The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-05-03
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xxxvth Congress--FIrst Session.
Stewards speech on the Kansas Hill.
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WAsHINGroN. April 29--M
SENArE.-Seward took tha floor. The bill
has gone INTO conference aud has come out
an artifce, u uick of Legislative legcrdemain.
Both ends of the Capitol are engaged to-day
i'm attempting to take to pieces and put to-
gether this legislative fuzze. lie had little
talent and no task for this sort OF legislation.
lie illustrated his position by reference to
perpetual motion machinery, and automa-
TOT projects, which were gotten up for the
purpo-c ofnot being explained by oGe side to
the other. lie objected to the con ference bill,
because it presented false issue to the peo-
pie. The true question mt Issue Is the sub
mission OF the Constitution. direct TO the peo-
pie. The question of public lands has moth
ing TO do with that, inasinuch MS the lands
are the dowry OF all new States. The land
question docs not occupy one l:ne of the looo
qusrto pages. OF the Kansas debate. Ii Is,
therefore, a icigned issue. Besides the ques-
ton Of numbers IS equally new, dating only
from the conference. That Kansas has a
sufficient population for slave State, and
just half enough for u free State. Seward
then replied severely to Pugh's saying that
Seward in sc stood for the admission OF Kan
sas rs a tree State. He stands there now
He cared not for the number 1000 or 900
900, or even If il reached the population
of China, lie would not aid, by one vote, her
admission into the Union ms slave State. As
10 his estimate formerly made OF her growing
populousncss, and prcdicatcd on the fact OF
her being q free, State, he never promised
rapid progress Tor her rs o slave State. lie
never was 80 young that W hen he saw Othello
and the gentle daughter OF the i'enator Of
Venice, was married in the first act, as not to
know that discord would follow in the second
act, and death and desolation in the last
Further, he objected to the bill because it
l.. 10 x@r$.
to be the submission OF her dowry-b but il
submits Lscempton. 1t is so regarded by the
Democratic presses. The Herald, quoting
from Cox's speech, says that the sense Of the
people was to nc taken on Lecompton, al
though it was not directly submitted. Nc
State but Ohio could have got. at the out
side, so lucid an explanation. This Indirect
ness and equivocation is on the bill, and en-
tendres IN legislation arc an immortality
| However, ii you make u slave barrier across
the latitude Of 46, you interpose u barrier to
/ progress moro unsurmountablc than the
| Rocky Mountains sr the Sierra Nevada. 1t
amuses HIM, when he hears patriotic men
talk OF removing the Capital. IL you con
| fine slavery within It's legitimate limits, the
Capital of this nation may remain where il
Ia. nn empire that may grasp the poll and the
equator; but no such destiny awaits 1T, i
| you separate, by a slave barrier. Further
this bill is nothing bnt Lccompton with va
ration. You toss coin and bid Kansas cry
eagle or Liberty" Ii eagle. you give hei
slavery, if the efiigy of liberty. you give hel
slavery. What thinks the Senator from
Pennsylvania, repre- enting the first free
Statei the Senator from Rhode Island. or tn,
Roger Williams Senator! the Iowa Senator
the California Senator, whose State was
saved from slavery by the efforts Of other
than his, the Senators from Indiana, (bu
they have another question to settle with theii
people ut honey. What answer will they
give to this proposal, which leaves only
semblance, and not the choice of libertys-
Addressing himself next to the election boar
he said the ghosts Of their Styx are not NOR,
thick and cloudy than are the spirits of tn
departed Governors Of Kansas, who attempt
ed to give correct returns. lie had no con
/ fdcnce in the President, as element Of tina
board. lie has had experience, that som,
would cry shame. lie neither disparaget
nor DETAINED the President, but he consolec
himself, that once men in Virginia criet
shame on Patrick Henry. Men were no
wanting i'm Rome TO cry shame on Cato. ane
they were no friends OF liberty who, in Sen
ates fear to oppose Kings or Presidents.
Ri fler announced that The bill had passed
| the House.
Considerable sensation was manifested il
the galleries and on the floor.
Seward resumed. saying the announcement
caused him no discourngement. 1t was
littls matter, practically, whether it was tn
first victory or the last 4, feat.
After some discussion as to the points o
order, tie vote was taken, and resulted. yea
81, nays 22-Senators generally voting sam
as previously.
Hunter msved that the Senate reccde fron
the amendment to the deficiency bill, whic
was carried without debate. IS against 81.