bright one of whom if not two have declared themselves favorable to slavery while the remaining two but dimly represent the spirit of liberty now rising in the free states and demanding that there shall no longer be slavery in the land the bill reported to the by this committee was passed by a vote of to was sent at once io the house of representatives where on the motion of mr a southern member it was laid on the table without any intention of taking it up again by to the house of representatives passed its own bill for a form of government in and sent it to the it was then that made his speech were we to judge of him entirely by this we should say he is imperious impatient of opposition to speeches an j w his plans a man of the world whose moral standard no higher than the law of the country he was evidently a good deal offended at the summary manner in which the house of representatives disposed of a bill from which he looked for a complete settlement of the long and violent slavery agitation in his opinion the integrity of the union and in which he bad borne so conspicuous a part that be well might have raised the cry that he had again saved it with him there is a e to keep down his resentment at their or rather his contempt for he charges them and indeed all with ignorance not that mr supported his motion on the very grounds that had been urged against the bill in the where the discussion of it may have been sufficiently heard by tlie members of the house nor does he conceal his feelings toward such of his brother as opposed the bill for on them he some of his hardest and most blows we do not intend by these remarks to the effort of compared with those of other on the same occasion nor to convey the idea that it was wanting in ability by no means � for in point of fact although mr does not profess to deal in the mysteries of slavery � it was quite superior to those that we have especially brought to the notice of our readers as a composition it is the is easier as an argument it is more regularly built and than theirs in fine according to the generally received notion of strength he is stronger than they are has greater power of explaining and his meaning they utter sentiments so very adverse to all our notions of justice � so entirely to the truths that we have pronounced self evident that what they say is at once cast aside without producing any mischievous results but it is not so with while he opinions as mischievous as theirs he so them that they often find not only transient harbor but are likely to be looked on as the opinions that ought to be always entertained indeed we should fear that they might prevail were not popular improvement slowly but constantly and certainly their area and bringing closer together the walls that are finally to crush them we hear ver and a ua the f speeches on slavery constitution these words are in the mouth of every they form the and of every speech about slavery whether in or out of and even large political have not failed to employ them but they are for the most part without any very definite meaning we do not remember to have seen them so explained as mr explains them or so lightly thought of as he seems to think of them so indeed do we consider his remarks that had they been drawn from him by any unlocked for � n or sudden excitement we should in that find his excuse but they were not for his speech bears every mark of having been deliberately considered after calling the rash of slavery at the south and the of it at the north and saying that the war between them and the bill was a war of � that they do not desire any thing that would the country and restore feelings to its sections he then proceeds they have represented the bill to be a compromise of principle and have employed the cant that principle cannot be although the constitution itself was but a compromise of principle and the of mutual concession between the different members of the as if not content with this he returns to the charge and says that same spirit that mutual deference and concession are again rendered indispensable by our condition we are now about to apply the constitution to a region larger than the old thirteen states when the union was founded under such circumstances when i hear a man set up for himself a higher standard of morality and virtue than that of the fathers of the republic and say that he can agree to no compromise or to use the cant of the time that principle cannot be i think of the poet s exclamation � for a forty parson power to chant thy praise not a man came oat of the that framed the constitution who had not objections to some part of it it was a com promise and the same feeling which governed in its formation is and ever will be indispensable to its preservation that the constitution was what washington said it was � the result of a spirit of and of mutual deference and w are no to call m the speeches en slavery name of washington is here introduced by mr who associates his expressions as now quoted with his own that the father of his country may seem to have used or given his sanction to the sentiment of mr but a spirit of � mutual deference and are by no means the same as mr s compromise of 