The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-03-25
Our Washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON March % 1854

Our Washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, March %, 1854.
Three Southern Speeches in he House on TIE Neorasa
Questionable Work-7Ae Agitation al in Blass-1M
Blu still Sasieep
-ne Three incidental Speeches the House to-day from
tne SOUTH against the Nebraska BILL the topic OF the
nouf mat Of sr Nilsson of Vs., strict construction
list of the tide school, as hairsphttng specnne
of legal acuteness and constitutional nc,
Badger all to pieces hlson ecipseA S'aoser-o's
whemed him, turned his batteries against him, :.
from the roots and scattered to the right and the le
the Douglas bill and all the chopogc national urispru-
dence In support Of it Southern measure He showed
that the bill delusion, humbug, stultiacation
of ITSELF a concession to squatter sovereignty which
usurps the rights of the South and utterly good for
nothing but a mockery to the Southern States. Long
before Milson through Badger was distanced and
at the close Of this searching sitting and splendid bit of
Virginia tide-water constitutional philosophy Douglas
was wholly obscured and Badger was nowhere. gha
North Carolina hairsptter must knock under to tho
Virginia har-spter, who entrenches himself behind all
sorts of statutes and established authorities.
The Badger provso which repeats the old French law
recognizing slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska Terrific
ries and which was superseded by the Missouri compro
mise, the special point of Mr. Wilson's attack, and
such of constitutional and legal distractions a.
he piled upon this Badger amendment was quite sufd-
Gent to smother it to the satisfaction of all the strict
constructonsts south of Mason and Dxons line. The
whole pth of his argument against the Senate bill
that placed the conceded rights of the South the
lower side of SO 80 at the mercy of squatte sovereign
ty without any satisfactory recognition of Southern
equality either side of the line that the praci
cal operation of the bill would be, gain to the
South Of another inch of TERRITORY but the loss Of that
which, under Territorial and Congressional laws Is now
the property the South Such was the
of Mr. Mson interpreter of the constitutional rights
of the South from the tdewater section of Virginia.
section whose scholars have been surpassed in
theT metaphysical knowledge of political distractions
Apollo of the whole school Of the strictest harspers
The second speaker this morning against Nebraska
rangue- beautiful piece patriotic defamation against
the violation of the healing measure of the Missouri
promise and an Reputation Of all Northern as
South The South could take care Of herself The ladies
in the gallery would Mr. Hunts the most beau
tfu speech of the session. by all Odds although he did
not read from the manuscript but the lawyers the
floor would pronounce it but rushght in reasoning,
contrasted with the close and compact argument of Mill
In fact the speech of the Fourth of July
oratonthat Of the other as before the
Supreme Court of the United States upon the law and the
testimony. And yet, the virgnian, in his and
actions, well in the substance of his speech was
more the orator than the Lousanian.
The third of the lions Of the day Mr. breckenridge,
of Kentucky the young Hector Of the oans of the Ca
bnet the great gun Of the "a. Ta and one
did his best for the bill great constitutional and de-
mocratic and In the Of he rasped the
Cutting, very roughly the knuckles He evident
" shocked that Mr. Cuttings speech the other day for
Nebraska should have been made in support of his
ton which consigned Nebraska the tomb Of the Capu-
let's Truly that speech very much like that of
of King Davids generals to another with whom he had
old grudge to sette-sArt thou in health, my bro
therf and he stabbed Abner under the fifth rib and
may expect to hear from Mr. Cutting his satisfaction
the debate progresses Pity there is such lack Of
things as we find them Mr. Breckenridge and trust to
| luck
These three speeches exhibit in ezseso the moral con-
sttutonal legal and to considerable extent the
tona arguments for and against the bill but they do not
shake the prevailing opinion that the Nebraska bill Of
the Senate is dead We SHALL however, have the whole
question thoroughly discussed upon the appropriation
bills and with the adjournment of Congress the agta-
ton will be formally turned the country at large
Meantime, the bill sleeps the general calendar
Correspondence Of the Philadelphia Ledgerl
WASHINGTON, March %, 1852
M Hunters Land Graduation Opposed to he Honsestead
The C0nsulsaip 70 Londom-Aeetng Of The 7sSos CSs-
| ditors.
Mr.. Hunter of the Senate, introduced bill in that
body the graduation Of the public lands and another
them for acknowledgements purposes reasonable
rate. The land graduation heme is nothing else
sale of the public lands the States substitute for
Mr. Benefits land distribution scheme, while at the
With the exception Of few Southwestern Senator'S the
south VIII almost in body go against the homestead,
become knkey on that subject the bill may yet be
defeated.
Nonew appointments will be made till the end Of the
session. and the rejected consul to London will be suffered
to stay there all summer nhalng the refreshing brecxes
OF the sceptred se His services may be still wanted
broad ana ne could do nothing but mischief during the
present session in Washington.
The Texas creditors held meeting to-day the Ma
tiona Hotel General Leslie Coombs presiding. The act
of the Legislature of Texas abandoning the Eve millions
Of dollars reserved in the United States treasury toge-
Their with the interest and premium of the stock to the
United States, and relinquishng Also the Texan claims
of g. for Indian spoatons the use Of the
creditors, leaving the mode of settlement Congress-
the deegat1On creditors, subject
to the approval of the Legislature Of Texas was con-
sidered favoraby and every confidence expressed
rectitude judgment and wisdom of General Rusk of
Texas who has the honor Of representing the State in
part in the United States Senate committee ap-
pointed to act in behalf of the creditors composed Of
Messrs Holman, Leslie Coombs, Wilson and Lemar be-
fore the Texan delegation and before Congress. The
meeting separated in the most perfect harmony.
The bill for building six additional war steamers
though supported BY the necessity of the case viii not
pass the House without serious opposition and without
being considerably amended