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Towanda, Saturday, December 20,1851
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be f dadacled—kir,cashphid netunily is tidirunee $1 00. will
iettneted.' NO ilepet sent over two yeurS. unless mil for.
Aenceristesers.. per "were Of ten tille/CSO Magi for the
. mist. and 23 eiiiits for exurb subsequent insenion.
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Spare, next ilonr to the nratlford Hotel. Entrance br.wccu
' , hears. Aducts'end Elwell , . law offices.
kr In the 'absence of other news of importance ;
aie Einhlik lengthy reports of the proceeiling4 of
ongresio Which will be found interesting. The
deb:meanie principally - upon SEIV/111;01 resolution,
inn] Friaries re:enaetment of ihe Compromises
Mown Pcsioinesr. LITERATWIC—We can atten
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Minix Taxer —Engineers are now engaged in
surveying for a duutrle track on the Nftw York and
Rio Railroad, between Owego and the Grea: Rend,
the work to be Completed, we understand, early in
the spring,. This is rendered necessary by the vast
and increasing amount of freight shipped
,and re;
shipped at that place r as well ds to facilitate the
transportation of coal from the Lackawana mines,
which, by arrangement with the Erie Company is
brought over their road kora the Bend in the cars
of the Lackawana campany.'
Tllt PLOW—Oa IIvIONTEILT CHRON[CLE 07 RURAL
AFFAIRS—This is the title of 'a new agricultural pa.
per, publiShed by C. M. Saxton and edited by So.
lon Robinson, at 125 Fullon.st , New York. Price,
50'cents a year. Each number is to contain 32'pa
ges, imperial octavo, in double columns, the same
size and style as the American Agriculturist. It is
a neat and interesting sheet, and promises to be a
valuable publication to the interests it intends to
subsets.%
'0: - tr" Hon. Amos Er.t.mssea died at Lancaster on
the 25th tilt ,at the age of 64. He was an officer
in, the army which marched from Pennsylvania to
the defence. of Baltimore in 1812. He was a
Member of Congress trona the Dauphin district—
was appointed by Gov. Snyder, Preisident Judge of
the -Dauphin, Lebancin and Schuylkill district—was
AttemeiGeneral of the State; and in 1832 was a
candidate for the Vice Presidency of the United .
States.
DEATH OF •x Ex-Coecseassissr.—Col, Daniel
Kilgore, formerly a member of Congress frum the
State of Ohio, died on Friday evening at Butt's Ho.
lel, in Murray-st., New York, where has been sick
br the last ten days, of inflammation of the lungs.
The decease•was a man of great moral worth, and
respected and highly esteemed by all who had the
pleasure orhis acquaintance.
Ott- The Lancaster, Pa. Whig, states that an in
fant child of Mr. W. IL Miller, reeenlly died in that
place in consequence of having bean forced to swal
low pins and needles by its nuroe, a girl of four
tegn years of age, The girl confessed the horrible
ctime, and stated her qbject to have been to render
the child fretful, so that she would be relieved from
the care of it,
SPlCallaa op ma SolszE.The Union has a corn
munication recommending ionx W. GOVIINSET, of
Tiogs, for Speaker of the Senate.
We should , rejoice at Mr. G's election to this
post, but as this Senate is Whig suppose such an event
hardly, possible. 'The Democratic members would
confer a deserved compliment upon an able and
consistent member by supporting him for Speaker.
O A great fire took place in Portland, Maine,
tukthe 7th inst The extent of the conflagralion
• was owing mainly to the want of water, the tide be.
ing down. There were twenty.seven stores burnt,
nine vessels damaged, and oir.r one hundred thou.
dollen; worth of merchandise destroyed. •
gr. The Hon. HeaaP CLAP, by ukaccounts from
Washington, public mid private, is in very feeble
health, and 'wilt be-scarcely able to be present at
the deliberitions rit the Senate, except on extraordi
nary occasions} The declining health of the vener
able. statesman, universally. lamented.
.
Fa6l4 'TIM Rio GRANne.--The datestrom Browns.
villa are to. the 20th ult. There had . been no more
fighting between the inenrgenta and the Mexicans.
Avalon continued inquietpossennions of Matarnnras.
Carvajal's forces are. said to be 500 men,_ though
they are not.probably PO many.
Vrantsra ELcerms.—ln 6S counties, Johnson,,
the democratic candidate for Governcir, gains 5000
over Gen. Caves vote, iris majority will be very
large. Both branches of the leiislature will be Very'
•
largely democpttir., •.
- Ir4TCCICT SCSATOR.—Hon. John 13. Thompson,
whii, has been elected U:S.Senator Irom Kentucky
fpi_6E Match 4th,
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:IVASHre4IO4, - Dep. 141815.14.
Sieares4Tlte Senate commenced business $2O
minutes peel 12 o ' clock. . •ss
Giemt.presente.il petitione in . favor of the ..ea
inblishment:of a •I s sinatiti Asylum in the Citr]of
tr ,
introducedebill,giving further reme
dies te peewee".
Mr ; Case , called tip this resolutions offered by,
li:m.a few-days since; fellOws: -
Resoled. That the President of the United States
be requested to eummuiticate to the Senate, if not
insonsistent - with the. pntklic interest, any ittforma
lion the Executi a may have received, respecting
the firing into end seizure of the Ameriese steam.
ship' Prometheus, by a British vesietof wait, in Nos
vember last, Oar Greytown, on the Mosquito coast,
and also Whit rrielisums have been . taken . by the .
