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VOL. XX. GREEKSBOBODGH, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1858.
[Mr. SHAW] on tlio 2C
• liirini; in\- absence.
SPEECH OF HON. JOHN A. GILMER,
OB NORTH CABOUNA,
/« the Bmue "j Representatives, M<iy 24, 185s.
Tlio House being in the Committee of the
Whole on the slate ofthe Union—
Mr. GILMER mid:
Mr. CHAIRMAN: 1 desire to say a few words
in reply to the speech made by my colleague
iOth of April last, and
I regrel that he is not
here iliis evening; Imt I feel compelled to
proceed with what I have to say in reply to
that extraordinary speech, and to do so even
in his absence. I feel justified in doing so,
for, on hist Saturday, when I was prepared
to go on, finding that he was not present, I
desisted, but gave notice of my intention to
speak at the earliest opportunity- That re-mark
was published in the papers this morn-ing,
and therefore his absence is no fault of
mine.
Mr. Chairman. 1 think that thai speech
was an unfair one; unjust, untrue,prevarieat- ^'"
ing, and unworthy of the gentleman who
made it. 1 have read it over, and 1 have
read it carefully. 1 have looked to see in it
the views of a statesman. I have looked to
see justice in it. 1 have looked to see in it
lair dealing. Yet, sir. 1 am troubled to give
to it the character which it deserves. If 1
were this evening called on as a witness in
court to tell what. I thought was its charac-ter,
my answer would be like that of a wit-ness
examined in respect to the character of
a simple old lady, who, when asked if he
kmw her general character, said, -I think 1
do. I think that I do know her general char-acter.
I know it well." "Pleasego on, then,
and tell what il is?" "Yes, sir. 1 know her
general character, and it is generally believ-ed
in the neighborhood where she resides
that she is a woman unworthy of common
sense, and guilty of tits." [Laughter.]
My colleague waited from the 30th of
March to the 20th of April to reply to me,
and in commencing his remarks he made an
apology that he could not sooner get the
floor. I conceive therewas no extraordinary
anxiety on the part of my colleague (o reply,
or he could have done so lime and again be-fore
the day he spoke. My excellent friend
from Virginia, [Mr. LETCHER,] a portion of
my speech beinga reply to his report on the
question of population in the Territory ol
Kansas, remained, and very easily got all op-portunity
to reply to what I had said in'rela-tion
to iiis report. He remained and made
an argumenl which I think, as things now
stand, he will hardly stand up to. lie under-took
to insist before this lb.use and the coun-try,
that there was no doubt but that in Kan-sas
there was a requisite population to entitle i
her to admission as a SiaU into the Union.
Xobody on the other side insists on thai now
nor indeed on either side ofthe House, lie-fore,
ii was contended that Kansas had a
sufficient population for a State; bul the Eng-lish
conference bill admits indirectly, bul
substantially, that there is not half popula-tion
enough And, -ir. I would not have tell
myselfjustified in giving the vote [did for
the compromise bill, well knowing the want
of population, were it not for the extraordin-ary
case, and the importance of getting
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of this national excitement.
My colleague charges me with having de-nounced
the Green amendment, and then ol
having voted for it. He improperly charges
thai I maintained the same doctrine in the
North i 'arolina Senate in voting lor Governor
Graham's bill; ami yet he comes forward and
himself defends the views of the Executive
on thai very subject which this Given amend-meiit
was 'intended to cover and sanction.
How much verity is there in his charge when
we come to examine it? Did my colleague
ever Vole tO -tlike out theiJreeli a mill. llllclllY
I-that truer It is not true. Did the gen-eman
from Mississippi, I.Mr. QUITMAN]
Mr. (ilLMKK. If the questioi had been
presented in the latter shape it v ould have
received a majority of the voles of this
House; but presented as it was it could not
have received such a majority, because all
who were called on to vote for the Quitman
amendment, were, in the form presented,
compelled to vote at the same time against
the whole of their bill
Mr. DAVIS, of Mississippi. Why not, if
the effect was the same'/
Mr. (i I I.M l]|{. For this reason (the plain-est
possible) thai it was well understood that
certain northern gentlemen were supporting
the Senate bill because it sustained the doc-trine
of the Green amendment, .vho would
not vote for it if that was not there, and
therefore I hey did not want the Green a-mendmentout;
for if it were out they would
lose friends even for the Senate bill. "
Mr. MARSHALL, of Kentucky. The a-mendment
pending to the Senate bill was the
Crittenden-Montgomery amendi icnt. The
)ill contained the Green amendment.
The amendment of the gentleman from Mis-sissippi
was the Senate bill without the Green
amendment, offered as an amendment to the
<'rittenden-Montgomery amendment. Had
the proposition ofthe gentleman from Mis-sissippi
been accepted at the time, it would
have superseded the Crittenden-Montgomery
amendment, and left us to choose between
the Senate bill with the Green amendment
and the Senate bill without the Green a-mendraent.
The effect ofit was never "to
say turkey" to us once upon the Crittenden-
Montgomery amendment.
Mr. (ill.MKIi:. Yes.
Mr. DAVIS, of Mississippi, i desire to
say that the reason assigned by the gentle-man
from North Carolina for hoi voting for
the amendment of the gentleman from Mis
sissippi. is quite different from that given
by the gentleman from Kentucky. Yet both
of those gentlemen vote alike, both voting
against the proposition of the gentleman
from Mississippi, [Mr. QuiTMAN.] One says
that if ii had been simply to strike out the
Green amendment he would have votedfbrit
Mr. GILMER. i did say thai exactly.
