Wisconsin Express (Newspaper) - April 3, 1849, Madison, Wisconsin VOLUME 9 I have to but my Taylor MADISON WISCONSIN TUESDAY APRIL Por NUMBER 21 Who is my Neighbor nr It is lie whom power to ami mid burning brow Thy soothing harnl may prm neighbor Tis the limiting poor eye with want h sends door to io anil neighbor Tin oary man are at their brim sickness care and flo thou and comfort liim Tis heart bereft Oi Kern iu and shelter them form limn thy own thy worm or son not not by thou canst J liu he irt from jo thaic thy lot with him I of this world pass away it begins to lay a stronger hold on another Mr Mason's religious sentiments and feelings were the crowning glories ol his character One with the strongest motives to love and venerate him and the best means of knowledge say Behold the ceaseless strike of emigration How thrilling the sensa- tions it awakens boundless the tide that rolls it forward Come forth ye aged veterans of the cheerful sons and daughters of nnd bosom of the fertile So far fin my memory west is open to receive beckons ways allowed n conviction of the Di- vine authority of the Holy Scriptures of the value institutions of you to its promised rising blooming fields and ripening harvest Come and mingle in the dense ity and of tho of re- throng who are levelling our forests and ligion But ho did not bis residence building up our cities The of in Boston a religious travel it but the short journey sion lie very soon entered tho com- of a week Come and brine with you church and has continued since the good old fashioned and to receive the Lords manners you were early taught to respect I the From tine be has also habitually I and love and society like the mountain Mr maintained domestic worship j evergreen lifts its head above and The of his press to him our most cordial approval of his course Resolved That the Governor is re- quested to forward a copy of the foregoing resolutions to each of our Senators in Congress Mr THOMAS moved to postpone the consideration of those resolutions till Thursday next Pending the motion to postpone Mr CLARK said lie was opposed to the motion and desired to give his reasons It is well known to every member on this floor that Lo voted for Mr at the election ior Senator very reluctantly and that the friends of Mr W had assured committee of the whole only seven voted in the affirmative This to his mind was satisfactory how the proposition of Mr Walker was viewed in House of j fur after the opponent of slavery extension had succeeded in a- mending it so as lo prohibit tho shipping of from Virginia to California bv It was attached to an appropriation I We ought to si rve 1 Walker us tho just nt the close of the Cession and at i i did a mark upon him lime when there was no possibility of and send him forth that all men might sing the California which be- f know and beware uf him fore Congress and upon which had j Mr hers with Soil to Mr ol justice iVs going into caucus but in voting for i I i 1 been delayed and the term traitor his Mr Noble as cd to the lion 1 P Walker for doing men us such he had been to what he considered lo be an act Mr Lawrence's amendment and I and to while of our j I P he thought that j uo L ti itiin T ins rape does not come wilh very good bad can led out the and wishes of lie himself had voted i evening I tie death of his sons wintry storm will strew along your path produced n deep impression upon his mind the blossoms of eternal and directed il an increased degree to re- j Louis New Era ligious M Wisconsin Legislature In Senate Webster's Idea of a Great Man The indispensable element in any al is exhibited with ic emphasis in tho subjoined from Mr Webster's remarks in th Supremo Court on the recent i late J Mason We i- a grateful in be able i suoti a estimate of true from such a in Mr Monday March 26 1849 Smith introduced a resolution in- the committee on enrollment to present the chapter on assessment and taxation to Governor for his approval members of the legislature that he W was right tho question of slavery It was a notorious fact that wherever he during the Presidential campaign ho openly avowed his to muko war oil the extension of slavery At tho commencement of this session our Senators were instructed lo vote against the passage of any act organizing a government over California and New Mexico unless il should contain a sion forever prohibiting the of slavery into said Territories The for us to at this ding that the law of Mexico prohibiting own ra slavery in tho should not be grace from the Don gentlemen tered all parties abandoned it But could Ho considered tlie Term much more ior him summer because ho thought there bo any doubt as to the nature of the plicable to those who recently for- him than th other amendment he was satisfied the saken and denied the and lie lhat the 1 which they occupied in tho campaign of lion been submitted to the because a more tin Lac vi 1 1 vote in tho Senate on its adoption the ayes and noes on that question showed -ic a more political ilu Lac Ihry w ouid have that all the Senators irom the slave States seems lo