"Letters had been received from Greeley and others, begging the Republicans to change their tactics, as their course was ruining them at home. In one letter Greeley says: 'For God's sake let the bill pass.' And assurances were given to Democrats that the bill should pass, if they would play their cards right. 'When the result was announced, a general congratulation prevailed over the House, the Republicans, if possible, showing the greatest joy.' 'The Republicans could, if they had chosen, have killed the bill. Messrs. Walsh of Connecticut, Milward of Pennsylvania, Miller of New-York, with Speaker Banks, would have defeated it, but they were evidently anxious it should pass.'"

The N. Y. Tribune replies in general terms, that "the statement is not according to truth;" but says nothing specifically of the absentees named, nor of the letter. It adds, however, the following apology:

"It was the fault of the Buchanan and Fillmore men, who went off, prematurely, that this result was not attained, days ago." "We are content with the issue as made by the Senate, and, since the passage of the House proviso was impossible, we were and are ready to go at once to the people. Hence we were willing to see the Appropriation Bill carried over the heads of the Republicans, and the session brought to a close." The Republicans, being a minority of the House, could not prevent the ultimate passage of the bill without the proviso."

The fault charged by the Herald, it will be noticed, was, that the Republicans suffered the bill to pass. The reply is, that it was "the fault of the Buchanan and Fillmore men" that it was not passed sooner! To understand this, it must be added that the Administration presses had raised a loud clamor against the Republicans for not suffering the bill to pass. This they represented as being disorganizing and revolutionary. The tone of the Republican presses, for several days previous to the passage of the bill, had betrayed fears concerning the political effects of this clamor.

Such are the facts, so far as ascertained, in respect to this unexpected and calamitous event, the unrestricted passage of the Army bill, by the House, which, according to present appearances, is very likely to result in the permanent subjugation and enslavement of Kansas.

Another specimen of the lame and vacillating tactics of the opposition in the House of Representatives, is seen in their passing (by a large majority, including, with exception of about six members, the entire "Republican" force in that House) of the so called "Kansas Pacification bill," which was brought forward by Mr. Dunn, a partisan of Mr. Fillmore.

The following abstract of the bill is from the N. Y. Tribune: "Mr Dunn's bill proposed

"1. To wipe out the Border Ruffian legislation in Kansas by which the term of the bogus 'Council' was protracted til Jan. 1, 1858;

"2. To dismiss and restore to private life all the officers and appointees of the bogus Legislature, so soon as a new Legislature should be ready to fill their places; "3. To set free the Free-State prisoners;

"4. To annul the most obnoxious of the Border Ruffian laws;

"5. To secure homesteads in Kansas to actual settlers, whether native-born or not;

"6. To prohibit the entrance of another slave into Kansas;

- but as the Official Census shows that there were 192 slaves in Kansas a year and more ago, Mr. Dunn's bill continues

Provided, however, That any person lawfully held to serve in either of said Territories shall not be discharged from such service by reason of such repeal and revival of said eighth section, if such persons shall be permanently removed from such Territory or Territories prior to the 1st day of January, 1858: and any child or children born in either of said Territories, of any female lawfully held to service, if in like manner removed without said Territories before the expiration of that date, shall not be, by reason of any thing in this act, emancipated from any service it might have owed had this act never been passed: And provided further, That any person lawfully held to service in any other State or Territory of the United States, and escaping into either the Territory of Kansas or Nebraska, may be reclaimed and removed to the person or place where such service is due, under any law of the United States which shall be in force upon the subject."

This bill failed of becoming a law, only because it was rejected by the pro-slavery Senate.

