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VfafcM'ONT WATCHMAN & STATE JOURNAL, MARCH 28, 1850.
ry. As far ns the new acquisitions are concern-'
ed, I am disposed to leave them to be disposed
of as the hand of Nature shall determine. It is
what I have always insisted upon. Leave that
portion of the country more natural to non-slave-holding
population to be tilled by that description
of papulation; and leave that portion into which
lavpry would naturally go, to be filled by a slavc
hollin'g population destroying artificial lines;
ihousrh perhaps they may bo better than none
Mr. Jefferson spoke like a prophet of the effect
of the Missouri compromise line. 1 am willing
to leave it for Nature to settle: and to omanize
C0vermnent- for the territories, living all free
Bcope to enter and prepare themselves to partic
i . . .1 . . .1 n - - .
ijjiie in men (irKi'cgea. is wain, sir, noimng
but justice. When the gentleman savs thai he
is willing to leave it to Nature, I understand he
is willing to remove all impedimenta, whether
real or imaginary. It is consummate fnllv to as-
eert that the Mexican law prohibiting slavery in
California and New Mexico is in force ; a"'
hue always regarded it so. lf
No man would feel more hoppy thae I,SC
to fcelieve that Una Union formed by 5 thl
tors should live forever. Ijcokin1'.0?- , ,
P r , e here, 1 have
long course of forly years sers ' ,
the con.olat.on to believe'' ?11VI! "V Y hZ
one act which would We "i th.a'
. . it .actions'. And if 1 nave
done lull justice to all e lstion 0f a
ever been expose.;, becaU0 j wj,.
Contrary motive. 6CcUon rromconsututmnalen
ling to defend But-j canDot agrce wUhthe gen.
"""'""Massachusetts, that this Union cannot
f j-iEived. Am I to understand him that no
jjfee of oppression, no outrage, no broken
ith can produce the destruction ot this Union ?
Why, sir, it' thai becomes a fixed fact, it will it
"Eelf become the great instrument of producing
oppre-sion, outrage, and broken faith. No, sir,
the Union can be broken. Great moral causes
will break it if they go on, and it can only be
preserved by justice, good faith, and a rigid ad
hercance to the Constitution.
Mr. WEBSTER.-Mr. President, a single
word in reply to the honorable member from
Soutli Carolina. My distance from the honora
ble member and tie crowded slate of the room
prevented me from hearing the whole of his re
marks. I have only cue or tiro observations to
make ; and, to begin, I firf t notice the honora
ble member's last remark, lie arks me if I fluid
the breaking up of the Union, by any such thing
ns the voluntary secession of states, as an im
possibility. I know, sir, this Union can be broken
up ; every Government can be; and I admit that
there may be such a degree of oppression as will
warrant resistance and a forcible severance.
That is revolution! Of that ultimate right of
involution I lave not been 6pcaking. 1 know
that that law of necessity does exist. I forbear
from going further, because I do not wish to run
into a discussion of thu nature of this Govern
ment. The honorable member nnd myself have
broken Luces sufficiently often before on that
subject.
Mr. CALHOUN. I have no desire to do it
now.
Mr. Webster. I presume the gentleman has
not, and I have quite as little. Thu genllcman
refers lo the occasions rn which these ginat ac
quisitions were made totcriitory on the South
ern side. Why, undoubtedly wise and skilful
public men, having an object to accomplish, may
lake advamage of occa-ions. Indian wars were
on ocrufciun; a fear of the occupation of Texas
by tna Rntisa wasan occasion; 'mt uhtn the oc
casion came, under the pressure of which, or
tii'di r the justification of winch the ihing could
be done, it was done, and done skillfully. Let
me say ui.e flung fulher, and (hat is, lb.it if slave
ry wcm a'olished, as it was supposed to haie
Lcen, itiiougr.oul all Mexico, before the revolu
tion and ti.e establishment of the Texan Govcru
n ent, il.cn, if it were desirable to hive pnse
lon ol Texas by purchase, as a means of" pre
venting Us becoming a ilntish possession, I sup
pose nut object could have been secured by
tiaking it a Iree territory of the United States
as well ns a slave territory.
Sir. in my great oisirc net to prolong this do
bale, liiave omitted what I lniended to say
upon a particular question under the motion of
the honorable St niter from Missouri, pruKsing
an amendment to the resolution of the honorable
member from Illinois ; anil that is, upon the pro
priety ami expediency of admitting California,
ui.dtr ail cir uu stances, just us she is. The
inure .ei cni subjects involved in this question
are now before the Senate under the resolutions
of the honorable member from Kentucky. I wid
eay Hint I luel under great obligations to that
li'im rabie member for ititroJueing the subject,
and lor '.he very luciJ speecu which he made, and
winch has been su much read throughout ihe
whole country. I am also under great obliga
tions to t!u honorable member from Tennessee,
Jcr the 11 'lit which he bus shed upon th.s suu
ject ; anJ, in some respects, li will be seen that
1 dilltr very litilc from the feadmg subjects
submitted by cither of those honorable gentle
men. Nov? sir, when the direct question of the ad
mission of California shall be before 1 lie Senate,
I pioposo, but not before every oilier gentleman
vho lias a u ish '.o address the Senate shall have
gratilitd thai desire lo say something upon the
boundaries uf California, upon the constitution
ol California, and upon the expediency, under
all the circumstances, of admitting her with that
constitution.
Mr. CALHOUN. One word,and I have done;
anu that word ts, that notuillisUnding the acqui
sition ot the vast territory of Texas represented
by the Senator from Massachuseits, it is the fact
that nil that addition to our territory made it by
no means equal to what the northern States had
excluded us Iroin before lhat acquisition. The
territory lying west between ihe Mississippi and
the Kocky Mountains is three-fourths of the
whole of Louisiana ; and lhat which lies between
the Mississippi and Ohio, added to that, makes a
much greater extent of territory than Florida and
Texas at.d that portion of Louisiana that has fal
len to our share.
Mr. WALKER moved the postponement of
the lurtner consideration ol ilie resolutions until
tomorrow, winch was agreed to.
Mr. Seward's Speech
The following is an abstract of the speech of
Jilr. beward, ot Icw loik, la the U. S. Senate,
un the 11th mst, on the Slavery question.
Mr. StwAEii said lhat, tour years ago, Cali
fornia was a Mexican province, and known only
toils from her port of San Francisco, w hich even
at that lime, was looked at as a most desirable
subject for acquisition. One year ago, Calilor
nia was an independency of the United States,
and her acquisition was considered us a most hap
py r.chietcii.cn!. To day, Ciliforma is here ap
pliing for admusion into this Union as a Slate,
and ends us here gravely debating upon a ditso
lulion of the Union itself. The question now is,
shall California be admitted into ihe Union?
