New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-11
XXXvIrH CONGRESS.

tending the capture Of Mr. Sanborn and his subsequent
release, and said the act conspicuous, both re-
gar6ed the against whom the attack was directed
and the place where it occurred. Mr.. Sanborn was
quiet gentleman of excellent fame scholar and Of
pure life. This was man who was seized. The at
tempt was made at Concord where seizure was once
before attempted which ended in revolution of these
States. The Senate owed something to its own charac-
ter aud should wash its hands of this transaction. He
moved the reference Of the memorial to the Judiciary
Mr. MASON Den., VA said this man Sanborn was
shown to be either in correspondence with the man
who was hung at Hsrpers Ferry traitor and MUIR
derer OF with his friends. He had therefore been
mOned before the Committee OF thu Senate to testify
He replied, refusing to come, the ground that ne
feared personal violence. warrant was then esued
against him. and the Sergeant-atArms sent deputies to
arrest him. who did go; but he was rescued by mob,
and afteTward discharged by Justice Shaw upon writ
of Aabeas corpus.
Mr. Sanborn's memorial was then read. He claims
that he has rghtfully resisted the summons OF the
Senate; complains of his unwsrranted arrest and the
brutality attending it, and asks redress at the hands
OF the Senate.
Mr.. SUMNER wished to correct one statement
which fell from the Senstor from Virginia. Mr.. San
born was taken from the custody Of pretended officers
not by a mob, but by writ of habeas corpus en-
forced by a posse comtatus.
Mr. MASON said his aut lorty was letter from the
United States Marshal. He moved to lay the memorial
Oh the table until the process should be returned
Mr. SUMNER reluctantly consented with the un-
derstanding that 1t should De caued up WHoh Ine
process was returned.
The memorial was laid on the table.
The bin to amend the act for the admission OF Ore
op 30 az to extend the period IN which Oregon coua
locate certain grants of land taken up and passed
The Homestead bill was taken up.
Mr.. DOOLITTLE Rep, Wis., said, that before the
snbiect was Immediately before the Senate ne would
ssv few words in reply TO the Senator from South
Carolina whom he had listened to yesterday win pleas
sure and admiration. Though differing with MN N MS
conclusions be agreed with HIN on many ponts. tIe
Senator had advised the Republicans TO correct their
nhlosophy and 10 study the laws OF nature and those
which govern the world, and act accordingly lie
ereed with him there, that it was the highest DUTY OF
are LEGISLATOR TO study the laws OF nature ana De gov
prned by then. The Senator had made an aP-
picstion of his remark 10 the races OF MANKIND,
denying their equality IN the sense as'eI!eu
nv his ancestors in l7l6. de nd not hln-
ssf believe that in this country the negro or the
Indian, side by side with the white man, was hls
eQual neither in the tropics was the white man ths
aual of the children Of the tropics. The attempts OF
sbe Circassian race TO establish supremacy In the
tropics always had failed. He iDstsDced San Domingo
the West Indies generally, and the destructive ei-
feet ON Spsn which became Gillette after extending her
,onnuestf into tropical countries. He then went into
an examination Of the meaning OF the Declaration OF
lndependence in regard to the equanty OF menl
(which he held meant equality OF natural rights Of oil
men not the equality OF powers. IN lse oilgIna'
draft of the Declaration OF independence JeI,
ferson had written In large letters the WORD
5'men," when charging the KING OF Engsna win
,,ornp the savetrade showing clearly that ne recog-
nized slaves as men. Heeoud not see how after tnat
uy one could get up and say that he oo not mean 70
assert the equality Of all races Mr. DoolItue tnen
1Dointei out the desolating effect OF slave culture
within SIGHT of the Capitol in the county In which
washington had his estates, land had been reoncea
from fertility to poverty. Toe population oeo,toeo,
and the very church IN when asnbgton s m 70
had fallen into decay and become an ssy lum for co
Mr.. MASON Dem, Va said the Senator had been
,,oaebinp on his manor Land in Fairfax County mao
become IMPOVERISHED by the culture OF tobacco the
formulation however hac largely increased AS 20 the
church. he regarded it with flal reverence His au-
restors had woIshiped there; and 1t had been put ID
good repair, and it was now used as place OF WoI
shin The decline Of the fabric resulted from Tue nnv1
of seetarians who had got the advantage lie wonld
aake occasion 70 say that when be was In New-En
,1lsnd be visited Plymouth, and found wilderness
where they hunted bears AND wolves; nj
Mr. DOOLITTLE said the Deghborho0d OF flyIn
s.nth had ALWAYS been barren and uIcuisYatso ne
lad pointed out that lands in Virginia once men aho
cultivated, had been impoverished oy slave culture
He would ask the Senator from South Carolina II tn4'
was not the effect Of slave labor
Mr.. CHESTNUT Dem. S. c. replied that IN all
new countries they went new lands, IN preference
TO retaining the old but in the older states ts Il 40.
producing more than they did twenty years ago. az
Icuture was advancing In South Caio4na as mocn a.
in any State in the Union Slave labor Ga moi inpoV
erish the soil. The very part IN The Declaration OF
Independence, referred 20 by the Senator from VIE
consD. was stricken out by the trainers.
Mr.. DOOLITTLE said he intended to show what
Adams, Jefferson and Franklin meant The clan4e
was stricken out in compliance with the wishes OF toe
representatives Of South Carolina and Georgia, VINO
risbed TO continue the slaye-trSde. He had no desire
40 reduce the Cult States 10 the condition OF San
T)omippo but did maintain that, if the negroes could
he colonized In coDgenial climate, they cOoo i've
ont of etae of Slavery, and obtain TO state OF con-
siderable civilization. he pointed out Liberia as sue
cessfu experiment. and read from the debates OF far-
Isment 10 chow that the condition OF the West Indies
was not az deplorable represented MI OoohItie
fben advocated the Homestead bill In the course OF
his remarks he said it would enable the poor white
man of the South to escape from the system unoe'
which ia ablest advocates admitted capt was the SO
bolute MASTER and held labor captive.
Mr.. WIGFALL Dem, Texas asked il lie re'ei'o'
10 him. 49,
Mr. DOOLITTLE said he referred TO the WE'VE eA
pressed by the Senator from Virginia.
Mr.. HUNTER Dem, VAL explained tnN nc re.
1eKred in bis remarks slave labor only lie uo no
mean 10 cay that capital at the South owned "hi'e
labor.
Mr.. DO0LITTLE continued and said that three
solutions OF the Slavery question were Proposso' ne
first was the emancipation Of the Saves and the essaO
]shneDt Of perfect equality. That might be called
1he John Brown solution. The second looks TO the
acquisition Of Cuba, Mexico, Central America and
Tropical America, IN which 10 extend Slavery and
bring In millions Of mixed 70 0veFbaaDoe the
Caucasian race Of the North and North West That
was the Southern fanatioal solution. The third sOu-
ton and the only wise and practical one the col
nzetiOn and deportation Of the blacks to place
where in 8 suitable climate they may work out their
own development.
Mr. MASON wanted TO know how this deportation
was 10 be effected
Mr. DOOLITTLE thought If we managed the Cen
trial American States kindly, they would themseive'
open lands 10 negro settlements
Mr.. HAMMOND Dem, S. CT said that gentlemen