The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-02-27

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thcme after lapse ,of i2btS u \
third q 9Sfht4yJ, t6sf fiSSt Cp1gt y Which
aHtati66s ft3psciil2 ID 5AiS it$oafi
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livefed' 1t thS Nv Hsii 81 1857 ~ dssotsd
to sn exk1inatjon 81 TIE prinTiIls .involvsd
Il shs sdaetneht of this csIsbf 1tvd MsasurS,
:nd s9s 81 iisgitinass son'sapsPes' spfineins
8 Anoat s6s di.tinkai,hsd nssss fond d
the Journals Of the Congress o. 1872 20,
are, in TIE Senate, those of llafriSoA Gray
Otis, Rufus King, Jas, Barbour, John Call
lard, Nathaniel Macon, VIM. r. King, r.
N. JoAnson, ana Wm. Ffaknet; saAd n the
Hosss were HeAry Clay, then Speaker ;
Sansel k.tFoot, ahthofo u the lesolutions
offered ten years aft6rward ii she SsnAAe,
which cAas1 fhs world -famous contests be-
tween Ysestsf ard HAyse, Henry =. Storfs,
J. WyAyiof, James Talimadt snd Albert
H. Tracy, o. New York; John Sergeant, Of
Pennsyik kasaa I Louis AicI,eaa, df Delaware;
p. B. Barbour, G. F. Mercer, Thomas New
ton, w. 8. Archef, and John Randolph, Of
Virginia, and VIM. Lowndes, Of South Car
oiina. An Of yhess hsen viii bsr srfecognised
~ having Aofne . ecnspicuouspart in tho
great controversy which made tkat sessiOn
'6msAsfAbls ere N The history q thS e0un-
tvv.9tonS .aaSA m0Fs TgsaSsy err u sfs&Ht
2 The struggle respecting the adnis,ion cf
Missouri to tho Union began ID the Old
brick Hall, in December, 1919, and closed
In the more. stately chsnbsf where Congress
then met, ID March, 1880 fScarceiy had
ths inenbefs drawn for seats N Decenbef,
1891, than the fierce sectional battle Of the
hast two sessions wss fenewnsd. Chaileng-
ing 70 the arena the highest forensic powers
Of that celebrated Congress, and convulsing
the country scarcely less than has the feo-
peuiug Of the controversy in our timc, this
essentially irfeconcilable conflict Of opinion
finally subsidsd into Mr.. Clay's superficial
Oompromise; and the nation sank exhausted
into apparent rcpose, Though the s1res
went down, the embefs still smoldered and
lived 10 break out thirty. -four years after-
wsrd with more intense heat than before.
TAE UNouRScnABLR YiRE YEf BuRxs. sa bah
At the opening Of the, SECOND session Of
this Congress (Mr. Ciay having resigned the
Chair John w. Taylor, Of New York. was
elected Speaker on tie twenty second ballot,
--the opposing votes being mostly given to
Mr.. Lowndes, Of South Carolina. Il was q
sectional contest, growing naturally out of
the agitationg Of the preceding session and
it presaged, though il but family resemblcd,
that more recent struggle which resulted in
placing iu the Chair, a he close Of a more
protracted scene in this great drama, that
model Speaker, Nathaniel r. Banks.
~ We have neither time nor materials for
moro than brief allusions to some of the
mighty themes and great men who have fig-
ured in the old Hall during the eight and
thirty yssrs Of its occupancy BY Congress.
"a The FIRST subject to which we win refer is
the earliest Congressional proceedings Of
which We have any cotcmporaneous ,recol-
lection--Webster's speech, and the succeed
ing debate, in January, 1924, on the Greek
Revolutions. How often school boys have
ratified Oh selections Of this great oration
on academic boards, fancyisg, in the green
ness of their iuvcnility, that al Members Of
Congress were like Webster. Alas, that
the leaden realities Of manhood shodld 70
dissipete the golden dreams Of yonth
Websterl Why, If he had been cut into
slices in 1924, and preserved till now, he
would have furnished material for the whole
delegation Of Q medium. .sized State, with
enough left to make small Senator.
In his stcrnly classic exordium, he pays q
6ne tribute 70 the architectural erandeur of
the Hall. Enforcing the duty, while dis.
cussisg the main question, of not being. led
astray by enthusiastic fecollections OF an
cient Greece, he adds, I've quote the sub
staneA fyosn ynemopv that 80 ,ro.%, ma A.,