The Washington union., 1858-03-30


10 retake perfect of said State and return
the same as it can be conveniently done.
Without taking the question on this amendment,
The Senate adjourned
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
The SPEAKER stated the business first in order 10 be
the motion of Mr. SHERMAN of Ohio to suspend the rules
to enable him TO submit the following resolution
Resolved That special committee appointed by
Chair and 10 continue during this Congress Whose duty shan be 10
by bill otherwise the Congress
ing on the first Monday In Iecember next
The question taken, and the rules were not sus
pended-yess no. nays 5S-two- thirds not voting in fla
yor thereof
FoRTIFICATioS on CONNECTICUT
On motion of Mr.. ARNOLD, of Connecticut, a resolu
ton adopted instrueting the Committee Military
Affairs to inquire into the expedency of erecting forti
cation at or near the mouth OF the Connecticut river
DEFICIENCY RIlL--TIig
On motion of Mr. LEICHER OF Virginia, the House
then into Committee of the Whole the state of
the Union, (r BooocK, of Virginia, in the chair and
resumed the consideration Of the deficiency bill.
Mr. HILL OF Georgia, could see the necessity of
the organization of the Territories. There
pressing necessity for it, and ii he disposed to be
nvidous he might say that it done for the purpose
of carving out additional offices for disposition by the
democratic party. He deprecated the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, and characterized the pur
sued by the Washington Union in relation to the posi-
tions of Senators DouGLAs BEIL and CRIrTRNpM upon
the Kansas question, although he dissened from them
himself unjust In referring to the application of
Kansas for admission under the Lecompton constitution
lac said it sufficient for his purpose that he sat
ised from what he had read heard, and knew that the
constitutional convention legally constituted that
it had power TO form such constitution as in its wis
dom it might fit, they did not run counter to the
constitution of the United States and it republican
in form He satisfied from the inspection of the doc
ment itself that it contained all the elements which
ente it to be received the constitution OF the State
He even went further and said That its trainers had elm
mated from the constitutions of the different States all
| h,t and
strumens he had Intrinsicaly, he moth
ing to complain of.
MIR. WADE, of Ohio, did not propose to go into the
constitutional question at this time He was content to
rest this upon the action of the government from its
foundation up to the time it necessary to agitae the
slave question of obtaining slave power That
the real question involved in the contest be-
tween the two sections of the country political power
The institutions of free labor and slave labor at
with each other Gentlemen might say that these could
be reconcilcd They of the free States know that they
could not be- that it matter OF life and death to
| the great of the people of the free States.
Mr. READY of Tennessee contented himself with iinl
ing that the constitution recognised slavery and pledged
hmsef for the constitution With tsprovsons he was sat
isied and he intended to maintain them, and the Union
under them long it might be done consistently with
the landmarks of the great American charter II the
time should when it should be rodden under
foot and the Union dissolved and broken into fragments
neither patriot traitor should have cause to
to him, .'E Ia Brute The organic act of Kansas was
founded upon the great fundamental principle of non-n
Territories He believed the Missouri Compromise to be
unconstitutional and in violation of treaty spulations
with France by which the territory acquired and that
il was unjust to the South and, therefore, he in ia
yor of its repeal He conended that the constitution
| was legal. and that no enabling ACT was needed.
\ Mr.. GOOCH, of Massachusetts,, glad many
members had put upon the record their reasons or yo
ting as they will He trusted that the question be-
fore them might yet be decided that principle shall
be violated and wrong done either to the people of
Kansas or to any part of their common country When
be constitution, the question raised whether OF
it expresses the will of the people and clearly
the duty Of Congress to settle that question beyond
doubt before the admission takes place and IT, after in
vesgaon the doubt still remained it the duty Of
Congress to refer it back to the people in order that
they may frame it that there should be embarrass
ment and until this could be done State could right
fully claim admission into the Union. He contended
that the constitution not the will of the people, and
that it not submitted to the people, and not in
tended to be submitted 1t correct principle that
the people have the right examine the constitution under
which they and their descendants to live perhaps
for many generations There only way of asccr-
tanning the will of the people, and that was by giving
them full and fair opportunity of expressing IT at the bal
/ lot-box.
| Mr. TAYLOR of Louisiana, contended that the North
had rid themselves of slavery because they found it
longer the interest of the people to maintain it, 1t had
been asserted that the South was to be overwhelmed
that the slave States be placed at disadvantage
and to have hereafter remarkable influence in the af
| fairs of the Union and 1t attempted to be shown
that that because III alleged tiicIe WAS
anagonism between free and slave labor and that be-
of that antagOns the States of the South would
continue to advance at slow pace whilst the northern
States would go on with the steps of giant For one
he took entirely different view in relation to this mat
ter, and he thought experience would satisfy any
who chose to refer to the past and look at the future
that there grave error lying at the bottom of all
these assertions 1t true that the North Ics adj
vancng at rapid rate and II argued that this
owing to the superiority of free labor slave labor
Before the commoon in Europe which forced the people
to eigr ate, the progress of the South rapid
than that of the North but after the whole frame of
society there disturbed the emigrants oced to the
North because the climate better suited to their
sutions Capital had the advantage over free labor
and centred In few hands, and when the population got
dense at the South, the state of things which
listed in Europe in China would spring into existence
there, because it necessary result of the social
fabrc-it grew out of the superiority of capital
labor and he would say to the North, instead Of
carrying against the South, ii they to
ecise their ingenuity for the purpose of arriving at
remedy they would be doing the world service and would
deserve well of their felow-men. In the South this
of things could exist for the dignity of labor
| was now and always would be, maintained He argued
that the South would be pushed to the wall
lose its weight in the republic because of the crusade
upon her institutions, upon the part of the free of
| the North.
Mr. OIIN of New York, read paragraph from an cd
toral in the Union hour speaking ia the House
and said there was but afcton to which a
could be subjected that would be worse and that would
be where a man was doomed to read the Washington
Union by the hour He discussed the power of Congress
govern the Territories and denied that the Lecompton