The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-05-30
Speech OF the Hon. Henry M. Full
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Speech OF the Hon. Henry M. Full
Ter.
The press elsewhere is loud in its laudations of
the able, eloquent aud patriotic speech recently
delivered in the House of Representatives By the
Hon. Henry NJ. Fuller Of Pennsylvania. Tn that
speech Mr.. Fuller has scattered to the winds the
vile falsehoods with which reckless politicians and
an unprinciplcd press have assailed him, and de.
fined his position as an honest, straight forward
AMI national man. But Mr.. Fuller did not con-
fine himself exclusively to the defensive. Having
beaten down his assailants, he charged boldly up.
on his adversaries, and it is many years since a
single speech produced such futtering in the
ranks of the Democracy, as did this manly effort
of the distinguished Pennsylvania. We intend
to lay this capital sp ,ech before our readers at a
very early day, and meantime we present the fol-
lowing account of it, by "A1aison Rouge" the
| Washington correspondent of the New Orleans
Bee. That writer says: =
Mr.. Fuller proceeded to define his position in
regard to the slavery and other questions, and al
so to define the positions of others Pennsylvania
Democrats-in regard to the same questions; and
in this he damaged Mr.. Buchanan and the Penn.
sylvania democracy terribly. Mr.. BIS friends
and especially Mr. Clancy Jones, writhed under
the exposition Mr.. F. made, as if they had been
upon the rack, as they really were. Members
from all SIDES of the House gathered around him,
and the Douglas democrats and the AMERICANS
exhibited the greatest delight. "That is. rich,''
exclaimed Richardson; "that is killing: I'll he
ID if we don't Gil the country with that speech,
and then see how old Buck will run"
I Mr: Fuller showed the falschood and hypocri-
~ Of the Pennsylvania Democracy, by showing
that at home they went hand in hand with the
most ultra Freeso men and Abolitionsts, while
here they pretended to be with and sustain the
! South File showed that all the obnoxious leoi :
ation in Pennsylvania upon the subject of slavery
! the law declaring the slave free when brought
into the State by his master-the law refusing
the use Of the ja;ls and prisons to the United
States officers to imprson fugitive slaves. were
due to the democrats of that State that these laws
were passed by democrat Legislatures, and sing.
ed by democratic Governors-ex Governor Big.
} Ter, now in the United States Senate, and spe-
cial friend and favorite Of Mr.. Buchanan, coming
in for full share Of responsibility. He showed al
so that when he ran as candidate for Cana
Commissioner, a few years ago, against Mr.
Gamble the Democ, attic candidate, the latter pu
/ himself upon, advocated, and made capital out o
E the Wilmot Proviso, while he himself refused tt
( do it, and in consequence Mr.. Gamble beat hin
in Wilmot's district called, "the Wilmot Provis'
District" more than four to one!
He said that the Administrations foreigl
party, had threatened to produce and read let
ter he had written, in which, they allege he has
endorsed the Wilmot Proviso. He de6ed then
to produce any such letter. He had written
letter, bat no snch an one as they alleged, whic
4 had been stolen from the person to whom it wa
. addressed; and as it was undoubtedly 10 existence
! he again defed its production and paused to Civ
! Mr.. Jones an opportunity to rise and produce i
. But Mr.. Jones remained silent. blushing to tn
b ho
!. the tortures of the demand.
I The americans, especially those who had $
!. long voted lor Mr.. Fuller for speaker, were e,
5 ceedingly delighted and could not refrain frol
e manifesting their pleasure; and the anti-Buchmr
an democrats appeared to enjoy the ssearching OF
. GRAFTON" which was being SO well performed, wit
y no less gusto.
J. In less than half an hour after Mr.. F. close,
= over 10000 copies ofhis speech were subscribe
for, and the probability il that not less than l50
y 600 of them will be circulated. Ill Vicksbur
e Wing,
~ FATAL DUEL.-Our citizens were painful
d startled yesterday by the intelligence that du
RI fought on the previous morning between M
= MICHAEL CUDDY, of the cotton house Of Brow
1t CuDDY & Co.. and the. banking house of Brow
er JOHNSON & Co., and Mr.. RoBERr w. EsrLI
,e the well known successor in the cotton house
ae the late HARRY HUI Lad resulted fatally to N
g CUDDY The AFFAIR took place 1t Pass Christia
! The weapons we're pistols, distance ten pac'
4 At the first Gre Mr.. EsTLIH received q sliq
e wound In the arm. At the second Gre Mr. Co
y DY received the ball of his antagonist which p.
v sed through his body inst above hip, rroluci
Of death immediat ". N. @. Bulesiu add
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