Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-02-23
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

The subject of slavery is still the lead
ing topic at Washington, and we suppose
will continue to be until the dog-days,
when perhaps hydrophobia may leave the
bipeds now infected with it and attack the
canine species. In the course of the de-
bate which took place in the u. S. Senate
when the subject of the admission of Cal.
ilornia was under dcliberation, Mr.. FooTE
of Miss, who makes il point TO interrupt
every Senator that attempts to make a
speech, reminded Mr.. Clay that he was
from slave State, whereupon the old
Kentuckian responded as follows:
1t is totally unnecessary for the gentleman TO
remind me of my coming from saveholding
State. | know whence come, and | know nv
duty, and | am ready to submit to any response
bihty which belongs TO me a Senator from
slaveholding State. Sir, | have heard some
thing said on this and former occasion
about allegiance to the South. | know no
South, no North no East no West to which
owe any allegiance. | owe allegiance to two
severe igns, and only two one is 10 the sove-
reignty of this Union and the other is to the
reignty Of the State of Kentucky. My allegi-
ance is to this Union and to my State but if
gentlemen suppose they can exact from me an
acknowledgment of allegiance to any ideal or
future contemplated confederacy of the South,
here declare that | owe no allegiance to it ;
nor will !, for one, come under any such allegi-
ance if can avoid it. know what my duties
are, and gentlemen may cease to remind me Of
the fact that come from saveholding State.
Several Senators have made remarks
upon Mr., Clay's resolutions, all of which
are in the same strain as the following bv
Mr.. Downs:
lie conteDded that slavery was not an evil
that the slaves all through the South were hap
py and reloicing-the best fed and the best
clothed people in the world lie drew a com
parison between them and the factory operatives
! referred 10 in a speech made by Mr.. Hale,
some time since asserting, that the condition oi
the slave is far the happiest and best. He al
luded to the statistics of poverty in New \ ork
and dcfed her Senators 10 show that her poor
population was even equal in their condition tc
/ the much pitied slaves of the South In con
! clusion he summed up the history of the
/ slave question, from the foundation of the gov
ernment to the present time, contendlng that the
/ whole course of the South had been that of con
/ cesson-while that of the North had been re-
/ peated demands and aggrcsslons. The SCUM
had conceded everything which had been asked
and now, in the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF power the
North longer asked concession but asserts
( her right TO ask compromises grasp The
whole. If the North persisted m inns course
upon herself would rest the responsibility
! In the House, resolution Offered by
Mr.. Doty TO instruct the Committee on
Territories to report blu providing foI
! the admission of California as State into
the Union on an equal footing with the
original States, with the bounds prescribet
by her constitution, as communicated to
the House by the President of the United
States, in his special message, gave rise
to quite a scene. Mr.. Doty moved the
previous question, and thereupon the south
ern members commenced making motions