Executive to ascertain the state ol the facts, and to
vindicate the honer of the eonntry
The resolution was adopted.
The Lill born the House, Making lantlarrants
assignable, was thsn taken up and referred lb - the
•
Commitee of Public Lands. . . •
The reseltgion extending a welcome to z . Louis
Kossuth, wars taken up on motion of Mr. Seward,
Mr Mile ennonneed that he had paired off with
Mr. Berrien who bad been called awayiby.the alas
ness of his family
-Mr. Badger, who had the floor, yielded it to Mr.
Mallory, who spoke nt some length in favor of the
resolution.. lie looked upon Kossuth as the repre.
sentence oldie great principle, which he delighted 'I
to honor. He examined theiquestion whether for
eign nation.s had a right under the law of nations,
to be offended at the adoption of the resolution, and
denied that they had tllest cause of offenre. He
hail no doubt but that they woutd.be offended; but
every chapter in the history of this country was,
for that matter,
and offence to depotisiti— every oc
casion upon which our flag was presentedto their
notice was ono ol offence to the despotic powers of
Europe.
Mr. Badger said that it was-natural that When it
wai,popossd, for the, second time, in the history
of this country, to cooler, the distinguished honor of
a Publ e welcome upon it foreigner, the treason for
such a coarse should be called for; and friends of
this measure had endeavored to furnish:some such
reasons. But in his opinion, those reasons rather
- Operate against the resolution than °itemise.—
gaming that to be the disposition of the Senate, he ,
had paid particular attention to ,the reasons given
in favor of the adoption of the resolution. Now,
what was the question when its partical merits
were examined'! It bids Louis Kossuth a cordial
welcome to these shores. As inducements for this
welcome, it is said that Congress, having invited
him as a guest, Congress is
_required consistently
with honor to folloWthat invitation up by the svel
come now proposer That there has ever been
any such invitation as was implied, he denied.—
The joint resolution under which Kossuth came
here - expressed the eynipathy of the American
people for him raid his associates in exile, anti corn.
mended the conduct of the Sultan of Turkey. It
f ur ::ar said - that Kossu:h and his associates desired
t o oto id ri ,:e, to this country, the President was au
thorized to eit:',^lcl a national vessel &c. The
meaning of the resor;?'
and if he
ion *as that if he decided to
emigrate, that the yews! sZ"— 10 be us e d
desire to do so the President Ysenot authorised to
... e
use the vessel. . Senators sorely by tim ought
to know what emigrant jneant. If a fore!,, .4r came
here to look at our roads and canal and the imp;PSes
meats of the country, and to behold,the working or
our institutions, intending to return, he was not an
emigrant. When an emigrant ship wasspoken of,
it mea t a vessel which broughtehoas whoist traded
to reside with us who left Europe to become mem
bers of.our population and in time to share our po
litical That joint resolution of the last
Congress was intended only to give Louis Kossuth
and' his associates a passage, from the land of their
exile tathis country, on condition that they desired
to emigrate to this coantry. At that time Congress
knew that Hungary was reduced to sullection—that
the revolution had been put down and suppressed,
and that Kossuth, who *as pinmg in a Tuilsish pris
on, would prefer to come to thiscramtry, where lie
could live in quiet and die a Christian death, which
he could not do in Europe. They therefore offered
him the means of reaching. in the speediest man
ner this country if lie desired to do so. There was
not a word in the resolution expressing an invitation
to come here; not a single word expressing or in.
timating that Congress cared afarthlne, whether he
came or not. It was affordtng him the means of
coming if he desired to emigrate. It was no more
of an invitation to him than was the general one to
all Europe to come here and settle down as quiet
citizens, if they desire to do so. There was nothing
which entitled Kossuth an4more to the s) mpathy
of Congress than would entitle the more stumble and
lowly, whit fled here from oppression, to our sym•
,pathy. He could see no reason for any distinction
between Kossuth and his associates. The friends
of the resolution stood in a singular position of re
fusing to put in a resolution of welcome to Kossuth,
a welcome to the associates of Kossuth. He (Mr.
Badges) believed that Kossuth would, if governed
by anlionorable heart, resent as an indignity, any
vreleciTne from which his associates were excluded.
It is without precedent. •
Messrs. Foote, Dodge, of lowa, and Badger, fur
ther continued the debate.
, Mr. Seward saathat supposing the resistance to
this resolution shall be successful, the measure is
not lost. -Kossuth shakes from his feet the dust
gathered on our soil aitd returns. Returns whith
er? There is a question you will do well consider
To his native land 'I No ! To Turkey 1 You brought
him thence. To England then? Yes! England
• alone dare or can give htm.shelier. Are you ail
- ling, that England shall dome and proteethitn whom
yourselves pronounce to be the representative of
Democracy„ or aresystu willing to entertain him as
such. But suppose-Kossuth has already returned
to England I Will that be the end? That will be
only the beginning. There is a tribunal of public
opinion, which we have recognized, Our lames
and our claims to the respect of mankind, are found
ed nn its decrees. It is a tribunal free from pas
sion and prejudice and is constituted not only of the
living great and good, but of the great and good of
all ages and of all nations. Before that tribunal
the State! of the earth are all equal ; nay, the fall
en and prostrate nations they are erect and folly
Neal with the mast.powedul and majestic empires.
