New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-09-13
SPEECH or THE HON. n. L. BoNFIAnI,
On -snIrrII CAROLINA.

recently COMMUNICATED him With public dlnnet-a
tribute which in our humble opinion his public SER
vices at Washington last winter richly merited. He
stood up calamity and boldly for his State and the
South, and voted against, in conjunction with the
lamented aud ilustrious QuITMAN that eunuch OF
bills, 50 far as there any good in 1.-THE English
Conference Compromise bi-which evaded, lodged
and postponed the only important issue at stake,
and which has been recently killed off by decisive
vote Of the people of Kansas.
We only have very meager and unsatisfactory
report Of the speech delivered by Gen, Bonham, on
the occasion alluded to, furnished the Columbia Is.
C) Southern Guardian, by correspondent. We
hope to have full and accurate report in due season.
But in the meantime, we will make use Of the only
materials we have at hand Here is the report as it
appeared in the Guardian:
THE RoNHAH DlNNER,-Messrs. Editors Think
ing You would like to give a notice OF the ABOVE
named dinner to your readers orratherof the speech
of our Representative to Congress, the Hon A. L.
Bonham, drop you brief report: CTQWdS came,
not opvOf men and boys but of ladies, who listened
with great attention to Mr. Bonham+s speech, winch
was two hours and half long
He began by thanking them for their kindness IN
the intended honor to him and torthe presence Of SO
| many attendants on the occasion.
a The last session of Congress was, said MIR Bon
i ham, one of great importance appear, says he,
| to give an account Of my stewardship Kansas
the theme. he JuStilGu MI, DuGudIialI tbOuL
Kansas, except in his instructions to have the Con
stitntion submitted, which Mr. BOnham condemned.
/ He gave history of the different bills before Con
gless for her admission, and particularly OF The
English bill. From the first the Black Republicans
presented the issue against the Lecompton instrument
on the ground Of slavery. Democracy accepted and
fought that issue, and that the issue covertly
| in the English bill. The introduction Of the land
| question, which Kansas was to vote, had never
been heard Of till the English bill and he regarded it
as giving up OF the issue by the South under the
dodge Of the land ordinance. He showed that the
Black Republicans understood it the submission Of
the Constitution in fact which would as since proved,
keep out OF the Union slave State
He said he did not quarrel with any man for voting
for the English BILL but be could not vote forwat he
believed cheat, and has proven such. Black Re
pubcans now push for the repeal and bringing in
Kansas without GOO inhabitants, but Mr. Denver
may not call special session Of the Territorial Leg
stature, and the law may be STAYED OIL next winter by
| that means.
! He differed from Gov. Hammond in his confidence
| in the National Democracy. National Democracy
believed that its party success was the great success
He believed that success to the State Rights DemOc-
racy was the success which preserved our liberties.
| National Democracy gives us good platforms, but
| does not work up to them. Some drew back on the
| Tariff was pOweress in executing the Fugitive
Slave law. He showed that the conversion Of the
Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia platforms, were
conversions from National DemOCracies to State
Rights DemoCracics, and had infused such State
Rights elements into the party that South Carolina
should meet them in convention and push on her doc
trines still farther by leayening the whole lump.
Once Democracy held as her cardinal doctrines those
| Of the Proclamation and the Force bill, but now
State Rights was becoming the doctrine Of the Ma
tional Democracy. He cited the Cincinnati platform
and Mr.. Buchanan's present position,
He cOmplimented Mr.. Buchanan for bis dealings
with Great Britain and the MOrmnns. He thinks
Black Eepubieanisn will not triumph, but that there
| Is great danger. lie prefers Douglas, with all his
| sins, to Lincoln. Thinks it Seward or his party
should succeed, be would be ready to withdraw from