New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-03
observation-disclosures
XXXVITH CONGRESS.
SENATE. .w.sHisc+os, Aprilq, 1869.
FIRST SESSION,

smet cmentF, and gave notice that bo would call It up
TO Jloiruw.
On notion q Mr.. BENJAMIN Cpeu,.. La, the bill
Cor The ps adjustment Of private land claims in For
da Louisisrs, ATkauRss, snd miseoul was taken up.
Me BENJAMIN stated that the object Of the bdl
vas to preveGt the preNnt4on TO Congress one at 8
the Of these private LAND claims The bill passed.
The bill to authorize be location Of certain wsraots
'or hcnniy lnds heretofore i-sued, motion of Mr..
iVANLlN Rep, Me-, was called up aud passed.
vi. DAVIS (Dem., Miss Territorial resolutions
WtN called M.
Nj. SALISBURY lDem Del eaid the resolutions
were b' occasion Of LIS speaking on the NIte Of she
Union am discussing tie INTEGRITY, whether it s i'm
lelil ed, md if go, who Is responsible, add what
remedies there were. He regarded the Fsderal Unioe
as ihs psllaoium If liberty, and would therefore
oppoe BE % iticai pses which thrt catered Il. some
Gibton would yet write the fall OF the Ca'on, nuleso
we timely pause and wisely act. Ii wac scarce e'8Gty
yeJrs ago siuoe The Revelation was todgn. oy those
from he North the Soltb, and the thee Wes,, VINO
achieved common liberty for themselves ana tneie
po,,eriy After that came the formation OF tns Fed
etl IItion and there were conflicts then which were
not Tepr ssble Our fsthere differed widely, but dd
not a sumo "a moral government over the world.
They knew no ,!cep'tal and labor states now
30 csled by political aspirants, nor did they
sruss the Slavery question; but ttey placed clause
IL tie Constitution relative 10 the escape of iugtves
from Justice from Stste oto another, which was
sct sDd postve RECOGNITION of rights OF property in
81 YES. 1t Ieeognzed the itutiona right of ono
uau 10 have property in another man, against the in
reference OF States. He proceeded to dis MSS the
Slavery question, presented from the earliest times to
the pTetent, sLd cited the first Fugitive Slave law, OF
1893 zlug property in slaves, and said he be-
lsvtd if there blot and blur on tue history
of The country, it was The Missouri Compromise. lie
char ed TIE agitation of tue Slavery question the
e. emies If the Democratic party, heretofore aud now.
Afier cobd mining tho bel sh deed OF Ola Brown, lac
referred The political events Of the 5ay by an qnr5
it the Uurn was mpeTec. De believed that one m 4u
M, re tau all others bad brought the Union TO the very
NeIge of destruction by bis teachings and advice. That
psn was an asp'rant for the highest office OF the
La d. was q teacher of the Vows OF the Republi-
cen parry, aid the same who recently delivered
a speech IN the Senate. The same man was once Gov
erpcr Of NewYoIs, and used TO retuin 70 Nlrg,ni
three men who escaped, charged with the crime OF
stealing slaves. II John Brown had carried all the
saves of Virginia to New York, Mr. Seward ~ould be
o iortunste Governor for him il such an event. He
quoted Mr.. Stewards Cleveland spec h, showing that
he in favor of abo-hng Slavery ia the States aud
violating the Fugitive Slave Law. he there sad that
"SlaveIy must he abolished, and you and must do It,
lie aso quoted from his letter to the eoored citizens Of
AIbsIy that they had right to complain Of the UOion
"a il od not give them equal rghis with others When
the Republicans assemble around the Council Board at
Chicago spd call the roll Of States and there are no
ans ers from the States where rest the remains
Ct Washington, Sumpter aud Marion. and nominate
candidate TO rule ever these subjected PROVINCES VINO
had tod the coored people that they had night to I'M
pupn tee memories of these Fathers OF the country,
perhaps tue patient of these Fathers viii submit
to yoke. The motto Of The banI er OF the hepubh-
can payty was lawlesenees aud the party was bound
to rotbiDg sD0 its actions were only determined by
exs er c;es In concus.tn he said Delaware was the
fti TO adopt the Constitution and will be tha last TO
