Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-01-29
Tntereztipg Proc,edings- of the Houss.
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.

Special Dispatch TO the Cincinnati Gazette
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.
The dull proceedings of the House in Com
mittee of the Whele this afternoon, on an ap-
preparation bill, were suddenly enlivened by
reply from an unexpected quarter to one Of
Brooks usual speeches. Brooks had wander
ed from the question of appropriation he was
to a general attack on the policy of
emaneipa:ing and arming the negroes. and
dwelt with particular emphasis on the declara
ton that artillery and ordnance stores, not
proclamations, must end the war. Green
Clay Smith started the House by replying
that artillery and ordnance were well, but that
while these attacked the rebels in front, it
was Reedful also to weaken their strength in
the rear that every man knew that the re-
bellion was sustained and fed, aud kept in be
ing by the system of African Slavery, and that
the destruction Of one was the sure defeat of
the other that be said this as a Kentuckian,
as STAKEHOLDER, as a prO-slavery man, if
they choose to so regard him; that as such
he didn't care TO hesitate as to any right of
getting in possession of these slaves that be
believed liz taking them wherever the army
came to them and that there would be 10 peace
till the system was utterly broken down.
The speech produced decided sensation on
the floor and in the galleries, mingled with
few Kisses from the Democratic side.
Mallory undertook 10 take his colleague to
task; denied that he represented Kentucky
sentiments charged him with violating pied
ges on which he had been elected, and quoted
from his Harrison county speech, his pledge, if
l.
Speaker.
Smith replied that he had made that
pledge; that when he came here he looked
around for a War Democrat and saw Sam
Cox, the person who had been stumping the
State of Ohio from one end to the other for
Vallandigham,at the time when he Smith was
stumping against Vallandigham, put up as a
! War Democrat candidate. That kind of War
Democracy did not suit him, and he went for
Colfax.
Mallory interrupted, and wanted to know
if he had gone to the Democratic caucus to
find out whom they were going to nominate?
No." replied Smith, smelt the atmos-
phere Of the concern and decided to keep out
of it."
Mallory asked him if he had not gone tc
the Republican caucus?
Smith replied that be had gone to a Union
Caucus, and that his constituents indorsed
him for doing it.
WadEworth deemed it to bis interest here tc
mix in. He, too, charged Smith with violat
| ing pledges made to his constituents saic
| that he had come here and voted for the Re
voIutionist and Abolitionist Colfax for Speak
err; that he did not object to his going oveI
to that side but objected TO his having run a.
a candidate of the Union Democratic party
when he Intended to betray them.
Smith retorted, that these gentlemen hat
not been so anxious to claim him as a Unior
Democratic candidate during the canvass
that the so-called Union Democratic paper
the Louisville Journal, had done its best Il
defeat him; that he was not supported by
single Union Democratic paper in his State
/ and that the influence of those so-calet
Union Democratic Congressmen had beel
long and openly or secretly given against him
and for John w. Mehzies but that now the
were very anxious, though they had denounc
ed him as Radical in his district, to call bin
Union Democrat here and so drag him t.
the support of their policy, which the peopl
had so emphatically condemned at the polls
The gentlemen had arraigned him for votin!
for Colfax. He could tell them that he &C
eepted the arraignment; he took up the gaunt
let they had throwa down and would try tn
matter before the people of the State wher
he challenged them to meet him. He ha
letters now from shareholders in Kentucky
owning more slaves than the whole of thos
Union Democrats here, heartily endorsing hi
course, and he had never yet had single lei
ter of complaint from his district concerning
it.
By this time Brutus Clay was stirred uL
He wanted to know whether, when the gen
temen dealt in these insinuaticns or open at
tacks on his colleague for voting for Colfaz
they meant to include him?
Messrs. Mallory and Wadsworth were YER
prompt and courteous, declaring that the
hadn't meant to refer to him in any way.
Mr.. Clay went on, saying he was gla
they were so explicit. He had been attacke
for that vote, and he wanted to see whethe
| they meant to repeat the slander circulated il
certain papers, that he had violated pledges i
casting it. He was under no pledges to vot
for War Democrat. In fact he was rathe
preJu0lceu against democrats. In MS STAT
Democratic leaders had turned out rathe
badly. Most of them were in the rebel army
and he was little cautious in consequnce
: about anything called by that name, an,
with this rather pungent suggestion the de
bate closed, loyal Kentucky coming out 0
the, contest decidedly uppermOst.
The debate attracted unusual attention, AM
kept the House in session till the last hour O
any day yet this Congress.