The daily union., 1856-01-13


tim eleeonwhehsr il was his friends North or south.
other They that in the South Gen Taylor was rep
resented as all that any one In iasor o. slavery 49,, in
could desre~that he bound to southern y
hundred bonds AT the North IL said that ne waa
for contning slavery TO its present limits ons o m h
cheated But submit to my northern friends y M .hs
peace and harmony Of twenty millions o. peops aru rs
perpetui,y OF free institutions are not OF more
than the exposure Of this bad faith the part OF ah az
mnistraton that il let alone will fall by its weight
The public voice everywhere indicates s certain anu i"o'
In times past our policy sooner later has prevailed
nd should stand firm, however dark the hour enoour
former SUGGEST have 70 come 10 chem for
safety might ask them IL they are 70 ee drsen from ,ne
firm aud stern opposition United States Bank because
those Who once thought ruin would lay waste the
land unless such institution was Incorporated nav
their opinions and stand with US In opposition
Are they willing driven opposition TO the ndepend
treasury because those who once opposed now support
Ae % because OPPOSITION has ceased We should
stand firm in the support OF right truth the constitution o.
desert by them the last and they fall let Us per-
ish with them We should never survive the existence OF
There is one thing that wish in this conne1ion, Mr.
Chairman say the gentlemen from the South and the
northern wings u the bin for territorial governments 81
lent upon the subject slavery shall be defeated then am
for bills with the wmot proviso in order to give govern
the people in the Territories and speak for four
colleagues assured that they will feel constrained TO
pursue like And il General Taylor shall approve
the proviso then it will have passed. and it is for them :"
determine what shall shall not be done aud let the repoh
sibity rest with them"
this occasion say that resentment last quoted
uttered in a of excitement, upon reflection, re-
pudiate unjust and improper thank the gentleman
that he has afforded the opportunity to give tins pubic
expression ofmy disapprova OF that statement uniform
iy voted against placing the Wmo proyso IN any terri
ioria bill voted against it because believed II 10 "
unjust to the people Of a portion OF this Union.
The Clerk then read the second and third nterrogato
ries as follows
"Am right in supposing that his theory is, that the
constitution OF the Uned States does not carry slavery
md urQtpc
that in the territory acquired from Mexico and France
ncudug Kansas and Nebraska the Missouri restriction
was necessary make the territory free because slavery
existed there under France the time Of the acquisition,
but that the Kansas and Nebraska bi which repeas that
restriction but neither egisaes slavery into those Terri
tories excludes thereom in bis opinion leaves those
Territoris without either local constitutional law pro-
tecting slavery and that therefore the Kansas and Ne
braska bill promotes the formation OF slave States in Kan
sas and Nebraska p
Mr. RICHARDSON The constitution does not in my
opinion carry the institutions of o The States into the
Territories but it affords the protection there to the
institutions OF one State of another The citizen OF Vr-
gina is much entitled in the common territory 10 the
protection of his property under the constitution ms the
citizen Of Illinois, but both dependent upon the ees
ation Of the territorial government for laws TO protect
their property of whatever kind may be- Thus II will
I've Seen though there may lie upon hispont differ
questions for Judicial decs-
ionyet there 10 none practically among the friends Of
non-nteryenton by Congress the practical result Is TO
place the decision Of the questions in the hands of those
who most deeply interested IN iis ssoutonnamey The
people of the Terrtorwho have made IT their home and
whose interests the most deeply involved in the char
of the Institutions under which they are TO live II
this great principle Of nonnterven,on and segoyern-
men is wrong, then indeed the American revolution was
fought in vain and 1t is time cease TO venerate the
memory Of the patriotic dead, who purchase with their
fortunes and blood The free institutions Of the several sepa
rate independent and co-equal States forming The Union
under which we have SO posperousy and happily grown
TO be SO great
Mr. Z6LLICoFFER obtained the floor, and was about
asking Mr.. RIcHARpsos a question, when
- nh finn
that the House acting under resolution requiring
candidates to certain inierrogaories They had
been propounded 10 and unanswered by one OF the eand
dates and he thought that it bnt just and fair that
the others should before general debate
menced. .....
After some conversation IL agreed that The cand
dates should proceed regularly and answer the questions
Mr. BANKS Of Massachusetts, had voted for The resolu
,o by the honorable gentleman from Tennessee
Mr 2oLLcorTEa yesterday, and bad done with pleas
ure. He thought X mbodied sound principethe right
to know the opinions Of any candidate for office
for whom he voted aud If he voting for candidate
for Speaker be should certainly claim The right OF knog
ing his position certain questions in which be was in
terested. lie not candidate for any Office and
had asked invited any support and II be was
culpable for anythiug 1t for avoiding the ord
nary eourieses which exist between members which he
had done because he feared that he might say something
10 jest earnest seriously otherwise which would be
interpreted into the supposton that he was using unwar
ranabe efforts 20 the position which 1t seemed 10
be the object Of his political friends TO give him. He did not
stand there candidate be had accepted no nomina-
tion and therefore be did not feel called upon to an
any OF the interrogaories which had bsea pro-
pounded but as member of the House, representing
district IN the State Of Massachusetts, and in accordance
with the spirit which had governed him through bis po
ltca life he had hesitation respond the questions
which the gentleman from Tennessee had submitted to Mr.
RICHARDSON.
In reply TO the first question
Am right In supposing that the gentleman from Ili-
nois Mr. RcuARpsos regards the Kansas Nebraska bill
promotye OF the formation Of free States in the Terrific
ries of Kansas aud Nebraska ?'--
e wished distinctly say that he did not regard the
Kansas aud Nebraska bill promotiye Of the formation OF
free States innsmuch il repeas prohibition Of the in
sitution Of slavery from that section Of the country to
which the bin applies
In reply TO The second
"Am right in supposing that he advocates the cons-
nationality of the Wilmot proviso that In 1850 he OPP
posed its application TO the territories acquired from Mex
only upon the ground that II unnecessary nasmuc
the Mexican local laws 10 those territories already abo
hhed slavery, which ought TO be sufficient for all freeso
and that be committed himself the position that If
territorial bills silent upon the subject Of slavery land
leaving the Mexican laws 20 opcraie) defeated he
would vote for bills with the Wilmot proviso In them 2
He believed In the constuonality Of that act which
known as the Wnmot proyiso lie believed IL be within
the power OF Congress 10 prohibit the institution Of slavery
ne would advocate the passage OF such act In reference
to Territory where II clearly because by
the local existing laws II had been already prohibited
would depend upon circumstances.
In regard To The application OF this principle TO the Ter.
ritories inboded in the bill Of 1880 he would distinctly
say, that he thought twas necessary in order prohibit
slavery n those Terrore that the Wmoi provso should
have been passed he would have Tor had be been
In Congress ut the time.
10 reply TO the third question
"Am right 10 supposing that his theory Is that the con-
suiion Of the United States does not carry slavery and