The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-12-24
FRoM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Press and TribuneJ II
Eli WASHINGTON, Dec. IA, 1859.

permitted the roll to be called this evening
for Speaker. The Republicans lacked SIX
vote, of majority,-but as matter OF
fact they are only short one vote. FIVE
Anti. Lecompton men stand ready to vote
for Sherman, and sixth is hesitatDg, but
it is believed that he will 90 with the others
and make the clear majority. There are
eight Anti-Lecomptonite and three Amerl-
cans ready to vote for plurality rule
But the Bocock Democrats utterly refuse to
permit voteto be taken on the proposition,
and in the absence of presiding officer
vote cannot be forced on that motion. Thus
the matter stands. From the signs and
indication manifested to day it il not i'm
this week by the election of Sherman. 1t
is evident that the Democrats can patch
together no fusion with the Americans which
will avail them, and the Anti
will not touch Lecopptonite with ten
rod pole. They have all said repeatedly,
that under no circumstances will they vote
for supporter of this Administration; but
they have carefully abstained from saying,
when cat echissd on the floor, that they will
not support Republican. The speaking
to- day was not of much account. McRea
finished his desultory harangue commenced
yesterday, and consumed most o: the ses-
sion. He dextreusly lodged all questions
as to the position of his candidate, but
freely enough avowed his opinions. LIST,
He denied the Popular Sovereignty doctrines
of Douglas as heresies and humbugs, and
not entitled to respect or consideration.
%, He affirmed that the Constitution
carried slavery into the Territories, and that
neither Congress nor the inhabitants had
legal authority to put it out or exclude its
entrance. Sd, He claimed that it was the
duty of Congress to pass q slave code to
protect the shareholders against the Gun.
friendly" conduct of the squatters. 5th,
He advocated the repeal of the laws pro-
limiting the African slave trade, contending
that the South had the same right to recruit
her laboring population from Africa that
the North had from Europe, and that it was
none of the North's business or concern
whether the South sent after its labor rein
torcements, or they came voluntarily. The
South had just as much right to object to
the landing of Europeans in Northern ports
IS the North had to the landing Of Africans
in Southern ports; he said the South would
soon get over her modesty and be unit on
this great subject, and claim her equal rights
in the Union, and if she could not obtain
them within the Union she had only to step
| out Oh II. pTOlulSe'- on uDotueE OCCb6tUu
to argue this subject more fully.
In the course of his remarks he spoke Of
the Union saving meetings being held in the
humbugs, and declared that the men engaged
nv question. The President of the Boston
! meeting, he said, was an dbolitionist on his
own confession that Edward Everett was
"abstractIy" a good enough sort of body,
! but was timorous old gentleman who did !
not amount to much in crisis. Caleb
Gushing promised we'll, but would not do t
!: for the South to tie to. He ran on in this
style, pitching hot shot into the Union /
savers, for whom he expressed the utmost
cJn,empt. lie liked the Republicans much
| better, who boldly avowed their sentmets.
/ Vallandngham got the floor and opened
out on Helpers book and Old Browns
Constitution. proceeded to make most
! dsgraceful and unmany doughface speech. I
! If Southern Democrat would SANDER his
section as this fellow did his own, the other
Southern members would tie stone
round his neck and throw him into the
! Potomac.
When he was speaking, South Carolinian
got up and stated that he had just heard .
that man had been arrested in his district
for circulating Helpers book among the
non slav eholders that the slave holders had .
put him in Jail, and intended to hang him. ,
! A dozen of the fire-eate cried out, "uung
him, hang him." What love of free
! thought and free speech these negro breed |
ers exhibit. The man who was circulating
! Helpers appeal to the non shareholders be-
longs to class which comprise three
fourths of al! the families in the slave
States.
Old Ben Wade, the rough and ready of
The Senate, made a telling speech to day.
1t was full! of sharp points and hard hits
lie was replying to the disunon threats of
Iverson, Clay, Brown, johnson, Mallory,
Yulee, and other Democrats. Don't you
know, said he, that this fabric has been
eighty years in building, that it is made of
granite iron and is fire. ptoof, and do you
think you can destroy it in day? Can
you rend it asuHdcr without struggle .
We are all in the same ship" Union" with
the Constitution for our chart. We are
married together, for better or for worse,
and there is no court under heaven of COM
petent jurisdiction to grant you divorce.
! The property cannot be divided; the family
shall not be separated. But gentlemen, if
you are going to dissolve the Union, why
don't you stop threatening and do it now
when you are in power, when the whole
government is in your hands. If you wait
until the 9Th of March. 1861, before at
tempting to execute your everlasting, never
ceasing threats, you will have waited day
too long! Think you that with its Presi
dent and Government of the United States
in the hands of the Republicans, that they
would not have the ability, courage and
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empire in its eternity? He would be but q
sorry Republican President who would not
vindicate his right to execute the laws and
! the constitution in all parts of the confeder-
acy. 1t was in this style old Ben gave the
fire. eaters piece of his mind and gentle
hint of what would befall its traitors who
should raise THAR parcidal hands against
the inheritance bequeathed to American pos
terity by Washington, jefferson, Franklin,
and the fathers Of the Revolution. When
the Republicans 20 into the Union saving
business It will not be in the bypocritical,
soft soap style of the Boston Union savers,
but in the manner Jackson dealt with the
Caro,inans. CHICAGO.
CTThere is now in operation in tho Uni
ted States, one mile of railway to every
thousand inhabitants: in England, one to
every $500 and in the whole of Great Brit
ain, one to every 5000 inhabitants.
q At the Union Saving Meeting in
Faneui Hall the other day, the Rev. DR..
Blagden offered a prayer in which the fol-
lowing sentence occurs: "We pray for
thy blessing upon the whole country,
especially upon the Southern section Of it,"
~lDr, c
fuses to pay members mileage and salary
though appropriated, on the ground that no
evidence Of membership exists till Speak
er's certificate is furnished.
THE LAST CALL.