The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-02-07


Republicans, and the intelligence appears
to give general satisfaction. A salute will
be fred on Monday.
The Speech of MIR. Caruthers of
Missouri.
The speech delivered in the National
House of Representatives on Wednesday
evening, January 9,lS56, by Mr.. CAkuTHHRs,
of Missouri, is before us, and we herewith
present to our readers its material points
His colleague, Mr.. KENNErT, having made
allusion to what appeared to him singular in
Mr.. CARUTHERs, Whig, because he voted
for RICHARDSON, in preference to FULLER,
he rose to say that he could not and would
not vote for FULLER, because he triumphed
over his friend Hon. HENDRIcK B. WR1GHr
in consequence OF his vote OH the KANSAS
Nebraska bill at the last session, and be-
cause, further, he, (Mr. FULLER when they
were casting their votes for the purpose of
making up record, voted for PENNINGTON :
man who at the last session voted to sus-
pend the rules for the purpose of affordng
an opportunity TO Mr. ELIOT, Of Massachil.
setts to introduce a bill to repeal the Fugi.
tive Slave Law, and who at this session had
voted for CAMPBELL and then for BANKS for
Speaker. At this point of his speech, Mr..
Cox, Of Kentucky, interrupted him, and we
give that pnrt of the discussion which trans.
pired between them:
Mr.. Cox, Cnterrupting) Will the gen.
tlemau allow me to ask him question:
Loud cries of "Oh, no."] The gentleman
hsa stated the reasons why he cannot CO.
operate with those who are voting for Mr..
Fuller. I would like him to tell me if
there is no gentleman in the House who has
heretofore agreed with him in sentiment as
a whig, Tor whom he could have voted for
Speaker! and why it was that when my col.
league from the Louisville district MIR H.
MarshaIl,] who is not obnoxious to the
charges he brings against Mr.. Fuller, was
voted for by the American party, he would
not support him or some other gentleman of
the American party!
Mr.. Caruthers. The gentleman asks me
if there is no whig for whom | might have
voted. tell him there is no whig-none
sir. Mr.. Humphrey Marshall, who was
first voted for by the "South Americans" as
they have been called, is no whig. Do you
tell me that know nothing is whig!--
! Loud laughter, and much applause on the
floor and in the galleries Why, sir,
Cunning to Mr.. Cox the Philadelphia con-
, vention of last year, in their platform,
which you have been swearing by ever
since you have been q member of this Con.
gress, declared that both the old parties-the
democratic and the whig--were go corrupt
that such pure gentlemen as they were
could not act with them; and yet you ar.
raign me as whig for not having voted for
Humphrey Marshall, Of Kentucky!
Mr.. Cox. The gentleman says there is
no whg upon this floor for whom he could
vote; that that party is broken up, and that
have said su.
4 Mr.. Caruthers. No sir.
I Mr.. Cox. | understand the gentleman
to say that had sworn that it was broken
up, and that could not CO operate with it.
| will not go into discussion of that sub
ject, but will ask the gentleman where
fhe wbig party is! He processes to be a
whig, and yet is acting with the democratic
party, on the declaration that the democrat
ic party must succeed, or the country will go
to ruin. That ia the meaning Of it; and he
protesting to be whig, seems to be casting
a reflection upon me because | professed
} there was no whig party. se0
!. Mr.. Caruthers. Not at all.
Mr.. Cox. ] should like to know where
the whig party is. want the gentleman to
, come to the point, and tell me where it is.
My friend from Missouri has been whig
all the time, and want him to tell me, as
he can where the whig party is in this
8 House.
e Mr.. Caruthers. Twas very unfortunate
in my remarks, if judge of it in the man.
ner in which the gentlemen from Kentnc,
: ky understood me. He asks me why it wat
that |, elected as whig had voted for Q
!. democratic candidate for Speaker upon the
It first ballotl In that connexion. under
!. stood him to ask me why I had not voted fol
e his distinguished colleague. | replied L
= him that could be under no obligation, as ;,
whig, to vote for his distinguished colleague
e for he endorsed platform which expressly
vi repudiated not only the democratic party
e but the whig party. | could be under nj
n obligations to vote for him, as this Ameri
,- can party was founded upon the ruin o
both the others. The idea of the language
h which, have not before me, is, that the par
:. ty is established upon the corruption 0
j both. Laughter.] am corrected. Mr
'e Clerk, BY come gentleman near me. | an
3 Informed that the language is, that the A
k, merican party was established upon the ruiz
m OF both the other parties, and both were ru
0. ined by their corruptions. Laughter
ic Now to the question Of the gcntlema
70 from Kentucky, Mr.. Cox He asks m
how I, protesting to be whig, could do .
$: and So There he touches me. 1 hay
t. been a whig from my boyhood; and te
ID that gentleman that, whenI FIRST became 9
i'd aspirant for political station in the distri'