Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-01-10
MIR. BOYcE,s SPEECH.

In our last weeks issue we commented upon the
ilibera and contracted policy which, it seemed to US,
marked the conduct of the Democratic caucus in
We have since met with report Of the views of our
member, Mr.. BoYcE, to which we take pleasure in
giving publication. Mr.. BoYcE's course is worthy
of all commendation If every member of the Demo-
critic party had been actuated by like spirit of con-
cession and compromise the strife for the speaker
ship would long since have terminated well, and at
the same time the democracy would not have been
called upon to submit to anything inconsistent with
their own integrity. tits, it is beyond the power
of human ken to estimate the evil which may be the
result In the debate, on Friday the 28th on reso-
luton to unite the conservative elements of the House
upon the doctrines asserted in the Kansas-Nebraska
Bill, we find the following -
Mr.. Boyce of South Carolina approved of the res
oution, though he thought that it might have been
more judiciously wordcd They had been for weeks
engaged in vain struggles to elect Speaker and ut
the present time, so far they could judge from cir
cumatances, were no nearer result than they were
at the beginning. 1t seemed to him, then, that the
time had come when they should begin to take their
latitude and longitude, and see where the land laid
and see if there was any probability OF organizing
the House upon conservative basis.
In the remarks which he was about to submit he
did not wish to be understood as compromising the
Democratic party, because he did not consider that
he belonged to it. He acted with it when he appro-
we'd its course and when he did not he acted with
himself. lie belonged to the Calhoun wing of the
Democratic Party, and did not consider himself as
bound by the action of its caucus, or in any way
subject to its rules He would further add that in
recommending the course he should he was not ac-
tuated by any indifference to Mr.. Richardson. If
he had had his choice of the members of the House.
that gentleman would have been his first choice for
the honorable position of Speaker
Having made these preliminary remarks, he would
take up the question Of organization, and inquire
what was it that prevented an election? There
were three parties here neither one Of which had
majority of the whole number of votes. Mr. BANKS,
according to his understanding, represented the ex-
treme antslaycry feeling Of the North ana ne IN
ferred that the party which sustained INN aia so oe-
cause he occupied that position. Mr; hcharqson
stood upon the Kansas and Nebraska Dili' anu MI.
Fuller had declared that lie would stand by existing
legislation and that he was against the further ag-
aton of the slavery question Pracncally, so far
as the organization of the House was concerned
the two last named candidates occupied the same
position and between their position and that occu-
piel by Mr. Banks there was all impossible gulf
if those who voted for Mr.. Fuller were unwilling to
sustain Mr.. Banks, which he believed to be the case
and if it was assumed that those gentlemen who
threw scattering votes-could organize if the would
cast their votes for the same caudidate and if they