The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-02-19

wholly misapprehendcd his remarks He had sta
ted to his colleague definitely that the facts to which
he had referred were witnessed by the archives o.
the nation. He had said nothing about the bill, bu
that this treaty was entered into in consideration
those facts which he had related. He did not say
that his colleague should have kaown the blu, bu
that he should have known the facts within the ar
chiyes OF the government on which the treaty was
based, and appropriations for carrying out which
treaty We're found in this bill.
| MIR. SAWYER resumed. Il was q very saga
cious way (he said of getting out Of the difficulty OF
| answering question, by meeting II with general
defamation, and by charging him (Mr. 81 with be-
ing ignorant of the facts connected with the esisa.
ton OF the country in which they were now engaged
\ Now, he charged the gentleman that he was ma,
King denunelaiions against him, Mr.. } and other
members Of the House, upon certain facts which
he alleged, and that he has been called upon
| repeatedly TO produce those facts, which he ut.
teriy fails TO do, attempting TO excuse himself
BY saying that they arc in the archives Of the gov
ernnient, la sosss place, he does not know where
The gentleman takes ma course for the sake OF ad
yaneing his own interests, and the interests OF his
| friend, hr. BEDB, whom HIS party has got up as a
candidate for governor and he asks in threatening
menaeing tone, whether gentlemen will vote these
appropriations, which arc necessary to preserve the
talth OF our government, pledged by it's own rea-
ty with these poor Indians He Mr.. s. told the gem
teman that he should for these appropriations
ana upon the principle that II required by JUS
tee 10 class OF who were entitled al least 10
| az much OF our respect were the negroes to-
~ards whom the gendemsn's sympathy was So
wonderfully drawn out. IL was but a few wears
since that gentleman and his party cried out i'I.o
| the poor lndiansm And this candidate whom they
have up, Mr.. S. had seen shed tears over the in
justice and inhumanIIy perpetrated las they slleged)
| by the democrats on this race Of men. They are
now endeayoring (sOid Mr. s to place US in false
position before the people OF Ohio in order that they
| may get for the gentleman's particular candidate
every abolition vote in the State. He had no
doubt but they wosld get many Of those votes;
there was where they belonged. He cared not what
new system was got up-whether Of anti masonry
abolition, natiyeism, anything of the kind
the gentemans party came out for it, proelaiming
that II some great scheme of Justice or Of reform
They might change their name often rs they
pleased il great common object that all the
different sections Of that party had in view They
take circutous routes; portions Of them break of
from the great body ofthe party but like chickens
at night, they come home to roost in other words,
When the day Of baIotins comes, yo-I whisery
antI-masonry, and every other faction raised in
this country joined hard in hand That was the
object sfthe dcnunciaons of the gentleman a few
minutes ago-of his dsclamations on the subject of
fugitive slaves, the AFRICAN saye-rade," "pira
cy," &c.
Mr. g. said there new principle Of science
which he had read Of and which was about to be
propagated in this country, which he considered
applicable 10 the genteman's case, and which would
illus why twas that he had but one single idea
in his head, and that negro first, and negro
last! IL was said that single drop Of blood, By
examining It with microscope, was found to be
composed OF millions Of amin llcuse, ond whit those
animllcua arc in a particular individual, depends
upon his peculiar temperament New he took it
that a drop Of the gentlensn's blood, held IN and
examined would exhibit thousands and millions Of
great negroes, standing up IN battle array, war
like and feroc'ous; and when a proposition like
this, any proposition which the gentleman's
prolific imagination can by any possibility connect
with the subject Of slavery, is brought up, you see
these Observation-Disclosures aegroes of which The gen
teman' 8 blood is composed-thrown into great con-
fusion, and dashng against each other; and that is
what sets the gentleman IN motion. ! hat doctrine
was the only which he could sccount'for the
single idea which the gentleman had in his head
and which brought him into this House, time after
time, repeating the same speech on this one sub
lect.
Mo BROCKENBRoUGH said be was not dis
posed to advocate this appropriation account of
any peculiar love on the part Of the people h. repre-
scented for the Seminole Indians; but Inasmuch as
some gentlemen Nigh, be induced to believe that,
US alleged this appropriation was for the payment
of these Indians for fugltives slaves and il might
be supposed that they might have been the slaves of
his constituents, he wished TO call the attention of
gentlemen to the bill ITSELF to the treaty under which
the bill was required and to the treaty Of Payne's
Landing. He had not examined the archives Of the
government with all that and particularly upon
this subject which had been profcssed by the gem
teman from Ohio, Mr. GIpDINcs;1 but he spoke Of
the treaty before them here, and he submitted
it was not for this HOUSE to say that that treaty
wss entered into for another consideration than that
which it bore upon its face, and which obvious
to all when they took the pains to examine it.
They found that the consideration was first to the
| Creeks for their land, because the land had been
| guaranteed to the Creeks by former treaty, and
lie do had
noles upon the same land. This fact appeared from
| the treaty. and was told them by the President of
| the United States, vixen he communicated the trea-
| ty to the Senate and concurred in by the SEN
ate of the United States and he did not feel disposed
| to go back to question facts furnished upon such
authority, on the ipse DIRT of any man, how
ever respectable he might be.
! The other appropriations provided for by the
treaty of Payne's Landing, were not for fugitive
slaves, or slaves Of any kind. MIR. B. read from
the treaty, and from the bill under consideration,
designed to carry the treaty into execution, the
sections approprating specifically for improvements
of the lands of the Indians, for pay Of blacksmith,
&c.
Mr.. GIDDINGS made All inquiry with reference
to one provision of the treaty Of Payne's Landing
Mr.. BROCKENBROUGH, in reply read the
clause of the treaty in question, as follows
art TO- The semnoles being anxious to be relieved
from repeated vcxatous demands for slaves, and other
property alleged to have been ole ana destroyed oy them
the States spulae TO have the same property prop
erly and to quido,e such may be saac
toy established prorided the amount does not Greed screen
| ihyusGsd doicrs.'
This was the only article in the treaty Of Payne's
Landing which referred at all to fugitive slaves, and
was the only provision for slaves stolen or other
wise from Florida, Georgia, or the Greeks; and the
United States was bound to pay no more. 1t was
not an article continuing in its character, which re-
auired this government to appropriate money every
year for that purpose; but it was short and spe
cfic articles and all claims (f any had arisen) under
il had probably been settled long since, as the OBJ
ec ofthe clause of the treaty 10 provide for the
removal of the Semnoles TO their new homes, with
out embarrassment No appropriation of this klno
was in the bill now before the committee; 1t mus
, have been paid long ago. if paid at ALL There wa'
not one word in the treaty of Payne's Landing II
the treaty of I545, in the bill before the commit
tee, proposing appropriation for the payment TO
, fugitive slaves.
MIR. COBB demanded tellers on the amendment
; which we're ordered.
And the question being taken, (afier some delel
:, for want of a quorum,) the amendment was reject