The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1858-06-23


because it's not my purpose to reply 10
him
Mr.. gunner. My colleague will interrupt
me whether will or not.
admit that was, with others at the
South, who believed that there was no ne
cessity for a submission Of the Lecompton
constitution to the people. Tor that. then
believed that It was to be submitted Tor the
sole and improper purpose unfairly to get rid
Of slavery. Had such been the true state Of
things, and that Lecompton admitted slave.
~, the question, no man would have more
readily stood up for the admission Of Kansas
under the Lecompton constitution.
NV colleague says that 1 had indicated my
anxiety to get rid Of this question. Never
did he state greater truth. | was anxious,
and have been anxious since the difficulty
arose, that the question might be got rid OF
without harm to the peace and interests OF the
country, or the sacrifice OF any principle.
presume that my colleague desired the same
thing. presume that all gentlemen who voted
honestly on this question here desired and
aimed at the same thing. And lrepeat here,
that the course have pursued on this sub
iiect, whether southern men were with me or
against me, is an honest one. lnasmuch as
our southern friends have come, substantially,
in the bill which was passed. upon my iden-
teal platform, trust that experience, which
is the result Of time, may prove that ! was
right.
/ When my colleague speaks Of my vote on
the Crittenden bill being different IRON the
votes Of the great majority OF my southern
friends, and with majority Of the North, why
did he not mention that upon the conference
bill two as honest southern men as ever gra-
ced tins floor recorded their names with the
North Does my colleague say that the
gentleman from South Carolina Mr.. Bon
Gaml and the gentleman from Mississippi
! T Mr.. Quitman1 have, because OF that vote,
been iaIse to their States, and become north
ern in their feelings and principles! How
toouM they feel, aud how ought they to feel,
# had risen up in my place, and, IN the
presence Of the assembled Representatives oil
The nation, undertook 10 brand these gentle
mem with having pursued course BY which
they forfeited the confidence Of their country
had perpetrated ian unparalleled out
rage''-because they felt bound. under a
sense Of duty, 10 record their votes with what
my colleague calls the Black Republican
party merely present This attempt Il
make me out an Aboliiionist as one OF those
things 10 be placed in the same category a.
reading the names Of those who subscribed
for my speech.
In my reply to my colleagues speech,
said. in substance, that was surprised tina
he had not pointed out some portion OF my
speech that an ultra northern man could pu
his name TO, or an ultra man anywhere, which
he has been wholly unable TO do. ! cesirC
to stand or fall BY what is true-the facts
nothing more. My speech is before the coun
try, and | ask to be judged by my speech
am willing to let my first speech, and th'
remarks which l have subsequently made, q
to North Carolina, or anywhere else, and b.
Judged Of and be decided on by an homes
constituency. | did complain, in answe
; to my colleagues speech, that he, in speak
ing Of my remarks against the Senate bill
/ interpolated, or added, in other words
to her admission as slave State" re
r marked, in my speech, that no man could hay'
, been more gratiiied than |, to have had Kan
/ sas in with the LeeOmptOn constitution, al
(. things being right and fair and vet my col
leage added, as | thought unkindly, SAT-
words. apparently to sting and mortiiy.
E desired to ask my colleague the question
what he did mean by tie use Of these word
e as descriptive Of my objections to the Senat
. bill, and be very cOurteously declined TO b
! interrupted, but promised that before D.
= concluded, he would explain. lie has no
done so, and suppose he forgot il.
! On another subject gave my colleague
! fair chance to be heard. lie had represent
ed me as having voted for ian unparalle
e outrage" pointed out, in reply, that u
. conference bill for which he himself, an
!, our whole delegation voted, contained SUB
: stantially all the essential provisions tia
4 were in the Crittenden. Montgomery bill
b with which and nv friends were all per
y lectly satisfied, and which was declared
y great triumph, aud celebrated with music
speeches and firing Of cannon. had give
n him anopportuniiy to show that the very thin
u which he called "an unparalleled outrage
/. was, or was not, the thing Tor which he vote
IN the end, aud the thing which he glorie
Y over as being . great triumph, and ameasur
5 Of justice and peace. Why did my colleague
/, ~ his reply, not meet me ~ something sui
|. stantial, and show that this is not true
!. Why did he not show that there was ma
y terlal difference between the provisions q
/. the Crittenden. Montgomery bill aud thOs
IS of the conference bill: Why does be nj
j explain what tie conference bill III; Ills, q
!. well as nay constituents, are interested !
: this.
{. Nv colleague brings NY attention TO Il,
# fact that voted against tie committee oleor
I, ference. did 80, and, | think, for theb
., Of reasons and should have continued
! vote as did, had seen that BY doing 50,
Is could have forced The two Houses Of Cor
}. gress to have taken the Crittcnden Mon
gomery bill. But Indications were otherwis'
d desired not 10 have an adjnurnmcnto Of Cor
!. sress without some such sttlement III
bill reported BY the conference cOlnmlttC
" contained automatically, but indirectly, all
e insisted on. The Green amendment W;
!. whirled To the winds. and tie question ";
d left 10 be substantially where, as ! said b