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xxxIss CoNGsKss......F ir., Session
SENATE .w.snsorOS Feb % ,sv

at OF early hour. with persons anxious 10 hss, ~
conclusion OF Mr.. Clemens's speech In reply 70 N,
Rheu "
THE CENSUS
Mr.. SEWARD presented a resolution from
the Legislature Of New York. in favor OF compen.
clum OF the Census. Also a peition from 40 clti
zens OF Niagara County, y. Y. aSNns; graEuhg an
extension of the Wood worth patent.
The KHETr CLEMENS
Mr. CLEMENS said that In one OF the IA.
peis OF tins city l, ws stated this morning tia. the
seLais was ssgraced by what took place yes.eTday
when The Senator from South Carolina announced
uis cet rhlna.loL 10 make an assant-when ks
came prepared and armed for carving tina, as,..h
TITO execution, By reading all descriptions OF A..
cuSaions- could any enc be so unreasonable "A IA
suppose he should be SLOWED all the war on his
SIDE Had the Senator confEed himself 10 a RIVE.
OF his political course, he would have uttered n.
term OF haIshness but the Senator had attenntss
to defsms him personaly-hai sough, gu, IN a os
and scurilOcs newspaper In Alabama A char.
against his private character, aud had a.teno,ss,o
give II dignity ana importance by retailing II hare
when the Senator did this, he had treated MIN ma
his change IN the only manner they deserved Moth
ing else that the Ser ator sad against him was No -
~ had already been said over snd over sgan In Al,
bams, and had there been fefuted. IL was not b.
cause he had been charged with the abandoauex,
OF States Rights principles that called forth hisre
marks, but II was the attack upon his personal in.
tekTiiy which demanded the use OF that lanrsas,
which he never intended TO recall Mr.. Clemens
then projected to ieue the attack made upon hspo-
before and since their adoption. lie had denied h,
debate on the Compromise that the President h,d
power to coerce Texas into submission, bu. hN
not, by that admitted, that Texas was soverssn
and inde ndent State-indepencent OF the Con,its
ton oithe United States. All States were sovereign
except so far as their sovereignty was crcumscrS>d
by the Constitution Of the United States. In his
speech IN December lie had enumerated a halfdo1ep
attributes of sovereignty which were denied to tie
States by the Constitution Of the United States OF
these, the Senator had seized upon one, that the
States had no power to punish treason. lie did no,
mean to say that South Carolina could not declare
murder, riot or orcible rescue as treason and kans
these who should commit either of those oaenses
But, would that make 1t treason Treason could
only be committed against that power whose laws
al authority were supreme In the State The Con.
stitution OF the United States was the supreme law
and he said that the Constitution and laws Of the
United states should be the supreme and paramount
law-any thing In State Constitutions or laws 10 The
contrary notwithstanding. suppose Congress
should pass Revenue Law and South Carolina for.
bids Its execution, and the United States ofhceun
Charleston call upon the citizens Of that city 10 aA
in the execution Of that law-whlch CONSTITUTIONS
paramount The laws Of the land. Can SoaA
Carolina say II is treason TO obeyi She may hana
the man for obeyiDg, but she can never make d
treason. II was true he had, on former occasion,
declared his intention to stand by Alabama; he
said 80 now. lie was for Aao ma, right or
Wong but he was not for her because Of
the miserable right Of peaceabe secession
He was with her when all other measures
were In vain and when, to throw of An intolenbs
yoke, she common ed revolution, would standby
her IN such revolution, and In SO doing hs never
would expect anything but that her revolution
would have TO be accomplished and maintained By
tho strong arm of force While he had been en-
deavoriDg to quiet agitation and allsy eycitsment
the Senator had been busy keeping them alive and
and placing them in places where they did rot exist
II any one was responsible for the state OF afarin
California, which preceded the commemorate
the last Congress, it was the South, The Senate
passed Walkers amendment giving Government to
California. The South had then pc ~er In the House
to compel the North to accept or by yeas and nays
and other legislative proceedings, aherward resorsd
to, to defeat the Appropriation bills. Had this bees
done, the North would have adopted that amend
ment, and California would have had gov ernmeai
The South did not do so-no government was given
to California, and her people made one for Ihem.
