Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-12-19
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OOnErsaa -xxxvIlh ses.IOn.
HOUSE.


wAsHiEoroE, Dec. IL.
Mr.. Larabee sent to the Clerks table 4
copy Of the Milwaukee Free Democrat, from
which the latter read the proceedings Of .
meeting purporting 70 be held by German
adopted citizens, in which eympathy is ex-
pressed for John Brown, holding him es 9
noble hearted and rosolute man, fit to be
hold up BY the friends and champions ol
freedom for the imitation Of mankind. AL
30 saying that adopted citizens are hostile to
tyranny Of any kind.
Mr.. Larabeo remarked that If any Of his
colleagues did not recognize that paper ss
Republican, LET them say 90, AT his re
quest an editorial in the same paper with
the proceedings Of the meeting was read.
He was satisfied that tho honorable Sena'
tor from Wisconsin, Mr, Doolittle, was
mistaken when he said there was no newss
paper in that State which supported John
Browns invasion Of Va. lie thought
however that at the time the fact to which
he had just referred had not been brought
10 Mr.. Ooollttles notice
Mr.. Larabee needed not to be inform ed
as he had been by the leading German citii
zens OF Wis, that such we're not their opin'
ions Ho had been in the midst Of them
for IA years, and could cay that more in-
telligent, loyal and patriotic class were not
living on the soil of the United States
They were hostile to fanaticism and senti-
ments Of disunion, and the war on the
South.
He held ii 10 be his duty to hurl back
the accusations against the part Of Wisoon-
sin he had the honor to represent, He was
surprised TO hear gentlemen charge the
present administration with corruption and
extravaganza.
lie thought the President was entitled to
all praise. No man should visit mis- mere
personal sights on his party, because he
might have been omitted in the paltry dis
tribution Of federal Offices.
We all agree that the Republican party
organization at the North is purely sec
tional party, and that the inevitable result
Of the success Of any sectional party in the
country must be rupture OF the Union
This was the very state Of things which
Washington warned us Of in his far ewell
address, great party built on geograph-
ical line.
He thought Mr.. Stewards remarks rel
speoting an irrepressible conflict, originated
in his ambition TO reach the Presidential
chair thinking an appeal to sectional pas
sions and prejudices the best way to reach
it
He never had any doubt that the raid of
John Brown was the legitimate effect Of the
extreme section of the Republican party
North-the teachings of the Tribune, Wen,
cell Phillips and others.
He bad heretofore thought a dissolution
of the Union impossible, but now yentured
to say that if northern men persisted in this
course, and the South preach against the
North, the dissolution may not be ques-
ton Of time, but may be here; and the first
act may produce the calamity.
Mr. Larabee then reviewed Mr.. Stewards
irrepressible conflict doctrine, He never
heard on this floor or on the stump the Re-
publicsns denouncing Abolition sentiments
1t appeared to him that the conflict was not
between different kinds OF labor, but be-
tween different races Of men.
He did not believe in the unity Of the huS
man race. If the slaves were free, what
could be done with them2 The North don t
want them.
A call of the House was ordered. A pre-.
liminary ballot for Speaker was had which
resnlted as ollows: Sherman III; Bocock
S5; Boteler %; scattering 9-necessary to
choice us. Another ballot was taken re-
sulting as lolows;-ShermaR ll0, Bocock
s4 Boteler l5, Geo. Briggs 9-remainder
scattering Adjourned