New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-06
xxxIIIp CONGRESS. -. FIRST SESSION.

XXXIIID CONGRESS-. 80. FIRST SESSION.
SENATE. .w,suIyGroS. Saturday. Feb 4ls5t
Mr.. FISH presented the proceedings of meeting Of
citizens Of New lork city with resolutions agans. thors
peal Of the Missouri Compromise he moved that they
Mr. DOUGLAS said he had no particular Objectonso
the reading of the resolutions bat all had real them be-
lore II every memorial was read az length the whOle
time of the senate would be consumed 10 read them
would be departure from the usual course
The CHAll.-Does the Senator object to the reading'
Nj pOUGLAS-l do
MIR FISH, move that the papers be read.
Mr.. sEWARD-I esk for The yeas and nays
The yeas NAYS refused the motion 20 read lost
and the procetd iDgs were laid On the table
MIR SUMNER presented petitions from Now Hanp
shire and MIR BRODHEAD from Pennsylvania aSant
tue repeal OF the Missouri Compromise. Laid on the ia
Mr. JONES Iowa presented the memorial Of citizen,
OF Iowa iskiug giant OF land for norm settlement
Ar CASS Mich What kind OF settlement
Mir JONES-Nolmal
MIR CASS-Nhat
speIirg OUT ormal /; don't you undeEstant now
Mr. CASS-What does o I'M mean know
wLet normal school IL but not whas normal setue-
Mir. JONES Oh rshaw. move that the ps.ition be
referred. Aud i WUs referred
MIR ERODHEAD PAY presented fourteen petition,
from Peunsy against the removal Of tho Mint TO
Mr DOUGLAS-I object to their being read.
The Senate then took up
TIiE SF8RASKA BILL.
Mr.. DIXON (Kyl said that the first bill reported by
tie nnttee white it allowed tue people Of the territory
to odot slavery ng when they framed their Sto con
sutiOns, did rot put the people OF the States eq al
footing their going those territories and carrying
their property there IL allowed the Missouri Prohibition
to continue aud under il avehOiers would DC excluded
from tho territories until the time when people were IS
sulled to form State government IL therefore put tho
decision whether Slavery should should exist in tho
territories exclusively IN the hands of those wno we're tnen
in the Territory and who of course not slayeho ers
Possibly they might be people whose minds were greatly
preuded against the institution. This being the oe1 VI
he dptffr "
recy the repeal the Missouri Prohibition, 20 allow
the people the Southern states equal nance Of going
TO these territories with their property Subsequently me
committee reported bill IN which incorporated
substantially his amendment. With that amendment ncor
porated in ID the bill would receive his hearty support. I'm
der the Missouri pohhiron would DO removed and tho
people of the South could there with their property
equal footing with ctzenof other aies and would have
equal voice IN deciding whether the state Constitution
should should not permit Slavery This provision had not
been put into the bill for any sinister purpose had been
imposed by tho Senator from Ohio II the duty of the
committee when they reported BILL aud found incomplete
detective to take TO make perfect The
mittee acting upon the high principle of doing eqaa
cc to the people of all sections of the country had pro
posed to nd their bill al to accomplish that end The
Missouri Compromise made unjust discrimina ion
against the STAKEHOLDER 10 his right to carry his property
into the territory This prohibition tho Committee had
proposed 10 repeal They who proposed not slave
holders they men, who acting the great principle
Of equal Justice to e had proposed TO remove an unjust
and injurious prohibition because il unjust and be-
vas in direct conflict with tho principles Of tho
compromise act OF 1880 The committee, as well a. tho
vast minority of the people OF the United States in all
TONS believed that this prohibition Of the Missouri act
wrong and inconsistent with the pr ncples Of the
cOmpro mike OF 1850 and ought t. be repealed lilo
med Mr. MGsOns ncndment aud took tho view Of
it as Dir Douglas. lie referred to the Texas resolution.
aud the provision heren that States formed out Of her
territory north OF 80 so should be free and commended
that condition absolutely void. Congress had
power to impose condition upon any State tbs shosd
allow Slavery II had such power could DO
cised in New York well as in Texas. Did any be.
eye that Congress had the power require New YORK
allow Slavery And if not how could they that Con
gress had the power to require Texas u be free State
The State alone had this powGr by them only could il be
exercised New York other N ates had exercised the
power within their limits Of aboli-hng Slavery Congress
could not have done How could Congress then place
condition on States to be formed out Of Texas that they
should be either ree or slave He regarded the
Constitution as clearly protecting property, well
as person The Supreme Court hal decided that
Stakeholder had as much title TO his slaves any oIhr
properly the Constitution protected property,
where could Congress derive the power of prohibiting sly
particular kind of property from being carried the tor
riiores belonging in common 10 the whole peopsf IL
was said that slavery was an institution which ruin
Gus to the land and impoverished the people Ii this
sufficient To prohibit IT, why prohibit the cult.
walton OF tobacco which a crop that exhausted tho
land, aid out the soil The Senator from Ohio
had given as the reason for keeping Slavery Of the
territories, that it would prevent their settlement by
Northern people and foreigners from Europe. He thereby
Understood the Senator ia effect saying that to allow
slayehoders to setde ia the territories of North
EN- en or ioregnes wonId be moral pOut.ona species
Of moral treason. The Senator this view mast
60 further and admit that, in order 10 GLOW those tori
tories to be sett ny foreigner the people OF the S)uh
must be wholly banished fom the soil purchased AMI
qlrcd BY The common clOIts of the whole people II
allow people to 90 into these territories noces
sdry EXCLUDED foreigners he would say let them be- ex
cluGed The South asked bur equal rights and pdylege
and she to be deprived OF them because would
feTe With the notions Of European foreigners lie refer
red 10 the many comp LIANT. made egGins Slavery and
called upon those who denounced il suggest the rensly
for the evil Emancipation not the romeiy. Fms
social, moral and political condition OF blaeks
showed that the. freedom was but mOckery. Many Of
the free States by positive enactment excluded them from
their limits. Everywhere they degraded race the
AbotiOnists Themselves shrunk from admitting them 10
social equality lie proceeded al length 10 dlOw the i'm
loGDce Of Slavery the various interests VI the United
States, particularly TO manufactures Without Slavery,
these latter could no exist
Mr. WADE Ohio moved to postpone the bill till Mon
day. .
The vote upon this motion .,oOd-Ayes u.s. Noes - No
quorum.
Tie yeas and nays called snd the vote was-Yea'
90, Nays H.
Aftei an Executive session the Senate adjourned
ELECTION or GOVERNOR OF MAINE.
AUGUSTA, Ne, Saturday, Feb T. 1854
The Senate O. Name this day reelected Hon Mt Crosby
Wbigl Governor The vote It od-CEosby Is, Mprdl.
Dem Is Crosby received the votes OF Wnigs aniI
PiLbury Demodais'
4ARlNE DISASTER.
NORFOLK, Saturday Fec T. EST
TIE schooner Lawrence Waterbury Craner. bOIad rom
pal..r,ora New York with coal Ashore in Lyn1