Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-04-27
POSTSCRPT.
THIRTY-THlRD coNGREss-Fin. Session.
SENATE.

! the Nebraska bill e-'-'
Mr. Hamlin presented the memorial of Roser. Forbes
men. : :.
Mr.. Brcdhead presented the memorial OF the Fr.nkir
institute o. fennsylvana, relative to universal system
Mr. johnson reported bin amending the act. grsn,n,
enPton rights to settlers tho Mason Rouge gran
10 Lou,sians. Taken up and passed.
mr. cooper presented seven memorials sgans the Ne
braska bill. - = -
Also "Reminiscences against any change Of duty or
sheet Iron.
e1pediency Of erecting Marine Hospital Pensacola, WI.
adopted =
Mr.. Dodge. of Iowa, reported bill granting land. II
for school purposes.
The bill was taken up and made apply to all States
and then passed.
The bill granting land for the INDECENT naane was sgn
| cd ny the presiding officer.
The Senate went into executive session at half pa
O'clock and AFTER remaining therein some hours ad
joirned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr. Ewing, by unanimous consent introduced resolu-
ton requ,sng the President Of the United States II moi
Incompatible with the public interests TO inform th.
House what steps, any, have been taken BY this Gov
eminent to secure the permanent ackno ~edgment BY
treaty OF the rights Of neuals by the Governments Of
Great Britain and France. and what degree Of has
| attended such efforts f any have been made
Resolved further. That the President be requested
not Incompatible with the public interest to inform the
House whether In any particular the Government Grea
Britain has assumed to act for Spain in the nego
consequent upon the seizure Of the Black Warrior what
degree Of responsibility that Government has In
the matter, and IT, in assuming for Span upon what
preeIt, " any, is alleged?
Mr. Ewing had but word TO say In regard 10 this
subject He had drawn up the resolutions and submitted
them to members Of the committee Of foreign affairs
well to others OF the House. and they regard them
as a matter Of practical importance He thought the
time had arrived for practical action Il had been
SAID that our able at the Court Of Great
Britain has been endeavorng to perfect such treaty 1t
had been minated that owing to mutual ealouses such
negotiations would fall He believed that secret diplo-
macy was OF no advantage We gain nothing by IT,
The people OF this country should plant themselves on
their rights and in asserting should yield no part of them
Mr. lngerso moved that the resolutions be referred to
the committee on foreign affairs. Agreed to-
The House then went into committee Of the whole on
the deficiency bill.
The galleries crowded to hear Mr. Benten
Mr. Benton rose. The members crowded round, and
all was anxiety TO hear him the Nebraska question: on
which he proceeded TO address the House length
Mr. B. took decided ground against the bill and ali its
concomant aiders and abeors denouncing il and them
in his own peculiar STYLE Of which tho following spec
men
And what is all this hotch potch for It is to establish
principle, they say-he principle of nonintervepiion-
OF squatter sovereignty Sir there such principle
The Territories are the children of the States They
minors under twenty years Of age and is the bust
ness Of the States through their delegations Congress-
to take care OF these minors until they Of ags-uuti
they ripe for go, ernmeut-hcn give them that
government, and admit them to equality with their
fathers.
That is the law and the sense of the case and has been
SO acknowledged since the first ordinance in 1884 by all
the authorities, Federal and State legislative judicial and
executive The States in Congress the guardians of
the Territories and bound exercise the guar
dianshp and cannot abdicate it without breach of trust
and derection OF duty Territorial sovereignty Is
monstrosity born OF timdity and ambition hatchei into
existence In the hot incubation OF presidential canvass
and revolving to the behollers when frat presented Well
do remember that day when first shown in the Sen
ate. Mark Antony did better remember the day when
Caesar first put that mantle through which he was after
wards pierced with hreennd twenty "envious sabs" II
was in the Senate in lS4S and received
AS the essence Of nonsenseas the of nom
sense-ss the five times distilled Of political non
sensicaity
Why, SIR the Territory itseIf Is the properv Of the
States, and they do what they please with it-permt il
TO be settled or not, as they please il up by lines
as they please sell it, or give it they please
chase white people from it, as they please. After this
farrago-his ola podrdd-comes little stump speech
injected IN the belly of The BILL and which must have
prodgous effect when rected in the prarcs and
wards the heads of the creeks will read it, and hone
without atgung the House, for il is both brief and
tul, aud thus:
ut being the intent and nearing OF this act not to
egac slavery into State Territory nor to Icude
II therelrom; but to leave the people thereof perfectly
free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in
their own way subect only to- the Constitution of the
United States"
pec OF the States 1t the supererogaon of modesy and
humility, as Congress happens have power to put
slavery in th.m or out OF them; aud In respect Of the
territories, Is an abdicaton OF constitutional power
and duty, it being the right of Congress legislate upon
slavery in the Territories and its duty do so when
there is occasion for it-as in 1857 and 1920.
object to this shly shally will won y loniy can ~
style OF legislation 1t is not legislative IL s paa.
meutary. IL is not manly. II is not womanly. NJ
would talk that way. No shy -shsly in a woman
Nothing Of the female gender born young
o. lived long enough, get beogged in such
ga this 1t thing the other with them aud what
they stj they stick to- No breaking bargains with them.
But tic Of this stump speech is the best of whole
Different from good milk in which the the
top Il here settles 10 the bottom and In these woris
Leave IL to the people thereof THAT is to saw Of the
States and OF the territories" regulate slavery for
selves as they please only subject to the Constitution OF
the United States"
Certainly this is subsection for the States Hereto
lore they have been free to regulate slavery for them
admit or reject it. and that by virtue Of any
grant or power in the Constitution but by virtue Of an
uusurrendrred part of their old sovereignty also
OF the territories Heretofore they have been held to
wards oil congress- and entitled nothing under the con-
ctituon but that which congress extended them Blu,
this clause Is not accidentally here Is keep up the
dogma Of the constitution in territories; but only there
IN relation to slavery, and that of its admssion-not
jeciiou.
Three dogmas nHlic. the land ridelisi squatter
sovereignty nonnteryention, and power in Congress
to legisae upon slavery 10 territories Aud this bill as
sert the whole three-and beautifully illustrates the
whole three by knocking each on the head with the
Other and trampling each under foot in its turn Sir
the bill does deny squa,ter sovereignty and it does in
and Tor the proof OF that the bill and see IT, as the
lawyers say, pasSinus, that is to say here and there
and everywhere Ii is bill OF assumptions and contra
misunderstanding what is unfounded and conradctipg
what a'sumes-and balancing every affirmation by
negauon II Is see saw bill; but the innocent see
81" which children play plank stuck through fence
but the up and down game of politicians PLAYED at the
expense OF the peace and harmony Of the Union and
the scrihce OF all business in Congress 1t is an am
Pathological BILL stuffed with monsrociies hobbed with
| contradictions aud Badgered with a proviso.
OF he hon NJ
under tho rule and befc no had concluded he was cut
oil by the rap OF the speakers hammer.
Several gentlemen rose to get the floor at the same
time aud finally Mr. Wentworth having obtained IT, and
offered an amendment yielded the floor again to Mr. Ben
ton.
Mr. d. then resumed and CONCLUDED his speech
The committee then rose aud after Intellectual efor
70 proceed TO the business the Speakers table, the
House, at o'clock, adjourned.
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