Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-08-30
MATTERS IN CONGRESS


gust, and has been recruiting his energies amid
The salt surf and bracing air of old Newport on
the Shore
The bills for the admission of California. the
boundary of Texas, and the territorial govern
ment for New Mexico, have been passed through
the Senate with a rush, and hardly modiica-
ton. Cass, Clay, and Webster have been hail
fellows well met y in all the questions betraying
by silence, or mastery inactivity the rights
and hopes of Freedom and Free Soil. With this
ball the Presidential aspirants in the Senate have
been contented TO play; while the lesser lights
in the lower house have been contented to look
on, 1t not assisting to reard business, while they
saw how it went with I" the fate of Cato and of
Rome.'
The next important business of the Senate
was to take up and discuss the g Fugitive Slave
Bill" This bill covers great deal OF ground
1t is asserted by the Patriarchs of the
divine institution, that the United States go
vernment is obliged to return or pay for all
slaves that make their escape from slave to free
states. There is no proposition, however absurd,
but will find good many advocates. Messrs
Badger, Atchison, Foote, Pratt, and Mason, con-
tended for the constitutionaty of the measure,
while Messrs. Dayton, Berrien, and others. op-
posed the proposition. Let them, since they are
all Shareholders and supporters of slavery, have
nice time in quarreling over it. Let them claim
so much that the enormity of the outrage upon
human rights and constitutional law may be ap-
parent at a glance; and if the officers of the U
States are to see the fugitives returned, OF the
money paid for them out of the public treasury,
Uncle Sam will soon find himself paying for all
the slaves of the south. He will then own them.
and can send them to California to dig gold, or
let them stay here and raise wheat Let them
but admit the proposition in this light, and we
shall soon see the treasury of Uncle Sam empty
and the Slaves of the South changed into Free
men of the North The bill was engrossed on
the 23d by vote of 81 to IL. The same day
several amendments offered by Jefferson Davis
were adopted.
The last news from Washington in reference
to this bill is that if it passes the House the Pre-
sident will probably veto it on account of the un-
constitutionaity of its provisions.
The Hon. Henry Clay and Commodore Jones
have returned to Washington.
A despatch states that Mr.. Webster has pro-
posed the President of France as umpire to settle
the differences between the United States and
Portugal.
An unsuccessful attempt was made in the
House on the Goth by Mr. Matteson to fix the
day for the consideration of the Cheap Postage
Bill. This measure, so popular with the people,
seems to find but little favor with the peoples
representatives, they will doubtless attempt to
stave Oft the vote upon This question until some
of the other questions are disposed of to the sat
isfaction Of the friends of the speculiar insttu-
ton" The people have asked and demand cheap
postage for the millions. The Senate committee
have unanimously reported in favor of two cents
postage for all distances. Mr.. Durkee, from the
minority committee of the House, has reported
in favor of the peoples wish, two cents postage
for all distances. We wait to see what reason
the Congress will give for refusing the boon, es-
pecially when the postoffice treasury is overflow
ing with million of dollars, and the voices of
millions of freemen are demanding cheap post
age. Over million signatures have been pre-
scented in petitions to Congress for this measure.
measure which, when introduced, will do more
towards harmonizing discordant interests, civili-
zng rude natures, and cultivating those relations
friendship and peace, as well as open avenues to
business and prosperity, than the expenditures
Of hundreds of millions of dollars for naval and
military purposes, or the conquest of thousand
lands.
& FREE SOIL IN ILLINOIS.
The old Hunkers in Wentworth's district in
Illinois are making final gasp for life, and
spoils, to them greater good A new paper
has been started in Chicago, called the Demo-
cratic Argus, to do battle for the cause. LONG
John has been astrde the fence so long, some
times praying good Lord, and sometimes good
Devil that the old line did not know exactly to
whom he prayed the loudest and so they con-
cluded in the Democratic Argus to establish an
organ that would blow and groan one tune all
The time.
The starting of this paper, and the natural in
stinct that the old Hunkers have for spoils. has
stirred up the dear lovers of the people in the
north part of the district TO make one desperate
effort to recover their lost power in Lake county
Accordingly, they held Convention last week
1t Libertyville. to elect delegates to the Joliet
convention and by the aid and presence of a few
rec democrats, not entirely in the secret. lone
If whom had but recently moved into the countyl
whom they made officers of the meeting. thew
passed some pretty good resolutions, glorifying
Long John in one, Old lack and Tom Benton
n others, and making hodge podge mess of ii
generally. We were sorry to see ]. v. mixed
Up in the rabble but by his absence from the
Convention where he was delegated with the
we inferred he was stopping to
hink.
The Wings in this district have made their
nomination III the person of Churchill Coffing. of
-aSallc county. who is spoken of as devoted
wing and talented man. The Hunkers make
heir nomination at Joliet on the lth September.
The free sellers made their nomination vester-
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