New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-19

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sm6rs,rated by the Senator troD illinois. Ii coli
sded l. must 10 by force Which The PRECEDENT does
Ot possess. aOr has lie the p,ger to blockade. Then
heie c,uh be 10 d..estipg - 10 reyehut uIhl CoH-
re = Nst and NJ % laws fball he enacted. For one
e preferred ne present + dsral Government, admin
stere3 a. ordinr 10 tho split of the. Constitution, TO
.ny1t.r. He believed thus adintIsteyed, II was the
VT on earth He inhoritod aud OIL bis iie had
cherished an habual ard GorJlgi asu'chnenl 20 she
CONSTITUTIONAL Union and would BE- willing any day
10 GIo To- IT, While ha thus believed, he alro be-
Eeyed ,st administered in the absence Of Che spi OF
The Constitution, it tecones the worst earth.
Mr. HALE (Rep., y. Il.) said some TamaI ks had |
flIen rom me senate to which he had hoped never
10 iced She necessity OF replying to, but they had been
rapeitCd so often ana many tiuCs, bni which hto
not been 10 web said heretofore as BY The Senator
M Kentucky, that be felt agaia called On, az The cA
itnBe OF being called tedious TO put IN IN answer
phch he thought was founded the painest page o,
history, as TO what the Administration s.oulu
take resi- Getting the iorts and the wiihGa"al o We
force He had advice 60 give nnlIl Il was Callsu
for tic had not been In council with the Acinlnsia'
ton. The Pretdeu; hud selected tho'e competent 70
advice him. aId elNing ON their advice GOES nor ye'
the uecessy Of rely Ing Gpon that OF any one oune'
He had couented himself with the sentiment OF the
Senator nom the bate state OF Iexss on Aori'ef
sion. IA
Mr.. WIGFALL Dem., Texas -interrgpiingI said
that Texas was State before che was aduitIeu inV
the IToou il a State now, AID, no hoped, Always
woold be o s ate; and unless this GQvcrnihel! na'
pc q er 10 redu her to provlucial cohui' 10 '''
I'd che would always remain 20.
NrHAIE rerIed thu; be had no pathological con-
troyersy with the Senator. lie would say then The
lae Sena, from Texas ilaughtcrl who had tehhTsen
be would never give adv Ice except when asked me
Senator from Kertucky, In arguing me ore non OF hs
,o,Ssr OF this Government over the Territories, arkei
Whether they would do impartial justice and sad these
Conrldcruttd Staies-or rather the other elg save
Ssates he iale suPposed that hey ere 'oniedGalea
remain in the Union except on tcrms OF eGmhty' 1901
WI II was h- truth Of history How d'd the country
staud the time the Constitution was framed ana ~
this very day. ms 20 Slavery in the Territories when
the States Il Virginia and Kentucky came into the
Coufederacy these States what was the lawi Slavery
WAS prob ted not only by statute but by compact
irrepeaable In every inch Of territory oyei which tle
Federal jurisdiction was eyercised Ard Ia 10y, when
Washington took the Oal Of Office, the Federal nag ca
not wave over iuch OF the broad earth Outside tho
limits Of any State where Slavery was not pro-
hbited by n contract declared TO be Irepealible.
He would never sacrifice municipal police and State
soyer,ig ~ to the Federal Union. His opinion was
Il at tie Federal Government cannot be re.toied or
preserved on tie pinci les which brought the domi-
mani uarty into power. lie believed they have per-
yeed Il Constitution, and their principles and policy
infct not only Injury but degradation on nearly one
halt the States of tie Union. Without going through
all the declaration of their principles be would merely
refer TO a portion of the Chicago PLATFORM which he
was sorTv TO hear Presd,nt Lincoln say Was the law
TO him and lis friends. The eighth section says the
normal condition Of al the Territories Is that OF Free.
