The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-03-14
Extracts from Washington Letters.

The correspondent of The Ohio State
Journal, writing under date of March Isl
says: -,....
Mr.. Seward delivered his great speech 10 the
Senate, yesterday, TO a tremendous audience
The only Senator who can draw snch crowd
is Mr.. Douglas, and he has never gathered
together, in the Senate room. more dense
ihrong As for the speech ITSELF you will
have read it, and can judge of it for yourself
1t is regarded here. by the Republicans, as a
great speech, worthy of the man and the occa-
casoD.7 MIR. Seward is no orator, and reads u
written speech, and it is painful to listen, SO
far as the delivery is concerned. But Mr.
Seward. yesterday, was more lively and ener-
geiic, in his elocution and manner, than is his
wont. He spoke two hours and half, and,
the moment he sat down, Douglas jumped TO
his feet, to make one of his od-fashioned
bnllzing. savage attacks upon MIR. Seward aud
the Republican party. 1t was worthy of him
in bis pamiest days. when he stood calaly by
and saw Sumner assaulted, q d replied to a
statement 10 this effect, that he did not inter
fere least his motives should be misnierpreted
1t was Douglas once more in the Kansas-Ne
braska contest, coarse. brutal. and ahounding
in faisehoods. Let me give bis opening stale
ment. He declared. in the loudest of tones
and 10 a very positive manner. that th2 South
was perfectly content with the Missouri Com
promi.e till The North violoted itbv refusing
10 carry the line through 10 the Pacific. Did
any one ever hear more outrageous fslsehood
than this? Did the North violate the Missouri
Compromise because California desired tG
ONE into the Union fee State? What haG
California to do with the Missouri Compro-
mise? The whole speech was of this charac-
| ter. 1t was nothing but a bid for the nomina-
ton at Charleston, and most miserable
one. too. The demagogue of Illinois was vel
replied to in short speech by his colleague
Mr.. Trumbull, and his false assumptions ant
sophistical arguments exposed.
The same correspondent under date o
March Sd, writes:
The reply of Mr.. Trumbull, of Illinois, Il
his colleagues abusive attack on Seward
made the afternoon on which Mr.. Edgerto
delivered his speech in the House, is locke
upon as severe castigatiou of the little dem
agouge. Gen. Nye, of NY, who heard th
entire debate, said of Trumbull, after hearin
his terrible excoriation of Douglas. He shout
be indicted for cruelty to animaIsi' Her
= is q specimen pf his speech He was showing
up the insincerity of Mr.. Douglas in his tai
about popular Sovereignty, when he remark
ed
'Why. sir, but short time ago the Terri
torial Legislature of Nebraska passed q bi
to exclude slavery from that Territory. Di
: it go into forcef Is it law? No, sir. VIII
4 not? My colleague says that the .Kansas-Nt
2 braska bill established this right. Well if
did establish it, why do not the people of NJ
braska have it2 They have tried to exclud
: slavery; their Legislature has voted to exclud
t it, and they have not accomplished it.
D Why7 Because he put it into the Kansas
1 Nebraska bill that majority of the people c
. Nebraska should not be permitted to exclud
slavery. He put it into that bill that th
: President Of the United States should appoiu
: Governor to rule over the people of Nebra'
ka; and when proposition was made to allo,
them to elect their own Governor that the
> might have Governor of their own choice
he with his friends, voted it down. and insiste
: upon sending Governor who is now ruin
! over that people by prohibiting them. .throug