Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-01-07
Congress.
wAsnINeToN. Dec. soth. 1851.

The Senate was not in session to-day.
HousE.-Mr, Carter of Ohio moved
that the rules of the House be suspended,
and thatit resolve itself into a COMMITTEES
of the whole on the state of the Union,
for the purpose of passing a resolution
appointing committee to wait on Louis
Kossuth and introduce him to the House.
After much discussion the committee rose
and the House adjourned.
December 31st, 1851.
The Senate didnot sit to-day.
HoUsE.-The debate on the Kossuth
committee resolution was resumed.
The half hour having arrived, to which
the debate on the resolution was limited,
Mr.. Churchill proposed an amend
ment, providing that by its adoption, the
government shall not depart from the pol
icy of non-mtervention, by which it has
hitherto been actuated; which he offered,
he said, as test vote, it having been
stated during the debate, that there are
not twenty members in the House, who
approve of the principles that have been
advanced by Kossuth.
/ Mr.. Harris offered an amendment to the
amendment, that the committe inform NJ.
Kossuth that the settled policy of the
United States is friendship with all ma
tons, but entangling alliances with none;"
and expressed himself as being opposed
to any procedure which would involve a
/ departure from that course. The amend
ment proposed by Mr.. H. was agreed to
on division of 80 to 50.
| Mr.. Bayly of Virginia, again expressed
himself as being opposed to the resolu-
ton. He said he would not commit him
self with reference to any man, until
death had placed its seal upon his charac-
ter. Two years since, Louis Napoleon,
had he visited the United States, would
have been received with open arms and
yet he has proved himself to be one of
the greatest usurpers recorded in history;
and moved, as an amendment, that moth
ing in the resolution should be considered
as involving this country in the affairs OF
Europe.
He was followed by Mr.. Sweetzer, Of
Ohio, who advocated Intervention in be-
half of the down-trodden nations of Eu-
rope. He stood forth as the advocate OF
the oppressed Of every nation, and de-
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that he expressed the sentiment of one
hundred thousand freemen of the State OF
Ohio.
Mr.. Stanton of Tennessee, was not dis.
posed to commit the government on either
side of the question, There are in Eu,
rope, he said, three hundred millions OF
people, who are kept in subsection by an
army of three millions, and when the for.
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government would know how to act.
Mr.. Vensble, of N. c., defined and
defended his position and resented the
statement which had been made, that
those who opposed the resolution were
opposed to the development of freedom.
| MIR. Giddings referred to the votes of
several members on former occasions,
who then were willing to cspouse the cause
+ of the oppressed; but who are now OPP
posed to Intervention on their behalf
Mr.. McMullin denied that Kossuth is
the guest of the nation, in the sense at
present entertained; he was offered an
asylum, and in that point of view, he had
! Mr.. NJ, been willing to welcome him.
But after what had happened since his
liberation, he would not, had he the OPP
portunity, record his vote in favor of the
Resolution which was passed during the
last session of Congress.
The question was thon put ON an amend
ment of Mr.. Yates, that the committee
inform NJ. Kossuth that the United States
would not view with indifference any
struggle of Hungary against Austria and
Russia; but there being no quorum, it
was reported to the House resumed.
The House adjourned until Friday
without coming to any conclusion on the
Kossuth resolution.