New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-03-07
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WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, ls5

= WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 1857. 6
The Senate Yesterday reconsdered the vote by q
which an amendment, limiting the right of suffrage
citizens Alone was attached to the bill providing
or the admission of Minnesota into the Union. This
amendment passed the Senate last Saturday, by a
1ote of ~ to a. But it did not suit the purposes OF
ther the Freesoilers or the Northwestern Democra
" that it should remain. Accordingly Hale moved
reconsideration. After long, able, and interesting
1ebate the amendment, which the Senate had itself
affixed to the bill, was yesterday struck out, and the
bill passed just as it came from the House. y
An examination of the vote shows three note
worthy facts-that every Freesoiler in the Senate,
with the exception of Fish Of New York voted against
the amendment-that every Northern Democratic RI
Senator, except Broadhead of Pennsylvania, also Il
voted against it-and that every Southern Senator =
except Green, Toombs johnson and Ynlee sustained
it. From which it will appear, as was well said by
Mr.. Thompson of Kentucky, in an able speech he Il
made in favor of the amendment, that there seems to
be an indecent rivalry between the Democratic and =
Freeso parties of the North, to who should go 1
arhest in abject trucking to the foreign population
The BILL as it now stands permits aliens, who :
have been in the Territory six months, to vote-pro
vded they have declared their intention to become
citizens. II this is not clearly volatve Of the Const
tuition, then it would be difficult to say what is. Mr.
Crittenden proved to demonstration that it So
and yet the Senate sustained it. He showed that such
voter could not be punished for treasonbecause he
is not citizen and none other than citizens accord
ing to the Constitution can be held guilty Of treason
Yet the Senate would invest him with the highest
prerogatve of citizenship, the right Of suffrage! He
said, moreover, that such voter could not be sum
moned to fight our battles-we had no right to sum-
mon any but citizens. Yet the Senate would allow
him to vote at the polls and determine the character
of the Constitution and laws of the inchoate State
| Minnesota -.a
1t is not difficult to what are drifting into,
when such measure as this can pass the American
Senate-a body which the people of this country have
been accustomed to look to as the palladium of con.
servatism. Under the nua restiga retrorsum policy
which seems to have been inaugurated by politi
clans, the next step will be to admit foreigner to
vote the day he lands upon shores-and the tran.
stion, in the Northern States will be an easy one to
universal suffrage, when negroes, women, minors and
Indians will crowd the polls and decide our elections
Indeed Seward the other day, when this was charged
upon him by Clay of Alabama, did not deny it, "a
This. is no party question, as is indicated by the
fact that the bulk of the opposition to it from
Southern Senators, nearly all of whom are Democrats
1t is question that rises far superior to party It is
a question that involves the selfprotecton of the
South After the apportionment of 1850 the people of
the South will have their eyes opened to the alarming
increase in the political power of the Northwestern
States. the word g alarming because there is
nothing in common between these people and the
people Of the South and when they once get the
power as they inevitably will under the present legis
laon of the country it is folly to suppose that they
will not use it. They will lavish the public money
nf thaip Thay will nla
still more the public domain. They will protect their
own interests and they will repeal the duty on sugar
the only interest in the South which needs protec-
ton. They will make the whole country, as far as
legislation can do it, tributary to their advance
ment and wealth. have watched with close scrutiny
the designs of the representatives here,
and is evident to me that their whole object is to
get much possible of the bounty of the Federal
Government. 1t is time, or it will soon be too late,
for the people of the South sinking all party issues,
to combine man to resist this putting of polt
cal power into the hands Of the people of the North
west.
The Senate also passed yesterday the Oceanic Tele-
graph bill, with the amendments they came from
the House. The only material amendment is that
which authorizes Congress to terminate the contract
at the expiration of ten years, by giving one years
notice. ...I .t -l. 4u
Campbells Tariff bill, as it passed the House, will
: be taken up today in the Senate-but it will no,
pass unless the Senate conclude for want Of time
mature better one, to accept this as temporar.
measure until the next session of Congress.
The whole session Of the House yesterday was COZ
sumed in long and fruitess discussion of the repor
Is of the Investigating Corruption Committee. To-day
a' Gilbert, Of the members implicated, will be hear
in his own defense. 1t is generally believed that h
'Ai If tho sassinp a
~ there are only five more working days-and an az
he prehension is felt that Mr.. Buchanan will be unde
cal the necessity of calling extra session to pass tn
"a appropriation bills.
In Senator Sumner arrived here yesterday looking
he well as he ever did in his life. The gallant and chiya
IA Brooks has gone to his long homebut there ar
others here who will guard the honor of their col
rs stituents vigiantly as he. Sumner knows this
and he will perhaps observe something of TIE prt
prieties of life in his future Senatorial career.
Mr.. Buchanan will reach the city on Monday, tw
: days only before the Inauguration. There will be
great display of military companies, fire compane
Its clubs associations and straggers generally to part
cpate in the pageant. An immense platform h;
been constructed on the eastern side of the Capt.
= for the people to stand while Old Buck delivers
Rs inaugural. IA facetous friend of mine, walking on
the other day, remarked that it the first Dem
srt, cratic platform he ever stood on.l
Baron de Stoeckel who has recently been accredt
er Minnister from Russia to this country, presented
uses credentials day or two ago. and was received
ore ..- Essen.
1re. ... 80. . :,
P. S.-A personal difficulty occurhd to-day in Il
My VI. ,.4a. yr.-l. r. T.....o., ,,5 chor,,
This 11ouse DetNeen NIiSuI Vi lenhcssee, anu Hheii
it is of Ohio. Sherman threw a handful of waters in
the Wrght's face whereupen Wright advanced up
On and struck him. The parties were Immediately SCI
rated 1t grew out of an old quarrel between the
rr- ALL FOR LovE:-We learn from the York (P
the Pennsylvania that q young man who had been p
ing his addresses to young lady in that county
mted suicide because he could not gain the
rke of his mother to their marriage The corpse of
young man was discovered by his brother, who
the J" " ~ ~ ' ''Ao ''A WY "oou'
mother has lost her reason consequence of the
mill termination of the affair. m-.
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