Several objections were urged against her ad
mission. It was slid that she liad adopted a
Stale government unccremauiously and without
the previous expressed consent ol Congress, and
hence came heic under an act of usurpation.
This charge was untrue if not m fact, at
least in snirit. California was torn fro.n the em
pire of Mexico, and added to ihe domain of llns
Union; but in so doing a compact was made,
hereby it was stipulated that those Mexican j
nrovinccs should tie admitted into mis union.
But it was said that the conies unauthorised.
Michigan, and several other States, came in the
,o,.,.. rl,f..o, .,fpn.l itir-en nmrpHpni
li,iil.,.UcnHtMni: It kiiH thnt it !
-tee guaranteed that Michigan should be admit
ted by the ordinace of 1787; but that was noth
ing u.ore than a comnact.and California pleaded
an equally binding one. Calior.ua was compelled
by the great lw of self-preservation, lo adopt
this constitution, and seek admission as a State.
She wns a military colony, exposed to internal
corruption and strife, and dangerous tu the JU
rent powei ; and for throwing it oU'shc deserved
not rebuke but praise and admiration.
The buundary of California was nut a proper
objection ; mere was none, and there could be
no standard ol .measure for Slates. Her territory
was compact, contiguous, and united; no adja
cent States wcrecou5pIainingorinurmuring. A
census, and laws regulating suffrage, were not
available at.the time. She was abandoned by
Congress, aud hid to make, the best regulations
ill her powtr. The pilgrim fithers, who were
on tte Mayflower, were not numbred by an act
orParliament; yeilhey founded an empire.
They were aliens there too.
The only objection to her constitution was,
that it was too republican; for it adopts the prin -
cipVs of the Declaration of Independence, that.
all men are born free and enual.
He. then examined the objection that O.
nia was brought here through Executiv meT'
terence, and declared it untounded, f . , f,
evidence had transpired. The P"11 7 , :
power under the military gover-""'1.' ,
preferred to lay that power ""t.Mi ? !" "
in the people, he desired iH such 1 reslJent
might always be found ' "LS 'jntry-
He gave a sketch ''h?'rutute Prosfe,cl,l3 of
i. K . '.". Caucasian race shall have
this country lier u population snal oe
settled it all or'- e i .. . ' i .i.-j ...i .u
l"hndprab!e lhat -his whnlo people should
V 1 "j!'overnment or nation, or two? He
orm tjje almjsslon ut California now hid a
bearing on this point. California, if de
d admission, nneht be the foundation of an-
'olhcr empire on the other ocean.
The Senator from Kentucky had introduced a
series of resolutions, which were proposed to be
a compromise on all the questions growing out
of Ihe subject of slavery. He was opposed to
this compromise. He was opposed t nil the
compromises that hod been submitted. All leg
islative compromises were necessarily vicious
ind dangerous. They always tiko away the
right to recon'ider'thc subject, and are an
usurpation of Ihe powers of any future legisla
tures. What did ihis conpro-niso ofier to him?
For forbearance as to s'avery in the District of
Columbia for forbearance a-i tn the fugilvc
slaves for forbearance as to slavery in the Ter
ritories for forbearance as to slivcrv every
where, he was offered freedom in California,
where freedom was already established. For a
small oortion ol human rights this compromise
required him to use forbearance towards slavery
everywhere.
He considered that California should be ad
mitted independent of Ihe subject of slavery ; he
would have vo'ed for her admission as a slave or
a free S'ale. Her admission would take place
in either case, aud therefore her admission should
form no pirt ot a compromise.
He gave the history of the legislation on the
subject of the fugitive slaves, and declared lint
if the laws now in force were inoperative and
insufficient, no more stringent laws woiild avail
the slaveholder, lie cotisideied the compact in
thu Constitution and law of WSi, as to rendering
up of fugitive slaves as against the laws of na
ture. There was but one precedent, which was
in a t.eaty between Hiissia and Conrlanlinc, in
the year nine hundred and two. lie pronoun
ced it inhuman, but it was law, and if slavehold
ers desired to carry out that law, th-y should
make the law less stringent and secure lo the
alleged fugitive thp common privileges of man
th'! riht of trial by jury, anJ ihe presumption
of frfedo.n.
He would vote for tho cuancipitimi of the
slares in this District. No compromise could
purchase his lurbeiranco on Ihis poin:. He
would vote any sum of mouey to purchase the
freedom of -1 ivcs. He couid never consent thai
a law to abolish si ivery in this District should
be defeated by an implied agreement lhat such
a law should not be pa-scd t a proper time.
Another feiture hi lht compromise was the
omission of the Wilmot Proviso in the terntoiial
government?. Such an o tussiou could not be
sjlisfaclury lo the people of the Nor h, and if a
bid sluuld be passed without the Wilinut Provi
so, ihe spirit of the people would rise, and they
would not leave in the Capitol one servant who
knew Ids tnjster's duly and did It not.
He did not agree with the Senator from M.is
sachuseiis(Ir. Wrbslei) that, by the rcsoluliois
of annex in m, Congress tvas bound to adu.it
new S.ates formed out ot Tex, even if they
weie slave sutes. He thought tnat the pjwer was
in Coiiltiss to give its consent to iIm 1'ormv.iun
of those new States. He would :i?vi-r give ins
consent to the admission of a slave State.
Ho contended that, in the convention w hich
formed the Consiiution, it was strenuously kept
in view that no provision should be allowed in
that Constitution which recognized slavery as
prorerty; and hence he argued Hut the assimi
lation of the purposes of thu union of the States
with the nature of u joint-stock association was
unfounded in law and fact.
He eximined the nalurs anj character n! shvo
ry as an institution, holding it to be wiongand
unjust, and that it was the duty and within the
power of Congress to resist u mw; and that,
hereafter, Congress, in all cases, upon the ad
mission ut new tjia'.es. should require, as an au-
foiutr pre-rtq'iisite, iliillu: new t:aVi should!
be a tree one. In leirard to the territories, lie
considered the power to exclude nlavery was
vested in Congress, not only by ihe Constitution,
but by tho treaty-making jo.rer. I lie question
was, should that power be exercised ?
He was told that hiiltro forbade slavery in the
territories, and the Mexican laws prolubitiug sla
very were in force there. Admitting bolh uropu
silitions, he still thought it ise and proper lo
carry the laws id the Amciican Union into force
there, even if it was to re-enact the laws of
GoJ.
