The southern press., 1850-09-04
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
TUESDAY, September 3. lS.

MIR. COBB, OF Alabama, asked the unanimous
consent Of the House to take up Senate bill grant
ing the right Of way through the public lands in
the State Of Alabama, to the Chattanooga and
Nashville railroad. Objected to.
/ The SPEAKER stated that the regular order
of business until IL o'clock, NJ, was reports from
committees.
| Mr.. STRONG, Of Pennsylvania, from the Com
mittee on Rules, reported resolution authorizing
the employment of B. B. French Esq, in making
digest Of the rules of the House, illustrating
their operations and the construction which has
been given to them for a series of years He re-
marked that he thought such Parliamentary
manual Mr.. French would be able to produce,
was great desideratu,n especially to new men,
bers.
Mr. JONES, of Tennessee, was opposed to
the proposition Of the committee. If any refor-
nation of the rules was necessary, it was a duty
which should be performed by Committee Of the
House.
Mr.. SCHENCK, of Ohio, also opposed the
resolution. He was in favor Of abolishing all the
rules of the House and conducting their business
under the old Parliamentary law. He moved to
lay the resolution on the table. Agreed to.
| Mr.. FULLER, OF Maine, from the Committee
on Printing, reported resolution for printing five
thousand copies of list Of all United States Pen
sioners placed on the rolls after the 18th day oi
October 1895, as reported by the Secretary Of War
to the House.
/ =.
JONES, the hour arrived for proceeding to the
TEXAS BOUNDARY BILL.
Mr. DANIEL of North Carolina, being enti-
tied to the floor, rose and offered the following
substitute for the instructions proposed by Mr..
| Roor Of Ohio, to INCORPORATE the anti-s slavery
"provso" in the bill, 70 wit
| ''To report with the said bill an additional
section, declaring so much Of any and all acts of
Congress as prohibit African slavery in any ter
| halo tn tha l;a,
between the Mississippi river and the Pacific
ocean, and is not included within the limits of any
State, null and void from and after the passage OF
said bill, so as to extend the principle of nonin-
tervention to said territory"
The SPEAKER ruled the substitute out of or
der, inasmuch it applied to territory not en-
braced in that acquired from Mexico.
Mr.. DANIEL then said that he would conform
to the decision Of the Speaker, and restrict it to
territory lately acquired. He remarked that be-
fore he proceeded to give his views upon the ques-
ton, he wished the clerk to read letter he had
received from of his constituents, enclosing
an abolition circular which had been received at
one Of the post Offices in his district. The letter
and circular were read. The circular suggested
some mode OF engaging the Federal Government
in scheme for colonzing the negro race in At
RIGA, and the letter expressed a sensitlveness at
these incendiary attempts of the abolitionists.
He did not believe that this was union Of the
people in the aggregate, but confederacy Of
States. He condemned the policy and doctrines
OF the Presidents Message in reference to the.
Texas boundary. He was not disunionst, and
if he should ever become one it would result from
the aggressions Of the anti-savery section Of the
Union. He believed that the best and readiest,
If not the only effective way Of aayng the
tional excitement was such amendment of the
Constitution shall forever preclude the Federal
Government from any interference preudicial to
slavery in the States in territory belonging in
common to all the States.
When he looked at the comparatively small
portion of territory set off to the South under the
Missouri Compromise, and viewed the many
subsequent attempts to restrict her limits, and set
metes and bounds to her progress, by those pos
sessing the numerical superiority on this floor, it
appeared the result Of settled determination on
the part Of the majority to sub ject the South to a
policy not unlike that marked out for the Indian
race in our country. He was opposed to the bill
regarding it project for the dismemberment Of
Texas by bribing her to part with her territory to
be subject to the policy Of the anti-savery party.
Mr.. MCDOWELL, Of Virginia, obtaining the
floor, adverted to former speeches made by him,
which had been freely quoted from by others, and
for different purposes, but it was no occasion now
for him to confirm revoke them. Whenever il
should be his duty to do so before tribunal hav-
ing the requisite jurisdiction, he would be prepared
to do the one or the other. He was hostile to the
hateful proviso which it was proposed TO engraft
in the bill under discussion. All these attempts
Of the ant-slavery party to restrict and conclude
slavery were poweress for good, even if the insti-
tuition was an evil as some held to be- but on the
contrary, they were all fraught with mischief
These restrictions at once impaired that equality
to which the saveholdng States were entitled in
the Union. He illustrated this inequality by sup
posing that citizen from Massachusetts, and a
citizen from Virginia, should purchase cotermin-
Gus sections Of land, belonging in common to all
the States. Each furnishes himself with every
thing he believes necessary and convenient for his
prosperity in settling on his land. But the citizen
from Virginia, is required before he can proceed
to dispossess himself OF his propery.in slaves, to
which he has been accustomed and with the labor
Of which only can he successfully cultivate his
land, while the citizen from Massachusetts,, is per-
mittcd to take all the property and machinery to
which he has been accustomed, without discrimi-
nation. Where, he asked, was the equality be.
tween them. There should be no discrimination
between the different parties to the Union-no en-
dowment Of some, and Acknowledgement OF others.
The South felt that all such treatment contem-
plated something dishonorable as well as injuri-
Gus. Virginia asked for no gratitude for her ser
vices and sacrifices in maintaining our independ-