The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-03-30

The resolution was thea adopted.

The resolution thea adopted
The House then wenl into COMMITTEES OF the Whole,
and proceeded MI HAMILTON ~ the char 70 Inc con-
sideraton OF bills upon the ealesdar
THE NEBRASKA AND KANSAS BILL.
Mr. BARKSDALE said il was bis intention to address
the House in reference the bill Tor organizing terri
toral governments Tor Nebraska and Kansas, and TO
portion, al least OF The objections urged against
the passage OF that bill 1t not his purpose 10
gage in the discussion OF the abstract question OF slavery
II not necessary Tor him 10 do sufficient
for him 10 say that whatever IN his opinion, might be
benefit and blessing master and slave, not only in
the southern bat in The northern sayeholding States
which both manufactured and consumed the articles pro-
duced BY slave labor worthy OF their support They,
the friends OF the bill, rested the discussion upon the
constitution OF the country, where it was placed by the
patriots and sages who formed the federal government
and moulded our institutions
He then proceeded to read an extract from ST. Louis
paper, which stated that large numbers had in that
city from various quarters on their way TO Nebraska and
that the cabins OF the vessels going thiihe full
before they could the period OF their departure
bill.
He agreed with the gentleman from Vermont MIR
MEAcHAml that the government should observe sacred
their treaties with the Indians, and read passage from
the Senate bill TO show that land was to be taken from
the Indians except by their consent and that the rights
OF the Indians We're respected by that bill.
He read from slautelaw passed by the State OF Yer
mont, making il penal offence, and imposing fine OF
1000, or five Years Imprisonment Tor assisting in car
rying out The provisions OF the fugitive slave law Let
that State repeal their act, setting at defiance the author
iy OF Congress and irng with The provisions OF
the constitutions before that &c tleman came there to lee
ture the South about keeping their compacs.
He denied that any such compact as had been alleged
had been made between the North and the South.
had been acquesced in by the South for the sake OF
peace but was never endorsed BY the South as an I'M
alterable compact
Mr. B. proceeded 10 refer to the records OF the House,
showing that. when Mr. Douglas was member OF the
House he had several occasions offered provisos to
the bills admitting other Territories into the Union sim
liar 10 what known the Missouri Compromise
and that the northern members had then rejected the pro-
vision and, on the admission OF Oregon, they had adopt
ed the Wmot proyso instead.
No human eye could look into the future but far
as they had gone, he could not that the South bad
lost anything by the admission of California into The
Union, she had who supported this
bill, and were determined TO uphold the constitutional
rights OF the South. He therefore saw danger in ad
hitting Nebraska and Kansas
The South had objected TO aboshng the slave trade
10 the District Of Columbia because they did not believe
that Congress had right TO prohibit il, and they had
10 believe that it would be made the point oil
the wedge for nficlng further encroachmens on the
/ rights of the South
In view of the position assumed by France and Eng
land in relation Cuba, he called upon the House 10
bury forever in the bosom OF the all controversy
the qeeston Lethem stand upon the great principles
Of this bill,ha the people have right to establish oI
themselves every institution they might prefer.
| Mr. NORTON obtained the floor, and addressed the
House in opposition TO the Nebraska and Kansas bull
He coh,ended. reply TO remarks made by the gentle
Compromise was mol, as that gentleman had contended
forced upon the South by Overwhelming majority from
the North bot that the records showed that the compro
had rather been forced upon the North by
the South and conceded to for the sake of peace
II the clause abrogating the Missouri Compromise had
been introduced into the bills admitting Utah and New
Mexico, those bills could never have paesed the House
He denied that the doctrine oil intervention
tablshed by those acts, by the bill upon the table He
eDdeavored 10 show that the Senate bill variance
with the arguments which had been employed in it's sup
port Ii was bill 10 legisate slavery whilst had
bsen argued that II 10 the principle oil
non-iniesvenon by Congress. Was that .inerven.
ton TO render 1t impossible for territorial governmen
TO pass law either admitting prohibiting slavery
| without The concurrence oil Congressl
| He then defended Henry Clay and Daniel Webster
from the imputaons oil having regarded the act of 1850
repeating the Missouri Compromise OF 1920, and quoted
their speeches 10 show thai those charges un-
| founded G ----s
II the bill passed, (and he did not believe that II
would be) would be passed in opposition loftier
power than Congress, and 10 that power appealed
was the sober thought OF the people.
1 Mr.. KElTT obtained the floor when the COMMITTEES
/ rose.
/ The SPEAKER pro TEN. laid before the House com.
nuncation from the Secretary OF the INTERIOR ransm
ting report in reference 10 the negotiations with the In
dians laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
The House then adjourned, at quarter TO four O'Clock
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