Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-08-17
Party DRspor1nm.
Senator Trum6uU on tho o. s. -Rou
COMMITTEES are Organized and Controlled.


Extract from his Speech In ChIcayo1
The despotism of Washington is almost Ms
cruel as that which has prevailed in Kansas
There is not, holding Office throughout this vast
country, single man who-is known to enter.
tain views in opposition to the right to take
slaves into free territories 1t is an utter dis
qualification for Office. ALI The departments II
prescribing menw who believe that slavery should
be excluded from the free territories All the
committees in. Congress-or all important ones
which mature the business for the action of
Congress, are under the control of this same
power The Supreme Court is under the con-
troll OF this same power. You all recollect the
case which excited the whole country two years
ago, when Senator of the United States was
struck down and beaten nearly to death in his
seat in the Senate Chamber, for uttering his
honest sentiment in opposition TO this slavery
propagandism. But worse state of things than
| that exists to-day. The gentleman who was
thus stricken down in the yigor of manhood
and has been suffering from that day to this.
and who, bis best friends fear, may never re.
cover, suffering with anguish and pain and tor
| ture, from blows inflicted upon him unawares
and without notice-that gentleman, now lust
able to walk, has since made his appearance in
the Senate Chamber, having been reelected by
the people of the state of Massachusetts, and
when he comes there and rises with difficulty,
from his chair, two years after the act was done,
Tor which some may plead the excuse that it
was done under excitement-I say now, the very
men in the interest of this power affect to treat
him with contempt. ferries of SHANE, shame. ~
belonging to the nroslaverv ,ortI, dsro ~
speak to him lest he oftanS I;s so,,tI. 1900;
atesP Yes dnrino, tho last soss;oY nc ~,
when on one occasion it was stated in the Sem
ate that the senator from Massachusetts lad
paired OFT with some other member, who was
cd through the chamber n, tho ;Glaa Of bs Id
position and the Headers of Tho nro slaysor,, do
mocrocv affart Ia Ioio tIt - =; NC
the mart Of MAJ, La hoan % vi
two wears In my ;,,Ilo,no+ ~ Ia -
never seen exhibited SpcS refina aS
cruelty as this attempt TO treat with scnrE that
suffering man This is worse n tI1o,,Sois Ella
than the snirit which nnle
strike the blow for this is reT;toto ,
tinued malice rI,oI1d .nnlonso Il
Imention this m fIp,y. 60 .l, ~
condition Of thinos nj TaSbine,tnH + - ~
tell YOU another fact i Vent 2,S,,r
tati9e two Years 400 to WSsbi%s,fon set
entire stranger never having met more tban
two or three members Of the sansto in . 1s
Iremained there MS one of the
of this state tl,roISh two sesS;or
sent there TO cons,If win ths
other coeoua states for the hest GOOD r
mon country. and for those tpSn Se,rs not
placed on a COMMITTEES which ever met Rnnubli-
can senators were not ira -.
nored by this nroscT;ntivn iotolor"nt 49,,
that made adhesion to the of t,,i Ply sa
power the only test by which thew ailow St1 >
person to take part in the proceedings of row
ernment wherever they could prevent it. a
little different state of things prevailed after the
Fremont election in 1856. But let me tell. YOU
how it is now. The committees were organized
anew at the commencement of the last Session
Of Congress, and have with me list of them.
On looking at it you viii find that all the
leading committees arc not only entirely in