American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-12-20
Congress To-Day.

SENATE--Mr SEwABD presented petition
from the Industrial Congress, praying for
change in the policy of the United States with
regard to foreign nations.
The joint resolution making land warrants
assignable was referred to the Committee on
Public Lands.
The Senate then resumed the consideration
of Mr.. FooTE's resolution declaring the Com
promise Measures defnitiye settlement of the
slavery question.
Mr.. FoorE read from former speech of Mr..
RHETr extracts showing that that Sen ator was
a Secessionist as early as 1882.
Mr. RHETT acknowledged that he was So
cessionist aoao, and it did not matter at what
time he became such.
Mr.. HoUsToN, who was about to take the
floor, yielded it to
Mr.. FooTE, who entered into explanations as
to remarks made by Mr.. Rhett in the course
of which Mr. Foote said that the secessionists
and the abolitionists at Syracuse, were per-
fectly agreed as to the right of a State to Sc
cede, to the opposition to the fugitive slave law
as unconstitutional, and were adverse to the
settlement Of the Texas boundary question
Mr.. RHETT said he had never heard of the
Abolitionists being in favor of secession
Mr.. FooTE said that doctrine was avowed by
the Syracuse Convention, and that it was well
that the Senator should know in what company
he had been found. Laughter.
After further remarks by both gentlemen,
Mr.. HousToN arose and said that he would
prefer addressing the Senate during the morn
ing hour.
On motion, the Senate went into Executive
session, and after some time spent therein, the
doors were opened and the Senate adjourned.
The Affair OF the Prometheus.
'Qaousque tandem o6utere patie,tia aostrd9"
What new humiliation awaits us? What lower
deep of degradation has the present British
head of the American Department of State in
store for the American people? ati0
The Monroe doctrine, which declared that the
United States would not permit the European
powers to cypress control the desti,,ies Of Amer
iean nations, has been abandoned. Cuba has
been quietly surrendered to the joint interven-
ton of Great Britain and France. The case of
the Dominican republic is still worse There
the United States Government has interviewed,
jointly with Great Britain and France, to force
those struggling republicans to submit to the
policy of the black Emperor Souluque, which
forbids any phie person 10 put foot on he island
as Ocaer and proprisfor. If We look to Mexico,
we find that the Department Of State has leagued
with the British government, to force her, BY
the threat of British blockade, 70 2rcsp, from
the British bankers emFssyel By Mr. Webster
to pay The Ens5<azlisy. IN Lex q The gsld and
silver xal.eih 1bs IE51aS SIXTIES sgreed by the
treaty AT EundGbups 10 pay for California and
New Nexsee, defreriaisd Mexican bonds which
those bankers hare Bought up at between twenty
and thirty cents in the dollar. .,- q ~
Now, we have British man-of-war firing
into the Prometheus for refusing to pay illegal
tribute to her Britannia Majesty's government
at Greytown. And what does our British Sec
rotary of State do? Hesends down the steamer
Saranac - to assure the local authorities of the
port that the United States will not justify the
'non-payment of any lawful and proper port
duties on the part Of their merchant vessels,
and that they desire the, most friendly rela-
tons with the government Of Central America,
stpulations Of the treaty already referred to.
Now, this demand for port charges, by the
British authorities at Greytown, is an impudent
violation of the treaty referred to, and the in
structions above quoted amount to n disgrace
full acquiesceuce in the impudent professions
of Great Britain in violation of the treaty.
We are unwilling to believe that the Secre-
tary of the Navy is responsible for this, or that
he was any thing more than the mere official
channel for transmitting to the Commodore the
instructions of the Secretary of State, whose
British proclivites sufficiently account for it.
why does Kossuth assume 90 he Gov
r ernor Of BuDgaryf
The effort making by Kossuth to array the
people of, the United States in n crusade against
Russia, and the success attending his efforts in
New York, have had no parallels in modern
times. He assumes to be the governor of Hun
gary, that as such he may be considered the
representative of the principle asserted by Hun