The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-01-26

| the table.
The question taken, and the motion not
| agreed to-yess "a, nays l0s.
] The previous question then seconded-ayes 81,
noes 65 and the resolution was adopted
1HE INVALID BILL,
On motion OF Mr. J. CLANCY JONES of Pennsylya-
MIA the House then went into Committee Of the Whole
on the state of the Union Mr WINsLOw Of North Caro-
lima the chair and resumed the consideration Of the
bill making appropriations for the payment of invalid
and other pensions of the United States for the year end
! ing the 30th June, 1859 ta lfr
Mr.. GARTRFII, of Georgia, said he should have pre-
views upon the important questions growing
of the illegal arrest OF Gen William Walker and his
upon the soil of Nicaragua but that question had
been temporarily suspended and he should proceed to
the consideration Of subject of gaver importance to his
Immediate constituents, aud OF the most serious cose
quence 10 the Union at large He alluded TO the subject
of domestic slavery at the South-tho necessity for its
expansion and perpetuatOn He had been driven to this
by the extraordinary speech pronounced this
floor by the gentleman from Missouri Mr. BLAIR The
ostensibe object which that gentleman had in view
was the acquisition OF territory in Central America
whereon to colombo the free blacks Of the ~ountry and
those who may hereafter become free and there to main
tain them in the enjoyment OF freedom dependency
of the government That gentleman had denounced the
institution Of slavery cancer, which, unless removed
would eat into the yitas of the body polite Mr.. g. de-
MED emphacay the position assumed by the gentleman
and would, in the presence of the House. maintain the
reverse of it, He held that the institution OF domestic
slavery the South right both in principle and prac
tce that it had been and still is blessing to the
African race had developed the OF this great
country to unlimited extent and had elevated the
country in the scale of wealth. enterprise and ntc
| gence As southern man. the owner of slaves and
Conscientious of his moral obligations any gentle
man. he did not hesitate here elsewhere to defend the
institution being strictly in accordance to the prnc
pies of right and the high sanction of laws, both hunn
and dvine and he reoced that the public mind OF tho
South was being awakened to this view of tho question
The time for the aboshment of slavery had passed He
stood there and the people of the South unit with
him. in dehtly defending and justifying 1t in its whole
extent The false prophecies of Randolph and others OF
the evil consequences of this institution upon the interests
of the southern people fast being obcrated by ts
and experience Other nations beginning to the
error of their course French and English misguided
philanthropy beginning to see the of their way
and ready to adopt slavery proposition more bar
berols than own Mr. G. then eloquently discussed
the moral aspect of the institution quoting from the Bible
and statistics of the country to sustain his position
Mr. G. subsequently, said he had but two objects in ad-
dressing the Ho,se-to preserve the Union of our fathers
and to to his people their constitutional rights
They might force him to abandon the Union, but they
could drive him from the maintenance of southern
rights and southern equality in the Union of States In
order that those rights might be preserved they must ad
nit Kansas into this Union with the Lecompton consttu
ton The whole Kansas question was in nutshell, and
depended upon the great principle OF non-interyenton
sustained by the national democratic party in the last
test throughout this great Union. s..'"
| Mr. WASFBURNE of Wisconsin, read speech upon
the financial revulsion contendng that it not
caused by bank credits bank expansions, but in the
tavagant and corrupt and corTupng practices of this
1 government during the last twenty years.
| Mr. GRANGER, of New York, said the administration
had reason be alarmed at the recent financial difficult
ties BY extravaganza and folly expenses had up
to eighty ninety millions Of dollars year, while our
revenue had down to twenty five or thirty millions
The President had part of the army in the Rocky
mountains bockaded by and the Mormons another
part in Kansas and the remainder fighting for glory with
Billy Bowlegs and they called for four reg
ments If he voted for any for such pur
poses he reckoncd his constituents would find it out Mr.
e. then proceeded to discuss the tariff policy of the
ernment arguing in favor of protection and asserting
that free trade right they should pull down their
custom houses and abolish tariff
| Mr.. BINGHAM, of Ohio, said enough had been said
touching the neutrality act of 1918 in vndcaton OF Gen
William Walker and his raid upon Nicaragua, and
than enough in denunciaon of that gallant commodore
for the faithful discharge of his duty by arcstng this m
gtve from Justice and sending him back to answer the
violated laws of his country The President had pressed
upon their consideration question of gaver significance,
and which claimed the undivided attention OF the whole
people of the United States and would command at the
hands Of the House final decision He alluded to the
admission of Kansas He trusted that member would
be influenced in the settlement of this great question
cept by his of right and Justice Notwith-
standing the soictude Of the President and the threats
of gentlemen, he had made up his mind that under
possible condition OF things would he give his sanction to
the Lecompton constitution 1t not the will of the
people of Kansas, and its provisions in direct
ct with the constitution Of the United States and the
principles of eternal Justice IL fact which could
not successfully denied that the why the con-
venton which framed it refused to submit it to the peo-
pie for their approval rejection that the people
would have voted down. and yet the President had the
auacty with this fact staring him in the face to
before the House in his annual and demand that
the Congress of the United States, by congressional en-
acment, should set up this instrument as the constitu
ton Of the people of Kansas 1t constitution void
of law framed and adopted by federal intervention and
that this act of inay had been dono and the rights
of the people broken down, they were bandly told to
qniesce in this outrage upon popular rights for the
sake of the Union. Hajs astaG n
The committee then rose. f.8 Is Re atu&. 7