Washington sentinel., 1854-04-29
C0ngrfssi0nal.
THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
FIRST SESSION.
Senate.-Friday, April %, 1854.
The Senate was not in session to-day.
House Of Representatives.


Mr.. ORR, feom the Committee on Indian AZ
fairs, repore'ka bill authorizing the Pres ident OF
the United States 10 cause 10 be surveyed tract
of land in the Territory of Minnesota, be longing
TO the halfbreeds or mixed boods OF the Dacoia
or Sioux nation of Indians, and for other pur-
poses. Referred 10 the Committee of the Whole
on the state of the Union.
PUBLIC LANDS.
The House resumed the consideration OF the
bill granting lands to the several States for inter
nal Improvement and educational purposes.
Mr.. RODGERS addressed the House as 70 what
disposition should be made of our vast puphc 40
main In his opinion, gross injustice mas peen
done TO the old States, and he very much feared,
from the course indicated during this session. that
no change of policy can be elected whcn s. - any
the older members of the confederacy. lie said
that he was in favor OF distributing the lands
among all the States according TO their federal
representation in Congress ana this, he contend
ed would be constitutional, just, and proper
This gentleman having finished his remarks,
MrxEDGERTON moved that the House re-
solve itself into Committe of the Whole on the
Private Calendar.
the House adjourn il adjourn TO Monday next.
The question was taken and decided in the af-
frmative--yeas 75 nays "a.
PERSONAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
The House resolved itself into Committee of
the Whole on the state of the Union, Mr.. CHAND-
LER in the Chair, and took up the bill making APP
preparations for supplying deficiencies for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1854.
Mr.. GIDDINGS rose to make personal expla-
nation, and stated his intention TO reply 10 remarks
which fell yesterday from Mr. Smith, of Virginia.
He alluded, incidentally, to the late John Quincy
Adams, with whom he had the honor 10 be on
terms of personal friendship 1t was in 1871 that
Mr.. Adams, in an address TO the colored people OF
Pittsburg, told them the Time would come when
justice would be done TO them, and that their re-
dempton would be consummated. Some were
apprehensive that he meant it would come IN
blood, when Mr.. Adams said Let justice be done,
though the heavens fall.n The fame of that dis
tinguished statesman was beyond the puny arm OF
the gentleman from Virginia.
In the remarks yesterday, the gentleman de-
clared: "Who does not know that the gentleman
from Ohio, Mr.. GIpDINGs.l when was in Con-
gress, some years ago, offered resolutions which,
in effect justified negroes in numbering the wives
and children of their masters ~
Now, the gist of them was, that when slaves are
taken without the jurisdiction of slave laws, they
became free under the law of nature, and have a
right TO assert their freedom wherever they are.
There is not State in which the courts have not
proclaimed the doctrine, and in this connexion he
instanced that of Louisiana
MIR. PERKINS remarked that such was the de-
csion under the Louisiana law, practically, be-
fore the abolition excitement commenced, but af-
ter that law was passed directly the reverse.
MIR. GIDDINCIS replied that did not matter ;
the principle stands. He could go back for hun
dreds of years to show the decisions OF the courts
have been, that where slave has left the Jurs-
diction which held him as such he was free. The
vote of censure, which the gentleman referred TO
as having been passed upon him, was not because
the sentiment in the resolutions were not untrue
but because he dared to proclaim them Ill this
House.
Mr.. PERKINS remarked the decision in Lou
isiana was not 10 the effect of the genleman's s
resolutions.
Mr.. GIDDINGS said the gentleman mistook.
He understood the decision in Louisiana better
than did the gentleman from that State. He then
referred to what he stigmatized as the infamous
vote" the House against him, and OF his re-eiec-
tion 10 Congress. Wings and democrats COM
bined to send him back here. He would tell the
gentleman from Virginia that he Mr. SMITH had
mistaken his position here. He was not on the
plantation, with the masters whip, TO nourish II
over him.
Mr.. GIDDINGS, in further reply to Mr.. SMITH,
said he had not feared to repeat during every Con-
gress, the sentiments for expressing which the
House once directly censnred him. He accused
Mr.. SMITH Of resorting to falsehood, and Of having
fabricated misrepresentation in his sterile brain.
Mr.. TAYLOR. Of Tennessee, rising to a ques-
ton of order said he believed in the freedom of
speech, butihought that deliberative body otthis
kind should be governed by the rules OF decorum.
(Cres of" Too late, - go on.D
Mr.. GIDDINGS, after few additional remarks,
took his seat.
Mr.. SMITH, of Virginia, by consent of the
House, replied, saying that they had had an intel
cctual and interesting display. truly characteristic
of the member from Ohio. They had heard him
making use of language found not in the vocabu-
larry of gentlemen, not derived from genteel asso.
Citations, but such could only have been learned
by association with free negroes.
He said that the member from Ohio had sub
stantaliy admitted to-day the truth OF what he Mr..
SMITH uttered yesterday. He had referred TO
that member as an illustration, and had no occa-
sion to misrepresent him lie then read from
a.. e ta pf ahrna W
1914, 10 show that John Quincy Adams, in reply
to Mr.. Dillet, said as to the abolition of slavery,
whether it was to be peaceably or by blood, God
only knew, but that il should bc accomplished he
had not doubt but, by whatever means, :. let II
come" Mr. Adams was willing that 1t should
come, even at the expense of the blood Of the en-
tire slaveholding section of this Union. This was
moral treason and an outrage against the Constr
tuition of the republic, and finds response IN the
breast Of no man except that of the member from
Ohio.
The member too, had boasted This good nature,
when, by his remarks, he showed the maignity OF
s a cowardly fend.
After replying TO other portions OF Mr. GID,
DINGss speech, he spoke of the resolutions offered
by the hrst-named-the resolutions which pro-
voked the censure Of the House upon him-and
said that even Mr.. HORACE EVERETT, trom the
cold green hills, political associate of Mr.. GID
DINGs,) who rose and asked to be excused from
voting wishing that occasion, to express his
deep adherence of The frebrand which had come
from the gentleman from Ohio. When the mem
Der could thus provoke such condemnation from
one who was engaged in common political cause
with himself, what must have been the damnation
ofthe act Sufficient 10 say, amid the howling
storm which he provoked in this hall by his foul
and atrocous conduct. he asked if he had power
10 withdraw his resolutions; and when he was
informed that he had, he skulked, by Withdrawing
them.
The resolution which was passed by the House
censured him for offering measure embodyinS
rapine and murder, and the House agreed TO II by
vote Of two 10 one.
Mr.. SMITH reviewed the conduct of Mr.. GID-
DINes showing that the last-named had continually
been advocating boodshed in connexion with the
abolition Of slavery; and alluded, in sarcastic
terms, 10 the course generally of the gentleman
from Ohio
In conclusion, he said " ! appeal 10 northern
gentlemen, in the name of God and the country,
TO give us our equal rights, and we OF the south
shall never have word of complaint"
THE personal explanations" occupied up
wards OF an hour and half; and the reporter
has merely presented a few points in the contro-