Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05
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= Bishop CONN, al a committee upon the
Matteson case, Mr.. Harris was excused on hi.
~ request.
II. Sherman (Ohio) submitted = resolution
which was adopted, calling for information
: as TO whether any money has been paid from
the U. S. Treasury, for the year ending in
June last, foF the Legislature, of kansas. and
: if SO, under what act and from what
? fund.
A discussion took pisce on the bill for re-
, organizing the Clerks and other employees
of the House, pending which the House sd-
journed.
SENATE. P. Henderson, Senator elect
from Texas, appeared and took his seat.
A communication was presented from, the
Legislature of Kentucky, Offering a regiment
Of volunteers for service in Utah.
Several memorials were also read from
the Legislature CO Town, asking grants for
railroad purposes.
Dir. Green called up the Kansas bill.
Mr. Frederick objected, as the Pacific
Railroad bill has the priority
The Kansas bill was taken up.
Mr~Green gave notice OF a substitute for
the admission of the State of Minueso,a and
Kansas together, hoping thereby to expe dite
business. lie then proceeded to advocate
the report of the Committee; remarking that
the leading and controlling facts in that doc
ument could not be successfully eonirovcs-
ted. An attempt had been made in the mi
noriiy reports to evade some Of them, bu.
they stood unassailed.
He then passed To a personal explanation.
touching the statements in regard to :he
sction of the Committee, published by the
New York TriLuns, which asserted that a
majority of tle COMMITTEES had made a pos
alive PROMISE to Messrs. Dougias and Culia-
msr, not II report until the succeeding Mon
day, and subsequently, violated tha, agree-
ment. He proceeded 10 show the faisity OF
this statement, by q detail of facts in the
| case.
A discussion Of some length took place
between Messrs. Green and Douglas, when
the former proceeded.
He said that he had a substitute for the
bill reported by the m.joriIy Committee,
which he wonid offer at the proper time
This substitute provided for the admission
Of Kansas and Minnesota together, the OBJ
ject being 10 expedite the business before the
Senate. so that other important questions
might come up for consideration. He then
argued the legally of the Kansas Consiitu-
ton, coutending that it was republican in
form, and was a legal choice of the people.
The population of Kansas is sufficient 10 en-
title her to Que Representative, and the con-
s~tiiution of the United States prescrihes no
specific number OF inhabitants. HI refer
red to the unsettled state Of the territory as
a Powerful and overwhelming reason for its
admission, for it would give peace aud quiz
etnese to the Territory. lie had received in
formation to-day OF a murder, committed by
parties opposed to the Lscompton censtitu-
ton, and that Gen. Whitfield had been driv-
e nfrom the Territory under threats of assas-
s%ination. This, he said. was the reason of
the absence of Federal officers from Kansas
1t is useless to cry peace when there will
be none until Kansas comes into the Un-
ion.
Mr.. CplIamer followed. He referred l.,
the Missouri Compromise as having settled
the Slavery agitation. 1t being a fair bar.
gain, he though: it IN just in the South, af-
ter receiving their portion OF the advantage TO
repudiate the compact.
VINO believed, he asked, in 1854, that
Slavery would exist in Kansas!. 1t was we'll
settled principle that the power to regulate,
implied the power to prohibit, and quoted in
stances to show where this power had been
exercised, and referred to \ case in Missis-
siPPi in 1876 10 point. He defended the en-
igrant societies, denying that the emigrants
from the North went to Kansas merely TO
vote without designing to stay there. He
referred to fraudulent elections, carried by
interiopers from Missouri, aud to other gross
outrages, into which the. government had
never examined.
Without concluding the Senate adjourned.
WASHINGTON, March 2.-SENArE.-The
House bill making appropriations relative to
the abolition OF the Sound Dues was taken
up and passed.
MIR. Seward introduced q bill amending
the act of March 3, 1855, regulating the car
rlage OF passengers BY steamships and other
vessels.-Reterred.
Mr.. Evans IS. CD presented a bill amend
ing the Patent Laws.
Mr.. Houston introduced a bill providing for
the organization of a regiment of mounted
for the protection of the Texas
frontiers; also uuthoizing the President to
raise four additional regiments Of volunteers.
A resolution was offered by Mr.. Douglas,
calling for in regard to Kansas
agairs, which was taken up. {
Mr. Douglas advocated its passage.
air. Douglas proceeded to advocate the
resolution, but at one O'Clock he was cut {
short in the middle of d sentence by the an {
noancement of the special order and the t
Kansas bill was taken up, 1
MIR. Coifamer, continuing his remarks COM t
menced yesterday, said that the only choice
allowed the people of Kansas, was, whether '
they would have sinves or be slavs. He al
luded TO the Territorial laws and to several f
successive Governors who were sent out to
administer them, and who were summarily /
removed because they could not perform i'm c
possibilities and because they could not en- r
force the lows, and yet do justice to oil par r
ties. He referred 10 the Lacompton Consti. c
and said that it was an idle resor, to i
special pleading to hide the fact that the in e
irument was never submitted to the people. s
If it had been they would have repudisted ii
At once and forever. The President admits
The whole thing was q cheat and a delusion. {
lie referred also to the new political dogma |
that slave properly, in legal character and c
ID precisely like other property, and
to the decision of the Supreme Court in
the bred Scott case. He would not deny
that the Supreme Court might give an opin- c
ion concerning slavery where the question |
properly before il. but regretted that they 6
should have taken advantage OF their position Z
TO issue au ex-cathedra Endorsement of q
dogma. The endorsers of accom- t
paper seldom 6ud it O profitable {
He then discussed the nature Of {
property in man. contendingsthe ouly for safe s
ty tor slavery was 10 make iLlocal, and asking :
what VIII be gaiBsd by making Kansas a