Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1854-02-16
Observation-Disclosures.

In the Senate, on the 4th, after some 9TH
err business, the Nebraska and Kansas bills
were taken up, Mr.. Dixon, of Kentucky,
being entitled to the floor.
He said that The bill originally reported
by the Committee on Territories allowed
the people of the Territories 10 provide for
or against slavery, as they might think pro-
per, in the formation of their constitutions:
but it did not put the people of all sections
Of the country on an equal footing as to the
right of going there with their property. 1t
left the Missouri prohibition still in force
and applicable to the Territory, and con-
sequently the southern people would be ex-
cluded until such time as the people of the
Territory had assembled to adopt State
constitution.
Under these circumstances, he had given
notice of an amendment, proposing directly
the repeal of the Missouri prohibition, and
thus enable the Shareholders TO go to the
territories at once with their property.
Subsequently the committee on territories
reported new bill in which was incorpora-
ted in substance, the amendment of which
he had given notice.
The bill, with that amendment incorpora-
ted in it, would receive his hearty approba-
ton and support.
The amendment had not been adopted by
the committee from any sinister motive, as
had been supposed by the Senator from Ohio.
1t was the province of the committee, and it
was their duty, when they found their bill
defective, OF that it did not effect what they
intended it should, TO reconsider the subject
and amend their bill. The committee had
done no more than this in the present case.
The committee designed 10 frame their bill
on the principle Of placing all the people Of
the several States on an equal footing as 10
the right Of going to this territory. The
Missouri prohibition prohibited this. It
made an unjust discrimination against the
people Of the slave-holding States. 1t al
lowed the people Of the free States to &c
there with their property, and prohibited
those Of the Southern States from the ex.
ercise of the same privilege.
: This proposition to remove that unius
prohibition did not come from the South
1t came from men who, acting on the higl
principles Of equal rights and justice to all
proposed TO remove forever an unjust dis
elimination in favor of one section an,
against another.
The committee, as we'll as the whole PEG
/. pie Of the United States, were not satisfe
c that tie Missouri prohibition was not onl
: unjust in principle, but altogether inconsist
|, ent with the principles Of the great compro
mise acts of 1850.
is He referred to the prohibition of SLAYER
o in that part Of Texas north of SO degrees 8
If minutes, contained in resolutions of annexg
ton, and argued that it was wholly vol
D and unconstitutional.
He contended that the Constitution di
y recognize property, and provide for its sect
y rity. The Supreme Court had decided th
y the title of a STAKEHOLDER in his slaves VIZ
s as legal and as complete as it would be
any other description of property. Whel
Y had Congress the power given to it to Y,
= strain or prohibit man Carrying his propert
g into the territories Of the United States?
He commented at length upon the stat
IS ment in the address Of the Independe
Democrats, in which it was said that
50 slavery were allowed in the territories,
10 would prevent their settlement by the pc
b pie OF the North and European emigrant
and held that this statement in substan
declared that il was moral pollution for Il
% people of the North and foreigners to
70 obliged TO settle down at the side of slav
% holders. If the admission of slaveholde
81 would exclude foreigners, he would say
- it exclude them.
He then examined the subject of SLAYER
Sc denying it was an evil or injurious to t
SO nation. 1t was the very life of the man
featuring interests. He contrasted the &C
IL dition OF the slaves with that of the free /
de groes, and held that the former was infinite
by preferable. The social and political freedc
o. possessed by the free negroes was but
Gu mockery of freedom.
It, Mr.. Wade moved that the bill be pc.
poned till Monday next, which was agre
to--yeas %, nays II.
nd The Senate then proceeded to the &C
la, sideration of executive business, and shor
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