The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-04-01

have the Democratic party and the Govern
rnent, TO use just as they pleased, while the
were busy about extending their own com
merce and other matters and what had tn
South to complain Of? Slavery had COZ,
mitted suicids, destroying its own moral ant
political power. The moral mission of the in
stitution was found in its regeneration of |
heather nation brought from Africa, but South
ern men admitted that negroes were still IN
regenerated and heathenish. But the institu
ton OF Slavery, coming from God, az Southern
men commended, was admirably calculated Il
degenerate the heather, and the Southern PEG
pie were notable missionaries. The Northern
people sent out q few missionaries to heather
lands, but the South took the heather home t.
their families, and, at great sacrifices, became
their spiritual advisers. They we're conten
TO become and remain impoverished, and t.
see the North outstrip them in the race o
progress, for the sake Of presenting the souls
of negroes to their Maker without spot or blem
ish. There was nothing like it in Fox's Book o.
Martyrs; the census of the United States wa
the greatest book of martyrs ever published.
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Thayer's speech
Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, announced that at
take that bill from the Speakers table. There
would be nothing done before. He hoped the
matter would continue to be debated in Com
mittee.
Mr.. Grow would assent to this.
Mr.. Montgomery inquired if the bill was then
to be put upon its passage.
/, Mr.. Stephens said it was his intention to
move the previous question, bat the majority
could vote it down.
The Debate on Kdnsas.-Mr. Moore, of Ala.
bama, then addressed the Committee in favor
of Lecompton, denouncing the Republicans for
warning upon the rights Of the South. They
were treacherously aiming to overthrow the
Constitution and the Union. The South
had borne the aggressions, threats, derision,
and insults of the North as long as they could
be borne. Alabama would not act alone in
asserting her rights; her sister States would
stand with her, and the North would yet regret
that their folly and fanaticism had driven their
brethren of the South from them.
Mr.. Washburne, of Illinois, reviewed the
Kansas struggle, and commended that the last
and present Administrations had been utterly
subservient to the slave power. he protested
against the Lecompton Constitution as gigan.
tic fraud, and looked upon j. Calhoun, Esq,
as the most able-bod vote. counter in the
country. He distrusted his latest manifesto,
as he did his former promises, which had been
broken.
Mr.. Davis, of Indiana, was obliged to dissent
from some of the positions taken by the Presi.
dent in his messages. He was the President
of his choice; nevertheless he had committed
q great political mistake. He contended that
the Lecompton Constitution was fragrant
violation of the principles of the Kansas. Ne
braska act, of the Cincinnati platform, and of
the Presidents inaugural and that it was q
fraud attempted to be forced upon an unwilling
people. His colleague Mr.. English had
spoken of some compromise, but he knew of no
way of CLOSING over the Lecompton iniquity,
so as to make it palatabe, short of sending the
subject back to the people.
Mr.. Dean, of Connecticut, spoke in opposi.
ton to the extension of Slavery, and replied to
some of the arguments of his colleague, Mr.
Bishop. He protested against the Lecom pton
fraud, and pledged himself and his constituents
never to cease their agitation of the Slavery
question until the Government should be placed
openly and actively on the side of Freedom.
MIR. Boyce, of South Carolina, held that il
was not necessary that Constitution should
be submitted; the people could delegate the
power to make their Constitution to one man
if they chose, as was done by Sparta and Athens.
The sectional party of the North were the worst
enemies of the slave. Northern men had plen.
ty of unoccupied territory, without seeking more
from the South. The secret of all this agita
ton was ambition-the thirst for power. What
could the South expect of party built upon
hatred of the South ? Should such party get
possession of the Government, the South must
seek for Justice out of the Union, and take her
destiny into her own hands.
a Mr. Oovode, of Pennsyivania, traced the his
tory of the dogma of popular sovereignty,
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son letter, had undergone various notifications
to please the slave power, and had now becoms
the test of modern Democracy. He denounced
the frauds in Kansas and the attempt to obtain
for them the sanction of Congress.
Mr.. Robbins, of New Jersey, spoke in favor
of granting lands to the States for agricultural
and educational purposes.
On motion of Mr.. Smith, of Virginia, the
Committee rose, and at 9 o'cock the House
adjourned.
Friday, March 26, 1853.
The Senate did not sit to-day.
HOUSE.
1t appeared from the reading of the Journal
that Mr.. Powell, of Virginia, had been appoint.
ed on the Committee of Accounts, in place of
Mr.. Mason, of Kentucky, excused.
Debate on Kdnsas.-The House went into
Committee of the Whole, (Mr. Bocock, of Vir-
ginia, in the chair and nominally resumed the
consideration of the deficiency bill.
Mr.. Smith, of Virginia, said the issue before
them was whether Kansas should be admitted
under the Topeka Constitution or the Lecomp-
ton Constitution. The President of the United
States and the Legislature of Virginia had
taken position in favor of Lecompton, and he
was amazed that Governor Wise should have
taken opposite ground.
Mr.. English, of Indiana, inquired whether he
regarded Governor Wise as in or out of the
Democratic party?
Democratic organization, and all others who
lily. He was speaking not of the Governor OF
Virginia, but of Henry A. Wise. A party was
an association of individuals entertaining q
community of sentiment, and when a gentle.
man ceased to entertain the common sentiment
of his party, he ceased to be of the party. The
Lecompton Constitution was the measure Of the
Democratic party in Congress.
Mr.. Davis, of Indiana, said no gentleman had
q right to read him out of the party. He would
say, further, that the Democracy of the North,
instead of consenting to be read out Of the
party by the Government, would read the Gov
ernment out of the party.
Mr.. Smith said the Chief Magistrate, the pre-.
sumed head of the party, had used all his pow
or and influence in favor of Lecompton, and the
measure, if passed at all, must be passed by
Democratic votes, and by the aid of 3 few pa
triotic Know Nothings. If gentlemen dissented
from this great Democratic measure, and CO.
operated With the enemies of the Democracy,
they could not be Democrats.
Mr.. Davis said he came here to carry out the
Democratic doctrine of the Kansas Nebraska
act, and the Recommendations of the President
up to the time he saw fit to change front.
Mr.. Smith. Exactly, sir that is the Ian
guage of rebellion.