St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-03-29

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country.
REuB. DAVIS" VIII you 60 out
side Of the District and test the qucs-
ton of personal courage with any
Shareholder
VAN WYcK-"I travel anywhere,
and without fear Of any one. For the
first eight weeks Of this session you
stood upon this floor continually libel
ing the North and the people Of the
Free States, charging them with trca-
son and all manner of crimes; and
now you are thrown into a great rage
when | tell you few facts. If gen
tlcmCn are 50 sensitive in regard to
their own feelings, why had they no
respect for the feelings Of others,
when for two months they dealt in
little less than wholesale dcnuncia.
tioms of the people of the North and
trcaSonable threats against the Union
unless they were allowed to rule it."
Davis again interrupted, and the
Speaker Washburnc of Illinois in the
Chair, ordered him to sit down and
not violate the rules Of the House,
else he would direct the ScrTcant-at-
Arms to arrest that gentleman. This
gentle hint had the desired object, and
Mr.. Van Wyck finished his speech
without further interruptions. But
that night Davis went to the Giobe
office and demanded that his reply to
the statement that slaves were burned
at the stake should be published as
follows
Mr.. Davis Of Miss. (intcrrupting)-
| pronounce the gentleman liar and
scouudrcl. | pronounce the gentle
mans assertion talsc-uttcrly false.
The shorthand reporters denied
having heard him employ such Ian
guagr, but he insisted that he did.
His object in publishing these words
was evidently to provoke duel, and
as he considers himself first class
pistol shooter, while his opponent
probably never fred a pistol in his
life, he thought he would have
chance of achieving rcnOwn among
the iirc-catcrS, without running much
risk Of getting his precious person
hurt He walks about with large
cane which he carries with him into
the House, since he published the re-
mark in the GioJe; but whether for
offence or defence, he knows best.
But here are a few of the pungcnt
paragraphs Of the speech. In reply
ing to the trightIul gasconadc that a
Republican President should not be
imauguratci in the Capitol, if elected,
he remarked:
How will you prevent it l judge
from your military preparations you
mean force. Where will You get
your gunpowdev? You make none
south Of Delaware. Where will you
get your firearms? South of Mason
X DiXom's line you manufacture none
in all your borders. Can You retain
it now, by force If SO, you will do
infinitely better than you did in 1914.
The English, then, without any fear,
could have crowned a king in your
Capitol. They drove five thousand of
your men from BIadcnsburg and al
though you knew the design Of the
enemy was to invade and burn, you
rctrcatcd, anu stopped not to hrc a
gun IN It's defence
impugn not your courage, nor
reflect upon your motives | but haz,
ard the opinion that, had the Capitol
stood amid the rocks OF New England,
or the rough hills of the North, five
thousand OF her ycomanry would have
struck, and 1t necessary persisted, III
It's defence. Since that time, some OF
your people nave ocet very SGI!c!to"S
ABOUT tiic aFth''es. lou know poN-
cEhHr ISt' Ia i9'o' "ad Fremont
oceh c'Gctco 1 'cS'oSh'' was prepared
70 march WIN one hulu'eu Thousand
men to the CaP''oi' ana SeiIe the ar
chiVeS ; but some persons very wick
edIy suggested 'HaI IL ui'Sht be the
treasury he was alter' impossible !.