The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1861-01-31

vitality important, and should be retain
ed. Douglas said lie thought the bill
would bear. the Interpretation intended
by Nj. T'owelllwithout the insertion Of
his amendment. Mason of Virginia
the author Of the Fugitive Slave Law
assured the Senate Of the necessity of
retaining the amendment to establish
and protect slavery in all the territory
We may hereafter acquire from Mexico.
The South should have such territory
for slavery, and the bill would not be
received as = settlement, q compromise
Of existing difficulties, unless it was
distinctly understood that all future ac-
QUESTIONS Of territory south Of IS. 80
should be given to slavery.
The question was taken on inserting
the Powell amendment to make all ter
ritory, including future acquisitions,
south Of Sc deg. 80 min., slavery terri
tory, and the vote stood yeas 20, nays
Is. In the affirmative were Douglas,
C%rittendcn, Fitch, Bright, Bigler, Rice
and Pugh; also Baker Of Oregon, who
voted tor it in order that it might be so
odious that the whole plot to subyert
the Constitution might be blown up.
The question turned on the adoption
Of Senator Clark's substitute to Critten-
denis scheme, which reads:
Resolrea, That the provisions Of the
L~gastit1tion are ample for the prescrva.
tion OF the Union, and the protection of
all the material interests of the country:
that IL needs TO be obcyed rnther than
amended; an that an %cxtrication from
our present dangers is to be looked for
in strenuous efforts to preserve the
peace, protect the public property and
enforce the laws, rather than in new
guarantees for particular interests, com
| promises for particular difficulties, or
concessions to unreasonable demands.
This substitute was carried by ayes
20, nays "a; Douglas, Fitch, Rice, aud
other doughfaces voting in the mega
tive. The next question was to lay the
Crittcnder-P Powell Douglas programme
on the table. Carried-yeas 20, nays
%, Latham voting with the Repnbli-
cans. On the last two votes Slidell and
Wigfall refused to so on record"
Here we see Nlr. Douglas did vote
Tor the Cyittenlen compromise, and
Powell amendment after it vas ex-
planned by Sen. Mason that it was the
intention Of the same TO give every
foot Of soil south Of So so to slavery.
What southern man ever done more
fo:. the south than he is now doing ?
What northern man ever cqualed him
in servilty and Elasticity? This is not
al Of the late evidence Of his love for
slavery; for when he had completed his
late speech in the Senate, such frc-eat-
ers as Toombs, Wigfall, Slidell, and
jeff. Davis came up to him and congrat-
nlatcd him on his apostacy ; and when
Toombs closed his reasonable speech,
Douglas ran up to him in the presence
Of 5000 spectators and the Senate,
and shook both his hands. Yes, truly,
..Iikc love its like Where is his
Popular Sovereignty principle, when he
is now voting for the direct extension
Of Slavery? And where the miserable
dupes Of his ambition? They are shorn
Of their pet principle, and yet like
whipped ours sneak in the trail Of their
master, asserting as q solace for their
forced humiliation the audacious false
hood that the great, wise, patriotic
statesman, VIM. II. Seward, now
stands upon the same platform with
the vain, place seeking, J~anus-faced,
putty. head, Stephen A. Douglas.