The North-Carolina standard., 1847-02-17

burn in its favor. On Wednesday, before General
Cass delivered his great speech in reply 10 Mr..
Calhoun really on the question, ~ shall this war
be prosecuted with yigor or not2 Mr.. Yulee OF
Florida introduced resolutions for the instant ex-
pulsion OF the veteran Ritchie-to deny him the
privilege of the floor of the Senate chamber, for
the publication of $50 caled,) gross libel on the
Senate and to drive his reporters from the gallery,
for presenting (so called) garbled report of the
debate of the day BEFORE the constitutionallty
of giving the President authority to appoint COM
pany officers to the ten regiments in the recess OF
the Senateli After a short debate this laid on
the table until the next day The late tone OF the
Union upon the subject of Congressional and more
especially Senatorial trifing and scheming, while
the exigencies of the crisis demand prompt and
patriotic legislation, has done much TO stir up his
secret enemies in the democratic party, (the teder-
aists, of course, being always ready to strike a
blow at the editor of the Union.) But, on the
ight BEFORE by citing each and every similar case
occurring in the history of the country he proved,
beyond possibility of denial, that the excuse ot
"unconstitutionality" was sheer subterfnge, IN
tended only to hide ulterior purposes on the part
OF those who delaying the passage OF the BILL
This finally brought his enemies to the stlckIng g
point and these resolutions were introduced. stand
! ing for justification alone on the principle that
"the greater the truth the greater the libel" AL
though pointed ostensibly at Mr.. Richie, they
America who has of late dared to publish articles
calling the attention of the people to the fact that
they are "fiddling while Rome IS burning"
j. AT the conclusion of the speech from Gen. Cass
the Senate took up the report of their secend COM
mittee of conference on the army bill, and pass
ed il in the form for which the editor of the Union
| has so strenuousIy contended The country owes
thanks to Thomas Richie for the fna passage of
this important bill But for his lash the President
makers in the Senate, would have continued using
it as staulkng horse for their ulteror purposes
to the end of the present session. @t
In the House. on Wednesday, the report of the
same committee conference was agreed to; so
| The armv bill is now law. The young men of
any and every State, it is UNDERSTOOD who desire
TO serve under the banner of their country will be
accented and instantly mustered into service on
organizng elccting their officers to be commits
stoned, and reporting to the war department. The
ostensibIe cause of the late senatorial delay in
passing this bill was TO defeat the clause therein to
enable the executive to commission those who
have been elected by companies already organic
ed. IF this clause had been defeated, the force
could not be brought into service for at least
year AS it is successful, however in three
months the whole force will be mustered into SER
vice Mcssrs. Kaufman of Texas and Parish of
Ohio made speeches against and Brinl<erhoff of
Ohio, Wood of N. Y, and Foot of Vt. in favor
ofthe Wilmot proviso, on Wednesday, afer which
the House adjourned Northern representatives
who argue against its enactment generally take
ground that it is improper TO legislate concerning
territory not yet acquired and further that thrust
ing The slavery question upon the national coun-
ellis at such a time is akin to treachery, while
those who advocate it maintain that not to vote in
its favor now, at any other time is "treaehery TO
the north" ..
On Thursday, after debating point of order
for two hours, the Senate laid over the Richie
resolution until to-doy, and MIR. Corwin OF Ohio
made his speech on the three million bill. 1t was
of course furious attack upon the American
cause involved IN the He defended
Mexco's claim to all the territory in dispute, and
abused and black guarded 10 his hearts content
every body and every thing democratic. In the
House, the debate on the Wilmot proVso was
continued The first speech of the day was from |
Mr. Dobbin of your State, which was listened 10
with more profound attention than any other de-
livered since the commencement of this important
and interesting debate. After reviewing the a.
cbievements oc our Army in Mexico, by and
throuoh which we are to obtain the territory made
the subject of this amendment if we enlarge
the limits of the Union, he went to vindicate
the reputation and constitutional rights of the
South for this domestic upon them being
waqed with so much viruEence by a tea0 poll
ticians. fRathbun, BrinkerhoR and Wood had
made violent speeches in bad temper, denouncing ,
slavery as curse, blighting miIdew--contrary
to the acord Of God 8rc.) Mr.. Dobbin argued
that the Wilmot proviso unconstitutional, and
that the constitution itself and the debates in the
federal convention (from which he quoted at
lengthy showed that sLaces were in the constitu-
ion recognized as property He debated at length
he constitutional question whether Congress could
inhibit the institutions of the South from territory
which might be acquired with the blood and
treasure of the Union. And to my mind he con-
;iusvely proved that even if constitutional, this
movement was fTaught with mischef-was Sec
onai and dangerous to the permanency of the
Unon-that slavery was where denounced in !
he Scripures-that it had not injured the South +
IS alleged-that the Tariff had produced The evils
lpon the South falsely attributed TO the existence
IF slavery; that emancipation was impracticable i
hat the two races cannot co-exist under the same
government on an equal footing that abolition at q
he north is only technical and that the happiness
md moral condition of the negro is not advanced
here He read statistics to show that the free r
negroes of the North constitute an alarming pro.
portion Of the convics and prisoners, and he re.
erred to the effects of emancipation on ST. Domin-
70 and Jamaica, and argued that the South would b
e prostrated by this cruel idea of turning loose Il
n our midst more than three millions of slaves. a
He warned the North of the danger of this :
spoke in favor of the Union but dread .
d the effect Of these movements on the Union He
ppealed TO the West, that had rallied with the 0
south under the flag of free trade, TO unite with
he latter again when, as now our principles were .
ut Just giving their rich fruits. He contended
hat in the nafure of thin