Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-03-11

Important from Washington.
WASHINGTON. Marc

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WASHINGTON, March 3.
Mr.. Hammond, of S. c., INTRODUCED 2
Joint resolution authorizing the Secreta
ry of the Navy to pay the officers and
seamen of the expedition in search Of
DR.. Kane, under. Captain Hartstein, al
the same rate as has been allowed to the
officers and seamen of De Ravens ex-
petition.
The discussion on the admission OF
Kansas being under consideration in the
Committee Of the Whole
Mr.. Seward spoke at great length.-
He thought the excitement on the slave
ry question due to peculiar cireumstan-
ces. lst, That in the beginning the as
cendancy of the Slave States was abso-
lutte. 1t is now being reversed. I'd, That
whereas, heretofore, the national gov
eminent favored this change OF balance
from the Slave States to the Free States
it has now reversed this policy and
opposes the change Sd, That national
intervention in the Territories in
favor of slave labor and Slave States
is opposed to the natural, social
and moral development ofthe Republic.
He argued these propositions at some
length, and in the course of his remarks
alluded to decisions of the Supreme
Court in the bred Scott case, asserting
that they and the President alike forgot
that Judicial usurpation is more odious
and intolerable than any other among
the manifold practices of tyranny. Hav-
ing traced step by step the history of
Kansas affairs, MIR. Seward gave con-
else account of the national intervention
in the Territories in favor of slave labor
since 1920, adding it was no wonder that
the question before us excites apprehen-
sion and alarm.
Mr.. Seward, in closing his elaborate
speech, said--I am sure that no patriot
who views the subject as / do, could
wish to evade or delay the trial. But
we could only extend slavery at the most
throughout the Atlantic regions of the
Continent The Pacific slope is free,
and it always must and will be free
The mountain barriers which separate
US from that portion of our Empire, are
quite enough to divide us too widely,
possibly to ALLEVIATE us too soon. Let us
only become all slaveholding States on
this side of these barriers, while only
free States are organized and perpetual
ted the other side, and then indeed there
will come division of the great Ameri-
can Family into two nations, equally
ambitious for complete control over the
Continent, and'ssa conflict between them
over which the world will mourn as the
greatest and last to be retrieved of all
the calamities that have ever before be-
fallen the human race.
Mr.. Thompson, of n. j., in abiding
to Kansas, said that now was the oppor-i
unity now was the time end hertroubles,
by her admission into the Union. lie
that the Lecompton Constitu-
ton was the expression ofthe will ofthe
people in Kansas. He replied to the ma
ny arguments made against that instru-
ment, and instanced the cases of four
teen States whose constitutions were
adopted without submission to the peo-
pie. If the wrong had been suffered by
the opponents of the Lecompton Consti-
tuition, that wrong was the consequence
Of their own misconduct, and therefore
they have no right to complain. IF the
Free State party has larger majority,
as is pretended they can change any
obnoxious features in-the Constitution
but if they are in minority they must
submit like good citizens to the will of
fhe majority. But this party do not
want peace; they desire agitation. The
affairs of Kansas, he commended, win be
worse if she be not admitted
into the Union. He was impatient and
anxious that Congress should be releas-
ed from the consideration of this ques-
ton, and that the people of Kansas
should be left to settle their own difficult
ties in their own way and under their
own State government. Then he said,
we shall hear nothing more of bleeding
Kansas. The Senate then adjourned.
WAsHINGToN, March 4.
Contrary to the position assumed by
General Shields and other prominent
gentlemen, the Senate Committee on the