New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-18

rome on the left exch 'ns .no -. uoI'u ~ ".b, S
~ ,o.;,ny &c The majority Of the Court tray
eIed out of The record to N AXE political decision ~
course had Mortified the p ople aha now tse n,;on
Of the Court are in one breA n IuaA$1is E;a 70 "a
and in another denying that 40, sai0n on nsI All
been made But the opinion !, pre- .nn;rg
hands, that the Court had degraded NHS s6ownn
aside 10 make political decision. ...,ny ma Il
that il will basely, even in one case 90 - t5e peo-
has done then it should lose the confidence Columbia
ple in all cases. Az the gentleman from - \"a mi
well said-o man caught stealing hens shou'o L
yeTsally despised. a., .. 80
Mr. PRENDERGAST believed the present d e
proper time to decide this question: dn,e. ino.oS
unop This branch of the Legislature are nearly Closed
and before going back to the people IL Is proper ,hat
ther representatives should give utterance 20 their
;cws of this extra judicial opinion OF the Supreme
Court. There could be more fitting time. He sp-
nroyed the resolutions they stood There was not
one improper word in them-nOt one word he would
omit They may not be pleasing to the Democrats.
They were not drawn for any such purpose; but, "a
they are right, he would be pleased to have them
ceive unanimous vote.
Mr. HYDE rather preferred the first substitute to
the original resolution. He desired to be expressive
and emphatic while he did not desire TO be ndecorous
extreme The substitute TO his mind, embraced all that
should be said. He would condemn, emphaticaly, the
infamous dca Of the Court land he would declare that
the people of this State would be bound by the dica
Of no Court, high or Ow In enforcing his views MIR.
IL.
United States Senate. Those views he commended to
the Democracy.
Mr. SCOTT sent UP the following:
R.oted That the Republican members Of the Joint Commit
,hoty during of the Legislature and before
the convenns Legislature Convention Of Of
the Northern shall be held Hartford in the STATE Of
Connecticut elsewhere for the purpose Of ssan taking into
ssd members are hereby s1horzed TO represent Repub
cen party Of this Stste in said Convention"
Mr. KIVLEN spoke against the original resolutions,
40, th.+ 10 pOis n
10 review or to denounce the decision of the Supreme
Court
Mr. ABBOTT moved to rise, and report progress on
the resolutions. Agreed TO.
The same Committee took up
AN ACT TO SECURE FREEDOM TO ALL PERSONS wITHIs
THIS STATE.
7s P & & & Dc tS@4 SSt' a. o. S. Ss York. '''e'S +" Ss'd
SECTION Neither descent remote from African,
color Of kin shall dqusy any person from becoming ci,i
Of this State deprive such person OF the rights and
SIC Every slave who shall come be brought e in this
State with the of his her master or mistress or VINO
shs come or be brought or be nvountay in this state
SEC. s. Every person shall hold attempt hold
slave in the second section any person
short BE- ss on
thereof shall confined in the State Prison at hard labor for
term not less than two more than ten years.
Mr. VARNUM moved to amend the second sec-
ton Of the bill by striking out the words g come to-
20 that it shall not apply to fugtves coming to this
State.
Mr.. WOOSTER proposed substitute for the en-
tire BILL
Before he had concluded his remarks the Commit
tee rose and reported progress.
In the House. Mr.. FOOT moved to discharge the
Committee from the further consideration of the reso-
utons that they be adopted by the House, and that
that motion lie on the table. Agreed to-
The Committee had leave to sit again on the Llber-
ty bill. Recess until 7 p m.
EVENING SESSION.
Tho House concurrcd in the Senate q ame ndments
TO the bill TO charter the Port Richmond and Bergen
Point Ferry Company; to the New-fork Tsfpor
Steamboat Company; the New. York Excelsior college
hill. the James Stuart Relief bill; the Abraham Leg
gett Relief bill; the bill relative TO Courts of Special
Sepsions; the Tonawanda Creek Bridge bill, and the
Buffalo City Charter BILL
The New-York Central Park bill came down with
message that the Senate had cOncurTed in the names
of Commissioners inserted by the House, with the
addition of those of William h. Story and James Hogg
as recommended by the Committee of Conference.
The House also concurTed.
The Liberty bill as above) was again taken up IN
Committee, Mr. TALLETr in the Chair.
Mr.. WOOSTER withdrew his substitute for the
present.
Mr.. JONES opposed the BILL for one reason, be-
cause he deemed il unconstitutional 10 declare, as this
bill did, that person should even pass through this
State with slave. To remedy this he moved the fol-
lowing proviso to the second section:
THE preceding section shall not be deemed 70 discharge
from service any person held in Slavery State Of the
United States under thereof who shall into this
ssr nS to sec@ any % ox
sna nv. S, % "a ,h - ti.,.os in coufrmiv With secton
two of article four of the Constitution Of the United States
This was negatived-when
Mr.. JONES moved to add, at the end of the third
section, IA follows:
This section shall not apply in nywise affect impair
the ownership who shall have fed from the ser
vice q his owner and who while in ] OF nj, n's d
the State from which he fled"
This prorOsition was also lost.
Mr.. WOOSTER now proposed his substitute as
follows:
Every person who shall come or be brought into
SEC Every person who shall hold attempt to hold in
this State other peros slave, IN any form or under
any pretcnse for any time however short sha be deemed
cu,y of felony and conviction thereof shall b. confined
in Prison at hard labor for term OF not less tnan
A debate of very animated character ensued,
which was continued through four hours-the obbies
and galleries being filled throughout The sketch
subioned gives no just idea of the speeches made.
Mr. WOOSTER sustained his substitute. 1t
omitted the first section of the original BILL because
our State Constitution recognizes all coored persons
as citizens already. That is enough. The chief fca-
ture of his substitute that II declared all persons
free in this State. This declaration not in conflict
with either the Constitution the Fugitive Slave law.
Ii negro is property, and such one should
escape hither the person claiming hun can recover
him as other property is recovered He spoke at
considerable length in support of his views.
Mr.. JONES argued TO show that the State of New
York had surrendered TO the United States the night to
reclaim fugitive slaves, and read from an opinion 0i
Judge Mclean IN support OF ms views, MI d. 'heh
alluded TO the structures made by Mr. Wooster yester
dav upon his change of views in the license law. and
reorted by saying that that gentleman had himself
faen into like inconsistency by signing his name to
report and then, he is doing, oppose what he
had once indor.d.
Mr.. WOOSTER replied, that it was true he had
signed the report but he had not. like that gentle
man. pledged himself personally, TO his associate; to
stand by that report, letter for letter. Nor had he
| like that gentleman made a speech on the to0r IN
favor the reported bi and in fifteen minutes after
voted against his own speech and his report and
and his own bill, simply because political friend had
| or we shall lose all our political thunder"
Mr cox alluded fn the cited oninion Of Iudge