The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-27
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HIGHLY INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON.
TIE TERRITORIAL APPOINTMENTS.
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Discussion on the Slavery Question in the
Senate.
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Debate on the $40, 100000 Bill In the house.
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\ THE SPEECH OF MR. BENTON,
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a,BzRTY-TfaiRD CONGRESS-
FIRST SESSION.


FIRST SESSION.
Senate.
WASHINGTON, June %, 1854
REPEAL Or DUTY ON RAILROAD IRoS-MR BELLS BUDGET
Mr. BELL, (whig) of Tenu, presented series OF reso
utions OF the Legislature Of Tennessee favor of re-
peal Of the duty railroad from in favor Of the Pa
;hc Railroad: in favor Of constructing levee on the
past bank Of the Mississippi in favor of granting pen
ons to the surviving soldiers of the war of 1872 in ia
gor of granting land to tho Tenne see mouated youn
aeers Of the war of 1872 and in Of making the
same allowances for the lost in the Mexican war as in
ether wars. Also in favor Of cheap ocean postage
\ TIDE SLAVE TRADE AND SLAVERY IN UNrTED STATES
Mr.. CiaYTos, (whig), of Del from the Committee on
foreign Relations, reported bill for the more efectual
surerssion Of the slave trade American Quilt vessels
The bill provides that whenever any Am ricau regis
eIed sup or vessel SHALL in whole part he sold 10
tzen Of tho United States at any foreign port or place
10 North or South America, in West ndies in Cape de
Of sale shall be utterly void unless IL shall be
IN the presence OF the Minister Consul of the United
states and shall contain express condition that such
sale shall not be valid in such vessel shall make
voyage to Africa before aeturnipg the United States
ana obtaining new register Any citizen of the United
hat she is to be employed in the African slave trade
r that she s to visit the coast of Africa before return
Dg to the United States, or shall charter such vessel
or sucn voyage, SHALL on conviction thereof In
United States court be fined ten thousand dollars and
le imprisoned for three years. Every charter Of an
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ent that such vassel shall be employed in the slave
raee, and every sale of an American vessel
end ~ .me mrsa coast OF Africa, unless she be duly
Information being given as to the violation Of this sc
trmer eive half of such as may be recov
sed All vessels engaged in violation of his act be
seyer may have lodged the Information Leading to the
condemnation.
three provides that every owner or agent Of an
icqn Seals fba
ereof SHALL at the time of the execution of such an in
srument of sale, make oath before the United States
tie ricen slave trade which oath ehall transmitted
T. the State Department; and if any such oerson shall
iar falsely be shall be deemed guilty OF perjury and
b liable to all its pains and penalties.
mr CLAYTON explained the BILL and said 1t had received
tie unanimous approval Of the committee
Mr. CHASE Gree sei of Ohio gave notice that to NOR
rw he would ask leave to introduce bill to prohibit
dsvery in the Territories Of the United States.
citizens Of op OF Mr.
Fuguiye Slave law, was taken no.
Hr JONES (whig) Of Tenn, said that he had design
to call in question the motives Of the Senator had
presented the petition He had fault to dne with the
exercise Of the right of petition 1t the right of
He would go say that believed was the
right Of his Satanic Majesty to up petition
Seen But Il % mo r0% anu S s
that petitions were to be judgeo So IT, in sending up
that hs n bs be
infamy than that to which he had already been con-
signed If this petition now before the Senate be sent
thither proper motives and for proper purposes 1t
euted all respect II it be sent hither for the pur
pose of mischief and to produce strife then it deserves
the contempt of every good This was not the first
petition Of this character sent here and had this come
unattended with striking circumstances giving 1t the
color Of treason he would not have n9s,ceG ~ But a.
that il part of the plan Of operations Of those with
whom agitation and repeal are watchwords. He had
the prayer Of this petition and it had only found four
Senators who would give the sanction of their to
were the result Of the passage Of the b and the
repeal of the Missouri compromise He did not believe It,
1t the result Of combination OF those will'g TO
take in any scheme to break down the stitution
of the United States and place the South under degra
da and humiliation. 1t from city where the
laws openly set at defance-where the temple of
Justice was surrounded by mob prevent the
execution ou-gnst tuonal duty-where treason stalked
broadly thrch the streets at MONDAY and where the
officers of the law butchered The petition came
from such people and from such place. following in
medatey upon these events Was be not right In sup
posing this petition got at such time, had in view
no of public interest 1t came from Bos
ton where the dust OF the Gs and the LAST martyrs in
mingled together. he then called attention to ad
dress published in the Intesencer Of the I'D instant
said to have been adopted at meeting OF the members
of Congress opposed to the Nebraska BILL The simulta
appearance of this document with this petition
hight induce the belief that like birds Of omen and
perturhed spirits they desired companion hip in
which adopted this extraordinary address was most
irregular 1t was secret, and no man save the
had been bold enough to their connection with It,
He would rejoice II they had the manlness to come for
ward and let the country know who they who had
given sanction to this paper 1t to be expected they
would do 30 and that would be bastard enough
TO himself from responsibility by avoiding any
publicity vf his connection with the meeting. 1t vas
most carefully prepared paper. did not say the
bers OF Congress- opposed to the Nebraska BILL did il
say part Of them, but 1t said meeting composed Of
the members of Congress-. Who thcyY How many
were they The address signed by three persons
It pnry be said that these we're all who were there HI
had Euou tn IN
respectable composed only Of chairman and secretaries
and whose only claim to arpeness consisted in the phys
cal Of the chairman. SO far the chairmar
of this meeting considered IL might be idered
large eetn0 He could not believe that any mem
ber south woulo give the sanction Of his nam
to the st emtnss contained in that address. lie reat
the address, and its arguments upon the encroachmeot
by the slave power by its acquiions, and the designed
EXTENSION OF its upon the adoption OF the missouri
compromee ond the compIomie OF 1850 and the repea
q of the i,rmer &C., &c, &c. He commented upo
he was happy n the belief that not one Southern
man attended that meeting After reading the addres
he suggested TO its unknown author to abandon the bar
field Of political literature aud turn his thoughts
fhe richer field Of the works of fiction. The anthor
this address bids fair to rival the writer of the Araba
Nights entertainments Eugene Sue, Paul de Kock au
many Others who were prolific in works of fiction
He had never seen production which conaided in s
G the Gn sSsras ons S
the Nebraska bill, with covered design of making tn
Territories slave States, with annexng half doze
states Of Mexico, and making them slave with pantn
slavery on the Amazon with augmenting its powers
the acquisition of Cuba and Dominica and in time re
duciDg the North to abject submission. He called fo
the author Of this accusation II serious one,
which no gentlemen should make behind the maske
battery of a secret meeting. The author of
knew very well that had every Souther
Southern Senator been in his grave the Nebraska bi
could passed. II would have passed IL no southsr
Senator had voted for It, The whole charge fals
hood II wickedly, malciousy false. He could se
difference between the petition for the repeal OF h
Fugitive Slave law and the d sso, tion of the UnoI
There that believed the Union could be pt
served day after the repeal Of the Fugitive Sa'
law The South asked TO do wrong to the North
asked 20 preserve the constitution and give
our equality OF right He had been whig all his liz
He told now by the Northern wing OF that part.
that hereafter the test TO be applied to all wings was II
repeal Of the Nebraska act repeal OF guarantees an
equality to oil States given by the constitution.
This TO be the test given OF orthodoxy
the whig party, then he avowed himself a hertt
and suggested that against him now at once might
prepared the edict OF accommodations II TO tramp
on the rights OF any section or State was necessary c