Speeches And Addresses Delivered in the Congress of the United States And On Se

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AGAINST THE LECOMPTON FRAUDS. In November, 1857, Mr. Davis was elected (for the second time) to the Thirty-fifth Congress. Mr. Orr, of South Carolina, was chosen Speaker, and by him Mr. Davis was again named on the Committee of Ways and Means. He was heard during that session on the Treasury-note Bill, on the Paeific Railroad Bill, on the bill relating to the reappointment of officers dropped or retired by the Naval Board of Inquiry, and who had not been restored by the Revising Board, and on the Report of the Kansas Conference Committee. In that debate he stated correctly, and proved, from the records and from the argument of William Pinckney, of Maryland, the point settled by the Missouri Compromise?to wit, "That it assumed that there could be a restriction upon a Territory while it remained a Territory,

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and it settled that there could be no restriction, no condition imposed upon a state, not merely upon the subject of slavery, but upon any subject." He also spoke on the Ohio Contested Election Case, the Washington City Election Bill, and on the Civil and Legislative Appropriations. On the 30th of March, 1858, he spoke as follows against the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution : Mr. Chairman,?The earlier explorers in high northern latitudes were perplexed at beholding great icebergs mysteriously making their way to the north against current, and wind, and tide. ' Philosophers in the closet divined from the strange phenomenon the existence of an under current running counter to that of the surface, that bore them along. The disinterested spectator, Mr. Chairman, of the course of this debate, ignorant of our history for four years, and of who now holds the helm, would find himself similarly perplexed, and perhaps he might surmise a similar solution. . ...

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