The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-06-19
CONGRESSIONAL.

CUNuhEDDIUNAL.
sPEECH OF MA. DAYTON.
OF NEW JERSEY,
On tie Compromise Bal; dslUsrsd IN the Senate Jun.
II and ~, 1850.
The Senate having under consideration the special
der-beipg the bill 10 admit California State into The
Union, % establish territorial governments for Utah ant
New Mexico, and making proposals 10 Texas Tor the es
ablishment OF her western and northern boundaries
which bill Mr. Benton had moved 10 postpone I'LL the
4th day Of March, 1851
Mr. DAYTON. said: ! avail myself Of the first oppor.
uny presented since the report OF the committee for the
expression OF my views upon the general subject before
he Senate regret the delay that has occurred since the
Tepor, and the speech OF the senator from Kentucky
there would seem TO have been wanting proper prompt-
ude upon the part OF senators concurfing In the views
Of the Executive in coming up 70 It's supports and have
sometimes felt sense Of personal humiliation that we
have been slow in the expression OF our views on the
question purpose examining not SO much the recon-
mendalion OF the Executive as the plan OF the com
miliee In doing so, snail make no antagonsm be,
tween them; and shall place myself AZ no point ol
an,agonisn with the committee or with any mem
her of The committee and least OF all with its dis
tinvuished chairman. Sir, have followed him at a
distance too long 10 desire or even TO consent TO
position OF personal aniagonsm now. When we
saw the result OF the action OF the committee, a
sense OF gene a surprise and disappointment felt In
this chamber well as in the country at large Here was
a committee organized for harmony got up with view
10 concilation, and intended 10 reach united result il
was thus that the mind OF the country was TO be affected
BY the moral force OF grand compromise. But, sir when
This report comes in, find that instead OF being the
suit OF harmonious compromise, it is literally the Off
spring OF confusion and the child OF discord The report
was scarcely born before it denounced by many OF its
puave fathers They seized upon H. strangled II, and
would have choked IL dead in its cradle but for the in
domtabe energy OF one man, who seized il with one
hand and defended it against all comers with the other
Although dissenting from his positions, il spectacle
OF moral grandeur which could not but respect and adj
nre.
But sir, when the result OF this committees consulta-
ton with almost many dssentents c0ncurrens) be-
came appaent,r eluiredmuch confidence ntbe comn tee
10 still persist Iii Its own plan and permit me to say with
great respect that required still more confidence on the
part OF the chairman under such disastrous
10 say that he had with profound surprise and
gret the PERSISTENCE o he is compelled to regard the
facts around us) of The Chief Mastate OF the count.
in his own peculiar plan" MIR. President,l recoIlec
that during the last presidential canvass, New Yorl
politicians somewhat distinguished for pquan sayings
whose father was at that time an irregular democratic
or ireesoi candidaie) expressed his unbonnded sur
prise that General Cass would persist in running hi
name just to distract the democratic party Laughter
Now, sir, with all proper respect i seems 70 me that
in view OF the action OF This committee, ant
erred to would naturally have been looked for in an
olher quarter and from opposite direction think
andmy belief is that the great body OF the wings OF the
North, at least, will agree with me-that the concia
and effort at harmony referred to should have
from this end rather than from the other end OF the
nue.. Why, sir, what have we seens After weeks OF
struggle you have organized your committee; they have
gone into sesson-thirteen learned doctors consulting
over the body OF poor dying patient; and yet the
thirteen have not united upon the mode Of treating soil
ay one q the ys gaping wounds q WHICH the patient
tee Why sir, the President. with his Fix members oil
the cabinet, would have formed the majority if they
had been part OF that committee; yet, under such cir
camstances il is considered matter OF surprise that
there not iniimaton the part of the Execu-
tive that he would abandon his recommendation for
that Of the committee The suggestions Of the President.
when made certainly well received by the country
large. In the beginning, he proposed-what UNDER
stood the South had at first asked-non intervention
and then, sir when we come in, and, under the recon-
mendaton OF the Executive work up to that point-no
interference in the Territories at alive - that the
stake is pulled up and set down furher on, and
again required to work up TO and we are told, fur
question is the plan OF this committee nothing Sir IL
that be so regret II deeply Ii il so turn out, shall
ever believe that the unfortunate result of this at
tempt 10 accomplish than the state OF the times and
circumstances would permit.
Mr. President, desire TO make some remarks up
on the plan of the committee. do not compare this
plan with any other, because, although newspapers and
tee and the Other as the plan of the Executive, the Exec
uhye itself never assumed any such title for lis
menda,on. Il did more than recommend single
measure II is indebted for It's 10 speech max
and ndounasts ltwas plan professed to be grand
scheme for settling all the ills which might possibly act
the body polite; Il was the accommodation oil simple
and single measure. The Committee OF Thirteen have
brought forward grand scheme and insist on calling the
Presidents Recommendation scheme plan like their
own, and ask comparison. They susceptible OF
COMPARISON. The Presidents recommendation and The
plan Of the committee 20 together, until The recommends
hon OF the President stops They are identical 10 GER
tam point and II You take up the remarks oil the dis
nngllshed senator from Kentucky Mr. CL.y,l you will
Ind II avowed by him. He says that the Executive
recommends the introduction OF California State, and
20 does the committee The Executive recommends nom
Intervention 10 the subject OF slavery and does the
committee. They are tbeief0e, identical, IN the view Of
The SENATOR far. From that point FORTH the plan OF
The committee is plan OF its own, and II must stand or
a not BY comparison with opposite plan, but by lis
own single merits.
The Executive recommends the admission OF Califor-
ma as State and the committee II, with
tam other matters. Now, sir, upon the point OF prefer
ence between the two Recommendations The Executive
recommends single act, direct, plain and sraghtfor.
ward. lie says, il California deserve upon her own
merits 10 be admitted admit her il she 10 not reject her
That is the plain, direct aud Straightforward method oi
legislation, dvested oI all exiraneous outside influences
What does the committee do They recommend the al.
mission OF California, thereby admitting the Executive 10
be right; but m addition, irom motives OF policy or po.
lltical strategy, they recommend other matters wholly
exfaneous 10 The main proposition-other and weak
measures, to becarried along by this the stronger one
submit, in the beginning that the Recommendation o
The Executive, thus far, is the uaexceponable and
proper OF legislation; that California alone i
more correct Than proposition which coanccts IL with
and oyerrdes ii by other matters Then, sir, as TO the
Territories The Executive recommends non-inierven
ton upon the subject OF slavery, and the committe,
recommend non-inievenion on The subject oi slavery
Both plans as respects lhls eyciuag iopc--2bci
alone moves 50 deeply the public mnd--arc ihns fa
ldenlca, they do nothing at all, Gal led,t the repor
of me committee proe 10 do noihngD although somt
senator's suppose an advantage gained 10 the South b,
me EXTENSION Of territorial government there. Wheg
fne plans, therefore, commenceto dief they die not IL
resuon 20 siavrynolin IN reference 10 the matter abou