Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-03-17
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THIRrY-FiFrH CONGRESS.
EXoIrNa NIaHT SESSION oR THE sgNATE:
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, !
March Is, 4 o'clock, A. NJ.

! ing, and he went on to say:
The good of the North, of the South, and
the whole country. requires it. Postpone
ment will subserve to public good The
subject is as well understood tonight as it will
be when the Senators from New York, New
Hampshire, and Massachusetts, shall have
spoken.
| Mr. Wllson-When the Senator from Mis-
souri, made his report on the 18th of Februa-
ry, he pledged himself that Senators should
have full opportunity for discussion. Every
Senator has right to speak, and to speak in
proper hours. Fourteen Senators, opposed TO
the Lecompton swindle, intend to address the
Senate, and by a session of six hours each day
the subject may be terminated this week, or
at all events within one week from now. II
| you adjonrn at once, we will consult, and let
| you know what we will do.
Mr.. Benjamin OF Louisiana thought gentle
men on the Democratic side would not object
to an adjournment, if gentlemen on the other
side will say that tomorrow they will name
some day this week for taking the final vote,
or otherwise assent 10 permanent session
until the question was decided.
Mr.. Hamlin of Maine thought, considering
the number to speak, and the amendments to
| come. Monday would be better day to close
the debate. He approved OF the suggestion to
adjourn over and consult.
Mr.. Seward of New York. would not make
an agreement tonight for his associates, nor
assent to their making one for HIM, for the
reason that as the debate proceeds, it comes
out by degrees that the majority intend to
press the question to a vote tonight, unless
the minority will consent TO fix a day. He
would be willing to name day, but not with
out consultation. 1t is impossible 10 decide
without consultation. The main question
might be taken at any moment, were he to
leave the Chamber. The minority is entitled
to consultation. He would not, could not,
be drawn into facuous opposition to the pub.
lie business. The crushing business had no
terrors for him. He was accustomed to it,
aud had seen the party crushed grow stronger.
Such question as the present had not been
here since 1850. Great men were there, and
they undertook to bring in California. The
great debate began on the first OF the session,
IS49. The leader of the Senate promised that
every man should be heard. That promise
was faithfully kept and the act passed on the
18th of August.
This debate began just fifteen days ago,
which, less Sundays and adjournment, ave
but ten days, time entirely too Short and of
that one half was consumed by the OPPOSE
| ton. He wished to correct the idea that this
debate began in December He thought it
best not to come to a vote now, because there
are Senators who desire to speak. He closed
with giving the assurance that the subject
| should be taken up in the morning, and an
honest answer given. by which he supposed
all persons shall be bound.
Mr.. Seward was followed by Messrs Brown,
Wilson, Hale, Kennedy. and others.
Mr.. CLARK said the senator from Georgia
would find it hard work to crush out twenty
Northern senators. A different class of men
now came from the North--men who will not
bow down and yield. They are sent, not to
bow down, but to stand ; and the more you
crush the more they will stand. Had sena-
tors ON the other side persevered, he would
have spoken To the day of doom if he could
have lived so long, but as they had been cour-
teous he would meet them half way.
Referring to the Presidents assertion that
the passage of the Lecompton constitution
would bring peace and quietness, he said it is
always to be peace and quietness to pass
measure after measure. The dove comes with
the olive branch, and we take it into the ark ,
but no peace or quiet follows. He had the
various amendments to consider and had an
amendment Of his own to propose, which was
to tack the old Missouri Compromise.
Under these amendments he would have gone
into the debate fully We are told that slave
ry cannot exist in Kanzas, but Kanzas is no
further North than Missouri, and If slavery
is profitable there it will be in Kanzas.
If slavery is profitable here, it will be in
Kanzas. Alter further remarks on this point,
he turned to his own e-New Hampshire
once, he said, the Gibraltar of the Democ-
racy, but now turned squarely round on the
subject OF slavery.
Referring to the recent election there, he
added. she has now fixed her position as a
Republican State, and there she will remain
She changes only once in a generation. He
closed by warning the Senate that, as they
failed i'll 1852 and 1856, so they would fail by
| the admission of Kanzas with the Lecompton
| constitution.
Referring to the figure in Mr.. Hunters
| speech, OF the eagles gathering to the Feast
of Empire, he protested against that vision.
Let the youngest eagle of them all, said he,
stay at home, and not seek to feed on carbon
| Europe.
He would not have our armies marching
through Mexico and Central America to the
Amazon. They might do it, but it would be
| only by subjugating our fellow men and ex-
| tending the area of slavery. We ought not
to forget that " the nation that sinneth shall
die"
l A. MN. Dooliitle of Wisconsin moved
an adjournment. Lost-yeas IL, nays 81.
Mr.. Foster of Connecticut moved the fur
ther postponement of the subject until to-
morrow.
Mr.. Green of Missouri declared that unless
he could have distinct understanding that
vote should be taken on Monday, he would
go on.
Mr.. Hamlin of Maine and Mr.. Green then
exchanged explanations in reference to con-
versauon they had with the view of coming
to an arrangement.
Mr. Cameron of Pennsylvania said that he
was disguised with these fruitless attempts.
Who is the gentleman, he asked from Mis-
souri, He is but our peer. Is he the COM
mander Of the Senate majority that adjourned
over from Thursday to Tuesday to attend a
political pageant at Richmond
Mr.. Green-That is not true.
Mr. CAmeron-Do understand the gentle
man to say that 1 state what is not true
Mr. GTeen-I said so.
The Vice President called both Senators to
order.
Mr.. Cameron--The Senator has applied
harsh language to me. will use harsh terms,
and say it is untruth.
Mr.. Green-You are liar.
The Vice President again called both gen.
tlemen 10 order.
Mr.. Cameron asked the pardon Of the Sem
ate for having done what tho Senate says is
not right, though he Cameron still thought
he was not wrong. For anything said to that
gentleman (Mr. Green) am responsible.
Mr.. Green denied that he arrogated to him.
self TO dictate to members. The Senator does
me injustice and he knows that he does me
injustice. He (Green) was man enough to