Jl had been declared that tin diffusion of slave
ry weakened its mlluence and power. In an
swer lo this, he confined himself to the simple
inquiry, whether It was weakencJ by the admis-m:s-.ion
of slavery into Missouri and Texas?
He next adverted to the proclaimed dingers
of the Union. Ii hid been declared by one Sen
ator lhat the Union was already dissolved. An
other had expressed an opiniuu that it would be
dissolved in a ceitain number r.f days. Upon
this point, Mr. S. dwelt at considerable length,
expressing his conti.lence in too perpetuity ol
the Union. He con-idered in detail the various
eviJcnccs of excitement, examining ilnrir caus
es anil their character. cnniMirinT Ihn nrfion nf
legislatures in fo'.li sections, nnd the. spirit ot
Ihe misses of the people. lie discovered no
omei.s of revolution.
In concluding an able consideration of the
numerous reasons given lor a disunion, and a
prisentatioiicjf very many and pointed argumeli's
against the possibili-y of such a con-ummation,
ilr. S. said, Let ihcse, thn, who distrust the
Union, make compromises to save it. lie should
not suspect ihcir wisdom or their patriotism;
hot, liavm no sucli apprehensions, he should
vote for the admission i f Cahlorma directly,
without co-idilions, ami without qualifications
compromise. For ihe justification of that vote
he look-.-d not lo the approval of this day or gen
eration, but lo tint day, happily not so far dis
tant lhat some of us might not hope to see it,
when me American neonle should have sureac
over ihe habitable regions of all the continent of
North America, and slavery shill have passed
away from il, under the influences of these ben
eficial institutions.
Mr. Wetmnre. thu defaulting Navy Aneui.
Kew'Yo.-l:, has furnished satisfactory security lo
the Government for the payment of the balance
he owes, when its amount shall hive been deter
mined upon. 1 lie suits iiguinst lino have there
fore been wit'ulrawn, and the correspondent of
the Lxpress says he n j umv awaits the decision
ot tin: Auditor upon his accounts to settle the
whole matter.
Dissolving Ihe Union. Hon. Thaddeus Ste
vens, in a Iciler from Washington lo a gentle-
'an iimit.iigloii, -ays, " U e dissolve the Un
ion llurc ever.v day, but it heals up here the fol-
.." ""s"" " , ",,u
anJ strong as if it hid never been dissolved !"
, '. '. ,.
Dttirti ciirf .r-.UiC9. A Washington
- 'cuer lo the New Vork Advertiser says, ' Tn-
delegates Iroin Jiesertt and iew Jtexico liavo
appeared before the appropriate Committee, of
which Mr. Van Dyke of jourState is a member
and made a favorable impression. Dr. Ribbitl,
the Descrctt delegate, is considered tu be a
sound, judicious man. He is not a Mormon.
The Mormon doctrine has no connection with
the constitution of the Slate. All religions are
tolerated. Mr. Smith, the del cgato from New
Mexico, appears well thus far. The territory is
on its way.
Thiity years ago, a young man, the son of a
clergyman in Washington, New Hampshire,
was married, and after living a few years with
his wife, left her with one child, and went to
England, where he was arrested, and it was sup
posed, executed for felony. Under this belief,
his widow married a lawyer of Concord, with
whom she now resides. But instead of being
hanged, her first husband was transported to a
British penal colony for twenty years, from
which he has just returned to Washington to
find bis father and his sou alive. 1'cdI.
J fUfttclpntHI & StfltC jJonttlftl.
'
E. P. WALTON, Jit., EDITOR.
Thursday, inarch 28, 1850.
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Mr. Webster's Speech
The reader will find the remainder of Mr.
Webster's speech in this paper, together with
thecolloquy which ensued between Mr. Webster
and Mr. Calhoun. To this we have annexed an
abstract of Air. Seward's speech, which is gen
erally legarded as at least fully making up for
oil the short-comings of Mr. Webster.
As to Mr. Webster's speech: it has been bet
ter praised by his enemies and better condemn
ed by his friends than any speech ever before
made by any statesman of his standing. The
Boston Post and the Huston Atlas pretty fairly
represent both classes -the Post praising and
the Atlas condemning the speech. The Whigs
of the North, as a party, condemn the speech
some of them with a seventy quite as unmeas
ured as that of the organs of the coalition. A
minority, we think, in the Whig party of the
North, to'crate the speech, and a few defend it
At the Soutli, moderate men of all puties ad
mire it: the three leading pipers at Washing-
tun the In'clligencer, the Union, and the Re
public unite in commend it. on ol it
The condemnalLn of both the Whig presses
and the coalition presses of the North is doubt
less in part chargeable to political considerations,
growing out of Mr. Webster's connection with
tho Whig par'y. The Whig presses are unwil
ling to tolerate any departure from genuine Whig
free 6oil principles even though it be in Mr.
Webster himself. '1 he coalitionists are ready
enough to claim that Mr. Webster is a Whig
trpo, if At is uuso ind Me W hig J'arli is unsound,
and the defenders of the true Wing free soil
faith must go over lo coaliliomsm ! We do nut
agree vv ith either of thsa two sorts as to Mr
Webster's political position. At no time since
the Harrison cabinet, wish o.ie memorable ex
ception, q'jil John Tyler, has the Whig party
been justly or fauly responsible for Mr. Web
ster's course: or, lo reverse the form of expres
sion, at no period since that has Mr. Webster
been resp msible lo the Whig party. With age,
experience, and great talents enough to vruirani
the step, Mr. Webster then " set up for himself "
as we think is made pretty evident by his
course then, and in 1S14, and in Its IS- He is to
the Whig party what Col. llenton is to the loco
fuco p:.ny in the main ho is a Whig, as Col.
15- ntou is in the main a locofoco ; yet bcth have
outgrown the party harness both dare to act
upon their own responsibility. Thus it is tint
Mr. llenton has of late gom so far towads free
soilism as to be denounced by pio slavery men
as a traitor: thus it is that Mr. Webster has ta
ken his stand upon the identical ground of Mr.
