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WASHINGTON, March 3.
CRNA III

| SENATE.
Mr.. Hammond of South Carolina, intro
| duceda joint resolution authorizing theSecIe-
Iary Of the Navy to pay the officers and the
seamen in the Arctic expedition in search of
DR.. Kane, under Capt. Hartslein, at the same
rate as las been allowed to the officers and
seamen OF Lient. De Ravens expedition.
The special assignment, being the bill for
the admission of Kanzas under ihe I.eeomp-
ton Constitution, was taken up.
Mr. Seward of New York. spoke at great
length. He thought the excitement on the
slavery question, due to peculiar circum-
stances First, that in the beginning the as
cendancy of the slave States was absolute
1t Is now being reversed. Second that
whereas heretofore, the national government
favored this change of balance from the slave
States to the free States, it has now reversed
this policy, and opposes the change. Third
that national intervention in the Territories
in favor of slave labor and slave States, is Cd.
posed to the nationsl, social, and moral de-
velopmenl of the Republic. He argued these
propositions at some length. and in the course
Of his remarks he alluded to the decision
of the Supreme Court, in the bred Scott
slave case, asserting that they and the
President alike forgot that judicial usurpation
Is more odious and intolerable than ANY 9TH
er among the manifold practices of tyranny.
Having traced step by step, the history Of
hanzas, Mr.. Seward gave a concise account
OF the national intervention in the terrific
RES IN favor of slave labor since 1920, ad.
ding, no wonder that the question before
us eXcites apprehension and alarm. There is
at least north side to this chamber. n north
side 10 the chamber of REPRESENTATIVES. n
north side of the Union, as well as south
SIDE OF the three Each of them is watchful,
jealous, and resolute. If it be true, as has so
often been asserted, that the Union cannot
survive the decision of Congress of direct
question involving the adoption of free State
into TINS Union, which will establish the as
cendancy of free States under the Constiu.
ton, and draw after it the restoration Of the
influence of freedom in the domestic and for
eign conduct of the government, then the
day OF dlssoltion is at hand. If you, said
Mr.. Seward, attempt 10 coerce Kanzas into
Inc Union under the Lecompton Constitution,
the people OF that territory will resort to civil
war II necessary. You are pledged to
put down that revolution by the sword
WIN the people listen to your voice and the
thunders OF your cannons Let but one drop
OF the blood of free citizen be shed there by
the Federal army, and no representative of a
free State, in either house of Congress. will
dare to utter the vote necessary to sustain the
army in the butchery of his fellow citizens.
All parties in this country that have tolerated
the extension Of slavery, except one. have
persisted. Already that last one, the Dem
ocratie party, is hurrying on irretrievably
toward the same fate. A pit, deeper and dark.
er, is still opening to receive this Administra-
tlon' because 1t sins more deeply than its pre-
decessors..
Mr.. Seward in closing his elaborate speech.
| O M f1,of4,
thej subject l do, could wish to 1vade or
delay the trial. By delays, we could only
extend slavery at the most throughout the
Atlantic regions of the continent. The Pa
cidic slope is free, and it always must and
Will be free. The mountain barriers that
separate us from that portion of our Empire
are quite enough to divide us too widely to
ALLEVIATE us too soon. Let US only become all
States on this side of those bar
rlers, while only free States are organized and
on the other side, and then indeed
there will come division of the great Amer.
can family into two nations, equally ambi.
tlous for complete control over the continent
and conflict between them over which the
world will mourn as the greatest and last to
be retrieved of all the caamities that have
ever befallen the human race.
Mr.. Thompson of New Jersey. made a
speech in favor of the Lecompton Constitu-
ton. The Senate then adjourned
HOUSE.
The House resumed the consideration of the
resolution from the Senate, authorizing the
President to appoint any officer affected by the
action of the naval retiring board, to their for
mer positions.
Mr.. Whitney Of Delaware, argued in favor
OF the resolution, severely critcising the &C.
ton of the naval board
Mr. Bocock of Virginia, offered the resolu-
ton, contendiDg that the proceedings of the
board of inquiry were just, and if Its decis-
ions were reversed its supposed victims could
not get back into the navy.
Mr. Winslow of North Carolina, and Sew
ard of Georgia, both advocated the resolution,
which was passed by II majority. The House
then adionrned