Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-03-04
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90 -, -, =. - WAsilNoruN, March 3.
sEsArE.--The Nebraska bill was debated INIT
, mine O'Clock last night. Various amendment.
ment to the 14th section inserting the words .tha
t.ne legislature of Territories shalnot bepreclu.
ueu ron prohibiting slavery therein was rejected
Yeas 10; nays Sc. q 49, p p fs
mr.. Badger then offered an amendment adding
me i4th section the words "plovided that moth.
ing contained in this act Shall be construed 10 re.
Vlve or put in force any law or regulation wbich
may have existed prior TO the act OF March g. 1920
ei!ner protecting, establishing, prohibiting or abol.
lshlng slavery" iAdopted-years So, nays 6. IA.
Mr.. Chase offered an amendment making the
Governor, Secretary aud Judges elective by tbe
peopieoi the Territory. eRejected--yeas 10, nays
Mr.. Chase offered an amendment putting Ne.
oraska aud Kansas into one Territory and unte,
one government. He argued the absence of nm,
necessity for two Territories. ~ Z =
Mr.. Badger thought that it was the duty OF ever;
friend of the bill vote down4this and ali otheI
unendnlellts offered by the Senator fron, Ohm 80
Mr.. Chase said he had offered his amen,iment,
because they ere in his opiuion right He knew
OF no rule OF proprety or constitutional right Inv
which asenatorrepreSentngO Ohio, the third State
o. me Union, was 70 be denied the privilege of of
lering amendments to This any other bill or why
amendments offered by Senator from Ohio yy.rs
10 be rejected. 7i;a 80 ~ - 80
Mr.. Mason responded denying that any amend
ment offered by the Senator was Intended 10 car.
tyout me prlnciple of non-intervention; the sole
OBJECT was TO defeat the bill. He had read of 4
warrior who carried a huge shield covered with
seven bull hides aud closely studded with brass
The Senator from Ohio mus. supnose himself GOV.
cred with some such shield. This was The last
struggle OF that party ot,whch the Senator was an
lllustration If this bill was passed theiryocalion
would be gone, their last plank in the shinwreck
taken from them and they would die as they de-
served to die, bowling like liends because thew
haa not Deen aole to destroy the country which
protected them. The South hud not proposed this
measure; II had neyeto originated any measure upon
The subject OF slavery, though the bill contained
much OF injustice TO the South, yet he was still
willing 10 take it as a small advance towards ius-
ice aud as measure Of peace, -
z Mr.. Wade saidithat be had listened ne long os he
could, quietly, to unjust and unbecoming' asper-
sionS cast upon the Sc nator who with him. trniv
represented the sentiments of the gieat State. OF
ohio. he wondered at the calmness with Which
ms colleague had borne the tnuntsand innutations
thrown upon hun personally, and upon his mo-
uves and conduct. Sucl, conduct could no lon.er
De put up with; Ohio was not inferior 10 INV
States her Senator'S were not TO he brow be aten by
any person, and were not TO be frightened ont of
their right to offer amendments to any bill nrnd.
ing IN The Senate of The United States; the Ian
guags used towards his colieage was uni ecominp
The Senate; it might be suitable to a plantation,
put not to the Senate OF tine U. s.. Ohio would
el'osS o'b SWat''s uuu PUNISH nSEOWn tepteSent
atlves, and she Recognized no masters in Old Viz
slEIa over her Senators; If the people of Obi-
could vote Tor Senators they would send his colo
league beck TO the Senate for sixzyears longer
He maintained that the Missouri COMPROMISE was
constitutional, as the very men WHO now so siren
nously adyocatet,itsr repeal because it was uncon.
stltutlonal, had over and over agan voted for its
extension 10 the Pacific; to deny its constitution.
al'iy was 10 leave their own conduct open to pre-
symptoms which II would not be parliame ntofv IN
names the constutionaIity of the Wilmot Ptovisu
was little over six Years od at the North il had It's
commencement ut Il time when the Senator from
michigan found 1t Necessary 10 strip himself OF ali
hurthensoine habliments in the great Presidential
race. The Declarations of Independence had beef
aSsaiied by the supporters of the bil; not only had
the acts of the Gather of his Country, been de-.
declared to be selfrevident truths had Leen de-
cisred selt-ev1ent lest necessary to de.
clare the Declaration of Independence lie, or
This bill could not be supported. n
An amendment was then adopted, striking out
the provision allowing aliens 10 vote and hold office
upon declaring their intentions 10 become citizens
The substitute offered by AIR. Douglass, for the
I. mended, and the bill was reported to the Senate
The bill ordeled TO be ensrosed for third read
ing, yeas %, nays 10. The nays Were Chase,
Dodge OF Wisconsin, FesSender, Fish, Foot, Ha M.
lin, James, Seward, Smith. Sumner, Wade and
Walker. The following Senators were absent or
not voting: MeSsrs. Allen Bsyard. Bell, Bright,
Cass, Clayton, Cooper, Everett, Geyer Houston,
Mallo.y, Heatce, Rush, Thompson of KY, lhomp,
sou OF N. j., Toombs, Toucey, Weller, Wight
and Phelps, 90 and vacancy in North Carolina
The Senate then adjourned. The, session was
marked by much excitement and confusion, and
many personal re'I arks were made, directed chief
~ towards the opponents oi the bill. .r,,f. 4,.'