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The last Session of Congress was disgraced by the ferocious and cowardly assault of Preston S. Brooks, Member of the House from South-Carolina, upon Hon. Charles Sumner, Senator of Massachusetts, in the Chamber of the Senate. Under all the circumstances of the case, it stands, perhaps, without a parallel. Its avowed object was the suppression of freedom of debate, on the Slave question, with threats of similar inflictions on others. A circle of Slavery members, as if acting by previous concert, stood sentinels to prevent assistance to the defenseless victim, who was taken at unawares, and in a position that prevented self-defense. By award of the City Judiciary, the price of perpetrating such enormities was put down at the petty sum of $300.-In the House, a majority voted for his expulsion, but, failing to reach the constitutional condition of a two-thirds vote, it was of no legal effect. But Mr. Brooks resigned, for the avowed purpose of appealing to his constituents, who reëlected him by acclamation, and loaded him with commendations and honors, such as they had to bestow.

CONDITION OF SOCIETY AT WASHINGTON CITY.

The brutal murder of Keating, an Irish waiter in a hotel in Washington City, by Philip T. Herbert, member of Congress, of California, the legal impunity that sanctioned the deed, the gratula

tions of Southern members of Congress, and the editorial promulgation of the sentiment that white waiters as well as colored ones, must take the chance of being murdered by gentlemen, at their caprice or pleasure, are among the minor incidents of the past year, marking the rapid and successful strides of Slavery towards the undisputed dominion of the entire country.

PROPOSED ENSLAVEMENT OF THE WHITES.

Along with this has been witnessed the promulgation of the sentiment that Slavery is not for the African race only, but that the laboring whites are to come in for a share of the blessings of that "Christianizing" institution. Gov. McDuffie, Prof. Dew, Mr. Pickens, Mr. Leigh, Mr. Hammond, John C. Calhoun, and other Southern gentlemen of distinction, many years ago had given. utterance to the sentiment, and sometimes, as in the case of Gov. McDuffie (in 1836) coupled with the prediction that within twenty-five years, the laboring population of the North would begin to come under the same yoke with the negroes. During the current year, it has been apparent that the attempt is about to be made in good earnest. If the scenes of Kansas and of Washington City are much longer to be tolerated, it may be concluded that the subjugation has already begun.

Accordingly, the tone of the pro-Slavery presses, including at least one at the North, are boldly advocating the measure. And no marvel. The "Biblical" defenses of Slavery, Northern and Southern, make no distinction of color, if we except the argument. drawn from the curse of Ham" and the assumption that Ham was a negro. The Slavery of the Greeks and Romans, alleged to have been sanctioned by the New Testament writers, was certainly the Slavery of whites. It may be well to record here, a few of the legitimate results of such clerical teachings, and to notice the simultaneous propagation of these sentiments, with the proceedings at the seat of Government and in Kansas. The one may be regarded as an appropriate and significant comment upon the other.

The Richmond Examiner, one of the leading Democratic papers in Virginia, ardently supporting Mr. Buchanan, holds the following language in a late issue:

"Until recently, the defense of Slavery has labored under great difficulties because its apologists (for they were mere apologists) took half-way grounds. They confined the defense of Slavery to mere negro Slavery; thereby giving up the Slavery principle, admitting other forms of Slavery to be wrong.

"The line of defense, however, is now changed. The South now maintains that Slavery is right, natural and necessary, and does not depend on difference of COMPLEXION. The laws of the Slave States justify the holding of WHITE MEN in bondage."

Another Buchanan paper, the leading one in South-Carolina,

says:

Slavery is the natural and normal condition of the laboring man, whether WHITE or black. The great evil of Northern free society is, that it is burdened with a servile class of MECHANICS and LABORERS, unfit for self-government, yet clothed with the attributes and powers of citizens. Master and slave is a relation in society as necessary as that of parent and child; and the Northern States will vet have to introduce it. Their theory of free government is a delusion.”

The Richmond (Va.) Enquirer, Mr. Buchanan's confidential organ, and considered by the "Democratic" party as its ablest paper in the South, speaks as follows in a recent number:

"Repeatedly have we asked the North 'Has not the experiment of Universal liberty FAILED? Are not the evils of FREE SOCIETY INSUFFERABLE? And do not most thinking men among you propose to subvert and reconstruct it ?' Still no answer. This gloomy silence is another conclusive proof added to many other conclusive evidences we have furnished, that free society in the long run, is an impracticable form of society; it is everywhere starving, demoralizing, and insurrectionary.

