Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-05-26
PUBLISHED DAILY AND TRI-WEEkLf BY
EDGAR SEOWDEN.
ALEXANDRIA,:
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY %, 1850.

CONGRESS. Senate, yesterday, pass
ea the remaining resolutions of the series Of
Mr.. Davis, OF Miss, which were undisposed
of on Thursday. The House Of Representa-
tives spent the greater portion of the day, IN
the consideration of the private calendar.
SENATOR C. c. CLAY, of Alabama, has
written letter approving of the action OF
the Seeding delegates at the Charleston
Convention. In this letter he charges Doug
las with voting constantly for appropria'
tons of land and money, for almost any
purpose" and with being in that respect as
bad as any federal Wing, black republican,
or latitudinarian c0nstructionlst could de-
sire" He declares that Douglas advocates
and votes appropriations by Congress for
internal improvements, such as Monroe,
Jackson, Polk, Pierce, and Buchanan have
vetoed; that he supported appropriations for
deepening the channel over the ST. Clair
flats, which have been vetoed by both Pierce
and Buchanan; that he has, this session, 70
ted, almost alone among the democrats, with
the entire black-republican senator's, for a
preliminary motion in favor OF such bill,
and also, for bill appropriating $4,000 to
the harbor of Chicago, This residence, on
which nearly 100000 have already been
spent 10y Congress; that but for the vetoes OF
Pierce and Buchanan he and other support
ters of such measures would have bankrup-
ted the treasury; and that he has been a
constant supporter of the tree-tarm or home
stead policy, having voted for it, in company
with but one other Northern democrat, and
all the black-republicans, against the entire
Southern senators, the other day, as subst-
tute for that miscalled homestead bill which
passed the Senate. The substitute he voted
for, received but one Southern vote when 1t
passed the House of Representatives. And he
winds up his bill of Indictment against the
prominent candidate for President on the
Democratic side, this same Mr.. Douglas,
rs follows -
as it surprising that Mr.. Douglass NOM
inarion should be desired by leading black
republicans? lie agrees more with them
than with States-rights or strict construction
men, whether democrats or oppositionists.
He goes for enarging the pension system
so do the republicans. lie goes for boun-
ties to mail steamers and telegraph compa-
nies-so do the republicans. He goes for
distribution of the public lands among the
States for agricultural colleges-so do the
republicans lie goes for giving away the
public lands to natives and foreigners, and
securing them against taxes and executions,
SO as to fill the Territories with squatter soy
eregns-so do the republicans. He asserts
the right of those squatter soyerelgns to eX-
clude slavery from the Territories--so do The
republicans. He admits the constitutional
power of Congress to prohibit slavery from
the Territories--so do the republicans. He
refused in 1880 to give power to the terrific
rial legislatures of Utah and New Mexico to
protect slave property-refuscd to remove
the obstruction of the Mexican laws-yotcd
for proposition to exclude the conclusion
that slavery might be taken into them and
for another expressly prohibiting its intro
duction into them-and for yet another to
keep in force Mexican laws prohibiting II; all
Of which votes he would now excuse by
pleading Instructions Of his legislature, but
which he could not, as an honest man and
patriot, have given if he had not believed
the Constitution, which he had sworn 10
support, empowered Congress to exclude
slavery. All these votes black-repub!lcanS
approve.
In view of these accordances, and Of his
cooperation with them in opposing the Adj
ADMINISTRATION, the South, and the democratic
party, by resisting the admission OF Kansas
under the Lecompton constitution, and the
disorganization and division that he has pro-
duced in the Northern wing of our party,
and now threatens in the Southern wing, Is
it not natural that Greeley, Webb, and 9TH
er black .rcpr bllcanS should sympathlze with
him and desire l. is nomination at Baltimore?
If he should be elected President, millions
Of dollars might be annually appropriated
for rivers. harborS, ocean steamers. and 9TH
err works to aid commerce, and the whole
public domain given away to colleges or to
native and forei "a squatters for free farms,
with his sanction, at the expense OF the
planting States; the course OF the democratic
party as directed by Monroe, jackson, Polk,
Pierce and Buchanan, be changed, and all
the old State-rights landmarks OF the con
stitutional power of Congress be disresa
and obiterated."
The practice Of printing speeches IN the
CONGRESSIONAL Globe that either were never