The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-12-14

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The Washington sosrsSpe oasnt Of tho Chi.
cage Prss and 7rtbSss gives IN fd1lowina
sketch Of remarks ~ llaas. Nelson and Dry.
Or, 10 the House, On no ~. Mr.. Nelson, d
Tcnuessee, followed ! 1rs-sating speech q
MIR. Lamar. ThS correspondent says:
This MAS Tia spssch Of The day. II pro-
dnced more effect than my yet delivered
his first effort in Congress. 1t marked him
ern standpoint il was an admirable speech
in the main. The hard things be said Of the
Republicans | pass over but bio read the
Southern ultras aiesture that will not soon
be forgotten. He charged upon the Demoe-
racy ell the excitement and bad feeling now
existing in the land. sslf the Republican
party," saidshe, sis now the greatest party
in this Union, you gentlemen have caused Il
to swell to it's present enormous proportions.
Many OF you desire the destruction Of the
Union. You are labotiDg for it. You re-
opened the slavery agitation by rending TO
pieces the Missouri Compromise, and on your
heads rest the consequences.
After Nelson, OF Tennessee, closed bis
speech, Roger Pryor, OF Va, arose to re.
ply. He began with grand flourish, with
an air OF Sir Oracle, tswhen open my mouth
let no dog bark" With his left hand on his
shirt bosom, inside of his vest, his right hand
holding scented cambria, he broke the por-
tentous silence with m authoritative wave OF
his arm and sneering threat at Nelson and
his party. For an hour he practiced gestures
and gestioulation. He quoted Shakespeare,
Byron, Patrick Henry, Calhoun and Cicero,
and seemed to imagine himself an embodi.
ment Of the genius Of them ell. There was
no train of argument in what be said, no facts,
no points, no anything but chivalric expires.
sions of modern Virginia. What he said
against the Republicans don't remember,
and Lamar had covered the same ground
much better. His taunts and sneers were
chiefly levelled at Nelson and the old line
Wings of the South who had not taken stock
in the disunion schemes Of the ire-eaters. -
Finally he ceased to be eloquent, and IL You
have any curiosity to know what be said, be-
hold, is il not Ia the Globe? 1t was the
young mans maiden effort and great were
the ansicpations of the chivalry before he
opened his mouth and waved his cambria and
began his sophomore Grafton.
Nelson promptly reioined. The crushing
out that Webster gave Hayne, or the extin-
gusher put on the late Gen. urary by the
SOHO Wagon Boy" was not more complete
and .eifectual. He wilted the yonngstar until
be cried, hold, enoughl The poor fellow
WAS weakling in the grasp of the vigorous
old TennesseeAn. Pryor frequently essayed
to cateohise him, but he caught q tartar each
time. At last, With an air OF triumph, he
ashed him the question, "Suppose Black
Republican should be elected President, for
instance, Seward, would you counsel sub
mission? Would you not then advocate dis
solution OF the Union ?n With great DELHI
GRAFTON he answered. eff ever w. III. Sew
ard il elected BY majority Of the electors,
fairly and according to the forms prescribed
BY law, would not only counsel Acquiesc-
ence, but would resist and repel oil attempts
to dissolve the Union. ! should wait until
the Republicans should commit some overt
act upon the rights Of the South. repeat
that the election of Republican President,
and the passing of the Governments into their
bands would constitute no sufficient reason
for the South to Withdraw from the Confed-
eracy. And let me tell the gentleman from
Virginia, that not even his own State would
sustaia him or the fire. eaters in a treasona-
bic as sauit upon the Confederacy, merely be-
cause the Republicans elected President
The patriotic sons OF the Old Dominion would
unfurl the stars and stripes and under it's
folds they would crush out the rebellion, and
preserve the Union.
s'While cannot give my concurrence to the
sentiments uttered By the gentleman to-day,
there is one remark he made not long since,
when editing the Douglas organ in this city,
pryor is now fercely anti Douglass and
used it very efficiently in our District last
summer, viz Prom the highways and by
ways, from the streets and lanes Of this CITY,
there comes up an insupportable stencil from
the corruptions Ut this Administration, which
the people throughout the country call aloud
TO have abated.'"
The Republican side OF the House and hall
the people in the galleries repeatedly ap-
plauded the speaker az he poured hot shot
and exploding bombshells into the camp oil
the fire. eaters. The victory over the Ultras
was complete and signal. When be 20,
through emolishing the sprig Of chivalry
and rebuking the fre-eaters, members gath.
cred around him BY scores and heartily CON.
graduated him upon his patriotic speech
The fre-eaters seemed to have no stomach
for any further words; they held ont naa
of truce, and agreed to let ballot for Speak
er be taken without further factious opposi.
ton.
Tho writer adds the following with refer
encs TO the present position and prospects o.
Douglas: ).
Douglas 10 reported 10 be down in th,
mouth, and desperately discouraged. II,
feels that hs ID used up-that be is political
ly dead, with no hope Of resurrection. AL
the Anti Lecompton men dsnounce him as
trailer to them and falss to his own pledges
Forney is indignant q him. Gen. Schwartz
who represents the old Gibraltar OF Peinsyl
vania (Berks,) says that be il worse than
LecoDptonite. McKibben, Of California
called on him and taxed him with ingrati
tude 20 the gallant BrodeTiok, and with hav
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