Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-12-17
House of Representatives.

Is Inc PRESIDENTS annual Message was read.
4 Mr.. Campbell moved that it be referred to tn,
Committee on the Whole on the State of the
Union. He regarded the document as one o.
the most extraordinary ever emanating from an
Executive. 1t was, in his opinion, budget Of
Inconsistencies containing serious charges against
a large portion of the people of the North, which
have no foundation whatever in fact, which he
could prove. Nearly four years ago the Presi-
dent was inaugurated into the office and announ.
ced to the people of the country the repoSe
which the Union then enjoyed relative to Sla-
very on the measures 1850, saying that it sho'd
receive no shock during his official term. Yet
the first session of Congress had scarcely begun
before the President, through his friends in this
Hall, sought, by all the means at his command,
to repeal the time honored Compromise of 1920.
The pretense was that it was necessary to enable
the people of Kansas and Nebraska to enjoy the
| principles OF the Compromise measures OF 1850.
| That repeal was carried, and the repose, which
so long blessed the country, disturbed, and an
excitement, unequalled in the history of the past
was forced on it by his first official act and in.
tucnce, and the Union shaken to its very centre
Now he is retiring from Office, he arraigns vast
majority of the people of the Free States as gull
| ty of making war on the constitutional rights of
! the South. The President has been condemned
| by majority Of three hundred thousand free
men. ya .. sss4-a
Mr.. Keitt inquired whether Mr.. Campbell took
| the Fremont and Fillmore vote together to make
up that majority. ~ 81. q -
Mr.. Campbell replied afirmatively u IS. Gs
Mr.. keitt asked whether he regarded the sup
porters Of Mr.. Fillmore at the North as anti.Ne-
braska and in favor of Free Soilism.
Mr.. Campbell thought there was not single
member of this House belonging to the Fillmore
party of the North who did not, when before the
,,1n No. -
bill, and he ventured to say that there was not
one man ont of every hundred who supported
Mr.. Fillmore who did not oppose the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise. They condemned
Squatter Sovereignty as defended by the Buchan-
an party of the North. This party in that sec.
ton assumed thatit was more reliable than eth.
er the Fillmore or Fremont party.
A Voice-that is SO.
Mr.. Campbell-It claimed to be in favor of
Freedom to Kansas, and that those who voted
for Mr.. Dunn's bill had voted to legalize and
perpetuate Slavery in Kansas, avowing at the
same time, by the terms OF the Nebraska bill,
Slavery was excluded from that Territory.
Mr.. McMullen-I desire to PROFOUND three oues-
tons. . {5
Mr.. Campbell-One at time, if you please.
Mr.. McMullen-First: Did not the gentleman's
party in the Free States charge on the Southern
portion OF this Confederacy design to carry
Slavery into Kansas, and if necessary that thew
would do it at the point OF the bayonet? ii
Mr.. Campbell-We not ONLY. made the charge
but you did it. $50 -.
Voice coming from the Republican side
That's fact. Is IS !
Mr. McMuilen-If you take the testimony of
your packed Committee you could prove it. |
would now ask Did not the. Fremont party rep
resent Mr.. Buchanan as Pro Slavery man, who, |
il elected, would favor the establishment OF sla.
very in the Free States?
Mr.. Campbell can speak for myself was t
actively engaged in the canvass. did charge
Mr. Buchanan with being pro-slavery, and that
the platform on which he stood and sacrificed
his individuality was pro-slavery. II looked not
merely to the extension of Slavery to all the
Territories, through the Nebraska bill, but for
the acquisition Of Slave Territory. ~
Mr.. MeMulien-Did not you and your party
represent that Shareholders owning fYe negroes
were entitled to and cast three votes; laugh
ter. 80
Ar. Campbell said, under the eiistrib..;.
of political power, five slaves IN the South 81
equal to three votes in the Free States. ~
he gentleman deny the proposition S
Ar. McMuilen asked whether free naoroa. ~,
lotyose in Mr.. Campbelps district, or some, i
o that effect. :. o"ie.lnu.g
Mr.. Campbell-I believe one negro vo..,
'isen in my District That was cast h, e Nas
sho was not authorized to do SO under as aan
On OF the Court, and he voted for nv onno mem.
Laughter.l - - oppo eDe'''.'
MT. Campbell sent to the Clerks desk p,ys,
men was read, signed BY the person lust refe,.
ea 70, named Anderson, claiming the tight If
urag, because, among Other things, he was
nfee quarters white. the remainder Being made
r. = - a'l,can and Indian blood and further,