The New York herald., 1851-12-24

THIRTY-sECOND CONGREsS.
FIRST SESSION.

THIRTY-sECOND CONGhESSs
FIRST SESSION
Senate.
wAsHlsorOs, Dec %, 1851
Several petitions presented.
Mr. ArcHIsoS (dem.), Of Mo, moved, and it was or
dered thas when the Senate adjourn 1t be to Friday
THE NAVY.
The CHAIRMAN laid before the Senate communication
from the Navy Department, in reply to 9 resolution
calling for all correspondence with the Department BY
CHEERS relative to noggng in the Navy. The commu
nication ordered to be printed.
Mr. awIS (dem }, Of Cal, said he would not sal up,
to-day, the memorial this subject which the
Senator from New Jerey intended speak but he gave
notice that he would call it upon the sixth Of January
THE LOUISVILLE CANAL.
Mr. BRepHEAp (dem }, Of Penn, presented petitions
praying for the purchase by the United States of the
Louisville and Portland Canal.
Mr.. CLEMsss (dem Of Ala, from the Committee on
Military Affairs reported svorsby the joint resolution
creating the breve rank Of Lieutenant General and
thezDg the President TO confer that rank by brevet for
meritorious services.
RETIRED LIST FOR ARMY OFFICERS.
Mr. SHIELDS dem Of IL gave notice of bill to in
cresse the efficiency OF the army BY providing retired
list for disabled officers
DEPOT WEST.
Mr. MALLORY, (dem) Of Fla offered Q resolution
directing inquiry into the expediency Of establishing
a naval depot at Key West Adopted
PENSION COMMITTEE.
Mr. JosEs, (whig) Of Tenn offered resolution ALLOW
ing the Pension Committee clerk Adopted.
EXAMINATION ACCOUNTS OF THE ExEcUr.yE DEPARr-
Mr. UNDERWOOD, (whig) of Ky, offered resolution OF
nation Of payment by the Executive Department, in
cases where fraud or mistake is supposed to exist.
Adopted.
THE coMrkos,Isx RESOLUTION
Was then taken up, when Mr. CLEMENS having yielded
Mr.. CA.s, (dem) Of Michigan. thanked the Senator
from Alabama for yielding him the floor and said -
Though have expressed TO the honorable of this
resolution regret at It's intro uctou yet here 1t end
am required to vote upon it. TO testify my satisfaction
at the passage Of the compromise aud
fin al one 40 more to be disturbed in whole or in part
/ have before taken occasion, in my seat here, when
practical subjects involving all these measures were be-
fore state my views and shall not rrepest
them. When the ceurse proposed purposes legisla
tive action am no generally in favor OF mere legisla
the circumstances surrounding this proceeding give to 1t
unusual Importance and il may well rest upon its
sured trust by this series OF measurec but reports
have gone abroad. less imposing in their cha
raeter that they would be sssaed in Congress- and
Of them repealed, modified a TO destroy their
efficiency and acceptabty. Agitation, thus kept alive
by the expectation Of change is prepared to its
fearful work. and, in this state Of things find myself
face face with resolution which asserts believe
the true character and just inviolabty OF these
sures and thereby the public mind
al apprehen.ons that the perilous contest through
which, by the kindness of Providence, have safely
passed will again be renewed and should discharge
old not mt ct this proposition with franknee and
port it with frankness and especially sir am unwilling
denunciatons have heard for the nrst time from
American Senator in the American Senate against the
such sentiments to furnish motives any for
he rejection Of this proposition, they will furnish
tiyes to me for its support ss DEERE, equally BY my
Mr. President the words that fen ffom the honorable
Senator from south Carolina, (Nr Rhett) TO
unwelcome as they were unexpected. They fell upon
reluctapt-I A Weut
sorrouing hearts. have not the most distant idea Of
following the Senator in Bis bill Of Indictment against
bis country-a gans country against this glorious
Union-the moet precious political gift Of God to man
since the exodus Of fret from the Garden Of
Eden will not follow him the task would be teo rk
In his srithmetcs ulstions of what the diff
eren portions OF country have lost gained in the