be from some course present voted for hilst only Senators j other quarter and who re now shaping was d and ho was il a iry incident resolution hid been by the clerk Mr Webster said The proprieties of this wild w ri to ro- tin from tlie of which arise in my heart upon death i whom have cultivated a all eti n from d iv when I commenced my wn professional lo the of his life I will not sav of ih which 1 derived from his in- and conversation and all li said of Hurke but I am mini to say that of my own prod isi and jr to that tothe i which 1 was com- nine years d MI day to day by Mr Mason's ltd ills ul the bar and I must have n nil nt milled not to 1 ii constant ol power v hieh h id so much 01 c i mid t i I Il is the ate duty of tl e moment o five e of character and his mind heart so that he be presented as all i lo those v lio are ring upon or iui r jMr lure reviewed his life Hiil of a left by j i friend and after lo his 11 f il and political Chief Justice was lifs of Mason For ono I would out my like water I would emblem his in my best fi His friendship so long continued I esteem 0110 of tho greatest blessings of my life and I hope it may be known intermission or for so long a period Mr son mid myself wore Which was adopted He died in old ago not by a violent Gardner called up tlie resolution stroke from tho of death not by a native to the enrolling committees ol lira of nature I tho on but put of j cers the words judge of I ate representatives and that tbc State was j fn was adopted responsible for his in the same The resolution from the Assembly in an individual is liable for the regard to tho Educator of his agent Jf tho legislature should was taken up but was rejected Several take no action in relation to this matter from the Assembly were read a first and second tiniM Senate went into com- of the whole on of bills On reporting back several bills were Dodge of Iowa Walker ol Wis of Mic-'iigan Douglass of Illinois gau of Indiana Dickinson of Now York and Sturgeon of Pennsylvania voted for the amendment other Senators present from tree States voted it thib was sufficient to satisfy him tha fy our Senator had violated his pledges their course and nails of time is whether he has obeyed those in- and if not what action is to remove the odium from tha Mr C thought Mr W was the agent of the State elected by the Mr WELLS asked if Air Cross for the shivery resolutions Mr CROSS replied thai he had as resolutions of instructions no objection to the Wilmet Proviso and had been passed by this body on for tbc resolutions he thought them that subject and he had no hesitation in portant and unnecessary but he had voted saying that ho believed he had in if they done no direct opposition to views anci feelings of nineteen twentieths of the of as much as possible of this n painful which he had no doubt they expected duly but one that he owed to himself and would waft them safely into port his Mr KING p ast into The lie legislature tho acts of d not be brought nation was with elected 1 P r and sent him to Congress aud him to take lie bad violated and to out JIo look exercise loved the open air and all thei lose they could no barm j could do no less than to pass these Mr said he was i he for one did want i all personal allusions iu but Mr thought enemies of any further delay and hoped the house i much as tbc gentleman from Milwaukee Mr were interested would act upon the resolutions promptly I hail referred lo him personally and had in up these and as ho believed their importance spoken cf the inconsistency of his course Mr was in of tho mandod ho would refer to iu that election of the ries or practice his conduct and lit legislative and newspaper of lifo by iho rules prudence Mr STRONG opposed about it He political and prn and die with all earthly Nothing of is perm but virtue and personal Whatever is wrought into the soul itself li 1 to both worlds Heal goodness s not attach itself mi1 rely lo this life r p mi's to world Political of ifi ssi lame cannot last forever but i void of Clod u i is an inheritance for a in- in any great human rh There is no In ing without it ligion is the lie that connects man wilh -s Creator holds him to his throne In all simden d all broken he a worthless atom in MI its proper ail gone and its whole future i- anil i 1 A man w no of is he whom the scriptures but in world Such s out of his being out of the all his duties out of til and tlis death was u described by Angel ad- m mishing I it just said submit lint ll orn no way i 1 now nny come and mix unr connatural i said if thou rule to by In what bt not Till many ihy return m iho i live till li ripe thou 1 or he with i.