Show proceedings in congress the house then went into committee of the whole on the state of the union mr 0 orr in the chair mr houston submitted resolutions referring the various branches of the presidents president annual anneal massage to appropriate committees I 1 gerrit genit gen it smith said that as this was the first time he fie had the floor it might be well for him to confess in advance that he was in the habit of imputing errors to men ve very ry freely perhaps on this occasion he shou should d follow 0 iw up that oat habit it mit might be a bad habit bahit b but it it is is not a counterpoise P Is e to this habitt habit if it la Is a bad one iii ne claimed no exemption from errors himself he fie abounded in them and was wait willing gentlemen should make reprisals upon him he hoped that while he held a seat here he would be in i a teachable po position the presidents message tally fully and warmly endorsed the conduct of the a administration in the matter of martin koozin now he be wa was a not prepared to bestow unqualified praise i in that par particular ti cular he was not ready to accord great credit to Capt captain iain ingraham for his in just at determination to rescue koczta and yet he be would that captain ingraham graham la had insisted ad on OB being set at absolute liberty he would have left nothing at tw that point to the di discretion of france or the french cons l or to the discretion of another government he would have had him hold no terms nor enter into any treaty with kidnappers kid Koai tawas VMS a kidnapped american citizen As aa such the american government on that occasion mn and r I 1 a f for or that occasion he was the american government governale nt perhaps what he said might be inconsistent with the views of his petee peace loving friends w who bolnow know hit his opposition to war yet he justified captain ingraham he believed in tile the propriety of a national armed police and be believed here wits was occasion for the use of f such a police but that was not war captain ingraham was opt ire ready ady to make war on an austria and did not nat threaten her with war captain ingream Ingra haro property properly had nothing to do with austria nor with the oie austrian consul it would have been an insul tto tle austria tri and her authority had ja he charged her with authorizing kidnapping he had bad aall calr to do with the kidnappers kid who restrained Was i i liberty AU all he h had to do 49 was wa to a bin free and compel them to 0 o make an a 1 1 unconditional surrender of their prey H he e knew it was said that koszta was not an american citizen but the secretary of state argued conclusively ilk m right of international law that I 1 he was lie wished mr marcy had gone further and said that goosk was wan by law of reason and right an merican american A citizen it is high I 1 time we have our justification on something more substantial and certain certai 9 than the warm worm eaten ealen codes of europe it is time it was placed on the immutable law of justice jt it had been said that hat captain ingraham Ing invaded the rights of a neutral state but he always at ways rei reg ri rg retted that the secretary of state did not positively deny this the denial was not dot needful 4 or r his bw argument yet it would have done good captain ingraham did not violate the right of turkey austria did not so charge but turkey I 1 violated the rights of america because she did no not t afford koczta the protection due to him sh she e was chargeable with letting him be kidnapped turkey had no right to be invaded he held that when a neutral state stale shall forbear todo justice to stielf he might be asked whether he be would have captain ingraham fire into the austrian ship he answered he would have koszta free at whatever peril he had said he would not bestow unqualified praise on our oar government vern ment for the abe koszta affair in one of the he passages in the letter of mr marcy 8 to mr hulsemann of rare rhetoric cal beauty he ventured to insinuate the despotism of austria he would not say this was impudent hypocrisy but was in bad taste for austria is a far greater gater and guiltier oppressor austrian despotism compared with ours which compares men to chattels is as the little finger to the loins loing secretary marcy mentions in his justification of captain ingraham that divine law do unto others as we would have them do unto us was wal not this the very acme of presumption for xo an american secretary to quote th 9 while the nation is trampling under foot millions of its inhabitants DM did mr marcy suppose mr Hal haldemann stone blind and had lived in washington so long as never to see the buying baying and selling of men women and children child irm going on continually and did mr marty marey suppose mr hulsemann ignorant of the fact act that t th m government government is the great slave catcher for th slave holders did he suppose mr hulsmann did not know that the slave trade finds in alvean ft government its greatest patron and that it comes not only under ar general regulation but specific regulation of congress Conf fress did mr mir marcy mamy suppose mr hulsemann was ignorant of the fact that this administration ni surpassed all its predecessors in shameless pledges and devotion to tb slave power