The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-12-30

authority was by him given to the Regents of
the University, to enter into arrangements
with the party orlparties with whom the bonds
of said University should be negotiated; that
the said bonds would be received by the Audi.
tor as basis of banking capital.
BILL INTRODUCED.
By Mr.. MLAREN For the location of
State Prison at Red Wing.
The site to be give by the citizens of Red
Wing, the Commissioners to be paid by the
citizens of Red Wing, the Commissioners
were authorized to draw $500 for specifca-
tions-the next Legislature to decide
whether the Prison should be built.
REPORTS.
The Committee on the judiciary report
ed against the passage of the bill discharg-
ing one or more joint debtors.
The committee'on Printing reported adj
versely to the proposition Of Earle S. Good
rich to refer the matter Of his contract to
Judge of District Court
Mr.. HALL moved that the report be
made the special order for tomorrow at II
o'clock. Lost.
The report of the committee was adopted.
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
An act proposing amendments to sections
ten and twelve of the Schedule of the Con-
stitution, and providing for the submission of
the same to the people. The committee
recommended that it be referred to the COM
mittee on State Affairs. The committee
rose and the recommendation was concurred
in.
On motion of Col. STEVENS, the
name of Mr.. King was placed on the com.
mittee on Railroads in place of MIR. Rob-
inson.
The Senate took up the resolution of Mr..
TAYLOR, authorizing a committee of
three to be appointed to have the rules
printed with such other matters as they
may deem best.
Mr.. HODGES had no objection to print.
ing, but would not acknowledge the rules
passed by the minority of the Senate.
Mr.. ANDREWS thought the objections
frivolous and absurd. He said the first
duty of any Legislative body was to adopt
rules and have them printed.
The resolution was referred to the com.
mittee on Printing.
HARPER's FERRY MATTER.
The concurrent resolutions offered by Mr..
COWAN were taken from the table, and
on motion referred to the committee on Fed
eral Relations.
Mr.. ANDREWS, of Stearns, said he
would move a reconsideration of the vote
whereby the resolutions introduced by the
Senator from Nicoet (Mr. Cowan) depre-
eating the late insurrection at Harper's
Ferry, were referred to the committee on
Federal Relations, because he thought the
effect of such reference would be to strangle
them.
Mr.. HEATON, of Hennepin, from the
committee on Federal Relations, assured
the Senator from Stearns, that the resolu-
tions would certainly be considered, and
reported back to the Senate, but with
amendments.
Mr.. ANDREWS said he did not wish to
appear Indifferent to the subject of those
resolutions and would not silently permit
them to go to a committee he thought was
hostile to them. In one respect he admitted
that the Harpers Ferry affair had been
unduly magnifed. He regarded John
Brown as a monomaniac on slavery and he
thought it impossible for forty such men to
excite a general iDsurrection among the
slaves of the South. But what gave the
affair so much additional Importance was
The sympathy it seemed to receive in the
North. The Republican press of the coun-
try had affected to disapprove of it, but its
general tenor was that of apology. The
general effect of what that press had ut
tered was to excite admiration for John
Brownie hold him up to the public as
martyr in the cause of liberty and as a
christian hero. 1t had compared him with
Algernon Sydney, and with those heros
whom history had taught US to revere. The
pulpit had in many instances applauded
him, and large public meetings had pledged
him their sympathy. Under these circum-
stances if the friends of the constitution
and the Union in the North remained silent
the people of the South would be justified
in distrusting their sincerity and loyalty. 1t
was therefore incumbent on the patriotic
men of the North to express their opinion
on the subject. 1t was their duty fully and
frankly to disavow and repudiate any SYM
patty for John Browns purpose, his sup.
porters and apologists Nay, more, it was
their duty to express their adherence of
any and every such reasonable scheme and
their determination to Illustrate and suppress
the first lurking indication of its repetition.
The Republicans claimed to be opposed
to any invasion of the rights of the South,
and he Mr.. Az would concede that the
most of them did not at heart seriously
intend to invade the rights of slavehoding
States. But their press persisted in holding
up the institutions of those States, and the
character of their citizens to the indigna.
ton of the public. If man should assail
the virtuous character of his neighbours
family-if he should SANDER and revie them
so that they became the object of common
abuse and contempt in the community
would he not invade the rights and peace
OF that neighbor more than if he had torn
down bis fence and broken into his corn
field? And so the press and orators of the
abolition and Republican party in their con-
slant abuse and taunts aud detraction of the
institutions of the Sonth-invaded their
constitutional rights and peace, they NOR
ally invaded every slaveholding State as
much as did John Brown.
Mr.. ANDREWS then withdrew his
motion for reconsideration, and the Senate
then adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: