Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1852-06-15
FRIDAY. JUNE II, 1852.
CENr Ar,I-

MIR. Dawson presented the credentials OF the Hon. F.
Charlton appointed by the Governor Of Geoga Senator to
Gil the vacancy occasi0ned by the resignation OF the Hon
J. M. Berrien
Mr. Hunter moved lha, the private calendar be postponed
till one o'clock. The motion aerceu to-
Mr.. Hunter reported back from the finance committee,
the naval pension appropriation bill, and the
ken up considered and passed Also the Invalid and other
pension appropriation bills and considered and pass
ed
Mr. Mason reported b directing that the awards made
under the treaty with Brazil DC paid in the
those made under tho commission claims against Next
co, and the same was considered and passed.
Mr. Soule offered luton requesting the Secretary OF
State TO communicate 20 the Senate whatever information
he may have Obtained Ia Mexico and elsewhere relative
the Gardiner claini Adopted.
The Senate proceeded TO the consideration OF executive
business and at quarter to O'Clock adjourned till Mon
day.
The House into committee OF the whole on.thc state
of the Union.
MIR. Stevens of Pennsylvania, who had the floor from
Yesterday addressed the committee in opposition to the cx-
tensiye grants of land the States and commended
that the General Government held the public ande for the
benefit OF a St,es alike and in proportion TO their repre-
sentaon He then recapulacd he manner in which the
States acquired which lie attributed TO the exer-
lions of the old.
He alluded the arguments, In favor of grants 10 new
Bates in aid of ra road- which he said would thus be
built by actual settlers who would dollar in
RETURN while wealthy corporations would derive additional
wealth. AT present nc continued, man who could COM
mand 800 could take up quarter section of land but pass
the bill under consideration flor tine expenses of the
Indian department. c und they would be driven beyond
tho Rocky Mountains.
He then much Icing III into defence OF tho protec-
i've SYSTEM and reviewed the effects which had resulted
England and Holland merely from its operation Whoever
supports tho protective SYSTEM he said advances the
of the aboring classes and whoever opposes injuries
that interest," and Tint of acriculurais,s who equally
benefited by protection manufactures He insisted tina,
II mistake 10 suppose England had abandoned the
system of protection and adopted that Of free rade whose
present position Of wealth. power and glory was attributed
to her protective laws He much length
irover as ne thought the arguments of Mr. Ranoul on
former day. during which his hour expired
mi M,aa r. cali ho rn-
)ng 70 makea speech the tariff after the advocates oil
the protective system had said oil they could say in its de-
fence the House would allow him, he would reply TO their
nrguments ne should therefore pass subject which
10 much moro important liberty 10 property and
whenever liberty was attempted to be violated its advocates
had right defend it before tho world He then alluded
TO agitation which had been kept during The present
session by those who denounced il by whom ne had been
singled in such that it would imply cowardce
Ia him not to notice foul attacks that been node and
he should proceed discuss question: which 1t was
Intended should be avoided for the purpose Of defining his
position.
He said if elk and half millions of thought to put
down agitation by tho course which has been pusued they
would have contend with those who were the
of who the first reest OPPRESSION and who hac
rot departed from the original character OF their ancestors
He had been the Baltimore Convention as the repre-
sentative Of FIVE thousand democrats and the convention
in rejecting him their delegate had not only nsulted the
District but the entire State OF Massachusetts,; which was
not bound by The action Of that convention.
After auding TO the resistance offered by his district TO
the British authorities preceding and during the early pro-
sress of the Revolutionary War; he proceeded TO lay down
the position which lie meant 10 discusihat there Is no
provision in the Constitution of the United States which
oonfers the power to egisate for The rendition slaves
who may escape from labor and argued that was no
powers granted by the States TO the General Government
which not expressly defined and that all rights which
conceded reserved to the original States.
He then went into detailed review of what took place
the formation of the constitution and subsequent pro-
oeedngs with reference slave property and maintained
the doctrines of State Rights to their fullest extent and be-
fore he had finished his speech the hammer Of the chairman
Mr. Houston reported the deficiency BILL which con-
padsrsd, and thea the House adjourned.