selves. He had always said thai the sdmis
sion OF California was wrong. He said 70
now; but what was he to dol Was he 70
60 home and preach secession Was he togo
home and tell the people of Alabama that Tennessee
Kentucky, Virginia, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware,
and North Carolina had voted to admit California
He joined not the North In roboins the South and
therefore we must secede from them all Wohen
go home and preach the establishment OF Southern
confederscy with these States left for the Others bad
had all joined with the North in the actl Tie dsnisd
having said that the admission Of California was IN
constitutional; but if he had, was he to set up bis
opinion against the judgment OF so many o!nsf
Southern men who thought ana voted differently
Was he to declare mself infallible and against the
men, lead the people OF Alabama up TO a horrd held
OF civil war; and pronounce those who differed from
him false to the Constitution lie denied thai he
ever couDseled lssoluton OF the Union. He read
from his speech OF Feb II, 1850, In which he pro-
nouDced the charge OF being a disunonist gross
absurdity and repealed 1t as utterly unfounded. Ia
thas speech ne SAID ne dld not believe disunionn
existed at the South. lie now fully confessed hn
mistake. He then believed the broad savannahsd
the South were not the home Of a single traitor. He
admitted now his opinion was changed, and the
Mans VA nhoF l,srn
point, he would plead guilty at once. He read Other
extracts from his speeches, in which the dissolution
OF The Union was repeatedly dIsavowed. In the de.
bate on the Vermont Resolutions, he had declared
that the North must pause and Tetrace their steps
Ii had done both Al that time, Senators from four.
teen States were under instructions to vote for the
Wiinot PIoviso shey paused, and before that sss
tors fefused TO obey their Instructions or had them
repealed. Instead Of passing the Wllmot Psovl0
below thirty SIX thirty, bill was passed extending
slavery up to thirty seven Moro was obtained than
the Nashville Convention asked. Since then the
Northern States have ceased their offensive enact
msnts. Conventions and assemblages have a.
caIed their determination TO abide BY the Consuf
tuition Senator'S have been elected In New'Jeney
and Rhode Island who are CompTomiss men, over
opponents opposed TO it. The South would nna
no supporters better than those tW0 Senator'S
He then described the Union, with the Consutu'
ton preserved-such was the Union he desifsd 70
maintain. When the Senator from South Carolina
went home and told the people that the North wa
q horde OF robbers who were stealing away the SUD
stance accumulated by Southern blood and valof,
was Dot surprising that the feelings OF those he az
dressed should become emblttered and poisoned ah
Trey became restless under a supposed engine OF OF
preston He then repeated his argument that pre-
cecents for the admission of States had no nniiofm
ty-that some admitted under circumstaness
different from others Some States were admiuso
without any act OF Congress having been passso
SLOWING them 10 form State Governments. TEE
Senator lad referred 70 a controversy bot ween I'm
aid Mr.. Foote. They had had a discussion upoe
consistency but u was entirely courteous and frsnt
ythere was nothing IN 1t Of that rancoFous bitter
ness which charactefizes the Senator from South
Carolina. The Senator ought TO be the last man 10
speak OF cisunion. On one occasion John q Adams
presented petition to the House praying dissolS
uon OF the Union. resolution was introduced 70 ex.
pei him. Mr.: Bolts moved 10 lay the resolution ons
table The Senator from South Carolina, then I'D
the House, voted against Mr.. Botts's motion, thereby
showing his cesire 70 expel Mr. Adams. Mr.. Adams
hao presented the petition under the belief OIL w
right OF pttitlon, and declared his opposition 70 sas
prayer OF the petition. Yet, for presenting saSa
petition, the Senator desired TO expsl hin. wa.