American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-03-11
CONGRESSIONAL.

hAOuSo icsuih0u eDo CO1siHotHttOH Ot Otu- |
ate's resolutions cIneerning naval retiring
hoard.
Mr.. Whitley argued in favor Of Of the
resolutions, severely criticising the pro-
ceediug OF the board.
Mr.. Bocock opposed them. contending |
that their proceedings were Just. and even |
II reversed. that many Of its victims. who |
are now expecting 10 be placed back in the |
navy, would 6nd themselves mistaken.
Messrs, Winslow and Seward both ad-
vocated the resolution. and il finally pass
ed by II majority. Adjourned.
SENATE.-In the Senate Mr.. Hammond
introduced a joint resolution authorizing
the Secretary Of Navy to pay the officers
and seamen Of the expedition in search Of
Dr.. Kane. at same rate as allowed those
in the De Hsven's expedition.
The hour Of one having arrived, the
special order Of the day, the Kansas bill,
was taken up.
| Mr.. Seward delivered lengthy speech.
discussing the following propositions: list
That whereas. in the beginning. the as
cendancy Of slavery in the States was ab.
solute. II is now being reversed.
Second, That whereas. heretofore the
National Government has favored the
change Of The balance from the slave States
to the free States. 1t has now reversed
this policy. aud opposes the changes.
Third, That National Intervention in the
Territories, in favor Of slave labor and
Slave States, Is opposed TO the natural.
social and moral developments ofthis Re-
public.
In arguing these propositions, Mr.. Sew
ard said tlat Nebraska was resigned to
free labor without Struggle, and Kansas
became the theater Of the first actual ns-
tional conflict between slaveholding and
free labor emigrants, who met face TO face
to organizs. through the machinery OF
republican action, civil community.
4 In this hour Of trial, the new system Of
popular sovereignty signally fails. because
ii is impossible to organic, by one single
act In one day community perfectly free.
perfectly sovereign. and perfectly consti-
tuted ont Of elements unsssimulated, un>
arranged aul unoomposed. Free labor
righifully won the dey. Sieve labor wrest-
ed to itstlfty frtud and violence.
In speaking Of the opinion pronounced
by the Supreme Court Of the United Stat.
es in the dred Scott case, he said that iu
this il-omeuded act it forgot its own dig.
nifty. which had always been maintained
} with just judicial jealously. 1t forg,t thai
the province of a Court is simply jusdicio
!, and not at all jusdare. 1t forgot that on,
foul sentiment does more harm than many
foul examples, for the last do but corIup
the stream. while the former corrupts th,
fountain; and it and the President alike +
: forget hat Judicial usurpa,iou is more o
|, dous and intolerable than any other amon
the manifold practices Of tyranny.
; No wonder that the question before u
excites spprehensions and alarm. Their
: is at last North chamber. North side @
the chamber of Representatives. and
North side Of the Union, as we'll az Soutl
Sides Of all these. Each OF them is watch
I. full, Jealous and resolute.
If it be true. as has so often been asseI
ted, that the Union cannot survive the de
cision by Congress OF direct question, 10
volving the adoption Of free State in thi
. Union. which will establish the ascenden
> cy Of the free States under the Constitutio
and draw after il the restoration Of the IL
huence Of freedom in domestic and foreig
: conduct OF the Government, then the de-
> OF dissolution is at hand. Further. he said
, let the Supreme Court recede. Whethe
it recede or not, we shall reorganize th
: Court and thus reform its political sent
ments and practices, and bring them in
harmony with the constitution and laws @
nature. In doing so we shall not only re
: assume our own Just authority. but W
shall restore that high tribunal itself to th
position which it ought to maintain. sine
so many unalienable rights of citizens. an
even Of States themselves, depend upo
its impartiality and its wisdom.
II you attempt to enforce Kansas int
the Union under the Lecon pton Constitu
ton, the people Of that territory will resi'
even TO civil war.
Y You are pledged to put down that rev:
5 luton by the sword. Will the people lisl
t en- to the thunders Of your cannon? L.
/. but one drop of free citizen blood be she
d there by the Federal army, and the coun
o ency Of every Representative of free Stat
l. in either House Of Congress, will blanct
IS ond his tongue will refuse to utter tn
a vote necessary to sustain the amy in th
butchery of his fellow citizens.
Mr.. Thompson, IN. ] in alluding
Kansas, said that now was the favorab
y y opportunity 10 end her troubles by admi
d sion into the Union. He contended tn
u Lecompton Constitution was expressiu
'e the will of the people Of Kansas. lie re
/ piled TO the many arguments against th'
2 instrument and ;nstanced cases of fourtee
!, States whose constitutions were ndopte
without submission to the,people. Ifwror
= has been suffered by the opponents OF Il
. Lecompton constitution, that wrong was
consequence of their own misconduct, ar
d therefore they havana right to complai
II the free State party have large m
v jority, as is pretended. they can cham
re any 1bnoxous features in the constitutio
A. but il in the minority. they must subm
as like good citizens, TO the will sof the m
Q. jority. But this party don't want peas
in They desirelhs agitation of the afIsirs
i u