Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-06-05
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Reported for the. Daily Intelligeneer
CONGRRsSIONAL.
WASHINGTON, June 1

PIES OF any correspondence or othcr pa
pers on file in his department, in relation
10 the arrest on board Of an American
vessel at Palermo, of Father LAMA, an
Italian patriot, by the Intervention or
agency OF Henry ". BoostOn, the Consul
of the United States at that place. Adop-
ted.
Mr.. Kennedy moved to take up the bill
to gise the right of way TO the Baltimore
aud Ohio Railroad through the District, to
connect with the Virginia roads.
Mr.. Cameron hoped not. He proceeded
to show thatthe Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road in its rates on coal, disseminated
against Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Kennedy said he would take oeca-
sion to reply to the remarks OF the Sena-
/ tor from Pennsylvania aud wanted to
show that his opposition to the bill was
! based on personal interest.
The motion to take up was lost.
! Mr.. Toombs moved to take up the bill
relative to the HOUmas grant. Agreed to.
Mr. Polk moved TO strike out tue second
and third sections of the bill, compelling
! claimants to sue in two years or forfeit
their lands. The question was divided
! and second section was stricken out and
! the third section retained.
The subject was postponed till IL o.
! clock tomorrow.
| The Kansas bill was taken up, and Mr..
| Sumner spoke at length.
! Mr.. Summers speech on the bNrbarism
! of slavery, was very lengthy. The fol-
lowing are the opening seutences:-Un-
dertnking now alter silence OF more
than four years on this important subject,
should suppress the emotions natural to
I. such nu occasion it did not declare on
The Threshold my gratitude to that SUI
| premc Being through whose benign care
am enabled after much suffering and ma
changes, once again to resume my duties
/; here and to speak for the cause which is
so near to my heart When | last entered
into this debate, it became my duty to ex-
pose the crime against Kansas and to in
| sist upon the immediate admission OF that
! Territory as Il State of this Union, with
Constitution fOrJidding slavery.
Tune has passed, but the question re-
: mains. Rgsuming the discussion precise
/ IS where left it, am happy to avow that
! vote of moderation which, il is said, may
! venture even to fix the boundaries of wis
/ dom itself have no personal griefs to
/ utter. Only barbnrOus egotism conld
ntrudc these into this chamber. ! have
| no personal wrongs t" avenge. Only II
;. barGarous nature could attempt TO WELD
that vengeance which belongs TO the Lord.
I The years that have interviewed and the
/ tombs that have opened since spoke have
| their voices, too, which cannot fail to
hear. Besides, what is any man among
! The living or among the dead, compared
with the question before US. 1t is this
alone which shall discuss, and open the
argument with that easy victory which Is
! found in charity.
Mr. Sumner closed as follws:
| Thus, sir, speaking for freedom in Kan
/ sas, have spoken for freedom everywhere
and fur civilization, and as the less is
! contained in the greater. so are all arts,
! all sciences, all refncmcnts, all charities,
F., all delights of life embodied in this cause.
! You may reject it, but it will be only for
! to-dNy. Tue sacred animosity between
freedom aud slavery can end only in tri-
umph of freedom. The same question
| will soon be carried before that high tri-
/ bunal, supreme over the Senate and
| court, where the judges will be counted
| by millions, and where the judgment REM
dcred Will be the solemn charge of an
aroused people instructing a new Presi-
dent in the name OF freedom TO see that
civilization receives no dctriment.
| Mr.. Chestnut made brief response to
! Mr.. Summers speech, speaking of It as an
I extraordinary one, after ranking through
| Europe; sneaking through the back door
of the English aristOcracy and flwning at
!
f! men had re-appearcd in the Senate. We
had hoped after the punishment hc had
received for his former iusOlcncp, that he
would have learned prOpriety, but he had
repeated his former vulgarity and mendn-
city. The Egyptians dctied replies, but 1t
remains for northern abolitioniSts TO defy
a embodiment of malice, mendaclty ana
cowardicc. lie WAS not inclined 10 put
further punishment on the receiver OF a
former punishment who had gone bowling
through the world, yelping ont volumes
of Islander and he would therefore en-
de"vor to keep quiet.
Mr.. Sumner said he had pointed out the
barharism of slavery and the Senators re-
Iioindcr should go as an appendix and fit
ting Illustration of his argument.
Adjourned.
liorsE.-Thc House acted ON the Sem
ate's amendments to the Post Office Deli
cheney bill and H0n-concurred in that
striking out the provisO for the restoration
of the suspended inland mail service and
requiring proposals from the lowest bidder
for carrying the mail between Charleston
and Panama.
Among other bills reported from the
Committee were the following, by Mr..
Adams, of KY, authorizing daily mail,
inland, between San Francisco and Olympi,
Washington Territory. Mt IL sum not cx-
cecding $1,000 instead of the same
monthly service by steamer at Sl2s.Ooo.
Also, bill for a weekly service between
the L. S. aud twelve ports on the Mexican
Gulf, according to the Buttcrficid plan.
Mr.. Coliax, from the same committee,
reported II bill appropriating Sl5O,00O for
q Post Office in Brooklyn, New York. he
stated that the committee were equally di-
videlupon the bill. and therefore reported
it without recommendation. and that but
for the rule adopted by the committee ear
ly in the session, against making any new
appropriations tor public buildings, the
minority would have passed this bill