Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-29
Rich Debate In the House.

] Agate" the Washington correspond
ent of the Cincinnati Gazette, gives the
following account .ofvthe debate between
the Kentucky Radical and Conservative
members of Congress 1t will be seen
that the conservatives were considera-
bly, worsted in the fight:
The dull proceedings of the House in
Committee of the Whole this afternoon,
on :an appropriation bill, we're suddenly
enlivened by reply from an unexpected
quarter to one Of Brooks usual Speeches
Brooks had wandered from the question
of'appropriation he was opposing, to a
general attack on the pohcyyof emanci-
.pating and srning the negroes, and
dwelt with particular emphasis on the
declaration that artillery and ordnance
stores, mot proclamationst must end the
war. Green Clay Smith startled the
House by replying that artillery and
ordnance were well, butsthat while these
attacked the rebels in front, it was need
full also to weaken their strength in the
rear; that every man knew that the re-
bellion was sustained and fed, and kept
in being by the system Of African slav-
cry, and that the destruction of one was
the sure defeat Of the other; that he said
this as Kentuckian, as STAKEHOLDER,
as a proslsvery man, if they chose to so
regard him; that as such he didn't care
to hesitate as to any right of getting
possession of these slaves; that he be-
lieved in taking them wherever the army
came to them, and that there would be
no peace till the system was utterly bro
ken down.
IS The speech produced decided sensa-
ton on the floor and.in the galleries,
mingled with q few Kisses from the Dem
ocratic side -VMH HTFA,T q
Mallory undertook. to take his col
league to task. denied that he represent
ed Kentucky sentiment; charged him
with violating pledges on which he had
been elected, and quoted from. his Harri-
son county speech; his pledge, if elected,
to vote for War Democrat for Speaker.
q Smith replied that he had made that
pledge; that when he came here he
looked around for War Democrat and
saw Sam Cox, the person who had been
stumpine the State of Ohio from one end
to the other for Vallandigham; PUT UP as
! "a War Democrat candidate. That kind
of War Democracy did not suit him, and
he went for Colfax sn9gI hgs HIrH =.
Mallory interrupted, and wanted to
know if he had gone to the Democratic
caucus to find out whom they were going
| to nominate ~ j. a.- s. $50. -.Isq ioI
"No," said Smith, l smelt the at
mosphere of the concern and decided to
keepaout of it" bsa1 % bal .tsl
Z. Mallory asked him if he had not gone
to the Republican caucus? aa III ie,,i
g Smith replied that he had gone to q
Union Caucus and that his constituents
Endorsed him for doing it. l.
! Wadsworth deemed it to his Interest
here to mix in. He, too, charged Smith
with violating pledges made to -hisacon
stituents; said he had come here and
voted forzthe ReEoIntionists aud Adolf
Zionist Colfax for Speaker; that he die
not object to his going over to that side
but objected to his having run as a can
didate of the Union Democratic party
when he-intended to betray itHe k60If
Smith rstorted, that these gentlemen
had not been so anxious to claim him as
/ q Union Democratic candidate during
the canvass; that the so-called Union
1 Democratic paper, the Louisville Jour
mai, had done its best to defeat him;
4 that he was not supported by a single
Union Democratic paper in his State
and that the influence Of every one ,oi
j those so-called Union Democratic Con.