The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-02-08
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Speakership.

ournals have commented very severely on Mr.. /
Lakes adherence to Mr.. Fuller Cor the Speaker.
ship in preference to the Democratic candi-
date, and charged the fault of the House not
organizing to the Americans In Congress. With
how much justice that charge il made, the de-
bates on the 18th .ult. fully showed. The DIFF
ferent candidates were called upon toastate !
their views and positions on the great political
questions Of the day. 1t is we'll known, We :
presume, to our readers, that Mr. Richardson, .
30 long adhered to by the Administration party,
took the position in 1850 that the Wilmot Pro-
viso was constitutional measure. On the 18th
instant, while reiterating his opinions, Mr.
Richardson again alluded to this subject. and
distinctly admitted the power of Congress to
prohibit slavery in the Territories. He also add
vocated the position that the Constitution Of
the United States did not carry the institutions
Of any Of the States into the Territories; and
that for the protection of his property slave, or
any other kind, the citizen of either the North
or the South, was solely dependent upon the
legislation OF the Territorial government! Such
this Administration candidate avows, and in
despite of which Southern Democrats, claiming
TO be intensely Southern have supported him.
1t is true that after these declarations, two or
three of the South Carolina members, and Gen
Quitmsn, from this State, ceased voting for
him for ballot or two. The latter, however,
and we believe the former, subsequently return
ed to his support
those made by Mr.. Fuller, the American can
didate. OF the latter the Richmond Wing thus
speaks:
"Mr. Fuller, the other candidate, like gen.
tleman as he is, believes there is a very broad
distinction between a white mar and negro.
His general sentiments are quite enough indi-
Gated by that declaration. We might have
known by that, without his uttering ano'hr
word, that he was sound. conservative, and ma
tional But he did not choose to stop at that
point. He went further, and declared that the
Constitution Of the United States recognizes
slavery, wherever its jurisdiction extends, wheth-
err in States or Territories. Slaves were held
as property, he says, in every Sta e, except one.
when the Constitution was adopted: it recog.
nized that property then-recognizes it now
; and protects It with its broad egis thro ighout
the confines Of the Republic No man, not Mr..
Calhoun himself, ever stated the case more CO.
gently, justly, succnctly and distinctly. But
the moral beauty of his whole exposition corr
! sisfs in the manly tone that pervades Il: It is
| saturated with a noble indifference 10 mere Of
ffce. There is not word, or an allusion to of
fee; but you are made to feel that he would not
turn his hack upon truth for all the offices in the
al. L.
you, you would be willing to take Bible oath,
that the man is true and trusty, that he is sim
ply urtering the honest convictions of clear
, head and honest heart.
"We have no personal acquaintance with Mr.
, Fuller-do not recollect that his past course
has ever attracted our notice; but we read amiss
his horoscope. if he is not destined to be a man
: OF mark, when the honest, conservative and
/ patriotic people of this country shall once more
have resumed their supremacy"
Aud yet Mr.. Fuller, by reason of his Amsri-
canism is not good enough for Southern An
ties, while the advocate of 'Sluatter Sovereign
ty,' and the believer in the consttutionality OF
the Wilinot Proviso, can be voted for them with
impunity. The subject is one suggestive o.
thought, but we pass il to-day, deeming it for
the present, sufficient to place Mr.. Fullers views
upon the record.
. Mr. FILLER, of PENNSYLVANIA, remarked that
!, he cordially approved the resolution adopte d
, yesterday on motion ofthe gentleman from Ten
nessse. Epry in the session he had left it his
duty, in Justice to himself and to those with
whom he had been acting, to declare the opin.
ions he entertained and the course he should
pursue upon certain questions of public policy
r But he desired to say now, what he believed was
known to a majority, il not all Of those who had
honored him with their confidence, that he had
= been ready at any and all times to withdraw
from this protracted contest. He had felt un.
#. willing to stand, or to appear to stand, in the
= way Of any fair organization of the body.
In answer to he specific interrogatories that
had been presented, he would say, as to the frs
that he did not regard the Kansas Nebraska bill:
us promotive Of the information of free States;
and he would further say that he did not believe
: it was promotive of the Information Of Slave
States
In reply to the second inquiry, he would STATE
that he had never, and did not show, advocate thu
! constitutionality of the Wmot Proviso. HI
had never committed himself to the position 'tha
if territorial bills silent upon the subject of slavery
q land leaving the Mexican laws to operate) wer'
defeated, he would vote bills with the Wilmo
i Proviso in them" This question related to thu
C legislation Of the distinguished gentleman from II
d nois. What he Mr.. F. had to say upon tina
subject was. that he was not member of tina
, Congress. and haJnever taken any position upoI
7 that subject heretofore; but he was willing, in al
It frankness and candor to do so now, and would d.
5 50 with great Difference to the opinions of wise
!, ami better men. Slavery existed before the Con
stitution, and in his judgment now existed indie
pendent Of that instrument. When the people o
the confedcrated States met, by their representa-