Des Arc citizen., 1860-06-16

longer proceed without the leave ol 'ne House, and he was about to propound the qesion, when | MT. Slade said he wished to state the position in which he stood. l propose said he, to read single paper | Hr. Turney-I object to the gentle mans proceeding at all.
 The Chair said the rule was impera- tive. The gentleman could not proceed, under the ques slion made by MT. Mckay, without leave of the House.
 Mr Slade-The question now is wheth- CT it is in order for me 10 ask for the read ing of paper.
 The Chair-The other question is also before the House and must be decided by it's vote, without debate.
 Mir. Sade-I ask if am out of order, while proceeding with leave of the House, going on for at least twenty minutes, and then merely asking leave 10 read paper.
 The Chair states that his power to com mence was when the question of order was made thereafter the rule was i'm. perative, directing its decision without debate.
 Mir. Sade (who was still on his feet) - MT. Speaker
 The chair-The gentleman will take his seat.
 MT. Slade then pledged himself if the House would permit hIm 10 resume, not to discuss the question of slavery in the | States.
 The Chair then propounded the ques. ton to the House, that the gentleman 1 from Vermont have leave to proceed.
 Yeas and nays were then called. l Mr. Rector moved the House 10 ad- journ. t aa
 Mr. Slade asked for the yeas and nays, and resulted yeas l66, nays 63.
 Mr. Campbell then gave notice that the Southern delegations were then as- sembled in the room of the Committee for the District of Columbia; and he said he was instructed by their committee to re- quest the attendance of all gentlemen re- presenting saveholding interests on that floor immediately.
 MT. Benton says, "The above report gives only meagre skeleton account oi the most disturbing movement on the sub lect of slavery ever made in our Con. gress. and which occupied the whole day, and ied the memorable secession from the Hall of the Southern members, to deliberate among themselves what line oi conduct il behooved them to take In such an emergency"
 | Does it not thus appear. that this ques. ton (oris sequences) smothered by the frmness and courage of the Southern members, in Congfess, nearly quarter of century ago, has again sprung into new life to fright the Democracy from its proprlety? How is il to be met! Look to the past. The same firmness and the same courage on the part ot the South, will sliae it again, ere it comes too late and in this connection the prophetic Ian guage of Mr. Calhoun. about the same ime, is now fully verified. He said: l If single step be yielded, the fanati- cal spirit would be reanimated with new excitement, and those therefore, who so yielded. incurred e fearful responsibility. He despaired, as far as the Northern part of the country was concerned, on the ques- ton of aboIitonisln. It was interwoven with the political condition of the North, in the nature and state of parties, and It would run, and must run into lher strug- gles for State ascendancy. IL was im- possible to prevent its having control over the poitica parties of the North The great mass of Northern people be- believed that this Southern institution was radically wrong. The result would be this: That abolition efforts would begin with the lowest grades of society and by gross misrepresentatlons, but Il would go upward. and spread, and he had told g distinguished Senator four years ago, while discussing another subject, that the spirit of aboltionism would spring up in the North, and however much he, and others like him, were opposed to the doctrine. Il would one day spread so as to drive hIm from public life, or compel him to yield lo ils dictates.
 Mir. Calhoun did not ask how the North would be affected; his object was to keef the South united on this subject. with a susceptibility always alive. They mus first preserve themselves, for tbis was a question involving the very existence O the South. Their next object was to pre- serve the Union, and there was no othel course for them to do this, but by united and firm resistance 10 these encroach menls, and the earlier the better, for the !, country was sounder today than it would be tomorrow, and delay would leave it lt proceed from worse to worse. sl- A gentleman who has just re turned from Mississippi informs us tina he heard the following conversation at tavern:
 :" Halloa, boyr' :" Halloa, yourself!"
 l Gan get breakfast here 2"
 uI reckon you can't"