The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-04-11
IN CONGRESS OF THE U. STATES.
Congress ses.ioI
MONDAY, APRIL, 10, lsis.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
The journal having been read


that purpose submitted certain resolutions IN relation TO
the foreign mail service which were ordered to be printed
SENATE
Mr. BOYD moved a suspension OF the rules Tor the
purpose of taking from the Speakers table and dsposing
of the bills and Joint resolutions from the Senate thefeoh
upon which question the yeas aud nays were demanded
and ordered and being taken resultedyeas w. nays ~
So (two-thirds voting in the airnatiye) the rules
were not suspended
FRENCH REVOLUTION
Mr. STEWART objection being made) moved a sus
pension OF the rules for the purpose OF taking from the
Speakers table the (Senate) joint resolutions congatula
tory the people OF France upon the recent events IN
that country upon which motion the yeas and nays were
ordered, and being taken resuted-yeas 100, nays y,
So (two-hirds having voted IN The alilrmauVe) lhe
rules were suspended
The resolution was accordingly taken up, and read
Mr. ASHMUN said, when this matter introduced
before in the House by the gentleman from OHIO, they
were cut from newspaper, and might have been USED
MIR. CUNIMiNS explained, denying that they were
used elsewhere
Mr. ASHMUN would spend no breath on such mat
ter The present resolutions he saId came to us IN the
regular of legislation, and not subject to the
criticism which Jasy attached to those which were at FIRST
sprung upon the House AT the moment ne iea a.
ment which he offered. He was Tree to say that he
thought these resolutions were premature at the hrst
and he still thought so of those from the Senate
No man would hail with more unminged Joy than he
the OF repubcanism all over the world But re-
publicansm not yet formed IN France; and the an
nOunCement from the Executive 10 tUlS olly
be accounted for in view OF certain other OF the acts OF
the President called democratic. He spoke OF the oblec
tionabe character OF the manner IN which the present
provisional government Tor France was organized and
declared that, TO say that republican government was
achieved by this means, (as all knew to pro-
nounce ialsehood. He must suspend his estimation OF
these till should hear the results of the
elections, which 10 take to-day he believed,
and the coming together OF the nine hundred delegates
from the several departments OF France He feared there
OF the profession than of the practice OF repub-
licansm there.
In relation to these resolutions, although he felt they
were premature, he should vote for them without
amendment, because he felt that such expression
should be unanimous He would, therefore, offer nofur-
Their opposition to the resoluons but would detan the
House only for brief reply 10 the denuncations which
his amendment TO the former resolutions had brought
down upon him by the gentleman from Virginia. Mr..
BAYLY] TO justify the principle OF his amendment, he
read from the resolutions by the gentleman from Ono,
MR. CUMMINs,] and from the book of M. de Lamartne,
with reference TO slavery in the French West Indies II
the hope for the success OF trodden humanity OF
the oppressed against the oppressor did not look to the
principle OF the amendment he had offered he understood
not the meaning OF terms He read further from late
declaration by M, de Lamarne, in the shape OF decree
from the provisional government, IN justification OF the
principles OF his amendment against the denunclaons OF
the gentleman from Virginia. and the extreme disgust OF
that penny whistle of the admnisraton-the editor of
the Unon But he need not be surprised at this latter
preston of the disapprobaton of leading editor from
state whose Senate had refused to utons
memoratve OF the public services and exemplary patriot
ism of the late j. G. Adams He claimed the right to
press his sympathy with the whole movement in France.
He fraternized in the feelings of Lamartne for the
success of the down trodden among men, than did Mr..
Bancroft who. by the will OF the people, the &C
credited representative OF this government the court of
ST. James, and he read from Mr. Bancroft to show how he
standing his amendment had been denounced insult
to republican Virginia yet he had but used the language
of the ordinance of 1857 the names of many of whose
supporters he quoted and whose authorship he believed
was ascrbed to Mr., Jefferson himself. But this ordi
nance had been called a nuly. Commend him to
such nulty, he said, while he surveyed the States
over hIch tho mpSt mt pr,Dc Ot
dnance had been extended. Mr.. A. did not think the
gentleman from Virginia truly represented the feel
lngs OF his constituents this subject by using the
language he had used with reference to the amendment
Mr.. A. had offered, Was the principle insult, when
the restrictions of this ordinance applied to the Ore
gon bill and other propositions, in past legislation
Would be an insult when ii should come to be applied
TO the States which are yet TO come into this Union
He claimed the right to resist the introduction OF slavery
into the States; but disclalmed all right and every
purpose to interfere with that institution in States where
ii now exists. He admitted that there were enthusiasts
on both sides of question-whch were the most mis-
chievous he would not decide.
Mr. A. replied to the charge that his amendment was
calculated to induce servile insuection. The gentleman
from Virginia says that all attempts al sudden emancipa
ton have resulted dlsastrously; that by the dash OF
PEN three hundred thousand people in the island of 81
Domingo preciptated into all the horrors OF civil
war. He took issue with the gentleman on this matter,
and affirmed that the only act OF emancipation Tor the
French West Indies did not take place TILL the year 1884,
unless their declaration of rights of August 30, 1859.
could be so considered But that act of
emancipation than declaration of Independence
In the progress of the French revolution, the rights of
freely discussed, and, OF they extended
the West India islands and there, amongst the three
racesthe Whites muattoes, and backs-these prlnci-
pies wrought, the end, the terrible which
followed, and which not the result of the abolition
of slavery in France, of any act of the National AS
sembly because those events took place before the de-
cree of the assembly If studied carefully the history OF
these events in ST. Domingo will show them to have
been the result OF rebellion amongst the down trodden
blacks against their oppressorsthe muattoes and the
whites OF the island
Mr. BAYLY followed. When he spoke, week ago,
it was without preparation, and under feeling winch
he could not suppress. The gentleman had taken
week to prepare his repy but all he asked his part
now was the attention of the House. He should follow
the gentleman step by step He denied that he objected
to the first resolutions because they from the gen
eman from Ohio: he only expressed by his former re-
mark, desire to give them imposing appearance
The gentleman from Massachusetts could not have under
stood the of these resolutions referring to eman
cpaton in the French colonies, he would not have
brought forward his amendment Either he was not sat
sed with the of the resolutions, they were not
suited TO his purpose of agaton and he welcome to eth
er horn of the dilemma In relation to the objection tha
these Senate resolutions were premature, he SAID, whist
the contest raging the very time Tor congra'ua
ton He had about him none of that cold, calculating
policy which would prevent him from offering his con
rratulatons because the oppressed might fall IN the
Struggle Was premature France to assist and SYM
pathze with us in The days of revolution! The cases
were precisely similar He defended the government
from the indirect charge that while would congrau-
late the birth of republic in France we were stamping 70
the dust another republic in Mexico by stating what all
men must acknowledge, that the principles OF republican
ism would be all the better understood In Mexico on