Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1858-05-13

Legislative puzzle. lie had but little
talent and no taste for this sort OF
Legislation, and illustrated his posi-
tion by reference to a perpetual motion
machine and automaton chess PLAYERS,
which, like the Conference project.
were gotten up for the purpose OF not
being explained by one side to the
other. He objected to the Conference
bill because it presented false issue
to the people The tone Of the ques-
ton at issue is a submission OF the
Constitution to direct vote of the
people-the question of public lands
has nothing to do with that. inasmuch
as the lands are the dowery OF all new
States. The land question does not
occupy one line Of the eighteen hundred
qarto pages of the Kanzas debate, and
it is therefore feigned Issue. The
question of numbers Is equally as new
dating only from the Conference
that Kanzas has enough population for
a Slave, and just half enough for a
Free State.
Mr. Seward then replied severely to
Mr. Pugh, saving that he (Seward in
90 stood for the admission of Kanzas
as Free State and he stands there
now. He cared not for numbers; ten
thousand or ten hundred thousand, or
if even it reached the population OF
China, he would not aid by one vote
her admission as a Slave State, and as
to his estimate formerly made of her
growing populousness he predicted on
the fact OF her being Free State; he
never promised rapid progress for q
Slave State, and was never SO young
that when he first saw in Othello the
gentle daughter of a Senator of Venice
married to the Moor, in the first act,
not to know that diScord would follow
in the second, and death and desolu-
ton in the last. Further, he objected
to the bill because it bears equivoca
tion on its face. 1t purports to be a
submission of her dowery, but it sub
mits Lecompton; it is so regarded by
Democratic presses. He read from
Mr. Cox of Ohio's speech that the
sense Of the people was to be taken on
iecompton, although it was directly
submitted, like voting by black and
white balls in Masonic lodges, without
saving anything about the candidate
who is in waiting. No State but O.,
could have got, at the outside, so lucid
an explanation. Thus indircctedness
and cquivocation are On the bill, and
double entendres in Legislation are an
immortality. Moreover, if you make
Slave barrier across the latitude Of
36 YOU interpoSe a barrier to progress
more insurmountable than the Rocky
Mountains or the Sierra Nevada.
/ Further: This bill is nothing but
acknowledgements with vria-
ton. You toss coin and bid Kanzas
cry Eagle or Liberty" If eagle, you
give her Slavery; if effigy Liberty, you
give her Slavery still. What thinks
the Senator from Pennsylvania, repre-
senting the first Free State-the Sena-
tor from Rhode Island, Of Roger Will
lams-the Senator from Iowa-thC
Senator from California, whose State
was saved from Slavery by efforts 9th
er than his-thc Senators from In
diana, but they have another question
to settle with their people at home
what answers will they give to thi'
proposal which leaves only the sem
blance, and not the choice, of Liberty
Addressing himself next to the cleo
ton board, he said the ghosts On The
Styx are not more thick and cloudy
than arc the spirits of departed Gov.
ernors of kanzas who attempted tC
give correct returns. He had no con
fidence in the President as an element
of that board. He has had experience
enough to know that some would cry
shame. He neither disparayed or lie
famed the President, but conSoled him
self that once men in Virginia crieC
shame on Patrick Henry, and mer
were not wanting in Rome to or,
shame on Cato, and they were ne
friends of Liberty who in Senaies fear
ed to oppose Kings and Presidents.
Mr.. Bigler her announced that th'
bill had passed the House. Consider
able sensation was manifested III tn,
galleries and floor.
Mr.. Seward resumed, saying The
amendment caused him no discourge
ment, as it was little matter, practi
cally, whether it was last defeat or frs
victory. i
After some discussion As to the poin
of order, the vote on the question wa
taken. Yeas 81, nays -. Senators
generally voting as previously.
Thereafter Mr.. Hunter moved tina
the Senate recede from the amend
ments to the Deficiency Bill. Carrie,
without debate-25 against y.
Adjourned.