There, too, the humble subject,.be he Celt, Indian
or Serf, is equal to the State to which he belongs,
Esgland, America, or Rosie. Before this tribunal
this questionmust go. He knew no living man
worthy to preside at such a tribunal, but lie imag.
fined that' he saw that august Court organized, and
the,revered form of Franklin occupying the judge. '
ment seat On the one side (said hel f see Hun-'
gary, veiled, and resting an the arm of Knasuth. '
Behind her are the sympathising; nations of Europe
On the other side the United . States, sustained by
Austria, Resits, Prusia and France. It is an omt.
went conjunction. Hungary complains that the
United States have dishonored and insulted her
chief—that they found him enjoying the generous
hospitality ofthe Turk, but exposed to the menaces
and stitveillance nt Austria and Prusia—that They
.gained access to his place of confinement, won his
confidence by their term! athy,-obtained his release.,
and transported him in the face of the admiring
world, a guest to their own shores—that they turn- ,
ed away and left him unprotected, unacknowlede- '
etl and unrecognized to be the. scoff of his enemies
and 011ie eause. The United States hold up the
right handset& plead , snot guilty," The records of
~: t he last Congress are read: the Prestdent's rims.-
- sage and the records of this Senate respecting this
resolution s Himgary rests her case. The United
States appear by counsel: The ardent Senator
from; Alabama, the earnest Senator from Georgia,
(Mr. Dayskonathe astute Senates from North Caro..
• hue, the candid Senator from Kentucky, and last
end greatest the learned and venerable Senator
,horn ueorgis, (Mr. Berrien.) The defence is made.
The Coed
.pionouncrits its s judgment, and in that
judgment, I recognise Isis acuteness ol- :the light.
uingrhunter nit)/ the practical common some of
OE
..1:11uha$: ;
veiled-no - eipeetatida come: - How 'then
came Kossuth, Brigland, • Frinee, the world, your
okra Fresident and people' to understand
'Whiff you
.Werectearing the honored :Fringaritiii
chief in triumph - through the Strait! 'or - ..,Gibraltioi
stirrelOon . got heie resented an itXolt trz him arid ,
yintrflagl Since when was it thitt4on" . levers
the eitd ol invitithin - lcr see how clithqr-yott . could
hespitelkies which wouldhavektecirittar
honer.roti plead dist you invitedshinixtein emi
grant to lake up: his let within your tiorde'rs.' la a
receptiteriessdne to hiintben, when.he,,comes, to,
iheoklionlind deoline, than it woidditrif he be;
came a perpetual guest. Was your object merely
to afford en aqiUM to hiin artcl hisjew assoeiatee,
or was it not rasher to . honor Hungary, and to give
moral aid to her great bat declining-vowel
Mr. Dodge, 'acme.paired off 'with. Mr. Pratt,
Mr. Eoustorr paired oil With Mr. Rtisle •
The anestion . wex_then,:taken on , the first branch
ItrMr.lierrierfeimetidnient, extending ri welepine
to the associates of Kosauth, when. it was rejected,'
yeas 14, nays 26 . .
The second branch declaring that by this wel
come to'lCosstith, Congress did not Intend to inti
mate an intention to depart from the poliey ,. "of non
intervention, &c., was also lost—yeas 15, pays 26.
, Mr, Shields then moved as a substitute' for the
whole resolution, the resolution that introdiAced by
Mr Foote and subsequently .withdrawn.
Mr. Borland moved the following us a substitute
for Mr. Shields amendment :
That the Congress of the United States in the
name and in behalf of the people of the United
States, cordially sympathises with the people •of
Hungary icr their recent laudable and heroic strug.
gle, and in their present miskintmes—that h rec.
°grimes and cordially welcomes Louis Kossuth, late
Governor. of litingag and his associate, exiles, who
have landed on our shore!, as worthy representa.
tives of their 'country, and invites them to the capi•
tol of the Union—that it requests .he President to
receive and entertain them as.pucb, in such man
ner-Os may be appropriate, and that the RUM 01—
dollar be and the same is hereby appropriated and
placed at the disposal of the President to pay, the
expenses of the reception and entertainment of the
said guests, dining their sojourn at the capitol
The question being taken, Mr. Borland's amend
ment Was rejected.
Mr. Shield's amendment was also rejected—yeas
16, nays 23.
The question then b eing upon Mr. Seward's joint
resolution as follows :
Resolved. by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States. in Congress assembled, That the
Congress of the United States, in the name anti in
behalf of the people of the United States, give Lou.
is Kossuth a cordial welcome to the capitol of• the
country.
It was ordered to a third reading, yeas 33', nays
6, as follows :
Yeas—Messrs. Bradbury, Bright, Broadhead,
Ca;:ys, Chase, Clarke, Davis, Dodge, of Wis. boug
, Downs, -Fetch, Fish. Foote, of Cl., Foote, of
Miss , Gwin. Hamlin, Hunter, Jones, James, King ,
Mallory, Miller, Norris, Rhea, Seward, Shield s,
Smith, Spruance, Stockton, Sumner, Wade, Walk.
er ' and Whitecomb-33,
Nays—Messrs Badger, Borland, Clemens, tiavr.
son, Morton, and Unperwood-6.
The announcement jai the result was followedt
with much applause in the gallery.
. The resolution was thee read a third time and
passed.
Am adjournment until Monday was ordered, and
the Senate after a short Executive Session adjourn.
ed at 5 o'clock.
SENATE—Wastutteroe, Dec. I's, 1851.
Th e 14,: ate met at 12} o'clock.
Mr.sagas;:/e.of Arki, appeared.