Mr. DAVIS, of Mississippi. The gentle-man
from Kentucky said he would not have
voted for ii in the form in which it was pre-sented
by the gentleman from Mississippi,
while the gentleman from North Carolina
says lie would, and his party would; yet the
gentleman from Kentucky is one of his party.
Mr. MARSHALL, ofKentucky: The gen-tleman
from Mississippi will do me the jus-lice
io say thai the reason why 1 would not
have voted for the proposition ofthe gentle-man
from Mississippi was, that the ell'ect of
that proposition would have been to kill that
very amendment of which I was in favor:
and we could not have got a vote upon it all.
Mr. GILMER. If the Quitman amendment
had been simply to strike from the Senate
I bill the Green amendment, I. together with
I a largo majority ofthe House, would have
voted to strike it out. This was the fair,
! regular way to do it. Then tin next vote
: would have been a fair and plain one, to wit:
the Senate bill without the Green amend-ment
On one side, and the Crittendeti bill on
the other. The Quitman amendment seeni-
tory ofMinnesota. My colleague voted for
that bill—I voted against it.
Now, I wish to show to the committee
what a distinguished gentleman from the State
ofmy friend [Mr. DAVIS., ot Mississippi] says
us to the effect of admitting a new State,
without in the bill admitting the State, pro-viding
for the security ofthe Government's
title to the public lands. I refer to the Hon.
.1 BFFKR80N DAVIS. In a recent letter to his
constituents be uses this language:
'•The consequences of admitting a Stale without a
recognition precedent of the rights of the United States
to the public domain, are. in my opinion, !he transfer
of the useful, with the eminent domain, to the people
ofthe Stale thus admitted without reservation."
If this view, entertained by the Senator
from Mississippi bo true, then our friends wdio
voted for the bill admitting Minnesota with-out
thisprovision, which my colleague from
North Carolina conceives to be so important
to preserve our interest in the public lands,
have done the very same thing which he un-dertakes,
as I think unjustly and unfairly, to
charge me with.
But that is not all, Mr. Chairman. I voted
against the Minnesota bill for this reason,
among others, that it contained the extraor-dinary
provision, to wit:
"SEC. 1. Every male person of Ihe age of twenty-one
years or upwards, belonging to either of the following
classes who shall have resided in Ihe United States one
year, and in this Stale for four months next preceding
any election, shall be entitled to vote at such election, in
the election district of which he shall at Ihe lime have
been for ten days a resident, for all officers that now
are. or hereafter may be, elective by the people:
"1. While citizens of the United States.
—2. Whiiepersonsof foreign birth, who sljall have de-clared
their intentions io become citizens, conformably
to Ihe laws of the United States upon the subject of
naturalization.
"3 Persons of mixed white and Indian blood, who
have adopted the customs and habits of civilization.
"4. Persons of Indian blood residing in this Stale,
who have adopted ihe language, customs, and habits of
civilization, alter an examination before any district
court ofthe Stale in such manner as may be provided
by law, and shall have been pronounced by said court
capable of enjoying the rights of citizenship within 'he
Stale."'
My colleague may account to bis constitu-ents
for his vote in favor of this constitution-al
provision.
My colleague not only voted for this, but,
according to bis own doctrine, voted for a
bill the provisions ol'which give up millions
ofthe public lands.
My colleague draws a picture, and gives
his statement as to how northern people got
to Kansas. He says nothing about bow or
for what our southern friends also went
there. As to this I had said nothing. It
was not my purpose to justify scufflingto get
people into Kansas unnaturally and prema-turely
by either. My purpose here and else-where
has been to do all in my power to al-lay
nccitement on the inflammable subject of
slavery, and induce the country, in all sec-tions,
to leave this whole question to the re-sult
of the usual and natural immigration,
and the citizens of the United States—those
actually settled in the Territory—fairly and
of property. The righ; to prohibit the fur-ther
introduction of slaves is one thing; the
right to legislate for the gradual emancipa-tion
ofthe issues bom afterwards is another
thing; and the rigiit to abolish slavery, al-lo'
ing compensation to the owners, is a third
thing. All these might be reasonably con-sistent
with the principles settled in the Dred
Scott case; but to go the fourth degree, and
say that the convention assembled to form a
State constitution can give the Legislature
power to emancipate or confiscate the slaves
that had gone in there rightfully, without com-pensation
to the owners, is goingfar indeed, anil
is entirely a different thing. If southern
men defend that, I am willing to meet my
colleague on that issue in North Carolina or
anywhere else.
My colleague tells the story of Pat .!/<-
Gotcan. Ho uses an offensive term lor a very
clever Irishman in North ("arolina, whose
true name is Patrick Mct^owan, and is a gen-tleman
who was door-keeper to the Senate
of North Carolina for a number of years, a
poor but, as I believe, an honest man; a Ro-man
Catholic; but ho disi barges his duties
promptly, faithfully, and industriously. He
was ever kind and attentive to nie. I had a
personal partiality for this little industrious
man, who had a house full of children, anil
not the wherewithal to clothe and feed them
easily. He asked me to sign a recommenda-tion
to get him the appointment ofmail agent
ofthe Raleigh and Gaston Kail-IJoad. 1 did i
so ; he received the appointment, and has till-ed
it with ability and :aiilifuln«-ss ever since.