"We repeat, then, that policy and humanity alike forbid the existence of the evils of free society to new people and coming generations.

"Two opposite and conflicting forms of society can not, among civilized men coëxist and endure. The one must give way and cease to exist, the other become universal.

"If free society be unnatural, immoral, unchristian, it must fall, and give way to a slave society—a social system old as the world, universal as man."

And the Muscogee (Ala.) Herald, says:

"Free society! we sicken at the name. What is it but a conglomeration of GREASY MECHANICS, FILTHY OPERATIVES, SMALL-FISTED FARMERS, and moonstruck THEORISTS? All the Northern, and especially the New-England States, are devoid of society fitted for well-bred gentlemen. The prevailing class one meets with is that of mechanics struggling to be genteel, and small farmers who do their own drudgery; and yet who are hardly fit for association with a Southern gentleman's body servant. This is your free society which the Northern hordes are endeavoring to extend into Kansas.”

And the South Side Democrat, another prominent Buchanan paper, in Viginia, whose editor was supported for Clerk of the House of Representatives by the Democratic members of the present Congress-abuses every thing FREE after this style:

"We have got to hating every thing with the prefix FREE, from free negroes down and up through the whole catalogue—FREE farms, FREE labor, FREE society, FREE will, FREE thinking, FREE children and FREE schools, all be

longing to the same brood of damnable isms. But the worst of all these abominations is the modern system of FREE SCHOOLS. The New-England system of free schools has been the cause and prolific source of the infidelities and treason that have turned her cities into Sodoms and Gomorrahs, and her land into the common nestling-places of howling Bedlamites. We abominate the system because SCHOOLS ARE FREE."

The Washington Union, the national organ of the "Democratic" party, says that the honest and heroic FREE LABORING MEN of Kansas,

"Are a MISERABLE, BLEAR-EYED RABBLE, who have been transferred like so MANY CATTLE to that country."

The New-York Day Book, one of the two papers in New-York City that supported James Buchanan, proposes to enslave poor AMERICANS, GERMANS, and IRISH, who may fall into poverty and be unable to support their families. Here are the Day Book's exact words, in speaking of the POOR WHITE PEOPLE:

"Sell the parents of these children into SLAVERY. Let our Legislature pass a law that whoever will take these parents and take care of them and their OFFSPRING, in sickness and in health-clothe them, feed them, and house them-shall be legally entitled to their service; and let the same Legislature decree that whoever receives these parents and their CHILDREN, and obtains their services, shall take care of them AS LONG AS THEY LIVE.”

S. W. Downs, late Democratic Senator from Louisiana, in an elaborate and carefully prepared speech, published in the Washington Globe, says:

"I call upon the opponents of Slavery to prove that the WHITE LABORERS of the North are as happy, as contented, or as comfortable as the slaves of the South. In the South the slaves do not suffer one tenth of the evils endured by the white laborers of the North. Poverty is unknown to the Southern slave, for as soon as the master of slaves becomes too poor to provide for them, he SELLS them to others who can take care of them. This, sir, is one of the excellencies of the system of Slavery, and this the superior condition of the Southern slave over the Northern WHITE LABORER."

Senator Clemens, of Alabama, declared, in a speech in the U. S. Senate, that "the operatives of New-England were not as well situated, nor as comfortably off as the slaves that cultivate the rice and cotton fields of the South."

In a recent speech by Mr. Reynolds, candidate for Congress from Missouri, that gentleman distinctly asserted that—

The same construction of the power of Congress to exclude Slavery from a United States Territory, would justify the Government in excluding foreign-born citizens-GERMANS AND IRISH AS WELL AS NIGGERS."