Worcester daily spy., 1860-05-23
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THIRTY.sIxrH CONGRESS.
TUESDAY, May %.

Mr.. FEssENDEN called up the deficiency
bill.
Mr. Gw1N introduced bill granting alter.
nate sections of land to California for railroad
| purposes.
Mr.. DAVIS territorial resolutions were tax.
en- up, and MIR. Benjamin of Louisiana, spoke
at length i'll opposition TO DouglS' doctrine.
lie said the Senator in his speech occupying
two days had presented the extraordinary
! spectacle of advocating his own claims tor the
| presidency and denouncing those who dared to
| express their views ON the subject before the
Senate, announcing that he was the embodl-
ment of the democratic party, and all who Op-
| posed him were rebels. Mr.. Benjamin defend
! ed the democratic Senators from the charge
| OF having undertaken to dictate to the Charles
ton convention what sort of platform 1t
should make. Nobody here wanted to make
| a slave code nor to force slavery on unwilling
! people Assaults on democratic Senators were
wanton and unprovoked. The Senator had
defended his consistency but was not the issue
between them. 1t was that the same Senator
| had made bargain and violated 1t. 1t was
his consistency that was his great crime-ad-
herring still to views he had agreed to abandon
when the court decided the question, and
which had been decided against him. Mr..
Benjamin argued at great length that the prin-
| cipIe of the bred Scott decision was
|
Congress of slavery in the territories,
and as a territorial government derived
| its power from Congress, it could not do
more than Congress. 70 be twice deceived
| by the same man would make them duDes and
| fools Mr.. Benjamin read from Douglas Har-
pers Magazine article to show he had abso-
lutely copied Lincoln's arguments OF 1858,
and claimed them as discoveries of his own.
He warned Douglas that the tendency of his
| ,l,,.
to the black republican ranks. Up 10 1858 no
one had higher regard or respect TOR him than
himself. He had hel him up to the demo-
Gratis Of Louisiana, in 1866, as the model of an
| American statesman, but his confidence in him
was forfeited and could not be restored. He
had repudated his obligations. After making
his promises, he went home, his knees tater-
ed, and he gave way. Mr.. Lincoln, who stood
firmly and was beaten, is the candidate for the
presidency of his party. Mr. Douglas, who
taltered, won the prize he contended for, but
the glltterlng prize to which he had looked for
years was slipping from his grasp.
Mi. HAMMOND rose to question of privi-
lege upon which he would speak tomorrow.
1t was that the speech of the senator from
| Massachusetts appeared in the Globe as deliv-
cred yesterday, which he did not hear, and
which he believed was not delivered at all,
| containing reflections on his state which it was
necessary TO answer.
MIR, PUGH said the senator from Louisiana
had demonstrated that there was nothing
equivocal in tile Kansas bill or the Cincinnati
platform. The Kansas bill provided the man.
ner III which the power of the people of the
territories was to be determined by the Su-
! preme Court, and the question had not arisen.
| He denied that the Dred Scott decision settled
the points at issue. The question of the pow
| er OF the people of the territories was not ar
| gued III that case nor supposed to be involved.
Ii submission to the demands of the senator
from Louisiana was the price of place in the
| democratic party, he warned them all that
| peace was at an end. Mr. PUGH examined at
| length the bred Scott case to sustain his view
He argued that if the constitution established
slavery In the territories, it also established it
in the states, and combatted the correctness of
this dogma. He retorted the charge of want
OF faith and abandonment of bargains upon
the senator and his friends. He defended and
explained Douglas Freeport speech from the
attack made upon it, contendng it simply
meant that slavery would not be forced upon
the people against their will Mr. Dougla-
was not only pressed by his immediate pOliti
cal enemies, but the administration, which in
vaded a sovereign state, to interfere to control
| the election.
Mr. WADE asked Pugh if he believed ter
ritorial legislature could prohibit slavery, and
that that prohibition be signal and etfectual.
Mr. PUGH replied atirmatively. Long de.
pate followed as to whether the votes at
Charleston expressed the views of the major
ity.
Mr.. PUGH said that the rupture at Charles
ton grew out OF the fact that Judge Douglas,
having lncautiously said he would not allow
his name to be used in ease certain platform
was adopted, The friends of all other candidates
a nj be
could not stand. He wanted the Richmond
convention to nominate their candidates. They
had no business to come to Baltimore, and il
they came he would sit and vote till the 4th OF
March to keep them out The men who
voted for Stephen A. Douglas fifty seven times
had not got tired of doing SO. The gentlemen
OF the south had made the issue, had made it a
question OF personal honor, and SO it would
stand. The north would not submit to the
dlctation Of the south, and would not level
themselves in the dust at the bidding of any
set Of men. Mr.. Douglas was the impersona.
ton Of northern honor His enemies had
made him greater than his friends ever could.
They might kill him at Baltimore if they
chose, but his friends would carry his bleeding
carcase to the north west, and show him to the
young men coming to cast their first votes,
and tell them this is another Kansas Nebras.
ka bill, and this is southern gratitude"
Mr.. WIGFALL defined what was democracy,
and expressed the opinion that Mr.. Pugh had
fallen from grace. Without concluding, the
Senate adjourned.
Mr.. DAVIS from the committee on elections
reported in favor of Francis p Blair taking
the seat now occupied by Mr.. Barrett from the
st. Louis district, Missouri.
Twelve majority disagreed to the Senate
amendment OF the military Academy bill pro
Vldng ior calling mounted regiment OF Tex
as volunteers into the field
Ihe Speaker laid before the House a special
message from the president, communicating
the fact OF the capture by the Wyandotte Of
OF another cargo Of Africans, making with
those OF the Wildfire over | 900, at Kew West
lie suggests immediate action for their accom-
mediation and health, and says more may daily
be expected. The message was referred to
the committee on the judiciary
The House Went into committee on the
legislative, executive, and judicial appropria.
| ton bill.
Mr.. PRYOR moved to strike out hundred
and fifty thousand dollars for reporting de.
bates OF Congress as superfiuous expense Re-
| jected "a against 81.
The amendment was agreed to, II against
40, that official reporters confne themselves to
what is said in order, and excluding unde-
livered speeches.
Mr. STANTON moved to strike out the ap.
preparation for an auxiliary guard in Wash.
ington, which he said was SO managed that
public buildings cannot be protected from
mobs. Adjourned.
From Washington
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