Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-05-14
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House. Saturday. May 10 l556.-Mr. FCL
LEX. # Poems ylyania. then ask I'd and obtained
the consent Of the House tn make personal TX
planatipn. A. reported in the Iaieiiigenc,r h,
regretted that there should be any necessity fo,
him 10 consume public time for any purpose oi
indl' defence. But circumstances had arts
en-, declarations had been made here and else
where, Congressional letters had been written an
widely circulated aud were now producing false
impressions. which Justice TO himself and prop.
er regard for his constituents, as well as those
with whom he here associated. would no,
permit him longer To- pass in silence. He
should have solicited an earlier attention had not
business of an important character. as we'll ns
sickness in his family circle. called him home and
detained him from his scat doring most If the pc
Rod since the organization of the House
After having reviewed aud reiterated his pot
zeal position as dehued during the contest for the
SpeakerShip, he proceeded To Notice the charge
made against him hv portions of the public press
aud by letters winch Congress, onal gentlemen had
addressed Ia Their constituents, thtt the 18th
OF August. l849 he addrcssrdu letter to one b.
T. Saxton, soliciting perso Ial nomination, aud
dec airing himself t" he '.Wilmo, Proviso man
up to the huh," and utterly opposed to the extern
sion of slavery. lie would here pronounce that
letter forgery. He did not knew, he had never
known any man by the name Of B. + Saxton. -
He did know a Mr.. Frederick Saxton formerly a
resident in his district, and had addressed pri-
vate letter to him in reply to one received from
Mr.. S, but of very different character from
that which had been published. SO far from So
Letting Free soil nominations the object of his
letter was TO induce Mr.. Saxton to exert his in
fuence to defeat any nomination whatever; and
nowhere in that letter appeared the language
cribed 10 him of being "a Wilmot Proviso man
up to the hub
He had in his possession and should publish
n communication from Mr. Saxon declaring TIL"
letter to which he referred to be forgery aud
that the original letter had been stolen from him
fraudulenly altered and then published. He had
also the letter of II gentleman who saw his letter
nefore il was mailed and of gentleman who saw
il after it WAS received by Mr.. Saxton, each of
which pronounced the published copy Il forgery.
Further and better than that he had copy Of
the letter which il was his intention to publish in
connection with his remarks OF c"urSr he EXON
Grated gentlemen who had made of the for-
ged letter without Il knowledge of its true char.
actpr.
He had understood Yesterday than the letter
which be had denounced was now here in his
own handwriting and over his own signature
ready fer production aud only waiting his demand
He would ehsllrnge its production and here de-
it ast forgery.
He then f~rrrd Ia the charge that on the 90 h
December 1919, in speech delivered in the CT
~ of Allegheny, he mad declared il to be the dn-
ty of MOI thern men Ia iusist upon the earliest
practicable abolition of slavery. He denied the
ute. ance OF any such sentiment, rcmarking TINT
far from advising Northern interference for
the purpose of securing abolition, he had always
counselled the cultivation of kindly relations and
friendly feelings toward, all sections of the Con
federacy.
Mr.. +. then referee to the history of the yar
Gus prominent men,b ers of the Democratic par
tv of Pennsylvania, including the Hon james
Buch lnan, for the purpose of showing that they
had entertained extreme anti slavery opinions;
and the exhibition which he thus made OF the in
consistency between the opinions on that sub
irct ROW held by the gentlemen named aud those
entertained by them in former times was the
cause If much mprrime Mt in the House,