Senator Porter And The Creole Case

We puimsti today at length ihe debato on the Creóle case in the U. S. Senate, as reporter! in the Ma'Jisonian . Eyery voter in theStale ouht read it. It stigesls to us a numberof reflcc(ion?,to which we nsk tbe reader'sattention. 1. Mr. Portcr was ciearly in the ritihl and it is tobe regretted, after having asaumed lennble ground, that he did not maintain il,eveu if he Iind "to slaud singlo and alnne on the subject." 2. Tho same domineering, bullying course, which has gpneraüy been pursued towards Northern merabers on occasions of ihis kind, was here displayed. Notiee Mr. Kiiïg'üremarks. "He huped the Seutor would stand alone and marked," &.e. Had he expressed himself in full, he would probably have said, as a mcraber of ihe House did concerning abolitionis p, thaï he '"ought V) have the mark of Hell put upoïi html" 3. The Creóle case will have a tenden" cy to open the eyes óf the Soulherners to something like n sense of their trne con ditiou. Mr. Clay says he read the narrativa "whinhe roost thrilliug uad nppalling sensatione." 4. While Senator Portcr was disposed, by lliis simple nmendment, to curry out the Spirit uf the Coftslitutiönj Mr. Woodbridge, his collenguc, hungj on to his shirts, as ii were, to hinder bina from doing his duty! nstead of joining with him in suslaining e amondmettt, hejuined wjih ihe slave lülders in endeavoring lo silence the on'ly oice in the Señale thal would repel the pfrsion that we are a nation of slavefolders. Thi?, however, was no more lili was to be rxpected from Mr. VVoodricigé. (y"Let liio people reoiember ïim for il 1 5. This diicussion, and the res-ult of it, dds anoiher to the ten thousand proofs e have already had of the necessily of ndependent nominations. The interests, ghts, and feclings of the Northern people evor will be faithfuily presented in Conress, umi! they shull be set fjrth from the ips of men who have not sworn aüegiance to the Whig or Democratie parties, nnd consequenily So slavcry. Looi: at the thing practically as it exists to day. iluman beings are solu atauction in Washington under the sanciion of the United States. - Congress can stop the evil at any time. A large share of ihe Nortbern people wih it done. Some Northern VVhig Senator make8 a raoiiun to that effect. The firrt coiiáequence of exercising his rights on thts subject, would be that a mark would be sel upun him as a fanatic and a traitor. He would be threatened, abused and insult ed by the Southern members, and shunnec by those of the North as one whose company wnuld be calculated to render them liable to suspicion. He would actually be obüged to stand alune. He would be look ed upon by the whig pry as a person well meaning perhaps, but so greally lack ing in dncretion, or so much carried awaj hy viaionary notions, that hedid more hur than good lo the party, and t wí8 a niisfor tune to them that he had attained a public station. Andjust as soon as hia termo service "should expire he would be droppet and a nijfi sclected to fill his place, wh would be wise cnough nol to trouble south ern whigsby nny rernark3 on the rights o men. This matter irf well understoo ly the Norihern members of Conresfj and henee tbc death-Iike silence that i kept by most of them. It will not do fo Northern members lo bo anti-slavery aVashington. They may be pro-slavery to ny extent, and no harm is done to ihe );irty. But to avow the oíd fashioned nootis of '70 about liberty and equa! riglus n Congress would disgust the slaveholdrs, and thus ruin their pari). These emarks apply wilh equal forco to the epresentatives of boih parties. 6. But ihe country is nut only thus disraced, and humanity óuirnged, but tiie ights of the ('roe citizens of the Norih are acrificed by the ea.me policy. Let every itizen of Michigan remember ihat he bas o reasou to hope ihat his rights wilt be aithfully defended by a Representativo or Senator of either of the slavery partiep. 501 proof look at the past and the present. Vhat was the course oL Norvell, and Cray, nnd Lyon? Did they notfully"go vi(h Ihe South?1' Whal bas been the course of our present delegation? There s a standing rule in the Senate, ihat on je presentation of petiiions on the subject fslavery in Florida, or in the Disiric, io moiion of reception is considered as made. and this motion is laid on the table,, nd the petition roceives no íuriher noce. The petitions of fre.Ptnen of Michian havo leen dj.pnsed of in this insultng way, since the present session commenced, and where was Woodbridge or Porter to protest against it? Have tbey pened their mouths against such an infaïousrule? They have nol ! Wl:ile, there ore, the friend3 of liberty concedo to ihese enilet.i n ihat degree of respect which icir general probity ofcharacter m;y deerve, they will do wel! to look for Repreenlativ%e3 among men who will maintain ïeir righta gainstull oppsition. 7. IIow absurd it s to expect ihat eiher political party, as such, will ever lithfully enhraco the principies of übury, whiie onc third part óf each party is otnposcd of tliose who live by ihe rob)ery of iheir fellow men, and ho are onscqnently, most empbatically, "Liijeu y nATERsP