The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1860-03-09
Congressional.
WAsufNeroN. Feb. 20.
SENATE.

Alter dispusing Of the morning business
he Senate went into Executive session
on the Mexican treaty und consumed two
hours in discussion.
Mr. Seward presented the memorial of
the Legislature Of Kansas, praying for
admission into the Union
Mr.. Seward then spoke He opened
by remarking the evils Of slavery. La
Dor, either OF fellow mon or Of slaves was
the cardinal necessity Of society; some
states choose one kind and some the cth-
er. The slave State strikes down aud
affects TO extinguish the personality OIL
the laborer, not only a. a member OF the
politics al body but also a. parent, husband
child, neighbor, or friend He thus be.
comes, in political view, merely prop
crty without moral capacity, and without
domestic, moral or social relations, duties
rights and remedies; a ohUtiel; IN OBJ
lcct Of bargain, sale, Gin, inheritance or
theft The State prot cts not the sluvo
MS man but the capital Of another man
which he represents, Ia contrast. Mr.
Seward reviewed the condition OF the
free labor and the free States lie said
the State which rejects slavery, snooure-
gcs aud anrmutes the laborer by main
tainlng and developing his national pcr-
sonuhty in all the rights and faculties Of
muhhood, aud with tle privileges of cti-
zenship. lie thought he might not inae-
curately call slave States capital States,
and free States labor States.
Ia the opinion of Mr.. Seward the IA
theirs of the Republic adjusted the slave
ry qu stion 30 that It might havc giyen
us much loss than our present disquipt
had not circumstances afterward occur
red which they had not clearly foroseon.
They condemned the practice ofslavery
and hoped for its discontlnunnco They
expressed this whom they asserted this as
a fundamental principle iu the DeclorO-
tiOn OF Independence "that an men are
created equal" &c. lie thought the
Constitution recognized every human bo-
ing, not as capital, but as person.
Altcr giving a brief history of the set
tlomcnt of the Louisiana Territory the
Speaker referred to The question OF Con-
gress 10 islating for tho Territories. The
question Of 1920 was identically the ques-
tioo of 1860, he alluded 10 the conflict
going on between Freedom and Slavery.
The Democratic party was generally
found supporting policy Of capital. He
quoted instances. NJ. Van Buren, luunch-
ed prospective veto against the anti
slavery measure ofrcmoving slavery from
the District Of Columbia. A Democrat
ic Congress brought Texas into the I'm
ion, stipulutug for IL future re-organiza-
tion in four Slave States.
Mr.. s. referred briefly 70 the repeal OF
the Missouri Compromise, and lis effect
upon the territory of Kansas. lmmedi.
ately after the event the whig party went
down never to rise again and the Repub
hcan was organized He spoke OF th,
efforts Of Democrats 10 make Kansas
slave State and to force Il into the Unioi
as such and denounced that party's ellor
10 mask itself behind the battery OF th,
Supreme Court. The same party wa
itself responsible for the act 10 subver
the free Republic of Nicaragua and to o.
pen il 10 slavery and the African slave
trade. Mr.. y. said the Republican par.
~ embodies the popular protest and re-.
action against policy which has been
| fastened upon nation by surprise, and
which its reason and conscience concur
ring with the reason and conscience OF
mankind condemn. He spoke of the COM
ing Presidential campaign, and the Re-
publcans holding 10 the principle of pre-
venting the territories by constitutional
means from becoming homes for slavery
and polygamy. He said the policy of the
| Republican party was TO stand by the
freedom Of speech and the press The
speedy improvement Of thepubhc domain
by homestead laws and il will encourage
mining manufacture and internal COM
merce, with necdul connections between
the Atlantic and Pacific States He al
luded 10 the fact that, why Southern men
are not willing TO see the Inauguration of
Republican Pre- ident because il was q
sectional party and passes on TO prove
that the Republican il not a sectional or.
ganization. He said the real principles
Of the Republican party are nduonal.-
He was no ussailant OF States, all the
States were parcels Of his own country.
Mr. s. said Il W well and wisely ar
ragged, that the States were sovereign in
relation TO Slavery in their own borders.
He said John Brown and his associates
acted on thoughts fatally erroneous. He
pronounced the act an act Of sedition and
treasoni criminal in just the extent that
IL effected the public peace and was de-
structive Of human life. He did not think
anything serious would grow out Of the
rep eated threats 20 dissolve the Union.