New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-08-15
BY THE MIDNIGHT SOUTHERN HALL.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Land for the Landless-Waikcr's Speech
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csnexr- Precs edinss I'm the senate On Taes-

day.
cOussPOadenes Of TIE rrihGrs
wAsaISGros.. T1es,sy, AuS. IS 1859.
Printers ere queer fan, or more properly, they
make queer Ssh # oiher people. l uever vii al
NIT that | ~rite bad hand, fs siter that al the
blame would be laid on ne. In the beading Of
one of my LAST letters wrote "a scrub race" De
tween sons BODY sod sometody e'Es, which ths
printer makes iuto sere5s race. Ny 6yors was
taken from horse racing he mast l presums.
have been more accustomed to propeller steam.
bosts. Ip-es1ne sesin TIA, BIS reading is qIi.s
- in;olgih'e - the grcat mass Il ils readers VI
Tie ITtuec, 70 say tie leAst IS mne.
NJ long sidence al the South hiss made ne
master OF al thal branch OF polite learning watch
re!stes - the rNceooGTfe. specie. o. accomplish
mens hen, fear, "a sadly neg ec.ea a. the N0,tn,
uotSiits;sudiDg ,hc event proPons y Of IAakoes
end NewN Workers 20 boat OF the srcctcn OF tasif
system % education. | might cJmpiAin OF some
o'Ir- '.ta 'ea.ts OF tht press slch as tR nao5exf
for N hBotls', bot with dlstiBc; uscsfstsn ding
that every thine that "a not exactly VIM: Il shJS.d
be, IN whatever write, = the Printer's fault aud
Lot miue, .hGi pass by such ANAL matters, IN
the future Tor 90 somebody says IN Sn Interesting
book written by somebody, q" have always %
served that Wherever say anything am gen
CTaIy Hght
"
Of Wis. as the Representative Of I01ng Amerlcs,
brought up the biliJr the dsuiogtton OF the puoic
lsnds 30 lard lscksrs in general To guard himself
nom imprudent expressions, which, as be ssid,
might csuse him 10 be misunderstood as utteriDg
some OF the Rhsurdities Of Socialism he had hts
speech written, and read il TO the Ssuste. After
bis cGUedt against being res Ted as Socialist he
vert o. ana IN good set terms uttered some Of tue
greatest and most startling truths Of Socialism. IL
was the first speech oithe session IN which single
idee-the growth Of the present sge-has been ut
tered. | repeat what | say. The speech OF Mr..
WALKER 70 day, which was stared AZ and yswned
over, snd laughed AZ by learned and honosa-
be Senators on ali hands, was the very hfss
speech during the Whole niue m0uths OF IDces-
fant discussion in which 4 single idea has been
uttered which the world has hit upon during the
ASt fifty yesrs-the prodlct Of our day and genera.
ten. As for every thing else which has been said.
from beginning 10 end, If the embalmed bodies OF
our dead ancestorscould be galvanized into life and
gathered into Congress, every sentiment, every
argument, and every appeal which has been utter
ed upon the floor OF the Senate, since have been
occupying seat m the gallery, might have como
from their lips without being charged with the sin
OF 0hackr0Rism. Mr.. WALKER's speech was new
in kind. Ii belongs to another sge-snother phase
Of civilization. It's delivery 10 the Senate marks
al epoch. Mr.. WALKLR Is NOT, believe, regard.
ed by his brethren Of the Senate a. possessed OF
the highes. grade Of intellectual endowment
Dot q disting uished-not leading Member, bat
there were twenty IDEAS in his spec IN today,
any one Of which, II IL found its way ia.
to the brain Of en- old school politician would
give him the headache for week before
he could matter IL | hope TO see the speech
extensively published by the press, not b,cause it
may be either especially true or great for any Of
those who are now numerously and so profound.
ly engaged on the great questions OF natural as
tice and the true conditions Of men, but because il
10 the first breach made among " 10 the sphere OF
national legislation, through the damp coister
walls which encircle the rects Of the past age, by
the rising waves Of an intelligent, rejecting and
resscniLg philanthropy which mark the incoming
of better time. Ii matters not whether Nc.
WALKIR chooses TO be called land reformer or
Socialist or what not, be has led the way in the
Senate OF the United States in declaring great
truths which are now up for hearing before the
world and which no legislative body in this country
at least can long continue to ignore.
have put down Arst what deem first In rank,
notwithstanding the other great event which has
signazed the day. The bill for the admission Of
California with her present Consultation, bounds
ries and representation, unchanged as Fixed by her
own Convention, has passed the Senate by the
large vote Of 80 to Is.
After the Senate al journed last night, having Or
dered the bill 10 be engroised for third residing,
had great misgivings about the result. DAVIS Of
Miss had the floor for speech. IL was under
stood that CLEMENS, HUsTER and other Southern
ultrss intended to speak, and, from certain indoa
tons conceived the idea that they had determn
ed, by long .winded harangues about nothing, to
defeat the BILL at least until after the next resolu-
ton day ia the House, SO as 70 embarass, a. far az
possible, the friends OF California there.
But either they bad no such design or they had
thought better of it and abandoned the deiign.
Mr. DAVIS led oil in a rather pretty finale Of his
desperate opposition to the bill, sort Of oratorical
smsgsm of the warning Of Lochiei, the Lsments
tious Of Jeremiah aud good Buncombe stump
speech for the latitude OF Miss. The others fol
lowed in shor. speeches Of various merits and
dimensions. until finally the storm having fairly
blown ,self out, the little squad OF Southern
champions yielded gracefully to the decree OF
necessity aud permitted the bill TO be pat upon its
final passage. IL has passed from the Senate into
the House, there TO DO hoppled and made TO wait
for Texas and Utah and New Mexico, and runaway
"niggers," and everything else which the minority
wants before the overw helming majority in that
House will be permitted to enact the simple declar-
alton Of their will upon a subject which mas been
debated already dd HaHSenm.
The Senate il now mad for work. Before ad-
iourning they called up the New Mexico territorial
bill. and made that the special order Tor TO morrow
at I9 O'Clock, and go on until dispoted Of. So we
co. s. P. A.