The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-12-22
From washington.
Correspondence of the Press & Tribune, condensed.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Is, II p. NJ

speech-making. The southern fire has siacRened,
either because the spouters have run out OF am
munition or have had of their guns dismounted
and tn mines sprung inside of their lines. The re
publicans stand stubbornly on the defensive and al
low the Democratsto exhaust their fret vain eorts
to draw the Republicans out of their intrsncpmeh's
lie. the House be organized and then will give you
battle the open plain.
The sneecbes this week have been made entirely
by the Lecomptonites and the Anti-Lecomptonites.-
In bebalf OF the latter we have had speeches from
| c,arl uaskins Hickman and Adrian. On that Of the
former, by Stewart Of Maryland, Noel of Missouri
I Dan. sickIes of New York, and Ex-Gov. McRea o
| Mississsippi who las n OF vet finished. The Admins
tration speeches have lacked point and vigor. Stew
arts speech was long rambling, incoherent rigma
role about the everlasting rights Of the ngger-breed
ing oiigarchy. -.a., ........7 r... ...'.s -sE'
| Judge Kilgore OF Indiana, inquired, If Mr.. Sewar
should be elected President, Mr.. Bocschwoud consd
or that sufficient cause for the dissolution OF TIN
Union? Stewart replied that he would not answe
unless Mr.. Sherman would submit to catechis'he.-
(Bocock is Disunionist.) Kgore replied that shsr
man would define his position If Bocock would ~
Hassin, of New York, defended himself a. aims
charges and walked into the Administration. II
fearful array of allegations against them,
broken pledges betrayals of plghted faith, of apps
tacy to principles of populations, and plunderng tn
Treasury aud auandering the revenues, and eatin
up the substance Of the people There never has beer
he said so corrupt, rotten, or unprincipled an AZ
ministration. He was listened to with the closest
} tention all Sides and was warmly applauded D
the Republicans and Opposition. . $1,000.
II is unnecessary to describe Noel's speech. 1t
rs weak as dish water. p -E ..... 'H 81. cre-
2 Hickman got the floor, and made a specie speaks
all s1a<rn .,sx-ay,
with clear, ringing voice, an the most indo
of manner, that holds the attenh spare built man,
! lent and careless auditor. Fwith grey, and sharp,
light hair, sandy whskers reyes and erect port and
decided features clear,elf firmly, but not haughty;
bearing lie carrieor bravado in his manner or
: there is no swaIke a man holding earnest convic-
speech. He nd duty, and utters them fearlessly.-
!, tions of r'the charges made against him. To the
He rera he was in the market, ne retorted that he
y chpeen offered more than he worth to betray
n constituents He had been communicated by
mis- party, because he had refused to become dough
face and do the dirty work Of the sIaveholders but
had been sent back to rebuke treacherous President
and expose rotten party He defed the jackals OF
patronage and the courers OF power. He was perse-
cted by the Administration, because he defended the
rights and interests of the North A man might sup
port every of the Democratic party but still
be accounted hereto If he refused single exaction
OF the slave holders. He might oppose all Democratic
measures with impunity, and be considered first
rate Democrat, provided he subservien to slave
~. The Democratic party had become mere ma
chine to fetch and carry for few slave holders. IT
longer looked to the rights of the masses. II had
become purely sectional organization, and that
ton the minority and it has the eGrontery to call
itself national!
He claimed that the North had rights as wen as the
South though this classed the people
ofthe free States with the negroes and held that they
had no rights which it was bound to respect The
North had serious charges prefer against the South
the violation OF all covenants compacts and compro-
misses. She had proven faithless from the beginning,
and stop must be put to her aggressions upon the
their patience and forbearance exhaust
ed. They would submit more.
1t was useless to peace when there Is peace.
II the Constitution framed anew it's compromises
could again be entered into and they could
have been bnt for the solemn conviction that slavery
was to retrograde. In those compromises the South
gained slavery representation the fugitive slave law
and exemption from taxation upon exports, while
the interests Of freedom got only the implied pledge
that after fsns the Importation of Africans should
cease. The South to-day in full possession ofthe
benefits of all the compromises of the Consultation,
with slave representation Of about twenty members
this floor. fugitive slaveIav. and exemption from
export duties and before the flowers came gain they
- be told that the African slave trade must not
be be closed That trade was virtually re-opened al
ready and Southern courts had refused to punish Of
tenders. In 1870, when Missouri was admitted as
slave State the South gave the North asolemn pledge
that slavery should go north of the southern
line oe that State; yet, after reaping all the beneht
they could from that compromise the South swept A.
away. The compromise Of the great COMPROMISED,
Henry Clay, in 1892 only paralysed Northern trade
and industry. He would cons der the compromises Of
1880 and 1854 together, single compact. After
the North had bought California into the Union the
South gave the North solemn guarantee that if they
would adopt the principle Of the Kansas Nebraska
BILL they would abide by it, but now, if there was any
Southern representative ofhat principle in the House
he had maintained respectful silence. He had moth
ing to do with the motives for the passage of the Ne
braska bill, but doubted what its effect would
be- The South expected that it would promote the in
terests Of slavery, but from the moment that failed
to plant Slavery in Kansas the South had repudiated
it, and to-day the South would have nothing to do
with squatter sovereignty. Here were fpe rcOapro-
misses which the South had enteredinto with the North
reaping the advantages of ALL far she could, and
then eiotating ecery one Of them. These charges
must be answered here and elsewhere, and the South
had got TO odsh her hands of these things or leaoe The
Federal o9fces The South had rights bat not all the
rights; the North had few. He would not within old
from the south any of its rights He would treat
her like younger sister, and give her more than she
is entitled to but when she demanded of the North
her right that to which she had claim, he would
deny her. That he understo ID to be the prevailing
sentiment Of the day for the country had politics
now but "ngger.'' Laughter The only question
shall slavery follow the sun, and travel into all
the Territories. That would be the great question in
the next Presidential contest.
loud applause broke from the floor and galleries.
mixed with Southern Kisses, at the enunciation Of
these bold and telling sentiments. But the climax
was not yet. He went on to say:l
The Democratic party had been bankrupted by
James Buchanan, for there to-day not Northern
State and scarcely Northern county, that could be
carried on the doctrines of Mr.. Buchanan. He want
ed the party to put Itself right az Charleston and 1t
would not put itself right to put itself plainly wrong
He wanted neither North nor South deceived, and
platform like that made Cincinnati with northern
and a southern Interpretation would answer again
slavery should travel with the column Of adyanc-
ing civilization, then express it plainly, and receive
northern verdict upon it. '#. ".a
II the existing state Of thnt should lead TO at
tempted dissolution of the Union, he had seen
the northern man who doubted that the north would