New-York daily tribune., 1864-04-08

struggle upon the policy that the rebeous Stses oud
not come back into the Union upon tho principles Of
foroathors that no terms Of pcaoo could bo considered
and that suhjugGton the only course Why was
rot the policy Of the resolution adopted throc years ago
followed and the war waged for the sole purpOsc OF
| restoring the Constitution and the Union
MIR. HENDERSON (Un MOI said that the author OF
the bill originally introduced the subject which pro-
vded not only for the extingushment OF Slavery but
for different mode hereafter Of securing amendments
TO Tho Constitution. hc would have preferred is adop
tion in TINT form. But majority Of the judiciary
Committee lad thought differently he was pre-
pared 10 yield to their Judgment. The legal owners Of
slaves in the Slave States had made up their minds
10 the course to pursue this subject without regard
TO what may have been their opinions heretofore. He
proceeded 10 argue that Slavery had been protected
and not warrod to the extent charged in the past by
the Northern people, and mentioned that amend.
men had been proposed 10 the Constitution pro-
hibiting any Interference with Slavery but 1t was not
supported by Southern At tho time of the elec.
on IN 1860 the prejudice against Slavery had not gone
be republican State SIs though the platform SS% "o Of
the Republican party was TO exclude Slavery
from the Territories. 1t did not say State
proper and II was not much the AntiSlaveTy preju
dice it was the corruption of the Buchanan Admin
siration, which secured the Republican triumph Our
fathers had found Slavery difficult question in their
But things have materially ohd sed now. by the in.
venton of the cotton gin slav6 had brought large
profits to the idle ow, who in their exemption from la
Dor began to indulge feeling OF superiority, and ran.
sacked the Scriptures to provo the divine origin OF
oihNey, ana HnulnR III rtcObnIcu Wltnln Tue JtWIsh
theocracy and not prohibited by Christ placed them
selves upon that ground As the profit Of the culture
Of cotton increased the conviction Of tho morality OF
Slavery increased. While the slaves produced cotton
the masters discussed politics. making the whole South
q debating society, and in the meantime the North
States engaged In manufactures, science, |
and schools AT the South men talked Of liberty and
democracy while the Of their laborers were in
bondage and finally after asserting the doctrine OF
squatter sovereignty, flew from it whom 1t failed to
bring in Slave State. Meanwhile the North began TO
feel tho immortality Of Slavery. and to propagate the
sentiment by its churches and by other agencies. At
this point the divergence between the North and South
commenced and political platforms became nothing
but budget Of dogmas the subject OF Slavery lie
held that in the position had now como to tne Anti
Slavery sentiment could not be removed and Slavery
would give guarantees holding that 1t could not exist
In Government 1t use, therefore, for men
to they wanted the South TO come back the basis
Of the old Union and quoted from The Richmond WhiS
20 show thH the people of the South spuraed the con-
servatlsm Of the people of the North
CRITICISM on PRAYER l.
Mr. SALISBURY (Dem., DELI submitted the following:
Rcsorod That the Chaplain the Sense be respectfully re-
quested hereafter 10 pray and suppcae Almighty God IN our
behalf and not TO lecture him informing him under preense
prayer his said Chapsins opinion In reference 10 Ills
duty the Almighty and that the said Chaplain be further re-
quosed aforesaid under the form Of TO lecture
the Senate in relation to questions before tho body.
Mr.. HOwAED objected 10 the resolution. l.
The Senate went into Executive session. Adjourned.