Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1858-04-09
xxxvTH CoNGREss-FIRsT SESSION.
Wednesdays Proceedings Concluded.
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WASHINGTON, April /.
House.-Mr. Neblack, of Ind, favored
the admissions Of Kansas under the Lee
compton constitution. Btt
Mr.. Ward, of n, Y, expressed similar
views.
Mr.. Groesbeck, of Ohio said he would
not vote for the Senate bill. He maintain
ed that the constitution under its own
provisions could not be changed till 1864,
without q revolution. The instrument
does not express tho popular will, and
Congress should now authorize proceeding
toward the formation of proper constitu-
! ton. -tsr ia rr ..f
Mr.. Marshall, of ILL.,, looked upon those
who framed Lecompton as conspirators.-
He would never vote. to sanction such
fraud and gross outrage on the rights of
| the people. He condemned the attempts
to ostraeise aud brand as traitors and
rebels those who will never bow the knee
to power and lick the hand raised to whip
them into submission He had high re-
spect for the President, but he was not
spaniel. He would speak and act as
representative of free people should, as
one who owes nothing to the President or
his Cabinet.
Mr.. Hughes, of Ind-Who has made
the attempt to establish test to read men
out of the Democratic party?
Mr.. Marshall-It it is done VIGOROUSLY
by the President the Administration, and
by the organs of the Administration and
it is known throughout the country that
the tenure of Office depends upon whether
man can compel his conscience and judg-
ment to sanction this thing or not.
Mr.. Hughes-Have you ever been ex-
cluded from Democratic caucus
Mr.. Marshall--It so happens that the
Congressional caucus had no power to
read men out of the party.
Mr. Laurence, of Ohio-Does the gentle
man from Illinois know how soon after to-
morrow he will be excluded from Demo
cratic Caucus? TeaHT
Mr. MARSHALL does not disturb
me in any particular A man is good
Democrat who votes for the ticket without
scratching, and takes the stump for the
benefit of the party Is it not known that
the Union newspaper forgets the Know
Nothings and Black Republicans and de-
sends to the sewer for filth and defama-
ton to heap on Democrats as good as any
others in the country, stigmatizing them
as traitors and rebels?
Mr.. Marshall spoke of the editors of
administration presses, both here and else
where, as dirty puppies strewipg forth their
filth. They must be muzzled. Laughter
He said there were millions Of men who
consider the Lecompton movement not
only infamous but damnable.
Mr. Hughes defended his political re-
cord, against which Marshall and English
had thrown out insinuations He had
simply to say that the man or representa-
tive, sovereign or peasant, leader or fol-
lower, who imputed to him in the past any
sympathy with the Freesoil or Abolition
party was libeller, The gentleman from
Illinois (Mr. MarshalD had made a ramb-
ling speech, peculiarly bitter in character
and lower than the usual standard of con-
gressional debates,
Mr.. Hughes after abiding to dialogue
with Mr.. Marshall about Heas, said the
Black Republican party was the bitterest
substance of political chemistry ever pro-
duced. Laughter,
Mr.. Letcher defended the majority of
the Kansas select committee from the
charge that they were determined to shrink
from investigation. .... s..
Mr.. Walton opposed the extension of
slavery and Lecompton.
Adjourned about one A. M.