New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-04-15
Protection 10 the Domestic slave Trade
Morals of Congress -Cass-fooie's Thir.
teen-Prize- to Inventors.

Correspondence of The Tribune.
WAsHISGToN, Friday, April u.
In amendment to Mr. FoOTES motion to refer to
Committee of Thirteca Mr. john BELLS com.
promise resolutions, yesterday in Senate, the old
est and perhaps abest member OF that body moved
That nothing this reference shall be Construed so
assert imply The existence OF any 10 Congress 10
Slave Trade between the States nor that Congress ough,
20 abolish Slavery in the forts dock yards and asenas
abolish Slavery in the District OF Columbia"
How strange this reads In the middle of the
Nineteenth Centuy-in a land of freedom-in the
executive council of the thirty United States-a
Committee can't be formed to propose certain pre-
iminares as to boundaries, territory, sc. but the
act must be preceded by declaration, that, not
evenly implication shall the reference be construed
To alow-not that Congress will, but that it ever
can suppress the Save Trade between the
States
IT, IN 1908, it was time for Congress to enact that
even the savage African should not continue an ar
hcle OF traffic, nor be imported for sale into any
State, on pain OF death by hempen necklace, is it
necessary, IN 1850, 10 guard the far more
criminal trade Of buying and selling native born
Americans, as to declare that committee cant be
formed without a preamble for the better security
OF the inland North American slave trade
is God 5 earth to be monopolZed by few for the
special benefit OF their families Are the public
lands To remain a pension fund and the best Of
them to be surveyed, only that the favored few
may get the choicest locations Are American
men and women 10 be traded in as oxen and made
basis OF representation, though without any ac-
knowledged rights
dare not venture TO comment on the state of
public morals which the proceedings of this session
oil Congress indicate. Thucy dldes represents the
Athemsns as holding for honorable that which
DlpaSpd f,r tv.t 81. -. q.
sac resull IS on the page OF history, and America
may profit by it,
Can such system be spread on this continent.
and coupled win the sacred name of HEAVIER born
liberty w III The swapping OF large free States
by new slave ones. and the Continuance NJ ,bs
power and patronage OF the mon in the pres;den,
and ma jorites OF Senates thus created, end other
wise than in heavy public debt and that general
corruption OF manners III the more wealthy aud
influential classes which produces peculstion fraud
denial OF justice, aud that disordered condition
hnance which has ever-wIth one remark able ex
cepton-preceded revolotonl Men readily sub
INIT to be oppressed, but will not easily consent t,
pay dear price Tor the oppression
,o ins' prohigate old politician, General Cass, ha,
sS1a Inc people Of Michigan that tie Union IS ~
~~"sr we try 10 exclude the Slave Trade from
- Nr1ory bad he acted honestly he woull
~ie.L uomed them that il is the Welding TO the
Un.'-. re.asry spirit Of the men who senc
Mssh' e 0.s' Bosand, Rusk and Kaufmsn t
"nHs'I n 'na' will ere long cause disorder.
- ifin .n uah, Saturday morning. {
800 e" @s'ne,on for New.York in the
hours 20 get TO Baltimore i, We. VA '. ~ 'ou
axle broke--perhaps il did A,snv ,s,a ~. NJ a.
foTk passengers were delayed twelve bonr. NV !,
and the travel thrown INTO tue hand. Of ,be F,oyoh
town and Newcastle hne. W.T. 'e"on
I'ee by this mornings AnerIcaa and Go.e,,
MM foote's bill is tabled pro tam. Mesr,,m'
"rBsTERs move is silently revolutionizins NJ,