Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-05-31

Of M Ese,it Senator from 4assa
chusets Badgrs motion ~ the Sate to Goat Fields
t,ns aa. and taigs @e4 ssosd
i Of tye-Presideafs course.
As predicted to you in my last letter &c the long
agony is over" to the most important question of
the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas. No ques-
| ton has, since the days of the Missouri Compro-
mise, seriously shaken the very foundations of
government and the basis upon which it at present
rests is of permanent quiet and future safety
! than that of 1920. The great principle has been
| proclaimed and established-that the question of
slavery is to be left to the people, and the right Of
the people to regulate this question without any in
| reference of Congress. Inc bill Monday last
was taken up IN the House, amendments after mo-
tons and every strategem known in legislative tao
tics was resorted to, by INSCRIPTIONS and deter
mined minority. 1t was to the parliamentary expo
rience and tact of Mr.. Stevens of Georgia to catch
| these mousers in their own trap. He moved to
strike out the endctng cLause which under the 10th
rule had precedence over all motions amend, and
if carried was equivalent to rejection-this motion
was carried. The committee and reported the
bill to the House with the amendment to strike out
the enacting clause. The House refused to agree
| to the report of the committee. Mr.. Richardson
then substituted his BILL which, after most exciting
and tumutueus scenes was adopted and the bill
passed at half past 10 o'clock at night-113 for it,
100 against it. All your delegation except Mcssrs
Rogers and Puryear voting for it; for which vote
they will be held to responsibility by the
people of the State and their Districts. OF the "a
Wings in the House only II voted for it. and not q
single Wing from q free State OF the 16O Demo-
Gratis in the House, 100 voted for the bill-55 from
the slave States, and 40 from the free States. From
the New England States only three were found true
to the BILL and they deserve perpetual remembrance
and respect. Mcdonald of Maine, Hibbard of New
Hampshire, and Ingersol of Connecticut. 1t was a
painful sight for ally Southern man to sec your i'm
mediate representative from the Metropolitan District
grossly violating the interests of his constituents
and the true interests of the South, and voting in
company with Giddings of Ohio, who openly pro-
claimed tho ripht of slaves the throatc of
innocent women and children, and for such % Tito
language expelled from Congress. Mr. Rogers
rests his objection upon the refusal of the House to
engraft the Clayton amendment. The CLAYTON
amendment struck out that part of the bill couferr
ing the right of voting and of holding Office upon
those who had declared their intention to become
citizens and had taken oath to support the Cons
tuition, and provided that these rights should only
be exercised by citizens of the United States The
act esta blshng the territory of Missouri declared
the right of suffrage to be in residents for months
only The act esta blishing Minnesota declared the
right to be in all who lived in the territory at the
time of passing the act. Same as to New Mexico
and Utah, and Washington and Oregon. How
therefore, could the refusal to enact the CLAYTON
amendment be any impeachment to the mind of any
fair and candid statesman? This and his vote upon
giving ten millions of Land to the Insane will fix
Mr. Rogers fate beyond all future hope any South
ern State. As to Colonel Puryear, it was hoped
that his proVerbia prudence would have prevented
his falling into position that his friends must de-
plore-a blunder which statesman of ordina-
ry foresight would have committed. He is DOOM
ed man but this is of but little consequence as he
declares that he has discovered his fate is not poll
tics The bill thus stripped of the Clayton amend
ment went to the Senate. On Friday morning about
one o'clock the heavy booming of cannon announced
that the bill had passed the Senate Tt seemed
at this Silly hour of night that all the CITY
was alive to the important occasion, and with one
general shou-, like Hamlct's Uncle
c. Let the kettle to the trum pet speak,
The trumpet to the cannOneer without
The cannons to the heavens and heavens o earth"
The important question passed by a vote of So to
49, This number of ID seems to have some strange
association with this question 1t passed the House
by 13-it received only ID votes against it in
the Senate Its distinguished author, Judge Doug
las, was born in 1873 and it seems as if the old
number of the States which declared Independence
thus in days to be perpetuated and prescrv
ed 1t only needs the signature of the President to
become law of the land.
There were however some rich scenes in the Sem
ate before the final closed between Bell of
Tennessee, Toombs and your Senator Badger But
the Democrats, like the woman in the fight between
her husband the bear, did not much care which
whipped 1t appears at a caucus of the Southern
Wing Senators, and at this caucus they soemny
resolved to support the bill and committee ap-
pointed to advise Gales and Seaton that the course
of the National Inteligencea did not nor could re-
ceive their support and lHr Badger aoas authorized
to declare that the Southern Wig Senators qceye
unit upon the OCCASION This was fully and minute
ly detailed by Mr.. Toombs-in which Mr. Pratt of
Maryland (Whg) and Mr.. Badger argued Bell pro-
llouhSSo IiiaI hioS'Ci Slftteu He WAS IncrC Wnen
such authority given pronounced an infamous
falsehood," and that far Mr.. Badger was con-
cerned, all friendly relations between must be at
an end" But no blood has yet been spilled upon
this OCCASION and such are since the absence
of Foot Borland & Co. of occurrence.
Mr.. Evelitt, the Wing Senator from Mass has re- |
signed from i'll health His successor is not vet ap-
pointed but it is believed that Mr.. Winthrop will be
appointed.
The motion of Mr.. Badger and reports of the coal
fields of North Carolina have created much interest
in Congress and with the nation; the more your |
State is known, the higher she will be appreciated
am happy to state that the affair between Messrs
Craige and Hunt, stands did. Mr.. Craige's posi-
ton right at first, right the next day and
has been right all the time His health has been |
feeble since his arrival here, and needs some re-
taxation from severe duty.
Warren Winslow, Esq, of your State has return |
ed from his late special mission to Spain and is &C
companied by the new Spanish Envoy Mr.. Cueta, |
who it is hoped may be empowered to settle the ex-
listing differences between our nation and Cuba. 1t |
to be settled idea, that the feeble power of
the Spanish Grown cannot long hold their possess
ions in Cuba one thinks of allowing any other
government to hold them than the United States.
There occurred last night in Boston fearful riot
growing out of the abotionists in reference to flu
gitive slave Burns-a collision took place outside |
between the abolitionsts and heauthortes-the de-.
uty Marshal, James Bachelor, shot dead and |
several severely, if not fatally wounded. This is but
the legitimate fruits of the inammatory speeches of
Sumner to whom Judge Doug las replied in the Sem
ate not two days ago. that such would be the
quences of his advice and all he regretted that