Benton on this subject ; and ami slavery men
denounce Mr. Webster as a traitor. Il is a fact,
too, and a ludicrous fact, that while the South
denounces Ronton, it praises Webster and
while Northern men most savagely denounce
Mr. Webster, they are almost ready to run 1!' n
ton for the next Presidency and all this at the
very moment when both Ronton and Webster
well agree with each other upon the exciting
questions in dispute between the North and ihe
South to wit, as to slavery in Texas, as to the
extrad.tion of slaves, as to tho Wilmot proviso,
and as to ihe admission nf California. Remaps
some of the very ardent coilitioni-ts, who de
nounce Mr. Webster for abandoning the Wil
mot Proviso, in the case of Now Mexico, are en
tirely oblivious of the fact that Mr. Webster has
but lollowcd Mr. Renton's lead. On the 27th of
February Mr. Kenton s-howed very conclusively
tint slavery had been abolished by Mex.co, and
said :
"Tho practical application which I make of
this exposition otlaw is, that the proviso, ot which
we hive heard so much, t oj no force icliatever
--unnecessary in ami lumil ol view ami of uo
more ejjicl, if passed, than a piece of blank paprr
jiasiea on me siaiuie ooox. jang. Ulouc, .March
i, ic.iu,j'g ;kk.
Light days after th it declaration Mr. Web
ster made his sjeech, which our reade'rs have
before them: certainly they do not rind in it any
language more pointed and decisive than that of
Mr. Renton : yet -Mr. cbster is thoroughly a
bused by ihe coalition organs. Mr. Renton, for
aught any thing wo hive yet 6cen, is still in full
feather with these discriminating critics.
As we have said, we do njt thins the Whig
party at all reuoniblnfor Mr. Wrlwter'a epooch s
in no sense can it be be called a party speech;
it is ll'tbslci's spcedt. and njbody's else and a
fair mark for the praise or censure of every body.
For our own part, the first impression which, we
expressed has been continued by reading the
entire speech, and the subsequent cour.-e of Mr.
Webster. That impression was, that he had sac
rificed no great principle, that he had made a
great blunder. Wo maintain th-; truth of the
assertion not its modesty. The speech shows
that .Mr. Webster has reaffirmed, word for word,
the principles formerly avowed on the subject of
s'avery generally, and particularly against the
extension ot slavery and in favor of excluding
it by restriclions whenever restrictions are re
quired. In Uia three positions, that the sentiment
of the co.mtry was against slavery at the time
of the adapiioiVot Ihe Constitution that Con
gress then used its power to prevent its cxten
sion and that the framera of the Constitution
left slavery in the states solely under the con
trol of each state as a state institution, Mr.
Webster completely justifies the premises of the
last Vermont resolutions, which have been so
bitterly denounced by the advocates of slavery.
These principles are certainly anti-slavery en
ough they are identical, indeed, with the sen-
mcnts of Northern anti-slavery men. The great
blunder is that Mr. Webster did not take the oc
casion, eminently proper as it was, to follow out
these principles to the legitimate deductions fa
vorable to Freedom, and did, on the other hand,
give prominence to every .point favcrabls to j
slavery. Theoretically, this is a strong anti
slavery speecu ; the blunder is tint all the proc
tical points in it are those most favorable to
Slavery. This was the result of the position that
Mr. Webster assumed at the time : he came to
pour oil upon the troubled waters ; and being a
Northern man, he seems to have thought that he
could in no way so well propitiate Southern men
as by giving prominence only to tho points most
favorable to them. The consequence is that the
North condemns him.atfirst sight of thespeech,
and the Soutli as readily applauds. Now we
venture to think that Mr. Webster might just as
well have presented all the strong points in the
case on both sides, in his mightiest style, and
so better satisfied every body and better
prepared every body for a settlement of the
matter. He preferred to dwell upon topics
most acceptable to the South : he has already
found that he will have to meet the Northern
side, and wash out his sins of omission. Indeed
he has begun this part of his duty. A week af
ter this speech was delivered, Mr. Webster de
clared that he was for the admission of Califor
nia at once, independent of all oilier questions.
It is said that he is also to take the ground of
Mr Ronton m reference to all the territory ac
quired fiom Mexico: ihat is, lhat Slavery never
can be admitted ihere except by specific legis
lative enactment a very important point, which
is entirely unnoticed in the speech. It is said
also that he will go for no compromise measure
of any sort, but suppon tie proposition of the
President, waive the establishment of territcriM
governmonto nud wait for the admission of
new states to be formed out of New Mexico,
just as California is to be admitted. Allthesearo
improvements, upon his speech. We suspect
that .Mr. Webster will find still more room for
improvement.
Montpelier and Connecticut Riv
er Railroad.
We were promised a copy of the proceedings
of the meeting holden last week, in season fur
this number of our paper. In default of that,
we improve the space given us to siy :
First In our opinion this road will be con
structed Fruin the Atlantic at Portsmouth or
Portland to Haverhill, N. H., nnd from Montpe
lier, Vt, to Ugdensburgh, N. V., railroads are
now in the process of construction and will all
bo completed in from oti3 to two years. The
only link remaining to make the most direct
route possible ever to tc mai'cfrom Ogdcnsburgh
to Portsmouth and Portland, is the Montpelier
and Connecticut River road, of about -10 miles
in length. Now we have no doubt at all about
this road: little as the help is which Vermont
can give, (Vermon. capital being already inves
ted in roads that do not yet remunerate the in
vestment,) this road can and will be built with
the aid which will in the main come from the
people of New Hampshire and Maine, for whose
benefit chiefly ihe road undoubtedly will be.
Second The wo;k ought to be commenced as
soon as p ssible, in order to be completed with
the rest of the great line.
Third U ought to be commenced at Montpe
lier, and finished up as the work goes on, and
be nut in operation as fast as it is finished.
Fourth Tho present is a very unfavorable
time to begin, so far as the popularity of nilroad
sti cks is concerned. Hut if capital is hard to
be got, wisdom is abundant just now, and will
go a great ways with a iijtle cash. The mate
iia!s frr railroads never were cheaper. Any
company that will build just so far as it has the
means, ami not one inch larther, cairbuild cheap
ly anJ safely as far as it goes.
Finally We nro not inclined to crack up this
road as a great snrciilatioti. It is ntitssary to
the great multitude of folks ".'oirn Uasl it
will he advantageous to the people in its imme
diate vicinity ; and when the commissioners ask
terms for land damages and subscriptions for
stock, wo advise every body to be as liberal and
patriotic as a just regard to their means will al
low. If every body concerned will do what they
can reasonably do, the road will get a fair start
and then, vvc guess, "down Easi" will pull it
through successfully.