position Of the public lands even in the amount Of
pensions granted TO the poor and time honored but po
verty stricken relics Of our evolutionary sruggesno
only many e the and almost all the conclu
siops erroneous, but ttin beesuse, after all
the nsquality which really exists not but which may
be shadowed forth by the dstempered ma yinaton
there remains sum Of freedc and prosperity Of enoy
msnt end blesnge such as the world before
and viii never sgsn this Union is dissolved That
IL Is the freest government the shone upon,
qrirs clearer pyoof than furnished by the very de-
nuneatcns against H. uttered in thi. high place, in the
Of the portrait Ct the Father Of his country
hslo~irg merely sdornirg these walls and who, in
his lsst solemn act warned against sectional feelings
merely asssed in strain Of nvective rare even In the
contests Of party but the determination has been avowed
In Language not lees clear than unqualified to break up
the Union by breaking the prestige Of its integrity and
to reduce IL 10 kind Of temporary partnership feeble
and Efficient in its operations, both st home and
abroad, and equally contemplate TO its own citizens
and to the rest Of the world Does the honorable gen
tleman believe there another government under the
face Of heaven where such could be uttered and
such objects ayoEed with IMMUNITY And does he not
find In the great principle Of the right free
speech-unshaeslsd BY cor ditiops lmitstions-un-
world does he net and. say. 9 refutation Of his
own pos!iiors, that We live under . despotism-a
practical cemmsn.sry-vhich rebuked. even while
be uttered thsn-his harsh denuncistions! As to
the ruin 20 confidently asserted predicted where
u i, or even sign Of it, AS big as mans
spir,d trust than the Senator from south Caroline
Hss the eye Of man rested upon prosperou.
country than this And II such condition be ruinous,
pregnant with ruin, where shall we lind prosperity,
but in some paradise specially created and govern
has taught us that tree al evil may be founs and the
highest blessings ra,hy rejected In prit Of impotence
and discontent. North and south East and West the
tg.nt people with free and equal Institutions with
all the avenues of portion sDd employment open 70 all
with rapidly which ou.strips human expsetaton. Il
has ouistrpped human experience. and. with nothing
TO fer but our Own crimes and fell and the just judg
mept- ICED While republics. and empires, and monar-
cbies have fall. and are stn falling before marking
this s the Of social ard political revolutions in
stituobs have been preserved boundaries enlarged
our power augmented and the bsaeon-ght Of liberty
still shines from sbores inviting the stru xgiing
tiers Of the earth tos,.s upen sea Of oppression TO
follow &c haven Ct safety. For almost three score
years and ten this fas hsen my eoun'ry-my happy
glorious couniry-snd for than hafa century since
have been old enough 20 appreciate and lore IL It's
government has protected and mre from foreign ar
srtssion and Gemesie violence The Senator seems to
measure the value Of Tree Institutions BY standard
adapted 20 his owa peculiar notions Of the opera
tons Of fiscal Laws; and the assumed want cf equality
which be has strangely snd strongly asserted, bat
has JAILED 10 prove. may be the knel, the passing
kps be hopes and believes of this world watched re-
public. Put cur real equality the true Amer equal
ity Of condition, ty which We have neither high nor
Inv mi me skf ~ hox.or ali
the hopes and exerto O: al-this condition Of social
exstsnce the sepstor has Los saDced at probably has
not thought o. in bic search after the evidences of
sectional inequality. But Il is an institution which
those who oonmencsi life under circumstances lees for
tunate than himself regard the brightest sot in our
pohtical htmsmeDt-ss tGerng ample compensation To-
any temporary partial operation OF public measures
such vas tie charge against the nan-intsrcourse the
mbsrRo the var, the tariff, srd 10 some extent
Tie rrnnTAl nf the henesif. anh IN. f,rabnainr.