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ublicans, for I have heard them say it time and again. Do you not mark how silent they are in the House? And why? Plainly because they want the war to begin between the men of the cotton States and the men of the border States, or else between the Douglas men and Bell men on the one hand, and the Breckinridge men of the border States on the other. Thus they would be delighted to see Boteler and Millson warring against Pryor and Garnett, Nelson and Etheridge against Wright and Avery, Bristow against Burnett, and so on in all the northern slaveholding States. And if the leaders of parties in Virginia do not act with the utmost caution, do not suppress party for the sake of patriotism, this inter State war will be waged in the House of Representatives as surely as the sun shines in heaven. It was a great mistake in Speaker Pennington to put Winter Davis and Kellogg, who is a second edition of Lovejoy, on the Special Committee. But he is fond of Davis, because it will be re