The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-12-25

separately or even Jointly, would be a sufficient
justification for a dissolution of the Union,
provided the progress of aggression woult]
certainly stop there. Among such eontingen.
cies he enumerated the exclusion of the Soutsj
from the Territories, the abolition of SLAYER
in the District of Columbia, the prohibition q
the interstate slave trade. &c. These woH
be grievous wrongs to the South, but if it coul
be warranted that the chapter of wrongs wouj
end with them, he might even continue to desire
the maintenance of our national Union. But
would they stop there ? he asked. Could the
momentum of a movement which had brought
about such results be resisted by tire barriers
of the Constitution For one, he did not be-
iieve it, and the reasons for his distrust this
point could be readily inferred by any one WHO
had watched the progress of Anti Slavery sentss
ment at the North. What that sentiment had
been, and what he feared it still was, as en-
bodied by the Republican party, he then pro-
ceeded to show by copious citations from the
speeches and letters of Mr.. Seward and Mr..
Wilson, the former of whom he compGmented
by emitting him the Ajax lebanon of Republi.
canism, while the latter was its Jupiter Tonans
Replying to remark of Mr.. Wilson, who
had spoken of "Slavery and Polygamy" as
the twin.sisters of Barbarism," he indignant
ly repealed the insult conveyed by thus coup
ling in the same moral category the slave
holder of Mississippi with his fifty slaves, and
the Mormon of Utah with his fifty wives. This
sort of calumnious denunciation, he said, must
cease, if it was to be expected that the North
and the South should live together as breth-
rem. And if las the Republicans now say)
the liberal sentiment of the Southern States
might be trusted, to bring about a gradual
emancipation of slaves within their borders, he
thought that desirable end was not very likely
to be fastened by such defamation of whole
people, because of domestic institution inner
tied from their fathers. In reply to Mr.. Fes.
sender, of Maine, who had charged the South
with making constant demands on the North,
he declared that the reverse seemed to him the
true statement of the case. The attitude of
the South was wholly detensire, and the de-
mands of her people might all be summed up
in three words-Let as alone.
At this point, the voice and physical strength
of Mr.. Brown gave way, much to the visible
regret of all on both sides of the Senate, aud
to which Mr.. Seward was the first to give eS-
preston, by proposing that the honorable Sea-
ator should he allowed to resume his speech
to-day; which offer, however, Mr.. Brown felt
obliged to decline, in consideration of the pres
sure of public business on the Senate; and, as
he had finished all his remarks which might be
considered Of personal nature, (by the criti-
csms he had made on the arguments and 70
sitions of certain Republican Senators,) BE
would prefer to send the residue of his speech
to the public press, without further OBTAINING
the Senate.
HOUSE
The resolution of Mr.. Washburn, of Maize,
calling upon the President for q statement of
the expenditures in Kansas to marshals AID
other officers, in arresting persons charg I'd
with violation of the laws, was passed br a
decided vote. The Rev. Daniel Waldo as
reelected Chaplain of the House. A reso5u-
ton offered by Mr.. Clingman, explanatory of
the joint resolution of 1855, creating the rank
of Lieutenant General, was passed by vote
of 1873 to 81. This will give General Scott the
increased pay and emoluments decided to be
his due by an opinion of the Attorney Gene}a l.
Mr.. 81. Marshall, of kentucky, made an iEef-
fectual motion to suspend the rules, for the IT.
pose Of bringing the House to an early cons i'd
Grafton of bill to establish a uniform rule. of
naturalization. A joint resolution was moved
by Mr.. Broom, of Pennsylvania, to adjourn The
two Houses, from this day to the 5th day of
January but before the question was taken
on suspending the rules, the House adjourn ID,
at near four o'clock.
Tuesday, December %, 1856.
SENATE