Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-05-08
Congressional.


sas passed both Houses of Congress on Friday
of last week. The following is a summary of
the proceedings;
In the Senate the report Of the Conference Com
mittee ON Kansas was taken up.
Mr. Broderick said after the matter had been ably
discussed he would not make n heightened speech.
lie would vote against the Conference bill for several
reasons, the most potent Of which was that Kansas
could not come into the Union rs Free State during
the continuance Of the power of the present Admins
trnton. .
Kansas has but population of SO 900 now, and if
she does not swallow LccOmpton she must wait five
or six years for the requisite population to entte her
to representation. The original bill less o1jcc
tonable to him than this Conference substitute.
Mr. Doolitte (Wis) read from History Of Kansas,
10 show in reply to the remarks Of Mr.. Pugh yestcr-
day. that the population has diminished from the deeds
of violence committed.
Mr. Pugh (Ohio) replied after which
Mr. Seward took the floor, saying that the debate
had mnnifcsy lost in interest, although the question
was approachinga vet undetermined conclusion. This
decay Of interest is partly accounted for by the great
length Of the past discussion; but something too Is ow
ing to the change Of the subject matter left for debate
Commencing by being the high principles Of State
Sovereignty, II has gone into conference and comes
out artifcc, trick, and legislative leeerdcnain
Both ends Of the Capitol were engaged to-day in at
tempting to take to pieces and put together this leg
islatvc puzzle. He had little talent and no taste hr
this sort Of legislation He Illustrated his position by
reference to a perpetual motion machine. and the au
tonnton chcss-pnycr, which, like the Conference pro-
cct, gotten up for the purpose Of not being eX
planned by ono side to the other He objected to the
Conference report because it presented false issue
to the people The question at issue is the sub
mission Of the Constitution direct to the people. The
question Of public lands has nothing to do with that
innsmuch as lands are the dowry Of all new States
The land question does not occupy one line Of the
800 9uarto pages Of the Kansas debate ~ thcre-
fore cigned issue. AJames Jackson and John styles
issue Of the old black letter LAWYERS. He Seward
although of good natured and kindly disposition lett
iii.
the james Jackson who always disturbing and ex-
citing his ncghbors. Resides, the question of mem
bers j. equally new. dating only from the Conference,
viz that Kansas has enough population for Slave
State aud lust half enough for Free State Mr..
Seward then replied severely to Mr. Pugh, saying That
NJ. Seward in lS56 stood for the admission of Kansas
as Free state aud stands there now He cared not Tor
numbers they ten hundred. or ten hundred thou
said or ii they even reached the population Of China,
he would not ao by vote her admission asa Slave
State A. to his estimate formerly made 81 her grow
ing popuousness, he predcatcd 1t on the fact OF her
being Free State He never promised rapid progress
for her a. n Slave State. He never was SO young
that, when he fr,i saw Dcsdemona. the gentle dnugh
ter Of the Senator of Venice married to the Moor. in
the first act he dd not know that discord would fol-
low in the cconi and death and desoaton in the last
Further he objected to the bill because it bears equ
vocation on it. lace. 1t purports to be submission
Of her dowrv bri 1t submits the Lecompton Consttu-
ton and it is regarded BY Democratic presses. He
| quoted from New Hampshire paper TO that effect
und sad in this he found paradox rs irreconcinbe
ms the Free-will and Fate which puzzle the tlcO-
logans. Here he read from Mr. Cox Of Ohios speech
that the the people to be taken on the lie
compton Constitution. although it was not directly sub
mted. II is like voting by black and white balls IN
! Masonic lodges, without saving anything about the
candidate who Is waiting admission. No State but OHIO
could lave got at the outset 80 lucid an explanation.
Thus indrectness and equvocation on the bill,
and double enondres in legislation are an immortality
Moreover. if make "A slave barrier across this lat
tudc of 40, YOU interpose barrier 10 progress more
insumountable than the Rocky Mountains or the
Sierra Nevada. II amused him when he heard pairi-
Otto men talking e removing the Capital. II We now
confne Slavery within it, legitimate limits, the capital
Of al empire lat may grasp the pole and the equator
No such destiny await, Il # You separate by slave
barrier the Atlantic Free States from the Pacific FREQ
States. Further, this bill is nothing but Lecompton.
| Lecompton with variation You toss a CON, and
! bid Kansas cry Eagle" or Liberty" II she SAYS
Eagle, you give her slavery. u the oliigy" Liber
tv,' you give her Slavery still. What thinks the Sen
aior from Penf syivaua representing the first FREQ
State; the Senator from Rhode Island. land of Roger
Wiliams--the Senator from lown---the Senator from
California, whose State was saved from Slavery by
efforts other than his. and the Senator from Indiana
but they have another question 10 settle with their PEG
pie Mt home. What will they give to this pro
! posa which leaves only the sembance and not thu
Choice oi liberty! friend here asks what VIII the
| people OF New Jersey say? lie could himself answer
because the blood of the men who hazaricd their ,
and means for her liberty flowed through his veins
| He knows the hlne hills Of New Jersey, and will an
swer that the here given for Lecompton will be
asr s ya'ss gwen fer .e nes' se SeA 40
| ghosts on the Siyx are not more thick and cloudy
than the spirits Of the departed Governors of Kan
sas who attempted to give correct returns. He had
no confidence in the President an element of that
board. lie had had experience that some would cry
shame that he disparuged DETAINED the President
! but he considered that once men in Virginia cried
! shame on Patrick Henry. Men were not wanting
| in Rome to cry shame" on Cato and they were nc
friends of liberty who in Senaes fear to oppOse-op-
pose King or Presidents. He went on to speak of the
bill under its aspect Of compromise, saying it offered
| nd rent of