Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-01-17

The Senate resumed the consideration of
the House bill, providing for the settlement
Of the claims Of officers of the Revolutionary
Army.
MIR. Foster earnestly supported the meas
ure. placing in strong light the services and
sufferings of those who periled their lives in
the struggle, arguing that in consequence of
the depreciation Of the value of the certih-
Gates in which they were paid, they were just
II entitled to the consideration Of Congress.
Mr. Pugh offered an amendment, striking
out the first and second sections, and insert
ing-"there shall be paid to each Of the sur
viving soldiers, embraced by the resolution of
Congress of the 22d Of March, 1888, the diff
ference between the amounts specified in the
certificates issued to him under the terms of
the said resolution, and the value Of the said
certificates in money at the time it was issued
and received" Adopted by vote of IS
against 81
Mr. Cass said that when first the bill was
introduced he favored it, but the investigst IN
which it had undergone. had satisfied him
that it was improper. He should therefore
vote against the whole OF it, unless Justice be
rendered 10 soldiers as well as officers.
Adjourned.
with amendments, Telatve 70 foreign coins.
IL ptONluOS blluS 10 anu A-1O 0OLAdA
pieces shall be received by the federal office S
at 90, 10, and cents, but not again aid out.
The new cent is to consist of So parts copper
and 10 nickel, and the coinage of half cent
pieces to cease.
Mr. Campbell of Ohio. disavowed any in
tention to insult Mr.. Rust of Arkansas, i'll his
remarks On Tuesday
Mr.. Chapman introduced bill for the con-
struction of a baggage road from the South
Pass in the Rlcky Mountains III Nebraska
Territory, via Great Salt Lake Valley, to Jo-
ney Lake Valley, in the Eastern portion of
the State of California.
Mr.. Sneed, from the Military Committee,
reported bill increasing the penalty for the
voluntary absence of members of either House,
making deduction of $25 per day from their
compensation, whether Sunday shall inter.
vene, or both branches have adjourned over a
day more exceptions to be made IN case of
sickness of members or their families.
The House then went into committee on
the tariff bill.
Mr.. keitt said he was opposed to all free lists
in measures of this kind, because they would
render necessary to extent of exemption ad-
ditional duties on articles which were taxed.
Branching from this subject he alluded to the
slave trade. Notwithstanding all the efforts
for its suppression, it had gone on from 49,
0OO to 100 600 souls per annum, while the
mortality among them has increased from five
to fifty per cent. African cruisers are not
fitted out in the South but in Boston, New
York, and other Northern cities. The trainers
of the Constitution foreboded the formation of
geographical parties, aud prophesled their dis :
solution influences on the Union. 1t would
not he bound by treacherous combinations nor
Quoted by sentimental lnNeeetions. Some
- LA oy,,o..---ou POLITICAL ~ illonint,, -,
the event of the election of Mr.. Buchanan,
but who was to come into the Senate from the
State CT the President elect, where he had re.
ceitei 80 900 of o majoritys Was he Game
rom) one Of the national conservative men P
Look at his record The Senatorial election
was the first alarm gun, or the first flag which
huttered at the masthead as a signal Of dis.
tress. He (Keitt) need not be told that some
few tricky men were bought II true man
was not elected, it was either because of de-
reelection Of duty, and on the part of national
men, or because they were in minority in
the Legislature. He did not speak of these
things with pleasure, nor mean to compro-
mise the future for the tranquility OF the pres
ent, or help to consolidate any party which
malgamates strength without establishing
principle The irresistible tendency OF events
was sectional organization. He did not agree
with his friends as to the immateriallty of the
doctrines of squatter sovereignty. He regard
ed 1t as a mischievOus, dangerous, and de-
moralizing doctrine. 1t rested on the fact
that sovereign States of the Union, exercis-
ing the power of government as agents, are 10
be held down by sQuatters. When men say
that slavery depends on pol ce, they assert
that those who go to the territories may confs-
cate property.
This only paves the way for the other doc
a.. 81 i Al
stltution, may be stricken down. Slavery
agitation, so far from being crushed out by
the late election, has been increased Slavery
existed prior to law. 1t was old as the insti-
tuition ot marriage, or the individuality of
properly, 1t did not rise from compacts or
violence, but grew up like any other rudi.
mental Institution. He argued that it was
the very foundation of the glory and refine
ment of Athens aud Rome. Although the
Ethiopian has Tor five thousand years been in
contact with superior civilization, he is sava @
st II. He feared that there was tendency in
affairs for the formation of geographical par.
ties, which would lead to dissolution of the
Union, and in this connection showed the
power and resources of the South, contending
that she is able to save her soil from invasion
aud conquest, and her flag from dishonor.
The South must and will expand. She will
carry ner lnBtlL ttl0nS into the surrounding
States, where the governments are falling and
the populace lapsing into mongrelism. The
State rights men at the South numbering
nine tenths of the citizens, will rally around
the standard of progress. Whatever else
perish, those institutions will be saved.
Mr. Bliss said that Mr.. Keitt had succeeded
in showing that from the earliest period Of the
world, it had been subject to rapiue and
bloodshed, and accounted for the fact. He
had been successful in showing that those
brilliant little republics to which he alluded,
soon fell and faded from existence, because
their institutions were founded on force and
injnstice rather tian OH law, and also that as
the world had progressed in civilization, all
portions except his beloved Arabs are turning
their attention to the ameioraton Of labor.
Mr.. Bliss then reviewed the Presidents
Message, taking exceptions to the portions
therein assumed relative to slavery, and con.
tending for constitutional power to prohibit it
in the territories.
The Committee then rose and the House
adjourned.
MASSACHUSETTS, LEGISLATURES.
FRIDAY, Jan. l6.
SBNATB.-Aid for Kansas. Mr.. Braken-
aid alEl l.