The daily union., 1856-12-12
HOUSE OF REPREsENTATIVEs.

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Senate adjourned until Monday next
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
The SPEAKER laid before the House message from the
President OF the United States transmitting letter from
the Secretary OF State in resolution of the
House Of the 7th Of August last requesting the President
TO communicate TO that House all the correspondence and
other papers conventions &C. relative Harriet Cara
naly in the Departments Of State and Navy rsm the date
Of his connexon with the government" 10 that date
1.-THE Secretary states that all the correspondence and
documents bearing upon the subject which has been
which It now deemed necessary proper to make puo-
lie have already been communicated Congress- and may
be found in the second and third volumes Of Gales Sea-
tons State Papers.
The papers were laid the table and ordered to be
printed
The SPEAKER also laid before the House a commuui-
cation from the First Comptroller Of the Treasury Depart
ment explaining the why be prevented from
submitting during the first week OF the session. required
by law his annual statement OF the accounts OF the Treas
ury, War; and Navy Departments which have remained
more than three years unsettled &c. which laid
the table and ordered TO be printed
Mr. SNEED of Tennessee submitted resolution direct
ing the Committee Printing to inquire and report why
the agricultural report Of the Patent Office for the year
1855, ordered for distribution not furnished until
about the first day of the present month.
Mr. JONES' OF Tennessee understood that after the
port in question made and the House had ordered the
printing of hundred thousand copies by some author
y other il went back into the possession of the Com
missioner OF Patents who had retained it until few weeks
SINCE and that in consequence of the revision it had
dergone il not exactly the document which the House
had ordered TO be printed.
Considerable debate ensued touching the right of pub
lie officer to withdraw and make alterations in any docu
ment communicated to the House, when,
On motion of Mr.. A. X. MARSHALL of Kentucky, the
whole subject was laid on the table
Mr.. OTERO of New Mexico, presented the memorial of
the people Of the southwestern portion of that Territory
for the organization of Territory which refer
red to the Committee on Territories.
Mr.. GREENWOOD, of Arkansas, from the Committee
Indian Affairs reported Senate bill for the relief of John
IL Horn; which was committed
PRESIDENTS ANNUAL MESSAGE.
The House resumed the consideration Of the Presidents
annual message the question being the motion that it
be referred TO the Committee of the Whole the OF
the Union and that the Committee Printing be in
sructed to inquire into the expedency of printing
thousand extra copies thereof with the accompanying doc
uments
Mr.. II. MARSHALL, of Kentucky stated that he under
stood the position OF the black) republican and abolition
parties but did not understand that occupied by the demo
cratic party He did not believe that there single gen
eman the democratic side othe House who could rise in
his place and in the face of country announce an opn
ion upon the right of the people of the Territories to govern
themselves that would be acquiesced in by that party
North and South If there any such gentleman here he
would like hear his definition The doctrine of the dis
tinguished senator from Michigan, Mr. CAsslthe doc
trne OF popular sovereignty ii termedhad been
proclaimed as principle and the philosophy of the late
presidential contest but yesterday the gentleman from
South Carolina Mr. KEIrTl made most eloquent speech
against yet the gentleman from Michigan and the gen.
tleman from South Carolina were both national demo-
Gratis
4. demo-
crat. 1t is word discard
Mr. MARSHALL 1t only shows that Of the bright
est lights of the democratic party sectional.
Mr. kElTT That is the inference of the member from
Kentucky say that am supporter of the constitu
ton and if that instrument happens be confined to
section by the action aud principles of another section
1t Is net my business.
Mr. MARSHALL stand corrected by my friend from
South Carolina and will give him the benefit of his own
declaration that he is constitutional democrat But If
he is constitutional democrat in the pnens he PROCESSES
IN xhpfhp tbp yb
distinguished senator TO whom have alluded-he father Of
the popular soveregnty-as unconstitutional democrat?
Mr. KElTT understood the point to be made that one
portion OF the democratic party maintained the doctrine
OF squatter sovereignty while the other portion did
He understood that neither the Congress of the United
States nor territorial legislature had the right pro-
bit slavery in Territory Another portion of the party
believed that that right inherent in territorial egs
ature He also understood that the constitutional pow
of territorial legislature under the Nebraska bill de-
pended upon the construction be given that measure
II the Supreme Court of the United States decided that that
power did devolve upon territorial legislature then
as he understood IL the northern portion of the democratic
party would not claim the power but would be satisfied
with the decision.
Mr.. MARSHALL replied that the answer was just such
one as had been given for four years past All that he
desired that gentlemen should SO take their positions
to enable the people both Of the North and the South TO
precisely where they stood II the democratic
party went before the people OF the North with the decara
ton in their mouths that they better reesoes than
the black republicans themselves and before the people
Of the South with the assertion that they were opposed to
the doctrine or squate sovereignty he only desired that
this fact should be made manifest TO the country.
Mr. SMITH Of Tennessee desired the gentleman to point
instance where any portion OF the democratic party
bad claimed TO be better eeoles than the black repub
licans.
Mr.. GROW, Of Pennsylvania desired with the consent
Of the gentleman from Kentucky, TO reply TO the gentle
man from Tennessee By reading extracts from pa
which bore at the head OF its columns the names Of
Buchanan and Breckenridge He referred to the "Montrose
Democrat" paper published In his district.
Mr.. FLORENCE, Of Pennsylvania. That paper is not
sound
Mr. GROW then read several extracts from tho paper re-
erred TO- 70 the effect "hat II thore are any miserable
hem that "r. GRow voted to plant slavery in a free
Territory the democracy repudated him for the act &c
Mr.. MARSHALL (rcsumng) said that be would not
consume the time Of the Honse by reading extracts in an
wer to the question OF the gentleman from Tennessee but
that he would collae the evidence aud print it in his
lpeech
Mr. SMITH, OF Tennessee, insisted that the evidence
should be produced where il could be once controyer
d if necessary.
Mr. MARSHALL then read from the speeches Of Senators
rRUnULL and FEssESDES prove that in the North the
democracy claimed be as much opposed to slavery e
tension as the (black) republican party.
Mr. BURNETT, Of Kentucky, inquired II his colleague
lid not know that the witnesses be had introduced
distinguished members Of the (black) republican pary2
Mr.. MARSHALL. Certainly and ask my colleague
( he TO say that distinguished members Of the
black republican party not competent witnesses 10
ell the truth
Mr. BURNETT replied that he regarded them as oornpe-
ent witnesses to tell the truth but when they intro
iuced by southern for the purpose Of making as
aut upon the party that in the late presidential
was the only which stood by the South and dared to
assert the rights of the Sate be did not think that such
witnesses we're credible.
Mr.. MARSHALL (resumug) said that the issuo in the
ate election the doctrine Of the Kansas Nebraska bill