Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-03-25

| the Senate with an amendment
The amendment agreed to. So the bill is finally
passed
The following bills Of the Senate being the next in
order then read twice and appropriately referred
bill for the reefof purchasers and loeaters Of swamp
and overlooked lands.
bill establish port of delivery at Lake Port on
Lake PontcRartran, and for other purposes
THE NEBRAsKA-KANsAs BILL.
Senate bill to organize the Territories Of Nebraska and
Kansas was then read twice.
Dir. RICHARDSON moved that the bill be referred to
/ the Committee on Territories.
! Mr. CUTTING moved that it be referred to the Com
mittee Of the Whole the state Of the Union.
| Mr.. RICHARDSON stated that he had not yielded the
floor.
The SPEAKER stated that such being the case the
ton Of the gentleman New York was not in order
Mr.. RICHARDSON remarked that he desired this bill
referred the Committee Territories for the purpose
of amending it in particulars and he wished say
that its reference to the Committee Of the Whole the
state of the Union would be killing it by indirecon 1t
worth while TO disguise the fact and gentlemen
need not pretend to him that they favorable the
bill when they wished TO place it in position where il
could not be reached again during this session There
already bills enough the calendar to engage the
attention of Congress from the present time to the be-
ginning Of the next sessions and he regardedhe stated
it freely and frankythe effort to refer the bill to the
Committee of the Whole the state Of the Union as an
endeayor defeat it altogether He respected, he
bound respect the right of every gentleman upon this
floor cast his vote he pleased upon every
that before Congress for considerations but he had
respect for those who proessed to be for the
while they using every effort by ndirection, to de-
stroy and kill it. lfgentlemen did not wish to support
the BILL he asked them to vote against it. but to meet
the question fairly to to the issue it pre-
sened and place themselves upon the record before the
country for or against the BILL
Now what the facts in relation to this matter
What the of business already before the Com
mee of the Whole Nearly every that had been
reported from the beginning of the session to the pre-
sent time had been referred to that committee and many
a., aud ha had nrn
session The Nebraska Kansas bill which had already
been reported from the Committee Territories stood
he believed about the Goth the calendar and before it
could be reached the preceding bills must first be disposed
Of but if the bill before the House should be
erred to the Committee Territories they could report
it back and If there majority of the House in favor
Of the principles which it embodied after gentlemen had
amendments as they to submit the
bill could be put upon its passage and Galy disposed of
they could 60 into committee and discuss the question
Mr. CUTTING moved to refer the bill to the Commit
tee Of the Whole the state of the Union, and stated
that in making this motion he was animated by sense
Of disrespect the chairman Of the Committee Ter
rtores, mr. RIcHARDsoS) nor to the honorable mem
bers who associated with him. It was he believed
matter distinctly understood that that committee had
discussed and elaborated the subject and that as far
respected any views of theirs they could be offered in
Committee of the Whole with much facility as by go
ing through the crcuious OF referring the bill to
them, and of again having ii on the Speakers table,
where it would be in precisely the same position that it
was to-day.
As respected motives that were hsnuated against pro-
badly himself and others who in favor Of committing
this BILL he desired to be understood that he had stood
upon the great principle OF allowing the people Of every
organized community or Territory TO frame for them
selves the laws under which they were TO live and which
were to operate upon their condition in life, from the
very outset in l8 to this day and he denied that there
was gentleman this floor, come from what quarter
Of the Union he might whowa more sincerely and more
devotedly attached that principle than himself 1t
matter of practical plain common sense that the people
Of the Territory Oregon better able devise that
system under which they to live and prosper
than the people of the State Of New York Of New
Hampshire, or of any other remote province either
directly through representatives IN thsir Legisa-
lures or in this body This doctrine TO leave TO the
people of Oregon and Washington, to the intelligent
cupants of those remote and distant Districts the prvi
lege to mould their institutions in such their
experience and knowledge ofthe country aud soil and
their requirements and necessities demanded and there
could be reasonable doubt except the part OF few
fanatics and political agitaoT that they would form
and frame laws for themselves better than Congress pos
sibly could do for them.
This measure Of the Senate also commended itself to
him for another 1t supposed to ebody and
great and cardinal principle removing the sub
ect Of egsang upon the institution OF slavery from the
halls Of Congress.
1t was in my aspect Of the case, however, impor
tan BILL and merted the anxious consideration of every
member Of the House There provisions in it. as he
had it in detached portions, or the bill itself had
been printed that he knew Of unless perhaps in the
columns Of the " DAHL Globe which should be changed
altered to mike it worthy the support of the House
He alluded to that part OF it which restricted the right Of
suffrage which took from the people that which the c
Of Illinois, of Indiana of Wisconsin, and other West
States had deemed advisable In his opinion aliens
who had declared their intention become citizens, and
who took the oatho support the provisions Of this law
ought to be entitled merely to the right to acquire
lands but participate in the councils Of that newborn
territory The bill ought be referred TO the Committee
of the Whole that it might in this respect be amended
for he undertook to say that the people of the free States
would insist upon that sine qua non before they would
consent to its passage
But (said Mr.. CO. who they who are to bear the
brunt Of this contest? Is it the people Of the South
where all united we, the representatives of
the free States those who go before the people
Justify in favor of this bill? And if stem
the current of fanatcism, shall not have full and
ample opportunity to present views before them
through the medium of the Committee of the Whole? /
When assert that these great principles really
found in the bill, not bound first to examine and
investigate it to see il this be Doubts have been
pressed to whether it does not repudatc the principle
of nonnterventon by provso which may hereafter be
celebrated as the Wilmot proyiso He alluded to
the proyiso inserted in the bill motion Of Senator
BADGER. These matters which melited close,
severe, and thorough examination.
They had had numerous petitions against the passage
Of this measure, of them from large number Of
clcrgymen, who had allowed themselves 70 be separated
from the rest of the community and become distinct
class He would venture to say that not one Of those
gentlemen, who most respectable in their sphere
and proper calling, had even read the BILL He
would say the people of the North that il they would
throw aside fanaticsm and prejudice and give up for
moment their political agitation aad give this bill fair
examination, they would that there had been
measure rendered them beneficial, and in his hum
bic judgment calculated TO restrict slavery 1t