New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-09
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Programme ef lie Biloxi Republicans Fa,.aes.
ieo,3h, Of Winois-.i Black bio,nonis,u ried az
d1tQfset 70 ne Helper booit--IAe Wake. Erpedi.
ton and Oh Broom Rdid-Jittlge Douglas aud
D.e Administration Of Arkansas, etc., etc.
Special 10 Inc New Orleans Daily eresccntt
WASHINGTON, Dec. rs, 1869.
| Ed. G,esce,,t-The Black Republican members
of the House have fully settled their programme
of action with respect to the election Of officers.
Should they succeed III placing their candidate in
the Speakers chair, which they hope to do ulti-
mately by persistent hard work and abstinence OF
speech, they will nominate a ticket for the other
officers of the House, with respect to the claims Of
the recreant factions who may assist them in the
crisis of the election of Speaker, and endeayor to
carry it by q resolution of the House. This, it is
calculated will save the details Of an election and
will afford better chance for the Republicans to
compass their ends.
fhe policy which the Black Republican MEM
bers of Congress have sought to maintain through
out the progress of the contest for Speaker, that
of costyeness Of debate, or Of absolute silence,
has been broken in upon since last wrote you, by
a very damaging speech from Mr.. Farnesworth, of
Illinois. The member from Illinois spoke under
the protest Of his party, who feared to hazard a
discussion before determination Of the contest
for tile organization OF the House. His TRADE Of
speech and his yenomous charges against the
Democratic party certainly did not benefit his
cause or the interest Of his party in the present
conjuneture of affairs.
The pointof Nh. Farnesworth's speech was an
attack upon book entitled "Black Diamonds"
published by Messrs. Pudney 4 Russell, Of New
York, which he claimed to be ian offset" to Help
er's handbook of instruction, inasmuch as it ad.
vocated, under the construction he puts upon it,
extreme notions of slavery and had been endorsed
by complimentary notices in the leading Demo-
| cratic papers Of the Union. The parallel between
the two books is prenosterous. "Black Diamonds
never was adopted by Democratic members Of
Congress as campaign document. and never was
commended by Southern Democratic papers ex-
cept literary grounds as the notices read at the
clerks desk show.
In alluding to references made in the Black
Diamonds work to Southern enterprises in the d.
rection Of tropical America, Mr.. Farnesworth with
frequent repetition and with triumphant air, COM
pared the so-called raid of Walker into Nicaragua
with the incurson Of Old Brown into Virginia. and
called upon Democratic members to point out
distinction in the moral aspects Of the two expedi
tions. This question was propounded on the Black
Republican side of the House, again and again,
With n sort If trriynnbnut et,sct and N
tisv;pr II 500 that hasa entfrrs io bad
ted themselves to former of Walkers
ENTERPRISE. were wholly unprenared ID answer the
unerile question. and again and again evaaed Il I'm
the most embarrassed manner. Even concedinr.
for the sake Of tie argument. that tho walker OK.
pedtion was lawless. there was no room whatever
for parallel between it and the atrocioHs, demon
iucursfon Of Brown into Virginia. II seems meyer
tn have occurred tn anv of tho debatars WIN wave
SO fustered 81 Mr.. me xpeete inter.
roratory to make the simple. obyious and trumnlt.
ant answer that we we're living il a Union. ANA
under obligations of confederate faith that make
,,eace tetween tle States tle naranoun4 obiact ~
law honor and natriotism
n, tho vav snealing Of the ueInsr pool, I'm
aerstand that h cobv il extant which yvaa ro,,nd
among ossawatomie Browns pikes. containing Tho
annotatfons of the immortal hero Of FTIarnert.
Ferry and that this precons relic l. d he exhfb
tied in Congress. Indeed the Helper Book. with.
out the annotations, is considered 10 much Of
curiosity that, al understand. orders for ii from
the South are pouring in upon the Northern book.
sellers. Letters here say that number of persons
in North Carolina have been Indicted for circuia-
ting the sanguinary book of their eountrvman.
Judge Douglas was in the House on Monday,
receiving the congratulations Of his many friends
upon his restoration 10 health. Near BY him, iii.
terchanging sautations with the members of the
House, was the robust, jolly-looking gooa.natnred
Secretary of the Treasury the imnlaeable onno.
nent of the Little Giant, IL was noticed that tha
Secretary ana the senator AID not salnte eao,,
Douglas nenetrates fbe social ,roo and IL ,a,