New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-20
XXXVIITR CONGRESS.
FIRST SESSION.
SENATE ..w.saIsoroS, llaIe. -. ~, L. r.

authorizing the Importation % "'"'
S's,.' n FSTrsS.sESbEN rep. Mo- said there was
Ns %, the same snbiect IN the course OF PREPARATION
The bill was laid over. ~,
On rotion of Mr. HENDERSON Me-, the till
40 secure pay, bounty, and pensions TO men "c-
ally 10 servic. 10 the Department OF the west, Was
Asken up, and passed en-
Mt MORRILL, REP Me- introduced bill 70
provide for the public defense, and TO hccepl loau'
frorn the several States for the purpose. Referee.
Mr. HARLAN Rep. Iowa. presented resolutions
from the Iowa Legislature relating 70 the sl'H4V''
among the Iowa tToops.
Mr. HALE rep, y. H., from the Naval .ou'
nittee reported resolution authorizing .ho go
Gry Of the Navy TO place officers now OIL 'ii'
On motion of Mr.. WILSON rep, MASH lse
bill for the organization Of army corps &C. "''
Saksn up. g., 80 ,;vo1 of
Mr. GRIMES Rep, Iowa said be vas lii .fi' VI
opposing these Bills for aggrand,leheh'' Us
~ n,,S .orns ,gas NOT a new thing. citizen 81
his S,a;e was now o. the bead of an army cof1s Al
ihe West bit request for spieb0i1 sian ve i.o,'
HIN He was winding victories, ana " IA wa" N.Y.
Theee nests come from the arlstOclaNc poito Va
the army who conquer tine enemy by Onc"ihplnS
them He hoped to God the day would soon come
When ere army would move away from The Cap'ai'
90 its influence woald not be fell here On All ieS
ton.
Mr.. WILSON Rep, Mass said we hsd ois gss
NED an army corps but the Commander had 10 SAL
and tie bill proposes 10 give them eight men. n.
wss necessary that We have al Iuspectol.Gener
'Adjutant- General, Chief of Artillery, Ne. ne
though, opposition to this bib was entirely without
foundation. -.
Mr.. COWAN rep. Pa said there wns no douo'
sha army ought TO be Offered. but the thing never
10 med 10 be done, but every morning We were
treated 70 new dish. lie wanted TO snoW i We
psssed this BILL whether tae army womb 'heh u
Mr. WILSON Rep, Mass ssid the bill fer 8
aae had been hanging along between the two hoD''f
ssme time, and this Bill wa up for The iIs' INV
Mr.. COWAN said he was perfectly Wiinng 10 'oly
for the bill il il was to be mlity; Ou he wanted
70 know where the end was.
Mr.. WILSON said we had been obliged 10 create
an army, which new thing and II was Lee's-
.sary TO bring in many bills; and no thought IL hes'
" keep the different department OF the army sei
Ms. SHERMAN Rep, Ohio contended that toe
effect of the bill simply 10 increase the pay o.
s,ad officers and be thought there was no necessary
for It's passage.
The bin passed--Yeas %, Nays.
The following are the Nays: Messrs Grimes,
Hale, Harlan, Henderson, Lane Kansas, Powell,
Sherman, Trumbull, and Wright.
Mr. HOWE Rep, Wiz asked 10 be excused
from the Select Committee oil the Stark case tie
was excused. 49,
The bill for the Abolition OF Slavery in the Dis
sriet Of Columbia was taken up.
Mr.. 'DOOLTTLE Rep Wi. MIR. President,
believing as / do, lbst every human being ~, by
natural right entitled 10 life and liberty, and tnst
We have the constitutional power 90 act upon that
question in the District of Columbia, | shall sup
port the bill which has been introduced by the Sena-
Tor from Maine. ! believe Sir, notwithstanding
all we have heard upon this floor and elsewhere, that
all the races OF mankind are capable Of enjoying
civil and religious freedom, aud social and political
equality when they are placed under the proper
cir cuustances 10 DO so. believe, Sir, that when
this freedom is given to the coored man, it should
be more than in name, and should be III substance
and in fact that freedom requires two thhes-
not only that be should be from under the
domination and control OF single MASTER,
but that be should also be from under the
domination and control Of stronger rsce. II Is
Idle to tals about freedom il iect u the IuGian
tribes scattered among the white population OF
this or any other country. j know 1t IS sometimes
said that when fathers declared this great doc
trine of equality Of the races OF men, ard Of eQur
rights 20 al men, they did not intend TO embrace the
negro at ell. l have heard tina, this floor and al
the time Thomas Jefferson was quoted BY those
gentlemen upon that subject. But Thomas Jeifeg-
~ son, when be wrote the original Dee anton of In
dependence when spes king Of the negro race, spoke
OF them AZ men, and printed the WORD IN large zap
i8l letters with bis hand. Ia this Decara-
ton which d, res that ali men created free and
equal JefeTson in his OVID handwriting declares that
this very African race Is embraced within the
Ing of this term. Aud this same great declares
another thing, in terms just emphatic, ard when
this country shall come 10 UNDERESTIMATE we sha havt
made great progress in The settlement OF this question
which undeIlies the whole OF this struggle, which
repeat to-day is more a question of than O
condition. II 10 the Negro question more than th'
Slavery question which produces all the trouble WI
have III THE country. Jefferson says: =" Moth
ing IL more certainly written M the book OF tat:
than that this people 70 be Free is 1t less
certain that the two races equally free cannot live il
the same government. Nature. habit, and opinion
hsve drawn ndeble lines distinctly between them. "
10 the temperate zone, our rsce-the Caucasion--
has always been dominant, and always will be. III
the torrid the cOiored has been dom
inant, and will be dominant forever. No laws
passed by Congress can reverse the laws
which the Almighty has stamped upon the
earth and the constitution Of man. Poets
may dream otbsrvisei and perhaps the pLianthropic
may hore TO have IL otherwise, but il cannot be
done. God the Almighty has written it upon the
earth Itself and upon the very nature of the human
race. Go little southwark 10 the island Of iisyt
and you find that the white is doomed race, and
the order Of things is reversed. reOolect very veil
when a colored man by the name Of Harris made
trip TO Central America and those Islands FOR the
purpose of exploring that country, and III book ne
states the fact, patent 10 all the world, that the
white man s doomed Ia this region because be be-
comes efete, enfeebled and degeneIated 10 such sn
extent that be must either coRlminge with the col
ored race, three four generations lie viii
10 propagate bis species. Nature asserts her own,
and she viii have il, aud you cannot binder land
she sooner you bnng your hearts ana judgment. IN
consOnaDce with the great laws which the Almighty
has established the will you LOOK forward %
the hnal aud permanent solution OF thu crest Ques-
ton now upon the hands Of the American people. !
lhere 10 al idea cherished very much III slavehOd-
ing communities, that TIE negro IL incapable Of main
tanning civilized nation and q civilized Govern I,
ment even in the tropics. But the facts show %
the contrary. Mr.. Doollttle then referred ut some
length, 10 Statistics connected with the French |
islands, where Slavery abolished IN 10 s. SHOW
ing vast Improvement in commerce after eInancipa.
ton; that bali the number Of soldiers were
20 preserved the public peace ana crime much less and