Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-01-25
ONGR sSIONAL.
XXXvI CONGRESS-FIRsr SKssIsS.
WASHINGTON. Jan.

| they had put IN nomination one who ha'
not endorsed the circulation a book coun
selling rapine, ,insurrection and blaodshed
there would have been no prolonged op
position to his election or an allusion {,
the white slaves of the N orthern factious.-
He said John Brown was a tool of the Re
publicans and no Republican could skull
the responsibility. Public opinion woulc
gibbet them as effectually as the hemJ
that strangled John Brown. If Mr.. Hick
man could march his Northerners to th,
South the Northerners would be welcomed
to hospitable graves, the black mantle ol
Republicanism covered with Sherman anc
Helper. 1t was an insult to the South II
insist on Mr.. Shermen for Speaker. Th'
Democrats should unite ON one Of thei
own party and vote for him to the end o.
the contest, whether it ended tomorrow o.
the 4th of March 1861.
Mr.. Leake caused an article from the N
Y. Courier 4 Enquirer TO be read, and de-
MED tha. he had ever said on this fieol
that the election OF Mr.. Sherman was JUS
cause for the dissolution of the Union. III
thought it the intermediate step. Ee de
MED the truth Of the Oonrier's assertion
that they wanted to reduce the six millions
of whites in the South to slavery.
Mr.. Colfax thought it q plain fact so &C.
knowledged by several Southern Demo.
Gratis, that they have signed paper pledg'
ing themselves to resist, by all parliamen-
tary stratagem, a vote on the plurality rule
Adjourned.
sENATE.-Mr. Douglas resolution in
GtructiDg the judiciary to report bill for
the better suppression of Invasion, DC,
was specially assigned for 80 p. m.
Monday night, battle of length took
place on the point, whether The Senate had
a right to transact any business until the
House organizes. The Senate finally, by
a vote Of As to laid over.
APPOINT of order 10 that effect, and refer
ring private bill on which the debate had
sprung up. to tho committee on private
land claims.
Five thousand FIVE hundred extra copies
Of the Treasury Report were ordered te be
printed.
Adjourned ill Monday.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Goth.
Senate not in session.
HOUSE MIR. Curtis said the eyes OF
the country are upon the House, and they
must extricate themselves from their pres
ent position. The previous question on
Mr.. Hutchins' plurality resolution having
been called, it must be decided, and till
then all debate is out of order.
The Clerk remarked that while he was
willing to submit any question to the
House the gentleman from Iowa could take
the floor from the gentleman from Missouri
to press his point.
Mr.. Holes opening remarks were almost
unintelligble in the reporters gallery
owing to the prevalent confusion. He ar.
gued that secession did not originate in
the South, but in Massachusetts, during The
war of 1912.
He mentioned that three.fourths of the
country were with the South on the real
question at issue, which is one of power
aad of watch slavery is more in the ascen.
dancy.
A Colloquy between Messrs. Fsrnsworth
and McClernand as to the position of the
Illinois Democracy and the subject of sla-
very in the territories, and in which Mr.
Morris subsequen ntly took part.
Mr.. Pryor rose 10 a personal explana'
ton; he referred to an article in the n. 7
Herald of yesterday, in reference to him
saying he was under no obligations to re-
spond to any issue from the pen or imagin
alton of James Gordon Bennett--a notori
Gus individual. and conspicuous by his po.
sition and labored violations of all the
rights of humanity-who had supplied
himself with money and means by extort
ing contributions from the tears of inter
est-a wretch who bears on his back the
scars of many merited scourges, and Whose
heart is tainted by every conceivable con
tamination; mlscreant. consentiug to The
dishonor of his own family-a crime
which no language is commensurate to ex
press; foul and loathsome creature, who's,
name is worthy of execration, and from
whose contact truth and virtue shrink; ,
fiend, denied the friendship of the socia
circle-a man covered with infamy, shame
and the opprobrum of humanity.
Mr.. Pryor asked Mr. Millson whether i
was true as the editor stated. that he hat
been rebuked the other day for Language
used in debate.
Mr.. Millson replied that he intended ;
personal rebuke. but his design was to pro
tect the decorum of the House. Their
were other trausgressions of the rules o
order that day, and he had determined,
possible to arrest this sort of discussion
which might lead to calamitous results.
Mr.. Pryor said his colleagues explana
ton was satisfactory, but there remained
an issue between his colleague and him
self. he understood his colleague to sa
that the employment of his term no mad
use of was unparliamentary, for which
one might Justly be called to order. q
(Pryor) now proposed to vindicate himsel
from the charge of infracting the dignit
Of parliamentary discussion by the indi'
criminate use Of the term. He remarke
that Mr.. Hickman had made an injuriou
and uafounded imputation on the chara'
ter OF the South, and his colleague, undo
that impression, reversed the obligatiC
and stigmatized his sentiments as false.-
[ The word false did not necessarily impl
} an insult. The gentleman's statemel
may be false; yet he may not intend
untruth. Was there any phase more leg
| timatef If the speeches of Fox, Burk
E Clay, Randolph, aud others, be referred
, it would be found that they had used th
1 term. He understood that Mr.. McClernar
4 the other day, stigmatized some stateme
of Mr.. Hickman's as false; and Mr.. Nor
..,oo,x had annlied the term falsehoOd