The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1859-12-24
Congress.
THURSDAY. Dec. Is.

SEyATE.-The Vice President announced
that the special committee under Mr.. Ma
sons resolution to inquire into the circum
stances attending the invasion of Harper's
Ferry, had been appointed. The commit
tee consists of Messrs Mason, Davis, Cola
mer, Fitch aud Doolittle
Mr. Pugh submitted resolution which
lies over, instructing the Committee on
Territories to inquire into the expediency
OF repeating so much of the act for the Or
| ganization of the territorial government of
! New Mexico and Utah as requires that all
laws passed by the territories shall be sub
mitted to Congress for approval and rejec-
ton
The Senate proceeded to the election of
chaplain. On the first ballot there was
no choice. The second ballot resulted in
the election Of Rev. DR.. Gurley, who re-
ceived 30 votes out of so
Several petitions were presented when
the Senate adjourned till Monday next
HousEZMr Vdlianiingham remarked
at all times, he was resolved to exact for
himself at every hazard, and therefore last
evening he had the right to expect the
courtesy of an adjournment, as he did not
then wish to address the House.
He repeated what he hld said, that the
man WHO endorsed Helpers book, contain
ing instIrrectionlry sentiments and in
tended 10 SOW the seed of discord, strife
and civil war, was not tit to be Speaker or
a member of this House. The gentleman
from Virginia Mr. Milson) the other day
went further, and said such man was not
fit to live; yet the Republicans received
this remark as mute as fishes, and gentle
as lambs
They must regard this observation from
him not as a menace, but sober truth. He
had been served with a notice from the
Republican side that they were determined
not to listen TO any further remarks from
him For this he did not care He would
tell them the country held its breath in
suspense, and listened TO the slightest
word which falls from the lips of gentle
men here present. This Union had been
threatened. He occupied position of
neutrality. He was not Northern man,
and had no sympathy and very little good
feeling for the North II lie was bound to it
by no ties whatever, except by the strong
est Of all ties, a common language. a com
mon country least of all was he North
ern man with Southern principles" he
was "a United States man, with United
States principles. He was for giving the
South all that belonged To 1.-THE fugitive
slave law. the right To slavery in the terri
tories. and whatever rights the Constitu-
ton cGu!trs.
Our fathers made this compact, he said,
and he would Yield TO it not a grudging
but ready obedience il all its parts. Ap-
plau~e He was not pro-,layeIy man. or
- nonSlavery man. but had q serene indif
ference on the subject He thought he
occupied the Constitutional ground of our
fathers, in whose days the people were ami
mated by patriotism, and had not, a. some
have now. an anti-s!avery God, an anti
slavery Bible, and an anti-slavery Consti-
tuition
He avo7red himself a western man by
birth, sentiment and education, while at
the same time he avowed himself Con-
stitutional man. lie said Mr. Corwin had
been detailed to lead the forlorn hope of
the Republicans, and to be shot down at
the Nalakof he coull never conquer.
The next census, he said, would show
that the Valley of the Mississippi has a
majority of the people of the country, who
would administer a government for the
benefit Of all People have lent them
selves so long to the North to make Il
cause against slavery and help to fight for
Northern masters, VINO, if successful, with
Seward or any other Republican, would di-
vide the spoil among themselves. They
would not listen 10 the voice OF patriot
ism. Let them be governed by self-re-
spect: let them lay aside their tanaticism
and be Western sectionalists Hedespised
them rs much for their servility 10 the
North as they could despise servility in
Others to the South.
Mr. Nallandingham said he came now to
speak of a painful and difficult subject
disunon-which had become as familiar
as the most ordinary word Of salutation.
There was not day but what they heard
the croaking OF the raven and the mourn
ful and dirge-like wall He was against
disunon now and forever. He held to
one Union, one Constitution, one destiny,
which could not be fulfilled except as a
united people, and by the immediate, total
and unconditional destruction of the sec
tional and anti-slavery Republican party.
Applause.
After further discussion, the House pro-
ceeded to a ballot for Speaker, with the
following result:
On this ballot, Messrs Haskins, of n.
Y, Hickman, of Pa. and Schwartz, of Pa,
went over to Mr. Sherman. Sherman | 10,
Bocock IS, Gilmer %, scattering 9-i14
being necessary to a choice.
DIr Benham got the floor. He gave
way to Mr. Winslow, who proposed ano-
ther vote and then adjourn, saying Mr..
Benham could have the floor tomorrow.
Question agreed to.
The House then proceeded to vote
Sherman and Bocock each received the
same number as before, Gilmer Is, scatter
ing l3 The House then adjourned
FRIDAY, Dec. l6.
HoUsE.-On motion of Mr. Niblack, of