Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-01-23
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RALEIGH, SATURDAY. JAN. 10, 1886.
DEBATE IN THE HOUSE.

DEBATE IN THE HOUSE.
On Friday last, in the House of Representatives
Mr. Zolcotfer, of Tenn, K. n. Whig, offered Res
ouon to the effect that it is the duty of all cand
dates for office to state their opinions ques
tons &c. The Resolution adopted, yeas 155,
nays 38-all the members from North-Carona vot-
ing for it.
On Saturday, Messrs Richardson, Fuller, and
Banks defined their positions, in reply to questions
propounded by Mr.. Bingham, of Ohio.
Mr.. Richardson said he voted for the kansas-Ne-
braska bill because he considered it right lie was
in favor of the people of those Territories deciding
the question of slavery for themselves and he should
vote for their admission as States without looking to
whether they had slavery or not In supporting
the " compromise" Of 1850 he had given his sane
ton to the very principle of non-intervention embo-
died in the Kansas Nebraska act. He had voted, in
1913, with few Northern and the entire body of
the Southern representatives, to extend the Mis-.
souri, line to the Pacific failing in that measure he
had afterwards voted that Congress should not in
terf re with questions of slavery. He had never
voted for the Wilmot provso-he had uniformly
voted against because he considered it unjust to the
people Of portion Of the Union. He maintained
that the citizens of the slaveholding States
much entitled as those of Illinois, his own State, to
the protection of their property in the common Ter
ritories he recognized slaves property, and con-
sidered the fugitive-save law applying in full
force the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas Mr.
Richardson said, further that he opposed to the
Know Nothing party, and to all secret political Or
ganizations.
He was opposed to the abolition Of or interfer-
ence with, slavery in the District of Columbia; and
he also opposed to Congress interfering with it
in the dock yards, any place else. He believed
that the Almighty had made the negro inferior to
the white man, and he thought that they could not
be placed on equality unless the white man
dragged down to level with the other.
Mr.. Fuller answered, that he did not consider the
Kansas Nebraska act promotive of the formation
of either free slave States that he never had, and
did advocate the constitutionaiity of the Will
mot proviso that the States, in forming the Union
claimed the right and obtained it, to reclaim escaped
slaves that Congress had right to legislate upon
the subject of slavery in the States or Territories
that citizens of all the States may enter the common
Territories, and that the Territorial legislature had
no right to egiSlate upon slavery, except so far as
to protect the citizens in the enjoyment of their pro-
perty He said further, that he opposed to
restoring the Missouri restriction; that he was
opposed to aboshing slavery in the District of Co.
lumba or in the dock yards, &C.; that he did not
believe in the equality of the white and black races
He said he was not in favor of prescribing men on
of their religion their birth place but he
held that it best to appoint natives to office, and
that " Americans should rule America"
Mr.. Banks answered that he believed the Wmot
proviso to be constitutonal that he would vote to
ho md to cI. IN
the Territories that hewas not disposed to disturb
slavery in the States, but thought the Constitution
did not protect slavery in the Territories; that he
was elected TO the House by combination of Dem
ocrats and Americans f-the latter being largely
in the majority 1
We believe we have given the substance of what
was said on the occasion by the three gentlemen
named. The House afterwards voted for Speak.
er, as follows Banks "a, Richardson SO, Fuller "a,
scattering 10. s...
The Washington Union says:
:sThe only candidate for Speaker who answered
all the questions propounoed to him by his adverse
ries the double opposition, the democratic can
didate. The report of the proceedings will show
that, whilst both Mr.. Fuller and Mr.. Banks failed
entirely to answer any of the questions of Mr.. Bing
ham, ,(republican) Col. Richardson met them prompt
IL and fully. The questions propounded by his owr
friends, Mr.. Boyce Of South Carolina and Mr. Barks
dale of Mississippi, received a similar prompt res
ponse. Both Mr.. Banks and Mr.. Fuller failed tc
meet the question of the prescription of loregnborr
citizens and Catholics, which we attribute to the
instinct common to the order of which they art
members, of Withholding their position upon this
grave question. And to the same cause may he at
tributed the failure of both to admit or deny tle
membership of the secret order, though particular
ly interrogated in relation thereto"
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tw- The letter of our Washington Correspondent