New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-26

Kansas" thoushi hcn thss II v0 2 degradation
which had reached tie pFoiou.1est dePns o. oao'ns
hare in the National capal In that procession wncn
ns,sed along these avenues but few evenings Before
We came here's procession formed under me lmmedI.
ate ewes of the chiefs Of the executive dspatmes u
the Goyerpmept and filed With their retainer led by
Government. offcials-was borne upon tansparency
the words, Sumner and Kansas-let them bleed
WORD FOR Mr.. CAss.
listened the other day with surprise aud pam ~ tne
sIuson made by the venerable Senator rom MsnSsn
Mr Casl TO my colleague Mr. Samner), whoee forced
absence from this body Tor the last seven months mus
have /. ucbed the ssnsbti, of every honorable man
In America Sir he il not here 10 speak FOR htnself.
II he were here bis physical condition such tina. ne
could not SPEAK for himself vi safety; but he viii
come here again IL God in bis providence shall restore
him 70 health by the almost unanimous voice oil ms
native State 10 whose cherished sentiments and opn
ions he has been true. He may not come until The ser
which now knows the venerable Seaator from Micni-
gan shall know HIM no more. The venerable ccaa.or
eiires from this body by tae nexorabe decree OF the
people of his adopted State know my colleague weil
enough however 70 know that he is too magnanimous
| TO huTl shaft at the absent.
THE OLD LANDMARKS
The Senator from South Csrolina told us some days
ago that in the Revolution when the Government was
first framed they all patriots they d'd nor qua
rel over these sectional! questions The SenAIor ron
Texas think held the same language nat we OF tns
deoensrste ace were raising these sectional Questions
I would ask these Senators who forced these issues
| mon ne ! In l774 when the old Congress met and
framed the Articles Of Association the seS'nd srce
forced upon the Colonies by The policy OF me BRUSH
Government That prohibition ot the slave trade was
sustained by the North and by the South even Soath
Carolina indoreeo t. Ia l7s7 when your Constfutlon
was framed we of the North were not responoie Tor
tho existence Of slave anywhere under tue suorty
of Congress. Most OF the Northern States ha1 taken
measures in favor o. or tending 10 emanciPau'h IL
their States When the Constitution was framed tnere
was not man in America who believed t1at the cea OF
| property in man, to use the words Of Mr. Madison,
| wss embodied in that CoDsttution When washing
ton entered ueon his duties Presdent there wa, no
| action Of toe National Government which IN sde the
% ope of Massachusetts, or of any State responsoe
for Slavery any where ou,de of their Own ufsdieton
Were prescribed then who held the views that we
on this side Of the Chamber now bold No Sir; the
| men who promulgated the Declaration OF lndepea-
| dence; who carried us through the Revolunon; VINO
framed the Constitution Of the United States ana VINO
held the first offices, all men opposed to slavery
| Washington was President He had declared toat no
| man in America was more in favor OF the Abolition OF
| Slavery than himself and his vote should never be
wanting to effect that object. John Adams mad de-
cared that consentipg to Slavery was sacrllegious
| breach of trust Thomas jefferson had proclaimed,
over and over again, his views in favor OF emaacipa-
ton that the abolition OF Slavery was the nrst oo-
| iect of DESIRE
| Alexander Hamilton removed from the Pfesl:
dtncy of an Abolition Society in New. York to the head
| of TIE United States Treasury. John jay was taken
| from en- Abolition Society ia New York and male
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ofthe United States
vet be had proclaimed 10 the world that our prayers
| 10 Heaven would be wpious until we abolished
Slavery. Iedei Of North Carolina, had decar. q that
| when the abolition OF Slavery took place 1t would De
an act pleasr ell generous minds, aud he ~as made
Judge of the Supreme Court. Wilson, OF Penosylva.
MIA in the Convention for the adoption OF The Federal
Cor stitution had avowed the doctrine tnat the ne"
States were TO be under the authority of Congress, aud
that Slavery would never 20 there and yet he, ZOO,
was placed on the bench OF the Supreme Court Gou'
yeIbeur Norris who sent abroad to Represents this
country declared Slavery to be nefarious institution
| Madison Sherman Ellsworth, Gerry Patrick Henry
all the great men of the country, North and South,
with the exception Of few tlreeaers IN Soutn caro-
lin and Georgia held the doctrine then that Slavery
was local institution, existing oply by the force o.
local law; that the National Government had 10 con
nection with it, and that it was an institution which
would pass away before CHER civil cation and our
purer Christianity. All we AK of you is carry
| bask and place us where we stood when we made the
| Constitution and insugurated the Government Then
we not responsible for the existence OF slavery
anywhere on earth outside of our own COmmonweaths
| fASATISsI
| Cas-. your eye over the North; take New England,
| with her che bunered and fifty thousaud popular ma
jorty aga MT your candidate take the great State OF
New-York; take the whole line of Northern States;
and when you LOOK at tbem remember shat We havea
large plurality in all of them except IN small portion
included within abont forty thousand square miles of
territory and that We intend TO burn oses IN tho mex
| four Yeas. I allu1e to Eastern aud Central Pepnsy
vsLia, Southern Indiana southern Illinois, and small
portion of New jersey. There mean TO discus, The
Question and have il well and clearly defined ard un
! deIstood The rect of the North is ours II you be-
Geye that the people sre ia atis or that Their leles
deceive fbem remember one thing, that IN 1917 taere
were in the United States nesry eight bundled thousand
free persons above twenty years Of age who cont not
reed or write. Only ninety four thousand out Of this
eight bur drcd thousand happen to 1--we 10 the States
| which Fremont has carried. Remember another
thing that the State Of Massachusetts,, which you
rider utrs-a people 20 easily deluded-prnt,, with
| in few Thousand and circulstes more newspapers
within the State, than all the fifteen Southern States OF
| the Union. Remember they have more volumes in
their public libraries than all the Slave States Re
member they give away more money to the Bible aud
Missionary and other Benevolent Societies every year
than the entire slavshoIdDg States; and they have
done 80 during the ls.t quarter Of century.
| The "sEcTIOHALIsrs.
Senators nothing sectional in the constitution
| of the committees of this body. When tina. subject
was referred to few days since, the Senator f.Om
Alabama mr. Clay told US taat in the House OF Rep
resentaives where the Republicans have the Speaker.
there the South was prescribed On the committees.
have examined those committees, and find that OF the
twelve important committees, consisting Of one hun
ord and eight members, fifty Of them are Southern
have looked Of the eleven important committees Of
this body and find thu: the Republicans have nine
ont Of sixty five members. did not expeo. anything
very liberal in the formation of the committees The
SenL.or from Mary land Mr. Pe.rce) brought 10 the
country, referred to the Republican party motley
aIlisnce," "pernicious party end he spoke Of
its leaders as mad agtators, men Of famed pas
| siors' and perverted judgment" He e!s,scd the
Ser ator from New York and myself among the lead.
trs Entertaining this opinion Of the party aud Of its
leaders, could not be expected that he would be over
| generous As the Senator'S stare seems u have
paid but little heed to his denuncsons Of the Repub
csn party and its leaders am sure We can be equally
indifferent to his censures.
KANSAS AS SLAVE STATE.
Senator's desired 10 know how We should vote
the admission Of Kansas . slavehOldDg STATE
answer, for myself if Kansas applies for admission
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