pass such laws as will
afford to slave property in the Territories that protection
which is given to other kinds of property."

We have heard a great deal said here to-day of "other kinds," and
every description of property. There is a naked, clear proposition.
Mr. BROWN says it is needed; that the court and the common law do not
give ample protection; and then the Senator from Oregon is called
upon; but what is his vote? We find, in the vote upon this amendment,
that but three Senators voted for it; and the Senator from Oregon
records his vote, and says "no," it shall not be established; and
every Southern man, save three, voted against it also. When was that?
On the 25th day of May last. Here is an amendment, now, to protect
and secure the States against any encroachment upon the institution
within the States; and there the Senator from Oregon swore that no
further legislation was necessary to protect it in the Territories.
Well, his speeches in honors being easy, and he having sworn to it in
the last Congress, I am inclined to take his oath in preference to his
speeches, and one is a fair set-off against the other. Then, all the
amendments being voted down, the Senate came to the vote upon this
resolution:

"That if experience should at any time prove that the
judicial and executive authority do not possess means to
insure adequate protection to constitutional rights in a
Territory, and if the territorial government should fail or
refuse to provide the necessary remedies for that purpose,
it will be the duty of Congress to supply such deficiency,
within the limits of its constitutional powers."

Does not the resolution proceed upon the idea that it was not
necessary then; but if, hereafter, the Territories should refuse, and
the courts and the common law could not give ample protection, then it
would be the duty of Congress to do this thing? What has transpired
since the 25th day of May last? Is not the decision of the court with
us? Is there not the Constitution carrying it there? Why was not this
resolution, declaring protection necessary, passed during the last
Congress? The Presidential election was on hand.

I have been held up and indirectly censured, because I have stood by
the people; because I have advocated those measures that are sometimes
called demagogical. I would to GOD that we had a few more men here who
were for the people in fact, and who would legi