-nso nut UgO and Authors N P Wells in a number of the Homo makes sible and in relation to nun Printers Tae of many a on and to the compositor lor that which makes them able Very few know how to point M hat Ihoy write so as lo meaning were au to the it be us tial that a young author should as a compositor in a priming as thai a CulLire should make a is not alone that thus learn tho importance of properly paring copy for printers by legible penmanship and n knowli dge of the marks and abbreviations by which is corrected These are matters an acquaintance with which on the part of tho author would save tune and prevent serious it would he a tacit approval of Mr and would be justifiable in same course Mr C thought it was duo to ourselves to a reading and the i to our constituents and to the i ale until 3 o'clock P M party had Mr W lo pass AFTERNOON SESSION The pending being 01 ing to locate a state to u 3d reading After some discussion ivus referred to the judiciary committee Senate went into committee of tlis whole on the file of bills Most of tho afternoon was spent tne consideration of iho appropriation and tho to for state rovc-nue Ou reporting back Senate adjourned until o'clock EVENING SESSION The following bills were read a third time and passed In relation to trespass on United States Electric telegraph lines Religious To authorize commissioners for the of deeds of er To punish trespass on lands and a legal to legalize certain roads Message from tho Assembly taken up and several bills read a first and second times A to provide for the tion of state revenue ordered to its third reading and senate adjourned i clock to-morrow Monday March 20th 49 Prayer by the Rev Mr Read offered the 3 i some disapproving o his j duel until was done every i man who voted for 1 P Walker would j bd condemned for vote aim tlie er the public ro set right on that subject tbc sooner we ledge that wo belter lie should vote against the was ready to vote fjr the immediately Thu question being taken tion was list Mr ALDEN to postpone Wednesday evening Air gentlemen seemed desirous cf delay to obtain information as to course pursued by Mr Walker j the his amendment referred to in the resolutions was calculated to produce for lie did not desire any such dely ho was in possession of all tie in- formation necessary to him to de- cide foi himself and for the information of gentlemen who had not seen the i in Congress on that question he would slate that he had seen tho Globe containing amendment proposed by Mr Walker to the general tion and his speech on that subject in which he states that it was his tion to give to thoso territories a and to show that it did not contain a clause prohibiting slavery or its duction into those territories ho would state that he had seen the dole con- the official reports of the ings in the House on the consideration cf Mr Walker's amendment when the came back to the Houso and in which igu subject at ibis hile d ly The papers were full of it anil the question now was whether be bad violated Irs emn pledges and instructions If he had it was thus to net ITe had had no hand said that it was entirely untrue Mr IT further paid laat as to the in- 10 do and now it was due lo to instruct him to resign to postponing tlie matter ho was about being on popular j lo vote upon it now -s he asked j Mr WHITE hud he should ny 10 inu success ui Lite free soil arty ho should oppose i thus the with the the by desire fo of the h assured all wi that and Mr Lyndo iu spread Slavery Mas llK al U due U fie Cas party to show they out had been misrepresented i Mr thought it due to Wlls self and to bis constituents to pay thing on this subject Twice he bad ted lor Mr Walker for U S Senator Mr Walker had been represented lo him as a man of cf am j Mr said hat the gentleman of inora and as he from Milwaukee bad impugned WELLS said that it was Mr H lou he could not be accused of inconsistency was the nominee o the democratic cus he had voted for liim but never have voted for him had he his it had not been so i should not have noticed any such known tint he was not choice of a jen was j of the had been nuimimli d the by bis abilities to a ily lo the toga and now he had violated his The live who elected him were responsible lor acts ant a a could thai those lion It way a rof for a or ii lilor in vole or ill if il iho d sired if Mr er would certainly would volo for them Mr Walker to resign were people but be would that ho had I or rather he never 1 Congress Mr WELLS I that lie only roie to united a course The i had never asked any one to bring I reply lo a remark that is by e of Wisconsin were against him forward for and he never should gentleman from posed he would have pursued tho course i o expectation of being wafted on the be did Tho party wl icli elected him popular by his in it- such a course and yet their highest lo Iho gentleman himself man had intimated ihal it was the Walker ser i circle of blunders The chief advantages would be to the author himself There ifr such analysis ns the cess of type AS he takes up ter by letter 01 a long or complex the most caMy aware of where sentence might have been shortened to save his lie detects impatient of s recognizes or of expletives and acquires a habit of putting an admiring value ou aud We lurc to say that it would alter the whole American literature if the authors nf our very fuent nation were fore a to have one year to labor at the case We have said about the art of nice punctuation also acquired iu a lo as much Resolved That the Assembly