New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-12
xxxyth CONGRESS-. First Session

SENATE WASHINGTON March IL, 1858.
Mr.. CAMERON PENN presented mem orial from
citizens of Pennsylvania, favoring line of Mal
Steamers between the City of Philadelphia and the
Empire of Brazil go
MI. CAMERON also presented a resolution, calling
on the President for the instructions sent the United
States Marshal in Utah.
Mr.. HUNTER Na.) withdrew his motion for the
Mr. POLK ME. spoke in favor Of Kansas. She
had all the requisites for admission She had Con-
stituti0n which except the Senator from Con-
nectiou denies to be Republican in FORM That instru-
nept is the deliberate choice of the people pursu
apce Of law with all the forms necessary TO insure the
free expression of the wish of the people Congress
could OILY ask is that Constitution Republican In
this respect he considered 1t uneXceptlOnable az
that of any State in the Union.
Mr.. POLK then proceeded to explain away the
alleged election frauds and inormahtles denying the
staten ents Of Walker, Stanton and others-that
majority Of the voters had been DISTINGUISHED, and
that the MissOurans had invaded the polls IN 9Dsas.
There was necessity, he contended, for such
course, as enough Pro-Ssvery men Were already
in the Territory to cor troll the polls. As to armed In
vasiop from Missouri he thought thst the Senators
who rei,erate the stories concerning them were pac-
ticiDg the ciedulty of the country. mat inc ms
soun immigrants should have gone 10 hansas arneu
NAV have seemed strange and alarming 10 immigrants
from the Poor. Houses and TombS OF the Eastern
cities; but to people acquainted with frontier ne,
it was nothing unusual The Missouri immegrants
did not use their Iihes, they merely staked
their claims and voted pesceaoly, returning 10
Missouri merely to escape the severity OF the Winter
and intending to return in the Spring for permanent
residence. The Northern immigrants On the con-
trary the sweepers of Eastern cities, came to vote,
and remained b. vote and for no other purpose Bee
ing this Invasion 1t was no wonder that the Missouri
ans returned to the homes marked out by them IN
Kansas.
Mr. POLK then stated the general ground OF his
opinion why the Lecompton Constitution should pass
reststng mainly the argument OF Mr.. stephens MA
iority Report rom the House Kansas Committee. lie
concluded by asserting that all inhabitants are not
turbue ut dis organizers; they sohd men, anxious
for peace and quiet. The true course TO give That
peace was tue passage of the Lecompton bill.
Mr. BENJAMIN La commenced by saying that
as member of the Committee, he felt that 1t was his
duty 10 defend the Judges of the land against tue as
DersiCI thrown upon them with reckessness ana
rntuhfulness that, will yet bring shame upon their
aoousers Previous to touching upon that point,
however he would show that 1t was vital error TO
suppose that Slavery established by positive
Legislation in the South. Slavery, he commended, was
the creature of the law of England IN which
country it existed and protected by bon the COM
mon and statute law far back az the days oil Queen
Elizabeth who herself dealt in slaves Our ancestors
brought the laws ana institutions OF England 10 TINS
continent their birthright and hence slavery was
the common law of the Thirteen original colonies
He here cited various historical data, tracing the
history of Slavery in both continents down 10 the
American Revolution at which time II was the COM
mon law of the whole Western Continent mus
Slavery he further conended, was forced as the com
mon la n, upon the thirteen original colonies, against
the urgent femOnStlG nCes OF Ooutuolu PoiNioni
and had not the Northern States abolished by pos
tive legislation, they would be Slave States yet
How then, he asked, can be asserted that slavery
ia not recognized by the Constitution OF the united
States
He then proceeded to a defense of the Supreme
Courts decision III the bred Scott case controverting
at length the assertions of the Senators from Maine
and Vermont that the Constitution of the United
States does not recognize property in slaves. He said
that be had Lever heard that assertion before the Sem
ator from Maine uttered it, He here introduced sew
.rafpr no tn
other laws and also cited the case OF Prgg vs. The
State of Delawar reading Judge Mclean opinion
in that case, which, according 10 him, decides that
the rights of the South In slaves as property are
VusrAnteed by the Constitution. de dwelt at great
length on the bred Scott case, commenting severely
on the Judges who published the minority report
He now approached, he said, with extreme pam
another point He had been accustomed 10 reVer
ence the Judges of the land men who, by
their eminence and spOtless purity OF character
stood high above the breath of suspiciod
A long line of JUDGES had eliminated IN Marshall
and Of tine iustnous who has succeeded hun, II
Is enough to Fay that he is worthy TO be the successor
Of that great man. He then paid glowing euloglum
to Judge fancy; and yet this man, he condpued SO
pure 80 noble, so loved has been compared by the
Senator from Maine TO the infamous Jeffres, and
charge by the Senator from New-York with having
acted il corrupt collision with the Chief Magistrate
of the United States. 1t was difficult to sit and listen
10 such nsnuaions without the blood boiling within
he read from various documents to show that the
Dred SOFT case was in the Missouri Courts before Mr.
Ruobaunn went TO England, before the Kansas-Ne
braska &C, was passed Hence it was impossible, al
MIR. Seward had insnuated, that the Chief Jusc,
and the President could have ganbled at cards with
bred Scott playing dummy. Is the senate oil ta'
limited Stats To be insuned with language like this
Shame on the Senator who makes charges Ike these
without the shadow of support.
He concluded sith few remarks toucning 'lle an
sas question ridiculmg the Topeka Constitution, an'
deDOuncng It's authors as miserable raooIe OIL lnsur
genie, who, having insisted ON Topeka or notalns
would get nothing. But Kansas, lie assured them
would not be kept bleeding through another ffesioeu
tial campaign.
The Senate passed the House Printing Dehcienc!
bill, end adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESEN rATIVES.
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