DOM and denies that either Congress or Territorial
ence 10 Slavery therein. So ubhonent 10 tins poit
cal party lie the idea of property in siave or tho
labor Of slave, that although me institutions OF
fifteen States founded upon II, they dc hare as
fundamental principle that neither Congress, nor Ter
ritorial Legi.latme individuals, have power 10
give legal existence 20 IL. There was an inpa-sable
gulf between your principles and those which the
Whole body OF tie southern people stand. The opin
ion, not say decision Of the Supreme Court shows
that Slavery in the Territories is entitled 10 PrU'ec
ton. He took 1t for granted the States which recog'
In Will "a
united with other States which deny the existence 81
prorery in tie Territories, and deny that u Is
entitled 70 protection IN the common DOMAIN
settled ON terms of equality you reupite
the seeeded States hold the Slave States in the
Union. lie expressed his confident belief that the
Slsvehoding States Will consent that the nom
Savehoding States shah mouopoze the whole Of this
great inheritance. They have lille 70 part Of II by
constitutional right, by money and by blood. As an
eminent Senator not now here ssid that the South
ern States raid part Of the money when money was
lie price tEey paid part Of the blood when blood wac
IL price, aud they gill permit Themselves 10 DO
excluded from @ share in this imperial inheritance
which belongs 10 all the States they will never
content 10 be ienmed in ind kept III
oonoition in wi ich they cannot expand
Whatever may be the settlement of other questions,
tbs must be settled IL with their rglts under
On equitable division Of the Trey will contend
TO the last. Tie Government must be impartial The
present. dangers were foreseen by the men OF the
North. Patriotic in Congress offered resolutions,
and delivered speeches, urging satisfactory settle
ment. lie repeated that the people Of the North
the danger Those Of Ne.-Jersey, Pcnnsy lvaDia,
and # the great States in the valley Of the Ohio md
elsewhere, poured in their petlions 10 adjust the
Difficulties terms Of equality; but the members OF
the dominant party here and In the other House with
stubborn incredibly to The result, were determined
10 make change in tie platform OF the party-they
reiused to recede one inch. TLey would not meet tLo,e
on the other eide one half oDe-quarter Of the way
on the basis Of settlement. When the Senate Com
ntee Of thirteen raised composed Of representa-
tive men from I'll parts Of the Union, the dominant
party fully and ably represented. After comforting
FOR weeks they unable TO agree single prop
os ion. Iu looking at the proct edngs Of that Com
mtee he struck with the ie i'd exhibition If pur
pore not 10 come 10 IN agreement They refused all
guarantees as 10 Slavery, and 10 equitable division
VI territory, and during the last Congress, not With
standing the Urgent and supplcatory efforts 10 bring
them 10 the work Of doug something they have never
from the beginning The end Ieceded from essen
tisl principles Of their platform. II is time both
llOuseS hnslly passed proposed amendment to
the Constitution that no amendment shall be
made thereto 10 give Congress power to abol-h OF in
terfeTe in any State with its domesc institutions in
clud ng persons held 30 service labor by the laws Of
sad State. Eight Slave States hesiate about
their fourFe, and that the uimaum offered but
the majority utterly refuse TO give security az Slave
~ Ia the District OF Columbia and the Interstate |
elavetrade and the night Of the South in the territory
any other aspect Of the whole subject. He wanted
Kentucky and the Other slave States TO understand
what they have TO expect in the present state Of tie
dominant party as represented in Congress.
They have nothing offered for their accept |
snce, save that they will not abolish Slavery in |
the States. lie then reviewed the short address made
by Mr.. Seward TO a party Of friends who called upon |
HIN, 10 show That that gentleman advanced subtle,
dangerous and demoralEing policy, tosf the question
Oi distinctive Republican principles 10 the more popu.
lar question Of the Union. Was il now the policy Of
the Republican party, under the Of devotion TO
The Union to form In ion party especially in the Bor-
dap hsp nv 10 "a