Show i speech ly by hon k C dodge on lifery mr dodge dern dem of iowa followed in it defence of the sovereignty of the people of territories Terri lories reading a speech on enthat that subject he contended that the missouri re st firtion and proviso were dangerous eions of power r by agress ng ress and that the former ought not to 10 be allowed to remain an instant on the statute book he replied at length to mr smiths objections to the bill to the objections that brigham young hau bau forty wives he said that was not by virtue of any law but was a part of the religious creed of the mormons cormons Mor mons the mormons cormons thought a wife a good tiling thing ann ana pro vided aided themselves with wih as ninny many good abines as ag possible the shakers refuse their members any wives the latter existed in all the states and no one of to interfere with or disturb their heir social regi regulations dati oil if the creed of ab nb no wife of the shakers or the creed if f I 1 forty wives of the cormons mormons Mor mons ions were ver e P presented i resented ted to the son sen ator from viere was no one who believed that the senator would become a shaker loud laugh ter I 1 he denounced the abolitionists and their doctrines in strong terms and refe refereed ried to the appeals by the senator from froin massachusetts mr Su sumner niner in behalf of the honor plighted faith soler solemn nit compacts ac DH not that senator reach his present position did he not spring into political oolitic al power ba b means of his coustant constant and un scrupulous attacks on the sacred compact of the conati i aution pro Idin ifor the rendition of fugitive slaves slave s i he was in favor fa vort of further farther acquisition of territory he would receive cuba chihuahua if obtain e ea I 1 fairly and pv properly perly before they were acquired he wished to see this question settled forever there was no way to get it settled but to leave it with the he people to dispose ofin of in the irown way if slavery was profitable in the territories people boulo have it it in spite of ill prohibitions by Cion congress gress or otherwise if not profitable it would never go there there was wai a law passed in jeffersons time against settling in territory and ad yet he and the senior senator from wisconsin ha had d violated it nearly one half their lives his father had not only gone on indian territory but had built forts forta to protect the settlements and her be had bad often loaded guns to protect them the people odthe of the territories would no nut t be controlled by such prohibitions he referred to M mr r douglas and laid that that senator owed it to his bis country and to the acy acts of 1850 to introduce and carry through this measure these territorial governments were indispensable to the pacific railroad and yo ye the Sema senators tors fro from new york and other states would throwaway throw away tho thread roaland and all other measures to in get an unconstitutional prohibition of sl slavery very |