the secretary exalts the wisdom of man above the wisdom of god when he says chris sanity requires us tie todo to do unto ol 01 others here as an we would have them do unto us except when acting under I 1 legal e gal restraints the latter is a sheer interpolation of the secretary the administration is at this of to christianity in a sacred and authentic record the bible command is ats alolu te he was aware hat had the administration put the justification of captain In grahams conduct on the simple bible truth it would have opened the door for the rescue of every american slave and justified the rescue of Shad shadrach raeh at booton boo ton and the celebrated rescue in his mr smiths neighborhood bo the jerry rescue at syracuse and justified the deliverance of every slave in this land he supposed the administration had sold itself in advance to the slave power this administration has no right to give up Chris christianity danity for shivery having further dwelt on OB this point he said after all the administration had done us good service ervice in attempting to qualify the divine command do onto auto others as yon would have others do unto us for the sake of saving slavery it impels u ua s to obey the commands of the bible B i ble to let the oppressed oppre sd go free he was glad the administration had identified itself with I 1 the abolitionist it ft should trot nut have meddled with the bible mr smith was listened to with marked attention mr preston sidd said living as he did in a slave state and confident of the propriety of holding thin thib kind of property properly believing firmly in the rights which were recognized by the founder u ilic who mid laid its ha basis deep and strong and which he hoped would endure for ever ver believing that a degree dg re of patriotism as great as that ot of the gentlemen from new york animated their bosoms and their descendants oad and with all the strength of conviction which language could express as to the justice of holding slaves he was not one of those who could listen with indifference to ti tle tie e gent lemans remarks he trusted he could show that thai the southern representatives were not the upholders of 0 the most onerous tyranny but men of sense not misguided by wild enthusiasm such as would shake the fabric of our institutions ina in a letter of mr marcy the doctrine announced wo was that koszta was clothed with nationality tiona lity by the declaration of his intentions to beco become M e an american AmeriC Rn citizen when he went to smyrna he was beyond the roach reach ol of austrian eap rapture ture and the reach of the house of hapsburg but lie he would ask the gentleman if a solemn treaty did not exist by which the faith of the american government was pledged tor for the release of koszta we have something more than treaty and compact the constitution of our country with the bible in hand the gentleman implores one hundred and twenty six members here to perjury and acting on the higher law speaks about the surrender of pro petty perty contrary to the guarantees of that instrument which binds the states in union we hold our oar slaves he said raid because there are two races which were glinted here before the pre sent government was founded we hold th them em because we are not willing to amalgamate any more negroes we want arant to keep oar teutonic blood pure to be worthy descendants or of our great race we will keep them till god shall point out the time they are entitled to freedom the ordinances of the almighty are strange beyond our comprehension he then eloquently traced tile fie progress of slavery arguing that emancipation must be of slow progress pro greas not violent tet let us said he wait and ad god in his good time wilt accomplish the object mr deta dean obtained the floor when the com coin rose and the adjourned an 1111 tie ine alst st mr offered a resolution instructing tho the committee of commerce to inquire ire itao ihlo the propriety of continuing and completing such of the river and harbor improvements as were appropriated for the list last session and which inthe in the opinion of the committee are within the constitutional power of this government and of general genera interest and importance and that they report at an early day by bill or otho otherwise fwise mr air mcronald onald moved to lay it on the table y yeas aas 55 nays nay 1 12 the resolutions were then yeas ill pays nay a 54 A motion was made to reconsider mr eisbell ei aid nearly dearly all the appropriations m the bill of the last congress for the west came from the senate and not from the committee m on oa commerce mr fallen explained it had been agreed to appropriate about one million of dollars one third for the ahe atlantic one third for the lakes and the remainder for the tb mississippi and i Us tributa tributaries ries but the senate loaded it down with incongruities ties I 1 mr wintworth moved that the motion to reconsider e be e tabled agreed to the house went into committee of the whole on ahe he state of the union on oa the presidents message mr dean said that when he offered the resolution the other day proposing a vote of thanks and a sword to captain ingraham he did not in ia tend to debate abbotte it but bat the remarks of a colle collea agtie gitte gerritt shuh smithy hail had