Mr. Harris' Speech.--New Orleans, Louisiana, Bee [Whig](6 May 1854)
The Washington correspondent
of the New York Express says:
"The speech of Mr.
Harris, a Mississippi Democrat, against the Nebraska bill
staggers the supporters of that measure to no ordinary extent.
The speech was humorous and witty to a high
degree, and completely destroyed the effect of the speech of
Mr. Phillips, which preceded it."
We understand the course of Mr. H has produced much
surprise in Mississippi. During the tendency of the
Compromise measures, and after their adoption, he fought by
the side of Quitman and Davis, and was classed among
the most resolute of the "fire-eaters." What effect his
speech will have upon his popularity with the people of
his own District, remains to be seen. They are most
truculent and dyed-in the wool Democrats. Mark and
brand any thing as a Democratic measure, and they will
go for it regardless of principle or consequences, and it is
downright treason in their representative to offer objection,
much less oppose it. In such cases arguments have
no weight with them. Their representative has opposed,
for the nonce, what is termed a "Democratic measure,"
and the cry at once goes forth: "Crucify him! Crucify
him!" Whether Mr. H is to be nailed to the cross of
political martyrdom, because of his patriotic course in
reference to the Nebraska bill, the future must develop. We
shall see.
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