Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-03-25

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lowing is more full and graphic descrip.
ton of the scene, and will well repay Pc
rusal
From decision, C, res ,on ie A. rhs N,x York T,
Land for the -LandIess NIsssrs for the
NigEerIess
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 1859.
/ The telegraph and your Special will
! have given you the details OF the intellectual
! feast in the Senate last night But it was
spicy that il will bear serving up the
aecond time, and in diluted form
/ At the close OF weary day with John
Doe and Richard Roe, | learned, about nine
O'clock, that the Senate were still ia session
on the Cuba bill. entered the gallery Just
in time to hear the close of Mr. Kennedy 5
speech. when Mr.. Wode, OF Ohio, got the
floor and moved an adjournment, so that he
having determined in cancus that thcy
would take the final vote on the bill at that
sitting. though it extended into Saturday
! night, refused TO ADJOURN.
| Mr.. Doolittle now moved to lay aside
Cuba, and tAke up the Homestead bill.
The few Cubans who favor this latter i'm.
plored Dutte not to injure the Homestead
by antngonzing it with "this great measure
of foreign policy" He warned them that
tile country would regard this as test vote.
/ They WINGED and The skirnish went on.
The debate on the relative merits of tn
two measures. inter,ninGlcd with questions
OF order, now became general. TrumbuIl
struck the admirable point, tia; it was wiser
to take up and pass bill that disposed of a
portion Of the surplus land we now had,
than 10 waste time on one which proposed
to buy more. Seward pronounced the
Cubah fJray mere partisan scheme. whose
friends knew 1t could not by any possibility
pass the Lower House, while The Home
stead could become a law, by the action OF
the Senate in ten minutes. He briefly con-
trasted the two points-oue to enlarge the
domain OF the Slave power, and restore and
maint lin the supremacy OF cpmpuls ,ry labor
in the tropics-tha othe-, 10 give land 10 the
landless, and furnish homes TO free !uburers
in own country. He was emphatic,
but entirely parliamentary and respectful in
tone and language.
After little brush on the point Of order
Toombs got the ,or. To understand the
scene that followed, you must know that
Seward and Wilson sit on the rear row OF
chairs, and Tuombs, Wade and BENJAMIN
imme mediatcly in irlnt OF them in the next row
w ade having TooInbs on his riuht and
Benjamin on his lelt-and all five being in
close proximity TO each other. little fur
ther off to the let, of Benj4m sits Fcssen-
den. Toombs directed his speech entirely |
to Seward. Always impassioned and furi us |
he was now extraordinarily vehement in |
tone, vi)Ient in gesticula ion, aud ab s've
in language. He called Seward u dems-
gogue-a small demagogue-said he despis
ed all demagogues, detested small dema-
gogues in particular, but more especially
plted and despised those who could be driv~
en- by small demagogues, bringing his fist
in the vicinity of Vado's desk as he uttered
the last clause. He accused the r .pubil-
cans i'll body Of cowardce, personal and
p Jlitical-ot skulkng the issue of Cuba, and
in the shoes at its mere name.
He ruug the changes on Stewards term,
Land for the landless,' aud sneered at the
'lacklanders," ne he called them, of whom
the Republicans were afraid, sc. Ii smotc
his own desk violently, occasionally reached
over and struck Stewards, kept his back to-
ward the chair that he might turn his face
toward Seward, ever and anon thruSting his
hand alnust in his face. and pushing mad
against Wade's chair; all this time
his face glowing with passion, and his air
and mein and tone su.g ssting the ierocity
OF Danton, combined wib the maligni'y of
Murut. During his short speech portion
OF the galleries kept up running accom-
paniment of feeble gusts of laughter.
Nearly all eyes had been fixed on Toombs
and Seward--the latter cain; and pale, and
looking steadily at his asssilsnt. But the
few who knew Wade well, had not failed