The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-04-15

received Dy the SENATE ana tn ~ was now more apparent
than that the copy was properly thrown out on
Thursday.
Mr. Wade followed and excused Colonel Lane for making
the the ground that the Topeka Legislators
in hurry when they adopted the memorial-thai
the argumenlatie portion supehuou and therefore
Colonel Lane had right to strike it as unnecessary
He could nothing wrong in this the contrary, he
thought IL his duty to lop of the three pages
He thought the objections the paper
mere pettioggng arguments. Mr. Wade spoke under
much excitement and manifested strong determination
make the issue boldly and feaessy in the presidential
election
Mr. Pugh had wished avoid the discussion of the Kan
question this collateral issue but be constrained
to reply to of the remarks Of his colleague r.
Wade) He pointed out the erasnres, alterations, and
changes in the paper and showed that the parts stricken
indicated that the discussions in the Senate had been
heard and the changes made to suit the results He bad
cast reflections Colonel Lane Thursday but he
said with energy and emphasis that however good dem
ocra he had been he ceased 70 be when he joined the
black republicans. He read from the parliamentary law to
show that the petition not such the Senate ought to
receive He said there purpose of agitation to ad
vance, there senator present who would vote to
ceve such paper He pointed out several passages in the
document which grossly abusive of the President and
said that the Senate could not consistently with its char
acte receive memorial containing such offensive matter
Mr. Hale undertook to evade the points made by insist
ing that it was only petition Of Col Lane to have the
matters of mputation against him inquired into. Mr.
Jones, of Tennessee exposed this trick Of Mr. Hale by
reading and commenting upon the prayer Of the
rial He showed that it device to get into the Sem
ate paper which had already been kicked out and it
more insulting the Senate than the first attempt
Mr. Biger further exposed Mr. IIaes device by asking
him. if the memorial referred to the Committee on
Territories proposed by Mr. Harlan, whether the
mttee would report the admission of Kansas according
to the prayer or the explanation Of Col Lane his
mpeached conduct in offering spurious paper Mr.. Hale
could give no satisfactory answer to the question Mr.
Toucey showed that 1T was device to introduce again
the memorial and for the that senators the
other side felt pressed by the discussion that took place
Thursday. #.' aH" NJ H"
Mr. Wilson did not feel pressed by anything connected
with the Kansas question, but he complained bitterly that
Mr. Douglas applied to him and his friends the opprobrous
terms black republicans and aboitonsts though he would
not shrink from those lie entered fully into the
debate and exhibited great earnestness and bodness in
predicting the final triumph of his party He pointed
utngly the increase Of his party In the Senate and be
thought the time distant when they would have
both branches of Congress and the White House He au
ded the that the first Kansas and Nebraska bill
tanned clause for the repeal of the Missouri line and
charged that this change in the bill forced Mr..
Douglas by Gen Atchison whom he characterized the
chiefan of the border ruans He made these charges
upon what he said speech of Gen. Atchison dey-
cred in Missouri He declared his readiness to accept the
Kansas issue and in the midst of his excitement he pro-
claimed that he would survive the conflict and fight
other day. He alluded to the remark attributed Mr.
Douglas by Greeley to Hsubduing" the republicans
Mr.. Douglas denounced this charge made by Greeley
against him. explained that he had said that those who
resisted the laws would be reduced TO subsection lie gave
very satisfactory why the term black republican
applied to Mr.. Wilson and his paryit to dis
tinguish them from all other kinds Of republicans He
enumerated the several articles in their creed and showed
each of them bad reference to the black man. and
for that Il not unreasonable to call them black
republicans. lie tainted Mr., Wilson and his fends With
having backed down from their issues and challenged
them to give the democracy square fight the issues
Mr. Douglas then turned TO the question of suppression
and mntilaton Of the memorial, and exposed still more
dsgraceful suppression than those in the memorial He
said that when the pretended constitution OF Kansas was
submitted the freeSGe party for ratification there was
clause submitted which forbids any black man,
whether slave free 10 into Kansas. This
clause said Mr. Douglas Is suppressed in the constitution
accompanying the memorial. This disclosure produced
wonderful futtering amongst the abolition senator's They
felt that their fraud fully exposed. aessrs.
Seward and Wilson undertook to explain They said the
clause referred to adopted by the people part
the constitution but Instructions to the first legislature
Mr. Douglas said that only aggravated the fraud. The
clause thus adopted virtually part Of the constitution
and yet 1t kept out Of sight avoid the objection
to such provision These senators had both expressed
their opposition 10 such clause and when the consttu
ton is presented TO the Senate this obnoxious clause was
suppressed Mr. Douglas closed with a most whitening and
scathng deusncaon of Mr. Wilson's charge that he had
been forced by General Atchson insert the clause re-
pcaling the Missouri line In the Nebraska bill lie de-
nounced the charge false and unfonuded in all length
and BREADTH and denied that be Gen Atchson had ever
made such speech Mr. Wilson had pretended to quote
lie asserted, and appealed to the President (br Brightly
consultation with northern before IL was shown
to any southern senator We have heard Mr. Doug
las impressive and eloquent than he was in repclnQ
these charges Mr.. Wilson compelled to admit that
the only evidence he bad in having seen the charges
in reputed speech Of Gen. Achson General Rusk
stated that be knew the charge to be ase as to his col
league who also implicated. He had been told by