The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-04-21


nan ANOTHER isvEsrIGArSc COMMITTEE gs8l
NJ CHAFFEE, of Massachusetts, asked, but did not
obtain, unanimous consent TO introduce resolution d
recg the special committee appointed to investigate the
purchase aud sale of Wilkins Point by the government
tho United States 10 extend their examination To the
purchase of Clark Point in the State of Massachusetts
rnK snlIrARY AcApEnY DlIA.-rrnE KANSAS QUESTION
On motion OF Mr.. wAIBRIDGE, of Michigan. the
House went into Committee Of the Whole the state of
the Union, Mr. SEWARD, of Georgia. in the chair and
proceeded to consider the bill making appropriation for the
support Of the Military Academy for the year ending
y Mr. SHAW of North Carolina replied to the speech
of his colleague Mr. GnNER in opposition to the aamis
sion Of Kansas under the Lecompon constitution He
expressed his deep regret account of the rbnke his
colleague undertook to give TO certain southern gentle
men 1t true that in the outset of his remarks he
expressed his disapprobaon account of the violent
assaults ic by southern members also but he submit
ted that throughout his whole speech there evident
disposition to ignore the wrongs the South had suffered
and the fuct that they the pal y essaed He did not
approve of that mode Of warfare and did not think that
southern ought to participate in it. When they
membefed that for many years the South has been
sailed in her dearest interests her constitutional rights
sregarded when they the efforts made by great
party sectional in its characte led by these saacous
leaders, deprive the South Of her just pal icpaon in
the administration OF the government-when they had
been compelled sit in their seats day after day and week
after week and month after month and be held up the
scorn and dctesaton of the wodan that too by the
very who crowded around his colleague at the conu
sion of his speech, and congratulated him his effort
when thcy all these things it strange, it to be
wondered at that southern gentlemen sometimes to
be found yielding to the honest impulses of their nature
and repeng and denouncng these dturbes of the pub
lie traitors to the Union If he had read his
colleagues speech Alright he based his opposition to the
admission. of Kansas slave State upon three points
First the Crittenden amendment which he says atrms
the right Of the people amend their constitution by
which he says the principle could be established which
would enable the people of Kansas to abolish slavery
whenever they fit second, the insufciency of the
population and third, that the constitution not the
will of the people He denied that the CRrESpsN amend
ment affirmed any such thing it simply said that they
did not deny to the people of Kansas they did not a
firm their right to change modify their constitution
they fit whilst at the time it declared that
Congress had right to intervene except to that the
constitution republican in form. He free to adj
NIT that State should have the requisite population be-
fore being admitted bat while he made that admission
he held that Congress might, under peculiar crcumstan
ccs depart from that rule In this particular this doc
had not been departed from AS far back the last
Congress Mr. Pierce thought there sufficient popula
on and Mr., Buchanan thought the same. So far as he
knew his colleague the only who had raised this
question and far he concerned he should dis
pose of the question in very few words Tie House
would remember his colleague during the present session.
but few weeks before he cast his vote against the
sttuon his colleague had offered bill for the mmedi-
ate admission Of Kansas into the Union He submitted
that IL there sufficient population to enttc them to
admission under that bill then the population sui
cent to enc them to admission under the Senate bill
He then referred the last legislation of Congress and
the events that tnspred in Kansas TO show that the
constitution was the instrument Of the people
Mr.. CAMPBELL of Ohio, inquired whether Mr. SHAW
was aware that Mr.. GyMKR not present 60
Mr.. SHAW replied that he of that fact. As
of his friends knew he had earnestly sought the
floor while his colleague in his seat He would have
preferred that his colleague should have been present but
could not account of his ABSENCE let the poison
which he was now distributing in North Carolina pass
without the antidote which he intended to administer
He alluded to the congratulations which had been show
cred upon Mr.. GrLMER at the close of HIS speech.
/ Mr. GIDDINGS, of Ohio inquired whether Mr.. SHAW
had understood that he congratulated Mr. GnMKR, or
1 went towards him g ~ 'A ta ~ -
Mr. SHAW said the gentleman did go towards him
and shake his hands. He saw him with his own eyes,
and he would ask the gentleman from Ohio If he
did not approach the gentleman from North Carolina at
| the conclusion of his speech. tji6B ataaa& Il tsl
Mr. GIDDINGS replied that he did not He asked
| Mr. GILMEn whether he intended to compare him with
! Mr. Buch 1HsH I'.# Eaaf @ Et
Mr. SHAW said he not only understood it'll Mr..
/ GIDDINGs. I did not]--but he fifteen twenty
others Of the party approach his colleague He did
not undertake to say what passed. but he he
| had said something. When he that spectacle, he
thought that il the time when he could SO
msreprcsent the eplo who had sent him to Congress
as to make speech to call upon his head the congra
ations Of the gentleman from Ohio and his allies that
side of the House. he should nstnctvely raise his eyes
4 to Heaven, and exclaim "What have done that the
enemies of my country should praise me y yri.I
After further discussion without coming to any con.
clusion on the bill under consideration, the committee
| rose. t'