, 1860-01-31

Bogus Senator Fitch, Of Indiana, stated That
tue northern Democracy could not agree with
their southern brethren, that tho election Of h
Republican President would b. sufficient cause
for dissolution Of The Union but If The slarp
States did withdraw, the Stats Of Indian
would not remain in confederation tn TIE
northern States.f Let the. .freemen Of Indiana
make note of that pro-slarery remark. ~
Mr. Wilson replied at some length yesterday
to the remarks Of Davis, Ciiugman, Wisfal,
FITCH, Hammond and Chesnut, eeveral a.
whom had denied thnt the slaye power had
committed any nsg,ezsiors upon .1herights of
the people Of The free States. By the slave
power be meant to designate ths political intiu.
ence e.erted by the slsye-holdjur cl,ss. He
cited the long denial Of the right Of petition
the arbitrary and injurious police laws of
oouth Carolina, infringing the rights Of colored
ci1lzens Of massachusetts,; the treatment Of
Mr. boar when sent by the latter us Comn,is.
stoher 20 the former; the annexation Of Texas
OF slavery; the repeal Of the Missouri COM
promise; the Kansas outrages md usurputions:
Tue ne" csas!,i that slavery is carried by the
Cos'tut'on into all the territories Of the Union,
ana demand Tor a federal slave code.
Ihe speeches Of bir. Wilson will make capi-
has been ordered
Jeli. Davis pitched into Douglas new Alien
ana Seditlou Luw, as subversiya Of State Rights.
lie sud that the passage Of such law would
Establish centra, lied dcspotisa, and give the
reaefal ;t Government power to crush the rights
Douglas that the resolution he offered was FRA
tilttous anu unnecessary, US the subject was A.
ready before the proper committee who were
entle1s competent 10 judge whit Legislation
was needed to preserve atates from invasions OF
ra'ds. he lntin'ated that Douglas offered his
ltleal m speech that would promote his chances
ut Ch2rleston; bnt lie thought the bid he put in
would Aave no takers, as the remedy Douptas
proposed was worse than tile disease.
douglas made weak and evasire reply, lie
has discovered that he las committed 4 bad
the public mind.
Three ballots were had for Speaker yesterday,
as per under standing; but the Democrats an
nounced that they would not he bound bv tue.
implied agreement to make no speeches for two
weeks The votes stood rs before, CT cept that
M tiGs1nan REUSED TO vote. on the grounds that it
llnd tendency to ptocrastination. lie would
vote whenever result could be produced
thereby, but lie would not engage further in
! what he conceived to be 1 ridiculous farce or
/ worse than that"
Hamilton of Texas thanked his friends for
,Ae 1o.tp,1n1tAea!y Fo1eS lAef nae gwen HIN,
b"t withdrew his name US candidate for
Speaker. 1lc owned himself Dlsunionist-
the Union was being dissolved nox. He sail
That he represented q Union .luviuw cpustiu-
ency, " and a State which, lad manifested its
love lor the Union as no other Statc had-by
surrcnderlng its own Independent national sore
reigntv; md get that same people and that
same State were NOW solcmny resolved that it
IS better that tue wheels OF Government should
be arrested where they are to-day, and that no
organization Of tfe House should be effected,
than that tile candidate Of the Republican party
should he elected. Ii order to show their reso-
lutc determination, le mentioned that the Leg
1>fa'ufe OF Te1a- hare appropriated so. 900 out
q! tile state trcusary to defray tue expenses Of
i'l'sclf and his colleague in Washington.
Laughter.I'
uamiltons speech might pass as good Joke.
The idea that Texas had made any sacrifices
Wa particularly rich. When she came into the
Ut,ion size received Il lontls OF ten millions Of
dollars to puy her debts. Size was allowed to
r*:1uiu all pnblic lands. She lad :,G,on0 square
miles Of territory added to l,er limits. She WIS
allowed to entcr the Union as s1aye State, with
the unprecedented privilege Of subdivision into
four more slave States; a war was waged upon
Peaceab1c neighboriag nation, on her account,
at L cost to the American Treasury Of two hun
drcd millions, and twenty thousand lives Of
American citizens; and in return for these m.l-
nficcnt bounties and farors, her Legislature ao-
propr1ates $.0.010 to enable her iour Repre-,
*entatives in Congress to promote disror1 and
disuu1on- Such is Texas Democracy, and for
one Of tue Representatives Of this sreasou.incit-
lus state, the - Northern Democrats cas-. their
| votes Tor Speaker. Chicago.