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and final, and besides made Il CONCESSION on slavery
Without coming to vote, the House adjourned.
FRIDAY, APRIL 81, 1853.
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Referee. To TIE nil!ithfS CUilinitise' 90, ~.
Mr. Toombs reported from the c"h'''''..e -,
deficiency bill that the two Houses "ei' ''"
come Ia an rreemeIt. .r ,,,,.
Mr.. Uurtrr gave notice tha. lie VIII a''s'n "''
that thr Senate receGe. xos,,r,;,r far
Mr. Houston moved 10 take up 'ie reSri"."", ~
the Mexican prOttc'oi 6tt. lie in""o
,.ra,ious. and asked ut il he r-ierrea. q
Air. Wilscu claimed the floor. and Shlu. "s " VI"
vord.d. m, resolution was q gross 'hsut ,n,-
MIR. Mason ALSO was opposed 10 :, nn IN. IN.
rejecting on Mexico anu m''e'
BILE. Agreed. d
Tb. Kansas question WAS then resumeu. ,
Mr.. Frederick said that alter the has'1, na% nsh
40 ably discussed. he would not mar a aranco htI
.neech. He would vote against lhe :,
~ s.v.ral REASONS, the most potent oi "h'ch u. 'hh'
Kansas caDno, come into the Union ns - / 80
anriny the continuance of the power vi NV "unr"
i.,r.ilon II has but 81, QUO p"pu!huon Wv, a"' " u
do.a moi swallow The L.-compton Cnns'i'u''on, u
mat h. Eve or six wears before she VIII nave tht re
onjsjte populs,ion tn eniitic her 10 representation -
TN. original bill WA lees Objectionable 10 hun than
thiI conference Substitute.
Mr. Dnolitiie read s'stemar:e made ny Tue Srcreia
~ Of Gov. G-.ry OF Kansas, 10 show, IN reply To the
remarks of Mr.. Pugh yesterday, that tue population
oi III. country has diminished on acconitoi the deeds
of violence committed.
MIR. Pugh replied, after which MIR. Seward took the
floor, SAYING the debate had maniiestly lost interest
although approaching q yet undetermined conclusion,
This decay OF interest was partly accounted for by
,he great length of the past discussion, but something
too WAS owing to the change OF the subject matter
Iett tor debate. commenced by q consideration OF the
high principles Of State sovereignty. II has gone in
20 conference, and comet out an artificial trick of
Legislative .lrg-rdrinnim. Buth ends of the capitol III.
engaged to-day in attempting to take to pieces and
Put together the legislative puzzle. He had little
;aI.ut and no tn-t. for this sort oi legislatinn. H." H..
lustra,-d his position by reference 10 the perpetual
motion medium and chess player, which.
like thu conference project, were gotten up for tn.
purpose OF not being explained 10y one side or the
other.
q fal-. issue 10 the peopl.. The true question at issue
ia rhs admission Of the constitution direct 10 the peo-
pls. The question of public lands has nothing to do
with that. iilasmuch rs the lands are the dowry OF ali
new States. The land question does NOT occupy one
line of the 1900 quarto pages OF the Kansas debate,
and is therefore n ieigned !ssue-aJames jackson and
John STYLES i-sue of the old black letter lawyers.
He, mir. Seward,) although OF good natured and
kindly disposition. tel, like the chlvalT'c Nlrglllhn
who wanted 10 challenge the james Jackson who
pss slwsys disturbing and exciting his neighDors.
Resides, the question of numbers is equally new
dating only from the conference.-the Kansas has
enough population for n siave State and Just half
enough for a cree State.
Mr., Seward replied severely to Mr.. pugh saying
,hat Le mir. Seward in lS56 stood for the admission
of Kansas AZ q free Stat. and stands there now. He
car.d not for numbers. Ten hundred or len hundred
thousand. or it it even reached the population oi Chl'
M he would not aid by one vote the ADMISSION AZ Il
ala % StAtA. Az 10 InA slllIht DTiitTl IniC VI " :
growing populousness, he predicated it on the fact ot
her beinr a free State. He never promised rapid
proeres, for a slave State. He never was go young
thst when he first SAW Othello, and The gentle daughter
of a se,ator of Venice married TO a Moor In the first
Act not IL know that discord would follow IN the sec
ond, and death and dissolution in the last.
Further, he objected 70 The bill because II bears
eouivocstion on lie face. II purports to be a submls-
zion of her dowry, but ii submits the l1rcoinpscn
Constitution. Ii is 80 regarded by the Democrat.
~. II, ,,,t.J trnr, a N.p III mann p.r
In this he found Il paradox rs irreconcllable ia zee
w,R and fate, winch So puzzles the tle"loglafis. Here
he read from the rpe-cG OF MIR. Cox ot ONO, that the
sense of the people WIS IL ae taken on the L.coinp'
ton measure, although 1t was no; directly submitted.
Ii WAS Ike voting by black and white bells in Mason
ic lodges without saying anything about tue caudI'
date who is waiting. No State but Ohio could hSSe
got, at the outside, go Lucid an explanation. Thus In
directness aud equivocatlon are on the bill.
