New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-11


made subject 70 the visitation Of the Regents Of the
University, in Ike manner with the other colleges
Of this State
The bill to reorgsDize the Board Of Health came
up on its third reading in the Senate to-day whe0,
on motion Of Mr.. NoXOS, il was recommltted aud
IN de the special order for II o'clock on Tuesday
next.
The Canal Tax and Appropriation bill came up
IS q special order, when seyeral amendments were
offered-one by Mr.. MATTER, providing that the
appropriation 10 the Erie Canal (Si2O. 1901, shall
be used in such manner as the Canal Board shall
direct with reference to securing SIX feet OF water
in the Canal from Albany to Buffalo, on the open.
Ing of canal navigation THIS year. with especial
reference TO the completion Of the Enlargement on
the opening Of navigation in the Spring of lc6O.
The Assembly debated the Genera Approprla-
ton bill in Committee of the Whole to-day with
out making much progress therein. 1t is thought
by intelligent members that the appropriations 10
charitable and benevolent institutions which were
added il Committee of the Whole yesterday will
all be stricken out and perhaps also the apprcpria
ton to your City Hospital.
The debate on the Personal Liberty bill 10 the
Assembly last evening of which you have already
received some account by telegraph, was rather in
teresting but, on the whole not quite equal TO the
occasion. IL debate on theme like this, one is
disappointed if he don't see the sparks fly.
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sidered and fOrcible speech, in advocacy of the
BILL and in review of the Fugitive Slave bill and
the bred Scott decision. Dir. COVER Of your
city followed, saving the Union in milk ind-water
speech. The most noticeable remark which now
remember in Mr.. Covers speech was 70 the effect
that he slaves of the South are in many respects
better of than the aborers Of the North. Ii this
be really so or if Mr.. Cover honestly believes It to
be SO, cannot understand why he should protest
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are bigger cstchers " or the supporters and lie
tenders Of " niger catchers,' or why he should
express desire to see the slaves emsncipsted.
Since, in Mr.. Covers opinion, the Constitution re-
quTes that runawsys should be sent back aud sire
they are so much better of as slaves than the free
aborers of the North, why should he object to
assisting in the performance OF an act which has
the merit of making Sambo so much " better OIL
and saving the Union at the same time Is It I'M
possible for a Slavery advocate to talk sense
and Logic
Mr. BATCHELLER of Saratoga was in favor of
liberty, ard nothing else, continually; but he was
not exactly in favor of the passage Of the bill under
consideration. Mr.. b. had examineda law OF loiO,
which be seemed to think was all that the exigency
of the case required. This law secures the writ of
babeas corpus to claimed fu yitiyes, with trial by
Jury to test the validity Of such claim
Mir. SCHOLETIELD of Oneida, thought another
and more stringent law WAS required. Since the
passage of the act referred 10 the public conscience
of toe country had been blunted and the m )ral
sense OF the North had been dcbauched by long
series of wicked National Legislation and Executive
usurpation at Washington. 1t was time that New
York, the great Empire State, should speak, and
speak empha,ically for freedom 1t was time she
should act, ard become in fact AS well as in name,
a Free State. Mr.. SCHoLErIELD recited some OF
the more prominent points in the history OF the
aggressiOns of the Slave power since lclO; such IS
the reacheIy of Ty Ter after the death OF HARRISON
the annexation Of Texas the election and death
Of General Tay lor, the apostacy of Fillmore the
enactment Of the Fugitive Slave bill, the unanmity
with which Mr. Pierce went into and out OF the
Executive chair, tie repeal of the Missouri Com
promise, the attempted enslayement OF Kansas tho
election of Buchanan and the scoundrely character
of hi. Administration, the violation of his pledges,
and his desertion by the people whom he had be-
trayed and outraged. There was so much OF truth
in Mr.. Schoefelds remarks on Buchanan, as TO
disturb the equanimity Of the Democratic members
of the Assembly, who frequently interrupted the
speaker by calls to order, &C., for taking SO wide
range of debate, insisting that the merits OF Mr.
Buchanan were not under consideration. DIR.
Scholefeld thought it would be exceedingly difficult
for any body to select smaller or narrower plat
form or theme for discussion than the merts OF tho
individual referred to--yiz., James buchanan.