.1 Great Tailoring Establishment. We look
ed in at the extensive Tailoring I'stablishmcnt
of Charles A. Smith &. Co., No. I, Old State
House, recently, and were struck with the re
markable degree of order that reigned through
out. The principle sales-room is a lofty hall
fronting on Washington St. and lighted by scv.
cral high windows o'i both tho north and south
side of State St. This room has recently been
refitted and re-furnished for the spring and sum
mer cimcaigu. The tables and counters are
loaded with (he best description of fabrics ;
goods of any kind, quality and color, suitable for
the season arc here for the irspcction of those
who desire tich, choice and fashionjb'e mado
garments. Lvciy thing moves like clock work
at this establishment. You select your goods for
coats, pants aud vests, from tho splcnd.d array
before you then that Prince ol Cutters, Wright,
takes you in charge and procures your dimen
sions upon purely scientific principles. There
is a peculiar taste and fasliioa in Wright's man
ner of cutting a coat that has won him the es
teem of the haut ton and the applause of the
million. Then comes the pant cutter and the
vest cutter, all professors in their several depart
ments ; and then finally come the workmen a
mong the best to bo procured and in twenty
four hours ycu can have a suft upon your back
that will afford you a passport with all society,
providing you behave decently. Taking it alto
gether, .Messrs. Charles A. Smith &. Co. cannot
be surpassed either in thesuperb quality oflheir
goods, the style and artistic elegance of their
garments, their moderate charges, anj in fact
everything that should constitute a mammoth
tailoring emporium, either for the Upper Thou
sand or Lower .Million. Every description of
ready made garments constantly on hand.
05s Those who have visited the Silk and
Shawl Store of Messrs. Jewett and Prescott, in
Roston, arc doubtless aware by this time that it
is not advertising alone that makes that estab
lishment so popular. On the contrary it i3 the
exceeding beauty, freshness and originality of
their goods, combined with low prices, and a de
termination on the part of Messrs. J. &. P. to
make their customers uf home, and satisfied.
Oak Hall, Huston. Mr. Simmons is celebra
ted for his low price system his place is con
tinually thronged with customers, and he sells
every description of garments at prices which
only immense sales will admit of.
Anollitr ftrmonler Dead. Gilbert Lidd, son
of Seneca Ladd of Danville, died at Sacremen
to, (Cal.) on the 25th of January.
And Another. Mr. Edson Howe, of Danville
died in Californii in December last age W. '
The Trial of Dr. lftbster was commenced on
Tuesday of last week. The testimony thus far
pret'y clearly identifies the body found in Web
ster's rooms to he that of Dr. Parkrnan, and also
shows that 'ebster was employed in his rooms
with closed doors after the disappearance of
Parkrnan. Littlefield testifies to the last point:
whether he will be impeached, or what the de
fence will be, is yet entirely unknown except to
Dr. Webster. He is hale and hearty, and appa
rently as little discomposed as any innocent man
would be under like circumstances.
Now Mr. Webster, in his speech, has proved
utterly false to freedom and the feeling of the
North on the question of slavery, and has shown
him-elf, if possible, a greater Doughfaco than
Winthrop, himself. ft. Patriot.
It is pretty weiriinderstoodthat Mr. Winthrop,
and each other member from Massachusetts, is
in favor of the Proviso. Ry the way: can any
body remember whether the Patriot defended
the annexation of Texas upon the very terms, the
acknowledgment of which by Mr. Webster is now
complained of by that paper? Oh, Gammon!
The Grolon Jlffair. Wo learn from the Cale
donian that Meadows, Low and Marshal have
been bound in 82000 bonds on the charge ol hav
ing tools for counterfeiting in their possession ;
also in $1000 bonds on charge ot altering aone
dollar note on Vermont Rank. Meado.vs and
Low are also under 1000 bonds on a charge of
stealing dies; and Warburton, alias "Rristol
Bill," is under $2000 bonds on a charge of hay
ing burglarious lool in possession. Peter M.
Paul, one of the party arrested, was the princi
pal witness for the state.
.Indent Jerusalem. See advertisement of Brn
netti's model a model which is spoken of in the
highest terms uf commendation by eminent cler
gymen and by the public press, both in thiscoun
try and in Europe. The model will be exhibit
ed in Montpelier and Rarre.
The Great Question. Why is Central stock
offered at thirty? Tho announcement has as
tonished most people in these parts, and the
question is quite as pertinent as it is frequent.
Those stockholders who wish to know are adviz
ed to attend the meeting at Wind-or on the 2d
of April. This is the best we can do for them.
Crocker;. The. most beautiful, and (some
judges think) the most durable, crockery ware in
the world is manufactured by Fcntou & Co.,
Bennington, Vt. A few specimens may be seen
at the store of Ellis, Wilder & Co.
Passumpsic Bank. Joseph P. Faiibankp, Pres
dent; E. C. Rcdington (of the Orange County
Rank,) Cashier.
The Magnetic Telegraph commenced epera
tions here on Saturday last. Office opposite
Cottrill's.
Foreign .Vein. Two weeks later intelligence
received ; nothing important.
CONGRESS.
Mond.vt, March 8.
Se.vxte. After the Iransiction of routine liu-
siiess of no general interest, the Senate resum
ed the con-ideratioti of Mr. Clay's resolution of
Compromise.
Mr. lUofjr.r. of N. C. having the floor, address
ed the Senate-. lie was not surpri-ed that a
subject of as" niech interest a that involved in
the resolutions should have given riso lo n warm
ami animated diicus-ion, and much excitement
he did not design lo add lo tnat excitement.
He designed to consider tne subject in that spir
it of conciliation and good feeling, in which the
Umon was formed. J he eubjett was one ot
great in porlancc as great as lhat of the preser
vation of the Union Itself, which seemrd involv
ed, and should be considered with modi ration,
grave deliberation, justice, care and concilia
tion, lie coincided lully with those who had
said that there could be no peaceful separation
ol the Union. Such was imuossible fro.n the
nature of ihe case tho character of nor inititu
Hons and country from the nature of cur form
of government itself. Rut even if there could
oe such peaceful dissolution, the state of peace
in which Ihe Stales might stparate,wonhl speed
ily and inevitably bt ended, aud wir must follow
which would have no terminaiieii in settled
peace, until the superiorly of oi e section or
the other hid ronipel ed a suspension of hos
tilities, and the vanquished fhotilJ have had op-
perlumty to recuperate their energies and pre
pare for a renewal ol the conflict. .Mr. Rad 'er
proceeded nt some lenirlh to consider the value
of the Umon, and the evils of separation, bc-
(ore
coiHiueriug me qutsuon wi cthei there
was a possibility of any action by Congress
which should lead to disunion. There was such
possibility. Wus there a probability of such a
state of thinjs? He was no alarmist: butlook
ed to the Union as a good to be guarded, against
every thing which tnreatene.l its perptuilv ; he
must say lhat no one looked upon proceedings
here, and the convulsions throughout the coun
try, could doubt the probability that separation
might loilow a certain course ot legislation.
