New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-02-12

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W.smSeToS. SATURDAY Re. q, ~.
was IN tho Senate yesterdsy. When VI sTUA-
orov WAS scJld.ng CERTAIN Pennsylsan t!uakers
as tio1k+eorfet because they lad prayed to- D.
solution OF the Confederation II ~ object V'ss =.
continue % be- ,is extension end perpetuatoa Of
human sltyery bat ! Was ia the House dua =
par, oi TIE subsequent discussion. sud may baTr
given ~ erroneous view of CIV SFwAID's rnol. e"
aud remarks in my letter Of last iirir' hsr.l-
copied tee NOES o. friend.
The memorial, winch Mr HAts presented on
Thursday last considers the pledge ia tie Cons'i-
tatOn that tie whole power Of the Republic wi. be
exercised 10 support and continue Human slavery,
a violation Of Gods law. al attempt 20 unite Lib
eYiy aud Bondsge-Fett and Freedom ia one
BODY potc-s violation Of Republican principles
which hss produced manifold evils and proved iha'
such mon ~ ours can only exist by The arrfce
~ Freedom a. the shrine Of the nristOsTatc holder
the buyer and seller o' human flesh sHd blood,
,bews aad sinews and tne mem0nshsts hopeless
Of sny amendment o. the Constitution Ia tins re-
sp.c Il Requiring tie consent OF three iourtts Of The
States pray Congress ~ devise some plan i1I tAe
immediate dissolution Of what they believe - bo an
uuholy league. at variance with The Christian faith
ami doctrine
JUDGE DOrGLA. would receive No. petitions about
slavery be- believed that It was question that
O. ght not 10 be- al1tated. aud would only receive
petitions Ia cases where Congress lad a reht 10
grant their prayer strange idea, truly an y
uorent man Prays 70 God for something hc on-h'
az, 10 nave askrd-sOmething which God ~ jus
tice mercy goodness and truth. could not grant -
Tho pray Ger may not be complied with, bat the ne
moria is not refused Senator DOUGiAs.- role
would call forth en- inieunnablc debate upon every
subject on which Senators might happen "a differ
IN opinion 10 the powers OF Congress The con
sfrutional question must invariably be settled be-
fore the memorials OF any Of the constituents
Senators cap b. received. though couchcd Ia the
most decorOus language Monarchy only went
step further IN the wrong IN England PRIOR 10 lb--
u DaH,shed the petitioners
\ memorial is merely an expression Of the oplu
ION or desire both, OF the meniOriahst. with on
without a recital Of facts pertinent 10 the case
Why prevent the people from Offering memorials,
where Senators choose 10 present them The
people cannot instruct their Representatives when
they elect them, upon every subject Is It not
then essential that they should be enabled 10 state
their views freely aiterward whether those who
exercise delegated power happen to think them
coust itutonal or the contrary Have not cases
existed in which one senate majority considered
that 10 be constitutional which another Senate ma
ority believed 20 be agsns the letter and spirit of
| the supreme law | thought Mr. S1CRGFON rash
and much b. blame for calling men N0c.hfaT'f
merely because they differed from INN 90 the r.
| quircinen,s OF Gods law and said 81. Three hun
| Gred wears ago. such men MS Mr. STURGEON. eoad
al on 10y false zeal superstition. and the ignorance
| OF the age would have burnt Ants avery memo
riasts at the stake, perhaps, as n warning to
| those who might thereafter be inclined 20 broaci
sent ldonts distasteiu to men in power
| Wherein did the oitenges 81 tine mon who were
burnt gibbeled, tortured, imprisoned transport
ei. in times of religious persecution differ from
| those Of the Philadelphia OuAkers whose Memorial
| MIR HALr presented The oilensc Oi both was
the free preston of their sentiments, and the de-
uaud ct a change IA the existing state of society
II Judge DorGLAs would bat call 10 mind uai
hundreds Of Thousands, perhaps OF the ltiuosus
arc iugitives from State persecution and slavery, cr
their Off pring he would be much more careful o.
