Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-12
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CONGR ESSIONAL

WASHINGTON, March 5. --IoCsE--The
resolutions, concerning the naval retiring
board.
Messrs. Winsl6w and Seward both advo-
Gated the resolution, and it finally passed by
II majority. Adjourned.
SENATE.--In the Senate Mr.. Hammond
introduced joint resolution authorizing the
Secretary of Navy to pay to the officers and
seamen OF the expedition in search of DR..
Kane, at the same rate allowed those in the
De Haven's expedition.
The hour of one having arrived, the spe-
cial order of the day, the Klnsas bill was ta-
ken up.
Mr.. Seward delivered lengthy speech,
discussing the following opositions:--lss
That whereas, in the beginning, the ascen-
dency of slavery in the States was abso lutte.
II is now being reversed.
Second, That whereas. heretofore the Ma
tonal Government has favored the change
of the balance faom the slave States to the
free States. 1t has now reversed this policy
and opposes this change.
Third That National intervention in the
Territories, in frvor Of slave laobr and slave
States, is opposed to the natural, social and
moral developments of this Republic.
En- arguing these propositions, Mr. Seward
said that Nebraska was resigned to Tree labor
without struggle. and Kansas became the
theater OF the first actual national conflict
between slaveholding and free labor imi-
grants, who met face to face to organize,
through the machinery of republican action,
civil community.
In this hour of trial the new system of
popular sovereignty signally fails, because it
is impossible to organize by one single act
in one day community perfectly free, per-
fectly sovereign, and perfectly constituted
out Of elements unassimulated, nnarranged
and uncomposed. Free labor rightfully
won the day. Slave labor wrested the
victory to itself by base fraud and vio-
| lence.
In speaking of the opinion pronounced by
the Supreme Court of the United States i'll
the Dred Scott case, he said that in this i'll
emened act it forgot its own dignity, which
had always been maintained with judicial
iea alousy. 1t forgot that the province of d
Court is simply jusdicio, and not at all jus
dare. 1t forgot that one foul sentiment does
| more luFlU tHdu lndHg ioul SAuhPiSSi iO' A"N
last do but corrnpt the stream, while the
former corrupts the fountain; and it and the
President alike forget that judicial usurpa'
ton is more odious and ntolerable than any
other among the manifold practices oftyran
, nv.
No wonder that the question before US ex'
cites apprehension and alarm. There is a
last a North side of this chamber, a North
side of the chamber OF Representatives, an'
North side of the Union. as well Soutt
sides of all these. Elch of them is watchiu'
zealuos and resolute.
Ii it be true, as has so often been assert
ed, that the Union cannot survive the deci
sion by Congress of direct question, invol
wing the adoption of free State into thl
Union, which will establish the usccndencN
of the free States under the Constitution, ant
draw after it the restoration of the influence
of freedom in domestic and foreign conduc
OF the Government, then the day of dissolu
ton is at hand. Further he said let the Su
premc Court recede. Whether it recede no
we shall reorganize the Court and thus re
, form its political sentiments and practice
! and bring them into harmony with the con
stitution and the laws of nature. In dom
SO. we shall not only resume our own JOS
, authority, but we shall restore that high u
, bunal itself to the position which 1t ought I
maintain, since so many unalienable right
, Of citizens, and even OF the States themselve
: depend upon its impartiality and its wisdom
:. If you attempt to coerce Kansas into tn
Union under the LccomPson Constitution