The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-03-24
1IIIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS-.
FIRST SESSION.
Senate.

wA-iuSGroS, March -, isss
The Senate s again crowded 10 day. The prclinnary
business was unimportaut
o. xASSAs.
Mr.. GpvN, (sdm.) OF Mo-, commenced by denying ths
assertion Of the senator from Michigan (tsart taat the
friends N Tccomptop have been driven from their posi
tons. The Senator from Illinois (Douglas) implied the
same thing, but IS not so and the committees report
stands unchalenged. Its every individual charge
tanned By Official evidence, and the onIy exception taken
10 the report Is by tho Ecnior Senator from Vermont
tfooD, who objects 10 tho harsh appcllaton Of rebels
lie nnio sorne desuitory preliminary remarks in reply
20 the Senators from Michigan Illinois and Vermont sad
the government OF Kansss was dc fdco quite much
in the case OF California admit tnat irauds
wore committed. he drew parallel between the
Of Kansas aud California, citing Mr. Douglas opinion
the latter IN support Of his (groon viows tho
former. he said the statement that nineteen
dHfhnchscd was meant 70 deceive 1hose counties ~ero
wldcrnc without inhabitants &c defended the le,a-
lily Of the carly steps towards the Formation Of the Le
Senator from Vermont and Mr. Foster that thero we're
broken pledges on The part Of GOV Walker and the Press
dent Everybody knows that GOV Walker was Ia fsvor
Of submitting tho constitution 70 the people He sdyp-
Gated IS but he bad no power 70 pledges It. The Seuatoy
from Illinois says that the oaly reason that they al o
submit tho whole constitution was because was said n
would be voted sowu. Who sail No ono exoepi the
Senator'S from ninbs and Michigan The rrca, ourssson
b, does the constitution embody the will OF the people
which s legally expressed the wths rules and the
dcnce are tho same n equity and in law We oappc,
he Governors o. Ssnss as evidence Ih,i i
fraIgh with a danger which II oayrei 10 lis utinsiunn.
would bring brsng bayoEets and pointed nj the
walls Of the Capitol 10 substitute opinions Of tho mob Tor
the form Of law. All the legal ormr having been
piled !with in completing the Iecompton consiituon it
was completed fact that the people had no right " vote
ss TO whether or not u was constitution Whist would
Senators say the constitution ~ their own Sates, after
bong In actual operation DO submitted 10 the PEG
pie 10 SEQ whether ia constitution not Tue Sensio~
from KENTUCKY say would DO no harm, and would ony
show abundant care TO submit 4 again and again " Tho
m
have iked that rrincipeto Try again. AZ 10 tho cf
fraud. u reminded him-but he would not apply the
maxim 10 the SeRstors'that lie well stuck 20 aud
often repeated = az rood a. the truth" Nr.
Green coptsueo 10 anaiyze tho reputod frauds admitting
that fraus did exist nut none N viaie tho ccussutou
Further than thai no legal evidence ersz 10 show that
this Iecompton constitution dos not embody the VIII o,
se r %c ~ ~ hs repv prnepo u liberty lie ad
mited that The Senator's from nnow, nogan .aiornnh
and Kentucky were not nfuepcod 70 tnelr soy ~ mo
existence steDoe q slavery in Kansas put they
ASSISTING 10 built party dangerous " inc uion,
and whose Fundamental principle Just enunca,eo NO
many weeks since would have been young sister In tho
federation Of Slatcs. Mr. Green would mol go over 70
avoid the enemy however he might Do dissatisfied with
the ,r,,cn OF hs frends among ether things he said
THAT black ropublicanism crushing out the demo
cracy in ia course would never meet cts barrier,
I'M Il me, the cannon Of the south. He concluded by az
processing an ardent aspiration for the consolidation and
nermsn,ncy OF the democratic party Kansas Ia but the
Sohn Doe and Richard Roe; II i Of no imporance that
Calhoun has given the certificates tho tree state mon
the principal nyovs one o. vital interest 70 the SOUTH
interests Of both intsrwuven that they cannos bo
severed without injury " both.
Mr. Sswhrp, opp Of y. Y.-Does TIE senator attach
importance 10 The circumstance thai the Constitution
requires uhe return 70 maao within eight days
Mr.. GRrIS-1hat election Of ohbcors Congres has
right W touch. he did not know, neither dd tho
Senator from New York A note here laid on his
dess said that De returns we're All mhr within
egh days 30 that the Senator from WV York
~ anewoycd Mr. Green then referred b. The ieeuent
o. Mr. Iouglas that tho constitution can only be
changed before 1894 by the exercise u Revolutionary
right and said wn not New York and other stairs
Lad done u, and inserted With similar ntcrpreta
ton 10 The Kansas bill % rghts. The people must have
thh right " change the corsturon IN lcgs WV, cthr
wsb ticy could ntA ttg-a.s their s4lars but Nuaa
be hound by tue prcccdrg gencrpiiop IN srmrirg M
be SAID, no wsnd app>. TIE AassricAOs W 51 ~