Moreover, he said, if you nuke a slave barrier
across this latitude of 80 degrees, son interpose It
barrier 10 progress more Dsurrnountabt1 than the
Rocky Mountains on the Sierra Nevada. 1t alnu3es
I'm when he hears patriotic men talk OF removing
th. csrital. If you conine slavery within its legiti
mate limits, the capital of this nation may remain
where;t is, and the empire may grasp the pole aud
the equator; but no such destiny awaits II II yon ST.
parat- hy q slave barrier the Atlantic free from the
Pacific free!
Further-This bill is nothing but Lecompton. LIZ.
compton vita d variation. You toss q coin and bid
Kansas cry Eagle or Liberty" If Eagle you
give her slavery. 1t ;.s etiigy Of 'Liherfy.' you
give her slavery still. VIA; thinks The Senator
:rnIn pennsy!vania, representing the first free State
The Ssnstnr from the old island OF Roger Z. IIliAms!
Tn. Senator from IowsI The Senator from Caiii"r
MIA. whose STATE Was saved from slavery by Efforts
other than hIs' The Senator from indianai But
they have another question to aettle with their peo'
pie n home. What answer will they give 10 this pro-
possl which leaves only the seInb!hnce end not the
choice Of Liberty.
NV friend here asks, what says the Senator OF New
.Jeraey. He would himself answer, because the blood
oi the nru who hSZsrdci their lite and means for her
liberty. flowed through his veins. He knows the blue
hills OF New Jersey, and will answer that the votes
her. given for Lecuinpton will be her last slavs votes
given for ths next ten years.
Addressirg himself next TO the subject of the cleo
lion board, h. -nid the ghosts on tn S'yx Rr" not
more thick and cloudy than are the apirits ot tn" de.
i4at.d Governors ni Kansas, who attempted Ia give
correct returns. He had no confidence in the Presi
den; a. an element of that hoard. He has had expert
encs that some would cry SHANE that he disparagad
or DETAINED the President, but he would console him.
self that once men in Virginia cried shame on Patrick
Henry. Men were not waning in Rome 10 cry
'shame' on Cato, and they were no friends of liberty
who in Senates fear 10 oppose kinga or Presidents.
Mr.. Bigler had intended to make sc,nc remarks in
favor Of the bill, which MIR. Seward had sought 70
prejudice in the eyes Of the North, but would forhesr
for the purpose of coming to All immediate vote upon
the bill. whose passage by the House VAS already
spreading Joy throughout the country.
Mr. Cameron had not p%urpo-ed 10 speak against
the bill, but when his colleague was so swift TO en.
dorse a measure which wa. contrary ~ the rights OF
free labor, he could not ior,ear 81 raise hs vote.
against it. 1t s-eIned l." him, moreover, in very bad
taste for his colleague "a esp0us- this bill, ~ il was
weIIknown that he CIR. BIGGER bad always assured
the people of Pennsylvania that KANSAS would be
spd ought to be Il free Srat.. The present bill would
be condemned by H majority Of more than a hundred
thousand in that conservative State.
MIR. Bigler said that he believed 3 majority of the
people in Pennsylvania would endorse his vote.
The debate having been terminated, the Senate
10 vote on the report OF the mmit of
conference on the Kansas bill, which was agreed to
by the following vote:
YEAs-Messrs Allen, Baynrd, Benjamin. Biggs, Big.
Ter, Bright, Brown. Clay, Davis, Evans, Fitzpatrick,
Green, Gwir, Hammond, Houston. Hunter, Iverson,
Johnson of Arkansas, johnson Of r"nness.e, Jones,
Kennedy. Mallory. Mason. Polk, Pugh, Sehsstian,
Slid-l. Thomsou OF Kew Jersey, Toonbs, Wright,
and Yuie"-3l.
NaYs-Messrs. Broderick, Cameron. Chandler. Col
Iamer, Crittsrdeu. Dixon, Do%olttie, douglas, Dnrker,
Fassenden, Focte. Foster. Hale, iIa,nlin, Harlan,
King. Seward. Summons, Stuart. TRANQUIL, Wade,
and Wilson-22.
The Deficiency bill was then callcdu up. Mr. Toombs,
in the earlier part OF the day, had stated that the man.
ayers of the two Houses could come to no agreement
respecting their differences on the bill.
Mr.. Hunter moved that the Senate recede from its
amendments, which motion was carried, yeas 90, nays
The Senate adjourned till Monday next by a vote
Of yeas 81. nays 20.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr. English called for the regular order, being the
Kansas report of the COMMITTEES of conference.
MIR. Clark, of New York. had intended to give his
reasons why b. should vote against the substitute,
but a niglt's sickness had lett bin. lie said. physicaily
unable 10 undertake the task. He would merely nov
that he regarded this me% scheme rs einiu.urly
objectionable in form aud still more dangerous in
substance. He would seek the floor al H future o..
-. ion to deliver hs views.
Mr.. Bryan gave hi- reasons why he had acted with
the litte squad of southern members on this subject.
After abiding to the remark of Senator Seward that
he regarded the battle between freedom aud slavery
ss already fought, he said be would do nothing to
leopard the union OF the South for the protection Of
the South, which is much needed.
Mr.. Shorter said re had, with five or six Southern
uniformly resisted the previous question.
lie had wanted time for discussion in order To arrive