Washington sentinel., 1854-04-07

time and money. 1t was, he said in harmony
with the spirit Of the age.
Mr.. McMULLEN advocated the sending OF the
bill TO the Committee of the Whole on the state
OF the Unlon considering II one Of such para
mount importance that il ought 10 be fully dis
cussed.
Mr.. .CHURCHWELL Intellectually appealed 10
the gentleman to make the bill a special order,
saying, if it should be sent TO the Committee Of
the Whole on the state Of the Union, Nebraska
or some other subject would probably be dis
cussed.
No further proceedings took place upon the
subject
DEFICIENCY BILL.
Mr.. PHELPS, from the Committee of Ways
and Means, reported the deficiency bill, re-
turned from the Senate, amended. II was re-
ferred to the Committee Of the Whole on the
state OF the Union, and ordered TO be printed.
NEBRASKA AND KANSAS.
The House resolved itself into committee Of
the Whole on the state Of the Union Mr.. ORR in
the chair, and took up the civil and diplomatic APP
Mr.. PRESTON, after pointing out the main
difference between the Senate bill and that OF the
House, proposing TO establish territorial govern
ments in Nebraska and Kansas, both of them
pending in Committee of the Whole on the state
Of the Union, said they gave equal rights to the
people of the savehodng and those Of the non-
slaveholding States 10 settle in Nebraska and
Kansas, and organize their own government in
their own way. He was in favor of this prin-
ciple As southern man, he asked no re-estab-
lishment by implication of slavery in Nebraska
but simply to go there and enjoy rights in COM
mon with his northernbrother and be protected
by the same common flag. In the course OF
his remarks, he said, in his opinion, the BADGeR
amendment neither helps nor hurts the matter,
but he was opposed to the CLAYTON amendment,
which prohibits all slave citizens of the United
States from exercising the right of suffrage. He
argued this subject until the expiration Of his
hour, in conclusion calling upon the north to give
10 the south her just equality SO long denied. 1t
was his opinion that the bill will pass.
Mr.. GERRIT SMITH, after preliminary remarks
in opposition to slavery, said, in chattelizng man,
not only is man denounced as man. but God as
God, for in his own image made he made man !;
the black man and the red man as well the
white man. He was opposed TO the Nebraska
and Kansas BILL because, in the first place, il in
suits the coored man and the Maker of all men,
in limiting suffrage to the white man; in The
second place, he was opposed TO the bill because
it restricts suffrage to citizens of the United States
and said in this connexion, the man who comes
to from foreign land and declares his intention
to make his home with us, is emphatically an
American and richly entitled to vote with us; in
the third place, it conveys deceptive idea of non
ntervention-a deceptive idea, because the bill, in
point of fact, does not recognise the doctrine of
non-interventon. The bill does intervene. But
If really was what il is pretended to be, he should
still be opposed to it. And, in the fourth place,
because the bill looks to the existence of slavery
in those territories, and while they territories,
and actually provides safeguards in advance of
slavery there ; and, in the fifth place, he was op-
posed 10 the bill because it allows that slavery may
exist in the States TO be formed Of those Terri
tories.
Mr.. CARUTHERS obtained the floor, when,
on motion, the committee rose
And the House adjourned.