The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-07-03

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The bill establishing two additional land
| districts in Minnesota was passed.
| Mr.. Whitney introduced a bill TO preserve
peace and protect public property in Kansas.
Referred to the Committee on Territories.
| The consideration Of the bill authorizing the
| people of Oregon to form Constitution and
| State Government was then resumed.
! The Oregon bill was debated, and laid aside.
The bill explanatory of the act Of 1854, estab-
fishing additional land districts in Minnesota,
was passed. Adjourned.
Wednesday, June 25 1856.
SENATE
| Mr. Wilson presented the petition of the Off
GERS of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society,
setting forth the objects of that organization,
and stating that they have been much msrepre-
scented by the majority report of the Committee
on Territories. They say that this society was
not the cause of the troubles in Kansas having
! never iniringed any law nor interfered with the
peaceable execution Of the law They never
Invested one dollar IN the purchase of any mu-
nitions Of war; never sent out persons TO control
the elections in Kansas, nor hired any man. ex-
ccpt as business. agent, to go there. They
never paid the passage of a. sinnln4-1i- lusV'>Ni
is it within the knowledge o hem viii doubt thS
any person has gone out III
with any other view than Edwards IS what that MOI
i'll the Territory. 'oi?arn, IN The ps ala day
They also represent that thai literature This en-
been destroyed by recent outbreawey btrea,I simu
that the offenders may be brought TO ,vemi,e pr ri
and that compensation may be made ioid Wor
Losses they have sustained. The petition wasg
| referred to the Committee Of Claims.
! M johnson took exception TO some Of the
comments of Mr.. Seward Yesterday. on the con.
duct OF Mr.. Rust in assaulting Horace Greeley
some time ago.
! MIR. Seward Indicated the correctness of what
he had said according TO the facts, so far AZ
they were within his knowledge and recollection.
| He did not however at the time remember the
precise ground on which the assault was made.
| The House bill to change the time Of holding
the United States Courts in Tennessee was
passed.
| Mr.. Foster spoke on Kansas matters. He
alluded to the passage of the Nebraska bill.
about the hour of midnight On the 10Th Of Nav,
1901. lie proceeded to give a history of the
events that succeeded the passage of that bill.
| and spoke with earnestneSs in defence of the
Emigrant Aid Societies. He also vindicated
| Professor SilIiman, and Rev. Messrs. Beecher
and Dutton. The meeting at New Haven, in
! Mr.. DuttOns church, was to bid farewell 10
| their friends who were about TO leave for Kan
sas, and the arms furnished were merely for
seltdetence and it was a significant fact that
no one OF that party, who we're then furnished
with "Sharpe's rifles" had ever been engaged
| IN any OF the disturbances in that Territory.
| Professor Silliman has been connected with
! Yale College for fifty years, and, during that
/ time, no less than four thousand Young men
have been educated there-uo one of whom
ever received other than good influences from
! him. Mr.. Beecher the pastor of Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, was we'll known TO the coun-
try. He might have his failings and his eccen-
| 'ricties, but he aud his congregation were ever
to be found in the foremost rank in efforts to
amehorste the condition Of mankind Ifhe had
no stone cast at him except by those who had
done more than he has for the good Of HE race.
he would be much more likely to attain the
age OF Methuselah than to suffer the MARTYR
dom of st. Stephen.
Mr.. Foster went on to discuss the question
OF Slavery in the States and Slavery in the
Territories
Mr.. Benjamin expressed his qualification at
the tone and temper Of the speech of Mr.. Eos
ter, being so different from what he had beep
accustomed TO hear from those entertaining
such opinions on the subject of Slavery. The
question had been discussed in a manner emf
nently becoming Senator representing one of
the sovereign States of this Confederacy.
On motion of Mr.. Weller, the Kansas bill
and all the proposed amendments. were recon-,
mltted to the Committee on Territories.
Mr. Weller gave notice that he should move
to take up the wagon road bill to California, to
morrow.
After an Executive session, the Senate adj
journed,
HOUSE
The House passed the bin authorizing The
President to cause to be delivered, at the ex-
pensa OF the United States. to the Territories
OF Utah and New Mexico, such arms as thew
are entitled TO under the existing laws
The bill establishing two land districts IN
Kansas was tabled by 90 majority.
The House proceeded to the consideration Of
the bill, reported from the Committee on Terri
tories, for the admission of Kansas as a State
into the Union, with the Topeka Constitution.
Mr.. Grow said that, on the 18th of Nav
1894, an act was passed organizing Kansas as
a Territory. The census Of February. 1860
showed twenty five hundred aud five voters,
and at the election which chose the Legislature
which enacted the code of laws of Kansas. six
ty-three hundred and thirty-one voters. Those
laws the people believed were oppressive and
wrong; and, emanatng from usurpation OF LEXIS
tive power they are not bound by considera
uons OF Justice and right to submit to them.
Senator Clayton recently declared those acts to-
oe uhexampled, palpably unjust and oppres-
sve, and some of them unconstitutional be-
sides being insulting to honorable men who
might dllier from him on political questions
Mr.. stephens gave notice of his intention to
submit substitute for the BILL to guard against
all the evils OF which Mr.. Grow complained.
Mr.. Smith, Of Tennessee, believed thct both
sections have acted imprudently regarding the
Kansas difficulties, which are fast bringing into
dlsrepute the fair fame Of our Republic. The
President has done all in HIS power to prevent
instruction aud preserve the public peace, and
ne was grahied 20 know that the Executives
efforts were likely to succeed But Congress-
has done nothing, Notwithstanding the recon-
mendation OF the President, for the adoption Of
additional measures to secure TRANQUILITY.
Mr. Grow moved that the bill be reeomm;tted
to the Committee on Territories
Mr.. Dunn said he understood Mr.. Crows de.
sign was to prevent the bill from being sent 10
the Committee OF the Whole on the state of the
Union, " INT
Mr. Grow replied in the affirmative.
Mr. Dunn expressed the hope that q hill -.
Volving so many important princir,es xonld he
sent 10 the Committee of the Whole ON the sta,s
OF the mon, with view to the widest discus.
; Experience had shown that to be the
best place for that purpose.
MI grow sad that the gentleman from Penn
syl'anis anew as we'll as any man. that 10 send
the OIL to the Committee Of the Whole on the
state OF the Union was to kill it efectually. and
therefore 1t could not be effectually amended
Any man who should vote to send il there NIGH
as well vote against the bill directly.
The question was, whether the House yrae
ready to relieve the people of Kansas from Their
present oppression by admitting them as a Sto,a
WHAT right would thus be trampled down. a.
to the (Iovernor Nd rs