Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-01-27
Delamart Mazetff.
Delaware. Jan. ~, 1860.
CONGRESS-.

CONGRESS.
A ballot was taken for Speak .r fthe first for
ten days. on Wednesday. MIR. Sherman
re ceived within three votes of the number no-
cessary to elect the larger portion of the
Democratic votes being cast for Bocock, with
the usual number scattering. There were ru-
mors of a contemplated change of programme
on the part of the Republicans, looking to a
concentrations Of their strength on a new man
(Messrs. Corwin and Pennington both being
nlned in that connecticut but it does not ap-
pear that there is mich ground for them. The
Southern Democratic members have entered
into a written agreement to pre- vent tie adop-
ton of the plurality RUE. and all hope of an
election in that way has been abandoned. A
plan now talked of is to drop the lowest candl-
date on each ballot, which in the end would
narrow the contest down TO the two highest
candidates and result in an election by the ma
jority-
On Tuesday Ex-Gov. Corwin made a speech
III the House occupying four hours, which Is
said to have been the most brilliant effort of his
life. and was attentively listened to by 4 crowd
ed audience. He ably vincated the Republi-
cans against the assaults and misreprSs,nta-
cratic side, and noticod with becoming spirit
the threats of the fre4 aters to dissolve the
Union in case of the election of a Republican
President.
In the Senate on Tuesday, Toonbs of Geor-
gia, made a furious disunion speech, and was
replied to with ability and spirit by Mr.. VIII
Ciingman and JEFF. Davis, both of whom in
brief speeches followed in the wake Of Toomb".
We copy the following brief notice of the
speech of the Massachusetts, Senator
MIR. Browns resolutions, that the territories
are the common property of all the States
came up, and Mr.. Wilson spoke at great
length. Among his remarks he said, in no
country of Christendom were freelnen subject
cd to such insults and ind gnities as in the slave
} holding States of this American Republic
Southern statesmen admitted that the opinions
of Southern men had undergone a revolution
and this change had effected the policy of tie
General Government. The power of the slave
holding class was obtained through the instru-
mentality of the Democratic party, which was
forced to carry the flags, ana bear the burdens
of the privileged Class.
He recountcd a history of events from the
close of the Mexican war to the present time,
!, to show that the democratic party had been
compelled to act always in the interests of the
slave power. The slavery propaganda desired
Cuba and Mexico, in order to extend slavery,
aid it was to arrest this aggressive policy, and
restore the government to the policy of its
founders, that the republican party was organ
lied. They believed that slavery was loca!
and sectional-tha Congress or the people OF
the territories could prohibit slavery in those
points. They had overthrown it in nearly all the
free states.
MIR. Wilson pronounced the threats OF
Southern men, to dissolve the Union in the
event of the election of a Republican President,
as Il disunion farce which had been played Ill
1856 and was to be repeated now. The nor
thern Democrats who were ~fatiguing the wea-
ry ear of the country with worn out professions
II " IOhO " lHS HUI, ANlNd " " NUM- VAN
| disloyal threats of their leaders, and were will
ling to continue the destinies OF the country ii
the hands of men who avowed their intention
+ to rule or ruin. lie interpreted Senator
Clingman's remarks to mean, that they who ia
< vorcd a dissolution of the Union did not Intend
: to leave the Capital, but were ready for a gen
eral collision-a bloody struggle in the Halls o
! Congress.
In reply to this threat he lad to say thai
y Northern Senators could not be intimidated by
it. They were here not 10 fight, but to legis,ate
He would give the Senator from North Cara
8 lima notice, that should they be assaulted herr
with deadly intent while i'll the discharge o
their duties, these assaults would be repealed
I, and rctaliated by sons who will not dishono1
their fathers who fought at Bunker Hill, anC
conquered at Saratoga. Though reluctant IL
enter upon such "a struggle they would not II
, bandon it in dishonor.
The American Democracy, led and contro,
led by slavery prodagandiEts. stood before th'
. nation as the enemy of human progress. H.
recounted the wrongs it had perpetrated in
Kansas and elsewhere, and closed 10y expires
sing the hope that the intelligent patriotism Of
. the people would rcbuke the mad exhibit IN o
D folly and fanaticism which would silver the
e Union into fragments. And proclaimed in tht
I language of jackson, "the Union must ant
D shall be preserved"