Mr. Data preseni.7o the credentials of Mr. Jonas.
newly-elected Senator from og'f'EgiessOet who
ap
peared and was sworn.
the
Mr. Foorx Called up his resolution dececieir::
Compromise Acts a definite settlement of the tjlc
very question.
Mr. &nista, in reply to Mr. Foote's speech on
this subject, said he regretted the debate on this
resolution had been suspended in the Senate for
had it not been he would have but little to say.—
H e bad come into the debate unexpectedly and would
have said but little; but the Senator from Missis
sippi. in' his reply, had satisfied him that further re
marks from him were necessary. The Senator had
made some remarks and some allusions concerning
him at South Carolina, which made it necessaty
for him to detain the Senate to-day., The Senator
bad not only introduced his resolution to defend the
Compromise, but in his remarks bad fired into the
camp to which he formerly belonged. Such an in-'
dorsement and re-affirmation of past legislation
was nuusnal. The Bilt of flights and Magna
Charts, had been, he believed, re-affirmed, but it
was only such matters that ever, called for such
unusual.legislation. The Senator had alluded to
the delay in bringing forward the Fugitive Slave
Bill at the session at which it passed ; and it might
be inferred that he, the Chairman of the Commit
tee which reported that bill, had delayed it. He re
ported the hill at an early day, had adaressed the
Senate in its favor, and Senator Dayton had the
floor on it when the Compromise Committee was
started. lie would now call on the Senate to say
how many of his Northern allies and friends of
Compromise had voted for that bill? Only three—
the Senators from lowa, and Mr. Sturgeon. Sena
tor Dickinson would have voted for it, bat he had
paired oft with his colleague. He hoped that these
Northern Senators would, as he had no doubt they
could, explain whether their absence was the re
sult of accident or otherwise. Mr. Butler then read
the report made by him on the President's Mes
sage, relative to the resistance in Boston to the Fu •
giuve Slave Law. With the sentiment expressed
in that report he now agreed. The President asked
for an amendment in the laws, so as to place under
his orders an armed militia, to be controlled by his
marshals, who, with ball and bayonet, were to be
called into service to put down any resistance to the
laws. The force was to be used without even read
ing the riot act. He was opposed to clothing the
Executive with any such power. He thougtjt
ominous that such power should be asked. He did
not believe then the act would ever be executed.—
•id not believe it had been executed. It could
never be e • toyed. He had heard it said that such
combinations,*ith a view to rescue a negro, would
be declared lion, The Court had already de
clared that it as not. The parties, then, who re
sisted this law would be placid under the jurisdic
tion of the State Courts, to be tried by judges. and
juries whose sympathies, were with the people who
were to be tried, and if a conviction took place,.
no Executive of a Northern State would hesitate to
pardon or to commute the sentence. The Senator
from Mississippi was or was not in favor of the
Compromise. Ho was in favor of the admission
of California, and of the abolition of the slave-trade
in the District of Columbia, or be was not. — Het
had denounced more fiercely than that Senator the
Executive interference in the formation of the State
Government in California. No one more than he
opposed her admission, as' against all precedent.—
Now, the Senator comes forward and says that Cal
ifornia came into the Union as every other State
did. It was announced that no other slave State
should ever Come into the Union—that no other
atave Stat., should be permitted to pollute the Union
—that the slave States were not in point of politics
of a capacity equal to the others. How could he
indorse such sentiments by voting for such a Mea
sure? He would ask toe Senator from Mississippi
the question—if the proposition were introduced
to-morrow to divide California, and allow one or
both parts to be admitted as slave States, would
the Senator vote for it! •
Mr. Four= said that, during the debate on the
Compromise, he had introduced two propositihris to
divide California. neither of which had received the
senator's approval. He had made them after great
consideration. bat neither had met with support.—
He anticipated that if the proposition were,now in.
iroduced for dividing California by the hoe of 36
deg. 30 min. or 35. deg: sa min., he should vote
fur it.
Mr. Benue said that the senator now had before
the senate a proposition declaring the Compromise
immutable. and yet be does not hesitate to declare
that he would vote to-coorrowfor &proposition over
turning the whole of it.
Mr. Forma said he would vote for the proposition,
to_divide California, as he would-lie a proposition.
tesdiVidelso2Stesprita,olline thh s -nta_ s atter t
preaeriWdbilbereinstiiilletiss The Ctimproinise
was not shoed thd Constitution.
Mr. Berme said the senator would never, never
fOriss,,tiotes dfilurli:the definittii settletnent.—
The:Mississippi` CatifientiOn have resolisid that
there no limed,' In secession:of the ,}Feierld
istirpition rlutthat the state, in certain cotitingepr
ties-"nlvun the taking place of a e rtain legislation
by Codgresssisonla resist such I islefort by reve
lation. Now, supposing that st n engaged heist
war of revolutionary resistance for the purpose id
destroying all,connection with The .E..dere I Govern
atentson which aide would the senator be found.'
Mr. Forme considered it titi insult to place
in each a disgraceful position as calling on
her sons to make war on the ‘General Government.
