Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-09-12

THE SPEAKING AT HARTFORD In com
paDy with large number Of our citizens
we went. 90 Monday. to Hartford to hear
the joint discussion between the candidates
for Congress.
We had Of course pleasant run" dow ID
there under the care of conductor Bloom
After an excellent dinner furnished by our
old friend Elijah Pound. who by the way.
is a staunch Breckinridge Democrat. We
repaired to the grove west of the town
where after some delay an inverted wagon
box was procured. aud the crowd seating
themselves around upon the ground, the
speaking comm need. Col. Nelson led off
and in a speech Of hour gave fair and
plain exposition of the living ISSUES that
divide the parties. FMS being the first
time We bad heard Mr. Nelson in a set
| speech. we were not only pleased but sur
prised, at the ease and grace OF his elocution.
He possesses magnificent voice that
rings out clear and smooth ~ clarion's
notes.
He took up Mr.. Voorhees, interrogatoriss
one by one and answered them fairly. can
didly and manfully
he then propouaded l4inteFrogatories to
Daniel and demanded plain. full and can
did answers.
He closed his hour with a must scath-
ing and whitening review Of Daniels rec
ord including his indianapolis speech.
Daniel. who manifested much restless
ness during the speech of Col. Nelson,
sometimes lying at full length on TIE !
ground. sometimes reclining on his elbow
and then setting bolt upright. cane for
ward aud prepared himself Tor the work by !
gargling his throat. very polite and refaed |
operation n the presence OF ladies and gen
tlemen
When Nelson left the stand Daniel arose
presenting much the aspect of a Spanish
bull, goaGed to madness by the shaking Of
a red rag ia the face. He CONNIE need IN a
husky hoarse voice betokening the pent up
wrath within, and almost on the instant
the froth commenced flying from his mouth
over the audience. He excused himself
from answering Nelson's interrosatories
by saying that it would require lin week
to write ont his views on some of them
Then he declared he had answered them
all time and again. He then declared he
would answer then and TODD him justice. He
did answer three of the fourteen, two of
hem cstegoricslly, aud The other by circum- .
Iocution. He said he would not vote to re-
peal the slave code OF New Mexico. He
would vote to'admit Kansas Immediately
10 regard to Utah, he considered polyga-
NY crime. Slavery was not crime
Therefore he would vote against the right
IF self government in one Territory and in
favor Of it in the other.
The questions, touching his opinion OF
James Buchanan and his Lecompton poll
~. be lodged completely saying that it
" as dead issue. When that was before
he people he did the best he could,
& he was wrong then he was in com.
Dany with many eminent statesmen who ,
,gyeed with him. Dan iel h branched off ,
IN to his favorite clap trap. NEGRO equal
ty," Abolitionism," "Josn Brown"
Helpers Impending Crisis" bowling like
even wild bulls Of Bashan, and flinging
lis filthy saliva over the audience. {
His speech was a characteristic one. ven
'mous, bitter and demagogicial /. Daniel
Won however glorious triumpb-lhree OF
lie self. We had very innocently taken q
eat on the wagon box. which served as | Z
and had listened quietly and re- /,
pectfully to the speech of Col. Nelson,
md when Daniel arose we. forgetful Of the /
Iwful majesty Of the great man who had |
TODD filed with awe in the presence Of the
Freshmen class of the Virginia University.
o toady to the slave sristocracy, and viii
y the place to his birth and the people
rom whom he asks office, sat still :and lis.
ened with the came outward show OF re- r
pect, at least. with which we had listened B
O Mr.. Nelson. In the mi list OF one Of his c
litter passages, Daniels eye suddenly fell ,
IN us. turning To US with the fury Of
lend, aud belching forth like malignant $
levil he exclaimed you needn't try to {
AXE that down. Yo-u.uu cant under
tand what ] an talking about "His tri !
mph was complete, he had at once g
hown HIMSELF biaekguardas well as dem 4
.. - ii 4
n disgusting many of his political friends
rhe glory of the triumph however was not
altogether one sided. For who would 5
lot esteem II glory enough to be vauquish- !
d by C@sarl q
What we, the poor, ignorant unlettered,
unknown "localler" TO be this noticed IT,
crowd. by the great Daniel Webster.
Ioorhses--whose fame ia commensurate
With creation-who defended the land pi-
ate and murderer John Cook. and who
poke piece tefore some boys in the Uni h
'ersity Of Virginia, who was repudiated a
by the people Of the Sth Congressional
District; who had has rounded honor heal.
ID by an Office from James Buchanan, on
that be would swear 10y Lecomp y
on. aud abuse Douglas and his friends. I
who moved to the 9TH District TO get an. a
other chance to run for Congress, who was
given the nomination on condition that he
would desert the man by whom for the !
asst few years he had been fed. To be no
iced thus, was perfectly overwhelming
glory enough for one day certainly. His
triumph over Mr.. Young, plain honest
farmer who presumed to intimate that he
was opposed to the polygamy and negro
loving Democracy, was equally creditable
10 the author Of the american Citizen" so
loo was his triumph over young Wide
Awake who stood quietly by. listening to
the wild rawlings of this political mounie-
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