I might say that all this look place before we |
had any controversy about the principles of
the American party; but I do not want to
plead off on any such ground as that. God
forbid that there should be anything in the
principles ofthe American party to prohibit
me, or others, from lending my name or in-
Hueiice in a work of thai kind! I think my
colleague, if ho bad seai'-hed closely into my
public acts, could have Sound something that
would have operated more to my prejudice
than this little aid which I gave to one poor
and clever, but whom lie contemptuously
calls " Pai McGowan." All that he can make
out of that little circumstance, he is welcome '
to.
But my colleague says that I have sup-ported
the doctrine of alien suffrage. What
does bo mean by that '. If this charge had
the least resemblance of truth in it, it would j
be no limit with him. The Senate bill and |
the Crittenden bill contained substantially
the same provisions and safe guards as to
this.
My colleague goes into a long history of
the Missouri Compromise, and winds up with
this reason tin-the repeal thereof, to wit:—
" That northern men opposed the extension
of it to the Pacific." 1 would reply to this,i
by asking whether the same majority that
repealed the said compromise, could not, by
the very same vote, with the same ease, have
extended it to the Pacific!
My colleague says IK baa no complaint to
holiest bill. It left room tor no double oon-siruetion.
It did not leave room fi'rsoutli-jcrn
men to say that I here was no siinnrissjen.
| and liir 'be northern wing ot the I . IIIOCII^
! ic party to say that there' was a summ-it
came forward plainly, honestly, squately,
j and did the very thing it professed- Trw,
; the bill which passed in substance w:i
j same ; only leaving room for thin il< nble'eou-
- strmtion.
But, inasmuch as ibis odious (iivon qsnwd-ineni.
indorsing the objectionable (sjtmi'i-io
which it was intended to cover, wasofj
and inasmuch as it hit this qiies i«m.to be
setil-..l. where perhaps it is h.-st that should
________ i be settled, the South having nothingto ga n,
, I deemed it best to vote for it. 1 said lo '">
•»-r r-v (\e^c i gal'ant southern comrades who had "fought
JNU. yCOilthe battle, that they hud, in substance, .11
j that they had been contending for. Bid i ly
■MMMi | gallant friends considered it their dnty1'
proceed further; and, as their bid was ii
such a fair, plain, and unquestionable form
tbe\ thought themselves justified in pursuing
upon an eonal looting with ihe original Slates, in all those who had abused an-l opposed tllcln, lili
respects whatever, shall be complete and absolute; and | til tbev should bring them Io their \ < r\
said State shall be entitled to one member i
of Representatives in
the same by proclamation: and thereafter, and vith-ii'it
any further proceedings on the pail of Congress,
the admission ol" the Slate of Kansas into the Union
in the House
'lie Congress ofthe United Sla'es
until Ihe next census be taken hy the Federal Govern-ment.
I!ut should a majority of the Totes cast te for
'Proposition rejected,' it shall be deemed and hehi thai
the people of Kansas do not desire admission intj the
Union with said constitution under ihe e.m.liii..iis sel
funh in the said proposition; and In that event the
people of said Territory are Iterejby authorised and em-powered
in form for themselves aconstitution aad State
government, by the name of the Stale of Kansas, i eooj
ding to ihe Federal Constitution, and any elect dele-gates
for that purpose whenever, an 1 not before, il is
ascertained hy a census duly and legally (akenihai the
)K>pula'.ion of said Terriim-y squads or exceeds I he ra-tio
of repicseiu.il iuureii.ihcdliir a member of Ine House
of Representatives of ihe Congress of the United Sub
ami whenever thorens>er such delegates shall assemble
terms,'ward for word and letter ftirlettei
and had fhey been successful, I am now well
satisfied that the bill would have obtaii ej
the sanction of the other wing of this Capi
tol, and would have given to the cotllili
bettor adjustment and secured the mwuV
of greater satisfaction than Ihe bill whicl
tinallv received the saneiii I* both Houn
.UTENUIX.
An ml for the admission of the Stale of .Minneaoia Mil
ihe I iii.ui.
Whereas, a i ail of Conpe-- WM pa- ed Febi u-u;
ilii. 1857, entitled -An act lo authoriin the jieaple of 1.
Territory of .Minnesota lo form a constitution and Si I
government, preparatory lo their admission Into 11 •
in convention, theysh.-illfirstdetermine bva vole vheili- ' I oi->n on an eqnal fooling with the original Sim.
er it is the wish of Ihe people of the proposed (Hate •'■'■'"■ ■'"-I'-as. ihe people ol's aid Territory did. an ih
to be admitted into the t nion ai thai time; am . sfen, -"',l' l'".v afAuguat, 1857, bj delegates < leotsal h* i
shall proceed i" form a constitution, and take all neces-sary
steps for the establishment, in conformity with
the Federal Constitution, subject to such limitations
and restrictions na to llie mode and mitiner of its ap-proval
or ratification by the people ofthe proposed
peaceably to decide this question at the pro- make ofmy votes on Kansas, but believes
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ed to be the result of study, and seemingly
offered with a purpose to embarrass us : evi-dently
it was offered in such double and du-plicated
manner, that, under the rules of the
House, those of us who would vote with con-servative
gentlemen against the! i reen amend-ment,
would have to vote at the same time
against the whole Crittenden bill, which we
most approved. In short, the Quitman amend-ment
said io me. "you shall not ole against
the Green amendment, without voting at the
same time against the Criiumlen bill." 1
repeat, had the motion been made to strike
out the Green amendmenl from the Senate
-ill. ii would have gone ont: t lit n the next
per time and in the proper way.
