New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-03-01
xxxu1p CONGRESS FIRST SESSION

xxxnGp CONGRESS 900. FIRST SESSION
SENATE. .WAsHrvoroS. Tuesday, Feb q.. lsa
Mr. PETIT introduced q bill granting land to Indiana
ard Illinois for railroad purposes
Mr. TOTCEY presented memorial, from Connection,
against the repeal Of the Missouri COMPROMISE
Mr. WADE-Smor petitions from Ohio
air. ENEREIT-From Massachusetts,.
Air FI>H-From Montgomery County Ne0foh
Mr CHASE-Eight from Ohio
Mr SUMNER-fhrce from Massachusetts, one from
Indiana and 1--WE from Pennsylvania
Mr. CLAYTON-Two from Delaware.
All 81 them we're laid On the table.
NJ PEARCE presented the proceedings OF a meeunga
Baltimore in favor OF amending tho revolutionary pension
laws and giving 100 acres Of land to all VINO sevedl
Mr. SIirNPT introduced i'll for the relief Of pur,hs
SER ard l,cators of overlooked and swamp lands II was
taken up and passed
Mr. SEBASTIAN reported resolution directing pay
mcut TO Rchard " Young OT bis services in investigating
die charges against Alexander Ramsey late Supenn.
terdent OF Indisn Affairs in Oregon. Laid over.
The t Granting land to all the States for the benefit Of
INDECENT ius axe was taken up.
The bi was amended so as to give each State 10000
fcs leaving the other 900 acres 10 be appJOned
among them according their compound .aO Of pOpu-
lation end number OF square miles.
Mr. GWIN said there 10 land in California now
open to private entry All the lands that were now sur
y,yed or would be for twenty years TO come were occl
pied by actual settlers He moved IN amendment Gow
ing California lOcae her share any unsuryeyed and
unoccuped lands not having any mineral character which
Mr.. MASON proposed to debate the bin, and said hist
as II clock he would move the postp0nement
OF the subject and proposed 60 make the Oil The special
order Tor future day Ills motion WAS rejected.
The bill YVES then ordered 10 be ongrossed but without
receiving final action W further consideration sas post
ponod. when the Senate t01s up The Nebraska biN.
Mr.. BRODHEAD said that Doe made q speech ia favor
If the principles Of THE bill SIX years ago and abored foe
, adoption. lie was NOT 10 much interested in il nov
be was then. Since that time be bad seen the South
uniting % elect General 4 lylor 10 tho Presidency al
though he had refusad 10 declare himself opposed to the
Nimot Pr1yiso lie had also seen, since tho an Of
afafu aula
gentlemen to unite ia the adminlrat0n of political Of
fairs Of the country with those who supported the Wn)t
PTOy.sc and stood in 1875 the BU,ao Platform For
those reasons he intended b nave gwen silent vote
but az HE colleague had taken different posi-
ton he felt il incumbent on him to express
his views. He spoke not for tho onertalnment
OF the galleries nor Tor sentimental readers at home
he desired only to present facts to bis constituents le
was working member and not a speaking one. lie id
not believe with his colleague thai this measure was raugm
with evil He did not believe il would create in size minds
OF the northern friends Of the Com promise Of 80 deep
cling OF regret or d hostility Northern people would
never be opposed to the extension OF thert OF me peo
pie TO regulate their own concerns Those. who wero op
posed 10 this bill those Who opposed % the "a
noxati0n of Texas and who voted always for tDe Wlmo
provsO This measure was not, a. his colleague sad
war inconsistent VITA TIE Legislat0n Of JJ-but The
principles Of the Legislation OF % where wholly incon
sifteLt with the Missouri COmp-0uis' and had
been 30 declared by vote oyhree burhs Of the Senate
He would horjhat il the peculiar advocates Of the
Nlhot Proyiso who had aunulled and repadiated the
Missouri Compromise The principle of tdn Dlu was pet
tar tor the N0rththen the Missouri no-under tha Ene
Slavery was secure south OF IT, orit was cnelt Unier
this bill Slavery was not recognised elher Ao'th Or
south Of the line, and peOAs were free tO'toOP
or not lie regretted that ho and his colleague wh2
represented the great state dividing the shOrtl ana
South and also dividing the fanaucisn OF the Nortn
from the uaism Of the South could not agree upon TINS
measure. He had hoped that one Northern Wing a. least
,uld have voted for the b and he would have replied
il that Wing mad been his colleague But the 'sct tha1
his colleague should not vote with his Southern party
friends showed tLat unless this b passed, and forever
closed an sectional agitation there would BIO dissolution
oft Tho niQu nTdtl of Oarfy
bitter sectional feelings and objects The question ia
yolyed IN this bill was Of no po oe practical Importance.
