New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-03-11
rRON IYASIfINGTON.
TIE MASTERS IL THE HOUsE.
TJitolai c ssrefronlsues Of TIE Tf.ba-e- -e
W,snrSGToX. Friday, March 100


Hona uan with human sensibiiiie' ana Ia II
in an upright, b,nignAnt God should con'ent 20 De
i porgtface, IS puzzle which viii no. pretend
to go7e. OFce- honors, JOBS, and oil The oaser
tro,h.e. OF 4 worldly aud ignoble success must
poorly compensate for the consciousness oil OeinR
seryi,or and iackal to system 20 essentially IN
;ouitous and Injurious 20 sll Interested as Human
Bondaqe Is snd must be. But can comprehend
the fascination Of slayeholdiDg--oi the sense Of
ownership and absolute control over scores Of ao-
iect obsequious dependents. The Shareholder
chasing woman with blOodhol nds 10 compel her
TO work for his pleasure and profit for the residue
a. She hs. for the past portion of her life does not
command the affection hardly the admiration OF the
J;sinterqsted behoder; but he has habit, education,
tradition to plead in his behalf; Whist passes in his
section for religion also besses and cheers on the
hunt. | can make great allowance for his errors;
would bbe to compare notes and reason OUT our
grounds of difference, and am not disguised even
when he proposes instead the arbitration OF the
bludgeon or bo1ie-knfe. The unlimited DONNA
ton Of the stronger force being the inevitable Is"
of Slavery. how shall blame him for tendency
TO appeal 10 its stern logic Blame HIM, II V"
must for being stakeholder; not, being SUCH Tor
acting accordingly. He has thousand excuses
where the Doughface has never one.
We have here what ought to be Free-Soil House
that is. q majority of its Members were elected
under the confident expectation that they would
stand frmy opposed at least to the Extension OF
Slavery. especially into Kansas. We have, by nine
weeks arduous effort, obtained Northern Speak
er by plurality vote, and an organization OF the
Committees not unfavOrable to Freedom. One OF
those Committees-the first in Order-has, IN the
discharge of its duties found itself obliged to pro-
cure important testimony from Kansas, and has ap-
ped 10 the House for the needful power. Had a
slaveholdnc Committee asked this power of any
House that has been seen here for the last thirty
years. il would have been granted as matter oil
course But the majority of the Committee max
ing the request is composed Of the SIX Members
from Free States, the three shareholders DIS
sentine and Directing to the proposed investlga-
tion-not in this way merely, but in any way. They
want no such q ripping up as is demanded OF Nan
sas elections and the way they have been carried.
And. since the Shareholders don't want such an in
fcSil-ANlou' IL ID "h ''NN N@A"NSN
House will allow II.
The House for once, yesterday refused TO adjourn
over On a Southern moton-Mr. MORGAN of our
State and several Others calling the Yeas aud Nays
thereon and defeating the motion
BIaior OLIVER of Missouri the immediate KEEP
reseptatiye Of the OppressOrs of Kansas, had the
floor for this morning. He was elected as Wing,
but has very naturally voted with the Nebraska
Democracy on every question, and is one OF their
members of the Committee Of Elections. OF
course he was most abusive Of Reeder, and OF
course be protested against any inquiry by Congress
into the Legislative election of last March, wherein
the Missourans subugated Kansas; yet the state
ments of bis speech tended strongly to establish
the proprety and necessity of such investigation.
He did not even pretend that the Election was
fairly held-on the contrary, his speech made it
more shameful and outrageous farce than it has
ever been proclaimed He asserted that, as he
went up the Missouri on his way home from Con-
gress last Spring he fell in on the ste imbOat with
lots of Eastern people going to Kansas, and in
conversation he ascerained that they were hurryng
hther at that Indictment season in order to vote at
the Election Just at hand. And he went on to
make out partly by direct assertion, partly by in
situation, that they simply went thther, voted, thus
paying the expense of their long journey, and
then wheeled about and hied to their Eastern
homes again. Thus, he would have it believed the
MissOurans were provoked into going over In bat
talons [when organized and sweeping all before
them at that election.
70 - TO noaoihta that wont
to Kansas from Eastern States last Spring who
were somehow disappointed in the country, or did
lot find such employment or location as suited
them and so grew hOmesck and left at an early day
never heard of an instance of this, but such are
constantly occurring in all new countries. OF
course if such had gone thither in good faith in sea-
son to be voters on the Both of March, they had a
right to vote that day, although they soon after
became discontented and left. There may have
been dozen such cases in the Territory, though
don't believe there were.
But Msjor Oliver, though he tried to give the
House the impression that Eastern men went to
Kan.as last Spring on purpose to vote and then
leave, is not fool enough to believe any such thing.
He knows very well that, with Iowa so handy,
there was no need of sending to Massachusetts,, or
even to New York, for men to visit Kansas vote
and come away. Every such vote must have cost
$50; who was to pay it, Why send more than
a thousand miles for such voters, when as good
Free-State men could be found within two hum
dred? Yet he told this monstrous story, eked out
with what some utterly unknown person was over
heard to say on this Missouri steamboat or on that
az if he srlnnosed somebody would credit it.