When such ntime.did .arise he would deliberate
and decide thc question. When his state was as
aaelted—whea she' was milled to arms—when his
fireside was invaded—he would have no difffeulty in
deciding where his allegiance was due., He would
not in' such a case pause_to chop logic upon where
his allegiahee called him shis heart told bins where
that allegiance was die. He knew there were a
great, many persons in Mississippi who would be
toned to support her ordinanees, and he would not
consider them traitors for se doing. They might be ;
denounced as traitors, and the General Government
rnight prepare the rope wherewith to hang them
but at this day it ought to be known that but a few
freemen died by the • rope %risen they had arms in
their hands. - The senator was. opposed to amend
meats to the Constitution, and had said the Consti
tution of Washington was good enough for him,
without amendment. The Constitution itself, as
framed by its wise founders, contained a provision
for its amendment. He would vote for an amend
ment declaring that Congress should give to all the
Territories a Government without the Wilmot Pro
viso. He would vote for other amendments, giving
guarantees to the minority against the power of the
majority. He alluded to his (Foote's) comments
on the amendments of Mr. Calhoun, for a dual ex
ecutive; and, for one, was not prepared to say that
such an amendment would not be beneficial to the
Union. He could see no harm in providing that
the laws passed by the North should require the
approval of the south. The senator had denounced
all the other opponents of the Compromise. He
[Mr. Foote) disclaimed having ever imputed im
proper conduct to those who had offered the Com
promise.
• Mr. Bowsza considered die senator from Missis
sippi responsible for the meeting of the southern
members of Congress, and for the southern address.
The senator also shou:d bear the responsibility of
the Nashville convention. After all these efforts
by the senator in hie recent speeches, he bad gone
into the subject of the late struggle its South Caro
lina. He (Butler) bad had great difficulty in that
internal struggle. He hsd opposed friends and re
latives. Those who stood up for the execution of
the resolutions of the Legislature were as high - and •
as honorable men as any in the world, notwithstand
ing the denunciations poured upon them and the at
tempt to put them under the ban of treason.
Mr. FOOTt disclaimed having denounced any
other in Routh Carolina than those demagogues
and traitors who urged the people of that state to
attack the forts of the United States. - All such he
denounced again, and for all he had said was re
sponsible now and hereafter, here and elsewhere.
Mr. Bursts said the resolutions of South Caro
lina in 1848 were for co-operation in 1849. They
were the same, and those which had been adopted
in 1850 were based upon the action which had ta
ken place in Mississippi. When be heard the
troops had been sent to Fort Moultrie, and the guns
of Fort Sumpter were pointed upon his soil, he had
great difficulty in entering into the contest which
took place in his state. It was a state of affairs
produced by what had taken place in Mississippi:
.Ma. Fears said he had signed the southern Ad
, dress—he had sent Calhoun's letter to his tstate—
but in neither of these was a word said about se
cession. or an amendment. of the Constitution. It
South Carolina had' followed' the course recommen
ded by Mississippi in the Nashville- convention, a
different state of things would have resulted. He
alluded to a speech made in Charleston, by the an
tis iS of the Address of the Nashville Convention, in
w hich it ;"as said that he never expected to see 36
deg. 30 tee lines recommended by that con
vention, adopted ;
t Set he had been tired of this Go
vernmeht for twenty yeS.ss, and desired to get free
from it, &c. Such language L.lB produced the effect
in South Carolina, and not the Guts; of Mis4s
sippi.^`
Mr. Birraza said that as allusions bad been msSe
which could not be mistaken, he would leave the
floor to his colleague.
Mr. %nm said, that at the close of the last ses
sion, Mr. Clay. in a speech on the President's Mes
sage, had made some weonal allusions to hied
which he rose to reply to, but at the suggestion of
some friends, he had postponed his speech till a re
port was made on -that message. The report was
not made till the last hour of the session, when he
could not reply. On other occasion's the same sen
ator had styled him traitor. If the senator from
Kentucky ever appears in the senate again that
speech would be delivered. If the senator from
Mississippi had introduced the proposition here that
no State had a right to secede, and that all who ai
ded a State in so doing were traitors, there would be
some excuse; ols on that subject, there had always
been a difference of opinion. Epithets may or
may not amount to any thing. General Gage, in
writing to the British throne, said, " Were it not
for the demagogues and traitors, who controlled the
people, the rebellion could be pat down." Arnold
himself spoke with a sneer of WasaiNarox, the
rebel traitor. The people he represented were se
cessionists—were disuionists—and he was free to
declare he was a secessionist, and that be' was, tin
der the present state of affairs, a disuionist. He
had despaired of the rights of the South—of all
justice and equality from the Federal Government,
not for 20 years, but ever since 1841. The over
turning of Governments was not so much. How
was American freedom first obtained but by that
course 1 Had the Federal Government been so ad
ministered as to secure the south equality in the
possession and enjoyment of the rights guaranteed
by the Constitution I He was satisfied it had not
and never would be. He would show the senate
the causes of dissatisfaction of the people he rep
resented. This compromise dissatisfied them; it
was not only unconstitutional, but, deeply unjust
and oppressive. He reviewed the statement of the
amount of territory possessed by the United States
at the time of the passage of the Oregon Bill, and
also of that acquired from Mexico. He asked
whether any southern man with his slaves could
enter and colonize one single foot of this vast ex
tent of territory. The territory of the United
States, gained by the common treasure of the Uni
ted States, was equal in extent to fortynine States,
each of the same area as Ohio. The south and its
slave institutions were excluded from all of it.—
The Union was now comprised of seventeen free
and fourteen slave States. and territory equal to
forty-nine additional States had been given up to
swell the number of free States—the south being
doomed to remain fourteen' only. The foreign em,
;gration was equal annually to half a million, and
thus population flawed in by way of foreign emi
gration alone sufficient to make five States each
year. all to be free of course. This was the result
of the Compromise, and with such a measure, the
people of the south were expected to be satisfied.
