Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-04-22
ANOTHER REBUKE OF BLACK REPUBLlCANlSM :
THE SPURIOUS MEMORIAL AGAIN BROUGHT
FORWARD AND AGAIN REJECTED.

ANOTHER REBUKE OF BLACK REPUBLICANlsM =
THE SPURIOUS MEMORIAL AGAIN BROUGHT
FORWARD AND AGAIN REJECTED.
The entire session of the Scnap. on Monday was
consumed bv q most animated aud interesting debate
which invoived the reception Of paper that was
presented n the original Of the spurious copy when
was thrown out of the Senate on Thursday last Oy
only three dissenting votes. Mr. iiariah "lereu
p.tition from Colonel D. II. Lane which purportcd to
make exhibits of the original memorial and OF the
copy before rejected asking the Senate on these TO
grant the prayer of the petitioners aud appending
thereto affidavit: OF his own i'll explanation OF the
circums tnnces under which the copy WAS made and
presented to the Senate. Mr.. Harlan accompanied
his motion with long harangae which sounded very
much like funeral Oration in which he detailed III
very eulogs,ic terms Colonel Lanes private aud
public services political partisan and military, giving
him quite as much credit for his eminent exploits a.
q democratic partisan rs for achievements as AL
officer IN the .Hexicgn war. The apology tor this
biographical sketch WAS, that IN the proceedings o
IN. Senate on Thursday last insinuatlons and lmpu
tations were made to the spurious character Of the
memorial that Col Lane had procured Gen. Cass TO
present, which reflected inurIousy upon his r'pua
ijuu Mr.. Harlan seemed IN SUPPOSE that man who
had heretofore been good democrat, aud 40
chvalrous soldier could not be guilty of attempting
! Ia smuuule into the Senate a forged paper. lie
thought the explanation of Colonel Lane, verified by
his affidavit was entirely satisfactory, and asked that
the petitinn be received and referred to the Committee
on Territories He was interrupted and rebuked very
poIptadly i'm the course of his remarks by Messrs.
luyh Touc.y and Cass, TO all of whom he attributed
remarks in regard t6 Calonel Lane which they had
no, made. HIS apology for the misrepresentation
was that Mr. Butler had asked in the debate on
Thursday who Colonel Lane was and that, neither
Mr.. l'ugh nor Mr.. Toucey nor General Cass made
any response 10 Mr.. Butler he inferred from their
silence that hoy endorsed the impu'aons of others
| Oh Col. Lanes conduct. Mr.. Butler requested MI
Iarlan in very pointed language no, again To under
take tn state his position an issue which he could
not understand, aud then explained that his question
had reference entirely To the official character il,
which Col. Lane came forward TO thrust into the
Senate spurious memorial
Mr. Douglas followed III one OF the happlest efforts
of his Senatorial career liz said it much to Col
onel Lanes credit that he had been brave officer IL
Mexico: that he had been Democrat and had voted
for the Nebraska bill but all this did not prove tha
the memorial he brought forward was not spurious
II he had fallen from grace and apnstatized from DE
nucracv he had only done what Blair and DoEels"i
had done and he did not suppose that The fact tina
they We're once Democrats was any reason why
their present conduct should not be criticised al,
/ condemned.
, Mr.. Douglas took up the original and compared i
, with what purported To be acopy-the same that WA
rejected on Thursday. He showed that three page
ut the original were omitted in the copy, and thoa
three pages placed the action of the pretended Iope
ka Legislature on The distinct ground that Congress
had no power 10 give territorial government Il
Kansas that the organic law passed by Congress
nuility, and that the proceedings of the Tope
. ka party were cOntesscdly revolutionary. He show
ed that this one vi the main POINTS of dispute be
= tween him aud Mr.. Collaner in their REPORTS aud 1t
. charged iha, the original memorial had been altered
, and those three pages suppressed because they ss
4. tanned h,s side OF the dispute, aud condemned that
Mr.. C"l!a;nec. The copy, on the contrary, admitted
the power of Congress t" pass the organic law, ant
represented the menuriulists humble suppliant
for the interpuston oi Congress tn relieve them iron
), oppression. He asked, with emphasis, if it did uu
- look like forgery 10 suppress vital portion OF III
" original document aud then present rs copy papc
- which conveyed wholly different view of the que>
- ton,
Mr.. Douglas then pointed to the fact that the orig
M bad no signatures, date and not ates tailor
except the affidavit of Coluuel Lane, which wa
made since Thursday last He pointed to the furthe
fact that the copy written on paper used III tn
!. House of Representatives. whilst the original wa
}, on Massachusetts. made paper He alluded to othe
n circumstances going 10 show that the original ha
II been altered and erased and modified since the LAT
debates in the Senate in order avoid certain pos
tons which had been exposed in the discussion, an
that the copy made after these erasures and aiera
tons. He insisted that paper marked with frau
ought not to be received by the Senate, and that
was now more apparent than ever thst the copy wa
I properly thrown out on Thursday.
Mr. Wade followed, aud excused Colonel Lane TO-
making the erasures on the groqud tba, the Topek
legislators were III bury when they adopted thu
memorial-that the argumentative portion was su