The true Democrat., 1856-02-19
The SpeakerShip.

Inc deDate Tn the House on w euneSday says the Boston Statesman possessed more than ordinary interest. Our Washington cor respondent has sketched its main features, and commented on the capital speech of Mir. Ca ruthers, whig of Missouri. He did not pur- pose so much to explain why he had voted for Mr. Richardson, as show why he could not vote for others Mir. Fuller was elected on the anti Nebraska issue, beating in the canvass Mr. Wright, who, in the last Congress, was sound on the Kansas and Nebraska question. Mr. Full Ter was questioned as to whether he would vote for restoration of the Missouri restriction, and Mir. Caruthers thus spoke of, his reply:- "I heard it and marked it well, and upon it rests my eternal opposition to his election as sreaker. He replied that he Was in favor of the restoration of the Missouri restriction; that if he had been in the last Congress, he would have been opposed to the Kansas Ne braska bill; and that he was in favor of restor- ing the Missouri restriction, if it could be done; but. as 1t could not be done, as q practical statesman, he was against all agi- taton. This may suit other gentlemen; 1t does not suit me. 1 want a man who co-operates with me to stand upon some principle upon which 1 can meet him.
 "The principles of the Kansas N ebraska bill are right, or they are wrong. If they are right those of us who sustained that bill acted rightly If they are wrong we acted wrongly. If it was right to repeal the Missouri compromise, then that repeal should stand. If it was wrong, he is coward who declares it wrong and does not declare for restoring it. Loud applause on the foor."
 MT. Cox asked Mr. Caruthers whether there was no whig in the house for whom he would vote? Mr. Caruthers replied as fol- lows:-
 "I tell him there is no whig-none, sir Mr. Humphrey Marshall, who was first voted for by the South Americans,'.a they have been call ed, is no whig. Do you tell me that Kno,o Not1aing is whig. Cloud laughter and much applause on the floor and in the galleries. )- Why, sir Burning to Mir. Cox,) the Philadel- phia convention of last year, in their platform which you have been swearing by ever since you have been member of this Congress, de- clared that both the old parties-the democra- tic and the whig-were so corrupt that such pure gentlemen as they were, could not act with them; and yet you arraign me as whig for | HUI Hd'ltlS NOlCu lOl Ol Kentucky!"
 Further along in the debate, Mr. Caruthers spoke as follows:-
 "The gentleman asks me where the whig party is. 1 might tell him there was one Py- thagoras, who entertained the doctrine of the transmigration of souls, and that when the whig party died, the soul of that party went into the present democratic party. Great Laush hter. l l saw during the last summer a great field of fight opened; and we were calm lockers on. looked over the whole field of fight for whig banner. looked to the gallant glorious old Tennessee. saw no whg banner there In that canvass for Governor there was no whig candidate-no man carrying the whig colors Casting my eyes from Tennessee, looked over to the State from which the gentleman himself hails-to the gallant, noble, revered old Ken lucky. What did I see there? The old ban ner under which had rallied from the days of my childhood, and which had ever been borne aloft by her gallant somewhere was it? It was trailing ingloriousy oyer the grave of the immortal Clay. And when you bring down that banner upon the grave of Clay, could be- leve that the whg party still existed? Sir, I did not believe it. If you could take down that banner, and fold it quietly over the grave of that immortal patriot and statesman-the first statesman of his times, the most elo- quent man of any time, and the greatest party leader of all the world-and he could rest un- der it, could I, in the State of Missouri, believe that the whig party was dead? Sir do you believe it is dead ?''
 Towards the conclusion of this speech Mr. Caruthers said:-
 "I vote for no man who is not content to leave all these questions of slavery on the great doctrine of non-intervention. 1 vote for no man, MT. Clerk, who will not give to the peo- pie of the terrtory-to the people to be affect ed by tito the people who go from your States, where they have rights, into your terri tories, where they lose none of those rights the rights of self-government l vote for no man who will not recognize in the government of the territories the great doctrine on which your whole government rests-the doctrine that the people are capable of self-government and that the people are the best governors of themselves. Holding these doctrines I could not vote fot MT. Fuller"