The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-08-27


Mr. YULEE then moved that the Senate proceed 10 the
consideration OF The resolution submitted by him In July
last;
R,soiusd. That The President Of the senate and the
respective houses Thu sday. day Of August
next al u O'Clock. meridian 8
The PRESIDENT The Chair cannot receive the
motion, there is special order 10 up, being
resolution in relation TO the purchase OF books.
Mr., YULEE. supposed that to be taken up a,
The PRESIDENT. The Chair understands it to have
been made The special order for half'Past II o'clock
Mr. YULEE. move to postpone il I'LL ~ o'clock.
Mr. FOOfE hope il will not be postponed
The PRESIDENT. The Chair finds this resolution
was made The special order for IL o'clock instead OF half
past II therefore the senator's motion IS IN order
Mr. FOOIE II was not so intended
The PRESIDENT The Secretary informs me that 1t
made the order for ~ O'Clock.
Mr. FOOTE. It must be clerical mistake, for II was
not understood by the Senate. The whole Senate rec
objects IT,
The PRESIDENT The Chair is under the impress.
sion that postponed and made the special order for
II O'clock there question asked at the time the
motion for postponement was made, whether II would
take precedence OF the fugitive slave BILL and the Char
answered that il would not it does not come up ll
l2 O'Clock.
The question being taken upon the motion TO proceed
10 the consideration Of said resolution, decided in
the negative DIVISION IL only voting IN The airna'
tive
Mr. ATCHISON moved that the Senate proceed tothe
consideration of resolution, submitted by HIM on the
2ls instant which was agreed to
The resolution was read as follows:
Resoped That the Secretary OF the Senate be required
ascertain and report Senate the money
drawn from the contingent, fund of til, Senate for the puf.
chase OF books and by order OF the Senate since Tue
LIST OF December. 1914
Mr. ATCHISON. | requested the Secretary Of the
Senate to draw up resolution in such form as would
meet the object had in view; and | now offer that as
a substitute for the former one.
The PRESIDENT. 1t in the power of the senator
to do
The modification was read as follows:
Rsoped That the Secretary Of the Senate ascertain and
the Senate the paid out OF the contingent
fund the Senate the first OF December 1874, for
documents books and maps, designating the sane)
printed purchased for distributions including such doc
the numbers ordered indicate have been
Intended Tor distribution.
Mr. BENTON said tina, the resolution applied to what
taken out OF the contingent fund OF the Senate. Ii
il went into the abuse generally, he would agree tot
Mr.. ATCHlSON SAID ne was perfectly willing to &C
cept Of any amendment that would cover the whole
ground. as his object was information.
Mr. BENTON moved that the resolution be amended
so as TO make go back May 1884, and take in all
that expended out OF the contingent fund OF the
Senate and otteru,se
Mr. ArCHISON accepted the modification.
Mr. BRIGH I moved further TO amend the resolution
b. max ng il 80 that il would provide for separating the
amount paid ont of the contingent fund and that paid
out of the treasury
MI ATCHISON accepted the latter modification also,
and the resolution was then adopted IN the following
form
Roicsd, That the Secretary or,he Senate
report the Senate the amount paid ont OF the contingent
fund the Senate, Otherwise, THE first OF May
1892, for documents books, and maps, Designating the
same,) printed purchased for distribution, including
such documents the extra ordered indicate TO have
uteadpd Ior distribution, distinguishing between the
amount paid out OF The contingent fund.- and the amount
piid Otherwise.
RECLAMATION FUGITIVE SLAVES
The bill 10 provide for the more efectual execution of
The third clause OF the second section of the fourth article
Of the constitution Of the United States up upon
It's third reading, and was read third time
The question being stated upon the passage OF the bill
Mr. DICKINSON said Mr. President, having consented
10 upon this bill to enable my colleague who is
Dsei q If. hp "A q hIs
health, deem proper 10 state my opinions concerning
The act OF 1893, providing for the restoration OF fug
tive slaves under the constitution, would, my judgment
have answered the purpose for which it designed
If had been fairly construed and faithfully executed
and although we may obv'ate some defects which ex
perence has detected and add 10 its force by prescribing
penalties for resisting its mandates yet the whole diff
hcuy has rested in a neglect To comedy with plain pro-
vision OF the constitution, the remedy will be sooner
iounu sought IN cultvating sound state OF public
feeling and constitutional obligation among the people of
the free States By executive recommendations and State
legislation than in multiplying penal enactments by Con-
gress The passage OF bill with suitable provisions
will do much good but It's discussion here, going
twill 10 the people OF the States will do much for
will turn public attention back from the contemplation
OF spurious philanthropy and spurious morality
To the alex which all pure and all good citizens
knowledge 10 the constitution and laws OF their country
In entering INTO common compact the several States
OF the Union soemny covenaned with each other 10
store fugtves from justice and from service and these
provisions too plainly written in the constitution
be mistaken disregarded with impuny.
The Constitution, article 4h, second subdivision OF the
second section relating TO lugitves from justice, fol
lows:
peuoi charged In any State with treason fslony or
other crime, who shall fee from justice aud be found la
another State shall de nand the authority
OF the Sme from which he fled be delivered % to be
m lved TO the State having Jurisdiction of the crime
The third subdivision of the same section, relating TO
iugitives from service, is as follows;
No person held 10 labor service State under the
laws thereof, escaping another, SHALL consequent
OF any law regulation therein be dscha ged from
service or labor but shall be delivered up claim Of the
party 10 whom such service or labor may be due.
In both the fugitive is TO be delivered up sum
mary, upon proper evidence and in neither case nor in
than the other, he be put upon trial in the
State TO which he has fel nor can Congress do more
than TO provide that he shall be delivered mp" The theory
OF the compact is that the fugitive will be Justly dealt
with IN the jurisdiction to which he returned Ii was
a,sented to in this conhdng spirit, and have vet To
learn that the practice Is otherwise. And II we may
dlstrus their Of justice the one hand, and
therefore violate the constitution, they may, with far
greater proprley, dstrust the oher and thus
having the sanctions OF that instrument for just and
cessary provision oil the fundamental law, system OF
conflict and violence will be established The grievance
upon the subject OF fugitive slaves will be redressed
whenever the OF the people the free States
aroused TO the abuses which have been pactsed in their
name under the gab OF bene and superior sanctiy
and 10 The end that il may be how the question has
been viewed by and judges of the highest character
IN the free States, and what constitutional obliga.
tons. shall append to these remarks brief from
the opinions OF Chancellor Waworth and Justices Mel.
son, Mclean, and Stoiy upon the subject
In the supreme court OF New York, in the matter OF
Jack, colored man charged fugitive Mr. Justice
Nelson, then justice of that court speaking OF the
clause of the constitution requiring the restoration OF