the sacred right of petition IN theoretically ire,
Government II ] mistake not the signs OF the
times the day Of trucking TO Slavery. and mailing
political capital out OF IT, il fast passing away Judge
D1UGLAs's assertion on Friday last that Erc'S
Senator now feels that this Slavery agitation las
but one tendency, and that tendency Is. b sever
and subvert the union Of these States, ant ~ it77
~ AiOodsled and anarchy, is an insult to mtilohs
of conscientious Americans who have witnessed
tree discussion. the corner stone OF Republican In
stitui.cus crushed in the siRvehoding states, ine
business If Congress paray zed here 10y a spcra
organization OF THEN Representatives. Slaycrt
compact and the preservation, extcusion ana per
petuai on ot the greatest curse with which Amer
ica ever was is or can be afflicted, made The ar
cry Of powerful ani united faction.
Mann persons vino petition Congress sud state
grievances, or what they believe 10 b. such may
be wrong IA 20 the remedies suggested, but Is "
therefore necessary % narrow down the rsf ~
petition, asd check the Tree expression OF pdbh'
sentiment Free discussion within representa-
tive body frequently shows one side very wrong
and other quite right sometimes both sides are
Oh the balance Would It improve representative
Institutions were we 10 prohibit the free expression
Of unconstitutional views on the floor Of Congress
How could truth yet victory over error without q
combat
srvRseo>'s trouble about the Quakers Of h.s
state being old Fedcrasts shows his utter wii.
ness Tor the hirh Office which his party IA the l.
sislaiurc has given INN. 81 have nothing - gain
or expect from them" ssid he What had his
gains or expectations 70 30 with the irec exercise
OF grea, right by free people, whether OF the
majority or minority IN point OF numbers Train =
not always found in mutitudes Didn't the Jewish
mob exclsim OF Christ Cruelty HIM cruciy hun
Soarc the rohber and slaV the innocent And
why He had. like Mr.. Surgeons constituents
whom he calls black hearted, controyerted Ger
tan established docmas or prejudices, which tnt
eaders OF that mob found il their interest 70 en-
courage Great IS Diana OF The Epheslans
Mr.. DAWSON Of Ga Sledsed that the I sen
ste Is constantly "iry1tafed, hsrrassed. anu per
plexed" hy the presentations OF auti slavery memo.
rails Very probably Bat let me ask him. Do
not those memorials afford proof that the memari.
slsis are sin more irritaicd by the debt contract
ed 60 wres; Texas from Mexico 10 strengthen On"
Slave power Ia the grip 1t has Of ali the good far
places and Jobs in the lnion-irrlisted by the ar
gent efforts made bv the SOuthtO extend the mon
OF the ietter and the Slave driver whip-irniatea
at seeing Slave pnsons aud chains m front o. She
capitol Knowing. as they DO, that WAsHlNGioN
freed all his bondsmen and said he never wished
~ own smother Slave, that RANDoLFh did tue
same and that GEORGE lid would have bees de
cared relcorseless tyrSni. Ia the Declaration q
iniepeudcuce, drawn by JEFFERSON because r.
s-,,s ~ ar i5cl,fiCatsf bur for the opposition OF
South Csrolina and Georgia
Are no; the wrongs Of which the Federaiisi
Ouakers. as STURGEON calls them. complain,
wrongs denounced by LAFAlErrF, RANnoIHR.
MONROE. JEFFERSON, FHANGLlS aye and by W ASH
INSroS Are there not records NOR ~ NJ Clay
ions DgrarftasNk, in which LAFAYKrrE uses the
most tender intrestics 90 American Presidents.
urging them Ia do their very utmost to bot ont the
stigma OF slave -holdus sDd slave breeding rom
the Constitution and practice OF Virginia AnG
the MODEST bene;actOr Of America, IN her day o.
peril might 50 say, shall Messrs DOUGLAS DAW