The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-03-31

only question dividing the people in Kansas
that Of slavery, was submitted fairly to
their votes.
Proceeding them to the question of
slavery, Mr.. Bayard argued at length the
abstract right of property in existing slaves
and their issue, and maintained that the
Lecompton Constitution does not estab.
fish," but merely tolerates slavery, and
that the Legislature, at any time, can
emancipate the slaves in Kansas, with the
owners consent or by paying about
$4,000, can set the whole slave popu-
lation free, without the owners consent.
lie then briefly referred to the Topeka
Constitution, contending that its authors
were rebels, differing from the Mormons
in only that they shrink from maintaining
their rebellious attitude by force of arms.
He also discussed at great length the ques.
ton Of ultimate power Of revolution, and
showed that the people can exercise the
right to change their government peace
fully and legtimately, without necessarily
resorting to their revolutionary right.
Mr.. Bayard concluded with an elaborate
defense Of slavery
Mr.. Broderick of Cal. reviewed at
length the circumstances attending the re.
peal Of the Missouri Compromise, and the
consequences following that repeal. The
South, he said, by that fatal measure DIES.
t-oyed its own interest, and was now seek
ing remedy by repeal of thu Union.
But would dissolution, he asked, prevent
the immigration of free labor into the
South ? No. Wherever there is land
for homes, there free labor will find its
way. Had the Missouri line been permit.
ted to stand, free labor will not attempt
to cross it. A senator had said" Cot
ton in King?" but he had omitted to
tell us about the fluctuations of that sta
pie. Gold is King, said Mr.. Broderick,
not Cotton. He represented State where
labor is honorable, where the highest per-
sons are not ashamed to own they have
delved in the earth. He was glad the
Senator from South Carolina had spoken
about white slaves and he hoped his lam
guage would stir up the two hundred thou.
sand white men in that state, who are now
kept in subsection by thirty thousand
wealthy Shareholders.
The Senator from South Carolina had
called the Northern laborers slaves. He
did not think him personal, other.
wise he should have noticed the remark at
the time of its utterance. He (Broderick)
was the youngest Senator excepting one
on the floor. He had served an appren.
ticeship of five years at laborious occu-
patton. He was the son of a laborer, and
had only to look around that building to
see evidence Of his fathers handiwork.
He (Broderick) was tired of the struggles
and jealousies of his class, and went to
California. His election, in that State, to
this Senate, was not the result Of accident
for he lad to 81 ht not only against the
opposition OF his own party, but against
presses subsidized with government money.
Leaving this personal explanation, he turn.
to his course in the Senate. He arrayed
himself against the Lecompton Constitu-
ton, he said, because he believed that all
the allegations of frauds against that in.
strument had been fully proved These
frauds are known to the President, and
yet he keeps in Office the men who com.
mitted the frauds. he hoped the histo-
rian Of these times would attribute the at
tempt to force this measure to the petu.
lence, failing intellect, and trembling dot.
age Of an old man, t,ttering on the verge
of the grave.
The Senate here took recess until sew.
en- o'clock.
dispatches from the telegraphic opera
tor at Washingt n, dated IL l-2 =. NJ
state that the messengers have been utter.
ly unable to obtain ingress or egress from
the Senate Chamber during the evening,
the crowd being so dense.
Douglas was speaking, and it was antic.
ipated the crowd would dispense upon his
conclusion, and thus enable our reporter
to be reached.
EVENING SESSION.
Mr.. Douglas, upon entering the cham.
Der, was received with loud and enthusias.
tic applause, which he deprecated by shak.
his head and making gestures to stop.
There was not one foot Of vacant room
in the galleries, and the reporters were
overrun by invading visitors All the
floor was occupied, and the windows neal
the roof were filled. The spectators gal
lery was nearly all filed by ladies, most
ofwhom remained over recess lat o'clock
and continued through the whole sitting
until half past eleven.
On motion of Mr.. Gwin, the ladies were
admitted to the floor, and in few min.
utes it was crowded with them.
Mr.. Douglas said l know not that my
d strength is sufficient to enable me to pro.
tract my remarks on the bill under coDsid
GRAFTON. trust I may be pardoned for
briefly referring to my course on the slave
ry question.
Referring to the Missouri Compromise
line, Mr.. Douglas stated that, when il
Congress, at the time it was proposed tc
admit Texas, he examined into the ques.
tiOns ofthat geographical line, and although
unable to justify it, yet he was unwilling
to awaken heart burnings and the slavery
agitation. Hence, in the proposition tc
admit, he cordiolly acquiesced in the in
sertion Of clause, with the avowed pur.
pose of extending that line 10 the Pacific
When New Mexico was acquired, the Sen.
ate adopted, on his motion, a proposition