inclined jum to say y a few words on an the subject he denied that thi this 5 g government 0 vern ment was a gi greater reater oppressor than austria fuoti quoting n 9 from Hayn atts proclamations ac As A I 1 to mr ingraham his resolutions were not to glorify ingraham but to show that americans Ameri I 1 velling travelling tra wherever enterprise leads them shall be defended by our fla flag i mr giddings denief denied the assertion that this i government was not connected and responsible 1 for slavery the gentleman talked of austrian oppression and of intelligent women being I 1 imprisoned on I 1 but bat look at yonder slave peo pen intelligent women are not only imprisoned there ther ft i but sold like swine in the market and this is Is I 1 done by force of congressional enactment dt this government has not a constitutional right to involve him in the turpitude or disgrace dio grace of the traffic the speaker then branched off on the he A Amis taij question and spoke against the payment of indemnity to spaniards who lost their negroes ne croes in that affair I 1 mr walsh said that when his bis soft friend I 1 dean dan who is in a chrysalis state of abolitionism sod ad is gradually softening finds that the presidents si patronage is disposed of he be will melt i into full blooded abolitionism W M e have set f w watched and preyed and the result must he a beautiful quarrel between the abolitionists of the strongest grade and the incipient abolitionists a quarrel which we have no disposition to spoil when the time arrives for the true democrats of new york to speak and express what they think of them they will speak language which will admit of no two interpretations nobody will understand misunderstand mi until that happy day arrives I 1 return virn to m my y quiet and orderly pow position flan Lau laughter eliter ur on the mr henn presented the credentials denti als of hadley D johnson dee delegate gate from nebraska Neb ruka referred to the committee on elections mr miller of Misso missouri liri introduced a bill organizing gan izing the territory orv of nebraska referred to the committee on territories the house then went into committee of the whole on the state of the union on the president s message mr wright of pennsylvania thought the country at large was unprepared to anticipate the results which had occurred from the debate i of the last ahr ahw the w wan one of those who believed that after the great contest content the country had passed through when both great political parties of the nati nain n came together in honorable warfare and when the great battle had been fought and the victory won wn that abolitionism was not only dead kut buried but the day before yesterday the gentlemen gentleman from new york amr mr smith exhumed its lifeless body and dragged it before the country like ghost it is here win again perhaps he douht nt n t to reply to the gentleman but he could not keep his hia mouth closed when such sen were avowed by him mr wright then emphatically denied that america was as great an oppressor as austria how could the gen aleman deom new york stand vp tip and advocate advocat higher law as superior to the constitution which contains the clause no person held to service sarv ace or labor in one state under the laws thereof escaping into another shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein he discharged from such servi service ce or labor but shall be delivered up ap on the claim of the party to whom such service or labor way may be due how can the gentleman put his hand on the holy evangely and swear to support the constitution and yet vet assert the higher law as superior to the constitution mr smith said he wa wart not disposed to take any position which should stigmatize with hv po crisy the framers of our constitution A tew few days before the close of the session of the convention which formed the constitution the committee on style reported that the word weird servitude vi be stricken out because it was identified with the condition ot of slaves ac that service be substituted because it was identified with the condition of freemen the motion prevailed unanimously I 1 mr wright remarked that was not his re recollection l of the history mr wright resumed d ayi liying ng the clause refers to involuntary i avol unitary slaves as an well as to other persons and so the courts hay havo decided he insisted that congress hots has no power t to 0 le legislate i late onn on slavery and declared that lie washer hi hands oi of the subject for the term for which he be war wan elected 4 mr bayly made a humorous speech asking if it was possible that the election of speaker and clerk every everything thing was tp he be made the test of friendship to the administration as he was not accustomed to this in washington on the certain documents document remaining over from the last congress were ordered to be delivered to the members for public distribution the house bouse then went into committee of the whole on the state of th union on the president s me message sage mr phelps said the question before the committee m attee was a reference of the presidents message but in the labit latitude ade of debate there had been involved the principles of the message the question of sl slavery aery the conduct of captain ingraham |