Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-01-04
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THIRTY SIXTH CONGRESS-.
TUESDAY, Jan. 3.
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There was a very slim attendance Nh.
HAMLiN of Maine asked leave to withdraw
certain petitions. Certain private bills were
read and referred.
Mr.. JOHNSON of Arkansas, presented a
memorandum Of the Legislature of Arkansas,
asking for Pacific railroad. Laid on the ia
BILE.
Mr.. MALLORY introduced bill to regulate
and increase the pay Of the Navy. Referred
Also, a bill to modify the pay of Pursers in
the Navy. Referred.
Mr.. KING of New York stated that the reso-
autiens adopted at the Union meeting at
Rochester N. Y, had been forwarded to the
U. S. senators from that state, and he would
requestthat they be read. The secretary read
them accordingly. Mr.. King desired to say
few werds on these resolutions. He, in
presenting them, was gratifed to say that the
people of New York had not wavered in their
attachment to republican institutions and our
present form of government All parties there
entertain the sentiment that the Union must
and shall be preserved" That sentiment
could not be turned to party account The
Union meetings held had proved the strength
of that sentiment, and the resolutions adopted
speak for the whole people of the state.
He called the attention of the Democratic
senators who had expressed disunion senti-
ments to the fact, that these expressions of at
tachment to the Union came from prominent
Democrats of the north. The resolutions were
laid on the table
Mr.. SLIDELL, of Louisiana moved to refer
the paper on the subject of the Honduras land
claim to the Committee on the Judiciary. 1t
belonged properly to the Committee on Private
Land Claims, but as the motives Of himself
end colleague on that subject had been i'm
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of that Committee, he desired to change its
reference.
Mr.. CoLLAMER, of Vermont, called atten-
ton to the fact that Mr.. Benjamin was also on
that committee. The subject was laid over
till to morrow.
A large number of petitions, of no general
interest, were presented
Mr.. Brown, of Mississippi, desired to dis
claim any intention, as imputed by the news
papers, to assail the President or his message,
unless the respectful expression of his dissent
to some of its statements be considered in that
light. He entertained strong personal re-
gard for the President; but, if he did not age
and his long public services would shield him
from attack. He had a right, however, in
common with every other citizen, to courteous
ly express his views, and would do so. He
called attention to that portion of the message
decision as settling slavery agitation, but could
not agree with him. The Supreme Court has
done what it could, but the question was not
settled, else why were the controversies going
on everywhere in state legislatures and both
houses OF Congress on the subject. The
question had not been settled, and hence
the continuation of the controversy. He
agreed with the President, that the Supreme
Court had adjudged the right of a citizen to
carry slaves into the territories, and did not
believe a territorial legislature or any other
body had power to destroy or override that
decision. The President had said further, that
property in slaves, to his knowledge, had not
been disturbed in any Of the territories. To
that he disagreed. The whole course of the
anti-slavery party in Kansas was to disturb
the rights of shareholders. Was it no interior
ence with slavery in the territories, to shoot
down shareholders in cold blood, hunt them
down like wild beasts, and destroy their prop
erty The whole contest in Kansas was
waged against the rights of Shareholders.
The President had further said that in case OF
such interference, the judiciary could apply
the remedy, and it was time enough to act
when the interference was attempted. He
thought the existing law entirely insufficient,
and that the time had now arrived for further
legislation, and that Congress was imperative
ly called on to act at once. 1t is too late to
act when the mischief is done. The Presi.
dent has asked you in advance to strengthen
his arm to protect the persons of those in the
Isthmus, and if that can be done, why can't
the arm of the executive and judiciary be
strengthened to protect slavery in Kansas
Mr.. Brown then went into an argument to
show that the courts could not furnish protec-
ton to slavery without statutory laws. H5
avowed his desire for the enactment of such
laws. They might call it a slave code, if they
pleased, but he no more asked for slave code
than others did for horse code. While he
had a tongue to speak, he would demand his
rights under the constitution and laws. He
disavowed again any intention to assail the
President, but must he be told, that, because
he was Democrat and the President Dem
ocrat, he must not express his views, because
he might injure the Democratic party lie
would see the Democratic party destroyed be-
fore he would withhold the honest expression
OF his sentiments. He saw that, without fur.
Their legislation, there would never be another
slave territory, and consequently no more
slave states. Free territories were pressing
for admission into the Union, and it would not
be long, unless slave states were admitted into
the Union, before the free states would have
the two thirds, sufficient to change the consti-
tuition. That done, the purpose avowed by
the Senator from New York, to crush out
slavery under constitutional form, could be
accomplished. What would become of the
bred Scott decision, when the Supreme Court
is in the hands of the anti-slavery party He
closed by avowing himself Union man, and
said he wished to multiply the slave states in
order to preserve the Union, which our fathers
had made a slaveholding one.
Mr. DooLrTrLE, of Wisconsin, referred to
the change which had come over the Presi-
dents mind within the last ten years. Then
he believed in the power of Congress over the
territories. Now, he says the Supreme Court
has established the right of shareholders to
carry slavery into the territories, and that nei-
Their Congress nor the territorial legislature,
nor any other human power, could impair that
decision. The men of the south had expe-
rienced an equally great change-a revolution
which had been produced by what they deem
ed their interests. The senator from Georgia
had said that in 1916 there were only tour men
in Congress who did not hold to the power of
Congress over the territories.
Mr.. TooMBs, Of Georgia, corrected the state
ment. He referred only to the northern Re
pubcans.
Mr.. DooLITrLE said the first time the doc
trine was advanced that the constitution pro-
tected slavery in the territories, was by Mr..
Calhoun in l847.
Mr. TooMBs replied that the first attempt
to prohibit slavery in the territories, since
1920, was in 1916, and it was defeated
Mr.. DooLIrrLE resumed, contending that
southern men defended slavery on the general
ground that capital should own its labor, not
hire it.
Mr.. CHESTNUT of South Carolina denied
the correctness of the statement. The south
held that the true position of niger was that
of q slave.
MIR. DooLIrrLE said that southern men did
not Justify slavery on the ground Of negro
slavery only, but took the broader ground that
the natural position of laborer is that of a