New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-12-16


..-i q. i.fessl pl1.h-i .ta vol. i.r4sa H.
Correspondence Of D. runaue.
WasHNeroN Wcdussdsy Dec 49, I5f8
hage had an earnest time in Congress %
ds.t stirring. stormy. eventual DAY. ] shall not
srenrt 10 narrate the incidents as they occurred
t..t c,l h. better done boy cool Observers. unin
Vowed aud unexcited b1, Will inst glance At
fa. .adiIg facts aud then endeav0r 20 give some
ia.i,.t into the character and impulses Of the
Whole. and the inAuS,ces which now threaten 10
postpone a. not prs}ont final settlement of the
question OF Sisye.. iu the Territories
Tc bah wa.f peoed in the Senate by Col.
BsNrOS who presented the memorial Of the
Convention. or Provisional Legislature Of New.
McHiro, unanimously soliciting the protection of
ihe Federal Government against the pre- posterous
claim %. Texas 10 absorb the better portion Of the
Sew Mexican territory, and also for protection
asa.ust the introduction Of Human Slavery Mr..
CALHOUS fred up n this, aad passage Of arms
ensucd between the Missounan aud the Caro-
huian' the Hobbies were quickly thronged and /
hardly know that anybody short Of Mr.. FoOrE of
Miss could have cleared them The storm spent
ts fury 10 no purpose. On Mr.. Bentons motion
the memorial Of New Mexico was referred 10 the
Committee on Territories and ordered TO be print
eds TO IA.
Tho electricity was rapidly communicated TO
the House. The States had been called through
for Petitions, and the call for Resolutions was pro
cceding, WHOM on Massachusetts being reached,
Mr PALFREY asked leave 10 introduce a bill
abolishug Slavery in the District Of Columbia
Mr. HOLMES Of s. c. objected very unusual dis
81 ,of,
Dee reached, the oaye was relused-Yeas o. Nays
RI See vote in yesterdays Tribuael the largest
affirmative vote, believe, ever given on any such
proposition.
About o'clock, Mr. Roof OF Ohio had an OPP
portunty to move a Resolution, and he moved
one Of pcremptory instructions to the Committee
Territories 10 report soon as practicable q
oh or bills providing for the organization Of New
Mexico aud California us Territories, aud for the
entire exclusion of Slavery therelrom. A call OF
th, House was moved and proceeded with until -
members were found to be precautionary all the
absonteos being known to be sick or out Of the
city. The farther prosecution OF the call was dis
penssi with a motion TO lay the resolution on the
table failed by the strong vote of l07 to 60 aud
the resolution itself was adopted precisely rs
offered by like vote. Yeas lO7 Nays sO27
majority Tor Freedom. Mr.. Cranston of Il. |.
voted No, because ne will not recognize tbs
gaered territory rs belonging to the Union and
thcfc were two orthree dodgers but the vote very
nearly expresses the sentiment OF the House.
Mr. Robinson lind moved reconsideration of
the vote, but presume without intending % vote
for it, aud then--it being past O'Clock aud every
a.. t..I fi.a
House must have voted by rising to be counted,
passing between tellers or taking the Yeas and
Nays, at least twenty times during the day. The
first motion made in the morning was for the Pre-
vous Question Ton Mr. McLanes resolution with
respect to reporting and printing the Debates 81
aud ] believe the Previous Question was but once,
ID eyen once. called through the day houtbelng
sustained Nothing like speech was attempted,
but business ent on with scarcely an interruption.
And now TO revert to the Main Questionable
Organization of the New Territories, aud the Al
lowanos or disallowance OF Slavery therein
have been confidently hoping Tor an early and
peaceful adjustment of the whole vexation. The
bills of which Mr.. DovGLAss in Senate gave notice
on reaching this City--to provide for the oreani
zat.n of California as State and New Mexico
a Tsrrtory--were signs of promise. Upon the
basis here suggested, 1t seemed to me practicable
u settle the whole difficulty without farther ex-
element or peril. thought We should ultimate
Is agree to permit New Mexico as well as Cali
ornia to take the requisite steps Tor organizing as
a state. and bring them both into the Union IN the
course of the next TIVE years, leaving them free to
frame their own institutions. This done, the North
would be morally certain that Slavery would not
be tolerated ia either State, and the South would
save the point of honor by the almost certain de
feat in Senatel Of the Wilmot Proviso, which, TO
IA established aud admitted State, is coniesscdly
inapptcable Aud thus would close the grave Of
agitation with regard to Slave Territory
But the bright sky has been suddenly overcast.
Nc Douglass has so modified his bill to destroy
all the hopes It originally justified lie sinks the
New Mexico bill or clauses. aud goes IN for the
state OF California only, ostcnsiby attaching New
Mexico thereto. But when the point is reached,
We shall unquestionably lind that only the rocky
desert west OF the Rio Grandc has been attached
to California and that all the vast region this side
IS plainly in INTENT given over to Texas and
Slavery, ia accordance with the spirit OF Mr.. X. X.
resolution0i inquiry, submitted ycstcr-
iav and land over--Mr. HUDSON announcing h.s
intention TO debate IL. II the great mass OF the
retiring party can be induced to unite on tins plat
orm with the ultra Slavery Propaganda, and IN
'ss on restoring 90 Texas region rs large as
New England which never for one moment wss
hers aud 70 which she has no better claim than
New York has to Upper Canada, why then we
shal doubtless have stormy and Improbable
sslou. and break up in excitement, leaving the
New Territories unorganized and the question Of
Slavery Extension 70 be fought out through COM
'ns years. still hope that wiser and more mod
crate counses will ultimately prevail, but the hope
has wsned daily this week and is now barely
awe Another week may present better aspects.
Naturalization Of u. =. senator.