Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-29


which required for them the highest respect
| He regretted to hear him say that there was
An intense feeling at the North on this subject
While he had no objection TO reference of
the memorial, he in all frankness desired to
ask the Senator, if the fires which he says are
burning at the North are not to be extinguish-
Cd, what good Is to be accomplished by re-
port OF q committee? II they report that the
law ought not to be repealed, that will not
satisfy any person who demands its repeal He
was surprised to hear the other Senator [Mr.
Sumnerl indulge in such rhetorical displays
and bad taste, doing no credit to his own or
that of the Senate. His speech was unworthy
of the Senate and of scholar. IL he had kent
it while longer, and dressed it up a little, il
might have answered for Fourth of July ora
ton in some localities. He would remind the
Senator, when Otis spoke in Faneuil Hall, when
Hancock acted, and when Adams wrote, they
did 80 as the Representatives Of a sayeholding
State. The appeals made in those days Of
Boston and Massachusetts were addressed to
siaveho,ding States The men of Massachu-
setts Of that day were shareholders and gentle
men. Ho regretted much the character of the
Senator's speech. There was great differ
ence between it and that of his colleague One
was calm, honest, sincere expression of be-
lief and opinion the other was false rhetoric,
declamative, and an incentive to rouse the
worst passions of the infatuated people Of GER
tain localities If the issue was to come, as was
indicated, and the contest was to be between
the North and the South, let it come, and be-
divided at once Let it be considered, argued,
and disposed of, calmly and without exciting
appeals, dressed and rhetorical display, such
as was made by the Senator to-day He would
like to ask the Senator, if Congress repealed
the Fugitive Slave Law, would Massachusetts
execute the constitutional requirements, and
send back to the South the Ascending slaves?
Mr.. SUMNER. Do you ask if would send
back slave?
Mr.. BUTLER. Why, yes.
Mr.. SUMNER. as thy servant dog, that
he should do this thing?o
Mr. BUTLER. There he is again, with q
quotation all ready prepared He gets up here
and shouts it out with, as no doubtless supposes,
moro than DemOsthenean elOquence and
beauty; but he is mistaken laughter What
have dogs to do with the Consultation
Laughter Tho Senator declares that he
would not execute the Constitution, which he
has sworn to support The Senator openly de-
clares that it is dogs duty to obey and exc
cute the Constitution. The Senator has sworn
to support it, and declares to do so is dogs
duty.
Mr.. SUMNER. recognise no such obliga.
tiOns upon me-
Mr.. BUTLER. Well, suppose it makes
but little difference what you consider obliga-
tory upon you.
Mr. MASON followed, defending the Fugi-
tive Slave Law He denied that it suspended
the habeas corpus act, as asserted either ig-
norantly or cOrruptly by the Senator from
Massachusetts. He said that it was Massa-
chusetts and the other New England States
which had forced into the Constitution the pro-
hibition upon Congress repeating the slave
trade for twenty years This was DONE that in
that time these States might do tho carrying
trade in that traffic.
Mr. PETIT said that he had lived to hear
upon the floor of the Senate an avowal which
he never expected to have heard anywhere
that Senator sworn to support the Constitu-
tion owed no obligation to that instrument He
believed in the right of petition. He would
vote to receive any that was respectful in its
character, and to refer it, Should petition
come here from Massachusetts, or elsewhere.
asking tho Senate to expel any Senator who
should disavow any obligation to the Consti-
tuition, he would vote to receive and refer it,
though he would not at present Say how he
would vote upon it finally The Senator had
sworn openly to support the Constitution in all
its parts He made no reservation. He could
not take his seat if he had and he ought not
to hold his seat after making it. He again
referred to that part of the Declaration Of In
dependence, which says all men are created
equal, and held that ii these words were used
in the sense placed upon them by the Adolf
tionsts they were a self evident lie. He dis
eussed this matter for half an hour. He de-
MED that men were created equal, either phys
ically, morally, politically, or intellectually He
hnt Mr. bn haH 70
port the Constitution, and who to-day spit
upon that OATH was equal to his revolutionary
ancestors.
Mr. SUMNER Never, sir, never
Mr. PETIT You denied that the Consti-
tuition placed any obligation upon YOU which
you were bound by. Was sneh a Senator
equal to Webster? The one had earned the
title Of the Expoundsr OF the Constitution tho
other deserved that of the contemner and de-
spiser Of that instrument IL the Almighty in
tended TO have created the Senator equal to
Webster, then that great power had created a
great blunder and failure. He did not think
the searcher alter an equality of morals could
find any one more degraded than the Senator,
who, after having called God to witness his
declaration 10 support the Consultation, had,
with that fact fresh in the minds Of his fellow
Senators, openly avowed that he recognised no
obligation imposed by that same oath
A DoUBLE PLEAsURE-The Philadelphia
Register says the honor seems TO be reserved
to President Pierce OF giving unalloyed pleas
IRE, on two occasions, to tho American peo-
plc-once, ON going into Office, and a second
time, ON going out
ITEMS.
large deposite Of btuminous coal has been
discovered in Halifax coanty, Virginia.
white man, ma med Barrow, was murdered