The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-07-30
From the Baltimore Snn.
Thirty-First COngress--lst Session.
WASHINGTON, July 26.

SESATE.-Mr. john DaVlS presented the pc.
tition OF Edward Everett and Others, in favor OF
accompanying the Mexican boundary commits.
sion with scientific corps.
Mtersome morning business. the compromise
bill was taken up the amendment of MIR. Rusk
to the caucus amendment, establishing CON-
mission, pending. Mr.. Rusk's amendment pro.
yides that the State of Texas is entitled to all
rights which she possessed to the territory east
of the Rio Grande at the day of the ratification
of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and since.
A discussion followed, in which Mr.. Clay,
Mr.. Rusk, Mr.. Pratt, Mr. Hale. Mr.. Seward,
Mr.. Dayton, MIR. Houston and Mr.. Mason took
part
Mr.. Rusk's amendment was then rejected
yeas IL, nays IS.
Mr.. Mason moved a substitute for Mr. Brad.
bury's amendment, which was rejected-yeas
20. nays %.
| MIR. Clay offered an amendment reserving the
rights Of both parties in case the report of the
commission should not be adopted.
Mr.. Butler opposed it.
MIR. Seward offered an amendment for the
admission of New Mexico as State as soon as
her constitution is presented, and spoke at
length in its support,
MIR, Pratt opposed it, and insisted that the
Senator from New York had avowed doctrines
here for which he ought to be turned out.
Mr.. Pratt asked the yeas and nays, and they
were ordered.
Mr.. Dayton requested the Senator from New
York to withdraw his amendment.
Mr.. Clay objected
Mr.. Seward said he would vote for the prop.
osition if he stood alone. He proceeded to
vindicate it. If he was expelled, he should
still assert that there was law higher than hu-
man dcspotism--just was above law. He
read the declaration OF the State of New Mex
leo, and stated that the Senator from Maryland
could not succeed in his opposition to those
principles.
Mr.. Pratt said if the Senator imputed to him
opposition to those principles, he was bound
to say that he had undertaken to say what was
not true.
The Chair.-Ordcr.
Mr.. Dayton opposed the amendment.
Mr.. Hale said il Senators were to be expell-
ed for maintaining that there is a King of Kings
and Lord of Lords before whom even stubborn
Republics must bend-that there was law
above human government-be must also be ex-
PEELED. ifit was n crime, he would plead gnil
ty to it. He would not put the Senate to the
trouble to prove it. 1t was adverse to the con.
stituton, to law, to Divine Providence
Mr.. Pratt said it was easy to utter a state of
facts. |, said he, have higher respect for the
most High, than those who daily deseerate His
name here.
Mr.. Hale.-Order.
Mr.. Builer.-Take down the words.
Mr.. Hale submitted the words in writing
They accused him, (Mr. Hale) Of desecrating
the name of the Almighty here.
Mr. Pratt-NoI said $50 frequently desecra-
ted here"
The Chair said he had so understood it, or
he should have arrested the remarks.
Mr.. Pratt proceeded. If he made the mo.
ton to expel the Senator from New York, ne
would include the Senator from New Hamp-
shire with pleasure, if held the ground that the
Constitution was not to be regarded so far as
it protected slavery.
Mr.. Hale denied that he ever uttered such a
doctrine or opinion.
MIR. Pratt reverted to his original allegation,
that the Senator from New York had appealed
to a law higher than the Constitution; not to
Divine wisdom in harmony with the Constitu!
ton. In the Divine power he (Mr. Pratt was
an humble believer.
Mr.. Baldwin read and explained Mr., Sew
wards "higher law" speech, showing that ithad
been, as he thought, misconstrued. He also
opposed the amendment of the Senator from
New York. -
Mr.. Jefferson Davis was not prepared for
this theological disquisitiou. He moved an ad.
iournment
MIR. Clay called the yeas and nays The
motionto adjourn was rejected, yeas %, nays
27.
Mr.. Chase said it was better to act than to
threaten. lfgentlemen choose, he wished they
would move the expulsion Of those who main
tanned the doctrine referred to and just read.
Mr.. Foote said he would crafty the Senator,
and make the motion. If he would put the odi.
Gus principle in distinct language, that Senators
were bound to resist the constitution, he would
move his expulsion Now, the principle was
disavowed, and ingeniossly sought to be ex-
planned away, though it was certainly under
stood by every one, to have been asserted here
in the first speech of Mr.. Seward.
Mr.. Stewards amendment was rejected
yeas, MIR. Seward nays AZ.
Mr.. Bcrrien moved an adjournment.
Mr.. Foote called the yeas and nays
N