Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-11-29
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.


MONDAY, November g. 1859
Mr.. CAN'T called the House to order in cOmpli-
ance with written request from the Speaker.
The session was opened with prayer By the Rev.
Mr.. Quntard.
PETITION
Mr.. BLEDS0E presented the petition of three
men, sustained by Is citizens CT Cum berlaud couu-
ty, praying pay for terreting out murderers which
was referred TO the Committee on Ways a Id Means
without reading.
NEW Bills
The fOllOwing1bills we're introduced and severally
passed the FIRST residing:
By Mr.. CHEATHAM, 827, to purchase the busr
Of Wm. Stroklsnd
By Mr.. MAYFIELD, 328, to give State aid to The
Cleveland and Duck Town Railroad, and $50 copies
ordered printed On motion Of Mr.. CALDWELL.
By Mr. ARMSTRONG, 500. to charter the UniOr
Insurance Company of Knoxville Tenn.
By Mr.. FARRELLf, $50, to incorporate the Ger
man CUISINE of Memphis. Tenn.
BY Mr.. FARRELLI. 53l, 10 incorporate the 154tt
regimen of Tennessee militia
By Mr. NALL, 332, to amend the acts incorpor-
ating the State Agricultural Bureau.
BY Mr. JONES, 1873. to give the Southwestern
Railroad Company the further time of four years to
bring themselves W thin the provis ons of su at
pa sd February IL, 1882 chapter l51 of the Code.
MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT STATUES.
Mr.. FORD offered 8 resolution condemuiag the
statues in front of the capital as in bad taste and d
recting the Committee of the Capital to have them
removed
The resolution lies on the table one day under
the rule.
SPECIAL CRIMINAL COURTS
On motion Of Mr.. DOAE, Mr. Esst's bill. rH R
lOl amending the laws in reference to SPECIAL cri-
minsl courts, was taken from the files and read
Mr.. DOAK offered an amendment providing for
the holding of special term Of the circuit court OF
Humphreys county.
The amendment was adopted
The bill amended was passed the third and last
reading in the House of Representatives by yeas 81
nays 10.
THE PEYITENTIARI.
Senator Stovsll's resolution, offered November |
Is, calling for information as to the probable COS
Of additions to the Pententsry, was taken from the
81 otion Of Mr.. D0AK, and adopted without |
THE HARPER's FERRT RESURRECTION.
The SPEAKER announced the order to be the
consideration of the unfinished business Of yester-
iay-Ssturdsy-being Mr. Bayless' resolution, Of
cred October 25, and printed ON page sc and 81 of
he LEGIsLATIyR UNION AND AMERICAN. Mr.. Ds-
7s had offered a resolution in lieu of the third, to
which Mr.. CAN'T offered an amendment, and Mr..
Fisener an amendment in the the third degree
The question being upon Mr.. Gantt's motion to in
efuilely postpone the resolutions and the amend
nents
Mr.. BUTLER made the motion for the adjourn |
lent on saturday in consequence of which he
lsimed the floor, but gave way for the gentleman
rom Smith, Mr. Pickett
Mr.. PICKETT regretted that any political debate
ad been engendered in the House. and said that
MS was the first occasion in which he had sttemp
/ to intrude his views upon the House. The il
'oducon of these re solutions he regarded as
art of the system of the Democratic party to sg-
tie the slavery question, and he insisted that THE
uestion should not be considered any longer as an
ement in orgssization Of parties. He proposed to
low that the Democratic party was the disuniob
lrty Of the land and that the Opposition party was
e party of the nation.
The gentleman Mr.. Bennett was mist ken when
} attributed 70 him the remark, in public, that b
'hn Bell was Old Frozen Heart He did make the
mark in private conversation, but not in public
eec6 IS the gentleman supposed. He was for =
r. Bell upon every slump, hill and valley if lie
ere the Presidential nominee Of the Opposition
Ity. That gentleman MIR. Bell was a conser-
live, union-lOviug man, Who knew no North, no
nth, no East no West, nothing but the Union.
The Democratic party was responsible for all the
'uhle and confusion now in this country on
E slavery Question He claimed that the Missouri Il
mprcM Sc vas 8 Southern measure, q Southern
ampb, VIXEN it was adopted it was greeted with
outs and with bonfres By Southern people. He
IN reviewed the action of the Democratic party
the slavery question from the time Virf inia ceded
Northwestern Territory down to the present day. 4
Z oourtTy Wss at peace upon the slavery 4ues- n
=, 80 S'us Ou' VI .0 ne~.eeu dig
lllenged gentlemen to contradict this position ser
e Democratic party South showed their unsouud ter
upon the slavery question by defeating the W,
orge;oWn Report in 1885, which was made by mes
Clay, and by opposing the Compromise Mess hCI
s Of the same year, when two-thrds Of the DEM Al,
ais from the Southern States voted that they III
I'D not abide by it. The Democratic party was am
ty of salsmanders-they lived in the Gre.
e believed the views Of the people in the North 81
e sound, Union-loving people, and called upon n
tlemen to point out Wing who was secession
or fre-eater as they are called. The Democratic
y was also responsible for the Southern Secs b.
Convention, which he regarded as the entering s5,e
&c of the reopening Of the African Slave Trade
Dsmocra.ie nartv voted against the Mszouri Han
promise of 1920 and opposed its repeal in 1850 -
the express purpose Of sgitation-of keeping
this vexed question. M
9 believed Mr.. Douglas one Of the shrsxdest ~