What was the prospect of the South I Now seven
teen free States and fourteen slave—the south ex
cluded from territory equal in extent to over forty
new States, and they rapidly filling up with a for
eign population—could any man say this was a
very safe, comfortable or triumphant position for
theaouth to occupy ? Under the evident tendency
of the Federal Government, it would not be long
before Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Missouri, and North Carolina, would be free, and
then a general emancipation would soon follow.—
Still he had hopes of the south herself. He did not
despair of her altogether. He did not despair even
of Mississippi, for he believed there were some
freemen there yet. die would not ddspair of the
south till she was another Hungary. He believed
that if the south continued under the Union as at'
the present time, itself, without arty; federal acticie.
would seal the destiny of the south, socially and
politically. He did; not consider the tax on tea
which aroused ourifatheni, equal in injustice, to
this great spoliation ref the south.• lie argued the
adraission of Califoenia to have %been unconstitu
tional. The senator from Mississippi had taken
fatal ground in his letter to Governor Quitman.—
. The Wittuotlhovis. was in the eenstitutiOn of Calr
.tariP l 4-.PgigreSSlV Agc.ogfii.zin g Allitte
non tecogineed Agar
constitution lays new States may be admit d
California vralt_no State. bat simply territory of the
traintfsiates. COngress in admitting hit had i'o
nuthtitity to rho so under the eonstitnuon;* punier
was only giyerr to'tadmitindi States. -
:Mr. Foots desired to elpfain. If ibis senator
from. Bauthcarollia I.unwillibtto be Udall:pied,
techini7naynn, gni I will not d 0 if.
Mr. Rarr.—Vite gentleman had not belief imt..,*
rapt me—l have not a very good temper, and M
perhaps, is no better. Ile next examined the tern.
locial-billsi.Vrhieb. it .IW-inn. did-not - contain the
proviso, bat the Act rave Mr. Fillmore the power
appointingof Judges and Marshals. The major.
ity of Judges appointed were blown to be - of opine
ion that the Mexican laws - abolishing slavery were
now enforeedin Territories. The Wilmot Proviso
was in effia spread over all the Territories.
[A message was here received from the House,
announcing that the speaker had signed the Kos.
such Welcome Resolution, and the President of the
senate then signed it also.] '
Mr. &rare continued—By the Texas Boundary
Bill the south lost four states. RC commenced an
examination of the question whether the Fugitive
Blase Law had been enforced. and denied that it
had—when he gave way to a motion, and the senate
adjourned.
FOXISE Or gEPRESENTATIFFS
lift. DATLy, of Va., offered a resolutiod which
was adapted—That the‘President, so far as is com
patible with the public interests, communicate any
information in the possession of the Executive re
specting the imptisonment e rrial., andsentence of
I.B.•Thrtushei f and . his right fo ebb' protection
as an American , citizen:.
The senate's Resolution., giving fir behalf of the
people of" the United states, a cordial welcome to
Kossuth' to the capital' of the' cannery, and request
ing the President to transmit him • copy. of the
same, wits taken•up and without debate passed, un
der the operation of the previous question moved
by Mr. Robinson—Yeas 181, Says 16: '
The following are the nays on Mr. Beward's Kos
suth resolutions:
Messrs. Abercrombie, Averett, Bragg, Brown, of
Miss., Cadwell, Harris, of Tennessee, Holiday,
Johnson,,of Georgia, Jones, of TOIL& Martin. More
bead. Savage, Scurry, Stephens, of Ga., Williams,
Woodward.
Mr. B*urn, of Ala.. moved to reconsider the' title
of the resolution.' He wanted to offer a' personal
explanation. Objection liras made to thin, bat fi
nally, amid much confusion, the consent
.of the
House was given.i
Mr. fixtvit then( commenced by saying, that Kos
suth came here as an exile, and referred to ancient
history to show that several distinguished persons
there mentioned profited by their exile, and ex
claimed; " happy, fortunate Kossuth 1" He then al
lude tolhe splendid reception given to him in New
York, and thr' object of his coming, to this country,
namely, to get money.
It would be recollected that a few days ego a re
solution was introduced in the senate, and that the
mover, Mr. Foote, withdrew it. At that time the
star of the east bad not risen—Kossuth had not
come—popular commotion was not a ed. Hut
since then, an extraordinary change ha come over
the Legislature, and a similar resolution has been
introduced in the other House, and passed, with but
six_ dissentient voices. Is this legislating beyond
the control of Ropular commotion 1 or does it not
show that the ojitside passed the resolution 1 And
the resolution was rushed through this Honse with
out debate.
After proceeding in this strain a little further,
there were frequent Calls to «order,"•and• cnea of
ego on!"
The Brakes* decided that the• gentleman had not
gone beyond the limits of personal explanation.
An appeal was taken from the decision.of the
Chair, and the Yeas and• Nays ordered, when the
Chair was sustained.
Mr. Sstivit resumed, reviewing the - =tires de
clare by Kossuth in England, and those avowed in
New York, between , which there was manifest in
consistency. He opposed Kossuth's ideas of non
intervention,saying that our policy has been, from
the cominencement of the Government. to stay at
halite, to attend to our own business, and let foreign
nations take care of themselves. lie referred to
many things connected with Kossuth, reviewed
Kossuth's speeches with the intention of justifying
the resolution which he sought to introduce in the
House last week, requiring the Secretary of State to
furnish Kossuth with a copy of the laws• defining
ttros,"."l and misdemeanor; and, farther, if Kos-
Sath penis:fd in making in the country incendiary
speeches to cleta.^ him, that he not only assaults
Congress, but
wdus:s " Webster, and "
.
pro
poses to retain our Ministi.7 to Vienna Did it be
come an. exile, brought to our c.7tuntry by an invita
tion of the Government, to interibre so unblushingly
in our public as'well as our private concerns! He
wished to avoid such consequences as to:lo:red the
invasion of Cuba, and spoke earnestly of the vigi
lance by which we should guard the liberties we
now enjoy ; and he'slso took occasion to condemn
Kossuth fort -interfering int religious concerns. He
did not want such a Peter the Hermit; hi would
prefer a Peter the Hunter from our own West. lie
said Kossuth never was a Republican till he came to
New York.
