New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-15
xxxVth CONGRESS-. First Session.

SENATE. .WAsHISGToN, March IL, 1888.
Dir. WADE Ohio spoke on the Kansas question,
defending the North from the charge OF aggresslons
upon the South and contendng that the aggression
were all the other way He in this connection charges
that the seizure of Texas and her admission into the
Union in violation of the Constitution of the unted
States was an aggression upon the rights of
the North She admitted with the purpose of max
ing five Slave States with ten additional Senators to
vote down the rights of the North The Fugitive Slave
bill was another moRsrOus aggression upon the rights,
honor and pride of the North 1t is badge OF SER
vitude and subsection that cannot be tolerated by
free The next aggression was the repeal Of the
Missouri Compromise for which there was no excuse
or pala,ion There used to be, he said something
called Southern honor but not exhibited on TINS
occasion. After replying at length to Mr. Hammond,
and controyeing his charges OF Northern aggressons,
Mr. Wade asked how it was possible that such
aggression should take place when the whole govern
ment for sixty years has lain PROSTATE at the feet OF
the South Mr.. Wade next entered into an elaborate
defence of the abOrers OF the North from the asper-
sops of Mr.. Hammond and others, pointing 10 their
achiey ements in the Patent Office and elsewhere as
evidence of their civilization and genius. 1t was not
be said on the PROSTATE necks Of such class that
the Senator from South Carolina could erect his sys-
tenn of s0ciety-he might as well attempt to make hls
bed in hell erect his edifice volcano Nor was
ssary for the South to send its threatened mis-
sonaries to the North to teach such aborcrs their
power. Their interest III the State and all that con-
Germs good government IL the same as that OF all 9TH
As to the degraded class alluded to by the SeDa-
tor he admitted their existence, but he contended that
they were mostly fOreigners-the sweepipgs OF the
Old WOrd-ignorant and viciOus-but nevertheless
good Democrats, and the principal supporters of
Slavery in the North. Slaves in their country,
they naturally attach Themselves TO Shareholders i'll
this. Mr.. Wade next passed to the Supreme Court
commenting on ts bred Scott decision and asserting
that its dcta bind except the suitors in its
own Court Addressing himself TO Mr.. Hsmmonds
boast that Shareholders had ruled the nation for go
years. he Wade) admitted its truth, but contended it
only through the aid of that set of most despca-
l. NJ MAJ
new in the world for Moses encountered them in the
wilderness, where, turning from the visible glOres of
the Almighty, they fell PROSTATE to worship an
Egyptian cali. These men hungered after the flesh
pot. of Egypt. They were national men. They were
not Northern with Southern principles, but Israel
ties with Egyptian principles. Oar Savior next met
with OF this class in Judas lscaTiot and WASH
ingon and his associates had encountered them ire
quently Mr. Wade then turned TO Kansas, and IN
the course of his remarks he alluded to the bill OF Mr.
Ioombs, saying that he had curious history about
that. clause, be said, originally attached 10
that bill providing for the submit sion Of the Const-
tuition 10 the people Of Kansas, but when afterward
it was debated by the Committee on Territories, al
the house of their chief it was stricken out.
SENATOR-For peculiar re asous.
MI MASE T1- t1T very peculiar reasons
rose, when Mr. WADE, correcting himself said he
had just been informed it might not have been de.
bated ~ the COMMITTEE on Territories, but by Other
Several Senator's here stated their impression a. 70
the existence or existence such clause in the
original draft Of the bill MOst Of them believed that
il did no. contain such clause
Mr.. MASON Va. here interposed statement of
the facts-when the Senator from Illinois as Chair
man Of the Committee Territories reported the
bll, since called the Enabling act, contained clause
for the submission Of the Constitution to the people
The Senator from Georgia two months afterward in.
troduced bill of Ike character, containing no such
clause Both bills were sent back 10 the Committee
on Territories, the Chairman OF which subsequently,
rfpo,ted tie bill which afterwsrd passed the Senate
MIR. BIGLER pa here rose considerably sgtated,
and amid some confusion occasioned by Senators re
questirg III. Wade to 60 on, SAID that he regretted
Hst pepopal defense Of himself had again been
coed upon hin. What be said when this question