The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-23
AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON.
Letter from the Hon. NJ, Wensworth NC
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(From the Clic.gs DemccratI

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tErom the Ctic.eS DemocratJ
WASHINGTON, August 10, 1854.
Wntn tne House sd>ou'ntd oa MoT day morniog,
SIRE are, t6e'e were aeout dozen present. Col.
Berton AZ d myself were the Oniy oaes from the
West. Tbe Colonel hao pre-, ARD hi nceif for hot
NornirR, by avibg vess, crsvat, and stockings Ut
bome. dc wore light ana low slippers, which
ecowes natures st. kings to ezsat advantage.
WIEN Hsbe0 where te puiebased MS stockioge. he
eai1 be prst them Of his aOSher seytnty ocd wears
ago. aDo tAere never yet bad been hole Ia tlsen.
COL Basseils ht taitn continues about the sacae.
Gep. 6hie0s thinks 1t uhsate - rave him. as II the
weather constitutes warm, he Cen survive but few
Gays on the contrary shoulo 1t eool oTa little he
may ivr several week, aud pe,dsps months DO
z BOW 90 bertiey Springs. about eight hours ride
ffcm Washington. The last time I ss Tim was
wteL be ieqnsssed me to snnource to tue House
that, ccule be bave been present, be sho lld have
votec Against the repeal u the Missouri compro-
u 50 law. He bas su vived already much LOGGER
than appearances then indicats,at q. ne could
The effects OF tie reciprocity tre.ty sre differ.
emily viewed in oifltrept sections OF the Ountry.
With M, Ut Chicago. do not see ho~ there oaa be
any 6ihtref ce Of oEinion get tse freedom Of
q river st. Lawrence, which We nave been striving
for 30 lcDg,
The Land Graduation bill will be Of ircalcuable
advai tsee to cur State. here is q great deal of
lar 10 te cold % lzl ents per ace, and still
NOR at 25 cents.
TIE best thing the laborers on the nIoois Csrtral
Railioad Can CO ID to .pick them Oat an eighty or
oLe hunesed and siz'y acre tract Dcar the II nois
Ctnta! Railroad land. luis tract they Gao use
for cultivation, whilst they use the lands Of the
company Tor moving ana pasturage. When land
can be got al ole shilling or O quacter of q dollar
per scie, i If MATS @n fault If Le doss not own
fasm. The ftends Of these laborers ought ct once
TO apprise them OF their rights. Under this lsw,
sLd the general rush for lalo, we shall have but
little more use for land Offices ia dis.
Ire ntttead bill was defeated in the Senate,
for the same reason that the MISS ,u.i compromise
law IVES repealed. lnceec, the passage Of tho
Homestead bill would have been practically a repca
OF the Nebraska AID kaosas bill, go far as slavery
iLducemeLt for fee labor 10 bave gopo to toese
Territories, that slavery would efcctuay have been
shut Out. Az it is, there IL now no way to keep
slavery out Of kansas. but to urge, by all possible
me ans, the friends # free labor TO 20 there. And
slavery has got such I, othod there now that il ID
to be feared at free labor can never succ essiully
compete Whit.
Fee that several papers arc agitating the repeal
Of so much Of The Kansvs and Nebra raska law as ad-
mits slaWry. have no doubt but tho next House
will lass such b II. But tho next Senate will not;
Eor the Senate the eaf'ey. Should every free State
elect Senator her CATER 70 oppose tho bill, 1t
would take just five yea. to bring tho friends Of
the repeal int majority 10 the Senate. 1t is just
us il is win the Fugitive Slave law. No siavc
S'a'e Senator vii ever vote for either. So. at
least, 1t viii take fiyo years TO repeal either.
But, even at the end Of fvo years, the slave
states will have some friends ia the Senate; and,
as things aTc now, there is but hope of excud-
ilg slavery fcIn Kansas, ard t. q: is, by euoou.
raging the tight kind of emigration there. the law
Will never bc repealed uutl t1orc IL radical
chapge in tho way OF eiecting United States
Ser atoIs.
