Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-03-23

Adjourned.
SENATE.
Mr.. Seward introduced resolution calling on the
President fer Information respecting the expulsion of
naturalzed citizen Of the United States from Prussia In
1859, which was adopted.
The bill to establish mail routes in Kansas was
passed
Mr. Yulee, from the Post oHce COMMITTEES, reported
bail in relation TO undelivered letters Ii prov ides
That persons by endorsing their letters sent
can have them returned free Of additional charge when
undeliyered.
The bill was passed.
Mr.. ToomSs presented petition in favor of the
Homestead bill.
Mr. Bright introduced bin for the prosecution Of the
work on the Capitol. Referred.
Mr. johnson, from Committee on Public Iands "a
ported back the House Homestead bill, amended BY
substituting the Senate bill
On motion Of Mr. GWin. the Pacific Telegraph bill
was taken up In order that certain amendments might
be introduced and printed, which were ordered
The Homestead bin was taken up when Mr. Wade
N owed 10 substitute the House bill.
Mr. Chairman explained the amendm meut offered by him
which proposes 10 give at to every man In the
United States who comes within the provisions of the
bill, warrant for leo acres with power to retain the
Land or sell il out If unsuitable.
The present bill requires TO WoIk five yeErs
continuously on the land, in order tr get title.
stead bill
Mr. Hale spoke at length on the same side. In the
course OF his remarks he expressed sympathy with the
strikers in New England and hoped their combination
would continue uni Until ihsI e98a S5thin til" h'h-' ~
Ar. Wade advocated his motto TO take nm the Housa
which he showed to be liberal than the Senate
Mr.. johnson, Of Ark. opposed Mr. ws5ss r,otior
and referred to Mr.. Iass remarks As insincere dem
agOguish. He wanted hold on to the 'anaille" Of
New England by cry Of Tree homes for eemen fearful
9at under the pressure Of starvation they would desert
him and his party.
MF. johnson, Of Tenn, knew the House bill could
not pass this body and the true friends Of the Home
stead prnepe should take that which they could get
Mr.. Johnson opposed making this a party ques.
ton.
Mr.. Wade withdrew his motion.
Mr.. Wigfah regarded the matter "a a marty
question, involving as it did the power of the Fed
sral Government. If itWas established to nrovide
for the bait, blind lame and deaf if II couId give
land 10 the landess why not niggers TO the niger
less Ii might open the African Slave Trade on
missionary ground and bring negroes here to be
converted. He then went INTO an examination of
the powers OF Federal Government and contended
that as the trustee Of the sovereign States it had
no right to vote away their land
Ia the course OF bis remarks he said Il Is non.
sense TO talk Of a State committing treason The
thing is impossible. He owed allegiance to the State
OF Texas, which cOnjOnty with the other States
exercised the same portion Of the Federal power
whenever she deela ed the Federal Government
no longer her agent, then 1t would be his duty 10
return TO his State, and if captured fighting un-
der the lone star under the law Of nations he could
not be treated as a traitor.
Mr.. johnson Of Tenn, remarked that there were
Mr., Wigiall was sorry to hear any Democrat
refer to precedents if banks, tariffs international
improvements, &c. could be justifedI He then
denounced the policy OF New England, which by
Federal legislation had got rich and kept the other
sections Of the Governmant
He thought nothing better could occur than
dissolution of the Union. New England
would then beg the South to come back Her
spindles, wOul cease to turn ana her ships rot
at the wharis; her sailors and operatives turned
out to staTve would would burn aRd steal
He also drew picture of a mob of deceived
and infuriated people bearing on poles the
heads of Seward and Hale. If these men
only knew the South was in earnest they
wonld keep quiet They were not the mea to
coin their hearts blood into drachms He de-
denied that these were threats Their mere
day of farces has gone by. He would speak
his mind freely and say that no Black Repub-
lican President ever could be inaugurated
President.
Northern men talked of subduing the South,
but he believed that a Southern army would win
ter in Boston before q Nortberu one could reach
Texas. He would like TO know how they were
going to take the South Let them look around
the Chamber, and they would see on the Repubh
can side but one man who ever saw the aashingOf
a gun, while he particulaFized numbers on the
Democratic side who had rendered signal military
services. The military chest was the first consid
Grafton In war, and where would the North get the
money to fill itl The South could send out her
cotton, tobacco, &c, IN the bottoms, which would
carry them the cheapest. Where would the Sens
tor from Rhode Island (SimOns) get the money for
his calicol They might talk about blOckading the
southern ports, but their officers and men would
want money, and where could they getitl Cot
ton was King, and without it Queen Victoria's
crown was not safe. The Union was nothing
more than q compact between confederates, which
the North bad broken, and then tried to persuade
Us that it was Of divine origin. Our fathers shed
their blood not for this Union, but for Liberty.
He compared the Federal Government to q lens
which concentrated and applied the powers con-
fsrred by the sovereign States as the lens coneen
tratsd the rays Of the sun, They admired not the
lens but the glorious oracle from which it derived
its power. The ancestors of New Englanders went
to Holland, but as the Dutch would not let them
persecute anybody, they came TO the North. They
drove out Roger Sherman and the Baptists and
spread themselves over that country. Providence
having McAdamised that country they thoughtit
useless to dig for what the soil could produce and
have since lived of their neighbors.
lie went into an argument that the slave States,
properly speaking, are the only free States. He
concluded by denounelDg the Homestead bill as
unconstitutional.
The subject was d4sn postponed till Monday.
Aliourned