New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-01
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80 WASHINGTON, Feb. Il, 1860.
~ ks,4aty,,sf T1ls Senate Special Committee
IL rcnprf SR HE various resolutions and
80 II .esostions lzlely introduced into that body
itb reference 10 thc territorial question, are still
s,syS.loved IL fheir work, which il to be nothing
I'M. lictatit,sa III The platform To the Charles
~, jsat.seusior. may be well to name over the
rat6rials for this platform, to construct which into
MINI Jul of architectural abortion seems to
notssr greatly slle brains u NE Democratic
party.
i. By III fush, Of Ohio: Resolution inquiring
Mil 8he ezBcdienog o. repeating 20 mnch Of the
orssie aets as require the laws Of the Territorial
f,nyer1,ssssats ii New Mexico and Utah to be sub
Matted d Congress for approval or rejection.
TqSs resaluEicn was extended BY amendment
1f1lu4sd by MI. Harlan, Of Iowa, inquiring into
Isl peenrieiy Of authorizing the people of New
rexieo md Utah 70 elect their own Executive,
ES,ssl&t ID mid judicial officers.
Y. By NH Brown, of Mississippi: For general
act applicable to al new Territories, declaring it
j ii he Ia anty Of The Territorial Legislature to
ssxt laws fpr the protection BIT MI kinds Of prop
evty. ina upon III failure u do 80, authorizing
Coneresz q interpose and pass such laws.
81 81 iii. Davis, Of Mississippi: number of
ysxniTfSSl,s. cAisrrning those Of lSs7-s, Oh tile
status Of slavery III the States; enan
eiatin1 dc principle Of noninterference by Con-
xrssx viii slavery, either III State Or Territory
dessyssS ihs power u Congress, Or Of Territorial
LEGISLATURE by direct legislation or BY urifrendly
ieeislsfian, 70 aanul the right Of any citizen to
taks his lave into any common territory; claiming
4sat she Federal Government have authority to
provide for TIE protection Of slave property, as for
any other Kind Of property and, if it should be
fuund taE the Federal Judiciary i incompetent to
ssfsrd that protection it will then be the duty Of
Cpnsless : 10 supply the deficiency 7 BY such re-
medial legislation Is the case may require.
Hrrc i plenty n Tho raw material for the com
1ni&ee III work upon; but how the different planks
xe 70 be adjusted or stalled, no mortal knows
II 0n yesterday 4 resolution was proposed in the
aSa&e iii make GILL nppn THU Executive for nfor-
dol on The subject Of the Peruvian difficulty,
hnt MAS hid over on motion of Mr.. Mason, who
atsted TIT the subject was under negotiation.
III u VIII kn0wn TINT THE Government of Perm has
fefnsed ID comply With the stpulations OF its Min
ii behalf Of onr citizens, who had sent vessels
" fhs sobos Islands for guano in 1852. The only
stepx that Till Government should take to enforce
fhese claims should be those Of peremptory de-
maud At The lannon's mouth, instead Of those of
1nhhassife negotiations
The President, however contsmplates the set
ing Of the sun Of his Administration in peace and
IL Nib little speech on the 22d to the New York
&niaiexs, boosted that storms had prevailed during
liz period, but that be saw the clouds breaking
2Nay, and trusted that there would be peace in
Hill days of his successors. Is not such extray-
sgance entirely ridiculous. The idea of poor Old
Buchanan conquering Paraguay by the arts Of
diplomacy playing the artfui dodger with Peru,
iii hoHeY Juggling with FEW little other bastard
republics vi Spanish America, and then comparing
day to that Of Madison, and speaking Of his own
administration as restoring the country to peace
mil securing to him an evening in his life, on
which
Sweet quiet shall shed lis sunset Y
BIZ the way, the New York soldiers 9th regi-
Ia whom Mr Buchanan talked 80 finely about \. the
0A Ills nave
sery much displeased with some untoward Incl
dents iii their reception here. AIT the Inauguration
b The equestrian statue Of Washington in the lit
tle, nasty plot of ground between here and George
s1wn, they had to occupy position out of :. the
rrce six inches deep In mud, and their field Off
cers were not even invited to the stand where the
ceremonies took place. Congress had appropri-
afed 900 for the expenses Of the occasion, and
II Was supposed TINT good part of this sum would
BE- employed ID providing d fine entertainment for
HE wishing military. 1t appears, however. that
sulgar Jake n Thompson had the dispensation of
III fund, md that II was suuandsred III various
rays for the peculiar benefit OF the Washington
SCUM. Instead of a handsome entertainment
flea was gotten up for one thousand and eight
hundred persons, consisting of greasy meats and
inch poisonous liquor as even Jake himself never
tssted In his poker parties the Mississippi The
gantemen Of The I'll regiment were constrained
~ Decline The honors Of The vulgar banquet, which
reH1ained mostly untouched, and the preparers Of
NE feed pocketed their gains for nothing, as,
M doaht, hal been calculated upon In the proyis-
jon III such bnzzard feast. x.