aber don IT. and advocated the harmony OF the Demo
crstc Iarty, ~ fenoing to destroy the evils which
ar. ZEN EYCK rep, N. j. said Nsw-Jersey
always had been true TO the Union and Constitution
as understood by their trainers and the statesmen OF
that day. The question was not now Slavery IN the
States but its extension into Territory free. No
OF pretended, except few enemies of the Constus
ton that Congress had any right TO abolish Savey IN
the States in any way, but the question was as to
whether in the broad domain, the common property OF
the Union it should suppart free labor, enterprise and
INDUSTRY in the marts of commerce, colleges, schools
and the golden harvests The different systems OF
labor, slave and free, could exist in different
sections of the country, but could not in the
can field and workshop. The question was
the introduction Of Slavery into Territory where
men now as free as the wild deer bounding over
the prairie. BE regarded Slavery as an evn-New-
JERSEY abolished it early aDd then hoped others would
but because they did not it no reason he should
come here and Willy and traducs members OF the latter
States. Slavery v ould have been aoohsoed IN many
places if there had not been understandable ntertef-
epces with it. He proceeded to speak of the Fugitive
Slave law, and aid New-Jersey had had one OF her
own in force nee 1893 and they had regarded 1t az
obligatory on them. They had no doubt OF Its comet
nationality In one unIeported case, Chief Justice
Hornblower had discharged slave because OF
a defect in the evidence, and had expressed
an opinion of it's uDcoDstitutlonalty, but IL
in favor of executing the Fugitive Slave law, and he
cited case where representative OF the state mr.
Srattop advocated it, and sent three slaves bacK 10
bondage in case before the Court YET ne was gent 10
Congress by q very large Republican vote. lie con-
tel ded that the principles Of the Republican party
were identical with those of Jefferson and the ORA,
nance of 1887 and said that ewJersey would stand
with the Middle States III repelling uitIaism and OK
travagance and beg the other sister States, by tne
memories of Monmouth, Trenton, Saratoga, Bunker
Hil. New Orleans and Guilford, 70 maintain the
Union.
Mr.. BROWN Dem, Mies.) said it was well known
that be cOntended that Territorial Legislature could
abolish Slavery by action, and that he favored
Congressional protection Of property IN the Territories
For this the charges mad been brought against him
that be had departed from the usages OF the and
was nterpoatiDg new rules. He proposed briefly TO
deny these charges for he had not attempted TO inter-
poate party usages any thing not advocated by our
fathers He would show tina. in 1922 Congress- by an
express law, erhrew and set aside certain AIS OF
Florida Territory, and went further than
that by Tefundng certain moneys paid under the
repealed law, aud substituted an independent
law in it's stead. 1t was thus asserted that
Congress had The right TO protect property in the Ter
rtories He cited the Gaze Of 4 law passed in 1884
where Congress by direct law, protected Slavery IN
Florida, which was voted for by Webster, Clay,
Forsyth and Grundy, and many other ilnstrlous men
of that Congress and passed through both Houses of
Congress without a dissenting volce, aud was APP
proved by President jackson. Yet he Brown was
denominated hereto for advocating now what those
nJuttrOpt men apprOVeu. Ie btOOu Ihoy btoouJ
he advocated their acts, and asked nothing
new Oh Senators, how have we fallen. He asked
no new theory; yet he had been condemned BY Re-
publcans, and some Democrats, for it. What depth
Of iIfany was toe South siDkpg TO, to allow these
things TO 60 on. He then referred to Mr.. Athertons
resolutions of the XXXVth Congress, declaring that
Congress bad no right to make distinction In the
property Of States going into the Territories, and con-
cludipg copendDg that this question of protection
was never denied until the doctrine of "Squatter
Sovereignty" came into Congress. He would main.