The subject was here dropped.
W itiHctorr, Dec. 16, 1851.
SENATE =Business commenced at twenty min-
Wes past twelve.
MT. SHIELD 3 moved to take up-his resolution-pro
siding that a Committee of three be appointed by
the Chair to wait upon Louts Kassala, late Gover
nor of Hungary, and introduce hint to the Senate.
Ayes 20, Noes 11—no quorum.
BAriont. of N. C', said that the - resort:dim
gnre
coizing Kossuth as the guest of the nation had
passed. He was opposed to the whole thing, but
this resolution ought now to be passed.
On the second vote the rasolutim was taken up
—Ayes 30, Noes not counted.
The resolution was then amended so SR to pro
vide that the Committee wait upon Kossuth, on his
arrival in Washington.
Ma Wsur ER, of Wi.4 , spoke in favor of the reso
lution. He welcomed Kossum for his principles
and also because he Saw-in this measure the Meiji:
ient step toward a departure from our present un
wise policy of neutrality. He had long desired to
see the policy of the neutrality of our. Government
overthrown. The weakness which induced the
neutrality policy of Wssmscroa no longer exis'ed
To prevent interference by European nations to put
down struggling liberty, or any cidier violation of
National Law; he would be in favor of the lawny- '
tion of International Law. He would be in favor
of the interposition of this Government, and not only
of its moral, but its physical power, He was in
favor of !tot only telling Kossuth he has the well
wishes of the United States, but should have our
material aid. He was now in favor of telling "
die nations of Europe that when any peopleshou.J
struggliqor freedom, they must keep their hands
.of, and that declaration he would maintain good
by all the power el Government.
The resolution, after tilmie conversation, was
amended so as to strike out all titles, and the reso
lution then mad, "to trait on Louis Kossuth," &c
Mr. MASON said lie had a high opinion of Kos.
Binh, but was unwilling to vote the honor of a pub
lie reception to any one. It was an honor confer
et) heretofore on no one bid.
_Washingt, on and La
Fayette. He objected to it also because of .the
avowed mission of Kossuth.
The rdsolution was then passed by yeas 30 to
nays 15, as folionis
Yeits,Mesers. Atchison, Bradbury, Brodhead,
Cass, Ch'ase, Clarke, Davie, Dodge, Iowa; Dodge,
Wis..; Douglas, Fele!), Fish, Foote, Miss; Geyer,
Gwin. Ilandin, James, Jor.es; Iowa; Miller, Mot ,
rig, SeWani, Shields, Smith, Stockton, Sumner,
Wade. Walker and Whitecomb.
Nsis—Bayard, Borland, Butler Clemns Dew.
son, Hooter, Jones, Tenn.; King, Mason, Marton,
Nat:, Scbutian Sprounce, Underwood anilUpham.
The bill to establish a Blanch of the U. S. Mint
in California watt - !visaed.
The resolution declaring the Compromise *deft.
nits isettlement of the Slavery question, was then
taken up.
Mr. Rimn. resumed. Re reviewed the finan
cial policy of Government—and raid it had been
uniformly piejoilicial to the South. The War of
A.l. 2 .ostilk_d.44Pe.fl) l 3, IX Olathe. IJ
eotnalnamtain a - u.oveniment against t orsi
Lions, and thetreornmenced,the aggressions
Squib. ' , .The tariff of 1816 t wat adopted. Ir
* hew tariff was adopted In 1819 the
arose: No' difficulty would ha ve
:out df thit goestion had it,uecurred before?
1,-it was settled by compromise, which me ;
frig more than submission by-the South. it
yielded her equal rightto all the territory,
copied one-fourth. Not more: than three )1
the tariff 011824 - Was 'passed, the South 8 4
balthe end was nOr yet He then detas e ,
eventtOtmong them the ,arloption of the t,
1828 and '3l. The South resisted at last, 2a ,
reiult was a compromises After this co llar
the attempts to give Congress the jun! diction
Slavery Question. hi 1838 the. Diemeera: ic
attempted to resist it and bad it net been
weakness and imbecility of the South, the 21,
wa ll as- l or e r have be e n. . atiblidled. .In 15., 2
Pia of '33 and 21itt Ride were boh
away by the power of the North. lo a few
after came thalarifrof 1546; which was h ,
more than a slight modificaidel'ofthat of '42
was but a difference between them' ; then
the struggle over the territory acquired fri. f
co. But everyone of those several meager
the Tariff of 1816 down to the Compromise
the South had lost she was now
and prostrate re the lees of the North. He
blame the North for this. Those who seta
wrong were more to blame than along dot
last Compromise had hardly passed before
sition 'was introduced in the Houtie inerel
Tariff, and it was only rejected by five rot
read tables to show that from 1791 to 18,
were only 8300,000 ono more paid by the
than ought to have been paid by her if taxat i
representation were regulated by each other
of 5W2.000,000 expended by the Untied
from 183310 1837 only 537,000,000 were
'en in Southern States.. In the Iteroluticnat
the Southsent more teen to the war. in .pr
to population, than the North did ;• yet in
the North, there was one out of every 118
the propel age who had revolutionary.
