Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-02-11
T n coNGREss. -1sr SESSION.
sATuRDAr Feb ], 1854:


tons of meeting of the citizens of New York, held
! in the Broadway Tabernacle against the adoption
| of any measure to repeal the Missouri compromise;
| which he asked might be read:
Mr.. Douglas said that every Senator had doubt
less, read these resolutions; if all memorials were
read at length to the Senate the whole time of the
body would be consumed in doing.
Mr.. Fish ] move the resolutions be read.
The motion that the paper be read not agreed to-
Mr.. Sumner presented the remonstrance of three
| hundred tax payers of Claremont, New Hampshire,
against the repeal of the Missouri compromise.
MIR. Brodhead presented five remonstrances from
different parts of Pennsylvania, against the repeal
of the Missouri compromise, all of which were laid
on the table.
Mr.. Brodhead presented fourteen petitions from
Pennsylvania, against the removal of the mint to
the city of New York.
The Senate then proceeded to the consideration
of the bill to establish territorial government for
Nebraska.
Mr.. Dixon said that the bill originally reported
by the committee territories allowed the people
OF the territories to provide for against slavery,
they might think proper in the formation of their
constitutions but it did not put the people of all
sections OF the country equal footing to the
right of going there with their property 1t left the
Missouri prohibition still in force and applicable to
the territory and consequently the Southern people
would be excluded until such time the people of
the territory had assembled to adopt State costitu
ton.
Under these circumstances, he had given notice
of an amendment proposing directly the repeal OF
the Missouri prohibition and thus enable the slave
holders to go to the territories at once with their
property. Subsequently the committee on terrific
ries reported bill, in which was incorporated,
in substance, the amendment of which he had given
notice.
The bill with that amendment incorporated in it,
would receive his hearty appreciation 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, that it did
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the subject and amend their bill. The committee
had done no more than this in the present case.
The committee designed to frame their bill on the
principle of placing all the people of the several
States on an equal footing as to the right of going
to this territory The Missouri prohibition prevent
ed this 1t made an unjust discrimination against
the people Of the slaveholding States. 1t allowed the
people of the free States to there with their prop
erty, and prohibited those of the Southern States
from the exercise of the same privilege.
This proposition to remove that unjust prohibit
ton did not come from the South. 1t came from
who, acting the high principles of equal
rights and justice to ALL proposed to remove forever
unjust discrimination in favor of one ection and
against another.
The committee as we'll as the whole people of the
United States satisfied that the Missouri
prohibition not only unjust in principle, but al
together inconsistent with the principles of the great
compromise acts of 1850.
He referred to the prohibition of slavery in that
part of Texas north Of 36 degrees 80 minutes, con-
tanned in resolutions of annexation, and argued that
it was wholly void and unconstitutional.
He commended that the constitution did recognise
property, and provide for its security. The Supreme
Court had decided that the tile of STAKEHOLDER in
his slaves as legal and complete as it would
be in any other description of property. Where
had Congress the power given to it to restrain or
prohibit carrying his property into the terri
tories of the United States?
He commented at length upon the statement to
the address of the independent democrats in which
it was said that if slavery allowed in the terri
tOric helr settlement
people of the North and European emgrants, and
held that this statement in substance declared that
it moral pollution for the people of the North
and foreigners to be obliged to settle down. at the
side of shareholders. If the admission of slavchold
ers would exclude foreigners, he would say let it
exclude them.
He then examined the subject of slavery, denying
it evil injurious to the nation 1t was the
very life of the manufacturing interests. He con-
trasted the condition of the slaves with that of the
free negroes and held that the former infinitely
preferable The social and political freedom pos
scs ;cd by the free negroes was but mockery of
freedom.
Mr. Wade moved that the bill be postponed until
Monday next which was agreed to-ycas 33, nays II.
The Senate then proceeded to the consideration
of executive business, and shortly after adjourned
MONDAY, Feb. 6. SENATE.-Mr Rusk appeared
to-day, and the Senate is now full.
Mr.. Sumner presented the memorial of the New
York Geographical Society, setting forth the great
Inconvenience resulting from the variety and COM
plexity of the standards of weights and measures.
They pray that Congress would take measures to
establishment of a common international standard
of weights and measures, and also of common
meridian line. Referred.
Mr.. Dawson presented memorial of the Baptist
conference of Georgia, that the freedom of con-
science be secured to Americans in foreign countries
Mr.. Pratt psesented resolutions of the Legislature
of Maryland, respecting the guano trade. Referred
Mr.. johnson reported bill for the relief of Elisa
beth Smith. He said that she enlisted as private
in the Missouri regiment of volunteers under the
name of Bill Euchre; that she served faithfully in
the for eight months when her sex disco"
cred, and she was honorably discharged She had
never received either pay land. The bill gave
her both. ~.
Mr.. Jones asked the chairman of the military
mittce who was that line, whether this soldier |
was under his command.
Mr.. Shields said he had not had the honor of hav-
ing the lady in his command but he had doubt !
she performed faithfully all the duties of man.
Bill passed.
THE NEBRASKA BILL.
The Nebraska bill was then taken up
Mr.. Wade said that he rose to address the Senate
with great diffidence any subject. He had al
ways preferred to perform his duties silently, but
the Importance and the boldness of this measure re-
quired him to give expression to his objections to
it. Though young man at that time, he well re-
membered the adoption of the Missouri Compromise. |
He recollected well the opposition and resistance
by the whole Northern people to any further extern
sion of slavery; the storm which followed and that
it only quoted by the assurance and conviction
that the question then forever settled and slave
ry excluded from the territory Since that time he
knew of no man who had been bold enough to ques-
ton its inality or to propose its repeal. Why
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