New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-18
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 1861.
ar. E0Hot-Nhen went to tho House nm yes
terday, It was with difficulty found standing room,
i N the reporters gallery, SO iammed and crammed
was every hoie and corner with people who had
come 70 listen TO the Andy johnson of MARYLAND
i henfy Winter Davis. He was in full blast ae r
entered. Above the medium stature rather stont
win short iron-gray hair he stood in his place a nd
i laid down the law of submission to Abolition rnIo
] N Inasterlysye and most impassoned manner
traitor as he is, no one deny him high qualities
as an orator. He draws larger crowd than anv
other man 10 the House. / watched him tbrouqh
lorgnette as he proceeded, and could but marx
the pailor Of intense excitement on his cbee, thu
burning of his dark sinister eye, and the trembling
OF his base lips. He declared Maryland's abiact
posture at the foot of the Abolition Union onlv ~
be greeted with thunders of applause-attribnted
ana no doubt justly, to plug-ugy clqque which he
mad imported from Baltimore for the EXPRESS INV
pose Called to account by one of his coIleaoner
ne was nproariously sustained by the whole Renub.
i'can herd But the worst feature of the affair ac
cording to my thinking, was the presence of Hat.
ton, OF Tennessee, who sat as close to him az he
could get, and complimented him with the most
earnest attention.
Nigtali's crushing reply to Andrew Johpson,s
second atrocous assault upon the South oeuer, |
ally, and South Carolina in particular, I did MT
near. 1t was the theme of universal praise last
night among Southern men; of whom. bv tho
way, there is now no lack, for Browns Hotel ron.
tains two.thirds of the Virginia legislature basides
no end of Vrginans in private life, Not alone for
its caustic nvective, but for its varied laarn;no,
Wigfall's speech e8cites the highest admiration
z Talking OF speeches. reminds me of a little cir
cumstance which occurred while Mr. Tavlor of
your State was making his farewell speech 70 tho
House. A Republican wretch, of the name If
Spinner, came over and said, in loud voice. "Mr
Speaker this must be stopped. We have had
enough ofthese farces. say it must be stonned !,
Martin, of Virginia, who was hard by, looked at
Spinner, and said in dry, contemptnous wav
peculiarly his own, /" On you! YOU have mt
got quite enough soldiers here yet to accomnIisb
hat p-auding to SCOTS array of hirelines, with
which the Republicans design, if Southern mem.
oefa are rebellious in their speeches. to play Crom
veil, dissolving the long Parliament.
The Peace Congress is stumbling along in a slow
md easy, fossiliferous way. Even if Virginia had
lot already decided to hold fast to the carcass of
he uhloh untlt us stencil can no longer be borne
ms congress would pc dangerous concern Now
IS peculiarly SO. All its members want to be re.
orded on the glorious roll Of those who saved the
tmon, after the death-rattle was in its throat.
me oil TWO things will be done, and probably both.
compromise on the basis Of squatter sovereignty
onth OF $3.50 will be made, and q National Com
en1lon viii be called. Absurd this squatter Il
oFefeignty basis may sound to you, it is by no
aeans impossible. The Democracy Of the North
No large proportion Of the moderated Repabli
ans viii vote for it. So will Virginia. which Is now
airly inthe fangs of the Letcher. Bolts coalition.
eteher and oil his Virginia coadutors are here to =
rease the wheels Of the Douglas programme for in
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