My colleague says that I based my opposi-tion
to the admission of Kansas, under the
Lecompton Constitution, "in other .nurds, to
lur admission as a slave Stair," upon three
points, &c. Based my opposition to the admis-sion
of Kansas, under the Lecompton Constitu-tion,
"IN OTHER WORDS, To HEB AliMlssloX AS
A SLAVS STATE !" Now. I ask any candid
man lo recur to all that I said upon that oc-casion,
to read my speech, and then answer
for himself what is the fair dealing of one
who, in a reply to it, would say that ? Did
I not avow tthhaait,, sofaras II wwaass ccoonncceerrnn*ed. 1
was well pleased with the Lecompton Con-1 triumph, ce
stitution, in substance; that I would be pleas- j speaking, banners, and the firing "I
ed to have Kansas as a slave State, should
the people of Kansas bo satisfied with it; and
that I would be satisfied ifwc could acquire
State as they may have prescribed hy law, and shall be
entitled i" admission into the Union, as ■ State nnder
such constitution thus thirty and legally made, will or
without slavery, as s.-,i,| constitution may prescribe."
lull,you sirtheri is, subtautially, the princi-ple
of the Crittenden-ltsntgomery bill, this
"unparallodoutrage,"suppovledbythefriends,
who set oni with ihe Senate bill a id the
Green amendment, that is the identical thing
that has been passed, and is now glor lied all
over the country with shouts ami songs and
feasting, by the very men who denoii iced it
so bitterly in thobetrinniutr.
In reference to the allusion I made to the
tesf oaths imposed by the first Territorial
Legislature, my colleague mentions ;m oath
to enforce the fugitive -lave law. There ho
stops.
why does he stop there'' To impress,]
presume, the southern poeple falsely that in
my speech I complained that the pcoph) of
Kansas were required to take an oath to sup-port
the Constitution, and an oath to enforce
ihe fugitive slave law ? Did ho not know
I and well understand rue to be refbringto the
extraordinary oaths which prohibited the
people from conversing on and debat ng the
question which, by the terms of the Kansas.
Nebraska act, was let'; for them to deckle a-niong
and for thetnseves ? Why did be not
go on ami argue fairly, :::nl not so unkindly
strive to lix odium on me, as he well under-stood
that i was referring to these oaths?
He quotes from northern speeches, from
those whose sentiments are unpopular in the
South. Then, he asks, ••suppose the lame of
the member from Oluo [Mr. GIOOINUS] was
attached '." ftc, Why did he not copy from
what was said in the South as well ::s in the
North'/ I read from the Richmond Enqui-rer,
Speakidg of Kansas and the Lecompton
constitution, the Editor says:
••We still believe that the rnnircfiintiaual et nvention.
although legitimately assembled, resorted to a moans
ofa submission of the constitution entirely al variance
with republican principle ami sanctioned by no prece-dent
of rei ablican uhttorj. v. ■• cannot reoog tin thai
this constitution hashci.:i citl: -;• formally or virtually
adopted, either by the convention ai Leeompton
or by the people '"' Kansas. We consider thai
the mode "i subuii - . •! to was intended
to defeat, and did defeat, :i'l rair expresaion of thai
popular will to which On- schedule of submission pro-fessed
io defei. Kinder these eircunaRnncea wengreed,
wiih a large number of Ihe Democratic party, by iiisis-ibstancially
'on the same pktt- I J"1?,J^1* cwwtitution legally franied should also in-
, , ■ i a ,i i,- | IcTJi'lv :Du»Plf;L lifforc i* .niiM 'u- i.nt t>se(I l»v- cnngi'f--
, and have embraced the self-; ,ion,1-act!on „,,„„ „ .„,,.,,.;„„ ,„.„,,,,. J Smttne i..-eo,„P-Med
outrage, and rejoiced witli | ,„„ constitution should be submitted o a fnlLAdr, free
submission i" ihe people, who should chus be enabled
io elect iis ratification or rejection.'1
Thai paper, il will be Reen, holds that the
convention was legitimate, yet believes that
it resorted to means for the submission of
ihe constitution entirely ai variance with
the original design and spirit ofthe Kansas
and the wishes ofthe pi "pie. lie might
purpose, form for themselves a consiiiuti m and
government, which is republican in form, and was I.,I
he I : i.'l adopted by the people, ni an rl.-ctlon lu-1.1- a
the I "ihd-iy ofOctober, IS.'.T. lor I ha I purpose: Then
fore.
lb ./ nwehW ay ih' Smak imd llo4ue nt Jlssusimtitl 11
oftii I'/u'-'ISfni,.' nf_\n„ riniii, Cunyrm* attrmUtJ, 1-hi
the State of Minnesota shall he one, and is hereby .-!■
dared tone one, ofthe United States'of America, i
iidinitfed inio the Union on ei|ual toot in£ wit h iho oilg
nal Slates in all seapeotj whatever.
