Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-11
Congressional.

to hang its head for shame.
Congressional.
Nothing transpired in the Hous, the past
week worthy of notice. The Senate have been
engaged in long speeches upon the admission of
Kansas.
WAsHINGroNe Monday, March l.
SENATE.-Mr. Green of Missouri called up the
bill for the admission of Kansas, and gave notice
that he should offer a substitute providing for
the admission of the States of Minnesota and
Kansas together, hoping thereby to expedite bus
mess. He then proceeded to advocate the re-
port of the majority of the Committee, remark
ing that the leading and controlling facts stated
in that document could not be successfully con-
troverted.
Mr.. Collamer of Vermont followed He re-
ferred to the Missouri Compromise as having
settled the slavery agitation, and it being fair
bargain, he thought it unjust in the South, af-
ter receiving her portion of the advantage, to
repudiate the compact Who believed, he ask
ed, in 1854, that slavery would exist in Kan
sas? twas Il well settled principle that the
power to regulate, implied the power to prohibit
Mr., c. quoted instances to show where this pow
er had been exercised and referred to case in
Mississippi in 1876, as in point. He defended
the Emigrant Aid Society, denying that the EN-
igrants from the North went to Kansas merely
to vote, without designing to stay there. lie re-
ferred to thi fundamental elections, carried from
Missouri, and other gross outrages, into which
the Government has never examined.
March 2.
Vbo Ho,eo
priation of $408 600 to enable the President to
fulfill the treaty stipulated for the abolition, of
the Sound dues, was passed.
The bill for the admission of Kansas was ia
ken up.
Mr.. Collamer Of Vermont continued his re-
marks from yesterday.
Mr. Pugh of Ohio said that he should offer an
amendment TO Mr.. Green S substitute for the ad-
mission of Kansas and Minnesota together, to
the effect that the people may alter or abolish
their form Of government in such manner as they
may think proper, if it be republican and in
accordance with the Constitution of the United
States.
March, 3.
SENATE.-Ihe special assignment being the
bill for the admission of Kansas under the Lee
compton Constitution, was taken up, and Mr..
Seward addressed the Senate
Mr.. Seward said that the question of slavery
in the federal territories, which are the nurse
rles Of future States, Independently of its moral
and humane elements, involves ~ dynastcal
struggle of two antagonistical systems, the la
Dor of slaves and the labor of freeman, for mas
terry in the federal Union. One Of thcs} sys-
tens partakes of an aristocratic character the
the other is purely democratic. Each one of
the existing States has staked, or it will ulti-
mately stake, not only its internal welfare, but
also its influence in the federal councils on the
decision of that contest Such u strlgglc is not
to be arrested, quelod or reconciled by tempo
rary exp3dients or compromises. lie said that
the admission of IL new State is not necessarily
or even customarlly attended by other cmbar-
easements or alarms. We have already admit
ted eighteen new States, without serious COM
motions, excepting in the cases Of Missouri,
Texas and California. We are even now adj
hitting two others, Minnesota and Oregon and
these Transactions go on smoothly that only
close observers are aware that we are thus con-
solidating our dominion on the shores of Lake
Superior, and almosta at the gates of the Arctic
Ocean. 1t is manifest that the apprehendod d.
fficulti2s in the preseut case have some relation
to the dispute concerning slavery which is rag
ing in the territory of Kansas. Yet it must b.
remembered that nine of the new States which
have been admitted, expressly established slave
ry or tolerated it, and nine of them forbade it,
The excitement, therefore, is due to peculiar
circumstances He thought there were three of
them, namely
First-That whereas in the beginning tie as
tendency of the slave States was absolute, it il
now being reversed.
Second-That whereas, heretofore the nation
al 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 ter
ritories in favor of slave labor and slave States
is opposed to the natural. social and moral de-
vclopmonts of the republic.
In arguing these propositions, Mr.. Seward
said that Nebraska was resigned to free labor
without struggle, and Kansas became a
theatre of the first actual national conflict be-
tween slavehoding and free labor immigrants
who met face to face to organize, through the
machinery of republican action, IL civil commu-
nifty. In this FIRST hour of trial. the new sys-
tenn of popular sovereignty signally failed
failed because it is impossible to organize by
one single act in one day, community
perfectly free, perfectly sovereign, and per-
fectly constituted, out of clements unassim-
lated unarranged, and uncomposed. Free la
Dor rightfully won the day. Slave labor wrested
the victory to itself, by fraud and violence
In speaking of the opinion pronounced by the
Supreme Court of the United States in the bred
Scott case Mr.. Seward said In this i'll
omened act, it forgot its own dignity, which
had always been maintained with just judicial
jealousy. They forgot, that one foul sentence
does more harm sthan many foul examples, for
the last do but corrupt the stream, while the
former corrupteth the fountain.' And they
and the President alike forgot that judicial
usurpation is more odious and intolemble than
any other among the manifold practices of tyr
amy" -.------
"If you,' Mr. Seward said. " attempt to
c)erce Kansas into the union under the Lecomp.
ton constitution, the people of that territory
will resort to civil war, if necessary. You are
pledged to put down that revolution by the
sword. Win the people listen to your voice
amid the thunders of your cannon? Let not
one drop of the blood Of free citizen be shed
there by the federal army, and the countenance
of every representative of Il free State, in either
House Of Congress, will blanch and his tongue
will refuse to utter the vote necessary to sustain
the army in the butehery of his fellow-citizens.
All parties in this country that have toler
ated the extension of slavery, except one, have
persisted for that error already. That last one,
the democratic party, is hurrying on, irretriev-
ably towards the same fate. Apt, deeper and
darker, is still opening to receive this admins
tration, because it sins moro deeply than its
predecessors.
The Rutland Courier pretends to discover an
attempt upon the part of the Pheair to bring
about the nomination of f Hnlhrnnk for Coy