Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-05-13

ments of the Presidents inaugural and 60 no further
will deserve to be considered Inundated before the
world It is said in our State papers that citizens Of the
United States have been and still subjected to out
RACES upon their person and property Of fragrant cha
racer We have been refused any redress for the past
or any guaranty for the future Spain refuses to form
with commercial treaty. and yet directs the whole
force of her laws against our commerce She per-
mits England and France to interfere with her do
mesc institutions for the ayowed purpose of influencing
our own. Under these circumstances, believe the time
has come when by principle and fact we are justified in
abating nuisance.
One other word and have finished 1t is his-and it
will be complete answer, as far as am concerned
the question Of the gentleman from Connecticut How
would you redress these outrages?" would do it, sir
in open, manly and direct manner and would do
would have other nations to understand that it
Is not only sentiment but conviction in the United
States that the wrongs of individual citizens national
wrongs
Mr.. INGERSOLL resumed He was gratfed with the
views the gentleman from Louisiana had fit to pro-
mulgate here He trusted they the views Of every
member of this body When the contents Of the des-
patches which he thought would shortly be laid before
the House should be known it would be found that Eng
land at the bottom of this whole quarrel if such it
might be called with Span and that she had melted her
to all her acts against u.s. He trusted that the Govern
and the members here representing the people Of
the country would have the energy proclaim rights
and stand by them to the last
Mr.. ZOLLICOFFER advocated the bill under conside-
ration He said that for nearly years bills had been
rtory of Nebraska which showed that for nearly full
decade the people interested in this question had been
asking orhe organization of that Territory The
why that country not settled because the
Government had prevented population from going there
by failing erect it into Territorial government He
would prefer that these Territories should be organic
ed until they had acquired population of five thousand
which the policy heretofore pursued. But this
unimportant matter He for the principles of the
BILL regarding its main features to be the clause which
proposed to repeal the Missouri act Of 1920 He was in
favor of this proposed repeal having been adyo
cate Of the line Of 500 3O He preferred that the Clay
ton amendment should be retained in the bill, but its
omission would not be insuperable objection with
him. In this measure the South were merely asking
their constitutional rights.
Mr. VALLEY opposed the bill. He deprecated the re-
newal of the agitation of the slavery question which
introduction had caused and said that 1t apple of
discord which had been thrown into their midst needless
ly here not the tabled apple of discord which
thrown among the goddesses to test beauty, but
wholly to excite, in its necessary results sectional ami
mostly.
He commended that the North never favored the adms
sion of Missouri except as free State Missouri was
admitted into the Union by the votes of the South aided
by small fraction Of gentlemen from the North, who
did not represent the sentiments Of their constituents
The South well satisfied with the at the
time, and it came with ill grace from any Southern gen
tsman to deny that compromise was then effected.
Mr. LATHAM then obtained the floor, remarking that
it not his intention to occupy the attention of the
Committee with any remarks the bill under considera
ton He merely wished to state that he had prepared
speech upon another subject of great Importance to
his constituents and peoples but he knew the Committee
were impatient to hear gentlemen the Nebraska ques
on and he therefore only asked to be allowed the priv
lege oprinting his Speech ferries of agreed "agreed
and he respectfully asked gentlemen within the sound Of
his voice to read and consider it. Much laughter and
cries Of "we will !" we will
Mr. ENGLISH then proceeded to argue that under the
Senate bill slavery could have ne legal existence in Ne
braska unless there should be Legislature chosen by
people favorable to its introduction further that slavery
could exist in Nebraska; that the bill just to
all sections and in strict conformity with Democratic
principles and the genius of republican institutions.
Mr.. SIMMONS argued that the Missouri compromise
was in fact contract binding in law, and which the
courts bound to uphold against the action of both
the House and the Senate much to their notification
unless he had read law for thirty years to purpose
He likewise spoke against the policy Of repeating the
Missouri act.
Mr. COX, while declaring that quiet should be given
to the country by the passage of this BILL did feel
that gentlemen from the North who opposed it were de-
void of patriotism. He quoted from historical documents
to prove that the North regarded the Missouri
OF 1870 as compac therefore the charge that the South
IN voting for this measure would violate compact came
with bad grace from the North. The idea that the
compromise of 1850 repealed that of 1890 was ridiculous
and no man Of any legal ability should contend that
did, He believed, however, that the political principles
upon which the two founded were utterly
inconsistent
Mr. DAVIS, Of Rhode Island, said that he was as
anxious as r.; an .;s a.. ,s asssss
done until justice should be in accorded.
lie did not believe that any acts Of this Congress, how
ever direct powerful efficient they might be for other
purposes could quiet this agitation while the Of
it remained He opposed the repeal of the Missouri
compromise declaring that bargain thatwas right when
it was made should be kept and all the rights that had
arisen out of it. Should this compromise be repealed
there would be very little for compromises hereafter
They will have finished their labors and themselves,
and the country will have further for them. He
earnestly opposed the extension of slavery to territory
now Free and said the question whether slavery
should be admitted into Nebraska but whether the Con-
stitution should prevail
Mr. TAYLOR Of New York, expressed himself in favor
of the substitute for the original BILL it contained the
affairs of any Territory including the question Of slavery
it proposed leave to the communities who should
nhab these Territories the right of government
far ms might be consistent with the relations they bear
such inhabitants the Government Of the United States
AS regarded the Missouri act of 1920 in truth there
compact about it, and therefore the question of good
faith was notinyolved. ...
Mr.. BALL then obtained the floor, but yielded to o
motion that the committee rise. ..-.
And the question being taken, no quorum voted Ayes
46, noes Sc.
The roll was then called for the purpose of ascertain
ing the names Of the absent MEMBERS when the commit
tee rose and reported the absentees to the House.
Only one hundred and ten members having answered
to their names
Mr. RICHARDSON moved that there be a call Of the
House, upon which motion the yeas and nays
dered.
Mr.. WHEELER moved that the House adjourn; which
motion disagreed to-.
The SPEAKER again counted the House, and an
nounced that there were one hundred and twenty
members in attendance.
A quorum being present
The committee again resumed its session, .