New-York daily tribune., 1858-03-23
FROM WASHING TON.

From Our Own Cor-es2 1cen,
WASHINGTON, Thursday, March II, l9,59.
After the usual hour Of preliminary busSess, IN
cludiDg resolve offered by DR.. g win Of California
to inquire into the circumstances Of what he called
the massakree Of large body Of emigrants by the
MOrmons Or the Indians in Utah, Mr.. Toombs OF
Georgia took the floor 10 speak upon Kansas. 1t
was understood that be meant TO reply 10 Mr.. Crt-
tenden whose speech he had been heard ~ say yes
terday was one that demanded an answer While
Mr.. Critteuden was speaking, observed that Mr..
Toombs, who sat beside him, was very busy taking
notes Mr. Foot Of Vermont, who had the floor
assigned to him to-day, had renquished it IN favor
Of Mr. Bell Of Tennessee, who had again relinqush-
ed it in favor of Mr.. ToOmbs.
The TRIBUNE yesterday said truly that Dir.
ToOinbs il a man of brains. There can be 10 doubt
OF that. The fact is manifest 10 every one who
looks at his fine hesd and Intelligent cOuntenance.
Ii il 70 be- laInentsd, however, that an intellect OF
such calber should be wasted and degraded IN the
service Of Slavery. IL is a sad instance OF the
wretched effect which the AtrlcanlzdtOn OF the
South has had upon even her strongest minds, that
a man like Mr.. TOOmbs should feel himself COM
PEELED to rise he did to-day, in the face OF the
American Senate and American people aud debase
himself by prOstitutng his powers Of speech and
argument TO the vain tack Of proving that to betrue
which he knows TO be false, and that to be sound
which he knows 10 be rotten. He evidently felt 1t
to be dirty work, and slurred over the worst parts
of il in a way that showed that he would gladly
have talked upon some cleaner topic He palpably
had no confidence in his own arguments, and went
through his pettifOgging talk with the air OF an at
tOrney who has undertaken for fee ~ defend
desperate criminal whom everybody knows to be
guilty, and against whom the jury have already
made up their verdict.
Mr. IOOmbs begun by saying that this was not
mol hon oh tha
right and safety Of fifteen States Of this Union 10
whom the principle involved in it was of higher
value than the Union tself. Ii was great COnst
tutiOnal question: The root Of the whole matter
was the fanatca determination of the people of the
North TO admit no more Slave States into the CnlOn
To show the error of this determination, he entered
into long argument that Congress had no pO@er to
require anything of new State but republican
Constitution aud proper boundaries. These COnst
tutional reQuisOns not sufficient for certain
men at the North who had been for years stimu
latting the fanaticsm of the masses on the
subject OF Slavery, with the intention, through
that fanatIcslr. of acquiring control of the Govern
ment of the c'untry. If this intention were carried
out, there would soon be all end of the Union. lie
had calculated the value of the Union, and would
one day favor the world with the result of his cacu
lations. AT present he would only say that he had
satisfied himself that the Union was of more value
TO the North than to the South He had represented
district in Georgia for eight years and during all
that time not human being from bis district had
applied TO him for Office, or for the passage of
law for his especial benefit. They left the search
after such benefits from the Union 10 the manuiac.
iurers and machine makers of the North.
Mr.. TOOmbs cared nothing for nlaj0rities. They
had no right to govern, except through the forms
and technicalities warmly derded by his eminent
friend, the Senator from Kentucky-Mr. Critten-
den. The tecbncalities alluded to by Mr.. Crit
tenden, YOU will remember, were those of Oxford,
Shawnee, Kickapoo aud Delaware Crossing
There was no objection, he continued, no legal or
political objection to the admission of Kansas under
the Lecomp,on Constitution. The only real ob]ec-
tion that the North had Slavery. All other OBJ
iectons were preteDses Kansas has triple right
OF admission First, under the treaty with France;
second, under the Slavery legislation OF Congress
from 1850 to 1851 thirdly, under the Kansas-Ne-
braska act of 1854. The Lecompton Constitution
was made with regularity, with even extreme reg
ularity-Nith legality, even extreme Legality. Inc
Slavery cause in it was submitted to the people, 1t
was ratified by them. The votes that were given
were all for that cause-Or nearly ali; 6,OOO for IT.
only 200 against il. 1t was said there were thou.
sands of fraudulent vOtes-that city directories and
tavern lists were put into the baliot-boxe'. What
of it! There we're legal votes enough cast to settle
the question. A few frauds at an election could
not invalidate Constitution. Besides, there was
no official proof of these frauds-they were mere
newspaper alegatons There was the testimony
of Walker and Stanton. Walker and Stanton had
done nothing from the day they entered Kansas TO
the day they left it but violate the Constitution vo
late the Ksnsa-Nebraska act and endeayor to break
down the Administration which sent them thlther
After this outburst of bile, Mr.. Toombs rambled
off into long dissertation about "my bill, the
much.talked of "Toombs bill, telling the Senate
how he had cut off something with scissors and
pasted it on to something else aud how certain
section was in his own handwriting and another
section in that of somebody else. did not listen
to this important explanation. Ii was hard enough
10 listen to Mr. Toombs when he talked Of general
topics but when he got upon himself he was
altogether intolerabe.
Dropping "my bill" Mr.. Tooulbs entered into
an aninsted and brazen defense Of the Missouri
invaders of Kansas, denying that any more violence
or fraud had been used than Was frequent at elec-
tions in the older States; not much for Instance,
Ms in Maryland at the recent election.
Mr.. Criitenden, interIuptug, referred the SeDa-
tor TO the official evidence Of violence and fraud.
Mr. Toombs attached no Importance TO that. Ever
thing was legal and proper This cry of fraud was
got up and circulated by designing men for partisan
purposes. The Black Republicans themselves did
not believe these charges. They knew their hol-
lowneSs As for the testimony of Walker and Stall
ton he could only say that he knew nothing in the
character Of either OF these men that should entle
them to more credit than ordinary witnesses; D." and
"they are indebted 10 my courtesy that | say no
"more," said Mr.. Tcombs, intimsting that if he
would. he could tale unfold about the eX.Goyern-
ors of Kansas. BY tie Senate and the audience
this unworthy insinuation was received with visible
contempt.
Mr. Toombs concluded his long and rambling
speech bv a grand elaborate flourish OF trumpets
over the Immortal glory which would ever attach TO
the heroic devotion of Mr.. Buchanan, Mr.. Bigler,