I his being the case, ihere was just as much
reason for careful consideration, conciliation.
aou core in acuon ncre, ns though the certainty
of dissolution of this Union, as tho result of such
action, lu certain contingencies, was presented;
and then, in reply to Mr. Seward, he went into
an argument, dcJuccd from Ihe Scriptures, to
now mat slavery, though it might be an evi!
is no sin. lledclended iNorth Carulina fiom the
charge of having pissed laws unjustly discrimi
nating oeiween whites and blacks m cases ol
insurrection. Proceedinir to the consideration
of the merits of the question under consideration,
ue said in at me soutli hdd a right, m thu first
place, to ask an adequate measure for the arrest
and recovery of their fugitive slaves that mast
le at the basis of any pacification. V iihout IL
any settlement would be Ilka a houso without
any foundation. This was matter of right, guar
anteed by the constitution. If there was nv
one thing clear and undoubted in the constitu
tion, it was this right ot the slaveholdlng States
to have their fugitive slaves restored. This pro
vision was as binduiTas thnt which iiriivot.tfi inu
tile arrest of fugitives from justice. An inno
cent man fleeing tro-n an unjust prosecution, was
not morally a lUL'itive from justice, nnd vpi
under the Constitution, if charged 'villi ciiinc,
no mauer now luiseiy, lie is such fugitive, and
must be delivered up, lo be returned lo the place
where the charge is made, there to vindicate
hiruselt: So with the fugitive fiom labor.
Though he may deny tho assertion that he is a
Slave, he must, under the constitutional provis
ion, be delivered up and returned to the place
from which he has fled, Ihere tosubmit to an in
vestigation ot the question, whether he is a slave
or free. lie reviewed ut length the views ex
pressed by Mr. Seward, and said if the senti
ments expressed by liuu were those ol the North
ern people generally, the Union was scarcely
worthy of preservation, lie did not. however.
believe that tho Senator represented the views
uf the North generally, nor of any State in lhat
quarter, the position assumed by Jlr. Seward,
would render the execution of any and all law,
uncertain. According lo it ihe iudire unon ihe
bench might refuse to pass the sentence, under
any law, Because lie did not believe the penalty
to be just. Mr. Badger was about to discuss
the Wilmot proviso, when he gave way to amo
tion that the Senate postnone the further consid
eration of the subject to to-morrow, which wa3
agreed to.
Mr. Kiso rose to an explanation in relation to
a remark in the Senate last week, by Mr. Hale,
to the effect that James Buchanan said the De
mocracy of the North was ths natural alii of
slavery. He called upon Mr. Hale to say when
and where he used such language.
Mr. Hale said he had not expected this mat
ter to come up to day, and was not prepared with
the documents, but he would at a future time,
be ready to answer the queslion.
Mr. Ki.no replied that the statement could not
be substantiated. The furthest that .Mr. Bu
chanan had ever gone was to say that the de
mocracy nf the North was in favor of protecting
the Soutli in the enjoyment oflheir constitution
al rights.
Alt Hai.e did not desire to do Mr. Buchanan
injustice, but he would undertake to show that
he had gone a great way further than Mr. King
admitted. He was not positive as to the precise
phraseology in w hich the sentiment he imputed
to him was clothed, but in effect it was such as
he had described it.
Mr. Davis of Miss, nnd Mr. Cas-f also denied
the accuracy rf the statement made by Mr. 11. lie.
The Senate then went into Executive session,
and subsequently adjourned.
HousK. The House went into Committee of
the Whole on the Slate of the Union, an.l re
sumed the consideration of thu Califi-ruia .Mes
sage. Mr. Williajis (Whig) of Tenn. said, when
stripped of all unnecessary embarrassments, the
question was simp!' as to forming States or Ter
ritorial Government; for the territory acquired
from .Mexico. The present il faculties ought to
be settled, that peace and quiet may he given to
the public iiiiml. I'wo years ago, Territorii!
Govcrnmen's were proposed, but slavery stalked
these Halls, like Rinquo's ghost, and presented
the passage of the inensure, oncl in the language
of a Seiialor, the people were left with Colt's
pistols and bowiu knives to protect themselves.
What vv as the po-uliou then assumed by Ihe
Sjtith? What was the rlaim of Mr. Calhoun,
for lie always presumed ta speak for the South.
Why, that the people shuuhl form their own
State Government. Not one woid was said a
bout slavery. This position was assumed by
gentlemen North and Sjuth. He was willing
lo abide by that platform now. But ihe opinion
of Ihe South has changed, and Mr. Calhoun de
mands new guarantees. He (Mr. W.) was there
fore left lo the conclusion that, in the views of
Mr. Calhoun, dissolution is the only remedy.
For the first time .-unce lr-3j, the Senator from
South Carolina proclaims to the world lhat slav
ry agitation is not the prune cause of the diffi
culty. If the great majority of the North, as
Mr. Calhoun savs, violate the Constitution, as
suredly they could ride rough shod over any n
mendment that might be made. He (Mr." W.J
defended General Taylor liom the charge that
he had usurped powers not warranted by the
Constitution. He did not know whether or no
iie would vote for California un'il weighty reas
ons were assigned for such a course. If she was
In be admitted, nnd nothing done for ihe other
Territories, and the question loft opei for demi
goqical puniose'S, he would not lend himself to
any such purposes. Rut he hoped lint Califor
nia would be admitted, and a 1 erntornl Gov
ernment foimed for the remainder of the Terri
tory, w ithout Ihn Wu'tuot Proviso. He protest
ed against the doctrines now advocated by .Mr.
Calhoun. They are not ihe sentiments of the
South. He was e-ppose d to the Nashville Con
vention: and in cone lu-uon, said thai Mr. Cal
houn hid erected a Southern platform. He con
sidered that of Mr.Wcbster a more National one,
aud appealed to all to come to thu rescue of the
Cutinirv.
Mr. Caskt (Whig) of Pent, did not look with
the -aihe abhorrence on Slavery thai some gen
tlemen did ; neither did he on the olher hand,
esteem it a blessing; but in ti language of
Jefler.-iin he coiisiileie) it a teat moral and
polnical evil, lie was willing to leave ihenues-
nun where the constitution and laws leave it.
