New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-27
XXXIIId CONGRESS-. .... FIRST SESSION.


constructing evee the east bank of the Mississippi
in favor Of granting pensions 10 the surviving soldiers OF
the OF 1879 in avor OF granting land to the Iennes
see Mounted Volunteers of the of 1884, and in favor
of making the same allowances for the lost in the Mexican
war as ia other Also. IN favor OF cheap ocean
postage m,
,ons reported biz for the eiecua Suppression of
the Slave Trade in American built vessels and made
speech tie subject
THE bil provides that whenever any American register
ed ship or vessel shall in whole or in part be sold to-
citizen the United States IT any foreign port or IN
North South America, in West Indies. IN ape dc Verde
Islands or on or near the Coast OF Africa the ball OF sale
shall be utterly void unless Il shall be executed IN pres
ence of the Minister Consul of the United states and
shall contain an express condition that such sale shall not
be valid such vessel shall make voyage 10 Art
ca before returning the United States and obtaining
new register ANY citizen ef the United States who shall
sell any such vessel knowing tina, she is to be employed
in the African slave trade that she to visit the Coast
of Africa before returning TO the United States, or shall
charter such vessel for such voyage, shall on convo-
ton thereof United States Court be fined ten thou
sand dollars and be imprisoned for three years. Every
charter of an American vessel any such foreign port
with the intent that such vessel shall be employed in tho
slave trade and every sale of American vessel on the
Coas OF Africa unless she be duly Condemned
as unseaworihy shall be Illegal and VOID sec
ton two provides that upon any Information pc De
ing given 20 the violation OF this act the DIS
trct-Auoney to prosecute the offender the inorner
to receive oneha of such fine may be recovered All
vessels engaged in violation of this act TO be forfeited and
sold and the proceeds be given TO whatsoever may have
lodged the information leading 10 the condemnation sec
on that every owner or agent OF an Amer
lean selling the same and every purchaser thereo
shall the time Of the execution OF such an Instrument
of sale make oath before the United States Minister or
Consul that said vessel il not 10 beengagcd IN the African
slave trade which oath shall be transmitted to the Sass
Department and if any such person shall swear falsely he
shall be deemed guilty OIL perjury anu DC haoie " a ~
pains and penalties. 800 $500.
MIR CLAYTON explained the bill, and said it had re-
ceved the unanimous approval of the Committed
The Boston petition being up Mr.. JONES ,Tennl said
that he had design TO call in question the motives OF the
Senator who had presented the petition lie had no fault
g Il. thar ,fhf nj npflfl
the undou right of every citizen and one TO which he
would give every latitude. He would 80 far a. to say
that he beliey ed the right of his Satanic Majesty
even TO send up petition to that court which he had n-
suited and from which he had been hurled But II was Dy
motives and objects that petitions were to be judged 30,
fin sending up that petition he acuaed by purpose
of mischief hypocritca in his prayer he deserved
deeper nfamy than that to which he had already been
consigned Ii this petition now before the senate De SEN
the from proper motives and for proper purposes 1t IL
entitled 10 ali respect If il be sent hher for the purpose
OF mischief and to produce strife then deserved the con-
tempt of every good man. ms was not the hrs peHton
of this character here and had this unattended
with striking circumstances giving II the color oil treason
he would not have noticed it, But came here with all
the tending to show that is part OF the plan
OF oueutons of those with whom agitation and repeal
wachwords. lie had already one attempt made to
give practical effect the prayer OF this petition and 1t
had ONLY found four Senators who would give the neon
of their names 10 its unholy purpose IL was sald
Tint these petitions the result of the
passage of the Nebraska bull and the repeal OF
the Missouri Compromise. He did not believe it.
