Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-06-20

| VIZ EclulerSSOlIa4, Anu.J ~ e. 1897
Wis, j. 5Cogshall, Mich; w. J. Phelps;
Ill, twelve mall also by Rd. Clement.
Del, and G. d. Deshler. N. j., as to the
first clause. New York alone of=the free
States went for the majority report. Iowa
was not represented. Minnesota Territory
went with New York. as also the District
Of Columbia; and these with the united
South carried the majority report in COM
mittee.
The minority resolution is as follows:
RESOLVED, That the repeal of the Nilsson
4 ri Compromise was an iniraction of the
plighted faith of the nation. and that it
should be restored. and if efforts to that
end shall fail. Congress should refuse to
admit any State tOlerating slavery, which
shall be formed out of any portion of the
TERRITORY from which that institution was
excluded by that Compromise.
In the Council Mr.. Mallory, Of New
York. thought no discussion was needed.
He asked iusultingiy if any man there
would not succumb to the will Of the ma
Ijority ? Gov. Gardner. of Mass. took up
the gauntlet. and declared that neither
he nor his State, nor maj ,rity Of the
Free States would abide by the resolu,
lutions first reported. The party could
not carry village in Massachusetts upon
them. He charged the New York dele
cation with deserving the North, and Of
even going so far in doughfaceism as to
complain to the South that they were con-
ceding too much to the North.
Gov. Gardner made bold. earnest
speech. protesting against the resolutions
of the majority.
From the same source. we gave the
proceedings Of the following day, June
18th.
There has been a great debate all this
forenoon on the slavery question. 10
which Judge Hopkins. of Alabama. John
W. Foster, of Massachusetts, S. Squres.
of New York, Senator Wilson, of Massa-
chusetts. MIR. Morse, of Alabama, NJ. Ca.
rey, of Massachusetts. Mr.. Carback, Of
Indiana. and Mr.. Barber, of New York,
have participated. Judge Hopkins made
an elaborate. specious. legal argument
for slavery on the Calhoun ground tina,
the constitution carried slavery wher.
ever it carried its own supreme autho>
rity.
The speeches of Messrs Foster and
Wilson, of Massachusetts were given with
effect. They were directed largely against
the Northern doughGaces, and embraced
whitening exposition Of the sham pre-
tensions Of the New York delegates
Massachusetts comes here, said Genera
Wilson, with 10000 persons at her back
but these men Of the Empire State. have
nothing at their back but their clothes
VIM. Fl. Seward has his heels upon
their necks and will crush them out, SC
soon as the people get chance at them
They are AS impotcnt in influence as they
are beggariy in character. New York is
thoroughly Anti Nebraska. and has so ex.
bited herselfin her elections Of Congress.
men, and in the unanimous declaration
Of her Legislature. Mr.. Fosters speech
embraced some passages of great beauty
and effect. He spoke of Daniel Webster
OF his concessions to the South, which
then betrayed him. and turned him of
with not even the poor compliment of a
nomination for the Presidency Then il
was that the iron entered his great soul,
and he went home TO die Ii he, with his
great talents, his commanding reverence,
could not overcome and turn back the
anti-slavery feeling Of Massachusetts, can
deepened by fresh Southern orgies, and
stand up for moment, within her Dor
ders?
The speech OF Mr. Morse in defense oil
the Southern view was Ene one, and
that Of MIR. Camback was very effective.
He stood up boldly for the position of the
North. Mr.. @. is a young man, { about
26 years old formerly Democrat, and
Is elected to the next Congress from In.
diana on the Anti-Nebraska issue. He
has been prominent and very effective
here in concentrating true Northern feel.
ing, and stands lily upon the Massachu
sets platform. as do all Of his colleagues
MIR. Barker's speech was n bitter reply
to the attacks upon him from the Massa.
chusetts members. He undertook to car.
ry the war into Africa.
The debate goes on this evening. 1t
is believed the South will propose mild
er slavery platform as compromise with
the North. But it will not do. Nothing
short Of the substitution of the minority
Massachusetts, resolution will prevent an
explosion. The North grows SITTER and
sitter on that as an uItimatum.
Eight o'clock PM-The debate on
slavery has ragged all day with great We
hemence. On the part of the South it
has been conducted with much fearless
ness and power. Foster and Wilson, OF
Massachusetts, and Ford, OF Ohio, have
made magnificent speeches, showing the
imPossibility OF union on the majority
resolutions, denouncing the repeal Of the
Missouri compromise and demanding its
restoration. The New York delegates
have been riddIed fore and aft for their
doughfaceism. The South is cowed
completely, and the doughfaces are
thinning out wonderfully. Men here are
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