He lud nothing lo do with establishing slavery
"here it is, i.either would he hive any thing to
do with establishing i; v.heie it does not exut.
Thu whole difficulty has grown out of the difT.'r
ence of views as lo the constitutional power on
the subject. The North contend one way aud
the South another. He believed firmly, and it
had been established :n Cngress:oiial debates
beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the territories
nre now free: lhat the Mexican laws, constitu
tion and organic law, made them so; that if a
siave be taken there now, he would instantly'
beco ue free. Slavery is a Kval ins'itution, ex
isting only by positive law, and entirely under
the regulations of the Stales of the Union, and
Congress has no power lo interfere with slavery,
in the language of the Baltimore Democratic
Platform, either to abolish it or t iki; mcipiei.t
steps tu do so: but wiili reward to ihe territories
of the Uniti'd Suites, he believed tint Congress
hid full and ample power over ihe subject.
These points he argued in a coositutional point
of view. As to ihe admission of California he
asked if the gentlemen on the other side tint not
know how that lien Congress adjourned last
year she would very shortly present herself here
un a Constitution for admission into the Un
ion? The people were impelled by necessity to
forma Government. He was in favor not oulv
of admitting California as a State, but any other
of the Territories under similar cireu.nslances.
If California had dune hero with a clause in hor
Constitution tolerating Slavery l.o would have
voted for her admission. Il was forleaviii'ihe
people lo form their own Governments, anil ho
endorsed from the bottom ol his heart the Mes
sage of the President. Ho recognized no other
right in sovereignly but the great sovereignly of
ihe people themselves.
Mr. Croswell (Free Soil Whig) of Ohio, asked
Mr Casey whether hi; was wilting lo vote for the
exclusion of Slavery from the Territories?
Mr Casey said that he had maintained lhat
Congress had a riht to exclude slavery , and
lhat the peop'e had a right to form their own
government and demau4"aduiission. He was for
all Territories coming in as Slates.
Mr. Giddings replied to Ihe remarks of Mr.
Winlhrop on a former occasion, as to a question
of veracity between them. He then went on to
other questions. He would not discuss the ad-
missiuu ot California ; that was a forgone con-clii-ion;
and ho then proceeded tos'ovthat
iho Government should not be responsible for
slavery nut of ihe limits where it exisls.
As to the extradition clause of the U. S.
Constitution, the peoplo cannot turn blood
hounds. The people cannot leave their indus
trial pursuits lo pursue the slaves l:ke a crimi
nal. The Courts have decided that the people
cannot intei fere. Let the master get his slave
il he can. If there was one crime beyond an
other, for which ho would hang a man, It would
he for seizing the refugee from Southern op
pression, and returning him to his master. Shall
the North turn slave hunters ? Ho was a
gainst the institution, and avowed as the motto
uf his constituents, "No more slaves V
Tuisdvt, March 19.
Sewile. Mr. Badger resinned his remarks,
commencing with a recapitulation of the points
nude by him yesterday, he replied, more fully,
lu what he designated as the absurd, useless, und
worse than useless, amendment nroDosed bv Mr.
Seward to the Fugitive Bill, and securing the
rigui oi trial oy jury to the fugitive. Proceed
ing to consider ihe propositions, for the settle
ment of the questnns lu controversy between
the States, arising out of the Institution of Slave
ry, he expressed his decided iireference for th
extension of tho Missouri Compromise line to
Ihe Pacific. This plan recommends itself the
more strongly, because us principle had already
ueen established, am! was fixed in tl, .,on,i. r
the people. The Wilmot Proviso om'ht to be
cropped altogether, even admitting far argument
sake that Congress had the constitution Tl right
lo pass an act. It was Imrlil
entirely useless. It was a"bad plan tn adopt to
du every thing that c have tho power and right
lo oo. 1 ne assertion ot Rtrp.n,i rnht- wa al
ways odious, and when adopted, must intvitably
lead lo despotism ; but it was generally admit
ted lhat Slavery eiid not, and could not' exist in
the new Territories, and the passage of the Pro
viso by tho North, under such circumstances,
was nothing more or less than the insulting as
sertion of a superiority. It was immeasurably
more offensive than it "would be "it" Slavery ac
tually existed there." In the latter case, tho
North might defend the Proviso upon a tenable
ground. As the case now stands, it could be
looked upon as nothing else than a deliberate,
uncalled for and wanton insult to nn ..I-
the Union. Mr. llad-er ouoted from r.,,,1
ineuted upon Mr. Mann's speech in the House
and Mr. Seward's remarks, for thre nnnwn.,r
showing thM, taken with the causeless, wanton
passage of the Proviso, they must have the effect
of compelling ihe Soutli to believe that tho
North desired or designed to insult them and
deprive theni of their I ights. With thu stile
things presenting itself, he had no hesitation in
saying that should the Nashville Convention
meet, under such circumstunces, the Union
from that day would be dissolved. He did not
say that dissolution would follow instantly, lhat
there would not be a lingering connection en
during for a time, but that lhat hour would be
the beginning of the end. The Union could
not I.e preserved by force. The first drop of A
merican blood shed in a conflict between tho
Slates, upon the question whether these States
shall remain in Ihe Union, would lead to the to
tal overthrow of the Government. Let an ade
quate measure for the arrest and return of furri
live slaves he pis3ed, and thi' Proviso be drop
ped, and all the pending difficulties might bn
settled permanently, and with satisfaction to all.
He was not opposed to compromises the Union
itself sprung out of compromise. It was itself
a legislative compromise, and could not be main
tained without ihe adoption of the spirit of com
promise : in this spirit lie wns willinjMo with
draw fli objection to the admission of California,
either tvith or without a modification ot l.cr
boundary ; and this, on his part, was yielding
much. He had strong obj-ctions at Iho lit ses
sion of Congress tn the erection of Statu Gov
crnnicms, winch were now only strengthened by
the manner in which such government had been
formed by California. Le! lhe..i then drop tho
odious Proviso let it cease to have luenortality
for mischief let them give to the South a meas
ure id' security in their property admit Califor
nia if thty desire also lo abolish ihe foreign
slave trade in thu District of Columbia, let them
"abolish it ins vote and that of his colleague
would be given in aid ot such a measure. In
conclusion, Mr. Badger declared his confident
anticipation of the speedy return of peace totha
Na'ional Councils, the preservation of Ihe integ
rity of the motto, "Liberty and Union, now and
forever, one and insepirable."
Mr. CaS3 wanted ta know of Mr. Badger
whether he designed to be understood as propos
ing the extension of the Missouri Compromise
line ?