will t that Mr moved no morc members from attendance on its daily sittings during the remainder of tho session unless such absence is ab- Resolved That the will hold session during the present week commencing at o'clock to amend the amendment of Mr Walker by adding a That there shall be neither slavery or involuntary servitude ard of all the early fathers of the lio in i-vi fi n 11 miM I nrr r si il VPS ill I lip limn in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crime whereof the shall have been daly which j amendment failed At a subsequent Mr COLLEY moved a cull of the house stago tnp proceedings Mr Wentworth which was ordered pending tho report to amend by adding that tho in- uf the Messrs Burns habitants of tho territory shall bo entitled and were to rights privileges and advantages The Sergeant-at-arms reported tho secured to the people present The question being then west of the Ohio river according to tho taken the first resolution which was of was ruled I out of order us having in substance been The question being then taken on tho j presented and rejected Mr second resolution which was ncy Lawrence then moved to amend the had openly violated their in- ho would say that through his whole life No one who voted against ho had that those who were the those ho world say that these resolutions could bo I mosl ready to accuse others were the lira original resolutions presented by His district unanimous on ibis sub- to commit et complained of i Mr who lor Mr Walkor ll was true he was on the tee lo which ms referred but tho two of voted fir Mr and bad him lei Nol having led for Mr W he hud no about il except that of bad been ibe of the in direct opp lo the wl of tho frno Slate of Mr pi 1 to and had not another brought forward these resolutions he should have felt com- to bring them forward thought slavery was tbo blackest stain on our national escutcheon and this opinion had grown with his growth If the Union was ever to be dissolved he thought this would be iho cause and the testimony of the father of his lie in manumitting their slaves at the time they were about to leave this world was to him of great weight The course of Mr saw no reason Or a was well known to al thai certain bo Mould uol say editors and certain oilier honorable gentlemen members ol ibis bonce ho was sorry Iu say had labored long and lo place him in a also pos lion his and bo wished the gence of the house lo stale circum- P under which he had voted Six weeks before fir i tion a county convention in his county at Fond du Lac where this j the I b m and by a stylo is made away lar lar away by ing printers are necessarily 1 like Mason's peni sedale could not deeply ou of man iw aud el its responsibilities not look mi wondrous frame thus that it was created and well instructed and intelligent men It is which Ayes 18 Mr from select tee to whom was resolutions offered by Mr in relation to the course pursued by the lion I P Walker j as much j u substitute which was adopted v i 13 The substitute roads as Resolved By the Senate and bly of the Stale of Wisconsin That the course of Hon I P Walker one of the Senators of this State in the Congress of tho United States in and by adding That nothing in this act shall be so as to extend any law relating to the coastwise slave trade to California and New which was adopted Mr Rockwell then moved to amend the amendment of the by Provided That tlie provisions of tnis section of the act shall continue in force unless Mr Walker was in direct to i question bad been fully of tbc Wilmot Proviso an letter by anil luth n the id the He sai From that letter it had been who not posed Gen would veto the c ml I not 11 state a virus a the unanimous sent Mr CROSS was a little surprised and not much either when ho considered the of political at the cause from which the honorable man from Mr Barber and honorable Speaker Mr had would p in election o ken in regard to tho resolutions under S Senator Under these consideration The both l ho had received the free soil nomination were hearty supporters of Gen Cass The Cass party having anew s- and under his banner fought political campaign ot out in first and v ii i f bis n d il because lo Mr Walker nd mot Proviso and accordingly a was entered into since H was known thai tho member lo bo chosen turn of nomination a They knew very j hir vote by towns he aiso received that re Ih 4 Tho who tid that knew no reubon did we'll tho issue that was then made up and took the side of Democratic party with Gen Cnss for their leader and but there having been some bo overboard by a Hunker board worst construction his because he was a Van had seen lit to put upon Mr He hail then corns here pledged to no er's recent acts in United Slates I party bul lo sustain tnc Wilmot 1 of those d d m dr d Mr r s wer fir doubling their Tin IK ing am ment a- not adopt d Mr ai to sink s-i ond r solution Is it be in- lie n ih il lie came on in that dui still il well lo d until within six months after the ing of the next session of Congress and no thia amendment was adopted Mr cf Virginia then offered to by an