Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-01-28

lieve we can yet 20 TO work and organize this
house, and aHmihhtef its power with i'm.
pertiality. Whenever my friends are sat
is6ed they can combine large number Of
votes either by majority or plurality, |
will hot stand in my present position an hour,
will cheeriulk retire from the field and
give to any other gentleman who will aG-
cept, the barren honors Of the Speakers
chair. Applause.
Mr. CLARK, of Missouri, expressed his as
tonishment that the gentleman had taken
the ground that he had lie had by his
remarks destroyed the last hope that he
| (Clark would withdraw the resolution. 1t
attacked no man Individually. 1t denounced
as incendlafy the doctrines of the Helper
book. and the only assertion was that the
hdn who endorsed Il is not ft to be Speaker.
| The gentleman said he aud his Republican
friends had been abused, and that the debate
has been conducted in personal spirit
The Democratic side are not to blame for
that The gentleman spoke too Of bad
blood being produced by the introduction
of the resolution, but bad blood was stirred
up before Congress assembled. The Old
Dominion that has stood from the days of
the Revolution, had been stained with blood
10y the acts of the Republican party, and
could the gentleman complain, when that
territory had been invaded and the rights
of the State assailed ond her safety imper-
riled by the circulation of that document,
that Objection to his election should be per-
sisted in. The gentleman has passed the
day Of grace, he has deem arraigned before
the country. He(Clark) would never with
draw the resolution.
CoRwIN AND DouGLAs.-A Washington dis
patch Of the 23d, says
Senator Douglas in the Senate to-day
eat vast deal of Southern dirt, in return
for which he expects the Charleston nomi-
nation. Douglas announces that the preach
ing of the principles and doctrines which
caused j ohm Browns raid upon Virginia,
still continues and must be stopped. While
he was in the Senate humiating himself
before the American people, of whom vast
audience listened to him, Corwin in the
other wing of the Capitol, in the presence
of thronged galleries and a fall House, all
vocated in powerful speech the principles
of the Fathers of the Republic, and de-
nounced the disunionists.
His speech was distingued by all his pc
cular characteristics of eloquence, humor,
argument and illustration He demonstrat-
ed that the principles advocated by the Re
pn6lcans in resisting the extension Of Slave
ry were those of the fathers, and that the
camor against them now came from the de-
seeudants of the very men who had sustained
the ordinance Of '87. The South was ex-
tremely restive under his hard hits, and
MeSSrs. Lamar, Keitt Barksdele and others
attempted to break their force, but only. to
suffer more by the encounter.
LECoNProN, the scene of so much political
iuiquity and corruption has became stencil
even in the nostrils of locofocosm. The name
is in disgrace, equally as affects the town, the
constitution, and the cbefjustice. In the leg
islatnre of Kansas, just separated on an adjourn
ment to new capital, there was no voice for
Lccompton except from the owners of corner
lots, the essees of hotels, and the government
hirelings When the governor vetoed the Law
renee bill, the democrats kindly refrained from
voting in ordef that the republicans might re-
enact it by the required two-thirds. A large
majority Of the members then at once left L.
compton by every available mode of convey
ance, without waiting for supper, and some Of
them even without waiting to pay their bills
J THE U. s. SENAroRsHIP We learn by the
State Journal that the Republican members
of the Legislature held joint caucus in the
Hall of the House on the evening Of the lltb,
and unanimously resolved to meet in caucus on
the lst of February, to nominate a candidate
for United States Senator. The Journal says
alt is generally conceded that Salmon p.
Chase will be Senator, and by the unanimous
Republican vote, after the caucus nomination ,
People who get "into the midst" of At
lanta, Ga. must be doubly "sound on the
goose" The Atlanta C0nfederacy says -
I'VE regard every man in our midst an
enemy to the Institutions of the South
"who does not boldly declare that he or
she believes African slavery to be So
" cial, moral and political blessing. Any
"person holding other than these senti-
ments, whether born at the South or
" Nortb;'is unsound, and should be request
ed to leave the country"
The ap6logists for slavery in these diggins
are beginning to take this ground They say
they are ashamed of the dodging, and unsatis-
factory apologies they are compelled to offer
for slavery-virtually admitting that the argu-
ment is against them. With the Rev. Mr. Van
Dyke, Charles 0'Connor, aud the atlanta Con-
.federacy, they are prepared to go the figure,
and assert that slavery is a diyiuey sanctioned
institution, and nothing is too sacred to be made
to protect the hallowed institution. This is all
right in political ethics; in this case it is nevi-
table, "go the whole hog or nothing"
FURTHER INYEsTIGATIoN.-The Tribune says
that it is understood to be the intention of some
of the Republicans, as soon as the House is Or
ganzed, to move for a Committee to inquire
whether there have been any recent violations
Of that clause Of the Constitution which pro-
vdes that "The citizens of each State shall be
entitled to all privileges and immunties of citi-