Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-12-15
WAsHMGTo,N NEWS AND GOSSIP.

a s.e.o Oay-Yesserdsy v a. . "asld day
- VIC mouse, two Of its ab!est deba ters havin,
tnen and there measured their weapons ora
"ilcai, in the presence Of an audience as larg,
-a' attentive IS is ever to be seen in tina
'aain6er. The intsrminable slavery question
WAS Of course the theme, az nothing failing t.
Dear directly or indirectly on that, always ex
osoting personal "muss," seems calculated
OF late years to awaken universal and excited
attention In either Hall.
On the day before, Mr.. Mace had been Bun
90 nbising about the Nebraska bill, in accord
anas With the terms of the rather amusing
pu olication We find in tho same days New
York Tribune over his signature. For tn,
eel doation Of our Congressional readers, who
al 70 not seen the terrible edict of the honor
lie gentleman, we herewith present it, ysr
DC I'm, ct l'teratsns, ct punetatins, taken from
II letter of ono of the Irs5une's Washington
CT respondents, of which it forms part:
tie Editor Of tie ~ Y. Tribune:
SIR: will in few days introduce q bill
" 70 proEi bit slavery in the Territories of Kan
q; and Nebraska" bringing the question
" tectly before the House Unless this is
ue, and the bill passes, slavery will be es.
hlshed In Kansas and tolerated in her con:
s tution- The Legislature of Kansas will
l. 20 no action on the subject, because slavery
mere without such action. When the dele
;es form State constitution it will not be
Inhibited. The quiet of the country depends
L N the passage Of the bill; if it does moi
'ss, the House OF Representatives will be SO
-
! less slavery is prohibited. The excuse
ide by the northern members who voted fol-
kansas-Nebraska bill, that their constitu
Its were in favor of it, has proved untrue by
overwhelming vote Of tho people, Should
l. ose members now the people have passed
/, on the question, carry out the will of their
G. nstituents, the bill proposed will pass, ano
ths country be Quoted. DANIEL MACE.
As legislative feat, the GOODNESS with
Y hich Mr.. Mace assumes to himself the right
sAd duty of interpreting to his fellow members
tie wishes of their constituents, and of in.
s. 'ucting them how to carry those wishes out,
'ver was equaled but once That was, in
tie quietness with which he sat, yesterday,
under the scathing exposure of the hollowness
OF the pretenses, one and all, of his speech of
the day before, which fell from the lips of Mr..
Stephens, of Georgia. Though he roared
like lion in his autocratic card to the I'y,b.
"as, sucking dove was never gentler than he
under Mr. Stephens's biting and bitter crit.
cism. Ne gentleman, save one capable of
perretrating such letter as this to the Tri6.
une, could possibly have stood the speech of
Mr.. Stephens as Mr.. Mace did, without essay
ing something like plea to relieve himself
from the accumulated weight of testimony 90.
ing to place him in the position of one seeking
to make capital, without the slightest regard
to appearances even, in which, as before re-
marked, the speech of Mr.. Stephens placed
him, in the judgment of all present.
The main points of this effort was to show
that, if the South had never been defeated in
its purposes, as Mr. Mace had alleged, it wa,
because she alwas asked her rights only. He
maintained that in the Nebraska bill. the
South contended only for the eternal princi-
pie of justice involved in popular sovereignty,
and would welcome Kansas into the Union if
asking to come in non-slave holding, as freely
as If proposing to enter the confederacy with
q slave holding clause in her State Constitu-
ZION. He maintained, too, that the South fol
the most part asked no money from the Ma.
tional Treasury; contending merely to keen
the hands of the North out of her pockets. as
he explained at length, had been the main
purpose of her Congressional labor. He also
refuted clearly many indussriously.spread
popular errors as regard the comparative sta
tistics of the North and South.
Mr.. Campbell, following, combatted his po-
sitien with great ingenuity ard ability. We
however regard his effort to charge the South
with the cost of the acquisition of the Lo uisi
purchase of Florida, Texas, and the Mexican
war-all for the extension of slavery'-as be-
ing "a great humbug, as an attempt on the
part Of his antagonist to hold tho North Oh arge-
able with the cost of the Revolutionary war and
that of the war Ct 1872 would have been
Both these, it will be recolleoted by all well
read historians, were undertaken in defence
OF northern rights and interests mainly.
though no one at the South ever thought of
charging to northern account the millions of
treasure and rivers of blood which those con-
tests cost the Union. However, Mr.. Campbell
handled even that poor argument with capital
skill. But his success was particularly in
holding Mr. Stephens uneasy on the gridi1on
of his own record; Mr. S. having uttered views
from which many deducted the conclusion til at
be was avowing the Cas- doctrine upon the
subject of squstter sovereignty, as having
always been his. We did not SO understand
him. But Mr.. Campbell quoted upon him
With great effect, his speech of 1S49, wherein
u all the world read it. he utterly rspudi ates
he political rights of squatters That is, the
light to determine, directly or indirectly. what
hall be the character of States Institutions,
ire they come to form the States constitution.
IN the whole, it was such an oratorieal day as
me rarely enjoys, even in Washington.
E. II. Stanton, Esq.-The great argument
n the case of Pennsylvania as. the Wheeling
Ind Belmont Bridge Company, was argued on
Wednesday, before the Supreme Court of the
pifed Sfatao h- Z S,.utz.