The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-12-25

table II they do not, II the question ON the
direct passage of the resolutions must be met,
then, we suppose, Anti-Savery Senators will
feel constrained to demand hearing and the
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DEBATE IN THE SENATE, ON THE THIRTEENTH.
A spirited debate took place in the Senate,
on the 9th instant, on the compromise resolu-
ton submitted by Mr.. Foote Mr.. Rhett, of
South Carolina, having occupied the attention
of the body for two days, with a harangue on
the wrongs of the South, and the duty of seces
sion and imputed to the Northern States in
| ability or indispostion to carry out the law
and Constitution so far as they granted protec-
ton to slavery Mr.. Brodhead, the new SEN
ator from Pennsylvania, rose to youch for the
fidelity of his State to the demands of slavery
He declared that the Fugitive Slave Law would
be executed in 8 the good old Commonwealth,
and that if any man were convicted of riot or
misdemeanor in resisting it, Col. BIGGER, the
Democratic Governor would not pardon him.
He boosted that nearly every week since the
passage of the law, fugitivcs had been delivered
up in his State. As to the Christiana case, the
zeal of the officers had led them to mistake the
proper remedy. He referred to the action Of u
Democratic Legislature, in passing a bill for
the repeal of certain laws unacceptable to
the South, which was pocketed by the Wing
Governor, and never returned-and to the last
election, one of the issues of which was, this
very Fugitive Slave Law, and on which the
Democratic party had gone into power.
Mr. Brodheads submissive tone and humble
protestations did not satisfy Mr.. Rhett, who
still expressed doubts even of the loyalty Of the
good old Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
1t was refreshing to turn from the genuiie1-
ions of this new Senator, 70 the upright and
veteran Hale. He exposed the policy Of the
Senator from Mississippi II Introducing his
resolution, extorting from him the adIas-
sion that should California ak t. be divided
he would vote for the division. 50 then. the
) compromise, Of which the admission Of Cali
fornia with its slavery restrictive provision was
an essential point, was not after all TO be final
The only thing gained by the North was the
admission Of this State with its entire bound
aries-all the rest Of the compromise was a
, gain to the South And all was TO he held
sacred except the part relating to California
lie though the policy of the shareholders might
= be summed up in single resolution:
"Res0Ired That the South having got every
E thing claimed, will be content till it want some
thing more
4 In one portion of his speech, he made al
attack upon the Supreme Court. IL know
{ this" he exclaimed whatever may be tn
! character of these Territorial Judges, there is
tribunal that sits in the room beneath thi
Senate chamber, that is the very citadel q
American slavery and it will be safe there
whatever these Territorial Judges may say o
do
Established orders sympathizc with cac
= other.
I Com. Stockton, protesting, justly enough
ignorance of the rules of order came to I'll
t defence of the Supreme Court and called NJ
Hale to order The Vice President of cour,
informed him that n Senator was at perie,
: liberty to speak of any coordinate branch
It the Government excepting the other branch
the Legislature. The remark of MIR. Hale pr
= duced quite a furry, and divers Senators r
@ scented it, among them, Butler, Douglas, Cas-
J. and Walker
e lie fully sustained himself against their ca
i tious objections showing that notwithstandir
the free States had free population twice
d large as that of the slave States, the judici
circuits were so arranged as to secure for Il
IL latter always five out of the nine members
p the Court /; and still further that their decisio
~ on questions of Slavery were influenced
their localities He dsclaimed any mputati'
,s against their integrity, but held that they mu
% be more than human if they were inaccessil
to the influences of BIRTH education, and ass
e Citations.
l. Mr. Hales position is sustained by CONNIE
l. sense and facts; and Senators showed y
q periluous zeal and no little hardihood in ASA
ing it, As to their sensitiveness to attac
upon the Supreme Court, there is not one
them who is not in the habit Of assailng Il
President in far more severe terms than tho
in which Mr.. Hale spoke of the Supreme j
dietary and then it should be remember,
0 that. while Mr.. Foote, some two years az
singled out particular member of the Cou'
, and made him the subject of the most u
sparing invective, Mr., Hale directed his r
marks against the Court ms II whole, avodin
a rs lac always does harsh personalities,
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