New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-04-04

into the Urion; that there W. m ps,slhl IN an
history, to the atrocities which AsA chsrsctsnxed
the conduct Of the Government - our settler,
there; larrsted in brief and panoramic succes,on.
the disgrsceiul scenes which had beea witnessed IN
that beautiful country; and then considered the
probabilities Of the continuance Of the present ADJ
parent peace. He thought, and very justly, that
We had no security for the future; that, unless the
States, In their sovereign and independent capacity.
declared, in tangible form, their determination 70
resist the encr Oachments of Slavery We might aud
probably would, be again called on 10 act as indi-
yidua.. ano therefore meficen,ly, TO interpose be-
tween the sqnatters aud the Pro-Slaysry army of
denap0gues at Washington assembled. He sup
ported this sOmber view of the question on the
official tyranny always exercised there, and on the
peculiarly irritating and despOtic character Of the
bogus enactments Of the Missouri usurpation. He
then considered the probable efec, Of this proposed
apprt praton, regarding it as llleiy to exercise
benefcent influence the g neral industrial inter
ess ofthe Free states by gvoe to free labor In our
extended territorial possessions it's just but
now alienated predOninaDce. He regarded
it also as necessary for shield to future
emgatiOn-fo for, unless security was given, it would
seek some other Territory; and thus the object OF
the Black Oligsrchy would be accomplished by our
own cupable inactivity. The cOns,itutionality of
the appropriation he next disposed Of affirm
atively, by recalling truth now often
iorgttten-that, although member of the Union,
Massachusetts, is a sovereign Siate-a sovereignty
which she possessed before the Union was, aud had
never yet relinquished; that she never had surren
dered her right and duty to protect her citizens
whenever and BY whOOsOever assalled, aud that II
the sgent-the Federal Government-neglectedt the
duties she appointed if TO attend to- she stood still
on her ancient, unalienated and unaliensbe right of
aiding them and Furnishing their Oppressors. The
,rhen and rhere of such protection he said she
must be Judge of her.elf by what she sees Of the
wants of her citizens.
He maintained the doctrine of " once citizen,
always citizen" and argued therefrom that it
was the duty of Ma sachusetts TO protect her cit
zens in KaDsas. although they no longer resided
within her own territorial limits. But be regarded
them as citizens still for yet another reason: that
they did not dwell under the shield Of any State
sovereignty; they were denizens Of one common ter
ritOry, not citizens of particular member OF the
Union except, alone, the State they enligrsted
from or of hich they were formerly citizens.
He jocosely disposed of the Pro-Slsvery SANDER
that Massachusetts, was sending out her paupers to
Kansas by saying that if it was lrue it was certainly
her duty TO support them.
We have hitherto, he said, acted on these princl-
PIES and we still continue to act on these prlncl-
pies in the protection Of our citizens elsewhere
this statement by the action Of Massa-
ehu.etts in The case of Hosr and in the Texas free
colored citizen cases-and concluded by urging the
passage of the Resolves and spprc priaon reported
by the Committee on Federal Relations
Mr. Brown of Dorchester, one ofGOy. Gardeners
shadows in the House, was the next speakers
most bitter political KnowNothpg, and X. n,
too in the art of oratOry. IT was my painful duty
to listen to most Of his speech, and therefore will
omit the greater part Of it, even az sketcher. His
speech, in one word, was a-But Everything
positive he said was instantly followed by a-But
His generous words for Freedom were like comets
the But, however, was the tail Of il; great deal
larger aud great deal more luminous than the
comet itself. Or, like Falstaff's meal, there was
monstrOus heap OF But for very small penDywOrth
of Aid. He felt the Importance, he said, of making
Kansas Free State, but he could not do anything
to accomplish that purpose. He
ii ,na 10 sell even the State House TO raise
the wind for Kansas-as private individual
there appeared, to judge from his speech to be
no end of his unbounded liberality-6w he felt
that this appropriation would shake the pillars
of the republic, and he wouldn't couldn't and
dursnt do that. If State aid viii shake the Repub-
lie, why won't individual aid He didn't see that
question The real object of this bill, he said, was
70 insure a Free.Stare Constitution for Kansas.
Then he asked the grave and momentOus question,
Can Massachusetts, do this, and be loyal to the Fed
eral Constitution Suddenly there appeared
before bis excited oratorical eye, in grim and
diabolic array all manner of civil, serye and Dor.
der wars, disunon, blood, lurid flames and horrid
shreks-and above, paramount and conspicuous
over all, the terrible Mllesian features Of the
adopted Irishmsn, to whom and whom only, the
Repub leans were indebted in Indiana, Illinois and
PeDnsyly for their recent Presidential defeat.
All Hope, he thought, for the present was over. he
didn't suggest hanging up every mothers son from
the Emerald Isle; but from the sad expression Of
bis face thought he was pronOuncing sentence on
them all. He thought the only hope Of Kansas was
the ballot-bOx of the North. He suddenly seemed
to forget how generously disposed he had been be-
fore. Or did be mean he was willing TO give aid 10
the shape of ballots only
He want prepared to dissolve this ever-tO-be-
praised and. blessed Union which he gloriied with
eloquence; for he loved this
Unien. We owed every thing to this Union. What
gave us strength and greatness but this Union
He beslavered the Constitution with similar SALIVA
ike rhetorc but didn't stop to explain being I'M
willing TO occupy the time Of the House, how our
Efforts strictly constitutional, morally obligato-
~, politically expedient-to resist the extension Of
Slavery, had o tendency to dissolve this blessed
Union, which he defended 80 stentOriOusly.