Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-07-07
eoNGKEss--E,rs,, session
MoSDAy, July 3, 1913.
SENATE.

Mr.. Underwood presented the credentials o
Hon. Thomas Mbrehead, appointed by the Go
vernon OF Kentuciy U. 5. Senator, in the place 0
Mr. Critlenden resigned, and he was qualified anc
took his seat.
One or two petitions were presented, and {
few unimporlanl reports were made from com
miuees.
Mr.. Breese reported bill from the committee
on public lands, TO provide Tor the adjustment o.
all suspended presumption land claims.
Mr. Borl md, i'om The same committee, repor-
led bill granting additional school lands in Ar
kansas.
The Joint resolution from The House, fixing
the day Tor the adjournment otlhe present session,
With the amendm.ns thereto proposed in The Sen
ATE were then laten up, and
MIR Mangum addressed the Senate, in reply 10
Mr. Foo,e he Other day on the same subject, and
also on various dher topics connected win Inc
Presidential question
He proceeded u recarulate The queries which
ne had propou1dG when The resolution was mp be
tore, and lis remirks on tha; occasion, and refer
rcd 10 Gen. Cas-! Nicholson letter as fixing his
position and demonstrating that he nos" stands on
The great questions Of the county, norhere. On
the Wilmot provHo his course leaves The question
wilhou, being setled one way or The other. he
has evaded The oily issue on this subject, and eii
The public WHO'LL in The dark as 10 his opinions
Gen. Cass, eiehi,en months ago, as had been sta
ted by Inc SenaDr from New Jersey, was in ia.
yor Of The application oilhe proviso 10 any terri
tory which might be acquired.
Al the last session, with the same views az lc
the principles O. this proviso, he commended tina
the proviso wasthcn out of place, in the three
million bill, inp which it had been proposed &c
introduce it in Ibis body. The next heard 81 his
opinions on This proviso was found IN his letter
10 Mr.. Nicholson; that Congress cannot touch The
question Of slavery as il exists in the United
States; that Congress cannot touch the matter in
the territories. On The first, no one disagreed
all were oil The same opinion. On the second, i
is manifest evasion II The subject in conlroyer.
sy. He (Mr. Mansum) denied that any such
power belonged 10 the people Of The territories
10 such population as existed in New Mexico
and California. all legislation in The terrific
rics in regard 10 slavery, must come here Tor The
APPRECIATION Of Congress And Congress can
lessla'e upon no subject which is not subject 10
!hevc,o o. the President,
Then what beautiful state oil confusion would
exist in the territory Of New Mexico, with Gen
Cas- Tor President, if The principles avowed in
his letter, that Congress- has no jurisdiction over
the legislation OF The territories, were acted up 10
II such an event wcIs 10 occur, and the legisia
lure OF the territory OF New Mexico were &c
come here with law prohibiting slavery, ans
Congress should approve il, Gen. Cass, enter.
tanning the doctrines laid down in The Nicholson
letter could Go nothing bui veto IT, He then re
ferred 10 The seventh resolution OF The Baltimore
platform Of pIincipes-lhs fourth and seventh
cancns, as he termed them, Of The Baltimore Con
ven;ion OF 1874. reatirmed by the Baltimore Con
veniion Of disappearing protection alike
against The black tariff and the efforts OF the
abolionists in relation 70 the back population
o. the unied Staes-io shew The inconsisiec-
cies Of The Democratic party in the TWO Houses
oil Congress on these questions, and lnat Gene.
raj Cas-, standing first upon the W,lmo Pro
viso, then upon The Nicholson letter, and then
upon lie Baltimore platform, had enabled them
TO arrive al no conclusion as 10 hi, principles.
And he held in his hand what perhaps would
show that he was graspins q! an evanescent sha
dow in graspins TO! an opinion from Gen. Cass
on this snbjsci-a second edition Of The Kane
PRINCIPLES, 10 be found in TWO iule pamphlets,
each skeichins the lie and services OF Lewis
Cass, boh alike, both alike until you get 10 Inc
last page, and bolh protesting 10 have been print
ed al The Globe Office, jackson Hall, price 81
cents per hundred copies, and on one of which be
had marked "Norh" and ON The other "Sopth y
and on The las, page OF one Of which Gen. Cass
is represented 10 have replied in an eloquent
strain 10 his (Mr. Mangum's) poor remarks or
-, (some subjec, no, understood ! and 10 have
made some eloquent aud patriotic remarks on The
French Revolution, and in which there is but one