Des Arc citizen., 1860-10-03

simply to pronounce all questions in which the NEGRO is involved 'spractic1i qHestions- -ef constit' onalcotstfpctons and nierpredfion '-to disrerasd Che opiiiionof the Supreme Court, allkfscsae them "os MAJORITY MAY Mink Proper." The srractical effect of which would be to break down every con stitutional guarantees and leave the States and ci zens in the minority, at the mercy Of ianaticai and corrupt majority.
 KANSAS AND NEBRASKA BILL"
 Pending that long and exciting debate, on the Nebraska and Kansas bill, MT. DIXON, ofkentucky, Q whig, introduced an amendment, in express terms repcang the Missouri Compromise. Mir BELL poed for tiS ayeRdll, nt i 0bcdicnce Co instructions from Ue LegislaiUre of Tennessee. This was the most obnoxious feature in the bill tothose who opposed it. The "National lntelligcnccr '---the organ of the whig party, was opposing the bill, and the whig members, fearful that that paper would mslead the minds of their constituents held al caucus, composed of the southern wlhgs, Mir. BELL included and passed unanimously the following resolution:
 "Resoiocd, That we disapproye of the course of the "National lntelligenccr' upon the Nebraska bill, and that in opinion it docs not truly re- present the whig party South'' and it further l agreed that Mir. Badger, who was going to speak on the bill the next day, should declare authorp lively that the whigs of the South, UNIT in favor of the bill. Yet to the surprise of every southern whg in the Senate, after having voted for the most objectionable feature of the bill-in
 
 rect opposition to his instructions Mr. BELL aban- doned the South and voted with twelve of the worst abotOnsts it the country, and one South American know nothing, against thebilL There were but fourteen votes east against it. The fol- lowing are the names:
 I "NAys--Bcll, of Tennessee; Chase, of Ohio; Dodge, Frcssenden, of Maine; Houston, of Texas; James, of Rhode Island; Seward, of New York; Smith, of Connecticut; Sumner, of Massachusetts; Wade, of Ohio; Walker of Mississippi.
 This treaeherv was justly censured by the leg isature of Tennessec---thcy never have forgiven him-they never will, and the ides of November will roll up such majority against him as will as tonish his friends, and will tell future statesmen that the South will not again condde ill one who has thus betrayed their trust
 Kansas in 1857, applied to be admitted into the Union as a State, with constitution adopted by a convention regularly held, called by legislature regularly elected, and every way authorized yet Mir. BELL, cheek by jowl with SEWARD, HALE, HAMILN, CHASE, SUMNER x Co., opposed with all the force of his intellect and his vote, the admis- ( sion of Kansas with the Lecompton constitution, because it in conflict with the precedent he had aided his black republican associates to establish ill Oregon, excluding slavery therefrom.
 WHY MIR. BELL Go OPERATED WITH THE ABonlTioNrsrs.
 Seeing the North expanding westward, filing up and occupying the territories, which by virtue of the W5tnot grocisO, fast destroying the equi
 brium of the States, and with commendable fore sight, beholding the great advantage man living in the South and advocating northern sentiments would possess, Mir. BELL was willing to sacrifice his friends and his native South Hen, In order that he might, by the aid of northern support, triumph in the future That he saw, or thought he saw the period approaching when southern recreancy would be rewarded by dominant North, is evident from the following extract of his speech, made on the compromise measures of 1850. H. said:
 s'I cannot forbcar further to remind nty northern friends that in the Soath and in the South west there is a body of men, who for | long period haoe continued FArraFUL and just TO TIinM in their FA~ VORITE POLICY, THROUGH EVERY vIcIsslTuDE or POLITICAL FORTUNE" And again
 sWhe that protaeted domination of tte Soutl | which has been so Long and keeHty felt at the | North, was always moro imaginary than real, no southern man having ever attained the Presidency + except hj tl2e ~concnrEence often times of more T than half and always of large division of the North; yet it cannot be disguised that the period Of southern dsceadaAcy, if it ever had real exis- tence, approaches Us end. Political power and ascendency, in sectional view, have already pdss- cd from Me Soah joresr, and this isso evident that n senator who spoke in this debate could not for bear taunting the South with the prospect of their declining fortunes. A change, he said, had taken place in the political vocabulary. It was no longer the South and tho North---it is now the T North and the South.'
 That same North with which Mir. BELL had so consistently acted in opposing the Indian war--the
 
 Mexican war--upon all questions connected with slavery 'sthrough every viesstuae of political or- tune, he beheld now rising and about to reach its culminating point; and when hcintamous SUMNER tauntingly spoke of the sdeelining fortunes of the I Souh,' y Mir BELL was the first and only southern senator recreant enough to his native Sout to rise in his place, and in affirmation of the truth con tained in the taunt, to add insult to injury. That rRoTRAcTEp domination which has been so long and so keeny felt at the North, ,' he said, 'approaches it's end," and boldly asserted, to the infinite joy Of his abolition friends, that "political power and as- cendancy have already passed away from the South foreper." And HOW he appeals to the North to whom he had ''continued faithful sustaining them in their fayorite policy through every ycissi tude of political fortune, to renebcr teir friends.
 ADonIrIovisrs' OPINION OF mR. BELL.
 That the abolitionists fully appreciated the ser vices of Mir. BELL, and were not wholly ungrateful for such distinguished sacrBces, will appear by what they have said of and were willing to do for l him. Mir. SEWARD said, ''1t lust uoice issues from gour ocn re9ion-t from Me South--from the slave States, and protests against your further per sistence in this mad enterprise, [the extension of slavery, and admonishes you that it must and will fail. The cohorts [Bel, Etheridge ct als.[ are q gathering from the South, the men of modcrntion and conseryatism, who, as they have HERETOFORE moderated in faoor of slaory and against Freedom \ will now BE OBLIGED, in consistency acuh Heiy just and sceU established character, and their patri otism, to moderate against you n faoor of freedom, and RISE UP UHANIMousLy AGAINST sLAvERY.'' BuRLNGAME, whose infamous blasphemy against the South and religion, only equaied by Charles Sumner, who desired to have judges wiling to be governed by T 'shigher law than the constitution, who wanted an ''ant-slavery constituion--ana anti slavery Bible, and anti slavery God,'' said, I teh proud 10 hear e speech of the distinguished senator from Tennessee, Mr. BELf."
 HORACE GREELY, who edits the leading organ oi Lincoln, joined in singing praises of MT. BELL foi the sei-sacrificing part he had taken in behalf o the North. He said: .'He (Bell) is as robust ant hale to-day as when he bearded and conquered (q the old lion, ANDREW JACKSON, in his den, and a. resotute and ready to do service as when, sIvGLE 4