while at the South there was only one in
pertains. ' -
After hie retutrefrom the Nashville Coact
had addressed the people of Charteston.
them then 36°130 would notbe adopted and
recommended that as in 1633, other State!
started her, South Carolina should rtgm
The struggle now was no ordinary one-. 11
for liberty notfor it:twice—not In equalus
was a struggle for existence. What had it
tb gait) by delay She should act
once. ll'she rem&nel longer the result
hob:9, hence he was for secession. se ce ,
South Caralina s with others—it not, seceso :
The south would not be worsted,--sh e co [l
have those guns now at Fort Motiltr,e
upon her-. Her people could be unstsre,‘,.
they-were now by the power of the Sr
tyranny ol this Goiernment vras more nn
that of Austria, which enslaved Hungary.
emitted the question of the. right to seeedt
no concession by States of their sovereiv
the sovereignty of the States remained I
mil, in virtue of that sovereignty trier had
to secede. TIM% the States were sorerei.,
dent from the clause to the Consult , tas,
treason. It consisted in levying_ war ! igat
and in giving aid and'comfbrt :o theii ear
Treason did nut consist in levying war a•_;
General government, btu against the Sno
marl from- the acts of several States rat'r
Constitution, wherein the sovereignty of 111
are maintained. Fla also read from the 1:1
the Constitution of the United States, that
propositions, giving the General. Gorerau
power to coerce the States, had beeli air
Hence he chnellated- th.at-the General css
had no power to coerce the States • and, a
power exists to erce a State, that it t is so-,
He read horn eLverat p. p n 8 by Jeilerson,
tacky Resolutions, Randulph's Speeches
lotions—ail confirming the right of a State
He referred the Sena(or Iron Mississippi
editor of The who for fifty years ,
the cause of the right of a S'a'e to secedc
authorities might be disp•garded by tne
but he poped the Seri:Atte - would admit the,
of his own speeches. He red from a spec...,
Foote, in the Senate some two year. ago r
the occasion at preset:lll:g certain re,uiLl,
Mississippi Legistature,'and which ha.: to
notinced by the editor t f the Nu:hone/Jo
that speech the Sena:or had quoted
Rubor, Webster, and others, as, elution:
rights of a-Senate to secede.
Mr. Foovc said he would resign all fish
tar the text twenty years, if the Senator CO.:
duce a line of his wherein secession is cl
a Constitutional right; or ulie-ein it
claimed other than . as a revolutionary n received to only in case intlletably opf
Mu; !Weer asked why he had :inn
authority of Jefferson and others to pro'
cession was s right?
Mr. FOOT£ replied that he as: re..! v;;1
and the others [IOW.
Mr. RiteTr—Then you are a Sece4-i
Mr Foote—l am, so tar as :e;:e,,,.)a;. ,
lutionary right.
Ma. FOOTE sa - d,ethat if he eou:,l
vote on the Resolution, lie would n
Senate by a speech. Ile had heard !
had said, expressed much more focinte
ly a thousand timsis before .during
his own Sate. He could white all tti.
sonal, but he knew it was altogether s..
lie would like to have a vote on the rest , :
Mr. BoaLisc, 'of Aik:ansas fait}, ti
• speeches were to be made, he would r
motion to lay the resolution on the table.
Mr. ilr.fssos, of Ving.nia, said he des
a few words in explauation, and on
Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESEti f.A riViS
The SPRAKER announced the
Rules to consist of Messrs
phens, of Ga., Chindler, Robinson. S.,
mour, of New Yotk, King, (-I IL I.
Wallace.
'Mr MA RSII4I.L'Is bill for the payme
Treasury of Calilornia of certain
on imports into the ports at that Sta:f
treaty with Mexico, and before her awn'
the Union, was referred to the Co l orize'
and Means.
Mr. McConst.i, of Cal., introauced a
widen; for a survey of the pnbhc lands
nia, and granting donation priviieges, aP I
purposes.
Bk. Waists, of 41., moved to go
lee on it, but a quoru4n net beta; Pr
House voted to adjourn.
Oz i— The King of Hanover, just deem ,
only surviving son of Geo. ge. the Third.
better (de worse) known as ihe fh:;:e
land. Although he had lust out; eye Re ta
la! horseman.. He was next heir 10 1Y
throne alter'' Victoria, had six remained tor
died without issue—but she iihl vot
His successor is his only son. George Fred
blind, and theisrtore has twelve sworn con
who will hate to witness all Sae doetar'
G.v, Young of Utah, the gortnoa Terriv
it is said, as many as ninety wives. it
along the streets, a. few days Attlee, with
them in a long carriage , =.-toal teen of elet
each-an infant at her. bosom. This stator
dented by the rettir.iing Chief lipvico
It is very well, we think, th it Pre , i(lent
has decided upon retrieving ties lustful TA .
a man with- such a family to 161 , k aver. al'
precious little time to attend to Sate atria.,
DSPOPULATIOS Or IRICLAND.--LOOking al /9,
turns of immigratiom at the single port of Ne , s ,
alone, for the Met two or three years, it woct,
that Ireland ought to be almost totally depo r t
inhabitants. The Dublin F)-ecnian estimate,
the emigration from that port at no les.s
5000 to 6000 per week.