Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-01-07

/ Mr. Seward stood before the country as per-
jured traitor, and this man, with his hands
stained with the blood of our citizens, it was
proposed to elect as our President He might
be President for the north, but never for the
south.
Mr. JOHN CocHRANE said the Democrats
were not yet prepared to vote for Speaker,
as Mr.. Curry is confined to his bed through
sickness. AS his friends were unable to effect
pair Tor him, they were compelled to senu
forshim. He moved to adjourn.
Mr.. CoLFAx said he had been authorized TO
pair Mr. REYNOLDS off with Democrat.
Mr. CocHRANE said he did not consider Mr..
Reynolds in the same position as MI curry,
Mr., UIcKMAy claimed the floor, in order to
move the plurality rule.
Mr. HoUsToN regarded the course OF Mr.
Hickman in offering to amend the motion to
proceed to an election, as unprecedented and
supplementary.
MIR. BR1GGs wished to define his position.
He said he had been assailed by private letters
and by Geographic dispatches, and by per-
son claiming to be his constituent. 1t had been
represented that he had said he was a Repub-
lican, and that they took him at his word and
elected him. He would scorn to violate any
honorable pledge. His political position was
known to every man, woman, and child in his
district for the last twenty years. He then
reviewed at great length the history OF his po-
litical life to the last congressional election,
when he was elected as an American opposed
to the Kansas policy of the administration. He
had never said he would vote for Republi.
can in a party sense but he did say that he
could vote for such men as Corwin, Pen
nington, and men of national views. He de
Tended the Americans from the charge of pro-
scription, and pointed for illustration to the
fact that, at the last election in New York, it
was the cause of the election of half the Dem
cratic state ticket. He was the only representa-
tive here from the north as an embodiment OF
American sentiments, affording nucleus
round which all national elements could rally.
JOHN CocHRANE in reply said there was at
the last Fall election, a body Of patriotic men
who approached halfway to the Democratic
party and half the state ticket. He congratu-
lated his colleague that thus much was accom-
plished
Mr. McKEoN asked Mr.. Cochrane whether
he accepted the Buffalo platform.
Mr. CocHRANE responded that the purity OF
the democratic party could bear even that.
But let me advise the gentleman to forsake the
miseries and tempests of the past, and advance
to where calm and better breeZeS blow.
Laughter 1t had been announced what
mountains had to be scaled, rivers passed,
and midnight darkness penetrated, by
those who were in search of the truth.
These things beset the barn-burners OF
New York, ere they wandered through, but
it was not until they reached some beetling
cliff, from which they looked down on the
plains below, and exclaimed, Chow goodly are
thy tents, o Israeli" (Laughter.) He made
an appeal to his friends on the opposite side OF
the House, to reform their politics and travel
the same road as himself.
Mr.. STANToN-What will they find at the
end of that road Any spoils
Mr.. CocHRANE-Oh, you will not find any
Of the flesh pots of Egypt. You may find the
promised land, where principles are found, and
where tile lion and the lamb lie down together
! (Roars of laughter.l You will find it in the
Democracy, which pervades and will save the
| Union. He did not know he had made use OF
the term "proscriptve," in speaking of the
American party, but it was now like dissolving
views OF the past.
Mr.. CURRY having been brought to the
| House from his sick room, Mr.. Cochrane with
drew his molten TO adjourn. The House pro
ceeded to vote, which resulted as follows: