The national Republican., 1860-12-13
THIRTY.sIXTH CONGRESS,
Second Session.
Wednesday,, December IL, 1860.
SENATE

The amendment, pledging the public lands
for the redemption of the notes, was carried
yeas 3S, nays l6. But before this amendment
was finally agreed to,
Mr.. Wade offered an amendment to the
amendment, to the affect that nothing in the
amendment appropriating the proceeds of the
sales OF the public lands, &C., should be so
construed as to effect the power of Congress to
dispose of the land to actual settlers on such
terms as they might see fit
Messrs. Clngman and Gwin objected, but
the amendment to the amendment was carried
by yeas 2S, nays 27:
Cameron, Chandler, Clark, Dixon, Doolittle,
Douglas, Durkee, Fessenden, Foot, Foster,
Grimes Hamlin, Harlan, Johnson Of Tennes.
see, King, Latham, Rice, Seward, Simmons,
Sumner, Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade, Wilkin.
son, and Wilson'S.
Nays Messrs. Bay ard, Bigler, Bragg, Cling.
man, Collsmer, Crittenden, Davis, Fitzpatrick,
Green, Gwin, Hemphill, Hunter, Iverson, John.
son of Arkansas, Kennedy, Lane, Mason, Mich.
olson, Pearce Polk, Powell, Salisbury, Sebas.
tian, Thomson, and Wigfall-27.
The bill was then passed. but before the Sen.
ate adjourned, motion TO reconsider was en-.
tered BY Mr.. Yulee.
Mr.. Powells resolution was then taken up,
and Mr.. Wigfall spoke until the adjournment.
Among other things, he said, cotton is king,
and waves his sceptre not only over thirty.three
States, but over the Island of Great Britain,
and over Continental Europe. There is no
crowned head either upon that Island or Cont.
nent that does not bend the knee in fear, and
acknowledge allegiance to her power.
Five millions Of people in Great Britain live
upon cotton. You may make short crops of
grain. and they can husband their supply; but
Exhaust the supply of cotton one week, and all
England will starve. They will not burst open
barns, but burn whole towns. We can direct
the trade Of two hundred and fifty millions to
our own ports instead Of Boston, Philadelphia,
and New York, if we 20 out Of the Union. Our
imports will amount to two hundred and fifty
millions, and forty per cent. upon that puts
into our treasury one hundred million dollars
twenty per cent gives fifty millions. What
tariff we will accept expect to know in few
months 3, and in another chamber. Laughter
in the galleries.
You suppose numbers constitute the strength
of the Government. / tell you that it is the al.
mighty dollar. When your operatives are
turned out, when your capitalists are broken,
will you go to direct taxation? When you
cease to have exports, will you have imports
Your factories will then be burnt down, your
don't regard us in earnest. | would save the
Union il | could but it is my deliberate i'm,
preston, and have been studying the charac.
ur of the people you represent for years past,
that it cannot.
Now the question is, can the Union be saved
| have always been tuion man. | am now
Union man-not from any silly notion that it
is of divine origin, not that blood was thed
for it, not that it is an inheritance from our
fathers--for it is neither the one nor the other.
This Union is compact between the States
1t is a treaty between the States, for the com
mon defence and domestic tranquility. They
agreed to the organization Of a certain Govern
ment, and they made wise distribution they
vested in the State Governments the powers
necessary to protect the liberty and well being
Of the citizens
All States that are republican or demo
cratic, monarchiCal, aristocratic slavehoding Oh
nou-slaveholding, agricultural, commercial, OF
manufacturing, can live under one Constitution
as when the old thirteen States ratified and
made it binding between them. By the late
election, it would seem as if the North thought
themselves responsible for the domestic institu
tions of all the States. One State has not the
right to call out the army or navy, or negotiate
with foreign Power, to coerce another. Do
you suppose we to be amused with clap
trap of Fourth ofJuly orations? AS nation
inheriting rights, we have passed that point.
When these eight cotton States withdraw
from the Union as they will in the next two
months, and meet in Convention, and adopt q
Federal Government, and establish foreign
department, l shall advocate the adopting o.
that same Constitution that was ratified by the
old thirteen States.
have no doubt that when Virginia, Ten
iiessee, Maryland, Kentucky, and other border
States, see what we have done, they will come
into the Union and not many months will
pass before this beautiful facric will again bt
the scene of our discussion, and in which We
will not only consider those matters pertaining
to our domestic affairs, but foreign relations.
HOUSE.
Our report closed yesterday, pending cal
Of the States for resolutions.
Mr.. Adrain, Of New Jersey, submitted a sc
ries of resolutions, declaring the doctrine c
! uon.interventon as the true remedy for existn
political evils that all State laws in confic
with the Constitution and laws of Congress
ought to be repealed that the fugitive slav
law, and all other laws OF the land, ought to b
respected and obeyed, &c.
Mr.. Morris, of Pennsylvania, offered resc
luton instructing the committee Of thirty-thre
to inquire and report as to whether the persont
liberty bills passed by certain States are in col
hict with the Constitution and, further, to il
quire whether the fugitive slave law is susceT
tible of amendment, so as to ascertain NOR
certainly the actual condition of the fugitive.
Mr.. Stewart, of Maryland, offered preamb
and resolution, setting forth the principles o
which the Government was founded, and il
structing the select committee to inquir
among other things, whether any measure ca
be adopted to preserve the Constitution in i
purity, and secure Southern rights and fifth
cannot be done, then to inquire as to the be-
mode, reasonable and just, of a settlement wit
the States which there is reason to believe al
about to separate from the Union.
Mr.. Leake, of Virginia, submitted resol
ton, that the Constitution ought to be amende