The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-03-09
Compassionate
WAsHINGrePMarch 8.

amendments were offered and discussed
Mr.. Chase's amendment to the 18th Sec
ton, inserting the words that "the Lcgisla.
lures of the Territories shall not be pre-
cluded from prohibiting slavery therein, y
was rejected by a vote of 10 yeas to Sc
nays.
Mr.. Badger then offered an amendment
adding to the 14th section the Words :
Provided that nothing contained in this
act shall be construed to revive or put in
force any law or regulation which may
have existed prior to the act of 9th March,
1899, either protecting, establishing. pro-
'hibiting or abolishing slavery" Adop-
ted-yeas 35, nays 6.
Mr.. Chase offered an amendment ma
king the Governor, Secretary, and Judges
elective by the people of the Territory.
He explained and enforced it. 1t was re-
jected--yeas 10, nays 80.
Mr.. Chase offered an amend putting
Nebraska and Kansas in one territory and
under one government. He argued the
absence of any necessity for two terrific
ries. a
Mr.. Mason said he fully endorsed all
that was said by Mr.. Badger, that it was
the duty of every friend Of the bill to vote
down this and all other amendments Of
fered by the Senator from Ohio. ms
y Mr.. Chase said he had offered his
amendments because they were, in his
own opinion, right. He knew no rule of
propriety or constitutional right by which
a Senator representing Ohio, the third
State of the Union, and truly representing
the sentiments of that State, was to be de-
MED the privilege of offering amendments
to this, or any other bill; or why amend
ments offered by a Senator of Ohio, were
to be rejected because he offered them
When once the Senate had resolved on the
principle Of non-intervention he had offer
ed amendments, not against it, but to car
ry it to its full extent.
Mr.. Mason responded, denying that any
amendment offered by the Senator from
from Ohio was intended to carry out the
principle of non-intervention, The sole
object was to defeat the bill. He had
heard of warrior who carried huge
shield covered with seven bulls hides and
closely studded with brass. The Senator
from Ohio must suppose himself covered
with some such shield from the just con-
demnation of the country. This was the
last struggle that the party of which the
Senator was an illustration. If this bill
was passed, their vocation would be gone
their last plank in the shipwreck taken
from them, and they would die as they
deserved to die, bowling, bowling like
fends, because they had not been able to
destroy the country which protected them.
The South had not proposed this meas
ure; it had never originated any measure
upon the subject of slavery. Though
this bill contained much of injustice to the
South, he was still willing to take it as a
small advance towards justice, and as a
measure of peace.
Mr.. Wade said he had listened as long
as he could quietly, to the unjust and un-
becoming aspersons cast upon the Sena-
tor who, with him, truly represented the
sentiments of the great State of Ohio
He wondered at the calmness with which
his colleague had borne the taunts and i'm
putations thrown upon him, personally,
and upon his motives and conduct Such
conduct could no longer be put up with.
Ohio was not inferior to any other State in
the Union. Her Senators were no to be
brow-beaten by any persons, and were
not to be frightened out of their right tc
offer amendments to any bill pending in
the Senate of the United States. The
language used towards his colleague was
unbecoming in the Senate. 1t might be
very suitable to plantation, but not in
the Senate of the States. Ohio would
dispose OF, reward and punish her own re-
presentatives, and she recognized no mas
ters in Old Virginia over her Senators
If the people of Ohio could vote for Sen
abors, they would send his colleague back
to the Senate for six years longer.
He maintained that the Missouri Com
promise was constitutional. The very
men who now SO strenuously advocated
its repeal, because it was unconstitutional
had over and over voted for its extension
to the Pacific. TIE deny its constitutional
ity was to leave their own conduct oper
prcsumptions which it would not be par
limentary to name. The unconstitution
ality of the Wilmot Proviso was but little
over six years old. At the North, it hac
its commencement at the time when tht
Senator from Michigan found it necessary
to strip himself of all burdensome habili
ments in the great Presidential race. Th'
Declaration of independence had been as