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xxxvIth CoNGREss-FIRsT SESSION
WASHINGTON, May %


SENATE--Mr. Horton, from the Finance
| Committee, reported back the House Post
Office Deficiency Bill with sundry amend
ments.
Mr.. Gwin moved to take up the Overland
Mail Bill Carried
Mr.. Gwin said that the object of his Post
| office Committee was to establish perma-
nent mail system and proceeded to explain the
| details of the bill.
The Chair called up the special order, it
being the private calender and it was post
poned.
| Mn Davis's resolutions were called up, Mr..
| Crittenden continuing his remarks.
Mr.. Crittendon took the ground that the
resolution contemplated evils not likely to
arise, that the Territories were quiet, and no
intervention was needed To justify the
resolutions we must suppose that the gov
ernments all intend to make war on slavery,
| which is not likely to be the case. 1t was
useless to bring forward the future to make
| mischief in the present. He advocated peace
and quiet. The American parties had been
| wrong and contributed to the mutual irri-
tation. 1t was not going to be tied to the
heels of the Democratic or any other party.
The question was then taken on Mr.. Browns
amendment that Intervention was now
needed, and lost-yeas 8; nays 43.
| Mr.. Collamer offered an amendment to
Mr.. Clingman's amendment to the effect that
non-interventon by Congress in the Terri
| tories ever would be required. The amend
ment was lost-yeas 16; nays 49,
| Mr.. Clingman's resolution, that no neces-
| sty now exists for the intervention of Con-
| gress to protect slave property in the Terri
| tories, was adopted.
The fifth resolution was taken up. 1t is as
| follows:
'tResoIued, That if experience should at any
time prove the judicial and Executive au-
thority do not possess means to insure ade-
quate protection to constitutional rights In IL
Territory and IL Territorial Government
| should fail or refuse to provide the necessary
remedies for that purpose, it will be the duty
| of Congress to supply that deficiency"
Il Mr. Brown offered the following as sub
! stitute for the fifth resolution:
"Resolved, That experience having already
shown that the Constitution and common
law, unaided by statutory enactment, will not
afford adequate and sufficient protection to
slave property-some of the Territories hav-
ing failed and others having refused to pass
such enactments-it has become the duty of
Congress to interpose and pass such law as
will afford to slave property in Territories
that protection that is given to other kinds OF
, property"
Mr.. Wigfall offered this substitute, and said
somehow or other the Senators from Mssis-
, sippi (Brown) and North Carolina (Clingman
pursued course to embarrass the action o.
, the Senate, and bolster up the fortunes of the
man who had proved himself unsound. He
would not, however, question the gentlemen
: motives only to show the result of their ac
+ ton.
Mr.. Brown replied to these objections. H,
did not admit the right of the Senator from
Texas to lecture him, and denied any desir,
f to embarrass the action of the party or am
s Senator. In reply to the charge that he ia
| vored Douglas, he said he would support tn
: nominee of the Richmond Convention, if h
n was sound man on q clear PLATFORM but
r mere series of abstraction were presented
! he would then sever his connection with tn
> National Democratic Party.
e Mr.. Wade suggested that the Republican
II take no part in the vote on the resolution, a
n it seemed to be Democratic family affair.
Mr.. Hale thought Mr.. Wigfall did great in
justice to Northern Democrats if he suppose
l. the adoption of Mr.. Browns resolution, @
any other, could embarrass the Northern Dc
Vi mocracy. They could not stagger the Demo
of cratic party in his (Hale's) State by any resC
" lutions that might be passed. AT the ne1
: State Convention they. would declare thi
they had always entertained these sentiment
IS. He complimented Mr.. Browns course
n consistent, for if the principles embodied
c. the resolutions were correct, now was u
q time for action.
y A personal colloquy here ensued betweC
d. Messrs. Hale and Davis.
he Mr.. Browns substitute was lost, ayes
es nays AZ.
eS Mr.. Brown said that three votes we
81 enough to save Sodom.
he Mr.. Toombs offered an amendment that Il
action of Congress should be within the Co
"a stitutional power. Adopted.
" Mr.. Trumbull said he had no objection
ng the resolution as it stood as mere abstra
a q "a m
there is no Constitutional right to take a
ca- hold slaves in the Territories. The amen
nv me1t was rejected-yeas II, nays 81.
~ The fifth resolution was then adopted
III yeas 49, nays 2.
ey. Messrs. Hamlin and Trumbull were t
J is only negatives.
~, The sixth resolution was then reported
follows
va ''Resolued, That the inhabitants of Tel
Ice, tory, when they rightly form a CONSTITUTE
ro- to be admitted as a State may then for
first time, like the people of State wi
Is forming new Constitution, decide for the
ru- selves whether slavery, as domestic I'M
as tuition, shall be maintained or prohibi
Co.. within their jurisdiction, and that they 81
be received into the Union with or with
ell slavery, as their Constitution may prescr
f at the time of their admission"
q, Mr.. Wilson moved the following as a 8
nth stitute:
YER "ResoIped, That slavery is against natr
70 y rights, and can only exist when it is uph
-, by local and municipal law; and that
w, Constitution neither creates nor establish
eat nor authorizes Congress to create or est
by lish slavery, or guarantees the right to
person to take into or hold slaves in TIE
ny tory; and that slavery, being wrong wit
the itself and prejudicial to the rights of
men and the Interests of free labor, it is
duty of Congress to prevent its extens
sed into the Territories
Ito The substitute was rejected 0 to 49,
TER The resolution was tnen adopted % 70
for The seventh resolution relating 10 the II
tiye-slaye law, was taken up.