The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-01-21

| The Democrats and Americans, hsts saeh
other, politically speaking, with moro Bit
tsrnsss If possible than either Of them hass
the Republicans, snd there Is scarcely any
probability that they will bury the hatcnss'
and affiliate for the election Of . Speaker.-
| understand that several of the mail con-
tractors have thrown up their contracts, and
no doubt more Of them will follow suite
Were the members all pinched alike ior
funds, they would come to terms somehow.
but while the Republicans, Americana ana
Rebel Democrats, have to borrow At exor.
bitant premiums in order TO meet their nc
tual necessities, the faithful, it is said on
good authority, are receiving their accus-
toned pap from tho treasury, and as far ~
money is concerned, can hold out till the
close Of tho session.
Yours truly, W. II. K.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9th 1860.
DEAR Ep,roR The House has just I'D.
iourned till tomorrow and no Speaker yet.
The ballots yesterday and to. day, resulting
in deficiency of three votes for the election
of Sherman. Yesterday Hickman Of Penn,
in short and telling speech, scored the dc.
mocrats who were elected BY republican
votes, to the quick, for the course they were
pursuing, and smarting under the infection,
John G. Davis, of Ind, rose to define his
position, which he did in very singular
manner. He boasted that he received
good many democratic votes; he believed
all the American votes, and majority OF
the Republican votes in his district; and he
thought if the election had been two weeks
later he would have got every vote in the
district. While going on in this pompous
strain, Porter Of indianapolis rose and asked
him, if during the campaign which resulted
in his election, he did not repeatedly de-
ounce the bred Scott decision, and further
if at the great ratification meeting at In
dianapolis after his election, be did not
again denounce it. Davis said be did not,
Porter declared that he did, and produced a
copy of the Indiana State Sentinel, which
he said was certainly good Democratic au-
thority, containing synopsis of the speech
at indianapolis, which he wished to have
read at the Clerks desk. Great confusion
ensued. When Davis could get hearing
he said that whoever said be denounced the
bred Scott decision, during the canvass or
in the speech in question stated that which
was wilfully and maliciously false. At this
juncture, Dunn of Ind, arose and said that
he beard the speech of Mr.. Davis at Indian
apolis, and that he did denounce the bred
Scott decision, and that the general express
sion Of the people who heard him was, that
he made frst-rate Republican speech
Mr.. Davis was now very wroth and reiter-
ated what he had said before, that the state
ment was wllfully and maliciously false
Porter got considerably excited, but Dunn
kept admirably cool, and said in courts of
Justice the truth was established at the
mouth Of two competent witnesses, and here
were two such witnesses besides the sypop-
sis Of the gentleman's speech in the Senii-
mel. Davis stormed-said he was not to be
inundated, and other such nonsense, and
after the article in the paper was read, he
triumphantly exclaimed that the article it.
self proved wha. be said to be true as there
was no such thing as ''Dred Scott decision"
in it. He was right about that but it was
a most miserable subterfuge to get out of
bad scrape. For what he did denounce in
unmeasured terms was the fundamental
doctrine of that decision, namely, that under
the constitution, slavery exists in the terri
tories of the U. s., independent of local law.
This is virtually the bred Scott decision
and, because in his denunciations of this
doctrine, he had not used the words "Dred
Scott decsion," he had the effrontery to de-
clare that he had never denounced that de-
cision, and to give the lie to his colleagues.
Dunn said be was willing that the whole
thing should 60 back to Indiana, where they
were all known and the truth or falsty of
their assertions be decided by their constit.
uents. The affair must certainly lay Dasis
out politically, as cold as wedge," for
his uufairness was so palpable that all par
ties must despise him for it. lie has been
ppe-laying" for the Speakership ever
since the House met, but he has not ghost
of chance now, and in fact never had
ID. c. Garnette, of Virginia, and W. Parcher
Miles, Of South Carolina, made speeches
to-day, of the fire. eating type. Miles is
very gentlemanly fellow, however, and
treats everybody fairly, so far as his ultra
slavery opinions will allow him to. All
these speeches are for buncombe, and are
all rebash of the old cry, that the Repub-
licans must stop in their onward march, or
the Union will 60 to smash. Unless the
Plurality Rule is adopted, the contest for
Speakership will undoubtedly be prelon-
ged for several weeks, and it probably will,
at all events. Some of the Lecompton men |
swear that that rule shall nerer be adopted,
and you know few men set against it can
prevent its adoption as long as they choose.
On Wednesday, Mr.. Harlan made an able
speech in the Senate, in which be showed
concusively by logical argument, clinched
by carefully collected statistics that, the
policy Of the Republican party is to throw
open tho Territories of the U. S. to the oc-
cupnncy of the white race aid practically to
exclude the negro. This, will Of course,
make the eyes of Democrats protrude with
establishment, and probably incredibility
will step in, to their relief; but the speech
will be published, and if they will read it
without prejudice, they cannot help ac-
knowledging the force and truth of Mr..
Harlan's argument. This morning, in con-
versation with Gentleman of intelligence
and yeracity, residing in Fairfax County,
Virginia, learned fact in relation to one
of the sons of John Brown who was killed
at Harper's Ferry. A Mr.. - who keeps
a hotel at Fairfax Court House, and who
hoasfs that no il n lin II do condont of De-