Slavery could 60 to the Nebraska kansas Terrific
ries The soil ard climate there adverse 10
slave labor, ard the coil and climate had more
influence in introducing or excluding Slavery
than Congressional enactments While there wore
rich vacant lands in Louisiana Texas Arkansas, Mis-
souri,, Mississippi and Chhuehaa suitable for the
production 81 cotton, rice and sugar. slave holders wOut
not attempt to cultivate the p,Ges aud high lands Of Ne
Dfaska. he Senator from MG suchusetts lIr Egerett
admitted this fact in bis speech md wac difficult for ts
other Senat from that STATE r Ssnner to avoid this
conclu ion That other meteor had stated that Nebraska
in the latitude Missouri bat he forgot b add
that iifwas also in the same altitude a. Pennsyyani
New York and Ost Of New England lie was
avese 70 all sectional chickering's among Repre-
sertstiycs in Congress. Northern Senators should re-
member that the Constitution recognized Sayery-it
recognized IN the provision relative 10 fugtves aad
also il allowing representation for slaves. He op'
posed 70 bandying epithets from North 20 South There
100000 Of slaves, and they not be et free
n day, TO starye, was the world to be egsaied into
the millennium Il 1871 nearly me whole Northern members
IN Congress instructed 10 vote for the WlmOt PoysO
He the only Northern who spoke againstt lie
voted for Mg. C0y tons bill then. which the same Ia
principle as this bill He advocated the Missouri Con
promise then secondary measure 20 ne pnncple vi
This bill He was defeated, aud with the Wmot Proyiso
be borne down, and Mr. Cas- was defeated Tor the
Presidency. But the WmOt Proyiso had been put down
and he and his friends had triunphed over IT, ms was
question which had to be met Il would come up SONS
time, and ought be settled upon constitution
grounds Tie North were wiling 10 meot and dscan
il, and would DO The North wOu.1 GpysOss
of tie rgLt Of popular suffrage. The friends Of
tie Wiimot Provs0 were responsible for the
rereal % the Missouri Comyromse Il was their act
JeGer-ons claim. unt-r Ae acluisiion OF L)uisiaaa,
extended % the Pacific al SJush The Missouri
Compromise Line inte Cded by those who adopted IT,
o. extend tie Pacific n not only intended bat so
declared in their speeches Ben Hardin in his speech on
the CONFRONT advocated line extending west RON
Missouri 70 tine Pacific with the Slavery prohibition
north and permission south OF It. Mr. Stevens OF
Connecticut four days before ito adoption, in opposing
t. said tLGt tie extension OF tie line 10 the FAei,o
would not be very pacific measure A.
ives then understood 10 extend % the Pacific IL was 50
UNDERWOOD in the Of Texas in -. II proper thst
why il not proper to all other territory Ia g. t'
South offered he Missouri line ana he IN peech On "
supported C. lie voted for Il and only four other h S
ern l1el0tra three nom teHHsy yanil al4 olg 1iou
New Hqll. soied for g. lhe alyoca.rs 'l ili nD I
lru.i.0 hen voted L lIUl Ilr TOSS CT JA t-as l-v'