Ii the result OF combination OF those willing 10 aSe
part any scheme TO break down the Constitution OF the
United States and place the South under degradation ana
humiliation. Ii came from city where the laws were
openly defiance; where the temple justice was
surrounded by armed mob to prevent the execution OF
constitutional duty where treason staked broadly through
the streets MONDAY and where the officers Of the law
were buchered The petition came from such people and
from such a place, following immediately upon these
events Was he right in supposng this petition got up
at such time had III view no consideration OF pubic In
terest Ii from Boston where the dust OF the hrst
and the last martyrs in the countrys cause Warren and
Bach.lder mingled togethers The orator then
called attention address, published in Ihe IaAt
0fnc,y of the 22d instant said TO have been adopted at
meeting of the members Of Congress opposed to the Ne
braska bill The simultaneous appearance OF this docu-
ment with this petition might induce the belief that IKE
birds of omen and pertubed spirits they desired compan
i6hshp in publicity as wei as IN sentiment. Inc
meeting which adopted this extraordinary address
most irregular 1t was secret to no man save inc
three whose attached to the address
had been bold enough to ayow his connection with IT, no
would rejoice they had the manness to come forward
and let the country know who they were who had gwen
sanction TO this paper Ii TO be expected they would
do So and that would be bastard enough TO screen
himself from responsibility by avoiding any publicity OF
his connection with the meeting. IL most carefully
prepared paper 1t did not say the members OF Congress
opposed to the Nebraska BILL nor did It say part OF the
but it sad meeting composed OF members Of Congress-
Who they How many were they The address
was signed by three persons IL may be said that these
were ell who there. He had known meetings herald
ed the country large and respectable composed only
of a chairman secretaries, and whose only clam 10
largene consisted IN the ply steal proportions oil inc
chairman So far as the chairman Of this meeting was
might be considered large no
could not believe that any member from the SCUM
would give the sanction Of hs name to the statements
contained in that address he orator t1eh read he az
dress and its arguments upon The encIoacnhelS W o
slave power by its ACQUISITIONS and the designed extension
Of It's upon the adoption Of the Missouri COMPROMISE
and the Conpromse of 1850 and the repeal OF the orer
&c. &c, He commented upon Tue SAINT WI" 49,
verify OF language lie said he was happy IN me Deiet
that not one southern man attended the meeting
After reading the address he suggested % us Unknown
au,bor IN abandon the barren field OF political literature
and turn his thoughts the richer field Of the works Of
tcton The author Of this address bid falr 10 rival the
writer Of the Arabian Nights Entertainments, Eugene
Sue Paul de kock and many others who were 80 prolhc
| in works OF fiction He had never seen a production
which contained few words much fiction and pure
imagination this address The address charged the
south with passing the Nebraska bill, with scovered de-
sign OF making the Territories slave States; with annex
Ing half dozen States of Mexico and making them slave
with planting Slavery the Amazon; with augmentng
its power by the acquisition Of Cuba and DOMINICA and
in reducing the North TO AFFECT subnnss.on lie
called for the author Of this accusation. was serious
| one and which gentleman should make Dehind inc
masked battery of SECRECY meeting. The author Of Il
knew very wei that had every southern senator oeen -
his grave the Nebraska bill could have passed woua
have passed if no southern Senator had voted Tor A. Ire
| whole charge falsehood IL wa wickediy mtii-
cously false. lie could see no difference between me
p.on for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law and the
dissolution of the Union There wa no man that be-
eyed the could be preserved one day after e re-
peal of the Fugitive Slave Law lbe South asked TO 90
NO WRONG 10 the North All asked 10 preserve the
Constitution and give equality of rights LIE had
be.n Whic all bis life b. told now by the northern
wing of that party that hereafter the test to be applied TO
ali hgs was repeal of the Nebraska act-repeal OF
gusrane. and equality all States given by the Consti-
tuition II this 10 be the test of orthodoxy IN mo
Wig party then he ayowed himself heretc, and sng-
gesed that against him nowa might be prepared 's
edct of accommodation. Ii to trample oe tne rSn
any section State necessary to be hig ne naa
to say bis former friends and associates uood oys:
lie would rather die than follow them IN any suen RUE u
| action. Il,