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XXXVIrH CONGRESS.
FTRgT SESSION,
SENATE. .W.sssworor, Jan. 4. 1867.

Mr.. JOHNSON, Dem, Ar,c.l presented . memo
| rial of the Legislature Of Arkahsas, as.ing sor
| Pacific Railroad. Laid on The table.
Mr.. MALLORY Dem. Fia.l Intrcfgced q bill tn
regulate and increase the pay OF the Navy Referred
Also bill to modify the pay Of PdFscrs in the Navy
| Referred.
| Mr.. PRESTON KING Rep, n. Y stated hist ,bs
resolutions al ted at the Union meeting at Rochester
| Eew-York hsc been forwarded to the United Sstcs
Senators from that State, and ne would request that
they BIO read.
The SECRETARY read them accordingly.
Mr. KING desired to say few words on these
resolutions He in presenting them was gratIfied "
say that the people of New-York wayersd nore IN
their attachment to republican institutions ana our
present form Of government. AL parties there enter
famed the sentiment that the Union must ana shall %
preserved. That sentiment could not be turned TO
party account. The Union meetings held had proved
the strength of that sentiment and the resolutions
adopted speak for the whole people OF the STATE lie
called the attention Of the Democratic Senators VINO
had expressed dsunion sentiments to the fact that
these expressions OF attachment 70 the Cnon cane
from prominent Democrats Of the North.
The resolutions were laid on the table.
Mr.. SLIDELL (Dem La moved TO refer the paper
on the subject of the Houmas land claim TO the Com
mttee on the Judiciary; Il belonged properly 70 tns
of himself and colleague that subject had been i'm
pugned, and as Mr.. benjamin was Chairman OF thsf
COMMITTEES, he desired TO change it, reference
Mr. COLLANER Rep VT called attention 10 the
fact that Mr.. Benjamin was also on thai CominiUee.
The subject was laid over till tomorrow.
A large number OF petitions OF no general interest
was presented.
suy intention as imputed BY the newspaper to asssu
the President o. his Message, unless the respectful ex
preston of his dissent to some Of ITS stasemen DC
considered that light. He entertained strong per-
soDal regard for the President but II he did not, ago
and his long public services would shield him from at
tack. He had right, however, in common with ever
citizen 10 courteously express his views, and would
do so He called attention to that portion OF the Mes
sage where the President refers to the bred Scott de-
cson as settling Slavery agitation, but could not agree
with him. The Supreme Cont has done what il could,
but the question was not settled else why were con-
troyersies going on everywhere, in State Lcgisls-
lures and both Houses Of Congress on TIE
subject. The question had Hot been seas,eo'
He agreed with the President, that the supreme Ccors
had aoudged the right Of citizen to carry slaves in'
the Territories, and did not believe iefri'ora
lature. or any other body, had power to destroy or
override that decision. The President hsd SAID, fur
her that property in slaves, to hiS knowledge hso
not been disturbed in any Of the Territories To thai
he disagreed, The whole course OF the Ant-S.avery
party in Kansas to disturb the rights Of slayehod
ers Was il no interference with Slavery ~ tie Ter
rtores to shoot down Shareholders in cold blood hunt
them down like wild beasts and destroy their proper
tyl The whole contest in Kansas was waged against
the rights of shareholders. The President had further
said that in case of such interference The Judiciary
could apply the remedy, and il time enough to act
when the interference was emea od s mo. sh
time had now arrived for further Legislation, ard that
Congress imperatiyely called 90 70 act at once
1t il too lateop act when the mis- ,hief Is DONE lho
President has asked you IN advance to strengthen his
arm to protect the persons and property OF American
citizens on the Ishmus; and ii that can be done, why
cannot the arm of the Executive and Judiciary be
strengthened to protect Slavery in Kansas
Mr.. Brown then went into argument to show
that the Courts could not furi h protection TO Slavery
without statutory laws. He avowed his desire for the
enactment of such laws. They might call il slave
Al he xad
code than others did for horse code or a COW code
While he had tongue 10 speak, he would demand his
rights under the Constitution and laws. He dlsayowed
again any intention to assa the President but must
he be told that because he was a Democrat and the
President Democrat, he must not express his news
because he might in ure the Democratic party lac
would see the Democratic party destroyed before ne
would consent 10 withhold the honest expression OF
his sentiments He saw that without further legsa-
ation there would never be another Slave Territory,
and conseq entity no more Slave States FREE ierri,
tories pressing for admission into the Union, and
il would not be long, unless Slave states were adnit-
ted before the Free States would have the two'hrds
sufficient to change the Constitution. That done, the
purpose ayowed by the Senator from New-fork, to
crush ont Slavery under constitutional forms could be
accomplished. What would become Of the bred Scott
decision when the Supreme Court is in the hands OF
the Anti-Slavery party? He closed by ayowng him
self Union man. and said he wished to multiply the
Slave States in order TO preserve the Union, which our
fathers had made slayehoding one.
Mr.. DOOIITTIE Rep, Wis., referred 10 the great
change which had come over the Presidents mind in
the last ten years. Then he believed in the power of
Congress over Territories now he says the Supreme
Court has established the right of shareholders to
carry Slavery into the Territories, and that neither
Congress the Territorial Legislature, nor any hu-
man power could impair that decision. The men OF
the South had experienced equally great change,
| revolution which had been forced by what they
| deemed their interests. The Senator from Georgia
had said in his speech at Augusta that in 1876 there
were only four men in Congress who did nor hold to
| the power of Congress over The Territories.
MIR. TOOMBS lDem, Ga) corrected the statement.
| lie referred only to Northern representatives.
Mr.. D0OLIrTLE said the first time the doctrine
advanced that the Constitution protected Slavery
| in the Territories, was by Calhoun in lsl1.
Mr.. TOOMBS replied that the first attempt 10 pro-
hbit Slavery in the Territories since 1870 was in 1916
and il defeated.
| Mr.. DOOLITTLE resumed, contendng that South
Elm defended Slavery on the general ground
| that capital should own its labor, not hire it.
Mr.. CHESNUT Dem, s. c. denied the correct
ness of the statement The South held that the true
| position of negro was that of slave.
Mr.. DOOLlTILE said that Southern men did not
Justify Slavery the ground Of negro Slavery only
but took the broader ground that the natural position
| of laborer is that Of slave.
| Mr.. CLAY Dem, Aa.) said that such statement
was wholly unfounded, and should not be made with
ont sufficient evidence. When the Senator produced
| the evidence, he Claw wanted rot merely CARRIED
| extract but the whole article.
Mr.. BROWN Dem, Miss said the Senator from
Wisconsin mistook the position of the South They
believed that Slavery elevated the negro -Four mill
| ions Of Southern slaves occupied a higher postiou,
morally, socially and physically, than any aborers ON
| the globe.
| MI DOOLITTLE reiterated that Southern men
held that capital must own labor and referred to MIR.
| Hammond's Z" mud-sl speech.
| MIR. CHESTNUT said every white man IN south
Carolina stood on an equal footing. II was grave