St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-01-21
Congress.


hour or two, till the business becomes
alittle monotonous, when they adjourn
On the eth inst. Mr.. Buchanan sent
Message to the Senate in response
to the call for information with regard
to the capture of Walker, in which he
declared that Com. Paulding commit
ted a great error but that his mo-
tivcs were patriotic, and Nicaragua,
having been rather benefited than in
jured, would not complain.
The capture of the great land pirate
Walker seems to have thrown squat
ter sovcrcignty' somewhat in the
shade Mr.. Douglas has made no fur
Their demonstration since the holidays,
but in the House poor honest Hiram
Paulding has received some rough
handling by little tuncoat Stephens
of Georgia, for acting upon the idea
that his government was sincere in its
protestations against fillibustcring
We make some extracts from the dc
bates
WASHINGTON, January 3.
The House went into committee o
the whole on the state of the Union
on the Presidents message.
Mr.. Lovcjoy said if the neutrality
laws needed change he would vote
for it, but he protested against this
attempt to elevate into honor buc
canier, murderer, a pirate; as fol
the fact, they had the authority Of The
President, who says that Walker is 6
fugitive from justice, and has ESCAPED
from jail, and now they are asked tC
bow to the magnanimity of the crimi
nal who yielded to the officer. ( Laugh
ter Great magnanmity indeed
when a man can't help himself
| Uaughtcr.) That was done every day
under the police arrangements. |
they had to bow to every such maj
as hero, they would soon cXhaus
their power Of administration.
Com Paulding had hung Walker a
the yard-arm, he would have honorc
him for it. This is the trcatmer
which such pirates ought to hav
held out to them. lie entered his pre-
test against clothing a man with hero
ism and making him martyr, whc
he is simply rascal. Laughtcr.)
Mr.. Stanton said he understood tn
settled rule of international law to b
that every nation has the right t
pursue its criminals on the high sea
and arrest thea whenever found unde
its flag, and, when it can be done !,
ultimately, under any other flag. Th
President says, in his message, tina
Walker escaped, and it was on tina
ground that his arrest was made.
Mr.. keitt said the pursuit of an.
expedition more than three miles trol
land was unlawful, and its capture o
a foreign soil was unlawful.
Mr.. Stephens denounced the arres
of Walker as an outrage, unjustitie
by even a semblance of law. Wake
and his men should be put on board
national ship and returned to whcr
they were before the outrage was CON
: mittcd.
Mr.. Bocock believed that Pauldin
had acted Illegally, but maintainc
that we have unlimited power to us
the army and navy on the ocean.
Mr.. Grow was pleased to see s
much feeling manifested on the othe
side of the house against cxecutiv
encroachments on the rights of on
citizens. lie asked that the rule az
piled to the sea be applied to the lane
for the army for the last two year
had been employed in Kansas perpt
trating outrage and injustice, on tn
rights guaranteed to every freeman.
WASHINGTON, January 6.
Mr.. Sickles wished to put upon rec
ord his dissent from some of the pos
tons assumed yesterday by gent,
men in debate. If members had bee
in House of Representatives. col
vcned by Gen. Walker, they could nc
have listened to sentiments more i
unison with the lattcr's theory of GOV
eminent, and more at war with on
own, than they were compelled to j
this hall. They were told that tn
neutrality act of 1918 was unconst
tutional and against the principle
of our people but as he had read til
history of his country, he found tina
the policy Of that act was handle
down from the days of Washingto
and embodied in our statutes fror
that to the present time, and it ha
never been dissented from by any az
ministration or party. We have mad
treaties with various powers, in whic
we have entered into stipulations has
ed on this very statute-one recent
with New Granada. and another, IA
rumor has it, with Nicaragua.
He was surprised to hear it asser
ed that naval officers have not RICH
to go out upon the high seas to caI
ture violators of our laws. Had gel
tlemen forgotten that our government
is in treaty stipulations to maintain
naval force for the purpose of exercis
ing a police over all seas? 1t woul
be an offence against the good sens
of the House to add TO the argumen
so significant, that the expedition fl
ted out by Walker was to make wa
and take life and property within til
limits of Nicaragua, with whom W
had just made a treaty of amity an
friendship. 1nstantaneously on tn
landing of the expedition, acts Of hos
tility were perpetrated. Men wer
shot down and property seized. Ever
writer Oh international law calls sue
conduct robbery and murder.
Gentlemen must not forget that Gel
Jackson passed into Spanish territor
and arrested certain persons and hum
them on the nearest tree but he wa
not recalled in disgrace. The Pres
dent is fully alive to the interests c
our people with Central American r,
publics and the Isthmus, the highwa,
of a large portion of the commerce {
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