Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-12-25
Congressional,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.
HousE.-On motion, three days from tn e
third Tuesday in January were set apart for
the consideration of territorial business.
The bill which passed the senate last ses.
sion authorized the people of Kansas to
form Constitution and State government,
preparatory to its admission into the Union,
was referred the Committee on Territories.
Various other Senate bills, lying over from
last session, were referred to the appropri-
ale committees, inc luding and relative to
harburs and rivers.
Tne House considered private bills till
adjournment.
SENArE-Mr. Wilson having the floor
proceeded to speak on the polite al ques-
tions of the day. He commenced by quot.
ing the remarks of Danl. Webster in his
eul ,gy on the ordinance of 1897. to the Ell.
! feet that thuse who passed that measure
were deserving of more honor than So Oh
and Lycurgus and the legislators Of antiq-
uity. That tribune of justice to his great
word of the old Congress Of the Confedera.
ton, brought upon him and his section o.
Union The charge Of making an onset upon
the South and interfering with her domes.
tic institutions, so as to encanger the rela
ton which exists between the muster anc
The slave.
Gen. Hayne, his distinguished opponent
who then fought the first great battle OF
notification, under the eye Uf Calhoun, who
then presided nver the Senate, brought these
accusations into the Senate, and hurled
them against Webster and the people o
the North. Webster met these accusation ;
and uni iust reproaches toward his section of
Union with prompt and emphatic denial
In his reply to Hayne, the great expoundrr
of tht. Constitution said it had been the
policy of the South ior many years 10 rep
resent the people of,he North as,,dspe. Ell to
interfere with their internal and exclusive
domestic concerns, aud went on to deny the
truth of the charge. So he (Mr. Wilson,
standing now as representative of Massa-
chusetts on the floor o! the Senate, as Web
sler stood then. He would say, as he said,
that all these charges are utterly ground
ess. No attempt has ever baen made from
the time when Washington first took the
oath of office TO interfere with The Con
st tutional rights of the people of the S,u;h-
ern States.
Mr.. Wilson commented on the language
of the Presidents Message as applied to The
Republican party. H. essayed to charge
that they we're engaged in a revolutionary
movement, whicl could only lead to civil
wer. There is no truth or justice in il.
Pierce came into power almost unanim ous-
y, but would go out with the bitter hatred
of thousands who voted for him. He ex.
pressed his surprise that Pugh should have
intended such an excuse for the Chief Mag.
strate as to say that his language did not
apply to the Republic party but the
aboltionists o. the Garrison school. That
would not do.-The President intended to
arraign those in Congress who differed from
him. Wilson then showed the difference
between Republican party and ultra abol-
itionists. He then alluded to the fact that
the Empire Club of New York had turned
out in procession in honor of their victory
liz Pennsylvania in October, and bore a
transparency of the scourging ofthree black
men and headed bleeding Kansas and
also to the fact that a procession had lately
passed through tine streets of Washi' gton,
headed by the government officials. bearing
trans parency inscribed "Sumner and
Kansas; let them bleed" He stated that
more money and clothing had been contrib
u,ed for Kansas since the election than be-
fore. There were thousands of men in the
South who sympa!hized with the Republi.