Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-12-14
ODgross-xxxv1th Session.

VhbAebb-AAANltn session.
WAsHNGroS, Dec. ls.
SENATE.--Mr. King Of n. Y, present.
cd apetition from d. + Tieman, Mayor of
N y City and hundred and three others.
lavtrine ihe passage Of the Homestead Bill
and Offering monopoly Of the public
lands
Mr.. Mason Of Va, offered resolution to
appoint q committee Of investigation 10 in,
quire into the Harper's Ferry invasion.
Mr.. Clay Of Ala, said he wished to know
where we stood Let there be no concealr
ment The Senators on the other side pro,
Tess TO respect the constitutional rights Of
the South, aud declare they will preserve
and maintain them. If that declaration
be sincere, and the republican party will
keep their pledge, there is no cause for
complaint but the South has good reason
TO distrust these professions, when the con,
duct Of the opposition Senators il 80 differ
ent One Senator treats the whole matter
with a leVity which would be offensive il he
did not always treat every subject in The
same manner, and he will probably die like
Arabslias with q jest upon his lips, and
never wake to the responsibility Of life and
death until he is called to Judgment Ans
other ridicules the c0wardice, weakness
and impotence Of the South in suffering
handful Of men to seize the arsenal at Har.
per's Ferry, in the face Of 500 inhabitants.
Another entertains us with newly discover
ed opinions of Washington, jefferson and
other fathers and trainers of the Declara~
tion Of independence and the Federal Conc
stitution, disapproving of slavery Another
endeavors to excite domestic dissention and
discOrd within our ranks at the South by
appealing to the nonslayeholders to come to
the support of the Republican party, pro-
Tossing to vindcate their rights and rescue
them from the course Of slayery--thus try
ing to scatter the dragons teeth over the
plains of the South in the hope that there
will spring up armed men. Others would
frighten us with fierce and grave words,
threatening us with coercion to submit To
their authority, no matter how unconstitu
tional and oppressive. There are the evil
denoes of lraternal affection, respect and
regard for the South which you present US.
Wendell Phillips has said, speaking of the
foray in Va, that it was the tural result of
anti slavery teachings, and for one he ex
pected it Mr. Clay admired his courage
and clamor. 1t was the truth Others had
predicted the same things. lie then quoted
from the remarks of Republicans, showing
their hostile feelings towards the South -
Gov. Chase had said he hated slayeholding
and slave holders, and his colleagues here
had said substantially the same thing.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 49,
HOUSE, he question being on the mos
ton of Mr. Hickman of Pa, to amend Fri-
days journal by inserting that he had offer,
ed resolution to adopt the plurality rule
on the vote for tho Speakership,
Mr. Sirkles of ~ Y, said he would not
trespass on the time of the House, did he
not deem it an imperative duty to protest
against much which had been said on this
floor in the course of discussion as to the
sentiments OF the North
The gentleman from Pa, (Mr Hickman
had avowed that the irrepressible conflict Is
not in the future, but is fact and is pres
ent in this Hall. Mr.. Sickles said the
Northern sentiment is otherwise. There is
in the Mort millions of hearts devoted not
only to the Union, but to the constitution on
which ii rests, and they weud never relin-
quish their allegiance to it, or be unmindful
Of the duty of performing the obligations
with which that allegiance is inseparablv
connected, and without which their love for
the constitution and the Union, would be
hypocraey and delusiou
He said MIR. Hickman's view of the Norths
ern sentiments it is as unfounded in point
of fact as the charges he makes in the name
Of the North, as well as the reason for these
feelings were unjusti6abe
In the course of his reply to Mr.. Hick-
mans charge that the South has violated
covenants, compacts and compromises he
referred to the history of the adopting of tho
constitution and kindred subjects, to slow
that there had been no violation of good
faith by the South He desired the auiido5o
to go forth with the poison.
The gentleman from Pa, could not sus,
tain himself in his first charge that the
clause in the Constitution was concession
to freedom on the part Of tho South when
he, MIR. Sickles, had proven that the clause
as originally reported by eleven of the States
was enlarged and sustained on motion of
gentlemen from the North.
He maintained that there had been no
violation of the Compromises of 1858 and
1854. The gentleman from Pa, had said
that the great question to be presented in
the next Presidential election was SbaH
slavery be allowed to go into the territories
The gentleman hadDnot shown ary renson
OF justification Tor that issue iu view Of
snch contingency in our affairs as existed
two or three years ago, with reference to
Kansas. We are to understand that it was
to be brought forward as an abstract, not al
an existing question, but the North does
not desire to enter the Presidential election
on any such question,
When the people at the North witness the
inevitable result of the doctrine of irrepre.-
sible conflict, and the acts OF fanatics and
traitors invading the peaceful homes and
! firesides, and creating alarm and death;
when they find such are the consequences
of giving an asoendency to a sectional par
ty, they will sweep it out Of existence as
summarily as they would drive away the
enemy from their own doors
He considered we were in the presence Of
the most serious danger that ever menaced
the conlederacy, and therefore as a faithful
sentinel it was his duty to admonish. lie
believed on full knowledge of the facts,
they would give patriotic response. lie al
luded to the few demonstrations made in
New York, to sympathise with the doc-
trines prolessed and prAetieed by John