Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-12-22
CONGRESS-.


| on the leading questions of the day. He COM
menced by quoting the remarks of Daniel
| Webster in eulogy of the ordinance OF 1887,
to the effect that those who passed that meas
ure were deserving OF more honor than Scion
or Lycurgus and the legislators of antiquity.
The tribute Of justice to the great work Of the
old Congress and confederation brought upon
him and his section of the Union the charge of
making an onset upon the South, and inter-
fering with her domestic institutions so as to
endanger the relation which exists between
the master and the slave. Gen. Hayne, his
distinguished opponent, who then fought the
| first great battle of notification under the eye
| of Mr.. Calhoun, who presided over the Sem
| ate, brought these accusations into the Sem
| ate, and hurled them against Mr.. Webster and
the people of the North. Mr.. Webster met
these accusations ard unjust repro ches to-
wards his section of the Union with prompt
and emphatic denial. In his reply to Hayne,
the great expounder of the Constitution said
| it had been the policy of the South, for muny
| years. to represent the people of the North as
! disposed to interfere with their internal and
! exclusively domestic concerns, and went on
| to deny the truth of the charge. So he (Wil-
| son) standing now as the representative of
Massachusetts on the floor of the Senate, as
Webster stood then, could say, as he said, that
all these charges are utterly groundless. No
attempt has ever been made from the time
when Washington first took the oath OF Office,
to interfere with the constitutional rights of
the people of the Southern States. Mr. Will
son commented upon the language of the
Presidents message, applied to the Repub-
lican psrty, end said that the charge that they
were engaged in a revolutionary movement
which could only lead to civil war was
full of paItizan malignity. There was no
truth or justice in it. Mr.. Pierce came into
power almost unanimously, but would 60 out
with the bitter hatred of thousands Of men
who voted for him. Like one of the early
Dutch Governors Of New York, he came in
with very little opposition, and would go out
without any opposition at ALL Mr.. Wilson
alluded to the fact that the Empire Club of
New York, representing the Democracy of the
Five Points, had turned out in procession in
honor of their victory i'll Pennsylvania in Oe-
ober, with a transparency representing the
scourging of three black men, and headed
I" Needing Kanzas.' He thought that was
degradation, but it had been exceeded here IN
the metropolis of the nation, and under the
eyes OF the Executive. a procession had late
ly passed through the streets of Washington,
headed by a government official bearing a
transparency inscribed aSumner and Kanzas
let them bleed He stated that more
money and clothing had been contributed for
kanzas since the election than before, and if
anything could be done lawfully to save Kan
zas to freedom, it should be done in spite of
the efforts of this administration, OF whatever
the incoming administration might do. There
were hundreds of thousands of men in the
South who sympathize with the Republicans,
but who had no opportunity to exercise their
sentiments at the ballot box. In this connec-
ton he alluded to Prof. Hedrick, who was
removed from the University of North Carroll.
ma because OF his devotion to freedom. The
Democratic power is in the South. Those of
that section who say they want peace can have
1t, hut not while they seek to extend slavery
over free territory. The Republicans viii in
sist that Kanzas shall be admitted as a free
| State, but, when it is asked whether they will
vote for the admission of Kanzas as slave
| State, they, in the language of Caleb Gushing,
answer, emphatically, no." They stand
! where Washington, and Madison, and Henry
Stood They will prohibit slavery in all ter
ritory, but do no not claim, nor will they
! usuIp the power, by Congressional legislation
or otherwise, to disturb or interfere with South
ern rights. They will leave the matter where
the Constitution left it.
Mr.. Brown ofMississippi, obtained the floor,
when the Senate adjourned to Monday.
HousE.-Three days, commencing from the
third Tuesday in January, were set apart for
the consideration of territorial business.
The bill which passed the Senate at the first
session, authorizing the people of Kanzas to
| form Constitution and State government,
preparatory to their admission into the Union
on an equal footing with the original States,
was referred to the Committee on Territories
The other Senate bills, lying over from the
first session, were referred to the appropriate
committees, including many relative to harbor
| and river improvements
After some time spent in the consideration
of the private calendar, the House adjourned.
|
GREAT SPEECH IN THE SENATE BY GEN.
WILSON Threats Of Personal Violence
! Washington, Dec. l9.-Gen Wilson spoke
in the Senate this afternoon, and although
there were not many Senators present, there
was very full attendance in the galleries. 1t
was the best speech Wilson ever made-bold,
severe, yet courteous-and attracted, and will
attract, great attention. Two and a quarter
hours were occupied in its delivery The
speech will make six columns in the Daily
Globe. In the course of his speech Gen. Will
son argued Webster to have been Republi-
can.
Threats of violence have been msde since
against Wilson, because he said that 1.-THE
Democratic party includes in its ranks all
avowed disunionlsts, among them Gov Wise,
whose indecent ISLANDERS against the family Of
Col. Fremont, have shocked the ears of all
decentPeople. "-Special Dispatch to the Bos.
ton Traveller.
LIGHTING CARS by GAs.-The Chicago
Press says that the experiment of illuminat-
ing cars by gas, las been tried on the Chicago
and Galena Railroad, with perfect success.
Under the floor Of each car is placed gas