lo Inch all must be responsible I i bound lo say that in the of my j I never an individual in any or condition of lite who always n unobtrusive always thought indeed we would rather of the power and presence KlVe criticism of the workmen No irreverence no lightness even where it was printed than in- too allusion to t iod and his who skim and escaped his lips Iho M iv supreme being was with a part of a duty to mark a every passage in a now book he does not clearly who know what is nn to the general amend tho amendment by able profit by these quiet estimates of providing fora nothing that act shall interfere or and many a weak point j m and Mexico west abridge any of the rights of the citizens that would have ruined a literary of Grande which did not contain of any of the States of this Union fill trim JI B ili It- I 111 1 ate His course was no other than that i and vole for a candidate who do j him m which was assumed by the Cuss party at i the same in the U S Senate hen be The beie he found only two candidates i I il 1111 ly by the Cuss party last election beie inquired if the i the field who had any prospect of man from Milwaukee approved of the cess one was Hyron the Nicholson letter I other Isaac P Walker fie had Mr I do to a extent j ed Walker because be in so on thn if left for the ers 10 handle bus been noiselessly put o have lit upon it made up of and solemnity It filled the whole of his great mind with the ssr S r r u.M emotions The The vast valley of the Mississippi provision forever prohibiting the duction of slavery or involuntary tude in said Territories has violated bis oft repeated as well as bis solemn written given before bis election on outraged the feelings and misrepresented those who elected him to station aud has openly violated the instructions contained in tlie resolutions assed by this body ou the subject of verv fit its present session Therefore lifo is to hope for or else as to ts In art sinking and else may bo the of old ape only really when on fueling the enjoyments a arc already cradled the sons who ore yet to ive law to this a away con- uru j federated Stales will command a majority in the popular branch of the American Congress And how enrapturing the e and all is of a century will not pass a oppression Depend oro this nourishing portion of the Resolved That the Hon Henry Dodge our other Senator in voting against the of Mr Walker as he did on the iOth day of last has sented tho views and wishes of his con- on that subject for which we ex- cured by the constitution of tho United States he Mr M contending that un- der the of the United States they might take their slaves into the Wilmot Proviso was adopted they could not this amendment of Mr Meade was iost Mr Hunt of N V then moved to the amendment of the Senate by adding a proviso dial the laws of abolishing slavery in the said territories shall remain iu force until the same shall have been repealed by the authority of Congress which was adopted several ments virtually prohibited the tion aud of Slavery into said territories tinder government proposed to be established by the Senate's ment the question lli.an coming up on ad- opting the amendment of Mr Walker in Mr HOBART Will the gentleman lul nothin er but ing he should carry out tbc constituents Walker in Fond du j who Mr CROSS far as the Lao had pledged Himself Wilmot Proviso concerned I look upon it in the same light that all of the leading in the Wilmut Proviso he had m self in writing and the Utter now in i Mr To I existence anil if could bo hi ii a Whig that d bv th passage Mr Of i led a tmm ih v s of and he should go Pike h wa lo be o from hr We as a felt no r the existence ami if necessary could be lo pally addition to tins he b id I ibe a ol been so here 1 of stalf m these circumstances he had voted him they had a V acts ot men of the Cass party view it ing morc nor less than a principle that exists the world over wherever there is not positive law to the contrary It is r not absolutely necessary to re-enact it and now what was bis course very 1 from first act was to disregard his pledge and That in order to prevent over new territories It cannot ex- ist there without positive law to sustain it The amendment offered by tho Hon I P Walker in the the pose of extending the laws of the United States over that Territory in pre- vent and punish the commission of crime and to protect our citizens It was for merely temporary purposes and not for the permanent organization of a al Government as the n up u with Mr A fine specimen If ho was not a traitor his solemn instructions and not the least dark iu bis course was shameless avowal that he had drawn up aim ment after FOOTE or Missis of a free who No one on this floor would j have supported I P Walker had th have supposed he would have pursue of f native ol Virginia I Mr T proud too that Mr nol tive of a admired til of from Milwaukee Cm in saying Mr r was the nl of les of the during v I of have supposed he would have pursued th j Mr NOBLE he wm he did The passage of these the of ol the was due and just to j party during the I.e Unit
