Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-03-04
CONGRESSIONAL
WASHINGTON, J

pay the officers and seamen in search Of DR..
Kane, the same rate allowed in DcHaveu's ex-
petition.
The hour of having arrived, the special or
der of the day, the Kansas Till, was taken up.
Mr.. Seward delivered lengthy speech on the
subject If Kansas, discussing the following
propositions
LIST. That whereas in the beginning the as
cendancy of the slave States was absolute, it Is
now being reversed ID. That whereas, here
tofore, the national government favor ed the
change of the buumce f=a= the slave States to
the free States, it has released this policy and
opposes the changes. Sd. That national intel
vention in the Territories i'll favor of slave la
Dor and slave Stats is opposed to the national
social and moral development of this republic.
In arguing these propositions, Mr.. $. said that
Nebraska resigned TO free labor without u
struggle and Kansas became scene of the first
national conflict between Slavc-hOlding and free
labor immigrants face to face TO organizes
through to machinery of republican action
civil community in this first hour OF. trial Tire
new system of popular sovereignty signdly
fails because it is impossible to organize by cue
single act in one day, community perfectly
tree, perfectly sovereign and perfectly cOnStitu-
fed out of elements nnassiinilatcd, uuarrbnged,
and uncompasSed. Free labor had rightfllly
won the day, when slave labor wTeSted the vic
tory to itself by fraud violence. In speaking
of the opinion pronounced by the L. S. SUI
premc Court in the bred Scott case, he said in
this il-Omcned act 1t forgot its own dignity
which had always been maintained with Just
judicial jealousy. They forgot that the prov
ince of Court is simply jus dicco and not at
all jas ddTe They forgot that one foul SEN
tence does more harm than many foul examples
for the last do but corrupt the stream, while
the former corrupt the fountain, and they and
the Presiuens alike forget that judicial susu rpa-
ton is more OdiOuS and inSuppOrtablc than any
other among the manifold practices of tyTrannN.
Ilo OlI dol tI,.f
fore cXcitcs apprehension aud alarm. There
is at least North side of this Chamber, and
North side of the Union, as well as South
side of all these, and each of them is waIchtul,
jealous and resOlute. If it is true, as has often
been asserted, that the Union cannot survive
the decision by Congress of direct question
Involving the adoption Of the free State into the
Union, which will establish the aScendaucy Of
the free states under the Constitution, and draw
after it the restoration OF the influence of free
dom in the domestic and foreign conduct of the
Government, then the day of disuniOn Is at
hand. Farther on lie said, let the Supreme
Court reccde. Whether it recede not, We
shall rcOfganiZc the Court, aud thus establish
its political practices and sentiments and bring
them into harmony with the Constitution ana
laws of Nation. In doing shall not only
reaSSumc our Just authority, but shall restore
that high tribunal itself to the position it ought
to have maintained, since many inalienabic
rights of citizens and even Of States themselves,
depend upon its impartialiIy and its WISDOM
If you attempt TO cOerce Kansas into the Union
under the LecOmptOn Constitution, the people
of that Territory will resist to civil war if ne
cessary. You are pledged to put down that
revolution by the sword. Will tile people lis
ten to your voice amid the thunder of your
cannon! Let but one drop of blood of free
citizen be shed by the Federal army aud the
cOuntenance of every representative of free
State in either house of Congress will banch,
and his tongue will refuse to utter the vote ne
ces$ary 10 sustain the army in the butchcry
of his fellow citizens.
Mr. Thompson, of New Jersey, ailudng to
Kansas, said now was a favorable opportunity
to end her troubles by admission into the Union
He commended that LecOmpton an express
sion of the will Of the people Of Kansas, reply
ing TO many arguments against that ms trument,
and inStancing cases of the States whose Con-
situations were adopted without submission to
the people II n wrong had been suffered by
that wrong was ia consequence of their own
misconduct, and therefore they have no right to
complain. IL the Free State party have aS large
a majority rs pretended they can change any
obnoxious features inthe Constitution, but if in
minority, they must Submit like good citizens
to the will of the majority. But this party
don't want peace-they desire agitation of the
atiairs of Kansas. He contended that they
would bc infinitely worse if she was not admit
ted He was inpatient and anxious that Con-
the question, and that the people should he lett
to settle their own difficulties in their own way,
and under their own State Government. Then
we shall hear no more of bleeding Kansas
Adjourned.
HorsE.-Thc House resumed consideration of
the Senate resolutions, as to Naval Retiring
Board.
Mr. Whitley argued in favor Of the rcsoIu
tons, severely crticising the action Of the Naval
Board
Mr. BocOck opposed, contendinS that many
of its supposed victims who expecting
to come back to the Navy, would find thelnSel
YES mistaken.
WinsOw and Set ard both advocated the rrs-
olution. Passed; Al majority. Adjourned.
FROM NEW YORK
March 3.-The grand rally of Democrats in
support of the Kansas policy Of the adInInistra-
ton, was held at Mozart Hall last evening, and
was most successful demonstration. The
speeches and resolutions were all indications of