The republic., 1851-12-19
THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
FIRST SESSION
THrEsDAY, December Is, 1851.
SENATE
IRsT SESSION.


by the Treasury Department that the amount OF
debt due by Texas, and for which her bonds were
out, amounted TO twelve millions Of dollars; that
the Treasury would only pay the bondholders their
proportionate share of the five millions set apart for
that purpose; and the petitioner prays Congress
will take such measures will secure the payment
of the whole amount.
ARCHITECT OF PATEST OFFICE.
Mr.. BoRLAND presented the memorial OF Ro-
bert Mills, late architect OF the Patent once ask
ing an examination before committee OF Congress
of certain charges preferred against him by the
Commissioner Of Public Buildings. Referred TO
the Committee Public Buildings.
BRIG ADA.
Mr.. HAMLIN, from the Committee ON Com
merce reported a bill authorizing the Secretary of
the Treasury TO issue register to the brig Ada, late
the British brig Josephine; which, after expana-
ton, considered and ordered to be engrossed
lor third reading
LASD FoR RAILROAD.
Mr.. FO0TE, of Mississippi, introduced a bill
granting the right Of way and donation Of public
land in aid Of the construction Of railroad in the
State of Mississippi; which bill, after expana-
ton by MIR. FooTE and Mr.. FELcH, ordered to
be engrossed and read third time
TELEGRAPH TO THE PACIFIC.
Mr.. G WIN introduced bill granting the right
Of way in aid OF the construction Of line Of ele-
graph from the Mississippi river to the Pacific
ocean.
PnIsrISe OF DocuMsSrs.
Mr.. FELCH submitted the following resolution
which was referred to the Committee on Printing
Resolved, That five thousand five hundred add.
tional copies of the report of Messrs. Foster aud
Whitney in relation to the iron region of Lake Su-
perior, Michigan. which was ordered to be printed
by the resolution of the Senate of the 18th March
last, be printed for the use of the Senate and that
three hundred copies thereof be furnished to the
Smithsonian Institution for distribution and two
hundred copies to Messrs Foster and Whitney.
BILLS PASSED.
The bill granting pension to the widow of Ma
jor General Worth was read a third time and
passed.
The bill to provide compensation to such persons
may be designated by the Secretary of the Trea
sury to receive and keep the public moneys under
the fifteenth section of the act of 9th August. 1916,
for the additional services required under that act
was taken up, read third time, and passed.
THE CENSUS PRINTING.
Mr.. BRIGHT moved that the joint resolution
authorizing a contract with Messrs. Donelson &
Armstrong for printing the returns of the seventh
census be made the special order for Monday next;
and the motion agreed to.
Messrs HALE, DOUGLAS, and UNDERWOOD
made personal explanations concerning point in
the debate of yesterday.
THE COMPROMISE MEASURES.
The Senate then proceeded to the consideration
of the resolution declaring the Compromise acts
defnitive settlement of the questions growing out
Of the subject of slavery.
MIR. BADGER moved TO amend the resolution by
striking out the latter part of it, and inserting in
lieu thereof the following:
"a settlement in principle and substance-a
final settlement of the dangerous and exciting sub
jects which they embraced-and ought to be ad
hered to by Congress until time and experience
shall demonstrate the necessity of further legisa-
ton to guard againet evasion or abuse"
Mr.. FOOTE said he had no objection to the
amendment, and II was agreed to-yeas %, nays
not counted.
MIR. FOOTE said that if the Legislation known as
the Compromise was but ordinary legislation he
would not have introduced the resolution But
those acts formed series of measures intended to
allay excitement quiet agitation, and restore har
mony and good feeling between the different sec-
tions of the country. To great extent they had
had the effect desired; and in order to quiet any
alarm apprehensons that that settlement OF those
dangerous questions would be disturbed, he had
thought this resolution proper and necessary. He
was not surprised that the organs in this CITY
of the extremists, North and South, were opposed
10 il.
He read from speech by the late Governor Die.
Dowell, OF Virginia, eloquent array of the bene-
fts OF the Union, and the importance and necessity
for preserving it, applying comments he read.
He was glad to hear the Senator from Virginia de-
clare he had no sympathy with secessionists.
Mr.. MASON desired to be understood. He be-
feved that State had the right to secede from the
Union whenever she should determine herself to
do 90.
Mr.. FOOTE said that he did not believe that
disunon ever had any friends in the State Of Vr-
ginia.
AIr f. alluded to the charge which had been
made by the Senator from South Carolina, that he
(Mr. + D had hurried Mr.. Calhoun 10 bis grave
The charge, If true az stated, amounted to murder
He had remained on terms Of friendship and init
macy with Mr.. Calhoun till the hour Of his death.
When the charge was first made, the Senator from
Alabama, in publication made by him, had
shown that Mr. Calhoun and himself remained on
terms OF friendship till the decease of the former
Mr.. Calhoun had attended the Senate after that
occasion alluded to by the Senator.
MIR. F. detailed the circumstances preceding
the delivery of Mr. Calhoun's speech, and the
consultations with friends concerning the proposi.
tions which were contained in that speech. He diff.
fered from Mr. c., and others did 30 too He dc.
clared his dissent from the ground taken by Mr..
c., that an amendment of the Constitution was
necessary Ii he had not done go, others would.
He gave statement of the confidential manner in
which, during the summer preceding that session
of Congress, he and Mr.. G. held counsel on the
great subject OF the day. He read many passages
In MIR. C's works lately published to sustain his
We've. He spurncd with scorn the unjust in
sinua'ion, aud trampled it with contempt under
foot. He did not consider the Senator from South
Carolina could be considered the appropriate de-
fender of MIR Calhoun. IF rumor spoke true that
Senator had long desired the seal which Mr.. &. oc-
cupied on hs floor, considering himself better fitted
than Mr.. Calhoun 10 lead.
He again read extracts from Mr.. Calhoun's book.
and commented upon the passages as he read them.
He repelled the charge Of being hostile to South
Carolina as unfounded. He repeated conversa-
ton with the Senator from Virginia, (Mr Hun
TER) after the close of the last Congress- in which
the propriety of Virginia and Maryland sending
commissioners 10 lnterpose and prevent collision
between South Carolina and the General Govern
ment talked over. The result was that letters
were addressed to Governor Lowe and Hon. Louis
McLane, Of Maryland, on the subject Those let
ters he would read hereafter.
He alluded TO the accusation of being an eulogist
Of the present Administration. He had given the
Administration credit for their exertions TO execute
the Fugitive Slave law; be could not do else; be
could not stab the arm which was raised to execute
the Constitution and laws of the country
Without concluding, he yielded the floor
And the Senate adjourned.