The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-12-12

HoUSE.-Mr. hickman, OF Pa, moved Al
amendment to the journal, and said n
mention had been made therein for tn
adoption of the plurality rule.
The clerk said that the resolution wa.
merely read for information.
Mr.. Hickman insisted that he had th
right to offer resolution which took pre-
cedence of all other questions. He asked
for decision of the question.
Mr.. Grew, of Pa, and Washburne, O
Me-, commended that Hickman had the RICH
to introduce the resolution.
Houston, of Ala, took the opposite side o
the argument
Stanton, of Ohio,
Caggan said that nobody doubted the gen.
tlemen would vote for the Republicans, a:
against the Democrats. He repeated thai
the object of this attempt to act upon that
resolution was to shield the gentlemen from
the responsibility of doing Indirectly what
/ they would not do directly.
/ Hickman said have never conceded,
anywhere, what my ultimate action would
I be. prefer the election of sound Demo-
/ Graf; by that | mean a Democrat opposed
to this Administrations anti Lecompton
Democrat have endeavored for a week
to elect such man, but am beginning to
!
that work. | believe that either a friend of
the Administration or Republican is ulti-
mately to be elected Speaker. | am frank
to say, in that event. have decided on the
choice OF the latter. | have offered this
resolution for the purpose of reaching an
organization. If the Administration party
succeed, | trust | shall submit in becom-
ing spirit am perfectly willing that
every man in the country should know my
views.
Let the motion to amend the Journal be
put to the House to decide
VIM. Smith, of Virginia, said That the
motion was unnecessary in his view of the
subject. If the gentleman means to vote for
the Republican nominee, he and those think
ing with him can do so, and thus end the
question. No man who has witnessed that
gentleman's course, for the last two years
could doubt that he would at last land ia
the Republican ranks. He says he wants a
sound Democrat elected. and yet will vote
tor the Republicans. Who does he fool by
such IA doctrine as that? The members of
the Democratic party are here to perform a
high and holy duty to their country.
want him to be understood as Black Re-
publican, who only takes the name of Dem
crat for the purpose of hoOdwinking and
misleading. Let me ask him would he vote
for Mr.. Bocock to-day, if he would rise and
say that he was opposed to the Administra-
ton?
Mr.. Hickman frankly and unequivocally
replied that he would not, because Mr.. Be-
cock sustained the administra ton in every
thing it has done, and he (Mr. H. was not
believer i'll eleventh hour repentance, he
would continue to regard himself as Dem
ocrat, Notwithstanding the remarks of the
gentleman from Virginia. 1t is a question
that will be decided by the whole country
whether James Buchanan or those who hold
to the sentiments of the Cincinnati platform.
in its integrity, embody the Democratic SEN
timent.
lengthy discussion ensued between
Messrs. Clark, of New York, and Worth, of
Virginia, on political principles
MIR Clark said he never was and never
would be sectional man. lie was Re-
publican representative OF the great city of
New York, a city which could not afford to
send sectional man to Congress He did
not regard the Republican party as an Abo-
lition party. He defined Abolitionsts as
those who would interfere by violence with
the relation of master and slave. The re-
cent affair at Harper's Ferry furnished a
strong illustration of practical aboitionism
in the most hideous form. If there were
Abolitionists who would contribute money
or otherwite to make compensation to the
master for the service OF his slave, and in
consideration of the surrender of his title,
he knew there were thousands of them at
the North.
Mr.. Smith said he was we'll acquainted
with Mr.. Clark, and did not believe there
was an abolition feeling in his heart, or
drop OF abolition blood in his veins He
said Mr.. Bocock was not put up because be
was an administration man, but because he
had been long an honored Democrat He
denounced the inconsistency of Mr.. Clark's
conduct in being elected as a Democrat, and
in refusing to act with the party.
In answer to an to inquiry put by Mr.
Clark whether Mr.. Smith would deem it as
good ground for a dissolution of Union, if
he should find the people of the North COM
blned as a sectional party against the South,
Mr.. Smith replied-That whenever the
combination of majority is found for the
purpose of warning On the constitutional
subjects of any section of the Union, am
out. Applause
Mr.. Clark said-"So am |, sir, but you
have not answered my question.
Mr.. Smith said he would not undertake to |
say, II any particular man should be elected |
President; he would Immediately favor a |
dissolution of the Union. Sufficient for the |
day is the evil thereof
Mr.. Curry, of Alabama, made lengthy |
speech on Abolitionism; he did not propose !
to hold the Republican party responsible for |
the excuses committed by men holding |
anti-savery opinions; he did not intend to |
charge that party with completely in the |
riot lately made in Virginia; he was will |
ling to allow the mantel of ignorance to |
cover the act of the signing of a recommend |
alton of an incendiary pamphlet; but he |
Clade this averment, that the ideas and prin- |
ciples OF the Republican party, are necessa-
rily hostile to the Constitution and to the |
rights and interests of the South; for the |
recent invasion made in Virginia, although |
discovered and repudiated, as he had no |
doubt honestly, by most of the gentlemen on |
the other side, it was, in his judgement, the !
necessary logical and inevitable sequence of
their principles and doctrines. He proposed |
TO show the effect and necessary consequence
OF this anti-slavery agitation and feeling. |
The Republican party had been driven by |
events into the assumption of doctrines, |
from which, few years ago, they would |
haze shrank.