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WASHINGTON, March 8.
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of the Texas Legislature relative to the Sou
| thern States Rights Convention, in the event
| of the rejection of the Lecompton Constitu-
ton.
Mr.. Mason of Virginia, moved for the fur
| ther consideration of the bill for the relief of
Com. Jones.
A discussion ensued, when the bill was
| passed.
The bill for the admission of Kanzas under
the Lecompton Constitution was taken up.
| Mr.. Hamlin of Maine said that no subject
of equal Importance had been considered
since he had a seat in the Senate. He re-
| gretted that it had been made party ques-
| ton, for there was no despotism on earth like
party despotism. He had felt it, but thank
| God, he was freeman now. Ia all the rec
ords of time, but one act of similar turpitude
had been attempted He had no eulogy to
bestow on the Union 1t needs none its
eulogy is written in the past,
He then replied to that statement of Mr..
Hammond, arranging his remarks under
three heads: lst, the faith of the South, and
how she kept it ID, the capacity of the
| South as distinct and separate government
! Sd, the capacity Of the South as a distinct
and separate government; Sd, the character
| of the laboring masses of the North. He
said, in speaking on these points, that he
| should be compelled to use the term, tile
South, put into his mouth by the Senator
from South Carolina; but in his heart he
knew no North, no East, no South, no West.
We are citizens of one common coun-
try. The North mean to stick to the
Union; they don't mean to go out Of
it; neither shall you. He denied that the
North ever broke its plighted faith and he
was at loss to know what the phrase, the
faith of the South, meant. That section had
hrNlr larr5 1ot1r f,.t
tariff by attempting to break down the North
after it had Invested its capital in manufac-
lures. With reference to Mr.. Hammond's
question, what guarantee has the South that
the North will not establish another bank, Mr.
Hamblin asked, what guarantee has the North
that the South will not saddle them with a
national bank Indeed, he expected to see
the day when the South would seek protec-
ton in a tariff. He then combatted at length
the modern doctrine of the South, that the
general government was founded on the prin-
ciple of slavery, conending that it was an
abandonment of the principles of her fathers.
Proceeding to the Missouri Compromise, Mr.
Hamlin said that was the work of the South.
She was jubilant over its success, the North
merely acquieseing. Who repealed it, after
reaping its benefits The South This was
fine instance of Southern faith. Henext
reviewed the Dred Scott decision, saying, in
conclusion, that the judges who gave it to
the world, rank in infamy on the pages of
history, with Jetfrevs. In reviewing the his
tory of the admission of Texas, Mr.. Hamlin
said she was admitted on the basis of the Mis-.
souri, Compromise without which she could
not have been admitted. The North was in
duced to vote for it, because she was told that
North of SO 80, she could have free States.
The South oblitetated that line in 1854. Was
that good faith:
Analysing the faith of the Democratic par
tyi he said it was now in the leading strings
Of few prominent Southern men. South
Carolina ruled it. Calhoun resolutions offer
ed in that day of compromise, and secuted
from the Senate, are nov the governing prin-
ciples in Congress. Modification now reigns
supreme in tt cir party. 1t has got the Sem
ate the House, the President, and the Su-
preme Court. The Democracy had even i'm
proved upon those principles. and were about
to declare, in passing the Lecompton bill,
that white men have no majorities which they
are bound to respect. Mr.. Hamlin controver-
ted Mr.. Hammond's assertion that there were
more poor people in the North than in the
South, contending that in the latter, notwth-
standing that large numbers Of its paupers
were thrown upon the North, the poor people
still predominated. In support Of this posi-
ton, he quoted FROM Southern writers, in
cluding Mr.. Hammond himself
He next passed to the consideration of Mr..
Hammond's assertion that the white laborers
of the North were slaves. He said the SEN
ator entirely misapprehended the character of
Northern laborers. He CMr. Hamlin) was
laboring man. He was educated in printing
office, and he now toled in his fields, earning
by the sweat of his brow the food which he
eats. Another Senator and his friend were
laborers. They were representatives of the
laborers of the North.
Without concluding, Mr.. Hamlin gave way
to an executive session, after which the Sem
ate adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House resumed the consideration of
MI. Quitman's bill for the increase of the ar
my by volunteer regiments.
Mr.. Faulkner of Virginia was opposed to
sending volunteers to Utah, and believed that
if they were placed at the disposal of the
Executive, he would not find OCCASION to use
them. He thought the proposition for the
employment of volunteers dictated by outside
pressure, rather than the conviction Of a
sound military policy.
Mr.. Keltt of South Carolina, in discussing
the constitutional power to admit new States,
defined his views of political government
contrary to the views OF some OF his friends.
He believed that the people of Kanzas cannot
change their constitution prior to 1864.
Mr. Clemens of Virginia asked how Mr..
Keitt reconciled that declaration with the ex-
preston, in another part of the Lecompton
constitution, that the people have the right to
alter that instrument.
Mr.. Keitt replied that general declaration
in bill Of rights is like preamble, and is re-
stricted by the body of the bill itself. AS to
the admission of Kanzas, if the Republicans
tell the South that no slave States shall
hereafter be admitted, they will shake every
pillar of the political Union. Should this
policy be carried into effect, no federal tax
gatherer would ever again tread the soil Of
the South. When the work OF incendiarism,
propagandism, and revolution, begins, this
Union may end, il may be, in blood.
Mr.. English of Indiana alluded to assaults
| upon Northern Democrats who voted against
the Kanzas. Nebraska bill. They rsked eve-
| rything, while the South risked nothing. He
| appealed to Southern gentlemen whether they
would, for the sake Of shadow, for an empty
triumph, turn a deaf ear to such friendly
| warnings, and would enable Southern Demo-
Gratis to maintain the Union and the integrity
of the party at home. 1t is untrue
that the Democrats Of the non -slavehoding
States are opposed to the admission of any
more slave States. lie didn't know one, and
whoever asserts to the contrary, grossly mis-
| represents the Northern Democracy. His po-
htical reputation was not tainted with tree
soilism, like that Of the Van Buren's, and
| Dix's, who were foremost in the advocacy Of
Lecompton. If all reasonable compromises
are voted down, he should vote against the
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