Congressional canvass in Kentucky, it was intimated that the friends
of the honorable Representative from the Lexington district needed
assistance to accomplish his election, my friends in New York made
up a subscription of some fifteen hundred dollars and transmitted
it to Kentucky, to be employed for the benefit of the gentleman,
who is now the peer of Presidents and Cabinets."

"Yes, sir!" exclaimed Mr. Breckinridge, springing to his feet, "and
not only the peer of Presidents and Cabinets, but the peer of the
gentleman from New York, fully and in every respect."

A round of applause followed this assertion, and ere it had subsided
the indomitable Mike Walsh availed himself of the opportunity to
give his colleague a rap. "When [he said] we came here we protested
against the Administration interfering in the local affairs of the
State of New York, and now my colleague states that a portion of
his constituents have been guilty of the same interference in the
affairs of the people of Kentucky." "Is that all," said Mr. Cutting,
in a sneering tone, "that the gentleman from New York rose for?"
"That's all," replied Mr. Walsh, "but I will by on hand by and by,
though."

Mr. Breckinridge, his eyes flashing fire, remarked in measured
tones that the gentleman from New York should have known the truth
of what he uttered before he pronounced it on the floor. He (Mr.
B.) was not aware that any intimations were sent from Kentucky that
funds were needed to aid in his election, nor was he aware that
they were received. He did not undertake to say what the fact
might be in regard to what the gentleman had said, but he had no
information whatever of that fact. He (Mr. B.) came to Congress
not by the aid of money, but against the use of money. The gentleman
could not escape by any subtlety or by any ingenuity a thorough
and complete exposure of any ingenious device to which he might
resort for the purpose of putting gentlemen in a false position,
and the sooner he stopped that game the better.

Mr. Cutting, who was also very much excited, made an angry reply,
in which he stated "that he had given the gentleman an opportunity
of indulging in one of the most violent, inflammatory, and personal
assaults that had ever been known upon this floor; and he would
ask how could the gentleman disclaim any attack upon him. The
whole tenor and scope of the speech of the gentleman from Kentucky
was an attack upon his motives in moving to