Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-04-04
CONGRESS-.
MONDAY, March 25.

ing the Senate, aud perhaps the country, b.
sending around piece of paper with his nam
upon the top of it, quoting from the two speech
es. The quotations had also been made, he I'm
derstood, in the Senate. He would undertake
now to say that if any body could make thes
quotations for the purpose of showing any incon
sistency, he either did not understand the sub
iect or was not candid. There was no inconsis
tency. He had never voted for any increase o
slavery or slave territory, hut he had said tina
he would carry out the compact with Texas
Having resisted unsuccessfully the making o
the compact, he would no, now violate it after /
was made. II was not the part of a Statesman
nor of an intelligent, honest, candid man SO Il
act.
Mr.. HALE replied that the Texas compact was
was made in '46, and was just as much a reality
in '4S as 1t was in so, and i, certainly did seen
to him that under the circumstances there was
an unwarrantable difference.
Mr.. Webster rejoined, if the Senator did
not quote for the purpose of charging him with
inconsistency, he could not see what was bis oh
iect 1t could not be fairly inferred from his re-
marks made in as, that he designed undoIng
what Congress had already done His remarks
could only apply to future legislation. He had
already voted against the acquisition OF Slavery
territory. He voted against the war and the
treaty, because they were waged, and made for
the purpose of acquiring slave territory and If
Mr.. Hale and two or three others on his slce Of
the Chamber had voted with hini, this controyer-
sy had never come here. Why did not the Sem
tor vote to keep out the territory? Mr.. Hale
reminded the Senator from Mass. that a motion
was made to amend the treaty, by inserting a
proposition prohibiting slavery in the territory
which should be acqured-upon that he voted
in the affirmative, while Mr.. WebsteI's vote was
not recorded, although in the Chamber five min
utes before and five afierward. He (Mr Hale. J
had voted against the war and voted Tor the
treaty. because he considered bad peace bet
ter Than war. He believed there was great
difference in The positions taken by Mr.. W ebster
at the periods mentioned. Ii he wrong in
that opinion he was not alone. The whole coun-
try thought the same thing. The opinion also
found support in the fact that the Globe Dewspa
per, winch had been continually pouring out its
abuse upon the heads of gentlemen from the
North, the Hon. Senator among the rest, until
his last speech was delivered, when the editor
evInces his conviction aud appreciation OF the
change, by exhansting the vocabulary almost
TO fad terms sufficiently laudatorv OF the posi-
lions now taken.
Mr.. WEBSTER thought Mr.. Hale not compe
tent 10 pronounce the opinion OF the whole coun-
try he might speak for himself; but the whole
country was too large jurisdiction. He de-
hurried against his declarations; he hesittted,
douL ted, repealed The Statement. To the opinion
q! the whole country. The matter, after all, Il
mounted Just to this: The observations OF the
Senator from y. II. took a liit!e flavor aud per
tune, because it was not agreeable TO that gen
tenlan to thar portion Of the press who mad
hitherto been opposed to him Mr.. W. was now
coming out in his favor.
Mr.. DoUGLAss, from the Committee on Terri /
ries, reported btli to admit California into the
Union, and bill organizing the Government OF
Utah and New Mexico.
Alter some conversation in relation TO pro-
position tor some measures securing a more /
prompt execution Of the public printing, the Sen
ate proceeded 10 the consideration of the special |
order the motion 10 refer the Presidents Caliior
ria Message.
Mr.. Hunter having the floor, addressed the /
Senate at length upon the question OF Slavery, |
maintaining the right of the South TO take Their
slaves into The Territories, and picturlng the
evils which would result from emancl pation.-
He took decided Southern ground, and anicIpa-
ted In view OF the history OF the past, no perna-
nent security for the future. He telt that the
I mon could not be permanently preserved by
any patched-up compromise, but was ready for
himself, &c 10 any thing that promised peace, if
consistent with the constitutional rights OF his
State.
Mr. UrHAM obtained the floor, and the subject
was postponed until Monday NEXT.
Alter The consideration OF Executive business.
adjourned.
llousE.-The bill to supply deficiencies in
appropriations of the present fiscal y,ar
taken up, and the question. on the amendments
reported from the Committee of the whole Oh the
safe o. lhe Union, was agreed 10.
The House went iuto Committee of the ,
Whole on the State Of the Unlon and resumed
the consideration OF the California question.
Mr. THURsToN, of Oregon, SAID he was The
first representative from Oregon this floor
lie came here no; as party man, though he
belonged TO Il party; he came here not as sec
tlonal man. though he belonged TO a secIion.-
Oregon deeply interested in The question r
before the Committee. He had been grleved TO {
hear California slandered and heaped all over ,
with calumny because she had dared TO use the ,
first law of nature-to protect herself and form
a Constitution and as he for admission his r
opinion was that California should be admitted
INTO the Union without plucking single hair +
from the silver locks OF her golden Constitution
He held that any one SAFE has not only ID Con ;
sttulona right 10 ask, but 10 demand, ad,ns
son. Mr.. Calhoun in the Senate, took ground 9
that when State presents herself with Il proper ;
Constitution, Con. ress has no right to ienv her :
adinlsson-if ST., they run over the Constitution ,
aud laws. The question is, Is the Constitution
OF California Republican? Ia the whole hlsio-
~ OF this country Constltut on cannot be found .
more Republican, and with more extended views
with regard to human rights. Objection had
been made 10 the boundaries; but she had bn, +
one good harbor that deserves 10 be so entitled, :
aud tins he proceeded to show from the book of
capt. Wilkes and his own observations She =
Contains no more area than she ought to have -,
One hundred ard forty -four thousand square
miles look large, but he held himself ready to :
prove that California does not contain cns-third
he arabic land of Ohio, not one-iourth Of Penn
'ylvanla, nor one-ifJh of Virginia, reckoning +;
-hose States as containing arabic land. Captain .
w likes thought that the amount of arabic land
DOES not exceed l2000 square miles. CalIfur- +,
MA according 10 Cotton, does not exceed the old
Bay State IN agricultural resources. The coun- E
Try, Tor the most part, was barren, the abode of t
wolves and birds Of prey; and their appearance
indicates that they are nearly starved. He con :
tended that the Convention to form the State +,
Constitution was not brought about by General =
Taylor; In other words, tina, the Constitution n
was not crammed down their throlts 1t was II
purely matter of the people then selves. He h
gave history OF past events TO prove that mel
Their General Riley, General Taylor, lor Thomas r
Butler King, had any thing to do with the form !,