was conjectured when she
started that she was bound to Central America but
letter written from on board of her, to a Norfolk
paper after she got to Hampton Roads, says she is
destined to England and France
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