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Senate, Thursday July s, 1854.

Senate, Thursday July s, 1854.
Mr.. Gillette presented the resolutions Of tho
Legislature of Connecticut upon the subject Of
slavery, the repeal OF the Missouri restriction,
demanding the repeal of 30 much of the Ne
braska act az declares that restriction void.
and censuring the Hon. Isaac Toncey for voting
for said Nebraska bill, against the express in
structions Of the Legislature of Connecticut.
Mr.. Touccy said these resolutions were passed
by the ooalescing majority Of tho present Leg
islature of Connecticut, composed Of the Abo
lition and Wing parties, with whom he had
never had any political association, but to
whom he had always been opposed. He be-
longed to the party Of strict constructionists of
the Constitution, and the maintenance of the
rights of the States. To his devotion to these
principles he owed his seat in the Senate. He
reviewed the action of the Legislature of Con-
necticut at this session, with respect to the
Fugitive Slave Law and other matters pertain-
ing to Slavery, and said that q vote of censure
coming from tho majority Of Legislature
thus constituted was the highest compliment it
could pay him. He had disobeyed the instruc
tions of the Legislature, because they were in
conflict with the Constitution Of the United
States, which he had sworn to support.
Mr.. Gillette responded and said that the
present unhappy difference between the State
of Connecticut and one of her Representatives
was one Of the first fruits Of the pacific, tran
QUILTING measure, called the Nebraska bill,
which committed the great breach of the ma
tional faith by the repeal of the Missouri 70
striction.
His colleague, in defending and supporting
blu avowedly to recognise the principle of pop
ular sovereignty openly declared he would dis
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sovereignty Of his State. A more audacious
reputation of popular sovereignty he never
heard of than that displayed by his colleague
ON that occasion.
Connecticut, in passing the law referred to
Law, had done nothing moro than what was
clearly her right and duty to do, to protect her
own free citizens from the kidnapper and slave
hunter. She had the same right to secure to
her people freedom that South Carolina had
tc doom portion Of her people to slavery
That law he had submitted to several lawyers,
no one of whom had said ii contrayened any
act of Congress.
He rcjoiced that Connecticut had acted as
she had DONE in washing her hands from all
support or countenance OF slavery. She asked
that the interpretations placed in the Constitu-
ton by Shareholders, for their own selfish ends
should be blotted out and that il should be
restored to its original purity. She asked TO
DO absolved from all support of slavery she
desired to shake off the VAMPIRE.
He could not believe that the Consultation
could justify such an act as the Fugitive Slave
Law, which at one blow struck down the ha-
beas corpus, the trial by jury, and placed the
personal freedom and security of q freeman bo-
low the value of twenty dollars. IL was an
act conceived in sin, brought forth in iniquity,
and baptized in BLOOD He would not insult
the country by asking whether such Gorgon
of wrong was constitutional or not. He would
not stop to ask whether any citizen was bound
to engage in tho degrading occupation Of a
slave hunter. For one, no denied tho obliga-
ton upon him to do any act OF the kind
He knew that Conneoticnt had been lbclled
by tory renegade as tho blue law State, but
mono Of his descendants, or any one else should
ever fasten upon her the stigma Of being the
black law State.
MIR. Touccy said the speech Of bis colleague
gave nm illustration that he MIR. II was right
in occupying the position he did.
The resolutions were then ordered to be
printed.
The bill to establish line Of telegraph from
the Mississippi river to San Francisco was
further amended, and thon postponed till Mon
day.
The vetoed INDECENT Insane Land bill was
again taken up.
Mr.. Williams defended tho veto Of the Pres
idcnt said a few words on the Homestead, and
defended his course on the Nebraska bill.
Mr.. Badger followed, defending his speech
ON this bill from some comments made upon it
by Mr. Cass He showed that the latter gen
tleman denied tho right Of Congress to appro-
pirate lands for the poor insane Of the country,
and yet, in 1s47, voted q half million to send
provisions to tho suffering poor in Ireland and
Scotland. There was no distinction in the
Constitution, ss to voting away money or lands.
House Of Representatives, July 6, 1854.
Mr., Thurston offered the following resolu-
ton, to which objection was made, and which
was therefore not received:
Resolved, That there DO ten thousand copies
Of Explorations and Incidents in 1exas, New
Mexico California, &c., connected with tho
Mexican Boundary Commission, by John r.
Bartlett, late United States Commissioners, pub
lished for tho use Of tho House Of Representa-
tives.