The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-08-17

benefit even Of his imperfect memory OF what he did ay
II were positively certain that the country would be as
oblvous OF what be uttered he myslerousy
TO have become. am ! would not throw out one
single observation 10 response.
Now The Honorable senator speaks Alphabetically He
does not charge me directly, understand as one 10
whom he meant 10 apply the term censor morm on this
occasions but he says he intended 10 make certain
IN response to such gentlemen chose act that
part Yet he does intimate that heretofore acted that
part myself Well, sir, make an issue with him here
never played that part have replied to him always
WIN courtesy-never with criticism have never said
anything thai diln not think maintained at the time,
have never used augh but language OF respect courtesy
Kindness and even Difference in response % TIE disla
guished senator deem myself totally UNITED TO play
the part OF The senator from Georgia -
man who is not subject at all TO censure from me. or
from Others IN regard 10 senatorial depolenenl never
berality, or aspery The honorable senator is bound
TO know that did think the relations between him and
myself were such would prevent him, al such mo
ment throwing the weight OF his and character
against in the that has been represented TO
Have assumed to be the censor m0fum here upon this
thought necessary TO be replied to by some and
used strictly parliamentary language. Do understand
the honorable senator as joining with the gentleman with
destand him as having had such peculiar sympathy for
that SENATOR in the course OF this mornings discussion,
that bis feelings assumed decidedly hostile cast towards
connexion with that controversy! Ii mol, what did
he BY using the term csasOres 0run IN connexon
with me- il he did He must that the insin
uaon was andeserved on my part and gnprovoked The
speech which he has delivered here odayat least the
part have heard OF it'll certainly should not have
thought OF censurng or crtcisng have never attacked
Or sssaed the present position o. Gsorgla have never
legislature oil Georgia, upon which he has commented to-
day Why then. does be seem anxoas to have contest
with me Why does he mark me out as one to whom
be wishes to apply the term censor ni0ru,n?
But the honorable senator, am told. said that he would
not be driven from the pursuance OF that course which his
own judgment dictated by the dread OF
Why. sir the senator must perceive plainly that the Ian
guage was very unnecessary to be used He ought 10
have known that would not rise in my place for the
part OF his public course Have we not struggled together
lately side by side shoulder to shoulder. in trying pass
the bill which has received the senator's sanction and
confidence. Did not 60 up to him and express the de-
light ielt in operating with him in the passage OF that
measures Why then is IL that he has thought proper to
send me forth TO the country as one undertaking TO carp
al mis- course and criiicse I'll never have done it. Yet
il the senator really wishes contest and insists upon
let me know what the mode is and the time when il shall
The PRESIDENT. The senator must understand tina,
this Is wrong. The Chair panied to be under the
cessy Of reminding gentlemen OF what they owe TO them
selves and TO the Senate
the application OF the honorable senator's remark, in
which, as the senator acknowledge he intended to apply
sa Saa
the remark he would have saved the necessity of de-
Tending myself. But itdoes so happen that when am
buked. and when rise to defend myself am uniformly
censured by the Chair
The PRESIDENT That is an impuation which the
senator ID not at liberty 10 make in regard to the conduct
Of the Chair The Chair Intends far practicable,
all times, to restrain gentlemen from going beyond what
Is proper Even this morning. the senator from Mssis-
slppi and the senator from louisiana called TO
der when they were thought TO be going beyond what
was strictly proper this oor The Chair trusts the
senator will not intimate any idea that 10 calling him TO
ORDER the Chair is operated by any other feeling than
disposition enforce the rules OF the Senate and pre-
serve the proper decoIum which belongs 10 this body
Mr. FOOTE. did not hear the remark OF the senator
from Georgia. when he said To have applied the
censor norum have not attempted 10 apply il 10 the
honorable senators but must cay that his course with
Mr. BERRIEN. .Iliiberai' is a charge which pre-.
sumo lie not to be permitted in this chamber. II would
perhaps force reiort which should be extremely sorry
TO utter here consider myself incapable OF being lib.
era towards the honorable SENATOR and such charge
deem to be entirely out Of place.
MIR. CASS. MIR President the senator from Georgia,
at the commencement OF his remarks, made an auson
to the doctrine have maintained in relation 10 the general
power OF Congress over the Territories rise TO put
myself rghnot TO defend others from the change implied
In the assertion that am the only in the Senate
and almost the only citizen out OF il. who does not be-
eve that this government has full and unlimited power
over these Territories; though trust there many.
both here and elsewhere who have not far forgotten
the faith Of their fathers to ecquesce IN such mon
stroas assumption OF arbitrary power Why. il is the
very doctrine and almost the very words of the decara
tory act OF George ILL., which fathers resisted sue
cessfullyhrst in argument and then in armstbat
MAJESTY IN PARLIAMENT HAS THE RIGHT. ny STATUTE,
\ ~ biNp ihh coLoNlls IN ALL CANES WHATSOEVER we
went to war against this very assumption, invoking the
great right OF self government and haowed the principle
fought Tor by success and made the very
OF our institutions And now before all the generation OF
the men oil the revolution has passed away are
called upon TO declare that majesty his gouernmen
IN Congress has the righ, by statute, 10 bind the Terri
tories sn oil Dtafsoeuer. And rather pointed
al as marked man, and as almost the only who,
in this middle Of the nineteenth century, and in this
publican land. does not bow the knee 10 this political
worship. Itust-I am sure, ndeei--ihat the senator
entirely msunderstands the sentiments of hs country
men, and that there Is not remnant, but vast
majority, who repudiate such preensions and who be-
lieve that internal legislation, without representation
natural affinity, is the very OF arbitrary power
/ And tremendous power II is. IL is claimed and
csed at st Peter sbugh Vienna and Constantnope
as well as at Washington and no matter by whom
claimed OF BY whom Observation-Disclosures by Sultan,
Emperor, King, Parliament, Congress-it Is equally
despos unsupported by the laws OF God by the Just
laws oil man. Whence do you derive such power
Put your hnger upon single clause word OF the
sltution, II you can, which gives il you. Such
ribe OF oppression should not shadowy
implications, or remote anaoges elementary words.
employed BY European writer's II should have visi.
bic, tangible foundation II should be written in charac-
tiers oil living light that the opptessor and the oppressed
may not be deceived TO the power of the the
degradation OF the other And yet among the fifteen
sons given Tor the exercise OF this authority, there is
not one which, by any rational construction, leads to
such consequences. Fifteen reasons for the sup
port OF power which hall that number OF words
would have conferred beyond cavil or dis, ute Thai
very fact IS enough TO destroy the pretenson, Con-
gres shall haze unlimited poioer The Terrifories
This short and explicit clause would have spared Us
man Instead OF such declaration, what 10 the fact
/ The saws hat ia