Sir. |. And U ilfurtk'r iiiurl,./. That saidStatea'aa
be entitled in two Representative' in Congress until tl
tii-M opporiionincnt of licprcs.-iitativi- MWIgal .ih
several States.
Bar.& And hr il furtli.r tn.iri'il. Thai IV an and a;'-
the admission oftheStateof Minnesota, an hem in befo
I proi ed. all the lews of tiie I nited States, which ia
I not locally innappliceble, shall have the same l.nr.- II
effeci -.vithin that Siate as in other States ol [he In,ii
i and ihe s.lid State is hereby constituted a jiidi.-in! ;li
liiet of Ihe tniled Stales, wiihiu whieh a dislru;
with llie like powers andjurisdiction as ihedislr'n i i'4ui
ofthe United States for llie district of Iowa, shall I
i-iii.l.-hisl. Thejudge, attorney, and marshal nf;il
United Stales, for the said disfriri of Mionesota. -;i .
reside wi bin the same, a ml shall he entitled to the • i
compensation as the Judge, attorney, and marshal ofih
district of loam; and in all esses of apical or wri ■
error heretotore proseculed, and now pending in ah
Supreme Court el the United States, upon anv i
from the supreme eouri nfMinnesola Territory, ihe n in
dale of ■■ v,-.-: 11 i. ,ii or oi-iler offurtlier i roooedingM s|
be directed by the Supreme Court ofll a t nited St
io ihe district eouri of tha United State* for the disij
of Minnesota, or to the aupr irt •;' ib.- stale
Minnesota, as the nature ofsuch hppeal or writ "i i ■-1 an
may renuin-: and i-iu-h of these courts shall be the iii-e
eeaser ofthe suprea eurt'of Minnesois Tenitor
in all such cases, with full power to hear and neterwii
ihe same, and to award mesne or final pr ss Ihendl
they are in direct opposition to the interests
of his constituents and mine; and, to be the
more emphatic, striking, and imposing, he
borrows the phrase "unparalleled outrage" to
apply to the positions maintained by me.
lie turns nie over to be destroyed by my con-stituents.
After all this, who would have
believed that ho, so sir rlly thereafter, would
have come su
form with me
same uunparaO'
others over its SUCGtSS as a great triumph, a
great measure of peace and quiet to the
country? Yes,.sir; a great Administration
lebrated by music and singing,
cannon.
Now, sir, I am pained t" see that, among
many politicians
scuffling to havt
PERSONAL BXJ»LAM ITION.
it
at the North, there is a
the 'impression created on
.. , ' ■ , - . v i '1 II, II w OHIO IK! \ e -join- oil I : 1 III II t lie lie.M l Mill 1 luiiiui nt ^ui i.-.in-v. ii », • s... ,-... - ■ †††- *-, . - . . . .. - - ..... * .. . ...
more to strike out the Green amendmenl . |(boi>e wmM |i:,V(. |f,,ri| the Sena'te bill with Kansas as a slave S tate properly, iairly, and , the country that there is not a submission of have added the views ofthe Richmond Rn-
"-"••V'1;''"''. .„- vr, ,, i MI the Green amendme tit, or the Crittenden- i>eaceably? this constitution to the decision ol the peo-, (|lli .„, tl,,. ,,lm. e.-,„oc..on. Whatviews
Mr. DA\ IS, of MtssKssqip,. rthciitheb.1 Mouto ,„„.,.,. bi,|. Does the gentleman deny Mr. Chairman, the- ©Meet and design ofthis- pl« of Kansas. And. I discover the same ■ ,,„, , ..,,, ... ,. „„, express, tn myspeech,
came i 1 the Senate, General (JUITMAN, that •/ ' " I cannot but say (and I do so in all becom-. tjnng among gentlemen ot tin- Muiin, wno tliat could call for congniiulr.tion from any
moved to strike out the Green amendmenl; ^ DAVIS, of Mississippi. Yoa would i ing respect,) is Illustrated by the fable ofthe ' are trying to cover :up the fuel that tbev , Abolitionist ? He pointed . . m -h« .-ould
and those o. us who believed with him void ; ^ u^ p But, would you have boy who tried to conceal the fish, which he came down to this v?ry ph. lor... mn^j not do it. Bul he tnterpola! and ad Is ex-f^
rit. .. J voted for'.he Senate bill, with the Green had acquired by stealth, under bis waistcoat. Wed outroae, to.2"'/.X*htraCXl^!f
.Mr. GII.ML W. I will show that he did i , ' ,,,, . ■'. -, ._,,.L.llt . i... ,-iii stickimr out be- sas are snbstantmlly to have the privilege ol ant| taen adds, as I have already said, "Snp-for
it.
Mr. GILMER.
not do it.
Mr. DAVTS, of Mississippi. Do it.
Mr. GILMER. Ifhis amendmenl had
drawn out ill Writing, a~ il ought to have
been, nothing about the Green amendmenl
would be in it. Why did he not move to
strike the Green amendmenl from the Sen-ate
bill ? Why did he move a substitute?
If there was a purpose, ttona fide, to gel rid
ofthe Green amendment, why was not a
motion made to strike it from the Senate
bill before the vote was taken on the Crit-tenden-
Montgomery amendment? Did he
iioi know that the Green amendment would
have been voted out, had he ottered simply
to strike from the Senate bill? Every A-mcriean
would have voted to strike it out.
