It may be reverently regarded as the cloud by dayand the pillar of fire by night that guided this young Republic through a wilderness of difficulties and placed it on the pinnacle of almost earthly glory. If the bill under consideration becomes a law. it will be forced upon the country against the solemn protest of the great majority of its farmers. laborers. aud manufacturers. No man ever wrote a poem who dedicated it to slavery. No intelligent Americau workingman ever knowingly appended his name to a petition for the passage of a measure to reduce himself to the level of a European or Asiatic slave. [Longcontinued applause.] Mir. MOORE was recognized.