Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-01-28

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An Exciting Debate in COngreGs.-The
status OEfKentucky up for Discus
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.aay - WASHINGTON, January &c.
The dull proceedings of the House in
1.-THE Committee of the Whole, this after
noon, on an appropriation, all were sud
denly eulivened by a reply from an unex-
pected quarter to one of Mr.. New York;
Brooks usual speeches. Mr.. Brooks had
wandered from some item of appropriation;
he was approaching to a general attack on
the policy of emancipatiug aud armtug me-
groes, and dwelt With particular emphasis
on the declaration that artillery aud ord
nance stores, and not proclamations, must
end the war. 'fs
Gen. Clay Smith startled the house by
replying that artillery and ordnance were
we'll, but that while these attacked the
rebels in front, it was needful also to
weaken their strength in the rear; that
every man knew that the rebellion was
sustained and fed and kept in being by the
system of slavery, and that the destruction
of one was the sure defeat of the other,
that he said this as a Kentuckian, as
stakeholder, as pro-slaVery man, If they
chose to SO regard him, and that as such
he did not hesitate as to any right of get.
ting possession of these slaves That he
believed in taking them wherever the army
came to them, aud that there would be no
peace till this system was utterly broken
down.
The speech prodnced decided sensa.
ton and was greeted several times with
applause from the floor and galleries
mingled with few Kisses from the Demo-
cratic side.
Mr.. Mallory undertook to take his col.
league to task dud denied that he repre-
sented the Kontucky sentiment, and charg.
ed him with violating the pledges onlwhich
be had been elected, and quoted from his
Harrison county speech. His pledge, if
elected, was to vote for War Democrat
for speaker.
Smith replied that he had made that
pledge and that when he came here he
looked around for War Democrat and
saw Samuel Coz, person who had been
stumping the State Of Ohio from one end
to the other for Vallaudigham, at the time
when he, Smith, was stumping against VAL.
laudtgham, put up as a war democratic
candidate. That kind of war democracy
didn't suit him, and he went for Colfax.-
Mallory Interrupted him and wanted to
know it he bad gone to the democras sic
caucus to find out whom they were going to
nominate. No, said Smith, smelt the at
mosphere of the conceru, and decided to
keep out of it. Mallory asked him ifhe
hadn't gone to the Republican eaucus.-
Smith replied that he had gone to Union
caucus, and that bis constituents endorsed
him for doing it WndsWorth deemed fl
to bis interest to mix 10. He, too, charged.
5aittls with violating pledges made to his
constituents and said ahe, had came here
and voted for the reVolutionist aud aboli-
Zionist Colfax for Speaker, and he didn't
object to his going over to that side of the
House, bat did object to his having run as
candidate of the Union Democratic party,
when he intended to betray them. Smith
retorted that these gentlemen hadn't been
SO anxious to claim him as the Union DEM
ocratlc candidate during the canvass. That
So -called Union Democratic paper, the
feat him. That he wasn't supported by
single Union Democratic paper in his State,
and that the influence of every one of these
so-called Union Democratic Congressmep
had been openly or secretly against him
and for ]. w. Menzie; but that now they
were very anxious, though they had de.
nounced him as a radical in his district, to
call him Union Democrat here, aud so
drag him into the support OF their policy,
which Els people had SO emphatically con-
demned at the polls. The gentleman had
arraigned him for voting for Colfax. He
could tell him that he accepted the ar
rsignment he took up the gauntlet they.
had thrown down, and would try the mat.
ter before the people OF his State where he
challenged them to meet him. He had'letters
noY from SHAREHOLDERS in Kentucky, owning
more slave than the whole of these Union
Democrats here, heartily endorsing his
course, and be had never yet had single
letter Of complaint from his district con-
corning it.
BY this time Brutus Clay was stirred up.
de wanted to know whether, when the
gentlemen dealt in these insinustious, or
open attacks on his colleague for voting
for Colfax, they meant to include him.
Messrs. Mallory and Wadsworth were
very prompt and courteous in declaring
that they hadn't meant to refer to him 10
any way.
Mr Clay went on saying he was glad
they were 80 explicit; be had been at
taeked Tor that vote, aud be wanted to see
whether they meant to repeat the slander
circulated iu certain papers, that he had
violated pledges in casting it; he was
under no pledges to vote for War Dem.
ocrat; in fact he was rather. preiudiced
against Democrats. In this State. Demo.
cratic leaders bad turned out rather badly.
most of them were in the rebel army, and
ne was little cautious in consequence
about anything called by that name.
With this rather puupent supeestiop
the debate closed, loyal Kentucky coming
ont of the confast dao;5adI.,