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such reasoning. Or it is quite possible that
were slaves conveyed into Mexican territory,
they might be demanded as persons carried OIL
in violation Of the Treaty.
We have no doubt that the amendment sug-
gested was carefully considered by the Admin
istration, and that one of its principal objects
is, to secure claim upon the Mexican Govern
ment for the surrender Of slaves from this coun-
try found within her borders.
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS WRITTEN IN
WASHINGTON
What is desired by the friends Of particular
measures in Congress can in general 10 more
correctly ascertained from the letters they
cause to be written abroad, than from any other
source of information; and hence we shall
often quote the opinions and predictions Of Ger
tain well.recognised correspondents.
[coRREsPoNDENcE OF THE BALTIMORE SUN.
WAsHrNGToN, Feb. 20, 1854.
The speech Of Mr.. Toombs in favor Of the
Nebraska bill was very forclble. 1t ID now
pretty we'll understood that the opponents OF
the bill have done speaking, and an effort will
be made by the friends OF the bill to bring It
to vote on Wednesday next The bill will
pass the Senate by three-fourths vote. The
ascertained majority in the House is from thir-
ty to thirty-five, and it is confidently expected
that the vote will BIO had in that body before
the second Tuesday in March, the day on
which the elections are held in the State OF
New Hampshire.
In addition to the Territory Of Nebraska,
there are the Indian Territories, Chel O kee,
(Cherokee,) Muscogee, Creek and Chapta-
(Choctaw, lying west of Arkansas, south OF
Kansas, north Of Texas, and east of New Mex
loo, to be organized for the purpose Of extend
ing the benefits Of civilization and republican
elfgovernment to those gallant but unfortu-
nate SONS of the SOIL who without such an ef-
fort On the part of their natural protectors,
must necessarily soon come in conflict with
tho white race, and perish One Of the tribes
is now here, urging the measure which has
been embodied in bill introduced by Mr..
johnson, Of Arkansas, in the Senate.
The bill, if passed, will constitute an era
in the history Of the red man, and prove better
than all abstract philosophy or romance, his
capacity for higher stage Of humanity than
has yet been occupied by him IL these Terri
tories are organized, with the Indians consent,
and republicanized, white men will intermarry
with the cred republican, and regenerate
them in the only way in which old nations
have ever been regenerated since the flood
by an infusion Of new and better blood into
their veins How much Roman blood is there
now in Rome? How much Greek blood in
Athens? X.
Mr.. SUMMERS SPEECH ON THE NEBRASKA
BrLL.-The New York Tribune says Of this
admirable production:
"Mr Summers speech contains the most
comprehensive, complete, and convincing re-
view Of the early policy of the Republic toward
Slavery that has ever been presented to Con-
gress, within our recollection. The truth that,
for nearly half century of the nations ex-
istence, the Government steadily made the ex-
tension Of Freedom and the limitation OF bond
age the object and the rule OF its action, is
demonstrated in this speech, by mass of his
torcal evidence which preclndes contradiction.
The fathers Of our Independence are shown to
have been unanimous in their hostility to the
pernioious institution; and while marking the
gradual departure from that primitive course,
Mr.. Sumner clearly shows that the Missouri
Compromise was not only the invention OF
Southern statesmen, but that, when the ardu-
GUS struggle of that time had resulted in its
adoption, they regarded it as o great advantage
gained for the South, and as compact irrev-
ocable in it's nature. The argument Of this
speech is everywhere marked by eminent logi-
cal power, and passages Of il, particularly that
contrasting the universal abolition and rcstric-
ton Of Slavery and seridom in other countries,
with its attempted ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and pcrpet.
uation in Democratic America, and that de-
scribng the Northern man with Southern
principles are touched with sincere and ad-
mirabe eoquence. 1t will be widely read, and
will add its full quota to that determined feel
ing Of resistance to the Nebraska fraud, which
is now gathering and swelling in the bosoms
of the Northern People.
The editor Of tho american Law Register, m
excellent legal Journal Published in Philadel.
phia, says:
at does not probably, OCCUR TO the Ameri-
can families who are visiting Europe in great
numbers and remaining there frequently, for
q year or more, that all their children born in
q foreign country are aliens and when they re
turn home will return under all the disabilities
Of aliens. Yet this is indisputably tho case; for
il is not worth while 10 consider the only ex-
ception TO this rule that exists under the laws
Of the United States, viz: the case Of child 50
born, whose parents were citizens Of the Uni.
ted States on or before the i4th April, 1902"
The FIRST movement in the New York Legisla
ture in favor Of extending the elective franchise
to women, was made in both Houses on Mon.
day, by the presentation Of q petition in both
bodies, signed in the aggregate by 10000 per-
Sons OF both sexcs In both Houses select
committee was raised 10 consider the subject
The CuNARD SrEAMERs.--Th Baltic has