Most of the Opposition members would have
voied to strike ii out. Would it not have
gone out, tlnn. if the motion had been prop-er!}
made:' Why not, then, do the thing in
a plain, simple manner, so easily done, and
which would have brought the House l-> a
vote on the Green amendmenl, and
the
al-l
direct
not at the same time against the Crittenden
bill? I respectfully express my suspicion
that it was done in'the way ill which is was,
that certain gentlemen might indirectly gel
their vote seemingly against the amendment,
when they knew-'tliat the moti -ould nol
be carried; or, it may 1 ■<-. because they
that if thai Green amendmenl went out,
there were certain Free-Soil men from
North who would desert their ranks. 1
hide to the northern gentleman who refuse-to
vote for the Quitman amendment. In
fact, and in plain English, the motion was so
made, and the vote so taken, as to afford a
mi iv showing, as I suspect—"lie in behalf of
the southern wing, thai they were opposed
to the Green amendment; and for the north-ern
Free-Soil wing, thai they were for it.
There is much common sense in this com
try. The people in due tim<
all this fully. Why make
dinary motion, and then turn round and sav
that it was moved to strike out t'
mendment? Mv friends will see
t\'V the bill
amendment stricken out
Mr. GILMER. My colleague Mr. SHAW]
i reads from the Lecompton constitution to
' show that it prescribes a proper qualification
for voters), and I hen in thai connection speaks
ofthe Minnesota constitution, noliccof which
appeared in the papers long after my speech
was made. Was that treating my views
iairly'.' What had the Minnesota constitu-tion,
irregularly formed and void, to do then
with the subject under discussion? But I
suppose my colleague intended by thai sort
of statement to have it go abroad that the
Crittenden-Montgomery bill did not provide
exactly the same safeguards as to the quali-fication
ofvoters. lean see no other pur-pose.
An examioation ofthe two bills will
expose this injustice.
lie -ays further, erroneously, that I took
the ground that the people of Kansas would
vote down the Lecompton constitution; and
that when they would have the power to
seize and take away from the United States
eighty million acres of the public lands.—
And he read as billows:
'•Sue. 2. And l/i itfurther enacted, That die State of
Kansas is admitted into the Union upon ine express con-dition
thai said State shall never interfere with the pri-mary
disposal of the public lands, or with any regula-tions
which Congress may find necessary for securing
the title in said lands to the bona fide purchaser and
new I grantee thereof, or impose or levy any tax. assessment.
or imposition of any description whatever, upon them
or other property of the United States within the limits
hv stealth, under his waistcoat. Wed outrage, to wit: that the people ofKan- tracts from the views and speeches ofothers
but staid in market the tail sticking substantially Of ; :m<| tuen .„|,|s. , a | Sup-low.
[Laughter.] ILe*says there was noth-1 deciding this very^ .great auamt among ami ,,,,Se ihe name of ine member from Ohio
in" in the Green amendment,but that In
gritted to see it in the bill. He quotes it In | point as plain as day
his speech ; he defends, as I understand
1 want to make this
light—so plain, marl
speecn
in I you, that these southern • rent lemon
ihe position taken on ti.at subject by the Bx- would ohargo meas beingdnooi.sisu-n,, who
•ofessesi supported the principle ot the submission ol
the constitution of Kansas to the people,
.| must apply ineonsiBtency to themselves. I
do it by reading the aci itself; there is no
ecutive in his special message; he pre
to take ground for the Kxecuiive against nie ; |
and upon thai I am retvdy logo
fore the people of North "Carolina, or the peo-
I'rav what is i getting around that. It reads as follows :
pie of the South everywhere.
the doctrine intended to be covered by that
Green amendment? It. is that the readiest
and quickest way to get slavery out of Kan-sas
is to adopt the Lecoinpton Constitution ;
for that, irrespective ofthe checks and limi-tations
in the constitution, the majority of
the people can elect a Legislature; and that
Legislature can call a convention. The con-vention
thus called can alter the constitution,
aid give at once power to the Legislature to
slave property, not li-the
abolish and confiscate
hi" being said about compensation to
owners who, according to the Dred Scott de-cision,
had gone as rightfully into the Terri-tory
with their property as others with other
property. Is that a doc trine which is to be
defended by southern nven, or that is likely
to advance the interests ofthe States inter-ested
in the institution of slavery.
As I remarked in my speech, I bad sup-posed
that the South Lad -rained something
by the princip'
"He il OUtctedfe., That the State of Kansas he, and is
hereby, admiUed into the Union, on an e.pial footing
with the original States in nil .tespecls whatever, bul
upon tliit fuiiilaim nlul roiiiliii-m precedent,—namelg: that
the question of admission. ;wiih ihe following propoei-tion
in lieu ofthe ordinal! a trained at Leeompton, he
submitted to a vote ofthe people of Kansas, and asaen-l now say \
led to by them or a majority of the voters voting al an i ;i
election *U> be held for thai purpose, namely: that the] ,
followin" propositions he, and the same are herehy. of-fered
to the people of Kansas for acceptance or rejec-tion,
which, if accepted, shall be obligatory on ihe Uni-ted
Stales and upon the said State of Kansas, lo nil."
Here follows what the people of Kansas
are to vote for or against.
And
[Mr. GrnoiKos] was attached," &c. I admit
there is a great deal ofcunning lure. Why
did he not select some poll ion of my H |M ei Ii.
and then ask the question whether this man
or that man's name attached to ii would re-
Seel On me as a southern man'' With all
this cunning and all ibis device, I must say,
with all res|i,ei, that in (he nursing and fix-ing
Op of this particular part of his speech,
my colleague in ii sit have had in his head fail
as much moon as sunlight.
