The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-03-04

che mission OF San joe ccpdrw-d 10 the same Cor
t~o LOIS In the city OF s. Fracco confirmed 70 JACOB
Y. Leese and others
Gen Tram Nye has sopcintsd Uaitsc states aar
shat Tor the Northern Di.:so u Illinois, ia place Of David
son, removed.
T4IIRTY-ryEyB TsssssMEss.
FIRsT sxssIox.
Senate,
wAunSoros, Marrh ., 1855.
Mr.. HAMMOND, (sam OF 8 c., introduces JOIN, reso.
luton authorizing the Secretary d the Navy W pay tue
oficers and seamen Of the .xpeduoa In search Of Or
Kane under Capt HArtseln The same hes beea
allowed to the officers and Of Lieut. De Haysns
expedition.
rm ADHESION or rASsAs-srxscnB or sESAross sswAxo
AND THOMSON.
The special assignment being the bill for the sdmsson
Of Kansas under the Lecompton constitution. taken up
Nv sxwAxD (opp) OF N. T., said that the question Of
elavery iD The federal Territories which the nurseries
of future States, independently OF oil nw - and ~
name elements Involves dy nss,ical struggle OF the
gocistca system The labor OF slaves and the unu Of
freemsn-sor mastery the federal Union One Of
systems partakes Of srssocratc ogu the other n
purely democratic Each u The existing ssssss -
staked, or will ultimately st.ks, not only IL assr
nal welfare, but also It's influence In the federal
councils the decision Of thai cooses Such struggle
lie to be arrested queed recoDciled BY temporAy
expedens compromises He SAID thas ne Admss
of new state IA ot necessarily or even cuysomxrly ~
tended by other embarrassment alarms. We
have already admitted eighteen new States without
:sn' IN We .1s .v.s
admitting two others, Minnesota and Oregon,
these transactions g. on so smoothly that close
obser that thus consolidating
dominion the shores VI Lake superior ana almost
the gates Of the Arctic Ocean manifest that the ap
pretended difficulties in the present Gaze have some rela
ton 70 the dispute slavery which u raging 10
The Territory OF KAnsas Yet 1t must be that
nine Of the States which have been admittsi
expressly established slavery or tolerated IT, and nine Of
them forbade It the excitement therefore, Ia due 10
peculiar circumstances He thought there were three Of
First That whereas In the beginning the asceudsncy
Of the states absolute; II being reversed
second That whereas heretofore the national govern
change of balance the
TO the free States has reversed this policy and op
poses the change.
Third That national Intervention In the Territories in
favor OF slave labor ard slave States s opposed 20 the
natural social and moral developments of tue republic
In arguing the~e pro stons Mr. Seward said that Ne
braska free labor without struggle and
Kansas became theatre Of the frst actual nations con
fict between saveholding and free labor Immigrant
mel face to ofgsn:ze through the machinery
OF republican act on a civil community 10 this
frss hour of riai the rev system OF popu-
sble 70 organize by one single act, in one
day, community perfectly free, perfectly
sovereign ana perfectly constituted. out of eie
ments unassmia,ed, urar apged Aad uucomposed
Free labor riehtfully the day shyc labor wresied
the victory to itself by fraud and violence In speaking
OF the oonou PRONOUNCED by tho Soprene Court OF inc
J,s STATE. in the bred ,ot cssa N, seward SAD
Ir this Ill omen.d act IL forgot its own dignity
which bad always been maintained with just JUDICIAL lea
lousy They forgo. that the Of Court is simply
,,u diy and not ~ al sIiuy dare Thev forgot also
that foul sentence moro harm than many foul
oPsr qs the Ses an si bs
President alike forgot that judicial usurpaon is more
odous and nloerabe than any osaer among the msnod
practices Of tyranny. Having traced step by stop
the history Of Kansas al airs Mr. Seward then gave con
else account OF toe patopa inter euon in the Territories
in favor on slave labor and slave states since 1920 adding
No woudsr that question before Us exci1s appro
henson and alarm There IS A. last a North SIDE OF tbs
chamber North side OF the chamber or repreeo natives
all these Each Of them is xa,chfui Jealous and
resoIute II It be true as nas q, ofleu been
assested Union cannot survive the decision
BY Congress direct question rvovpg the adopt,n OF
q free STATE into this ULon which will estsbieh the
tendency OF free States under tho constitution and draw
after the restoration OF he Influence of freedom in the
domestic I'd foreign conduct OF the gos then the
day Of dissolution Is hand" The Supreme Court Of
United STATES attempts to command tae people of the
United STATES 10 ,cept the principle that one man can own
other men, and that they must guarantee the nvioaby
OF that false and psrpcous property The people of the
United States never can they never H. acc sp prn
oples unconstitutional and sbhorrent
Let the Court receoe Watcher reoe1e or not We snail
reorsanze the Court ard thus reform It's politics. stnli.
with the constitution and With the laws OF nature Ia
doing 90 we shall rot only resssumc our own just au
thoriiy, but We shall restore that high tribunal
itself 10 the position II ought 70 maintain since
many iasliena5le rights OF citizens, and even OF
States Themselves detepd upon Tia i.nrartaty and ia
wsdom. II you (Mr. Soward said auomp. 10 coeroe
Kansas into the Union under the Leoompou contGon,
the people OF that Territory viii resoTt 70 civil II
ceesay. You pledged 10 pct down that revolution by
tie sword. VIII the peorls listen to your voice amid
the thunders Of your cannon let but one drop
OF the blood OF free citizen be shed
snere By the federal army, and the couuteuaucc OF
every representative OF free state, in either house OF
Congress- will bianch ana his tongue will refuse &C utter
the necessary the amy In the bufchcry OF
his fellow citizens All parties this country
tolerated the extension OF slavery except one. have
perished To- that error already. That last one-ths
democrauc party-is hurry ns OF .rretreyably To-
wards the same fate. A nit deeper aud darker
is siu opening to receive thiF admin sirailon,
because Il sins more deeply Than u, prcde.
cessors Mr. Seward, IN closing h.s elaborate speech
eaid al have always believed Mr. President ,ha; this
eorcus federal consulon OF ours sdsptsd 10 the in.
evitAbe Expansion OF tho cmphc witch have 80 eebly
presented H. has been perverted often oy msconi true.
tiop and II has yet TO be perverted macy times and
widely hereafter but has such inhoreut strepgth
and yi9or that will cast Off all the webs which