Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1858-07-02

se2UTTAiAN moved to strike out the Green
amendment. That has become matter
OF history; it is upon your record, and I
ask you, and [ ask the gentlemen from
mississippi whether the effect of his mo-
stlon was not to bring before the House
the Senate bill without the Green amend
ment?
s Mr.. QUITMAN. Certainly.
Mr.. SHAW, Of North Carolina. I must
say was surprised, when read the speech
Of my colleague, to see the charge brought
being guilty of duplicity in bringing for
ward that amendment in the manner he
did. If there is any one trait which stands
out in bold relief in the character Of the
gentleman from Mississippi, it is his di-
rectness, his straig ghtforwardness, and the
moral courage and boldness with Which he
marches up to every question which it is
his duty to meet: he is not the man who
would lend himself to any such course as
that charged by the gentleman from North
Carolina
Mr.. QUITMAN. It was only yestcr-
day that read the remarks Of the gentle
man from North Carolina, Mr. G1LMEE,
and | have been thinking very calmly up
Oh the question whether | should notice
them or not. will not, at any rate, take
the time to do SO now. Perhaps | may
notice them, and I may think them un-
worthy of notice.
IIr. SHAW, of North Carolina. I was
saying that the record will show that the
gentleman from Mississippi moved to
amend the bill then before the House, by
submitting the Senate bill without the
Green amendment, as an amendment to
the Crittenden bill, offered by the gentle
man from Pennsylvania, Mr.. MoNrGoM-
ERY. The effect of that would have been
to have brought before this House the
Senate bill with the Green amendment,
Now, Sir, voted for the proposition Of the
gentlcmaa from Mississippi, and my col
league voted against it; and, [ repeat, |
have done bin no injustice il placing
him in the position that [ did.
But my colleague says he voted against
the motion OF the gentleman from Missis-
sippi, Mr.. QUrTMAN, not because he was
in favor of the Green amendment, but be-
cause the success of that motion would
al d fff1af twas unjust
towards him in not stating that fact. To
show how much justice there is in this
charge, [ will be excused, | trust, for quot
ing a brief extract from my speech, which
will be3a sufficient answer to the gentle
mans accusation:
'sBut the gentleman may say that. he
voted against the Green amendment in
order to save, if possible, the House bill.
| do not by any means admit that he can
thereby find asuticient justification Of his
vote; but [ am willing, for the sake Of the
argument only, to give him the benefit Of
that position; and now let Us sec whether
he is iJstifiabIe in taking the Crittenden
amendment in preference to the Senate
bin"S
My.colleague, in his speech, stated that
I read from the LecoInpton constitution,
to prove that that instrument prescribed
a proper qualification for vorters for the
purpose, as he supposed, of having it SO
abroad that the Crittenden bill, for which
he voted, contained no such safeguard
If the gentleman read my speech careful
", he must have known that I read from
that constitution for no such purpose; and
the same injustice which he has improp
erlY, and without the least cause, charged
against me, of perverting and misrepre-
senting his arguments, he has committed
against me, in this, as we'll as in numer-
Gus other instances. | showed that by the
hibited the right of suffrage. I went on
tiCH W oi1o" oiie'o " t0'iiiS eto"ii 'lie'o
constitution, as the gentleman endeavored
to vote it down, and by passing another
bill, the Crittenden bill, by which the peo-
pie Of Kansas would have been authorized
by my colleague to vote upon the Lecomp
ton constitution, and if they saw fit to re-
iect It; land the whole tek of his argu-
ment, from one end to the other, was to
be the effect that that constitution was not
the voice of the people OF Kansas, and that
if submitted to them, they would vote it
down J they would then have power un-
der the Crittenden bill to make another
constitution, in which they might, and in
all probability would, ingraft the doctrine
of alien suffrage; yes, even free-negro suf-
frage-and IWas warranted in saying that;
for the Leavenworth constitution, then re-
Gently nadesand published, was said to
contain, not only. the principle of alien
suffrage, but of suffrage to free negroes al
so and that constitution thus authorized,
would entitle Kansas to admission into the
Union. That was the argument |. made !;
and my colleague, unable to meet it, has
only sought to pervert it.
But the gentleman says, / accused him
of taking the position that if the Lecomp-
ton constitution should be voted down,
the people of Kansas would seize upon
eighty millions of the public lands. Is
there anything of that kind to be found in
my speech2 If SO, I call upon the gem
tleman to bring it forward and present it
to the House. and the country. Did Isay
any such things I said nothing of the
kind and / think my colleague must know