Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-01-07

give US protection, We will resort to such means
as We are amply sufficient and protect ourselves
Mr. Giddings remarked that such threats had
lost their effect here and created no alarm.
Mr.. Bryan repeated that all Texas asked was
that the compact should be observed
MIR. Giddings. believe Texas consented to an
nexation.
Mr.. Bryan. True, but she consented as e sOYe-
rel N State treating with asovereign power.
Mr.. Giddings said it was hot his purpose to stir
up i'll feeling: we have done for Texas what We have
done for no other State, namely paid her debts;
Sl4 100000 were taken from the Treasury for that
purpose.
Mr. Bryan denied that the Government had paid
the debt of Texas. which sold a vast territory to
the Q. S from the proceeds of which paid the
debts
Mr. Giddings said we conquered Texas by our
arms. There stands the truth of history. At first
her boundary was claimed only to the Neuces riv-
er.
Mr. Bryan replied that Texas was annexed with
her recognized boundaries-the Rio Grande as
declared in her act of Independence.
Mr.. Lovejoy's amendment to strike out certain
portions of the bill was then rejected. A long de-
bate then took place on the appropriation for re-
moving the Indians in Oregon to the reservations,
and subsisting them until they shall be able to
maintain themselves, but without coming to any
conclusion in regard to it the Committee lose and
the House adjourned.
SENATE.
Mr. Harlan spoke fOrcibly on the propIiety Of
Congress locating the route. The capital requir-
ed is $4,000 900 nearly one third the surplus can
ital of the country few Individuals or Cos can con
troll SO much, hence it is sure to be monopoly,
perhaps foreign one. What security too is there
that the contractors, having secured the eight mil
lions cash, and ten million acres of the best lands
for constructing the road through fertile district
will advance one step across the precpitOuS noun.
fains and Sfprila Mains of the infaFiOr
graphically there is little difference between the
three central routes, surveyed, either can be built
in ten or twelve years, without deranglng the
financial condition of the country. Therefore he
was in favor Of the central route as the centre OF
the population. Mr.. Harlan was severe on those
members of Congress who after having spent hall
a million in explorations published in immense
quartO reports illustrated with pictures for those
who cannot read, and wanted to shift on the mail
contractor the responsibility OF locating the road,
lest they should offend their constituents in not
curing it for their particular locality.
Mr.. Ward spoke in favor of the parallel of g.
comparing its advantages of levels and distance
over the central and northern routes, maintaining
that the southern route can be built with the small
lest amount of money, and in the shortest time.
Mr. Iverson made strong sectional speech aud
moved that the bill be recommitted, with instruc-
ton to report bill for the construction of two
roads, northern and sourthern one
lie admitted the Constitutional power of Con-
gress to grant the public lands, but was aston-
ished that Southern Senators should vote for such
a magnificent donation to the North. II is 4 fact
that all Southern roads pay from to per cent
dividend, while the Northern ones pay nothing
So small opinion had Northern capitalists o.
Southern investments that he believed that if the
wealthy Senator from South Carolina, Mr.. Ham.
mOnd) offered q mortgage on his plantation ana
his negroes, worth half 'liOn Of dollars, for
loan of 900 on New ork, he could not get it
notwithstanding the popularity of his Barnwel
speech.
He traced the slavery agitation from its ris,
among handful of New England fanatics of bOtl
sexes, to its present monster proportions, AID ht
referred to the demon of AbOitiOnism in its on
ward march TO power.
| He also referred to the Rochester speech of Mr.
Seward, and said he knows but little of the human
heart who imagnes that anti slavery agitation viii
stop short of the abolition of slavery by the actor
of the Federal Congress. To live and reign il
must go on until it attains the Presidency, botl
Houses of Congress, the Judiciary and the aboli
| ton of slavery or the Union be dissolved Witnes.
the resnlt of the late elections; do not consider
the return OF Mr.. Douglas 10 the Senate a victory
to the Democracy. It was only victory of Free
Soil Democracy over Abolition Whiggery Ht
would not turn on his heel TO choose between the
Wilmot PrOviso and the Squatter Sovereignty O
| the Senator from Illinois.
| Mr. Iverson prcfessed himself in ulmistakabl'
| terms disuniOn man under the aggressions of tht
North. Letthe Senator from New York be elec
ted President in his (Iversons) opinion more thai
one Southern State would take immediate steps t.
secede in in'eontngencies, which stated Geor
gia would secede.
He did not believe the South would 90 out b,
general convention, but let a single State swing
out, and she would draw with her or after her re
naming States, to form either a Southern eonfed
Grafton, or procure the amendment of the Dreseu
Constitution to secure the rights of the South, a
he believed the dissolution was near at hand he wa
for that reason unwilling TO vote money an
lands for q road which was sure to be located oui
side the South, hence he wanted the South to hav
a route equal with the North, ~ hich shall aid be
while in the Union and belong to her when out o
it. The Senate here adjourned.