After showing, as I have already done, so
much unfairness, and so many errors, and
misstatements in mycolleague's speech, I will
iai is aImos! unnecessary, that the
attempt he so ungenei sly and impn periy
takes lo prejudice lie- in the eves if mv
countrymen, excites with me indifterei re, at
the effects and results be has so lamely and
Icohly attempted.
Then he attempts still further to prejudice
me by saving that the mentlier from Ohio
was w ii hdraw n t
I withdraw mv o»-
M r. < 'hairman-ttood
hen by the side of my fle*k
his hands at Mi- CII.MKH, and U
.... . i.lr.Mr. CimiiNosl con o-ra tula led me on the
what is that, pray? Why, simply L ( J^ ^ ^(H.aui(m ,.,,,„,
K,. she would accept the nuant.U of j ^ (.(i||(.;^Ui. „..,„ ,„„„ (1)(. ll„„l,i!II,| . ,.„„,..
land which she who were mar me at ihe time assured
that Minnesota receives
settled in the Dred Scott de-would
tset i'ny way—the same
"ie same that she !".*'" , ■ †,, >T ; him that what was alleged did not take place
would "et whethershecomesin under the'
of said Stat cision, and that southern men could go into
And then he says I voted against this just ; the Territories with theirslave property, just
and necessary measure of security. Is that ( as northern men go with any other kind 01
true? Did not the (Yittciidcn-Montgomery j property. Hut, according to bis doctrine, as
bill have precisely the same safeguards? and J soon as the Territory becomes a State, there
is this difference between slave property and
will understand
such an exlraor-ic
Green a-that
If il
when 1 voted for one bill in preference to
another, both having the same provision in
ibis respect, did 1 vote against these necessa-ry
safeguards ? This is another among the
many attempts made by my colleague to do
me injustice in my absence.
But what did my colleague do?
si
•Le-compton
constitution or any other constitution.
Yetgentlemen undertake to argue before the
peopleofthe counirv thai it is nol submitting
the constitution tothe people ofKansas. Ii is
true, it is indirect: but itisthe sameprinciple, in
fact, advocated by those who supported the
Crittcnden-Montgon cry bill. They come as
near to my bill as they could, considering
that we are all creatures of human pride.
Why, Mr. Chairman, you might as well have
I should have expected, ai least il would lie
expected, thai he would have acknowledged
the l inn
Mr. AHDRBWH. My r< lie.tion of -I t1
occurred corresponds with what inyeolh
has jus| stated.-
Mr. BINGHAM. I take the liberty, ivf
saying that I believe the Rmtlemen-
Sorth Carolina [Mr. SHAW] was pfi j
when my colleague, [Mr. ffmmNtis,] in Bis
hearing, and in the bearing of ib-- If trie,
said that be never congratulated Mr Gi M
on thai occasion, or on anv other, about I
speech; and I siilunil to the lion- • :■ 11 -1 J..
the country if, after benring that state »
of my colleague, il is nol. to nay Ihe le: f
it, a departure from those rule which 't-dinarily
govern ({entlemen, for the
man from North Carolina, in Ihe absent
my colleairue. In raise a »|ne«t ion of venial
wilb him, espeeiallv on a nuhjeel whk'l
knows nothing about ?
Mr. GILMKW. I think I recoil,., i y.
tin- gentleman from Ohio |\l-Cox] s-,i
win-re
Hulls.
j
1i
SPEECH OF HON. JOHN A. OILMEU
III' NoiiTII CAItol.lN V
In the House o) Representatives, Afsyal, 1*5
The House being in the Commitli f'tl
Whole on the slate of ihe lllioll—
Mr. GILMER said:
Mr. CHAIRMAN: There seems to be ion
indication ofa disposition to deal with i'
quite fiercely and harshly. Instead <d'n *
ing the political questions under considi
tion, throats and attacks are mndettd /
ii' m. to do me harm. Pninl l out ofthe or
ary scope are made, and my colleagu.' -t- -n < •
to insist upon them is though something
very important was to turn upon them. ;l'.'-
for, I proceed, however. 1 will <udl upon life
gentleman from New York, [Mr. Goonwtvi]
who was between Mr. Gmniaos and mj -el ,
and 1 would be glad if he would slate, rtt ill -•
hearing of the House, what tool- phu-.'i.-
tween us. :' i
Mr. ATKINS. I olijc.-l. as ohj. clion A:N
made on this side ofthe Mouse just nowiulj* '
de • similar circumstanra
Several MEMUERS. II
Mr. A'l'KINS. Then
jection.
Mr. (JotiDWIN.
Mr. GILMKR. My friend- say ib.y tl
ii wholly iinii -ss;i:-y to introduce airy I ■■ , -
tnony upon this wrhjeet. [Crientif Mla*l bint
L" on."] Well. I am perfectly willing li«i
he shall make his slaleiueiii
Mr. GOODWIN. I will my thai I w
mv own seat at I he time, [Mr. t ioonw i N' '
is neXI bul one lolhe s,;n ocillpiiil |.\ IB
till.MKII. and between il and the isle.) I|I(|
Mr. GTDBINOS st I iii ihe aisle hy the -i|.-
ol my desk;and thai there is on.- morcdi :':
lot ween Mr. till.vi Kit's and iu\ own; tjujr-
(iinniMis
and shook
••I .1 i not thank yoa for eonnerting my uni
with that of Mr. Buchanan." That wan
he said; and then In- passed along. lie I
nol take Mr. ClI.MKK hv the bunds. lie v.
in I within reach of bis bands. My coll
| Mr. ANDREWS,] who sit- by me, was here"
' «
ft
I
««
1
near me ai lie- lime. [f |„. |H j,, y-,.
