Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-01-04
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Congress xxxvIth ssssIon


~ WAsnsoroN, Jan. 3.
~ SENATE.
There was a very slim attendance. Mt.
p. King, stated that the resolutions adopted
AZ tho Union meeting at Rochester, n. r.,
had been forwarded 70 the U. y Senators
from that State, and he would request that
they should be read, and the Secretary read
them accordingly. Mr.. King desired to say,
In few words, on these resolutions, that he,
IN presenting them, was grati6ed 10 say that
the people OF n. Y. waverod not In their
attachment 10 Republican institutions aud
our present form Of government. All parties
entertained the sentiment that the Union
must and shall be preserved That senh-
ment could not be Turned TO party account
The Union meeting held, had proved the
strength Of that sentiment, and the resolu-
tions adopted, speak for the whole people Of
the State. lie called the attention OF the
Democratic Senators who had expressed
disunion sentiments to the fact that these
expressions Of attachment to the Union
came from prominent Democrats Of the
North. The resolutions were laid on the
table.
Mr.. Slidell moved 10 refer the paper on
the subject Of tho Honmor land claim to the
committee on the Judiciary IL belonged
properly to the committee on private land
claims
Mr. Brown Of Miss. desired to disclaim
any intention, as imputed by the newspapers
to assail the President or his Message unless
his respectful expression of his descent to
some Of his statements they considered in
that light. lie entertained strong person,
al regard for the President, but If he did
not, his age and his long public services
would induce him 10 treat him with respect.
He had right, however, in common with
every citizen, to courteously express his
views, and would do so. He called atten,
ton to that portion of his message, where
the President refers to the Dred Scott de.
cision settling the slavery question, but
could not agree with him The Supreme
Court has done what it could. but the ques-
ton has not been settled, and hence the
continuance Of the controversy. lie agreed
with the President that the Supreme Court
had adjudged the right of a citizen to carry
slavery into the territory, and did not be-
lieve the territorial legislature had power
to destroy or override that decision.
The President had said further thAt prop
erty in slaves to his knowledge had not
been disturbed in any of the territories, and
that he disagreed to the whole course. The
antiislavery movement in Kansas was to
disturb the rights of slavery. Was it no in
reference of slavery in tho territories to
shoot down shareholders in cold blood, hunt
them down like wild beasts and destroy
their property in Kansas2 War was waged
against the rights of Shareholders.
He closed with avowiDg himself q Union
man. and still he wished to multiply the
slave States in order to preserve the Union
which our fathers had made slaveholdi1g
one.
Mr. Doolittle referred to the great change
which had come over the Presidents mind.
Then he believed in the power OF Congress
over the territoriesi now he says the Su,
preme Court has established the right Of
Shareholders to carry slavery into the territo,
ries, and that neither Congress nor the terr
ritorial legislature nor any human power
could impair that decision.
NJ. Forbes replied that the first attempt
to prohibit slavery in the territories since
1920 was in 1916 and it was defeated
Mr.. Chestnut said every white man in
South Carolina stood on an equal footing.
Ii was q great msconception to suppose
that respectable white men at the South are
not laborers. The gentleman spoke Of the
white laborers of the South, as if he never
saw one but he now saw free laborer OF
the South before him The people of the
South did not despise a noble laborer. II
any thing the people who did not labor,
suffered by the contrast.
Mr.. Doolttle said he knew that southern
men differed on this point, but southern
men had advanced the opinions he before
referred to.
Mr.. Pugh called for the evidence.
Mr.. Doolit.le read an extract from the
Richmond Examiner, quoted Debon's and
other southern journals.
Mr.. Clay said the extract did not sustain
the Senator's construction, qualified as il
was; he wanted to see the whole article
He was sensitive on this point, because
speech made by him five years ago had
been quoted by thief and renegade named
Helper.
After further debate the Senate adjourn
ed
HoUsE.-Boyce resumed his remarks from
Friday, saying that he bad shown that in
eight northern states, where the republi-
cans were in the majority, INSTRUCTIONS hat
been thrown in the way of the execution oI
the fugitive slave law.
He took it for granted that in spite 0
disclaimers, the Republican party in Theory
and practice are at war with that part Of tn,
constitution which provides for the rendi-
ton of fugitive slaves Then it follows tina
they are at war with every clause referring
to slavery, Tor they all rest on the slav
basis.
Mr. Hickman, who had besn referred l.
by Mr.. Boyce, explained that in his remark
the other day, he meant the southern state
that within any period of time shall deter
mine on dissolution of the Union for an,
causes which nov exist, The north are re
solved to prevent it, and if war should b.
the consequences of the north's determinin
to save the Union and the south's to destro.
it, the responsibility will rest upon tn
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