The news Of Colonel Benton's defea. has Just
reached here, and never saw as n1u II joy mani
tested there is by the slave holding interest. 1t
har &, ven item great courage, and l voud not be
sorpiiecd il they srGul1 bring on their two great
ms asuIcs next winter. The South ares nothing for
the ,tpta' OF the fugitive slave law or tue slavery
laTt Il thc Knnsus- sid Nebraska bill. II knows
that i cannot be 6onc ard fears nothing. 1t ha
two great measures still behind. Ibese measures
Coienel benton, and every man opposed to the re
peal cf tho Missouri compromise Law, will oppose
Colonel Benton is the only opponent who has sub
Mitfed his Dame to TIC pt ope. He has falcu. The
cry ia. let oil other democrats who opposed the re-
pc al share his fate and the star OF esvoy extension
will be IN the ascendant. The forth ,Oming measurcs
aIc:--
lst. The formation of lew slavc State from the
south sf California.
I'd The naturalization OF The restitution Of sla.
very. Slavery is low sectional, and the nGn who
OF his slave. Z very few words incorporated into
sD appropriation btl smuRRled into some lrivate
BILL is all that is wanting II is said that The eol
lowing viii be rho worls-"Tne property Of 10 citi-
whilst being occupied in, or transported through,
any other State" The idea is that while no citizen
OF Illinois can b. Id slaves under our Illinois laws,
citizen oi smother State may occupy farm in Lii.
and forwards without danger or forfeiture.
Thus, whist we ore looking to remedy the past
the South bas two great measures for the fu
,ure' , = Aud il 2 man viii go right in these
for Copg.ess though he introduce bill to
abolish slavery in the District Of Columbia, TO re-
peal fugitive slave law and to repeal the Kansas
and Nebraska bill as soon as he took his seat Our
elected only once in six years. the South can never
lose an advantage that il ones gainS.
The South i practical and the North impractical
in this matter.
What few free soi'crs have seen here are very
indignant at the wings for their coalition with the
pro slavery men to beat Col. Benton. TGcy think
that, II tic Nortb6In wkig press had done fts duty
the Northern residents OF sc. LOFTS, who arc wings
And have no doubt they would. The wings, how.
ever. expect to have majority in the next House
Of Re, resentatiyes, and they would have found
Col. Benton rather thorn in the flesh when they
undertook TO revive any Of their old measures.
have interested myself mewhat to know what
s to be the administration policy TO the river and
haIbor impre vements. The Cabinet were nearly
eqpaDy divided upon the pr,priety OF the Presl-
dent signing the bill for the Improvement OF Cape
Fear river. After he signed that, all. With one or
two exceptions, contended that he must sign the
general bill. as he had admitted the power. But
there WIS hope that the general bill would be de-
iested, ana efforts were made accordingly. II was
stove off, AID stove OF, and stove off. Bat We stove
oif other things with it. Our danger Was their dan
ger. They tried all their ingenuity 70 get rid Of Us
un'il they could pass tho appropriation bills. But
al in vain. Wc got ahead and kept ahead; aud be-
cause they could not help themselves they LEI us
pass our bill about daybrcak By the Presidents
veto you sce that he said ~ little az he could say
and say anything.
The wings were really aifaid that tho President
would sign the bill. They wanted veto very
much. 10 was the object of democrats In favor Of
harbor and iivor improvements 70 keen cut all new
works, and TO adhere to estimates, and thus relieve
the iresident from al responsibility for beginning
worss, and sec i he would not stand by tie estE
mates his own department sont TO u.s.
The wings really had fears that he would sign I'M
ger such cirSamstances, and really had hopes that
he would. They tried al sorts OF ways to add new
works, and to increase the estimates; and, to
barrals US. wonld move to amend the items liz our
own districts, and make hunklm speeches thereon,
TO be sent home and published in own district.
We presented tho naked question to the Presi-
dent Of completing works upon his own estimates
which lad elScady been begun. and that, too, after
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