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tOOIc, Of Mss. aud upon a resolution ramn
the day Tor the adjournment of the two House
iuf Congress. Nothing could have been NOR
out Of place than such debate upon such
resoluIun,--huI the Senator thought, aud hi
party friends for time coucurred with him lha
some vantage ground might be gained over III,
Wings by son Of rough aud tumble speech a
gainsl old "Rough aud Ready and the VIII,
party. Mr.. Foote said he would consent TO nI
adjournment of Congress before he made thC
Wings show their hands, but al the close OF the
day he was quite ready to adjourn, and all hl;
party friends with him. To-day, therefore, the
debate will probably take fresh start, Mr.. Man
gum being entitled to the floor.
/ Mr.. Foote was very abusive Of Gen. Taylor
before the adjournment, pronouncing him 10 be
incompetent, ignorant, uusuted TO the olhce, and
nothing but a soldier, and this too without opln-
ions or principles. The letters which appeared
as his, it was stated, were not his, but no author.
ity given, and nothing heard, indeed, but the
most idle defamation or fierce denunciation.--
None Of Gen. TayIors friends would object to
this sort Of harangue, exceptaslh they might obiecl
10 see so respectable abody the Senate disgraced
oy abusing aud slanderng such man as Gen.
eral Taylor. Mr.. Fillmore came in for his
share, and so did the whole whig party. Even
Mr.. Wood, Of Cleveland, the gentleman who
welcomed Mr.. Cass to the Lake City, was de.
nounced as "an imperIinent fellow" one task.
ing silly aud impudenI questions" because he
venlured TO express the hope that Gen. Cass Was
Il Western man, was "lrlend Of Internal In
proyements," and as free Stale man. was a.
gainst the extension Of Slave territory. Impu.
dence, indeed, to suspect General Cass Of delen.
ding free principles, free soil, or protection to
American Commerce.
The history of General Cass, as connected
with the Wimot Proyiso, in Congress, was brie-
fly told pending This debate. AT the iiIst session
of the 29th Congress, the Wimot Provso pas.
sed the House, came to the Senate, and was re-
crred 10 the Committee of Finance, who retail
ned it until the 10Th of August and thirty min.
utes before the close of the session. The Com.
mittee, of which Mr.. Lewis of Alabama, was
then Chairman, reported against the PrOyiso.--
Governor Davis, OF Mass. spoke in opposition
to the report, and the Bill was deleaed,--thC
$4,000 900 and the "Proviso," to which it was
an amendment.
At this time, Gen. Cass came to the Whie
side of the Senate, and in the presence Of near
ly all the Wing Senators, declared that it wa.
Mr. Dayis's speech which had defeated the Pro
Iyso,-that he was ready TO vote for it, that al
the Democrats from the free States were ready
thus to vote, and that Mr.. Allen, of Ohio, woulC
have led the way.
Notwithstanding all this, on the lst Of Marcel
of the last session, MIR. Cass took ground pub
lcy against the Proviso, and voted against it il
the Senate,-slill, however, avowing that he
was a friend to the principle, and opposed to The
place only, against putting it in the bill before
the Senate.
Since then, however, he has taken oper
grounds against the Proviso, and is one Of it.
worst enemies.
1t is such a consistent jewel as this that the
so-called Democracy put up against Genera
Taylor, man pledged TO extend Slave territory
and as Mr.. Douglass, of Illinois recently admit
ted in New Orleans, more pledged to the Soutt
than even any Southern man could be,-ol
more of an adheront to Slavery than Slave
holder himself.
Discussion here tends to developo the despera
ton of Gen. Cass's friends, aud their bitter per
soual assaults upon General L. shows the eX
tent of that desperation.
| The House have to-day passed an importan
bill doing away with that construction Of tn,
naturalization laws in some Of the States by
which continued presence of five years is requi
red in the country before receiving the merits o
| IcillZenShp. E. B.