Mr. Badger replied in the negative. He has
expressly said that that line could not be exten
ded. Mr. Cass wanted to know whether the Sena
tor wouid be willing to settle Ihe question upon
the exicnsiun uf that line, if it were practicable?
Mr. Badger replied in the affirmative.
Mr. Cass. What would tilat give to the
Soutli, if adopted, in its terui3 ? Would not that
Compromise, without some niiilitior.nl provisions,
exclude Slavery north of 3G U0. and ascrt the
duclrine uf non-intervention south of it ?
Mr. R idger was willing to rest lhat queslion
upon the necessary implication ut the Comprom
ise.
Mr. Hale next addrcs-ed tho Senate in reply
to Mr. Calhoun, especially with reterence to the
history of nets, stated by hnii to be the caus
es which lead to the destruction of the equilib
rium between the two sections of ihe Union.
He contended, in the first place, and cued vari
ous laws of Congress for the purpose of showing,
thai the principle of the Wilmot Proviso, odious
though it is now pronounced, has been, tjjne and
again, cstublHhed by Conaress. The next
cause which ha 1 tended to destroy the equilibri
um, according to Mr. Calhouu, was the Mis-iouri
Compromise. That measure, he contended, hail
been adopted and maintained by the South.
The ihiru cause wa the pa-sage of the Oregun
bill. Can it be po-stble that the Senuor seri
ously intended to assert that a measure hi re
cently pissed had operated with such rapidity,
as already to have created such feeling in Ihe
Soutli, thai she should not remain tu ihe Union ?
.Mr. Hale pneceded thus, seriatim, to take u,i
and reply lo the various assertions nude by tlr.
Ca.huun, exposing wlnt were alleged tn bi Iar- .
in inconsistencies in his charges ajunt tho
North, and in his political history. Without
concluding his remarks, he gave way to a mo
tion for adjournment, which was agreed to.
Ho use.- Mr. Fuller, (Loco) of Maine, fron
the Committee on Printing, made a report in fa
vor et printing five thousand extra copies of the
Report of t ie Committee on Kinds and Catm!,
setting apart certain lands for tho Wiatney
lUilroad.
Mr. Bo Iin,(Lvoiof AIo. oppoied the s;!iem.
The bill countenanced one or ;ne must gintic
schemes of speculation erer Known. Uivet
Whitney ninety-tven arid a Ivxlf millions of a-
cres of public land', and to morrow he will
laugh you to scorn. The great complaint Hgsiost
the Rank of t'10 United States was that it was in
the hands of foreign c ipitaits. The stock wts
thirty-five nniliuns in the hands of twenty-t'jur
Directors. Here are ninety seven million) in
the hands of one man, wuh liber'y to assign to
tlme who will give him tho most uvKiey. ti'r
eign capital will be likely to go in n ihe stscb
ns naturally as water will tin-l its level. Tne
bill gives Mr. Whitney the power to locate the
road within eighteen degrees of latitude, and
roiiRcqneiuly an influence over the Western
Slates and a power as i corporation to contract
with ilifm. It n:ei him eighteen degrees on
one side and seventeen on the oilier, w ithm
which to locate tho road, and sixty or seventy
millions of dollars in property to rnike it. Tne
Unisare forever to be exemp'.ed from taxation,
thus forecleasing ihe Stales hereafter taxing tho
lands, and gives a new fuiranlee in violation of
the Constitution. The act is forever irrepealable,
and Mr. Wh.lney can command tho G jveriiineut
tn extinguish tne Indian title for his benefit.
The bilt did not originate with the Committee ;
it was nothing but a republication of what had
been published and circulated lu pamphlet
throughout tho country. Il makes huu the Roths
child of America, anj gives lain power never
belore conferred on any man.
Mr. Robin-on,(L ic) ol Indiana, obtained tho
floor, and said lhat to-morrow he would reply lo
Mr. Rowlin, showing that hisremaiks were base
less unfounded, aud puerile throughout.
The House then went into Committee of the
Whole on tilt; Slate of the Union, laid Ihe Cali
fornia question aside, and proceeded ici the con
sideration ol the bill lo supply the dr-ticicnces of
appropriations fur the service of tho present fis
cal j ear.
Wr.DNt;siivr, March 20.
Sena'e. A fter the usual morning business the
Senate resumed the consideration ot ilr. Clay'j
resolutions of compromise, and Mr. Hale resum
ed and concluded Ins remarks in reply to Air.
Calhoun's romance of History, with ruierence to
the Slavery agitation. He denied that Aboli
tionism had grown and become powerful by the
aid or countenance of the great political parties
at the North. Un the contrary, they had attain
ed whatever jiosition they now occupy in de
spite of those parlies. In illustration of th.s po
sition he referred to tho various abolition riots
trlitch had occiured in various places in tho
North in years past.
.Mr. Dawson, interposing, said he believed
there was one mob in Dover, N. II., to which
the Senator had not referred. Ho honed an ex
planation of that occurrence would bo given.
Jlr. Hale said he never heard of any such
mob. I ho Senator must have found it in tne
same book which contained the false accounu
of-abolition emissaries being sent among the
slaves to excite then to msurrectiox Laugh
ter. Mr. Dawson Will tho Senator not tell us
something about a inob in Dover, and state
whether any member of llns body had any con
nection with it, and what?
Mr. Hale had never heard of such an occur
rence; he had heard of a meeting held there, at
which the quo' ion of Slavery was discussed,
and in whicn he pirticipated, and took the con
stitutional ground, just as he designed now to do,
defending the constitutional rights of the South,
f Laughter.! That meeting nnwiv.r nrhiii,t
iioihmg like the spirit of a mob, n,.r did it ap
proach to it anything li.to as mucn as tho Senate
does sometimes. Renewed lau-hler. There
wis no violence, no a lempt at vimeme. Allu
ding incidciiul.y to the position assumed a few
days since by Mr. Webster, he expressed his
sincere regret mat he could not agree with his
views then expressed, while he rejoiced that he
could agree with what the distinguished Sena
tor said, two years ago in the Senate, upon the
same subject, declared decided, eteruil, uncoui
promising hostility to the extension of Slavery.
Mr. Halo proceeded, at considerable length, with
some forcible, and occasionally humorous re
marks in reply to Mr. Websler, charging him
with inconsistency. He also examined thu pen
ding bill for the recanturu of fmntur. aiiu
contending that its provisions vveresubversiveof
,'oou oruer, aud every princule of ins Constnu.
Hon.
Mr. Cass, iuterpjsmg, put a quejtion uo: dis-