1 should be irlti'l lo bear bis reci b,.-
thal he had iieen mistaken; bat not so. He
Imd risen to make : lie speech, and his speech
he made as he had fixed il op. What in my
speech was there that Mr. GIDDIROB could I tion of what occurred.
congratulate mo on? Mr. UNDERWOOD.
And I would s.-,y here, w ilh all'subin iskm, j committee has no more important biisin.s
thai ifwc could bring; about fl stateof things! tlmn ibis, we -hall ris
I trust i bat ir Tl.,.
What
had been moved to strike the Green amend-ment
from
was taken
the Senate bill before the vote
between t'n Senate bill and the
Crittenden-Montgomery amendment, the mo-tion
would have prevailed, and it would have
made the Senate bill more acceptable.
Mr. DAVIS, of Mississippi. Will the gen-tleman
tell me the difference between mov-ing
to substitute a bill without the particu-lar
section to which he refers,and moving to
strike that section out'.
provision is there for the protection ofthe
rigid ofthe United States in the public lands
in the bill admitting Minnesota ? Minnesota
has also the same millions of acres of public
lands in her limits, ofmore valuetoo. Is there
anv provision in that bill which secures the
United States in her public lands in .Minneso-ta,
such as there is in the Crittenden-Mont-gomery
bill, or even in the Senate bill f Not
one word. I will attach a copy of Ibis bill
simply admitting Minnesota as a State into
the Union, and not a single word is contain-ed
in it about reserving the rigbi ofthe Uni-ted
Stales to the public donupkin the Terri
ither property, that the former is particular- • ...^ .y,m Bnau not vote for Lecompton, but
v liable to be abolished or confiscated. Roth vou ,n:ivdotbis: allthoso whoarefor Lecomp-
• . .t*
went in constitutionally and legally. But as
soon as the Territory becomes a State, the
rights in slaves enjoyed under the I nited
States Constitution are gone. 1 was sorry
to hear some of our northern friends say that
that was their const ruction of it, and that it
could be done without compensation to the
owners. What service is the principle set-tled
in the Dred Seott case to the South it
that doctrine be true f I supposed that, to
carry out that principle truly, southern men
were entitled not only to go into the Territo-ry
with this species of property, but that,
when they earns) to form a State constitution,
the convention, or a subsequent Legislature,
could do no moix- with slave property that
i- had been lawfully brought into the lernto-
- ry; than they could with any other species
ton may throw into i hat blue beans, but all
those who are opposed to Lecompton may
throw in black beans; then, when all have
thrown in their beans, :;unt, and if the blue
beans are the most in number, Kansas is in
bat black beans irr.ig ai
in this country, when Mr. <iu.iu.vos, or all
others, North, or South, would be willing t'1
congratulate themselves upon the platform
laid down in that speech, it would be a bet-ter
state of things than now exists, or I fear
will soon exist. I say, in reference to my
colleague's statement, I wever, with a sol-1
emu regard to truth,that there is nol a word
Mr. GILMKR. Well, I will kef Mhn pa
Mr. Chairman, I ai t going to Inflict n
speech upon tin committee—-very far frotn
il. I will simply State that when I made i iy
i upon this subject of Kansas and li.e-compton,
I aimed, as far as | cnnld, (and) !
think I succeeded.) at makings spec : [tyj
which there were no offensive |n i -o al shun
sions—a speech that, I conceivvee,. wwaa-s . j
• II, and to She
.' . v .. I '
of truth in it. I do recollect that the mcin-with
Leeompton j but ifthe biacK Deans are
; Ui> ftom 0|(. ^ JM , .,_il)1, „., ,.„, ,lN|(. M)1|1(. ai,|(. ,„ ,rosl southern gentletne
the most numerous, then there is no State ot i (lii , t,n the conclusion of my nonservatrve gentlemen from the N-rih'-
Kansas, and no Letomijton constitution." Lpeexii, stopped and mado«»mesuch remarks My colleague, [Mr. SHAW,] tweutj
the act goes j mH |„, ,,.,, s'taU.,! j„ \,
distam
. nid. • -ome such remarks My colleague, [Mr. SHAV.j ........
ia reported reply to my Uioreafter, in my absence, made a rep
further, and shows?what is to be done if they i colleague, atont mv having eosnetted his mid 1 submit to his own good sens,-. an.!-t,
thus reject this constitution. It readsas lbl- „.,mc' v,i,h tltal of' Mr. La • .anan. fliat I sabmil t.the sense ofthe committee, ami »i»
lows: : believe to lx-l rue ; r.o more. a H « ho may have read his speech, ul.eiL...-,
1 will conch I.- with an additional remark instead of answering the views whs-li I wil
tfullv submitted to the e .1 s,,1.1:1 i
Rut it does not stop then
and show
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-At the said election the voting shall he by ballot. I