The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-01-31
politilal.
From The Daily Globe
SPEECH OF
HON. IL. WINTER sstvlS,
OF MARYLAND.
In THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,,
January 6, 1857.
From The Daily Globe.

CoHcLUDEp.
But, they say, if there be differences, vet
we agree in this-not to agitate the question
IN Congress-forsooth where their divisions
are lnconveniently visible, and bring scandal
at the South, but to refer it to the Territories,
where the two wings can privately fight 1t
out! How will the two divisions OF the mi
nority silence the ajorty Or is the Presi-
dent S message an illustration Of their silence
or do they expect the North to keep silence
before it or are they ignorant that they
would die Of silence il a year
These were not the purposes Of the Kansas
act, Mr.. Speaker, in my opinion. | think il
was an clcctlonecring mannuvrc. That has
been, at least, It's effect, and its only elect
To the South it has Secured neither Terri
tory, nor Il State. nor constitutional princi-
pie, nor peace. Its authors tear each other
about its meaning, and pursue diametrcally
opposite purposes under its cover. They
have accomplished nothing but to reopen
dangerous agitation-to bring themselves into
hopeless minority, crippled by internal divi.
sions.
There is another lesson taught by this cleo.
ton. The Democratic party has ceased to
he homogeneous body. 1t is bound together
by no unity Of principle. 1t is a colnglotner-
ate OF ncongruous materals-W Wings. and
State-lights men, and SuccSsionsts, and Dem
ocrats, and Anti-Nebraska Democrats, and
Free. Kansas Democrats and Free-SoilcrS, and
| Union mcn-not Il Mosaic, for that is 4 work
Of art-but huddlcd together by the confusion
of the conflict. The Irish brigade stood iim
and sa",d them from annihilution; and the
foreign recruits in Pennsylvania turned the
fate Of the day. They have elected, by these
Foreigners, by a minority of the American
people, President to represent their diyi-
| SONS!
The first cvee Of President Buchanan will
be a curious scene. He is quiet. simple,
fail spoken gentleman, vcrsed in the by-paths
and inillcct crooked ways whereby he met
this crown, and he will soon know how I'M
easy it sits upon his head. Some future
Walpole may detail the curious greetings,
The unexpected meetings, the cross purposes.
and shocked preudices of the gentlemen who
cross that threshold. Some honest Democrat
of the South will thank God Tor the Uulou
preserved. A gentleman of the disurionlsl
school Will congratulate the President on the
defeat Of Mr.. Fillmore, whose quiet Admins
IIation might have postponed Tie inevitable
day. The slavery prolnyandist WI: yaunt
his triumph over the unwirldy North, and
boast of conquered Kansas: while the north.
EN- gentlemen will whisper buchanan
breckenridge and free Kansas in the prcs.
dental car, and beg without scandal the con
lirmaion Of their hopes, Some Wing will
remind him Of the California letter, and cx-
| act the Pacific railroad at his hands; while
| the stIlct-constructlUn Democrat will cXccratc
| the usurpallon, and cast sinister innuendoes
! against the mail which would not reveal its
contents this side the Pacific. PENNSYLVANIA
VIII he touching in the cause Of iron, and
| plead the merits of the October election:
While Democrats from the South and West
| plot tic treason Of Tree railroad iron, and
carefully adjust the loss and gain in votes
| The ostcnd manifesto will be respectfully
| spoken OF, and northern and southern Dem
ocrat III corner will nicely balance free trade
| against Slave State, and suggest that an
lnp,udcnt steamer may favor the application
| of the principles Of The manifesto, the presi-
dent the while repeating to Some enthusiastic
Free Soilcr his resolution of 1919, to "pre-
vent the existence of slavery in any of the
| Territories or States which may be erected bu
| Congress
But how to divide the spells among this
motley crew -ah there's the rub. There
are gentlemen who lave united from every
creed and every party, and who make up this
conslonerate Of the present Democratic party,
having changed no principles, still holding
jcalously the position Of allies, not being en-
bodied into the party but maintaining THEN
own individuality. Sir, | envy not the nice
and delicate scales which must distribute the
patronage amid the jarring elements of that
conelomcrate-~a fierce against each other as
clubs III cards are against SPADES which
must decide whether the gentlemen of the
wing party who only acted as allies should
be received and accepted as candidates for
high office; whether gentlemen of the Free
Soll school should sit down with gentlemen
of the Cincinnati school: whether the past
shall be rdSa tobula, or the criterion of accep-
lance or exclusion. There will be required
nice discrimination and a careful adjustment
by some skillfu accountant in party politics.
III that curious chancery for the distribution
OF the spoils, to determine the shares ofnortti-
eIn Democrats who were faithful but failed
and northern Free.Socrs who were hcrctics
but useful; of the Wing convert and the Wing
ally: of Wing gentlemen of name-leaders
who left their followers in their transitions; of
Wing leaders in States where they were zeal
GUS but not needed, and in States where they
| were jealous and needed, but powerless. -
And long ere this can be adjusted the clamors
of the foreign legion will add to the interest
OF the scene-the vision of King Georges
judgment over again
There crashed sturdy oath Of stout John Bull
Who damned away his eyes us heretofore
Here Paddy hrogucd by Jasus. What's your wuln
The temporal. Scot exclaimed.
And mid the war the voice of Jonathan was heard
to express,
Our Presidents going to war guess"
They may not be disrcgarded, for but for
them Pennsylvania was lost, and with it the
day. Yet what will satisfy those ndispensa.
bic allies, now conscious of their power
That. sir, is the exact condition OF things
which will he found in the ante-chamber-
exorbilant demands, limited means, ilreco,l-
cilablo divisions, strife, disunion. dissolution
whenever the President shall have taken
the solemn oath of Office and darkcncd the
doors Of the White House.
And there are lessons taught to the Repaid
lean gentlemen of this House, as well as to
the Democrats. They have been taught that
great as was the wong; laundering as was
the policy Of the Kansas and Nebraska act:
earnest as are the northern people against
the extension of slavery; resolved as they are
that no more slave territory shall be added
to this country, they have likewise shown