Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-04-10
DEFEAT OF THE LECOMPTON BILL.
WASHINGTON. April l

WAohlSHieN. hPih
HousE-Mr. Niblack lind favored the admiss.
ion of Kansas under the L%ecomp;on Constitution.
Mr.. Ward New Yoek) expressed similar views.
Mr.. Groesbeck CO., said that he would not vote
for the Senate Bill. lie maintained that the Con
stitution, under its own provisions, could not be
changed uotil 1864, without a revolution. The
instrument does not express the popular will, and
Congress should now authorize proceedings to-
wares the formation of a proper Constitution.
Mr.. Marshall ill., looked upon those who fran.
ed the Lecomp.on Constitution as conspirators,
and he would never vote to sanction such a fraud
and q gross outrage on the rights of the people
lie condemned the attempt to ostracise and brand
rs traitors and rebels those who would not bow
their knee to power, and lick the hand raised to
whip them into submission. lie had q high re.
.pec, for the President, but he was noe a spaniel.
He would speak and act as q Representative of a
free people should-as one who yves nothing
to the President or his Cabinet.
Mr.. Hughes, (Ind )-"Who has made the at
tempt to establish a test, to read men out of the
Democratic party ?"
Mr.. Marshall-'It is done VIGOROUSLY by the
present Administration and by the organs of the
Administration, and it is known throughout the
country that the term of Office depends upon wheth
err a man can compel his conscience and judg
ment to sanction this thing or not"
Mr.. Hughes-'Have you ever been excluded
from u Democratic caucus ?"
Mr.. Marshall-'lt SO happens that q Congress
ional caucus has no power to read men out of thu
party"
Mr.. Lawrence, (o.)-Does the gentleman from
Illinois know how soon after tomorrow he will b.
excluded from the Democratic caucus ?"
Mr.. Marshall-That docs not disturb me in AM
particular. A man is a good Democrat who vote
for the ticket with out scratching and takes thu
stump for the benefit of the party. Is it no
known that The Union newspaper forgets Know
II --A Dl--t H. 4.
the sewers for filth and defamation, to heap 0,
Democrats as good as any others in the country
stigmatiZing them as traitors and rebels
Mr.. Marshall spoke OF the Administrator press
es, both here and elsewhere, as dirty puppies
spewing forth their filth. They must be muzzled
Laughter
He said there were millions of men who consic
or the Lecompton movement not only infamoul
but damnable.
Mr.. Hughes defended his political recort
against which Marshall and English had throw
out insinuations.
He had simply to say that the man, or repr
sentative, sovereign or peasant, leader or follows
who i'm putated to him in the past, any sympatb
with the Free Soil or Abolition party was q !
beler.
The gentleman from Illinois (Marshal) ha
made a rambling speech, peculiarly bitter in cha
acter. and lower than the usual standard of Coz
!, gressional debates.
E Mr.. Hughes. after abiding % the dialogue wit
E Mr.. Marshall said that the Black Republican part
was the bitterest substance political chemistr
ever produced. (Laughter.)
8 Mr.. Letcher defended the majority of the Kal
Q sas Select Committee from tho charge that the
D had determined to shirk investigation.
MIR. Walton, Of Vermont, opposed the sxtensio
? of Slavery and the Lecompton Constitution.
The house adjourned about one o'clock tn
morning.
ro.pAY's Proceedings.
HoUsB-OVer fifty set speeches have been d
, liVsred in the House in favor of the Lecomptc
Constitution, of which FIVE were made by Sou'
, Americans. and at least seventy against it, on
t aracing those of three South Americans, an
q fourteen Democrats.
The galleries to-day are densely crowded, an
. the greatest anxiety 10 svinced respecting the NOV
n msnfs IN the X xasas nil