Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-02-02
affairs at Washington.


some prospect of the House being organized
during this week. A little idea OF what has
been the gist of the proceedings for few days,
will therefore be interesting. On Monday OF
last week, Douglas made bid for Charleston,
which was so bold faced, as to carry its defeat
along with it. On Tuesday, Senator Toombs'
who made a threat that he would one day call
the roll of his slaves at the foot of Bunker
Hill Monument, made violent dsunion speech,
from which we make the following extract;
&" Men no longer regarded the compact by
which they were bound, and disregarded the
ties which united them together. Now the
time had arrived when the success of particu-
lar party brings us face to face with revolution.
1t was time to seek the remedy, The threats OF
the Senators from Maine and Illinois to keep it
down by force, wont avail. Until they had
come out of the contest with victorious ban
ners, they had better refrain from boastings and
threats. The foundation of society was threat
ened and endangered. Virtually we were in
state of civil war. A large body Of the repre-
sentativcs here are enemies to the country
ready to trample on the fundamental laws Of
the country. The Democratic party were never
truer to the Constitution than during the last
seven years and because they were SO, a COM
bination was formed to place party in power
whose success is inconsistent with the peace of
the country.
He charged the Republican party more in
sorrow than in anger, with having stricken
down the fundamental principles Of the gov
eminent. They sought to deprive the Southern
people of equal right in the Territories, and to
overturn the decisions of the Supreme Court
through individual members of State Legisla-
lures, and by overt acts seeking to invade the
right of one section of the confederacy. He
argued these allegations at length. In nine
States in the Union the clause of the Constitu-
ton for the rendition of fugitives from labor
was dead letter.
The Republicans are undertaking to elect a
man Speaker who could not travel througho
what was called our common country 1t was
not common for such men, and he hoped to God
it never would be. Many thousands of Re
publicans looked upon John Brown as a mar
tyr, and all of them were lost in admiration
that one man could be found amongst them who
was ready to die game. He urged harmony
among all patriotic men to preserve the country
! -LuNOkeu IIltIn w uleISSdLu uleoIduAO uoo"uO
tions, and concluded with glowing tribute to
the South and Virginia. The latter, who had
borne the burden OF, the Revolutionary war, had
been invaded, and the blood of her children
shed. The South was anxious to avenge hel
wrong. One blast from Virginia would sum.
mon million men t. her aid. He pronounced
the success of the Black Republican party a
cause for secession. The South should never
let the Republicans get hold of the reins o.
Cove nment-she should not wait for overt acts
! War was already declared, and blood had been
shed. She should meet them at the threshold
and drive them back, or tear down the pillar
of the temple of liberty, and whelm all in uni
versal ruin
On Tuesday, Mr.. Corwin, of Ohio, concludes
speech in every way the reverse Of that of Mr.
Toombs. So that if we had headstrong VIC
lence, passion, and Disunion rampsrt in on
wing of the Capitol from the Democratic side
we had genius, and patriotism, and moderation
and geniality, in the other wing, from the Re
publican side of the House. The contrast be-
tween the two displays could hardly be greater
and that contrast points the just distinction be
tween the Democratic and Republican partie
10 Congress. The one is loquacions, brawling
disputatious, threa tening and reasonable, men
acing violence and Disunion every hour of ever
day the other, quiet and taciturn, attending
to their proper duties in peaccable and becom
ing manner, aiming to end existing disorders b.
organizing the House, and by moderation i
the expression Of their opinions, with no aim
and no purposes not dictated by patriotic senti
ments.
The interest in Mr.. Corwin's speech is al
the greater, from the fact of there being re
mote prospect of his being I'm lily electe
Speaker.
On Wednesday, Senator Wilson, of Massa
chusetts, made telling speech in exposing tn
reasonable doctrines of the Democracy, an
their foolish and continued threats of disunion
Mr.. Wilson's speech was made up principally Q
extracts from other Senator's speeches, brlngin
them face to face with their own language.
had its effect.
The House took vote for Speaker, with tn
following result:
Necessary for choice l08
Sherman los
Bocock 81
Smith of N. G.. 26
On Thursday the proceedings proved NOR
interesting, as 1T was finally agreed that Their
should be number of ballotingS each day 70
Speaker. In the Senate, Senator Davis of Mis-
sissippi, attacked Douglas position, and de